Insert determiners (articles, quantifiers, indefinite pronouns, numbers, possessive adjectives;
NOT this, that, these, those). Where nothing is required put X.
When I was at school, our teacher told the class 'You are what you eat’ in an attempt to show us the
importance of eating the right food to stay healthy. This was 1.______________ decades ago when
there were big campaigns to make 2.______________ British people healthier. We decided to
replace our chips with boiled potatoes. We also started using semi-skimmed milk instead of whole
milk in our tea or with cornflakes. At first I felt like I was eating my cornflakes in water and my
potatoes had 3.______________ taste at all. But after a while I started to prefer healthier food
because I felt stronger and didn’t get sick so often.
Japanese people are reputed to be the healthiest in the world because of 4.______________
food they eat. The healthiest Japanese people eat rice and fish and vegetables 5.______________
day. They drink green tea or water when they’re thirsty and snack on dried fish, fruit or gingko nuts.
So we have proof that you become what you eat. For sure, food has 6.______________
impact on our physical and emotional health. Have you ever heard 7.______________ of the
following advice?
-To stop feeling sleepy you should eat peanuts or dried fish.
-Eat apples often to keep your teeth clean.
-Garlic helps you not to catch 8.______________ cold.
Everyone has their own advice to give, which they have read about or have been told by older
relatives. 9.______________ of these pieces of advice seem to contradict each other. For example,
you might hear that eating chocolate makes you fat but also that it contains the essential minerals
iron and magnesium. What we need to figure out is what type of chocolate to eat to get the benefits
and how 10.______________ of it to eat. We can do this by reading the list of ingredients on the
chocolate bar wrapper.
