Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks. ⇱
A NEW APPROACH TO DESIGNING BUILDINGS
Some experts fear that many people are becoming overweight. Adults are encouraged to exercise for a minimum of thirty minutes, five times a week, and the average person is ___(1)___ to take 10,000 steps per day to maintain basic ___(2)___, but it is a fact that few office workers manage to take more than 5,000.
Now architects have ___(3)___ 'fit' office buildings which encourage employees to become healthier because they have to walk while they are at work. In these buildings, meeting rooms and car parks are placed a long way from office desks so that workers have to walk to ___(4)___ them. In one building the cafe is ___(5)___ in the furthest section so that some workers have to walk as ___(6)___ as half a kilometer to and from lunch.
There is special emphasis on ___(7)___ people to use stairs instead of lifts, and long staircases are broken into flights of no more than nine stairs, so that they don't look so difficult to climb. There are also large windows which provide attractive ___(8)___ over the city. ___(9)___, the lifts are not easy to get access to, and in some buildings, they only stop at one floor in three.
It's a design policy for a fitter environment which encourages people to walk without making it appear to be ___(10)___ work - but will it be successful? Only time will tell.