Complete the following passage by filling in each blank with one word that best fits the context.
On November 2nd San Francisco became the first major US city to pass a law on controlling give-away toys with unhealthy restaurant meals marketed at kids.
1.______law will take effect on December 1, 2011. It is required that kids’ meals
2.
meet certain nutritional standards 3. they can be sold with free toys.
McDonald’s officials were angry with the decision,4. effectively bans their popular Happy Meals.
But supporters say5. aims to promote healthy habits while combating child obesity(肥胖). “This is a challenge to the restaurant industry to think about children’s health first,” said San Francisco Supervisor Eric Mar.
About 15 percent of American 6. are overweight or obese, which puts them 7. risk of developing heart disease, cancer, etc. In some states, the childhood obesity rate is over 30 percent.
McDonald’s started to sell the Happy Meals in 1979 with toys. In 2006, fast-food companies spent more than $520 million on advertising and toys to promote meals 8. children, according to the US government.
Many people now think that teachers give pupils too much homework. They say that it is 36 for children to work at home in their free time. 37 , they argue that most teachers do not 38 plan the homework tasks they give to pupils. The result is that pupils have to 39 tasks which they have already done at school.
Recently in Greece, many parents 40 about the difficult homework which teachers gave to their children. The parents said that most of the homework was a waste of time, and they wanted to 41 it. Spain and Turkey are two countries which stopped homework recently. In Denmark, Germany and several other countries in Europe, teachers cannot 42 homework at weekends. In Holland, teachers allow pupils to stay at school to do their homework. The children are 43 to help one another. Similar 44 also exists in some British schools.
Most people agree that homework is not 45 . A pupil who can do his homework in a quiet and 46 room is in a much better position than a pupil who does his homework in a small, noisy room with the television on. Some parents help their children with their homework. Other parents take no 47 at all in their children’s homework.
1.A.unnecessary B.uninteresting C.unfortunate D.unimportant
2.A.Nevertheless B.However C.Therefore D.Moreover
3.A.considerably B.favorably C.properly D.pleasantly
4.A.finish B.repeat C.attend D.accomplish
5.A.quarreled B.puzzled C.explored D.complained
6.A.delay B.stop C.block D.prove
7.A.design B.draft C.do D.set
8.A.forbidden B.free C.desperate D.afraid
9.A.schedule B.mistake C.arrangement D.behavior
10.A.fair B.average C.balanced D.comparative
11.A.furnished B.expensive C.comfortable D.suitable
12.A.interest B.curiosity C.notice D.attention
—Are you glad that you came to Changsha?
—Yes,indeed. I going to Shanghai or Shenzhen, but I’ve never regretted my decision.
A.have considered B.am considering
C.had considered D.was considering
was to blame.
A.The parents as well as their child B.Not the parents but their child
C.Neither the child nor his parents D.Both the parents and their child
Do you expect to be a possibility that we shall be able to afford the particular furniture we need?
A. it B.there C.that D.one
Many crimes are committed by some bad people, an example of which is fraud, a crime money is stolen by cheating others.
A.which B.that C.whose D.where