Too Much Exercise? - Test 6

C1 Advanced · Word Formation · C1 Advanced Trainer 2, Cambridge University Press

For questions 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. There is an example at the beginning.

ADMIT

DRAMA

ACTIVE

WORSE

BEING

DO

TIRED

ADDICT

How do you stop yourself from doing an (0) ___ amount of exercise? (17) ___ , this is a question that doesn’t worry too many of us. Health experts are often mocked for changing their advice (18) ___ from one day to the next, but on one thing the message has been constant: the more exercise you do, the better. A major recent study, however, found that while those who exercised regularly felt better than those for whom the norm was (19) ___ , people who regularly exercised for more than 90 minutes at a time reported a (20) ___ of their mental health. Personal trainer Liam Shelby believes that exercise is just as important for our mental (21) ___ as for our physical fitness. But he acknowledges there are people who ‘don’t know their limits and (22) ___ it. Some people I’ve met, for example, confuse (23) ___ with lacking strength or motivation – and it’s not the same thing.’ Liam agrees that people can have an unhealthy (24) ___ to exercise. ‘Still, for the majority of people, the compelling issue is how to do more exercise, not less.’

Too much exercise?

EXCEED

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