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11. Read the first part of a radio programme about Las Vegas, and answer the
questions below.
a) In which US state is Las Vegas?
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b) How much money is made there each year from gambling in casinos?
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c) What kinds of gambling take place at the airport?
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d) What is the population of Las Vegas?
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e) Name three typical buildings you can see in Las Vegas.
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f) What does much of the city look like?
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12. Read the second part of the radio programme, and underline the correct5 answers
or complete the sentences below.
a) Caesars Palace describes itself as a fantasy land / a theme casino.
b) The gambling takes place ________ days a year.
c) People sometimes gamble more than ________ dollars.
d) The Alabaman woman is not winning anything / keeps winning.
e) The Alabaman couple once won ________ dollars.
f) A housewife from Detroit once won ________ dollars.
g) She spent her money on ________.
h) Next to the Colorado River there is a gambling place for older people /
children.
Part 1
A radio programme about Las Vegas
ANNOUNCER: Last week Mike Davies visited Las Vegas, in Nevada, USA,
and brings us this report from the land of the casinos.
MD: Las Vegas is a casino empire with yearly revenues of over six billion dollars.
This is where America lets its hair down, and gambling has the status of an official
religion. The industry greets you like a salesman the moment you step off the plane.
Fruit machines in the Arrivals Hall, the sound of the handles, reels spinning, and the
sound of dollars cascading into trays. And in Departures video poker as far as you
can see, as people wait reluctantly for their planes. Downtown, in the suburban
luxury, the dominance of the big casinos is absolute. If you don’t like gambling stay
out of Vegas, is the clear message. The city, with its swelling population of more than
700,000 is built on the proposition that every American likes to chance his luck.
The city centre is in fact a collection of casinos, motels, souvenir shops, porn
cinemas and pawnbrokers. Occasionally a spire intrudes – the churches are usually
well-attended – but the wise clergyman knows which subjects are best avoided on

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