Variant-1 Choose the answer which correctly completes the sentence

23. What is the passage mainly about?
A) Text messaging
B) Writing books
C) Essay writing
D) Language learning
24. According to the passage, what is the
disadvantage of texting for non-texters?
A) This ’language’ is easy to read and easy to write for non-texters.
B) There is no significant differences between the two groups.
C) They feel lost when they see abbreviations and acronyms.
D) They wrote an entire description of their summer holidays.
25. The word “space” is closest in meaning to ...
A) world
B) universe
C) place
D) sky
26. All of the following statements are
TRUE, EXCEPT ...
A) A Scottish girl sent some text to the
newspaper.
B) Teachers began noticing harmful
texting language.
C) It is important that texting should
be fast and concise.
D) A reader who is unfamiliar with
texting will feel lost.


Read the text and answer the questions
according to it.
Tattoos are not modem. In fact, they are very old in human history For example, in an ice mountain archaeologists found a body of a human who lived five thousand years ago. He had fifty-seven tattoos on
his back, ankles, legs, knees and feet.
In ancient Egypt, people put on tattoos because they looked beautiful. But in ancient Rome, tattoos were bad and were put only on criminals and
prisoners. In India, tattoos were religious. In the sixteenth century, European sailors arrived in the islands of Polynesia. They saw tattoos for the
first time. The people on the islands had tattoos on their shoulders, chest, backs and legs. Their tattoos described animals or natural features like a river
or a mountain. The European sailors liked them and made their own tattoos. And so the idea travelled to Europe.
27. According to the passage, how many tattoos were there on the found body?
A) five thousand
B) fifty-seven
C) sixteen
D) one