СРОЧНО!!!! ПОМОГИТЕ ВСТАВИТЬ СЛОВА В ТЕКСТ!!! ((МНОГО БАЛЛОВ))

Complete the extract from the programme with the missing
words. Mind the word forms.

People ran to (1) ... messages faster. When running with
a message, to deliver it in spoken form, it is safer to do it oneself.

Sending anyone else is (2) ..., as the game of Chinese whispers demonstrates. So a system of writing was necessary.

When writing appeared messages on stone columns (3) ... very well
across time, but they were an (4) ... method of communication
across space.

The system became more efficient when it was the message that travelled. People ran with the written messages, rode horses to save time.

For example, the network of Persian roads in the 5th century BC made communication faster and more (5) ... .

New men and fresh horses were (6) ... at posting stations. A message could travel the full distance of the road from Susa to Sardis (3200 km) in ten days.

What helped to make communication even more (7) ... was the Aramaic language as a (8) ... used in Ancient Persia.

1. available
2. to deliver
3. efficient
4. inefficient
5. reliable
6. lingua franca
7. unreliable