Question

on,one,give,change,take,letter,while,because,stay,fast 

  The British love sending text messages. They send more than 2. 5 bil- lion every month. And most people understand the language of text,with its numbers and missing 1    . . In fact,when a student at a Scottish school wrote the whole article "in txt”，his teacher 2.        him "C十 4 f4t"("C+for effort") .

  Although texting (发短信) is a cheap way of 3.        in touch with your friends,it can also bring problems. In 2005,a British teenager became the 4.        person in the world to receive treatment for an addiction (沉溺) to text messaging. In one year,the nineteen-year-old spent about £4,500 5.     texts.

For some people,text messaging has 6.        their lives. For example,James Trusler from Sussex in England travels around the world taking part in texting competitions and TV shows. He's the world's 7,texter and recently set a new world record 8.        he was appearing on Australian TV. He texted: "The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serraslmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human.”It 9.        him 67 seconds. James sends a lot of text messages―about 2,500 a month.

But he doesn't get big bills10.        he works for a large mobile phone company.

Answer 1

1. letters   2. gave

3. staying   4. first   5. on

6. changed   7. fastest

8. while   9. took   10. because