1. I don't know where my children have picked up those rude words.
2. I wondered why she'd picked me up.
3. Why do you always pick on John?
4. The telephone rang just as I was about to pick up the receiver.
5. Try to eat your lunch, Jane, you've been picking at it.
6. Please, will you pick up my parcel at the post office as you pass?
7. The weak points in his arguments were eagerly picked on by his opponents.
8. It is not safe to travel by standing at the roadside hoping to be picked up by passing motorists.
9. The fruit shop lets pick out for yourself the apples that you want to buy.
10. Pick out the dress that you like best and I’ll buy it for your birthday.
11. Most of the times he just picks at his food.
I consider that man’s health depends on his mode of life. To prevent the diseases it’s necessary to keep some simple regulations: to go in for sports, to eat carefully, to take a rest and to walk frequently in the open air. I’m fifteen years old and the last three years I do my morning exercises. It inspirits and gives strength to me for a whole day. I add dousing with cold water in winter. I think that conditioning to the cold is the main method for preserving my health. My favourite winter sports are cross-country skiing and skating. I prefer to run in the park and play tennis in summer. I go to the swimming pool twice a week the whole year round. Swimming increases the respiratory system. I also try to observe a day regimen. Every day I go to bed and get up at approximately the same time. I give special attention to meals. I don’t eat fatty and high-calorie foods and I don’t drink heavily gas-cut beverages. At my time of life some peers smoke and drink alcohol but I think that it’s dangerous for a human organism and sooner or later it will be injurious to our health. I think that everybody must begin to take care of his health in his youth because it’s easier to take care of our health than to recover it.