Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Questions 47 to 56 are based on the following passage. Americans are well known for the strange diets they always seem to be following. It seems that Americans like to 47 almost as much as they like to eat. New types of diet plans are always coming out. Usually, though,they don&39;t stay 48 for long. There are many diets on the market. It is often difficult to know which ones really work. It&39;s also hard to believe how fast a dieter is supposed to 49 pounds. A lot has been written about dieting. And some interesting 50 about diets and foods have been discovered. For example,did you know that the more celery you eat,the more 51 you will lose? Celery has “ 52 ” calories.The body burns up more calories 53 a piece of celery than there are in the celery stick itself. Dieters shun pototaes because they think they are 54 .But they aren’t.A potato has about the same numeber of 55 as an apple.To gain a single pound,you would have to eat eleven pounds of potatoes.Some dieters even worry about getting fat from licking postage stamps.But they have nothing to worry about.The glue on an 56 stamp has only about-tenth of a calorie.Maybe a diet of postage stamps would be populat? A)diet B)negative C)weight D)average E)facts F)complete G)gain H)categories I)popular J)digesting K)snatch L)calories M)fattening N)shed 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56.