age      agency      approaching      depending      different      disagree      existence     
experience      fatal      humans      pass      popular      possibility      predictions     
reality      storyline      survive      technology      traveller    universe      unclear 

Complete the text with the words from the box on the right. There are THREE words
you will not need!

Time travel - moving between _____________ points in time – has been a _____________

topic for science fiction for decades. Films ranging from Doctor Who to Star Trek have
seen __________ getting into a vehicle of some sort and arriving in the past or future, ready
to take on new adventures. The ________________, however, is much more unclear. While
some scientists claim that time travel is possible others say, even if it were, it would
be _______________ for humans to try it.

For Albert Einstein, the 20th century’s greatest physicist, time is relative. It does
not ____________ equally for everyone. His theory of special relativity says that time slows
down or speeds up _______________ on how fast you move compared with something
else. _____________ the speed of light, a person inside a spacecraft would be much
younger than his twin on Earth. In the same way, astronauts who are sent into
space _____________ slightly slower than they would on earth.

According to the American space _______________ NASA, there are scenarios that would
make travelling back and forth in time imaginable. One ______________ would be through
wormholes, bridges between certain points in space and time. While theoretically possible,
we do not even know if wormholes exist. In addition, we are far from creating
a _______________ that would let us move through them.
Besides the physics problem, time travel may also come with some unique situations. A
classic example is the grandfather effect, in which a time _____________ goes back and
kills his parents or his grandfather – the main _______________ in the “Terminator” movies
– so that he is never born or his life is forever changed. If that were to happen, some
physicists say you would not be born in one parallel universe but still be born in another.

A large number of scientists ____________ with all the above-mentioned options. They claim
that time travel will never work because it is mathematically impossible. In addition, nobody
could ______________ traveling at the speed of light. Despite these bleak _____________ ,
we can still ____________ time travel through movies, television and books.
  abroad      boiled      cooks      difficult      dishes      fancy      import     incorporated     
influence      ingredients      olive      pasta     pie      produce      restaurants      soil     
taste      tasteless      tea      traditional      varieties      weather 

How come it is so ______________ to find English food in England? In Greece you eat
Greek food, in France French food, in Italy Italian food, but in England, in any High Street in
the land, it is easier to find Indian and Chinese _______________ than English ones. In
London you can eat Thai, Portuguese, Turkish, Lebanese, Russian, Polish, Swiss, Swedish,
Spanish, and Italian—but where are the English restaurants?

It is not only in restaurants that foreign ____________ are replacing __________ British

food. In every supermarket, sales of pasta, pizza and poppadoms are booming. Why has this
happened? What is wrong with the ____________ of Britain that they prefer cooking pasta to
potatoes? Why do the British choose to eat lasagne instead of
shepherd’s _______________? Why do they now like cooking in wine
and _____________oil? But perhaps it is a good thing. After all, this is the end of the 20th
century and we can get _______________ from all over the world in just a few hours.
Anyway, wasn’t English food always disgusting and ______________? Wasn’t it
always _____________ to death and swimming in fat? The answer to these questions is a
resounding ‘No’, but to understand this, we have to go back to before World War II.
The British have in fact always imported food from ______________. From the time of the
Roman invasion foreign trade was a major ___________ on British cooking. English
kitchens, like the English language, absorbed ingredients from all over the world—chickens,
rabbits, apples, and __________. All of these and more were successfully _____________
into British dishes. Another important influence on British cooking was of course
the _____________. The good old British rain gives us rich _____________ and green
grass, and means that we are able to ______________ some of the finest _____________
of meat, fruit and vegetables, which don’t need _______________ sauces or complicated
recipes to disguise their ________________.