Choose the word or phrase (A, B, C or D) that best fits the blank space in the following passage. Write your answer in the numbered box. People are predicting that space tourism could be a $700m industry by 2020. Thousands of ___ (1) ___ passengers a year could be flown as far as zero gravity and back, for the most thrilling ____(2)___ of their lives. Tickets are now on sale at a ___(3)___ $200,000, from the well-known billionaire Sir Richard Branson, whose Virgin Galactic company has recently passed another important stage in the successful testing of its six-passenger spacecraft. In the meanwhile, a growing ___ (4) ___ of other business people are joining this new space race, convinced for the first time that there might actually be some money to be made. Virgin Galactic has already ____ (5) ____ around $45m in deposits for reservations from over 330 people wanting to travel into sub-orbital space. Why are they so ___ (6) ____ to do this? One common reason given is that people want to feel the ____ (7) ____ of zero gravity, and many also say that they would like to ____(8)_____ the curve of the earth above. Sir Richard’s spacecraft, the VSS Enterprise, is the most advanced space tourism project in development and is in ___ (9) ___ fact the best funded. It will reach a height of 50,000 feet attached to a mothership, and then be ___ (10) ___ into space. 1. A. earning B. paying C. costing D. charging 2. A. lift B. sail C. flight D. drive 3. A. pure B. mere C. bare D. pale 4. A. amount B. sum C. figure D. number 5. A. taken B. kept C. borne D. held 6. A. irresponsible B. impatient C. irritated D. impossible 7. A. causes B. events C. issues D. effects 8. A. view B. look C. gaze D. watch 9. A. actual B. real C. true D. certain 10. A. fetched B. brought C. launched D. carried Giúp mk vs