During the 19th century in Britain, when progress .................... INDUSTRY
was developing fast, young children often worked, sometimes in
extremely conditions. Because children are smaller ................... HEALTHY
than adults they were often sent to work in confined spaces, and it was
not to find children working in coal mines and as ......................... COMMON
chimney sweeps. Children were also cheap, and some ............. HONEST
employers paid their small workers almost nothing in return for 18 hours
a day in dark factories. Many poor families were also ...................... DIRT
, and had to live in 'workhouses', where they could ....................... HOME
get food and a place to sleep. Today we are to ................................ ABLE
imagine how bad conditions were and how unfortunate those ................................. FORTUNATE
children were. All children today have the right to education, and it is
against the law in many countries for children to work before the age of
14. We may often be with our lives today, but if we .............. SATISFIED
remember how life was a hundred years ago, we should consider
ouerselves . ........................................................................................ LUCK