Fill ONE word in each blank. EATING TO WIN Are you a fast eater? (1) ………………… you eat large amounts of food in a short time? If so, you (2) ………………… be good at speed eating. There are lots of different speed eating contests: you can eat hot dogs, watermelon or pies to name a few. One of the oldest food eating competitions must (3) ………………… Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, which (4) ………………… taken place every July 4th on Coney Island in New York City every year since 1916. The rules of the contest are quite simple: speed eaters (5)​………………… to eat as many hot dogs as (6) ……………… can in 10 minutes. This competition has been won a number of times by a Japanese speed eater, Takeru Kobayashi, who is (7) ………………… to eat an amazing 59 hot dogs in 10 minutes. Although all the competitors have chairs, they (8) ………………… not have to sit down. Takeru, for example, prefers to stand up when he is eating, and he often does a dance to help the food go down! In some competitions, the contestants eat foods which are out (9) ………………… the ordinary, like cows' brains or insects. There are even live cockroach eating competitions. In 2001, Ken Edwards from Derbyshire, England (10) ………………… able to eat 36 Madagascan cockroaches in just one minute!