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

{#blank#}3{#/blank#}texing is a cheap way of staying in touch with your friends, it can also bring problems. In 2005, a British teenager became {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (one ) 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

{#blank#}5{#/blank#}texts.

    For some people, text messaging{#blank#}6{#/blank#}(change) their lives already. For example, James Trusler from England travels around the world{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(take) part in texting competitions and TV shows. He's the world's fastest texter and recently set a new world record while he was appearing on Australian TV. He texted: “The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serraslmus and Pygocentrus（脂鲤属和红肚属水虎鱼）are{#blank#}8{#/blank#}(terrible) freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human. ” {#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#}he works for a large mobile phone company!

    It is not easy for people to sail around the world in quite small boats. Sometimes the w{#blank#}1{#/blank#} gets bad. Accidents can happen easily and quickly. One family once had an accident. A big fish s{#blank#}2{#/blank#} under their boat and bit holes in it. Sea water came in and the boat soon went down. L{#blank#}3{#/blank#}, these people had another small boat - a lifeboat, so they all got into the lifeboat. They lived in the boat for many d{#blank#}4{#/blank#}. They ate and s{#blank#}5{#/blank#}, and always hoped. At l{#blank#}6{#/blank#} people in a ship saved them.

    How do people live in a very small lifeboat for a long time? They must be strong in every way. They must have a hope, and they must have a strong desire to live. People cannot d{#blank#}7{#/blank#} sea water. If they drink a lot of sea water, they will quickly die. They must catch rainwater and drink it. They must also get fish and birds for food. Lifeboats do not often carry cookers. So, people cannot c{#blank#}8{#/blank#} their food in the lifeboats. Raw fish and birds are not very nice but they are their o{#blank#}9{#/blank#} food. They must eat raw f{#blank#}10{#/blank#} or they will die.

    When British photographer David J. Slater was visiting a park in Indonesia, his camera {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (take) away by a group of black monkeys. The result was hundreds of monkey selfies(自拍照). The best {#blank#}2{#/blank#} (one) show a monkey smiling toothily for the camera. Slater then sold the photos and they became popular {#blank#}3{#/blank#} the Internet.

    Nobody knew they would create a copyright(版权) battle three years {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (late).

    Not long ago, a website put the monkey selfies online under a collection of free photos {#blank#}5{#/blank#} Slater's permission(允许). Slater asked the website {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (take) them down since he owned the copyright.

    {#blank#}7{#/blank#}, the website refused to do so. They said that according to US copyright law, whoever pushes the button on the camera owns the copyright of the photo. It was the monkeys but not Slater that pushed the button.

    They said, "US copyright law says that works that come from a non-human source can't ask for copyright. That {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (mean) monkeys don't own copyright."

    Slater argued that the pictures belonged to him as they were taken from his camera. He said he bought the camera; he spent a lot of money {#blank#}9{#/blank#} (travel) to Indonesia; and it was his carelessness that allowed the monkeys to take his camera away. All these have made him own the pictures, no matter {#blank#}10{#/blank#} pushed the button. In a sense, the monkeys helped him take the photos.