Ответ на вопрос: 1. Text messages. Can you remember where you 0) were when the first text message 1) … sent in the UK? You can’t? I’m not surprised. Nor 2) … anyone else. But it’s an unpredictable world, and nothing has been less predicted 3) … the rise of text messaging. It came from nowhere to become 4) … fastest growing phenomenon 5) … recent times. Over 2 million text messages are sent 6) … hour in the UK. The mobile phone industry claims 7) … 95% of them arrive within 10 seconds ‘in normal circumstances’. Texting has opened up an entirely new area 8) … communication that didn’t exist before – brief messages for 9) … there is a huge demand but which don’t need the fuss of a written letter. Texting has become a means 10) … parents to maintain contact with 11) … children, for grandparents to bond with grandchildren, for television to interact with the audience. It is a marketing tool of huge potential for companies which, for the first time, can build up profiles of individual users and target them 12) … special offers. Texting has not been successful simply because it enables you to communicate with others 13) … phone without speaking, 14) … because it is brief and no one expects 15) … of the usual formalities. Its simplicity may ensure its long life.