Section C 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 with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written. I was 14 when Mr. Ingram hired me as a farmhand. It was the first time I was (26) _________paid for work. One day Mr. Ingram (27) ________ an old truck that was (28) ____________in the soft, sandy soil of our field. It was full of melons that someone had tried to (29) _______________before his truck got bogged down. Mr. Ingram (30) ____________ that the truck’s owner would be returning soon, and he wanted me to watch and learn. It wasn’t long before a local guy with a terrible (31) _____________ fighting showed up with his two full-grown sons. They looked really angry. Calmly Mr. Ingram said, “Well, I see you want to buy some watermelons from us.” There was a long (32) _________ before the man answered, “Yeah, I guess so. What are you getting for them?” “Twenty-five cents each.” “Well, I guess that would be fair enough if you help me get my truck out of here.” It (33)____________to be our biggest sale of the summer, and a nasty, perhaps violent, incident had been (34) ___________. After they left, Mr. Ingram smiled and said to me, “Son, if you don’t forgive your enemies, you’re going to (35)___________ friends.”