For each question (19-24), choose the best answer (A, B or C).
The Tour de France
The Tour de France is a bicycle race that has taken place almost every year since 1903.
The race started as a way of helping a newspaper company sell newspapers, but it quickly
became (19) with cyclists from all over the world.
In the past, the Tour de France was much more dangerous. Cyclists didn't (20) on
with their
special clothes or wear helmets on their heads, and they had a hard (21)
bicycles on the roads. In the first-ever Tour de France, sixty cyclists began the race, but
only twenty-one completed it.
Back then, the race was about 2,000 km long. Today, it is (22) 4,000 km, and around
200 people (23) part. However, new technology, better roads, and rules to (24)
cyclists safe, have made the Tour de France less dangerous than it used to be.
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A. famous
A. wear
A. time
A. even
A. take
A. stay
B. well known
B. put
B. year
B. nearly
B. have
B. keep
C. popular
C. try
C. moment
C. still
C. make
C. feel