Read the following passage and choose the best answer to each of the questions

VI. Read the following passage and choose the best answer to each of the questions.
Rebecca Stevens was the first woman to climb Mount Everest. Before she went up the highest
mountain in the world, she was a journalist and lived in south London.
In 1993, Rebecca left her job and her family and travelled to Asia with some other climbers. She found
that life on Everest is very difficult. "You must carry everything on your back," she explained, "so you
can only take things that you will need. You can't wash on the mountain, and in the end I didn't even
take a toothbrush. I am usually a clean person but there is no water, only snow. Water is very heavy so
you only take enough to drink!"
Rebecca became famous when she reached the top of Mount Everest on May 17, 1993. After that, she
wrote a book about the trip, and people often asked her to talk about it. She got a new job too, on a
science programme on television.