The British love sending text messages. They{#blank#}1{#/blank#}(send)more than 2.5 billion messages every month. And most people now understand the language of text, with its numbers and missing letters. In fact, when a student at a Scottish school wrote the whole article "in txt", his/her teacher{#blank#}2{#/blank#}(give)him/her "C+4 f4t"("C+for effort").

    Although texting is a cheap way of{#blank#}3{#/blank#}in touch with your friends, it can also bring problems. In 2005, a British teenager became the{#blank#}4{#/blank#}(one)person in the world to receive treatment for an addiction(沉)to text messaging. In one year, the nineteen-year-old spent about ￡4, 5005{#blank#}5{#/blank#} texts.

    For some people, text messaging has {#blank#}6{#/blank#}(change)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{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(fast)texter and recently set a new world record while he{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(appear)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 humans."{#blank#}9{#/blank#}took him 67 seconds. James sends a lot of text messages-about 2, 500 a month. But he doesn't get big bills {#blank#}10{#/blank#}(because)he works for a large mobile phone company！