Reading: Gap Fill

FRANCE BANS THROWAWAY FAST-FOOD CONTAINERS Large fast-food chains in France will no longer be able to give eat-in customers their food in throwaway boxes and (0) _____. Under the new law, restaurants...

WHEN SHOULD YOU TAKE DOWN YOUR CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS? Some of the trickiest questions about Christmas are about the decorations. When do you (0) _____ and when do you remove them? Lots of people (9)...

Imagine, for a second, that you are (0) _______ through the eyes of an alien unfamiliar with our culture. You see students struggling day after day with lectures, assignments, and tests (7) _______, s...

Cambridge dictionary's word of the year for 2023 is "hallucinate" – (0) ______________. The original definition of the chosen word is to "seem to see, hear, feel, or smell" something that does not ex...

A child's body goes through physical changes that are obvious to all parents. Less obvious are the vital changes taking place in a child's brain, particularly as (0) _________ . Teenagers confront ch...

Sugar consumption in developed countries has been steadily (0) ____________ . This could be happening for a number of reasons, such as a shift in tastes and lifestyles, with the popularity of low-carb...

Little Bay Islands is the kind of place where you can (0) _______________ , go on holiday for three weeks and return to an undisturbed home. The owners of the only shop (7) _______________ and, in the...

The Friday commute to school looks (0) _______ kids in Barcelona, Spain. Starting at 8 a.m., more than a hundred kids and parents (7) _______ on their way to school and work – not on the sidewalk or ...

JAPAN TRIES OUT SEE-THROUGH PUBLIC TOILETS In recent years, Japan has had many advanced and unusual toilets, (0) _____ . Now one area of Tokyo is trying something completely new – public toilets with...

DRONE DELIVERS BOOKS TO KIDS Kids in the Montgomery County school district had a special way of getting books to read when the pandemic started: the books were (0) _____. A drone is a small remote-co...