A. MOSTLY B. FARTHER C. BETTER D. FURTHERQUESTION VII. FILL IN THE...

15. A. mostly B. farther C. better D. furtherQuestion VII. Fill in the blank of the following passage with ONE suitable word. (10 pts):Million dollar kidsIn the 1960s women tennis players received very little or no prize money at all. In the 1990s, (1)_______the top players can earn twice as (2)_______ in a fortnight as a successful company director does in a whole year. And (3)_______most young people their age were still (4)_______ for example, players (5)_______Monica Seles and Jennifer Capriati were earning thousands of pounds a week. When she was (6)_______sixteen, Seles was rich (7)_______to buy any car she liked.Nowadays, most of a leading tennis player’s income comes from sponsorship contracts with fashion (8)_______sportswear companies rather (9)_______from major championships. Players are (10)_______ huge sums of money to wear anything from tennis shoes to a wristwatch. Official prize money, in fact, only accounts for a fraction of total earnings.Question VIII. Read the passage and choose the best answer. (5 pts)Mr. Smith gave his wife 10 pounds for her birthday- ten pretty pound notes. So a day after her birthday, Mrs. Smith went shopping. She queued for a bus, got on and sat down next to an old lady. After a while she noticed that the old lady’s handbag was open. Inside it she saw a wad of pound notes exactly the ones her husband had given her. So she quickly looked into her own bag – the notes had gone! Mrs. Smith was sure that the old lady who was sitting next to her had stolen them. She thought she would have to call the police; but as she disliked making a fuss and making people into trouble, she decided to take back the money from the old lady’s handbag and say nothing more about it. She looked round the bus to make sure that nobody was watching, and then she carefully put her hand into the old lady’s bag, took the notes and put them in her own bag. When she got home that evening, she showed her husband the beautiful hat she had bought. “How did you pay for it?’ he asked. “ With the money you gave me on my birthday, of course”, she replied. “Oh? What’s that then?” he asked as he pointed a wad of ten pound notes on the table.