PASSAGE 2
Use the passage below to answer questions 6 to 16. The passage has gaps numbered 16-26.Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate option for each gap.
Family life. They are virtually abandoned to child-minders from a very tender age. The ......6..... from their mothers brings suffering and makes it impossible for them to achieve a healthy social life. The.......7...... in the number of suicides, the rates of drug addiction and ......8..... among young people may be to a large extent, due to these premature separations which take place before sufficient time has .......9...... for attachment to develop. This is one of the causes of psychosis in children today says a psychiatrist who believes that breast feeding is one of the basic cares which many children of this age are .......10..... This psychiatrist argues that breast feeding extends into the world outside the womb, a liquid bond with the inside of the mother's body; a bond ........11...... that which the baby had with the placenta inside the uterus. Rhythmic rocking to and fro is ......12..... of the movement that the child experienced before it was born. As for the baby's .......13...... its mother's body, it reminds the child of the ......14..... pressure of the uterus, and enables it to ......15..... the rhythms of its other's breathing and heartbeat.

• A.close to
• B.the same as
• C.unrelated to
• D.irrelevant to