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He scored 27/30 on Listening. The Heinemann audio—on a homemade cassette tape from a forgotten library—had saved him. Desperate, Min-jun went to every English hagwon (cram
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On test day, the TOEFL Listening section began. The first lecture? Geology: The Formation of Stalactites and Stalagmites.