Exercise 3: Read the passage and decide whether the following statements are true or false.
One of the most popular quiz programmes on television in the world is called Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? In Britain, the quiz master is Chris Tarrant. He asks the contestants fifteen questions. The first questions are easy but later they are more difficult. If you answer the fourteenth question correctly, you can win £500,000. You can win a million pounds if you can answer the last question. Of course, it is very difficult to come to the last question.
All the questions on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? are multiple-choice questions. After you hear the question, you see four answers. Only one answer is correct. You have to choose the correct answer. If you don’t know the answer to a question, there are three ways you can get help: you can ask the quizmaster to take away two wrong answers; you can ask the studio audience which answer is right; or you can telephone a friend and ask for help. You can only do these things once. Very few people win the million pounds. The first person won a million pounds one year after the programme started.
Today, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? can be seen in more than 100 countries and is now the world’s most popular quiz programme.
1. Chris Tarrant is the quizmaster in Britain T / F
2. You have to answer 20 questions. T / F
3. You can win £500,000 for the fourteenth question. T / F
4. There are two ways you can get help T / F
5. The show is the world’s most popular programme. T / F
