Test 01: B1 English Test 1 – Text With Multiple-Choice Gaps

Many people have tried 【1】 smoking at some point in their lives, and these days many of us 【2】 to stop taking 【3】 substance which is not cigarettes, but which 【4】 be killing the same number of people 【5】 tobacco, or even more. I am talking about sugar. When I went to the doctor five years ago, he told me that sugar 【6】 kill me one day if I didn’t avoid 【7】 it. My only chance of long-term survival, said the doctor, was 【8】 all sugar from my diet. Before that day, I 【9】 to quit anything; 【10】 , I didn’t think it would be too difficult. “I have achieved difficult things in my life, much more difficult than that,” I thought. It wasn't true. I didn't know how difficult it was to stop smoking, or drinking alcohol, because I 【11】 addicted to anything, but when I stopped eating sugar, I realised that sugar is a very powerful drug. I think it 【12】 easier if I had been addicted to nicotine, for example, instead of sugar. The first few weeks or months I 【13】 that I was eating chocolate or cakes, and then I woke up in the morning and my body was crying for sugar. It's been 3 months now, and I 【14】 very, very little sugar in that time; only the added sugar that food manufacturers put in some of their processed products, like bread, tinned tomato, etc. I am very happy because I don't crave sweet things any more, and I feel 【15】 healthier and energetic than a few months ago.