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SECTION A
In this section you will hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening to the lecture, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE after the mini-lecture. Use the blank paper for note. taking.
Now listen to the mini-lecture.
The Texas teen Buchanan is (1)_____the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. He got the (1)_____
first Harry Potter book as a Christmas present back in 1998.
As the world eagerly cracks open the newest volume, whose initial U. S. run of 10. 8 million
copies is a (2)_____record, the true mystery isn’t the identity of the royal figure in the tide. It’s (2)_____
what impact these books are having on kids.
If our society ever needed a reading (3)_____, it’s now. Only one half of young people read (3)_____
a book of any kind—including Harry Potter—in 2002. We set the bar almost on the ground. If you read
one short story in a teen magazine, that would have counted, "laments Mark Bauerlein. He (4)_____ (4)_____
the loss of readers to the booming world of technology.
The new forms of media undoubtedly have some (5)_____. TV shows promote mental gym- (5)_____
nastics by forcing viewers to follow intertwining story lines. But books offer (6)_____that can’t (6)_____
be gained from these other sources, from building vocabulary to stretching the imagination.
That’s why many (7)_____are hoping the Harry Potter series can work some magic. (7)_____
"It’s broken the rules, "says Cathy Denman, a middle school media specialist in Florida who
chairs the young adult booklist for the International Reading Association. "Kids who hadn’t picked
up a book in years unless they’d been forced to were reading the series and then asking me for more
books like it. For the first time for them, a book was as (8)_____as a video game. "Although there (8)_____
have been no (9)_____studies of the effect of the books in the United States. (9)_____
Part of the allure is the (10)_____story. That’s what ensnared precocious readers like 12- (10)_____
year-old Hannah Bredar of Washington, D. C. , who tackled the first hook when she was just 5. "I
love that Harry lives in two worlds, one with Muggles and one with wizards and witches, and has to
go between the two, "she analyzes.