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General information: (1) The talk is given by _____ Jason Anderson _____________________. (2) The speaker is going to give a lecture on Darton’s ______ history ____________________. (3) The town center is made up of the old _________church_________________, the town hall and the market building itself. Changes in Darton’s maket place: Aspects for comparison In the past At present Traffic The traffic in the market place used to be (4) ____ heavy ________. The market place has become (5) pedestrianised _ and there is no more traffic. Environment Ten years ago the light stonework of the buildings was black from pollution--- pollution from all the (6) ____ traffic and the local (7) factories _________. All the old buildings in the market place have been (8) _____ cleaned _______. shopping The town had only one main shopping (9) ___ street __ in addition to the market place. A new fully pedestrianised shopping(10) center _ has been built. Part 2: Questions 1l - 20 are based on this part. Questions 11-20 Spot Dictation: Listen to a general summary of the survey about attitudes to the arts. Fill in the blanks with one word according to what you learn from listening. Before the first listening you have half a minute to study the questions. The survey has provided us with some interesting (11) __ data _____ on the relative preferences of nations we have studied. (12) __Music_____ is the most popular art form in all (13) ___five_____ countries surveyed, especially in Britain where (14) ____61%____ of the respondents rated music as one of their main preferences. The (15) __cinema______ and music are equally popular with Spanish nationals. In France, the cinema is in (16) ___second_____ places. In all the other countries---Britain, Germany and Italy, (17) __literature______ occupies second place. In Germany music was named a preference by 49% of the respondents and literature by 41%. Painting is apparently less popular in Germany, Britain and Spain th