Obesity: Multiple Choice Grammar Test
New research (1) _________ recently by the University of Oxford suggests that obese children and adolescents have several risk factors for heart disease, (2) _________raised blood pressure and cholesterol, (3) _________with normal weight children.
Obesity experts say parents (4) _________with a multitude of problems when it comes to their (5) _________weight. They range from a lack of education about food, limited cooking skills and limited money (6) _________healthier food to longer working hours and marketing campaigns for junk food (7) _________at kids.
But the more sedentary lives children now (8) _________is also creating huge problems. Last week a study suggested that up to 75% of junior school children prefer to stay at home than go to their nearby park.
Watching TV was one of (9) _________activities, with 89% saying it was how they liked (10) _________to spend their time away from school. In July, scientists from University of Montreal claimed every extra hour of television that a toddler watches each week adds to their waist size by the time they (11) _________ten.
A | B | C | D | |
1 | to publish | publishing | was published | published |
2 | including | included | to include | having been included |
3 | compares | to compare | compared | compare |
4 | struggling | are struggling | struggled | have struggled |
5 | child | childs' | childs's | child’s |
6 | bought | to buy | buying | being bought |
7 | aim | aiming | aimed | to aim |
8 | led | lead | to lead | leading |
9 | popular | more popular | most popular | the most popular |
10 | the better | the best | best | better |
11 | would turn | turn | will turn | turned |
1.D; 2.A; 3.C; 4.B; 5.D; 6.B; 7.C; 8.B; 9.D; 10.C; 11.B