How to reduce your sugar intake

Begin by replacing sugar in drinks with saccharin or aspartame. Drink low-calorie soft drinks. This means that you will get an immediate reduction in calorie intake without having to change your taste for sweet things.

Stop buying biscuits, sweets and chocolates, and choose fruit and vegetables _________. If you must have cakes, make your own, using half the quantity of sugar given in standard recipes.

Watch out for what you eat!

(Adapted from The Sunday Times ABC Diet and Body Plan)

GLOSSARY
intake – ingestão

According to the text, people who want to reduce their sugar should

Dear Maggie,

My son just announced that he is going away to school. Bobby is a good student, and I am very proud of him. Any college would be lucky to have him!

My only concern is that he’s never lived away from home before. Will he be able to take care of _______?

What if there’s an emergency?

Give me some advice so that I can relax!

Doubtful Dad

Based on the letter, all alternatives are correct, except:

The US space organization, NASA developed and built the first space shuttle. The shuttle was the first rocket to fly into space, come back to earth and fly again. The first shuttle to fly in space was Columbia. It took off on the 12th April 1981. In January 1986 the shuttle Challenger exploded at take-off. Everyone on the shuttle died. This accident slowed down the shuttle programme for the next six years. A new shuttle, Endeavor, replaced Challenger in May 1992.

On 25th April 1990, NASA used the shuttle Discovery to put the Hubble Space Telescope into space at a distance of 512 kilometres from the earth. Hubble travels around the earth and sends back photos of the stars and planets.

GLOSSARY
NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration

The nouns that correspond to the verbs in bold type, in the text, are, respectively: