Section C
Compound Dictation
The Library of Congress is America's national library. It has millions of books and other objects. It has newspapers, (36) _____ publications as well as letters of (37) _____ interest. It also has maps, photographs, art (38) _____ , movies, sound recordings and musical (39) _____ . All together, it has more than 100 million objects.
The Library of Congress is open to the public Monday through Saturday, except for public holidays. Anyone may go there and read anything in the collection. But no one is (40) _____ to take books out of the building.
The Library of Congress was (41) _____ in 1800. It started with eleven boxes of books in one room of the Capitol Building. By 1814, the collection had increased to about 3,000 books. They were all (42) _____ that year when the Capitol was (43) _____ down during America's war with Britain.
To help rebuild the library, Congress bought the books of President Thomas Jefferson. Mr. Jefferson's collection included 7,000 books in seven languages.
(44) ___________________________________________________________ . Today, three buildings hold the library's collection.
(45) ___________________________________________________________________ . It buys some of its books and gets others as gifts. It also gets materials through its copyright office. (46) ___________________________________________________________________ . This means the Library of Congress receives almost everything that is published in the United States.
