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聽力測驗
 第一組填空測驗：
James Kenmore was a （1.
）.
People say: "A real psychic （2.
） time and space." It is a strange power. Not many people really have
that （3.
）.
James Kenmore was a very successful psychic. Rich people paid
a lot of money for his help. They came to his （4.
） on Tremont Street. There they （5.
） to his （6.
）, and the receptionist took them to his room. Brent had a big （7.
） car. He lived in a beautiful house. He was 50 years old. He loved his wife
and his two sons, and they loved him.
But Kenmore was not always successful. Oh, no. For the first
35 years of his life he was a （8.
）. He started life a failure. He started （9.
） a father or a mother.
People found the baby James Kenmore on a Boston （10.
）. Maybe his mother（11.
） him there? The bus carried people from （12.
） Boston to Kenmore Square, so they gave that name to the baby. He （13.
） in an orphanage-with 50 other children without mothers or fathers. The orphanage
was 10 miles （14.
） of Boston.
 第一組測驗解答：
1.
psychic 2.
sees through 3.
power 4 .
office 5.
spoke 6 .
receptionist 7 .
Cadillac 8.
failure 9.
without 10.
bus 11.
left 12.
downtown 13.
grew up 14.
outside
第二組填空測驗：
At the age of 10, James Kenmore was in trouble with the police.
He stole things from stores. He had to go to a home for bad children.
（1.
） 15, he stole a car. For this he had to go to a （2. ）. At 19, he was in trouble with the police again, and he went to a men’s prison
（3. ）. Why? Because he （4. ） things from houses.
Kenmore was in prison for seven of the （5. ） ten years. He went
there for two years, and then two years again, and then three years. Between those
times in prison he always started work in a （6. ）. But he didn’t like his work,
and he was soon in trouble again.
The life of a （7. ） was interesting, and his job wasn’t interesting.
But he was not a smart thief. The police always（8. ） him. At the age of 30, they
caught him again, and he went to prison for five years. In prison he （9. ） Stanley
Tremaine.
Stanley Tremaine was a （10. ）. He got money from people by tricks.
He was a smart con man. The police never caught him, up to the age of 50. Then
he tried a very big trick. They caught him, and he went to prison for seven years.
第二組測驗解答：
1.
At the age of 2.
boys’ prison 3.
for the first time 4.
stole 5.
next 6.
real job 7.
thief 8.
caught 9.
met 10.
con man
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