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10 original practice questions. Open them in any order.
Independent preparation material, not an official test or score prediction.
Audio script (about 5 seconds): sentence from a lecture on the history of the telegraph
Synthetic practice recording. This is not official exam audio.
Read listening script
Speaker: Early telegrams were charged by the word, so senders learned to be brief.
Question 1 of 10 · easier
Write from Dictation
You will hear a sentence. Type the sentence in the box exactly as you hear it. Write as much of the sentence as you can. You will hear the sentence only once.
Listen to the sentence from a lecture on the history of the telegraph and type what you hear.
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