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A survey of English schoolchildren shows boys and girls are worrying about the way they look. The 1.____ found that over half of male schoolchildren lacked confidence because of their body 2.______ .The figure for girls slightly3._____. at 59 percent. Researchers questioned 693 teachers about how their students 4._____ about their bodies. All the children had taken lessons on body image and self-esteem. Teachers said many children were very 5._____ if others said bad things about their appearances. Around 55 percent of teachers reported that girls were extremely sensitive to comment 6.____ their looks; the figure for boys being easily hurt by teasing( 取笑 )was 27 percent. Teachers gave a number of 7._____ why children as young as four years old were stressing out about their shapes. Over 90 percent of teachers 8.____ Internet and television. Children see images of “ perfect ” bodies every day and they feel they have to look that way too. Many children are on diets to make themselves 9._____ to the opposite sex. One elementary school teacher said : “ I work with four to five-year-olds and some say things like, ‘I can’t eat cheese, it will make me 10.____ ’”, A teachers’ spokeswoman warned that children trying to look like “celebrities in the media only lead to misery”. A. about F. fat K. questions B. attractive G. felt L. reasons C. blame H. for M. shape D. complete I. higher N. study E. discover J. lazy O. upset