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Reading. Timing 20 minutes Task 1. Read the article about mobile phones and do the tasks. Mobile Fever(лихорадка) Why are we so addicted to mobile phones? There are now over forty million people in Britain with mobiles and if the present trend continues, every man, woman and child in Britain will soon have one – or two, or three! They can be expensive and are possibly bad for us. You can spend a lot of money if you use your mobile a lot. According to(в соответствии с) some scientists, if we go on using mobiles, we’ll cook our brains. Some people even say that radiation from mobiles causes (вызывает рак)cancer. Teenagers are among the biggest users of mobiles, and ‘texting’ is creating a new language full of abbreviations such as ‘How RU?’ in Japan, Surveys show teenagers are reading less and mobile use is affecting the marks of secondary school learners(ученики средней школы). A big problem in Britain is crime(преступления). Last year half a million British teenagers were victims(жертвы) of mobile phone theft(воровство). As technology improves, mobiles can do more and more. If you have one of the new multimedia mobiles, you can log on the net, pay for things, play games, interact with TV programs and take photos to send to your friends.
Read the text again and answer the questions in writing in keys . Example: Is this text about addiction to mobile phones?
A) No, it is not
B) Yes, it is
C) No information
D) Neither A nor B
1. How many British people are addicted to mobile phones?
A) 60 million B) 40 million C) 5 million D) 2million
[1] 2. Mobiles can be the reason of…
A) toothache B) stomachache C) cancer D) headache
[1] 3. … are among the biggest users of mobiles.
A) Middle age people B) Old people C) Young people D) Adult people
[1] Read the text and give a short answer in writing.
4. Is ‘texting’ creating a new type of communication? What kind of language is it?___ [1]
5. Does a mobile phone improve the marks of the learners? _______________ [1] ​

Answer 1

Ответ:

B

C

C

Yes, it is. It is a new kind of language full of abbreviations.

Yes, it is.