Directions: After reading the passage below , fill in each blank with the proper forms of the given words to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct.

Sports shoes that work out 【小题1】 their owner has enough exercise to warrant time in front of the television have been devised in the UK. The shoes — named Square Eyes — contain an electronic pressure sensor and a tiny computer chip to record how many steps the wearer has taken in a day. A wireless transmitter passes the information to a receiver 【小题2】 (connect) to a television, and this decides how much evening viewing time the wearer deserves, based on the day’s efforts.

The design was inspired by a desire to fight 【小题3】 the rapidly ballooning waistlines among British teenagers, says Gillian Swan, 【小题4】 developed Square Eyes as a final year design project at Brunel University to London, UK. “We looked at current issues and childhood overweight really stood out,” she says. “And I wanted to tackle that with my design.” 【小题5】 a child has used up their daily allowance gained through exercise, the television automatically 【小题6】 (switch) off. And further time in front of the TV 【小题7】 only be earned through more steps.

Swan calculated how exercise should translate to television time using the recommended daily amounts of 【小题8】. Health experts suggest that a child take 12,000 steps each day and watch no more than two hours of television. So, every 100 steps recorded by the Square Eyes shoes 【小题9】 (equal) precisely one minute of TV time.

Existing pedometers(计步器)normally clip onto a belt or slip into a pocket and keep count of steps by measuring sudden movement. Swan says these can be easily tricked 【小题10】 recording steps through shaking. But her shoe has been built to be 【小题11】 (hard) for lazy teenagers to cheat. “It is possible, but it would be a lot of effort,” she says. “That was one of my main design considerations.”

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