Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks. 
Thanks to our modern lifestyle, with more and more time spent sitting down in front of computers than ever before, the (36) _________ of overweight people is at a new high. As people frantically search for a solution to this problem, they often try some of popular fad diet being offered. Many people see fad diet (37) ______ harmless ways of losing weight, and they are grateful to have them. Unfortunately, not only do fad diet usually fo the trick but also they can actually be dangerous for your health.
Although permanent weight loss is the goal, few are able to achieve it. Expert estimate that 95 percent of dieters return to starting weight, or even (38) _________ weight. While reckless use of fad diets can bring some initial results, long-term results are very rare.
Nonetheless, people who are fed up with the difficulties of changing their eating habits often turn to fad diets. (39) _________ being moderate, fad diets involve extreme dietary changes. They advise eating only one type of food, or they prohibit other types of foods entirely. This results in a situation (40) _________ a person’s body doesn’t get all the vitamins and other things that it needs to stay healthy.
(37) 
A.as                            
B.like                          
C.through                   
D.by

XI. Read the following passage and blacken the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions. 
Amelia Earhart was born in Kansas in 1897. Thirty one years later, she received a phone call that would change her life. She was invited to become the first woman passenger to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a plane. The flight took more than 20 hours – about three times longer than it routinely takes today to cross the Atlantic by plane. Earhart was twelve years old before she ever saw an airplane, and she didn’t take her first flight until 1920. But she was so thrilled by her first experience in a plane that she quickly began to take flying lessons. She wrote, “As soon as I left the ground, I knew I myself had to fly.”
After that flight Earhart became a media sensation. She was given a ticker tape parade down Broadway in New York and even president Coolidge called to congratulate her. Because her record – breaking career and physical appearance were similar to pioneering pilot and American hero Charles Lindbergh, she earned the nickname “Lady Lindy.” She wrote a book about her flight across the Atlantic, called 20 Hrs, 40 Min.
Earhart continued to break records, and also polised her skills as a speaker and writer, always advocating women’s achievements, especially in aviation. Her next goal was to achieve a transatlantic crossing alone. In 1927 Charles Lindbergh became the first person to make a solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic. Five years later, Earhart became the first woman to repeat that feat. Her popularity grew even more and she was the undisputed queen of the air. She then wanted to fly around the world, and in June 1973 she left Miami with Fred Noonan as her navigator. No one knows why she left behind important communication and navigation instruments. Perhaps it was to make room for additional fuel for the long flight. The pair made it to New Guinea in 21 days and then left for Howland Island, a tiny island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The last communication from Earhart and Noonan was on July 2, 1937 with a nearby Coast Guard ship. The United States Navy conducted a massive search for more than two week but no trace of the plane or its passengers was ever found. Many people believe they got lost simply ran out of fuel and died.
It may be inferred from the passage that Amelia Earhart __________.
A.would have continued to seek new adventures and records to break if she had not died at the age of 39
B.would not have developed her love of flying if she had not been invited to become the first woman passenger to cross the Atlantic in a plane
C. became too confident and took too many risks to be able to live to old age
D.did not want to return to the United States

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSET in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.
The natives were angry when foreigners came to their country and took over their land.
A.migrants           
B.tourists                    
C.members                 
D.locals

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.

A.through        
B.trouble            
C.couple                     
D.double

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
I _______ along the street when I suddenly heard footsteps behind me.
A.am walking     
B.walk                         
C.was walking   
D.walked

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Some films about violence have badly _______ children and teenagers.
A.influenced           
B.aimed                           
C.taken                      
D.offered

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Housewives find it easier to do domestic chores thanks to _______ invention of labour-saving devices.
A.an                        
B.some                        
C.the                          
D.a

Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
Each of us must take ________ for our own actions.
A.responsibility       
B.possibility              
C.probability              
D.ability

_______(61)
A.containers
B.tins
C.boxes
D.packages

I wish I didn't tell him the truth. He looks so worried now.
A.didn't
B.looks
C.so
D.worried