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Text 2

1) A. - Lots of kids today grow up with a keyboard

2) B. - They learn multi-tasking skills from juggling ..to.. who grew up
without the availability of commercial Internet service
3) B. - They can also stay in touch with family mambers
4) B. - children to violent behavior
5) C. - For example one type of communication that’s very popular with
teenagers is real-chat
6) C. - use a type of phonetic shorthand instead of grammatically
7) C. - educators, parents and other are divided on question
8) C. - we don’t use the same spelling now that our ancestors used
9) B. - tens are able to slip easily between
10) A - but the fact that kids ... language

Text 3

1) D. - the traditional female entertainers of Japan

2) A. - Geisha houses in the ancient capital Kyoto
3) C. - it has become more and more difficult to recruit the maiko, or
appretice geish
4) A. - Geisha numbers have been in decline since before the Second World
War... the number had decrased to 500, including 200 maiko
5) D. - In the old days, the geisha houses were means for poor families to
ensure a livelihood for daughters
6) B. - Nowadays girls hear about it through the internet from all over
Japan.
7) B. - Recruited at the age of 15, .... and the kimono.
8) C. - spend the morning mastering the traditional accomplishments of the
geisha-dance, singing, the playing of the stringed shamisen and the
bamboo shakuhachi flute
9) B. - with a revived interest among young Japanese in traditional
costoms.
10) A. - people pay a lot of money .... are taking your picture.

Text 4

1) B. -fines of up to 20.000 and year-long prison ’’

2) D. -powers to enter premises without warrant, even by using force”
3) A. -the hard line will be set out in a draft Bill to be published next week
by Ben Bradshaw”
4) C. -will have a statutory ’’duty of care” towards it and could face having
it taken away and being banned from looking after another.
5) A. -gain the right to enter without a warrant any lorry, ferry, plane or
hovercraft carrying animals
6) B. -Local authorities will be given dog-walkers or pet-sitters, who care
for animals when owners are away
7) C. -will be angered that the draft bill, which updates the Protection of
Animals Act 1911
8) A. - Mr. Bradshaw does not believe in a total ban on docking and wants
to reach agreement on which breeds of working dog
9) C. - Other measure in the bill include a ban on anyone under 16 owning
a pet and on goldfish
10) B. - The society said that it would be absolutely delighted if duty of
care were set out in law .... The crackdown follows years of pressure
from the RSPCA and organisations such as the Kennel Club