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the way they land tells about your future. F: Huh! I've never heard of that before.

C: Mmm, but my favorite street activity was eating! In Bahia, you can buy these round cakes made of bean flour and filled with hot spices. They're fried ad they're delicious. They're a specialty there.

F: Well, that sounds great. You know, I remember that when I went to France two years ago, I saw some pretty unusual things on the city streets, too. C: Really? Like what?

F: Well, in Paris, you could watch all kinds of street performers. There were folk singers with guitars, classical musicians ... Sometimes you could even see actors performing in plays.

C: That sounds like a lot of fun.

F: Oh, it is. You really see all sorts of things on the streets of Paris. In fact, you can even have your portrait painted right on the street. Yeah, the art students do them to practice drawing and painting. C: Did you have your portrait done there? F: Yeah, I did. In fact, i had it done twice. Part III Section A

A2 1. much busier / Monday / Saturday 2. humid and hot 4. much colder / -30°C

5. much flatter / beautiful 6. mountainous 7. higher / rocky 8. more crowded

9. smaller 10. taller

J -- John E -- Etsuko

J: I found that living in Japan, people were busier. They seem to work the whole day.

E: Yes, that's right. We work from Monday through Saturday, even in summer. You know, summer in Japan is just horrible. It's very, very humid and hot, and you need to take showers three times a day.

J: So you find it cooler in England? E: Yes, that's right.

J: Where I was living in Japan, in the north, it was cooler than England, especially in winter ---- minus thirty degrees centigrade. Does the winter in Osaka last longer than the winter in

England? E: No, I don't think so. December, January, February, March ...

J: Yes. It's a little bit shorter if anything.

E: Ever since I came here, I noticed that the countryside here in England is really beautiful.

J: It's much flatter than in Japan.

E: Yes, Japan is a mountainous country and our cities are full of people. There are lots of people in a limited flat area.

J: Yes, I found Japan much more mountainous than Britain, especially in the north. The mountains are much higher and much more rocky. I fount it more beautiful than Britain, I think.

E: Yes, if you like mountains.

J: And so therefore the towns and villages tend to be more crowded. E: Yes, that's right. J: Yes. So because the cities are more crowded, the houses tend to be smaller, don't they?

E: Yes, they are very compact, and we don't have a lot of space. In bit cities you have a lot of taller buildings now.

J: Is this a problem because there are more earthquakes in Japan? E: Yes, that's right, and ... er ... Part III Section B

1 France / Latin American 2 Kenya / Tunisia / Greece 3 Lebanon / Tonga

4 Italy / Europe and Latin America

5 Mexico, Costa Rica, and Japan / Bolivia, Honduras and Lebanon

6 Barbados / Bangladesh 7 Greece, Iran and Italy

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