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particular opinion. Therefore, readers who access their information from 
multiple Internet sites are not getting the most factually accurate news. 
Finally, newspapers are now finding alternative sources of revenue. One 
is digitizing some of their content and offering it as pay-to-view. Another 
is creating a model in which instead of selling advertising to support the 
news, they sell the news itself to targeted markets, let’s see…for 
example…stories about industries would be sold to lobbyists. So you can 
see, the newspaper is not ready to declare its demise any time soon. 
WRITING REVIEW EXERCISE (Skills 1–8) 

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LPREP IBT 3 E AudioScript 
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Listen to the passage. On a piece of paper, take notes on the topic and 
main points of the listening passage. 
(Professor)
: As you know, a common belief, still held today by most people, about 
Stonehenge is that it was built by the Druids, the high priests of the Celts. 
But this is clearly not true and current scientific tests prove it. The dates 
and other information just don’t match up. 
First, let me discuss what is known about the time when the Celts arrived 
in England. They were flourishing on the European mainland, and they 
spread out from there to various places, including England. Actually, it’s 
not quite clear when the Celts actually arrived in England, but there are 
two different theories. One is that they arrived in England around 1500 
B
.
C
., and the alternate theory is that they started arriving there around 
800 
B
.
C
. In either case, the Celts were not in England before around 
1500 
B
.
C
. There is universal agreement on that. 
Before I go on to talk about the age of the monument itself, I should 
mention that it has never been definitively proven that Stonehenge was 
used for religious ceremonies like “sky worship” by the Celts. While it’s 
true that there must have been some activity there at the time of the 
ancient Celts, uh…because pottery and unusual bones dating to 1250 to 
840 
B
.
C
. were found at Stonehenge, it was clearly not a religious or 
ceremonial center.
OK, now for the age of Stonehenge. Modern radiocarbon dating 
techniques have been used on the monument to determine its age. To 
refresh your memory, radiocarbon testing is the process used to date 
specimens by measuring the amount of carbon-14 remaining in them. 
Well, the radiocarbon testing has shown that Stonehenge was built in 
three phases. The first phase was around 3000 
B
.
C
., and the second 
phase was around 2800 
B
.
C
. And the final phase, the phase when the 
giant stones actually went up, was around 2100 
B
.
C
. 
So, as you can see from the dates, no matter which theory you 
believe about the arrival of the Celts in England, that they and their Druid 
priests had not yet arrived in England when Stonehenge was built and, 
therefore, could not possibly be the culture that constructed Stonehenge 
for religious ceremonies.