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.
I went to Australia on a student program last year and I like to ___(1)___ you about it. I was very ___(2)___ when I knew I was going to Australia because I had never been there before. I didn’t think about the problems of speaking English ___(3)___ I met my host family. At first I couldn’t communicate with them because my English was so bad. All the five years I had been learning English but I wasn’t much used at all ___(4)___ we didn’t have real practice at school. Even though my grammar was good, my pronunciation wasn’t. My problem is ___(5)___ ‘l’ and ‘r’. For example, Australian people often asked “What do you eat in Vietnam?” I wanted ___(6)___ them that we eat rice, but they didn’t understand when I said “We eat lice”…