Shock someone into meaning in English

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Definition

(my father's death) shocked me into (stopping smoking): (my father's death) surprised or frightened me so much that it caused me to (stop smoking) idiom

Exercise 1

This article doesn't have a headline. Which of the following headlines is the most appropriate?

New food labels to shock Britons into eating more healthily.

Eating unhealthy food is now more dangerous than smoking cigarettes.

Fat and thin people to advertise food made in Britain.

Coloured food labels causing a fall in British obesity levels.

I don't know

This article doesn't have a headline. Which of the following headlines is the most appropriate?

New food labels to shock Britons into eating more healthily.

This is the most appropriate headline. According to the article, the British government has decided to introduce a new food labelling system that will show shocking images of fat people. Obese people will see these images and decide to eat healthy food. A "food label" is information that shows the nutritional value of food. To "shock (someone into stopping something)" is to shock them so that they stop their current action.

Eating unhealthy food is now more dangerous than smoking cigarettes.

This is incorrect. The article does not mention how dangerous eating junk (unhealthy or processed) food is. Cigarettes are mentioned in the article, but only because packets of cigarettes have images that show the effects of smoking.

Fat and thin people to advertise food made in Britain.

This is incorrect. "Obese" (fat) and "slim" (thin) people will be photographed to show the effects of healthy and unhealthy food. They will not advertise these foods.

Coloured food labels causing a fall in British obesity levels.

This is incorrect. According to the article, the current system of coloured food labels "is reasonably effective, but not shocking enough." There is no evidence in the article that this system is causing a fall in obesity levels.

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