Tunnel Vision

More than 100,000 cars travel (23) ___________ the Holland Tunnel daily. But while some drivers are planning their (24) ___________ home, others are planning their next snack. Luckily, Ali Hoblos is there, at the corner of Varick Street and Broome Street, ready (25) ___________ hot dogs or warm buns right to drivers’ cars.

After 17 years of working at this corner, just one block from the tunnel’s entrance, Hoblos knows drivers’ dietary (26) ___________ well. And he (27) ___________ on traffic moving, at least slowly, because “when they’re stopped, they don’t usually want anything,” he says.

(28) ___________, Hoblos sells two or three dozen hot dogs and about as many buns each day during his noon-to-eight shift. He says there is no big difference in winter sales (29) ___________ summer, and that overall his business has declined in the last year. “I think a lot of people are on diets lately, (30) ___________ just after the New Year,” Hoblos reports. In addition to his handful of regulars, he says his best customers are parents with kids in the car. The hardest sell is taxi drivers, who almost never buy from him. “I’ve been doing this a long time,” Hoblos says. “You don’t get rich, but you make a (31) ___________. And sometimes you get a tip if they’re in a good (32) ___________.

Tunnel Vision

More than 100,000 cars travel (23) ___________ the Holland Tunnel daily. But while some drivers are planning their (24) ___________ home, others are planning their next snack. Luckily, Ali Hoblos is there, at the corner of Varick Street and Broome Street, ready (25) ___________ hot dogs or warm buns right to drivers’ cars.

After 17 years of working at this corner, just one block from the tunnel’s entrance, Hoblos knows drivers’ dietary (26) ___________ well. And he (27) ___________ on traffic moving, at least slowly, because “when they’re stopped, they don’t usually want anything,” he says.

(28) ___________, Hoblos sells two or three dozen hot dogs and about as many buns each day during his noon-to-eight shift. He says there is no big difference in winter sales (29) ___________ summer, and that overall his business has declined in the last year. “I think a lot of people are on diets lately, (30) ___________ just after the New Year,” Hoblos reports. In addition to his handful of regulars, he says his best customers are parents with kids in the car. The hardest sell is taxi drivers, who almost never buy from him. “I’ve been doing this a long time,” Hoblos says. “You don’t get rich, but you make a (31) ___________. And sometimes you get a tip if they’re in a good (32) ___________.

Tunnel Vision

More than 100,000 cars travel (23) ___________ the Holland Tunnel daily. But while some drivers are planning their (24) ___________ home, others are planning their next snack. Luckily, Ali Hoblos is there, at the corner of Varick Street and Broome Street, ready (25) ___________ hot dogs or warm buns right to drivers’ cars.

After 17 years of working at this corner, just one block from the tunnel’s entrance, Hoblos knows drivers’ dietary (26) ___________ well. And he (27) ___________ on traffic moving, at least slowly, because “when they’re stopped, they don’t usually want anything,” he says.

(28) ___________, Hoblos sells two or three dozen hot dogs and about as many buns each day during his noon-to-eight shift. He says there is no big difference in winter sales (29) ___________ summer, and that overall his business has declined in the last year. “I think a lot of people are on diets lately, (30) ___________ just after the New Year,” Hoblos reports. In addition to his handful of regulars, he says his best customers are parents with kids in the car. The hardest sell is taxi drivers, who almost never buy from him. “I’ve been doing this a long time,” Hoblos says. “You don’t get rich, but you make a (31) ___________. And sometimes you get a tip if they’re in a good (32) ___________.

Tunnel Vision

More than 100,000 cars travel (23) ___________ the Holland Tunnel daily. But while some drivers are planning their (24) ___________ home, others are planning their next snack. Luckily, Ali Hoblos is there, at the corner of Varick Street and Broome Street, ready (25) ___________ hot dogs or warm buns right to drivers’ cars.

After 17 years of working at this corner, just one block from the tunnel’s entrance, Hoblos knows drivers’ dietary (26) ___________ well. And he (27) ___________ on traffic moving, at least slowly, because “when they’re stopped, they don’t usually want anything,” he says.

(28) ___________, Hoblos sells two or three dozen hot dogs and about as many buns each day during his noon-to-eight shift. He says there is no big difference in winter sales (29) ___________ summer, and that overall his business has declined in the last year. “I think a lot of people are on diets lately, (30) ___________ just after the New Year,” Hoblos reports. In addition to his handful of regulars, he says his best customers are parents with kids in the car. The hardest sell is taxi drivers, who almost never buy from him. “I’ve been doing this a long time,” Hoblos says. “You don’t get rich, but you make a (31) ___________. And sometimes you get a tip if they’re in a good (32) ___________.

Tunnel Vision

More than 100,000 cars travel (23) ___________ the Holland Tunnel daily. But while some drivers are planning their (24) ___________ home, others are planning their next snack. Luckily, Ali Hoblos is there, at the corner of Varick Street and Broome Street, ready (25) ___________ hot dogs or warm buns right to drivers’ cars.

After 17 years of working at this corner, just one block from the tunnel’s entrance, Hoblos knows drivers’ dietary (26) ___________ well. And he (27) ___________ on traffic moving, at least slowly, because “when they’re stopped, they don’t usually want anything,” he says.

(28) ___________, Hoblos sells two or three dozen hot dogs and about as many buns each day during his noon-to-eight shift. He says there is no big difference in winter sales (29) ___________ summer, and that overall his business has declined in the last year. “I think a lot of people are on diets lately, (30) ___________ just after the New Year,” Hoblos reports. In addition to his handful of regulars, he says his best customers are parents with kids in the car. The hardest sell is taxi drivers, who almost never buy from him. “I’ve been doing this a long time,” Hoblos says. “You don’t get rich, but you make a (31) ___________. And sometimes you get a tip if they’re in a good (32) ___________.

Tunnel Vision

More than 100,000 cars travel (23) ___________ the Holland Tunnel daily. But while some drivers are planning their (24) ___________ home, others are planning their next snack. Luckily, Ali Hoblos is there, at the corner of Varick Street and Broome Street, ready (25) ___________ hot dogs or warm buns right to drivers’ cars.

After 17 years of working at this corner, just one block from the tunnel’s entrance, Hoblos knows drivers’ dietary (26) ___________ well. And he (27) ___________ on traffic moving, at least slowly, because “when they’re stopped, they don’t usually want anything,” he says.

(28) ___________, Hoblos sells two or three dozen hot dogs and about as many buns each day during his noon-to-eight shift. He says there is no big difference in winter sales (29) ___________ summer, and that overall his business has declined in the last year. “I think a lot of people are on diets lately, (30) ___________ just after the New Year,” Hoblos reports. In addition to his handful of regulars, he says his best customers are parents with kids in the car. The hardest sell is taxi drivers, who almost never buy from him. “I’ve been doing this a long time,” Hoblos says. “You don’t get rich, but you make a (31) ___________. And sometimes you get a tip if they’re in a good (32) ___________.

Tunnel Vision

More than 100,000 cars travel (23) ___________ the Holland Tunnel daily. But while some drivers are planning their (24) ___________ home, others are planning their next snack. Luckily, Ali Hoblos is there, at the corner of Varick Street and Broome Street, ready (25) ___________ hot dogs or warm buns right to drivers’ cars.

After 17 years of working at this corner, just one block from the tunnel’s entrance, Hoblos knows drivers’ dietary (26) ___________ well. And he (27) ___________ on traffic moving, at least slowly, because “when they’re stopped, they don’t usually want anything,” he says.

(28) ___________, Hoblos sells two or three dozen hot dogs and about as many buns each day during his noon-to-eight shift. He says there is no big difference in winter sales (29) ___________ summer, and that overall his business has declined in the last year. “I think a lot of people are on diets lately, (30) ___________ just after the New Year,” Hoblos reports. In addition to his handful of regulars, he says his best customers are parents with kids in the car. The hardest sell is taxi drivers, who almost never buy from him. “I’ve been doing this a long time,” Hoblos says. “You don’t get rich, but you make a (31) ___________. And sometimes you get a tip if they’re in a good (32) ___________.

Tunnel Vision

More than 100,000 cars travel (23) ___________ the Holland Tunnel daily. But while some drivers are planning their (24) ___________ home, others are planning their next snack. Luckily, Ali Hoblos is there, at the corner of Varick Street and Broome Street, ready (25) ___________ hot dogs or warm buns right to drivers’ cars.

After 17 years of working at this corner, just one block from the tunnel’s entrance, Hoblos knows drivers’ dietary (26) ___________ well. And he (27) ___________ on traffic moving, at least slowly, because “when they’re stopped, they don’t usually want anything,” he says.

(28) ___________, Hoblos sells two or three dozen hot dogs and about as many buns each day during his noon-to-eight shift. He says there is no big difference in winter sales (29) ___________ summer, and that overall his business has declined in the last year. “I think a lot of people are on diets lately, (30) ___________ just after the New Year,” Hoblos reports. In addition to his handful of regulars, he says his best customers are parents with kids in the car. The hardest sell is taxi drivers, who almost never buy from him. “I’ve been doing this a long time,” Hoblos says. “You don’t get rich, but you make a (31) ___________. And sometimes you get a tip if they’re in a good (32) ___________.

Tunnel Vision

More than 100,000 cars travel (23) ___________ the Holland Tunnel daily. But while some drivers are planning their (24) ___________ home, others are planning their next snack. Luckily, Ali Hoblos is there, at the corner of Varick Street and Broome Street, ready (25) ___________ hot dogs or warm buns right to drivers’ cars.

After 17 years of working at this corner, just one block from the tunnel’s entrance, Hoblos knows drivers’ dietary (26) ___________ well. And he (27) ___________ on traffic moving, at least slowly, because “when they’re stopped, they don’t usually want anything,” he says.

(28) ___________, Hoblos sells two or three dozen hot dogs and about as many buns each day during his noon-to-eight shift. He says there is no big difference in winter sales (29) ___________ summer, and that overall his business has declined in the last year. “I think a lot of people are on diets lately, (30) ___________ just after the New Year,” Hoblos reports. In addition to his handful of regulars, he says his best customers are parents with kids in the car. The hardest sell is taxi drivers, who almost never buy from him. “I’ve been doing this a long time,” Hoblos says. “You don’t get rich, but you make a (31) ___________. And sometimes you get a tip if they’re in a good (32) ___________.

Use of English

Task 5

Tunnel Vision

More than 100,000 cars travel (23) ___________ the Holland Tunnel daily. But while some drivers are planning their (24) ___________ home, others are planning their next snack. Luckily, Ali Hoblos is there, at the corner of Varick Street and Broome Street, ready (25) ___________ hot dogs or warm buns right to drivers’ cars.

After 17 years of working at this corner, just one block from the tunnel’s entrance, Hoblos knows drivers’ dietary (26) ___________ well. And he (27) ___________ on traffic moving, at least slowly, because “when they’re stopped, they don’t usually want anything,” he says.

(28) ___________, Hoblos sells two or three dozen hot dogs and about as many buns each day during his noon-to-eight shift. He says there is no big difference in winter sales (29) ___________ summer, and that overall his business has declined in the last year. “I think a lot of people are on diets lately, (30) ___________ just after the New Year,” Hoblos reports. In addition to his handful of regulars, he says his best customers are parents with kids in the car. The hardest sell is taxi drivers, who almost never buy from him. “I’ve been doing this a long time,” Hoblos says. “You don’t get rich, but you make a (31) ___________. And sometimes you get a tip if they’re in a good (32) ___________.

Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?

If your family is like many in the United States, unloading the week’s groceries includes (17) ___________. On your way to a soccer game or activity, it’s easy to grab a cold one right out of the fridge, right?

But all those plastic bottles use a lot of fossil fuels and pollute the environment. In fact, Americans buy more bottled water than any other nation in the world, (18) ___________. In order to make all these bottles, manufacturers use 17 million barrels of crude oil. That’s enough oil to keep a million cars (19) ___________.

People love the convenience of bottled water. But maybe if they realised the problems it causes, they would try drinking from a glass at home or (20) ___________ instead of plastic.

Used plastic water bottles are sent to landfills, or even worse, they end up as trash on the land and in rivers, lakes, and the ocean. Plastic bottles take many hundreds of years to disintegrate.

Plastic bottle recycling can help (21) ___________, plastic bottles can be turned into items like carpeting or cosy fleece clothing.

Water is good for you, so keep drinking it. But think about how often you use water bottles, and see if you can make a change. And yes, you can make a difference. Remember this: (22) ___________ can save enough energy to power a 60-watt light bulb for six hours.

Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?

If your family is like many in the United States, unloading the week’s groceries includes (17) ___________. On your way to a soccer game or activity, it’s easy to grab a cold one right out of the fridge, right?

But all those plastic bottles use a lot of fossil fuels and pollute the environment. In fact, Americans buy more bottled water than any other nation in the world, (18) ___________. In order to make all these bottles, manufacturers use 17 million barrels of crude oil. That’s enough oil to keep a million cars (19) ___________.

People love the convenience of bottled water. But maybe if they realised the problems it causes, they would try drinking from a glass at home or (20) ___________ instead of plastic.

Used plastic water bottles are sent to landfills, or even worse, they end up as trash on the land and in rivers, lakes, and the ocean. Plastic bottles take many hundreds of years to disintegrate.

Plastic bottle recycling can help (21) ___________, plastic bottles can be turned into items like carpeting or cosy fleece clothing.

Water is good for you, so keep drinking it. But think about how often you use water bottles, and see if you can make a change. And yes, you can make a difference. Remember this: (22) ___________ can save enough energy to power a 60-watt light bulb for six hours.

Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?

If your family is like many in the United States, unloading the week’s groceries includes (17) ___________. On your way to a soccer game or activity, it’s easy to grab a cold one right out of the fridge, right?

But all those plastic bottles use a lot of fossil fuels and pollute the environment. In fact, Americans buy more bottled water than any other nation in the world, (18) ___________. In order to make all these bottles, manufacturers use 17 million barrels of crude oil. That’s enough oil to keep a million cars (19) ___________.

People love the convenience of bottled water. But maybe if they realised the problems it causes, they would try drinking from a glass at home or (20) ___________ instead of plastic.

Used plastic water bottles are sent to landfills, or even worse, they end up as trash on the land and in rivers, lakes, and the ocean. Plastic bottles take many hundreds of years to disintegrate.

Plastic bottle recycling can help (21) ___________, plastic bottles can be turned into items like carpeting or cosy fleece clothing.

Water is good for you, so keep drinking it. But think about how often you use water bottles, and see if you can make a change. And yes, you can make a difference. Remember this: (22) ___________ can save enough energy to power a 60-watt light bulb for six hours.

Drinking Water: Bottled or from the Tap?

If your family is like many in the United States, unloading the week’s groceries includes (17) ___________. On your way to a soccer game or activity, it’s easy to grab a cold one right out of the fridge, right?

But all those plastic bottles use a lot of fossil fuels and pollute the environment. In fact, Americans buy more bottled water than any other nation in the world, (18) ___________. In order to make all these bottles, manufacturers use 17 million barrels of crude oil. That’s enough oil to keep a million cars (19) ___________.

People love the convenience of bottled water. But maybe if they realised the problems it causes, they would try drinking from a glass at home or (20) ___________ instead of plastic.

Used plastic water bottles are sent to landfills, or even worse, they end up as trash on the land and in rivers, lakes, and the ocean. Plastic bottles take many hundreds of years to disintegrate.

Plastic bottle recycling can help (21) ___________, plastic bottles can be turned into items like carpeting or cosy fleece clothing.

Water is good for you, so keep drinking it. But think about how often you use water bottles, and see if you can make a change. And yes, you can make a difference. Remember this: (22) ___________ can save enough energy to power a 60-watt light bulb for six hours.