Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
We didn’t want to spend a lot of money. We stayed in a cheap hotel.
A. In spite of spending a lot of money, we stayed in a cheap hotel.
B. Rather than spending a lot of money, we stayed in a cheap hotel.
C. We stayed in a cheap hotel, but we had to spend a lot of money.
D. We didn„t stay in a cheap hotel as we had a lot of money to spend.