………DEPARTMENTS DOES THIS COMPANY HAVE

40. ………departments does this company have?

a. How many

b. How far

c. How often

d. How much

IV. READING: Read the passage below carefully and then circle the best answer.

Walter Hudson is big. In fact, he’s enormous. He weighs over 240 kilos. And yet Walter is

on a diet. He’s losing weight at an incredible nine kilos a week. He weighed over 630 kilos. That

more than half a ton, and it’s heavier than a car or a young elephant. At his maximum size Walter’s

waist was 119 inches. His neck was as thick as a woman’ waist. His biceps were as big as an

average man’s chest.

His diet was just as impressive. He ate enough to feed three families. For breakfast he ate

two pounds of sausages, two pounds of bacon, twelve eggs, a pound of biscuits, six Danish pastries,

a pot of coffee and four pinds of orange juice. Lunch and dinner were even bigger. Then there were

the snacks between meals. During the morning he ate twelve doughnuts. Each afternoon he ate ten

large packets of crisps and in the evening a couple of family-sized pizzas. On top of all that he drank

96 cans of soft drinks. That was one day’s food and Walter ate that much every day.

Until recently the world knew nothing about Walter Hudson. In the past 28 years he’s only been

outside for two hours. That was when his family moved house. He hasn’t seen the sun since he was

25 years old and now he is 43. He lived in a secret world- a prisoner in his own home near New

York. He watched TV for 12-15 hours a day and he only left his bed to walk the five yards to the

bathroom. Even that short journey was exhausting.

Walter’s secret world finally hit the headlines ten months ago. He fell over on his way back from

the bathroom and became stuck in the door way. It took eight police officers and firemen to free

him. But that incident changed his life. While he was lying on the floor he decided that enough was

enough. The next day he started his diet. He didn’t cut down on food, he stopped eating completely.