Did you know that for half the people in the world, rice is _____ most important food?
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Most of these people live in Asia _____ might eat 90 to 180 kilograms of rice in one year! a person
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But where did rice come from? Indian people _____ growing rice 5,000 years ago, but we think that people first grew rice in China.
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The first Europeans that grew rice lived in Spain. American settlers _____ growing rice about 400 years ago.
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_____ are thousands of different kinds of rice. Wild rice grows in lakes in Canada and you can sometimes find 'hill rice' growing like grass in dry fields.
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_____ most rice grows in about 15 centimetres of water in special flat fields called 'paddies'.
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Hi Jackie! I know you enjoy writing to penfriends like me. Do you want to email an Italian girl who lives with her parents ______ the south of the country?
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She loves windsurfing and sailing, the same _____ you!
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She hasn't got _____ brothers or sisters so penfriends are important to her.
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Her favorite subject at school is science and she's really interested _____ space travel!
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She's 14 and her name is Francesca! She sounds great, but I _____ already started writing to her cousin, Lina.
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Would you like to be her penfriend? She'd be so happy to ave a new friend and you can practise Italian, too! Would you like me to send you her email address? See you next week _____ Daniel's party!