17. Choose the correct answer
The Tomatina Festival
The Tomatina Festival takes place every August in the small Spanish town of Build. It has been described as the world's biggest food fight, as the most famous part of the celebrations involve 20000 people throwing tomatoes at each other! No one is totally sure how the festival began, but it seems to have started in the 1940s. One story tells how some teenage friends started throwing old tomatoes at one another for fun.( 16)……………….. Another describes how the crowd at a more traditional festival was so bored by the entertainment, they started throwing tomatoes at the entertainers and then at each other! Whatever the truth is, the event was repeated the following year and its popularity has grown ever since. On the day of the festival, several large lorries, loaded with over 100000 kg of soft, ripe tomatoes, appear in the town square. Everyone helps themselves or is given lots of the tomatoes, and once a special signal is given, the tomato fight begins. (17)……………………. After another signal, everyone stops throwing the fruit and the clean up begins.