Section
C Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the
firsr time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the secone
time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 on Answer Sheet 2 with the
eract words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the
missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or
write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third
time, you should check what you have written
Ever since I was very small, I've had the sense that I ought to be somewhere else. I remember
watching trains (36)
by and wishing I was on (37)
I remember going
to the (38)
with my parents when I was 13 and reading the destinations board, seeing
all the places that I could go to: Los Angeles, Chicago, London
But the trains passed by and the planes took off without me, so I (39)
world through books. I went to Victorian England in the (40)
of Middlemarch and A
Litle Princess, and to St. Petersburg before the (41)
of the tsar(沙皇) with Anna Karenina
My home was in a (42)
place outside Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly
lived, somewhere else. I lived within the(43)
of books. In books I traveled, not only
to other worlds, but into my own (44).
I travel today in the way I once dreamed of traveling as a child-on airplanes and in trains
And the irony(具有讽刺意味的事) is that I don' t care for it very much.(45)
The only thing
