10.SECTIONC. READING COMPREHENSIONQUESTION 1

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SECTIONC. READING COMPREHENSION

Question 1: (10 points)Read the following passage and decide which answer (from

A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. Write your answer in the space provided.

POSTCARDS

Today, people like to send postcards (1)________ their friends and family.

These postcards often have pictures of beaches, mountains or castles on them and you

(2)________ write a message on the (3)________. Many people send postcards

(4)________ they are on holiday because postcards are cheap and the pictures on

them are often (5)________ than people’s own photos.Somebody sent the first

postcard (6)________ the end of the nineteenth (7)________. It had a picture of a

town by the sea on it. Later on, postcards had pictures showing something in the news

that week, perhaps an accident (8)________ an important person’s visit. People liked

to (9)________ them because they did (10)________ have pictures in their

newspapers then.