Discovered: Oldest Writing in the New World

Anthropologists study people (17)______ . Items those men, women, and children left behind when

they died - (18)______ - tell anthropologists a lot. And sometimes even their words survive.

Experts believe that a discovery in Mexico, near the capital city of ancient people called the Olmec, is the oldest example of writing that has ever been found in the Americas. The people who created it probably lived 3,000 years ago, (19)___________________________ .

Stephen Houston, (20)______ , says the discovery is extremely exciting. “It makes clear that the

Olmec were literate, (21)______ . It’s like hearing voices from the past,” he says.

But experts don’t know exactly what the writing says. If you have ever tried to figure out a message written in code, you have a pretty good idea of the hard work ahead. Finding other examples of Olmec writing could help crack the code. “We could have whole sets of ancient writing (22) _____ ,”says Houston. “There are many puzzles to be solved, and this is just one of them.”

A which include everything from clothing to jewelry and tools

B who decide to study past cultures

C which is long before Columbus arrived in the New World

D who is an expert on the writing systems of ancient cultures

E that seem to show religious objects

F which will basically make ancient people speak to us directly

G that they could read and write

H who are no longer living

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Task 5

Read the text below. Fill in the gaps (23 - 32) with the correct answer (A, B, C or D). Write your answers on the separate answer sheet.

Is There Such a Thing as Internet Addiction?

Ben Alexander always struggled to (23)_______ in. Teased at school, he (24)_______ to the internet, where he found a (25)___________________________________ new world of friends. Subscribing (26) the hugely popular online game World of Warcraft, he (27)_____________ 12 million other people - including the actor Vin Diesel, presenter Jonathan Ross and his wife Jane Goldman - in a quest reminiscent of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.

In the game, players create avatars in whose guise they spend hours with other players (28)_________

battles. “There’s lots of working together”, says Alexander. “That’s what made it so attractive, because the social thing was something I always had trouble with. It was a lot easier to socialize and make friends online than it was in real life”.

The 19-year-old’s interest in the game soon developed into an obsession. He began (29)______ his

biology lectures at university and spending up to 17 hours a day online. Eventually he had

depression diagnosed and was (30)________ medication. He was also treated (31)_____ internet addiction. Alexander admits that he needed help: “I don’t think I would have been able to (32)____ out of it myself.”

Task 5

Read the texts below. For questions (33 - 42) choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

Write your answers on the separate answer sheet.

Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth in 1812 and died in London in 1870. He is buried in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey.

Dickens spent (33)_________ his life in London and often used to walk (34)_________ ten and twenty miles all over the city when he was (35)____ to sleep and was thinking about the plot of a new novel. While (36) , he used to observe the sights, sounds and smells of London in order to write about them. Because of the Industrial Revolution Britain, and especially London (37)__________________________________________

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