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21. What is the article about?

A) the best way to learn English. B) How many people in the world learn English.

C) English schools in England and America. D) Facilities of the English language.

22. That is one of the advantages of going to the UK to learn …

A) you may learn the language even staying at home. B) The language schools are better in the UK.

C) You will have to speak English but not your language. D) There are no other nations in Britain.

23. What is one of the advantages of staying in your country to learn English?

A) Your life can continue more of less as it was before. B) It is free to learn the English language in Britain.

C) The leathers aren't very good in Britain. D) You have to work too hard as in Britain.

24. People who don t have a lot of time and money to go to the UK or USA should ...

A) listen to English songs more. B) learn English in Britain.

C) speak English in the class more often. D) save money to go to England.
What have recently been found in Egypt could be the earliest known writings. The clay tablets have been carbon fled to between 3300 BC and 3200 BC. This discovery will upset the belief commonly held by historians that the first people to write were the Sumerians of Mesopotamia, in about 3000 BC. Most of the tablets were found in the tomb of a king called Scorpion, south of Cairo. The writings in the form of fine drawings of animals, plants and mountains are on day tablets barely bigger than postage stamps. They have been deciphered as records of linen and oil delivered to King Scorpion l. This it seems that man's first writings were not a creative out pouring but the result of economics when the chieftains expanded their areas of control, they needed to keep a record of taxes, paid in the form of goods.

25. It is implied in the passage that the discovery of the clay tablets in Egypt …

A) apparent took place in approximately 3000 BC.

B) has not yet been officially confirmed by Europeans.

C) will change the current understanding of the history of writing.

D) has proved that the Sumerians were the first to write.