1. Заполните пропуски A new study (1) ____ that family meals help children stay slim. Researchers from the University of Illinois (2) ____ that kids who eat at the table with their family are healthier and have a lower risk (3)...

1. Заполните пропуски A new study (1) ____ that family meals help children stay slim. Researchers from the University of Illinois (2) ____ that kids who eat at the table with their family are healthier and have a lower risk (3) ____ obesity. The research team also says that sitting down for breakfast, lunch or dinner teaches children healthy eating (4) ____. Researcher Dr Amber Hammons wrote: “Families (5) ____ eat five or more meals together have children who are up to 25 per cent less (6) ____ to encounter nutritional health issues.” Family meals also encourage other positive behaviour in children. They learn better (7) ____ sitting at the table and are more sociable because they (8) ____ their parents’ conversation. This is not the case (9) ____ children who eat alone or who sit in front of the television with their meal. In (10) ____ decades, more and more children sit on the sofa watching TV. This can lead to their food (11) ____ cold and them not eating it. Eating alone also means the child misses (12) ____ on developing social skills. 1. (a) showing (b) shows (c) show 2. (a) discovery (b) found (c) looks up 3. (a) of (b) for (c) by 4. (a) habit (b) habitual (c) habits 5. (a) that (b) what (c) when 6. (a) liking (b) likable (c) likely 7. (a) manners (b) mannered (c) manner 8. (a) connect (b) join (c) link 9. (a) about (b) where (c) with 10. (a) recent (b) lately (c) these days 11. (a) coming (b) going (c) doing 12 (a) in (b) up (c) out