Tattoos, (0) which some people call 'body art', have become more and more popular in recent years. In (1) …… of the pain caused by having a needle make hundreds of holes in their skin, millions of people (2)…..vary widely in age and background are nowadays having their bodies decorated with ink in all kinds of ways.

Many of today's young people, (3) …parents were the first generation to experiment with tattoos, see it as a way of expressing their individuality, and in (4) …to do this, they are constantly looking for new styles and designs. (5) …. to this increasing demand, tattoo studios have appeared in many towns and villages.

(6) …people tend to think of it as a modern practice, tattooing has in fact been around for a long time. There is evidence of tattoos being worn in Siberia over 4,000 years ago, as (7)… as in Ancient Egypt at that time, and it is thought to have existed in Japan 10,000 years ago. Even (8)… , it was not until the late 18th century, (9)… Captain James Cook sailed to Polynesia, that Europeans took an interest.

It was on the island of Tahiti, (10) …tattooing had an important role in society, that Cook and his crew first saw tattooed men and women, and (11)…of that, the English word comes from the Tahit

Think about the noes story. which fits best on the blank line above?

On sarah’s first day at work she is provided with a range of information technology tools that she can use to write, edit or create documents and accounting sheets, store information, make presentations, and so on. match there software their definitions.

Hurry i am on the semester test which theme is evident in this excerpt from robert frost's "mending wall"? but at spring mending-time we find them there. i let my neighbor know beyond the hill; and on a day we meet to walk the line and set the wall between us once again. we keep the wall between us as we go. to each the boulders that have fallen to each. and some are loaves and some so nearly balls we have to use a spell to make them balance: "stay where you are until our backs are turned! " we wear our fingers rough with handling them. oh, just another kind of out-door game, one on a side. it comes to little more: there where it is we do not need the wall: he is all pine and i am apple orchard. my apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines, i tell him. he only says, “good fences make good neighbors." spring is the mischief in me, and i wonder if i could put a notion in his head: "why do they make good neighbors? isn't it where there are cows? but here there are no cows. before i built a wall i'd ask to know what i was walling in or walling out, and to whom i was like to give offence. . " a. the human desire for material gain b. the influence of financial constraints c. the positive effects of friendship d. the uncertain nature of human relations e. the futility of human yearning