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►    Read the text through ąuickly in order to get a generał idea of what it is about. Focus on the meaning of the text and the structures of the sentences.

►    When you read the text for the second time, look for clues either side of the gaps that will help you choose the correct words. Words such as pronouns are often very important.

►    If you are not surę about the correct answer, try to guess it. Do not leave unanswered ąuestions.

►    When you have fmished, read the text again to check the meaning and your answers.

1    Read the text in the EXAM TASK ąuickly. Which of the following is the best title for the text?

a The success of Apple b The changing face of musie c The history of the CD

2    Read the text in the EXAM TASK again and decide if the following statements are true (T) or false (F).

1    Buying CDs is still the most popular way of buying

2    The speed of change in music-buying habits was not

expected._

3    Apple is a key retailer of downloadable musie.

4    Apple launched the iPod after iTunes._

5    Apple sold 200 million songs in 2004._

6    Shops were not affected by this change in buying

methods._

3    Match the sentences (1-5) with the parts of speech (a-e) needed to fili the gaps.

1    Apple is one of_most successful companies

in history.

2 People_CDs from shops in the past.

3    Apple computers are popular_its most

successful product is the iTunes storę.

4    Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak met_1971.

5    Steve Jobs was one of the most successful business

people of all time._died in 2011.

a pronoun

c preposition d conjunction

4 For the sentences (1-5) in exercise 3, what word should be placed in each gap?

2

Now complete the EXAM TASK.

EXAM TASK

Complete the text below by writing one word in each of the gaps (1-6) to obtain logical and grammatically correct sentences. The right spelling is reąuired.

Downloading songs and albums (1)_. now the most common

way of buying musie. However, this was not always the case and it is mainly in the last ten years that this change has happened.

With the recent advances in technology, it is perhaps not a surprise that morę and morę people are downloading musie rather than buying CDs,

(2) _the speed of this change has surprised many people.

(3) _all started in 2001 when the American technology

company Apple launched the iPod, a digital audio player.

However, Apple’s influence on how people buy musie really began with the launch of iTunes, a media player that allows people to download

and play musie from their computers. iTunes (4)_launched

in 2003 and by the end of 2004 it (5)_sold 200 million

downloads.

Many companies that sold CDs did not predict (6)_change

and went out of business. This has led to many high Street musie Stores dosing down and becoming just a part of history.

(Mord University Press

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