Read the following passage and choose the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions

I. Read the following passage and choose the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
Now in its sixth year, the Insight Guides Travel Photography Competition, run in (1) ______ with the Independent newspaper,  is going from strength to strength. “Places were hotly contested this year”, says Insight Guides picture editor, Steven Lawrence. “We (2) ______ liked winner Steve McDonald’s use of light, and the way in (3) _____he took a very well-known subject from an interesting and unusual (4) _________ .”
       This year’s entrants worked to the theme: “Earth”, submitting three images photographed within the past year, (5) ______digitally or as prints. Steve McDonald, 54, a British Airways steward, won the first prize, a professional commission worth $3000 for one of Insight Guides’s (6) ______ books. Second prize went to geologist Robin Andrews, 22, who will use his Canon camera he has won to photograph his (7) ______: volcanoes. Peter Cain, 33, a civil servant, in third place, also wins  a  Canon camera for his images, taken at Evervest base camp. For the first time, the competition was (8) ______ to under-18s. The winner in this category, Aiden Hill, 17, was delighted to receive the first prize for his image taken on a family holiday in Norway. He wins the (9) _____to spend some time working with a professional photographer.
The awards were presented last week at Stanford’s bookshop. Winners were treated (10) _______ a night at a smart hotel and a celebratory meal with their partners and the judges.
1. A. comparison                     B. combination                         C. association             D. agreement
2. A. hardly                             B. remarkably              C. particularly              D. utterly
3. A. who                                 B. which                      C. that                          D. whom
4. A. fashion                            B. state                         C. pose                                     D. angle
5. A. either                               B. neither                     C. both                         D. nor
6. A. oncoming                        B. incoming                C. overcoming             D. upcoming
7. A. excitement                      B. joy                           C. happiness                D. passion
8. A. possible                           B. available                  C. open                                     D. clear
9. A. promise                           B. fortune                    C. prospect                  D. chance
10. A. to                                  B. for                           C. by                            D. of