A2 English test 9 – Text with multiple-choice gaps

The Glastonbury Festival is a big music festival. It is held at Michael Eavis’s farm 1 atinon the southwest of England on the last weekend in June. It is widely 2 knownknowknew internationally, and many popular bands play there every year.
The festival is extremely popular. About 100,000 people attend it each time, and this number 3 have still increasedstill increasesis still increasing. When the tickets for the 2019 event 4 wenthad gonehave gone on sale, they were all sold in just 36 minutes. But the organisers have to sell all the tickets 5 tosofor avoid losing money. It costs about £40 million to put on the event each year, and the festival also donates £2 million annually to the charities it supports.
Farmer Michael Eavis 6 has hostedwas hostedhosted his first festival in the 1970s after 7 seeinghe was seeingseen an open-air Led Zeppelin concert. He held festivals every few years until 1981. Since then, the festival 8 has takentakeswas taken place most years. 9 SinceAlthoughHowever, about every five years, there is a “fallow year” when the festival 10 hasn't organiseddoesn't organiseisn't organised. This is to give the land, the local population, and organisers a break. 2018 was a fallow year, and 11 howeverifalthough a festival was planned for 2020, it was cancelled because of the covid pandemic.
The festival aims to encourage youth culture from around the world in all its forms, including music, theatre and creative arts. Thousands of people perform 12 onatin the festival each year, and many bands have released albums 13 whatwhothat were recorded there. 14 GetHave gotGetting into the festival is not always easy. Transport and traffic are often problematic, and there are often long queues. But once inside, people enter an alternative world with different social rules. It’s a dirty, friendly, wild event which is loved 15 ofbyfor people of all ages, nationalities, backgrounds and musical tastes.