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PAPER 3 USE OF ENGLISH 1 hour 30 minutes PART 1 For questions 1-15, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each space. There is an example at the beginning (0). Write your answers in CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet. Example: [0] [1]n THE KARAOKE CULTURE We live in a culture that values participation over ability: the karaoke culture. (0)....n An broadcasting, it seems we cannot escape the vogue for “access TV”, “people shows' and “video diaries”. (1) .......... is our apparent obsession with documenting our own lives (2) ........... , (6) .......... bounds. The public make programmes, the public participate in programmes, the public become performers. Anybody (7) .......... do it! But there is a world of (8) .......... between enjoying something and joining in. If we all join in, O risioniión is the point of artists or experts? If everything is accessible, (10) .......... can be no mystery, no mystique. Is there (11) .......... a beauty in knowledge, a pleasure in learning from a true expert? | love listening to a genius and learning from (or even just appreciating) his or her skill. (12) .. . assume then that | can “have a go at' their craft (13) be monstrous impudence on my part. Worse still is the dismissal of something difficult or demanding [Moo “elitist'. We don't (15) .......... to a brilliant glassblower, juggler or plasterer as “elitist”, yet because we all use words and can all sing, anyone who aspires to greatness in these arts ¡is considered elitist by some people.