Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

   La Tomatina is a festival that is held in the Valencian town of Buñol in Spain. It is is a food fight festival in which participants throw tomatoes at each other and get involved in a tomato fight purely (22) entertainment purposes. Since 1945 it has been held on the last Wednesday of August, during a week of festivities in Buñol. At around 11am many trucks haul the bounty of tomatoes into the centre of the town. Technically the festival does not begin (23) one brave soul has climbed to the top of a two-story high, greased-up wooden pole and reached the coveted ham at the top. In practice, this process takes a long time and the festival starts despite no one reaching the meaty prize. The (24) for the beginning of the fight is the firing of water cannons, and the chaos begins. Once it begins, the battle is generally every man for himself.

   After an one hour the fighting ends. At this point, no more tomatoes can be thrown. The cleaning process (25) the use of fire trucks to spray down the streets, with water provided from a Roman aqueduct. The authorities seem more (26) with cleaning the town than cleaning the visitors, so some people find water at the Bunol River to wash themselves, although some kind residents will hose passers-by down. Once the tomato pulp is flushed, the ground is clean due to the acidity of the tomato.

 

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