Part 1

Read the text. Choose the right words

Example:

It was about a hundred years ago

A man called Alexander Bell was the first person to speak (1) … the telephone. For about fifty years, not many people had telephones and if you wanted to use one you (2) … to go to the post office, because most telephones were there. About fifty years ago, most people had a telephone in their home, but it (3) … very expensive to speak to people who lived far away. There was no cheap ways of (4) … like today.

Now most people have telephones (5) … they carry in their pockets. These phones are like small computers and they are also cameras and tape recorders. They are cheap and they (6) … do everything.

The problem is that a lot of people spend too much time (7) … on the phone to their friends and they do not go and visit them. Another problem is that some people speak very (8) … on their phones when they are on the bus or on the train or in a café. (9) … has to listen to what they are (10) … and the conversations are often very boring.

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