Bad Habits - Lesson 198
Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.
It's easier to go downhill than to climb uphill, so it's easier to fall into bad habits than into good ___(1)___. Bad habits do not come ___(2)___. They come little by little, so you don't know their ___(3)___. Schoolboys first pick up little bad habits at ___(4)___ and on the streets. When they cannot do their homework, they copy from their ___(5)___. If they see bigger boys smoking, they ___(6)___ want to learn to smoke. If they see their friends gambling, they want to gamble. When they get ___(7)___, the habits become stronger and stronger. Then they can no longer give them up. From copying, they learn to ___(8)___; from gambling, they learn to cheat. ___(9)___ no one believes in them. How ___(10)___ it is that we stop the bad habits at the beginning!
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