A strange fruit Source: PET Gold Exam Maximiser, page 48.

If you go to the market in Thailand or Indonesia, you may see a strange fruit. It is a bout 20 cm long and 15 cm wide, and is covered by a thick _______ with dozens of very sharp points.
1. paper
2. skin
3. stone
4. juice
It is called a durian. But what is really _______about this fruit is its smell.
1. colourful
2. bright
3. expensive
4. different
This is hard to _______ - some people say it's like bad eggs, others say it's like blue cheese, onions and ...
1. buy
2. find
3. describe
4. grow
... fish _______ up together - but everyone agrees that it's disgusting!
1. caught
2. mixed
3. made
4. drunk
In fact, it is _______ to take durians onto trains or ...
1. forbidden
2. told
3. meant
4. refused
... aeroplanes _______ the smell makes some people feel sick.
1. although
2. but
3. and
4. because
In _______ of this, if you have the chance you should taste ...
1. way
2. spite
3. reason
4. opposite
... a small _______ of the fruit, ...
1. piece
2. drop
3. meal
4. half
..., _______ is very rich.
1. which
2. this
3. what
4. that
You may not like it at _______, but some people think that it tastes wonderful, and call it "the king of fruit".
1. start
2. first
3. beginning
4. one