Dictation
Listen to the passage. For questions 21—25, fill in the blanks with the exact words and phrases you hear. Chinese calligraphy is one of the most remarkable pieces of art in language that humankind has ever made. In (21) ________ school, Chinese teachers ask their pupils to write not only correctly but beautifully by printing (22) ________ for each character. Chinese is different from western languages such as German, French, or English because it has no (23) ________. Instead, it contains 50,000 characters. If a person knows 5,000 of the most commonly used characters, they can read a newspaper. How many characters a person knows (24) ________ how intellectual that person is. Chinese is one of the world‟s oldest languages, and its written form, like that of most languages, developed from the pictograph. Chinese calligraphy is considered a branch of painting, and is often (25)________ painting in a work of art.