In this section, you will hear a short passage. The passage will be read
twice. There are ten missing words or phrases, filling in the blanks with the
exact words or phrases you hear. Remember to write the answers on the answer
sheet. Thomas Wheeler,
1 of the Massachusetts Mutual Life
2 Company, and his wife were driving along an interstate
highway when he noticed that their car was 3
on gas. Wheeler got off the highway at the next 4 and soon found a rundown gas station with just
one gas pump. He asked the 5 attendant
to fill the tank and check the oil, and then went for a little walk around the
station to 6 his legs.
As he was returning to the car, he noticed that the attendant and his wife were
7 in an animated conversation. The
conversation stopped as he paid the attendant. But as he was
8 the car, he saw the attendant wave and heard him say, "It
was great talking to you." As they drove out of the station,
Wheeler asked his wife if she knew the man. She readily admitted she did. They
had 9 and had dated steadily for about
a year. "Boy, you were lucky that I came along," bragged
Wheeler. "If you had married him, you’d be the wife of a gas station attendant
instead of the wife of a chief executive officer." "My dear,"
replied his wife, "if I had married him, he’d be the
10 and you’d be the gas station attendant."