______ FINDING NUTRITIOUS FOOD IS ALSO DIFFICULT IN SCHOOLS, WHICH IS...

50: ______ Finding nutritious food is also difficult in schools, which is often have contracts with fast food supplies and drinks companies. Teenage boys in the US each drink an average of 868 cans of fizzy drinks per year. Exercise in school has become less important too. A recent report showed that half of all US teens aged 12 – 21 got only America’s problem – Europe is also getting faster. It is estimated that over one million children in the UK are obese and this number has trebled over the past 20 years. III. Read the passage below and decide which option A, B, C or D best fits each space (10 points). Childhood is the time when there are (51) ______ responsibilities to make life difficult. If a child has good parents, he is fed, looked after and loved, (52) ______ he may do. It is improbable that he will ever again in his life be given so much without having to do anything in return. In (53) ______, life is always presenting new things to the child - things that have lost their interest for older people because they are too well-known. A child finds pleasure playing in the rain, or in the snow. His first visit to the seaside is a marvellous adventure. (54) ______, a child has his pain. He is not so free to do as he wishes as he thinks older people are: he is continually told not to do things, or being punished (55) ______ what he has done wrong. His life is therefore not perfectly happy. When a young man starts to (56) ______ his own living, he becomes free from the discipline of school and parents, but at the same time he is forced to accept responsibilities. He can no longer expect (57) ______ to pay for his food, his clothes and his room, but he has to work if he wants to live comfortably. If he spends most time playing about in a day he used to as a child, he will be hungry. And if he breaks the laws of society as he used to break the laws of his parents, he may go to prison. If, however, he works hard, keeps out of troubles and has good health, he can have the greatest happiness of seeing himself make steady (58) ______ in his job and of building up for himself his own position in society. Old age has always been thought of as the worst age to be, but it is not necessary for the old to be unhappy. With old age (59) ______ wisdom and the ability to help others with advice wisely given. The old can have the joy of seeing their children making progress in life: they can watch their grandchildren growing up around them, and perhaps best of all, they can, if their life has been a useful one, feel the happiness of having come (60) ______ the battle of life safely and of having reached a time when they can lie back and rest, leaving others to continue the fight. Page 5/8