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Long Dictation: 8 Literature 2

Click A to listen at normal speed. Do not write.
Click B to listen again at slow speed and write what you hear in C.
Click D to hear again at normal speed. Make corrections to what you have written in C.
Click "Show" to see the answer in F. Compare F to C.

Note: Punctuation ("question mark", "period", "comma", "hyphen", "dash") will be spoken. The speaker will also say sections of the sentence twice. This will give you time to type or write.

A	B	C	D	E	F
				ShowHide	It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

From A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

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