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Origins of Paper Currency
Speaker: American English
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0 words · target 50–70 · 10 minutes in the test · spell-check is off, as in the test
You will hear a short lecture. Write a summary for a fellow student who was not at the lecture. You should write 50–70 words. You have 10 minutes.
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