Read the text about eBay and for 1-10 choose the correct answers.
1. lots, many, much, any
2. some, any, little, much
3. lot, plenty, several, any
4. number, much, plenty, some
5. lots, lot, many, several
6. few, plenty, lot, many
7. bit, several, few, little
8. number, many, much, plenty
9. much, some, many, lots
10. many, much, plenty, lots
THE SUCCESS OF EBAY There are (1) ______ popular websites today and (2) ______ are more successful than others. One of the best-known is eBay. The company was started by Pierre Omidyar in 1995. As well as having a degree in Computer Science, Omidyar had had (3) ______ jobs working with software and computers and (4) ______ of experience in selling on the Internet. He decided to set up a page on his website to let people sell things to whoever paid the most. The idea was immediately successful and Omidyar was soon making (5) ______ of money. As a result, he gave up his day job and launched eBay. One of the things people liked about eBay was its good service. In 1999 the website stopped working for almost twenty-four hours. Although there were a (6) ______ of sellers, eBay's employees called thousands of them to apologise. Omidyar also introduced a rating system. Customers were asked to spend a (7) ______ time describing the service they got from others. In this way, bad sellers or bad payers were soon known. Today eBay is used by millions of people around the world and sells almost everything you can think of. A (8) ______ of items have been sold at very high prices, including a rare baseball card sold for $1.2 million. There aren't (9) ______ other websites that can rival eBay and Omidyar is enormously rich. However, he and his wife have given away (10) ______ millions of dollars to charity.

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