Section B Compound Dictation

Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from S1 to S7 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from S8 to S10 you are required to fill in the missing information. 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.

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It's difficult to imagine the sea ever running out of fish. It's so vast, so deep, so (S1) _______. Unfortunately, it's not bottomless. Over-fishing, (S2) _________ with destructive fishing practices, is killing off the fish and (S3) _________ their environment.
Destroy the fish, and you destroy the fishermen's means of living. At least 60 (S4) _______ of the world's commercially important fish (S5) _________ are already over-fished, or fished to the limit. As a result, governments have had to close down some areas of sea to commercial fishing.
Big, high-tech fleets (S6) _________ that everything in their path is pulled out of water. Anything too small, or the wrong thing, is thrown back either dead or dying. That's an (S7) _________ of more than 20 million metric tons every year.
(S8) __________________________________________________________________.
In some parts of the world, for every kilogram of prawns (對蝦) caught, up to 15 kilograms of unsuspecting fish and other marine wildlife die, simply for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
True, (S9) _______________________________________________________________, then catch them in a way that doesn't kill other innocent sea life.

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