Complete with a word formed from those in the list.

CENSORSHIP

England has a reputation for being a land free of censorship. A number of events have shown that the (01) .......................... is not entirely deserved. There is political censorship and moral censorship, and both are (02) ........................... In regard to all (03) .......................... of censorship, the law is vague and confused. Here are two examples of what might be loosely termed political protest.

In the first case, the accused person was carrying a poster which depicted the then Prime Minister, Mrs Thatcher, dressed in a black slip and (04) .........................., a whip in her hand and with a stiletto heel resting on a kneeling member of her cabinet. The (05) ......................... had to show that the average person would be alarmed or distressed or harassed by the poster. As there were no members of the public (06) .......................... available who would admit to being distressed, two policemen had to qualify as the victims of this hideous (07) ........................... As all they could admit to was a slight attack of laughter, the case was dismissed. In a different case, a group of demonstrators were walking down Whitehall past the end of Downing Street. One of them shouted a few rude, four-letter words and made a V-sign, a gesture of contempt, in the direction of No 10, the Prime Minister's residence. As a result, he was arrested and convicted of insulting (08) ........................... If you are going to protest in Britain, you had better do it quietly.

01. REPUTE ..........................

02. DISCRIMINATE ..........................

03. APPLY ..........................

04. SUSPEND ..........................

05. PROSECUTE ..........................

06. READY ..........................

07. PROVOKE ..........................

08. BEHAVE ..........................

HARD LIFE FOR SOME YOUNG PEOPLE

But you don't have to go to distant (09) .......................... or Ugandan villages to find young people in trouble and in need of help. The situation in England is bad enough, and gives little optimism for a (10) ...................... in the level of (11) ......................... of young across this (12) .......................... world. Angela Lambert, reporting for The Independent newspaper, writes : "There are at least 50,000 (13) .......................... people under the age of 20 in London alone, and perhaps three times as many in the whole of England. An estimated 2,000 are squatting in derelict (14) ..........................; 10,000 are living in hostels; 2,000 in bed-and -breakfast hotels; and the rest, if they are lucky, find temporary accommodation with friends - usually sleeping on the floor. The (15) .........................., as is (16) .......................... obvious to any Londoner, live rough - sleeping on park benches, in shop (17) .........................., and anywhere else they can find. Many are permanently hungry."

09. ORPHAN ..........................

10. LESS ..........................

11. TREAT ..........................

12. POPULATE ..........................

13. HOME ..........................

14. BUILD ..........................

15. LUCK ..........................

16. INCREASE ..........................

17. DOOR ..........................

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