Packing the pottery
Text: an original contemporary personal account-style practice extract.
Before posting the handmade bowl, I put a smaller box inside a larger one and filled the gap between them with crumpled paper. The bowl was already wrapped inside the inner box. I shook the parcel gently to check whether anything moved, then wrote the address on the outer lid. My neighbour offered a padded envelope, but it was too shallow for the bowl. I kept the envelope for a different package. The finished parcel looked much larger than the object it protected.
From the extract, identify one material the writer used to fill the gap between the boxes.
260 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE English Language 2.3 Content: non-fiction study and transactional text types, covering 2.3.9 Write an article, 2.3.10 Write a letter, 2.3.11 Write a review, 2.3.12 Write a text for a speech, and 2.3.13 Write a section for a guide, textbook, leaflet or booklet. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.