Beauty contests for children are called beauty pageants. They 1.____________ TAKE place primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom since the 1960s. As well as in the past, today children 2. _________________ for their looks, JUDGE presentation, modeling skill, confidence, and skill in performance art. Lately, such contests have raised a lot of questions about their positive and negative effects on kids. Some psychologists say that participating in a beauty contest 3.__________ GIVE girls strength, courage, and confidence. Also, beauty contests teach kids to care 4.__________ MUCH about what they wear and what they look like. On the other hand, children who compete in beauty pageants are often between the ages of 2 and 10, but they can be even 5. __________________. YOUNG I think there should be an age limit because when you are older, you can make your own decisions and won't be as upset if you 6._____________. Besides, contests NOT WIN should be based on natural looks and personality and not on how much make-up you can put onto 7._________________ face. YOU In general, beauty contests are fun! Unluckily, in the UK pageants do not happen very often. I wish there 8.__________________ more beauty contests for kids in the UK. BE I would enter a beauty contests myself if I 9._______________ a chance of winning! HAVE Everyone should have a chance! Today, beauty companies seem to be promising to protect the environment, save the rain forests. When you shop for beauty products these days, you see labels decorated with trees, lists of 10.________________ ingredients, and the phrase “no animal testing”. These NATURE images and phrases are selling products using social 11. _______________. RESPONSIBLE Widely used labels often give the 12._______________ that a company is greener than it really is. IMPRESSION It is too easy to create images that lead consumers to develop 13. ___________ expectations of a company`s environmental or REASONABLE 14.__________________ performance. CHARITY These labels may mislead people. After all, why does one label say “against animal testing”, while another says “cruelty-free”? It is necessary to establish standards for eco-labelling and make companies be 15.______________ and have facts to back up their statements. TRUTH

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