Complete the text using one word in each space.

Fast food
The concept of “fast food” is very important in English-speaking countries (0) for one major reason: the working day
starts at around the same time (1 as in European countries, but finishes (2 much earlier, typically at about five
o'clock in (3 the evening when the offices, banks and many of the shops begin to close. As a result, there's not much
time for lunch, (4 so many people bring something from home to eat at their desks, (5 eaten with a cup of tea or
instant coffee made with the office kettle, (6 rather than going out to a restaurant for a “proper” lunch as do
many European office workers, (7 who usually finish work much later in the evening.
For (8 those who prefer to get out of the office to have a break or (9 some fresh air, there are the various fast
food options (10 such as sandwiches, Cornish pasties, burgers, kebabs, or fish and chips, many of (11 which
can be eaten “on the move”, (12 without even the need to sit down!
Only on special occasions is a British office worker likely to eat lunch in a restaurant. (13 For someone's birthday,
promotion, engagement or retirement, for example, a group of colleagues will eat together in a pub or restaurant. It
is for this reason (14 that foreign visitors are often surprised (15 by / at the lack of affordable, good quality,
places to have lunch in the major British cities.

The History Of Soap

The earliest soap in history was probably produced around five thousand years (0) ago in Ancient Babylon.
Archeologists (1) have found ancient tablets with writing on them (2) which seem to describe a formula for making
soap. (3) Although the Romans probably knew how to manufacture soap as well, (4) it is believed that they
only used it (5) for washing fabrics and actually cleaned their bodies in a totally different (6) way . An ancient
Egyptian papyrus from around 1550 B.C. also refers to soap manufacture.
The first soaps that we would recognise today were produced by Muslim chemists in the mediaeval Islamic world
around 1000 A.D. (7) Those soaps were not only made from similar materials (8) but also included colouring and
perfume in some cases.
But it was not (9) until the Nineteenth Century that large-scale soap production began making a product that was
cheap (10) enough for everybody to afford it. In 1862, Andrew Pears and (11) his grandson, Francis opened the
Pears soap factory in Isleworth in London. Today, Pears has become (12) one of the best known brands of soap in
the world.

Clifton Suspension Bridge

The Clifton Suspension Bridge is a famous road bridge across the River Avon, (0) which joins Clifton in Bristol (1)
on one side to Leigh Woods on the (2) other side. When it was originally built, it was the longest bridge of (3)its
kind anywhere in the world and indeed, many people had believed that bridging such a great distance would turn out
to (4) be impossible.

When Isambard Kingdom Brunel first designed the bridge in 1731, the two towers that were going to support the
roadway were designed to have (5) an ancient Egyptian appearance. Unfortunately, Brunel died before the bridge
(6) was completed and the engineers who completed (7) it , covered the stone towers with conventional red bricks
instead.

Even today, more (8) than a hundred years later, the bridge is still an impressive sight. The roadway that stretches
between the two towers is two hundred and fourteen metres long, at a height of seventy-five metres above the river
and the A4 road below. Originally, (9) any car driver, cyclist and pedestrian who crossed the bridge had to pay a toll.
(10) But nowadays, people on foot and cyclists can cross for free and (11) only motorists must still pay.

In April 2006, the bridge was used (12) as the centre of a huge fireworks display to celebrate the 200th anniversary
of the birth of its great designer, Brunel.