Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading ,which will be read at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be read at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 2 minutes to check through your work once more. Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET ONE.
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Wind and Sea Waves
If you’ve ever stood on the shore of the ocean, you’ve seen wave after wave move toward you. Each comes up to the shore, breaks, and then falls back. Is there a giant machine far out at sea that creates this movement Not at all — but there is one factor which has been hard at work. It is the wind which makes the movement we call waves. This movement continues until it runs into something, like the shore. The waves that reach the shoreline may have travelled thousands of miles.
As a wave approaches the shore, it slows down. The water becomes more shallow. The sea bottom drags on the wave. The tops of waves crowd together. When they are too close for the wave to form properly, the wave breaks. The top of the wave spills over, and the water pushes forward onto the beach.