Fill each of the numbered blanks in the following passage. Use only one word in cach space.
In my childhood, the whole family would sometimes go on a diet. (1) that we were all oversize; far from one of my brothers was and have..................... (4) known. The partly my father's health and father had heart trouble advised him to cut (2). In fact, (3) is one of the thinnest people I (5) for all this dieting was (6) my mother's strange ideas. My (7) quite some time and the doctor, (8) on fats and smoking. My mother ....................(9) this as a sign that all of us should restrain from overeating and she immediately cut our food portions half. My brothers and I were (13) to spend our pocket money We (10) (11) (12) hungry that we (14) cream cakes. (15) not have worried though. After only a week we surprised
our mother secretly teased her (16) a slice of fruit cake in the kitchen. We (17) this, and my father said Afe wasn't (18) living unless you (19) eat whatever you
wanted. So she agreed
(20) start cooking more.