Put in there was / there wasn’t / was there / there were / there weren’t / were there into the blanks.
1. I was thirsty, but _there wasn’t_ anything to drink.
2. _was there_ any mail for me yesterday?
3. Part A: We stayed at a nice motel. Part B: Really? _was there__ an air conditioner?
4. The backpack was empty. _there weren’t_ any books in it.
5. _there was_ a basketball game on TV last night, but I didn’t watch it.
6. I found a purse on the street, but _there wasn’t_ any money in it.
7. Part A: _were there_ many people at the meeting? Part B: No, very few.
8. We didn’t visit the aquarium. _there wasn’t_ enough time.
9. I’m sorry I came late. _there was_ a lot of traffic.
10. The flashlight wasn’t working because _there weren’t_ any batteries in it.
The term "vegetarianism" appeared in the 19th century.
There was vegetarianism ever there, when humanity only nascent on the planet.
To survive, they had to eat animal meat when other food was unavailable.
But there were always people who consciously ate only plant foods.
Now they are called vegetarians.
The first Vegetarian Society was founded in England in 1847.
In 1901, the first Russian Vegetarian Society was registered in St. Petersburg.
Ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras in 580 BC claimed, what you can't eat animals.
He thinks killing animals for food makes a person evil.
He said that animals, like humans, have a soul and believe in
reincarnation.
And other ancient Greek philosophers believed that animals live for humans.
Vegetarianism as a philosophy in the Roman Empire.
Two centuries later, father of the medicine, Hippocrates, described in his writing vegetarianism like treatment method .