Can you understand the beginning of this essay（短文）?

   “My smmr hols wr CWOT. B4, we usd 2go2 NY 2C my bro, his GF & 3 kds FTF.”

   The Scottish teacher who received it in class had no idea what the girl who wrote it meant. The essay was written in a form of English used in cell phone text messages. Text messages (also called SMS) through cell phones became very popular in the late 1990s. At first, mobile phone companies thought that text messaging would be a good way to send messages to customers, but customers quickly began to use the text messaging service to send messages to each other. Teenagers in particular enjoyed using text messaging, and they began to create a new language for messages called “texting.”

   A text message is limited to 160 characters, including letters, spaces, and numbers, so messages must be kept short. In addition, typing on the small keypad of a cell phone is difficult, so it’s common to make words shorter. In texting, a single letter or number can represent（代表） a word, like “r” for “are”, “u” for “you,” and “2”"for “to.” Several letters can also represent a phrase, like “lol” for“laughing out loud.” Another characteristic（特征） of texting is the leaving out of letters in a word, like spelling “please” as “pls”.

    Some parents and teachers worry that texting will make children bad spellers and bad writers. The student who wrote the essay at the top of this page said writing in that way was more comfortable for her. (The essay said, “My summer holidays were a complete waste of time. Before, we used to go to New York to see my brother, his girlfriend, and their three kids face to face.”)

   Not everyone agrees that texting is a bad thing. Some experts say languages always develop, and this is just another way in which English is changing. Other people believe texting will disappear soon. New technology for voice messages may soon make text messages a thing of the past.

Dear Coach，

    I have been out of work for almost six months now and things are starting to get very tough for me. I am practically living out of my savings. I have been looking for a job, but things are really bad and 1 cannot find a single person who wants to hire me. I know that the main problem is that I do not have a degree. I want to go back to school and get my degree, but I also need a job now. I owe money to some people who have been helping me. Because I am out of work，I cannot pay them back. What do you think 1 should do? I need to find a job as quickly as possible, and want to know what else to do to get people to give me a chance to work for them.

The Unemployed

Dear Unemployed，

   Before you get  yourself   in a really bad situation, you need to stop borrowing     money from people. If you continue doing that, you will be deep in debts and the situation will get even worse for you. The next thing you need to do is look for a job depending on your abilities, skills, and experience. By doing that, you will be increasing your chances of finding a job     that suitsyou best. And the last thing I will suggest is that you should stop feeling sorry for yourself and continue working hard to get a job that you need. Borrowing money, complaining, and feeling bad for your situation will  do no good to you.  Stay strong and get  out there and start showing the world what you can offer. I promise if you work hard and never give up, you will soon find the job that you are looking for. And while you are doing it, thing about getting your degree as well because it will help you to become more challenging. Try those tips.

The Coach

A home school is a school in which parents educate their children at home instead of sending them out to a public or private school. Home schooling is legal throughout Europe, Australia, New Zealand, North America, Hong Kong, and South Africa. Home schooling is most popular in Canada, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Home schooling is legally accepted in all 50 states of the US, but each state has its own laws about it. Currently, it is estimated that over one million families teach their children at home. Most of these families include a breadwinner and a stay-at-home parent who does most of the teaching, although there are single parent families and double career families.

Home schooling education models range from unschooling to traditional classroom schooling. Unschooling is based on interest-based learning in which the child expresses interest in a particular subject, and the parents take steps to provide the materials for that subject.

In some places, the home school group shares in hiring a professional teacher to teach a particular subject. The group may also arrange field trips and sports activities with local private schools. These activities are intended to provide social skills for the students.

Home school families take advantage of technology and the Internet to supplement (补充) traditional teaching. Some home school families enroll (注册) their children in an online school or course as a supplement to their own teaching.

Some home school families teach their children through high school graduation. Others teach their children until they feel they are mature (成熟) enough to live independently.

 In America colleges do recognize a home school diploma (文凭) , but most are more interested in high school transcripts（成绩报告单） and SAT and ACT scores. There are currently over 800 colleges that accept home-schooled graduates including Harvard, Yale, and Stanford.

In Britain, people have different attitudes to the police. Most people generally 　41　them and the job they do—although there are certain people who do not believe that the police 　42　have the power that they do.

What does a policeman actually do? It is not 　43　job to describe. After all, a policeman has a number of jobs in 　44　.A policeman often has to control traffic, either 　45　foot in the centre of a town, or in a police car on the roads. Indeed, in Britain, he might be in the Traffic Police and spend all, or a lot of, his time 　46　up and down main roads and motorways. A traffic policeman has to help keep the traffic moving, stop 　47　motorists and help when there is an accident.

A policeman has to help keep the 　48　, too. If there is a fight or some other disturbance, we 　49　the police to come and restore order. And they often have to 　50　situation at great risk to their own 　51　.

We expect the police to solve crimes, of course, so an ordinary policeman, 　52　he is not a detective(侦探),will often have to help 　53　_and arrest criminals.

And 　54　do we call when there is an emergency—an air crash, a 　55　,a road accident, or a robbery? We call the police. 　 56　a policeman has to be 　57　to face any unpleasant emergency that may happen in the　58　world.

The police do an absolutely necessary job, they do it 　59　well and I support them, but I do not envy policemen. I do not think that I could 　60　do the job of a policeman.

About a year ago, I went to stay at a Detroit hotel. I didn't want to __21__ too much money with me, so I __22__ the desk clerk to put a hundred-dollar bill in the safe for __23__．

    The next morning, however, the clerk said that he knew nothing about my money. I didn't have any proof __24__ I had given the man the money. There was clearly __25__ left to do but go to the nearest lawyer at once.

    The lawyer __26__ me to return to the hotel with him and give __27__ hundred-dollar bill to the clerk. __28__ we did. An hour later, I went back to the desk and asked for my money together with the lawyer. __29__ I had the lawyer as an eyewitness(证人) to the __30__ hundred-dollar bill, the clerk could not __31__ he knew nothing about it.

    Another hour later, I put the second part of the lawyer's plan into action. This time both the lawyer and I went to the __32__ to ask for the hundred-dollar once again. No matter __33__ I said, the clerk who kept my bill __34__ that he had given it to me. I said it was not __35__．The lawyer said to him, "I __36__ this gentleman give you a hundred-dollar bill. If you don't hand it in immediately, I will be forced to call the __37__" Now the clerk felt quite __38__, so he gave me back the first hundred-dollar bill.

    "I don't know __39__ to thank you enough for getting my money back," I said to the lawyer. And what do you suppose he answered? He said, "Oh, don't __40__ me. That will be one hundred dollars, please. "