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Texting
Trolls
Well, it happened once again.
Tremor Troll had another crush. This time it was the new girl in class,
Tina Troll.
Tremor was very shy and
reluctant to actually talk to a girl. “How can I introduce
myself to her?” he asked his close friend, Trogmire Troll.
“Send her a nice
text
message,” Trogmire suggested. “I can get her number
from her friend, Tammy Troll.
Tremor had gotten his first
cell phone just two days earlier so this would be the perfect time to
enter the world of texting. “Great
idea!” Tremor said, “I can think all day in school
about what I’ll say.”
The boys got together after
school and Tremor was ready. “I’ll say,
‘Hi, I’m Tremor,’” he told his
friend.
Trogmire entered
Tina’s number for Tremor and quickly typed and sent the
message for him.
It seemed like forever to
Tremor, but in less than a minute a response triggered a musical tone
from his phone.
“She sent me an
answer!” Tremor gasped, shaking all over.
Trogmire, who considered
himself to be a cell phone expert, said, “No, she sent you a reply!”
Tremor stared at the screen
with a confused look. “This is hard to read,” he
groaned.
“That’s
because we
texters use all kinds of shortcuts to make typing go faster,”
Trogmire explained. “Here, let me translate for you. It says,
‘Tremor, you are ugly and you smell bad
too.’”
“Did she really
say that?” Tremor asked.
“Yes, she really
did,” Trogmire replied.
Tremor jumped up and shouted,
“This is the happiest day of my life!”
And so, Tremor Troll and Tina
Troll became good friends. But as things often go, true romance did not
blossom. Tremor’s crushes were always fleeting and Tina Troll
was more interested in her hobby, collecting rare bed bugs, than in
having a serious relationship.
However, Tremor
Troll’s love of texting had been born and went on and on and
on.
1.
If you are reluctant
to do something, you are _______.
a.
in a rush to do it
b.
not very willing to do it
c.
very pushy
d.
crazy
2.
For how long had Tremor owned a cell phone?
a.
about a year
b.
never
c.
less than a week
d.
about two months
3.
How much time did Tremor plan to spend on creating a message?
a.
about the length of one school day
b.
thirteen years
c.
less time than it takes to blink
d.
a little more than two days
4.
Trogmire was proud of his _______.
a.
athletic ability
b.
lack of interest in texting
c.
buttermilk pancakes
d.
knowledge about cell phones
5.
This experience led Tremor to _______.
a.
marry Tina
b.
hate bugs
c.
love texting
d.
order pizza by phone
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