V. Choose the best answer and complete the passage.
The right place to buy a hamburger is a fast-food restaurant. In these restaurants, people order their food, ______1______ just a few minutes, and take it to their tables themselves. They can eat it in the restaurant or take the food out and eat it at home, ______2______, or in a park. At some restaurants people can drive up beside a window. They order the food, and a waiter hands it to them through the window. Then they eat in their cars.
Hamburgers are not the only kind of food that fast-food restaurants ______3______. Some provide fish, chicken, beef sandwiches, or Mexican food too. And some provide French fries, shakes, soft drinks and coffee.
Fast-food restaurants are popular because the service is fast and the food is not so expensive. ______4______, the food is always the same. Even though they eat in fast food restaurants in New York or San Francisco, the food will still be similar.
Fast service and low cost are two attractive points in the United States. One ______5______ is that about 50 percent of married women with children work outside the home. They are too busy or tired to cook dinner every night.
Is the food at fast-food restaurants good? Generally, it's all right ______6______ it has too much fat and salt.
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