In this section you will hear a recorded short passage. The passage is
printed in the test paper, but with some words or phrases missing. The passage
will be read three times. The third reading is for you to check your writing.
Now the passage will begin.
Childhood is the time when there are few responsibilities to make life
(11) . if a child has good (12) , he is fed, looked after and loved,
whatever he may do. It is impossible that he will ever again in his life be
given so much without having to do anything (13) . What’s more, life is
always giving new things to the child — things that have (14) their
interest for older people because they are too well-known. But a child has
his (15) : he is not so free to do what he wishes to do; he is repeatedly
being told not to do something, or being punished for what he has wrongly
done.