Some foods can be very expensive because the ingredients are (1. D) even very hard to find or take a long time to grow. Lobsters are expensive anywhere in the world (2. B) according to a number of things. Lobsters need five to seven years to grow about 500 grams. The lobsters that are (3. A) served in restaurants are usually one or two kilograms and probably over 30 years old. (4. C) Although there is no way to tell how old they are, scientists think that lobsters can live up to 50 years. Lobsters carry about 50,000 eggs, but only two baby lobsters will actually be (5. D) raised to live in the ocean. The mother lobster lays the eggs and the eggs stick (6. B) to the mother. After a few weeks, the eggs float by themselves. At this time, most of the eggs get (7. D) eaten by other fish in the sea. Lobsters are very hard to catch (8. A) because they hide under corals, and they are smart animals. Laws around the world also say that fishermen can only catch very big lobsters, (9. C) so that the smaller baby lobsters have time to grow. This (10. D) brings it even harder for fishermen to catch many lobsters.