In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
We need the energy to move and we (1) _______ on oil for it. Without it, our jobs, our free time and our mobility (2) _______ all be very different. Every day we (3) _______ 70 million barrels of oil. Every year we consume 2,200 million tonnes of coal and 2,500 billion cubic metres of gas. It's a long story! Total (4) _______ in 1924, and for many years it was a French state oil company. In 1999, Total joined Petrofina, the Belgian oil and gas company, and in 2000, Total (5) _______ with its main French competitor, Elf Aquitaine, and the name became Total Fina Elf. Now it's called Total again, and it's France's biggest company.
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