How did one-dollar contracts help nine women change professional tennis?

Check your understanding

15-question test

Answer all the questions, then check your results.

1. True / False

   1.The one-dollar contracts supplied the operating budget needed to stage the Houston tournament.

   ATrueBFalse
2. 2.The players pursued the alternative event even though doing so could jeopardise access to established international competitions.

   ATrueBFalse
3. 3.The Houston initiative immediately established equal prize money throughout women's tennis.

   ATrueBFalse

4. Reading Comprehension

   4.What distinguished the players' response from simply requesting improved treatment?

   AThey agreed to abandon professional competition altogether.BThey made existing tournaments adopt a uniform payment system.CThey supported a competing structure for playing professional tennis.DThey restricted their campaign to negotiating individual appearance fees.
5. 5.Inference: Why does the author distinguish the Houston event, the subsequent circuit and the WTA's formation?

   ATo show that institutional development involved distinct stages rather than a single founding moment.BTo suggest that the Houston tournament had no connection with later developments.CTo establish that the WTA organised the original Houston event.DTo argue that sponsorship made a permanent institution unnecessary.
6. 6.Which conclusion about sanctions does the article permit?

   AEvery player was excluded from every major competition.BThe threats were withdrawn before the players signed.CThreatened sanctions demonstrate risk, but do not establish that every sanction was implemented.DOnly the tournament winner ultimately faced sanctions.

7. Grammar & Phrasal Verbs

   7.Which sentence would sound most natural in professional English?

   AThe initiative enabled the players pursue an alternative.BThe initiative enabled the players to pursue an alternative.CThe initiative enabled the players pursuing an alternative.DThe initiative enabled that the players to pursue an alternative.
8. 8.Which reformulation preserves the uncertainty in 'potentially losing access'?

   AThey must already have lost access to prestigious opportunities.BThey were certain to lose access to prestigious opportunities.CThey could not lose access to prestigious opportunities.DThey might lose access to prestigious opportunities.
9. 9.Which alternative accurately restates the contrast introduced by 'rather than relying exclusively'?

   AThey created opportunities only after becoming wholly dependent on existing organisers.BThey created opportunities in order to depend solely on existing organisers.CThey created opportunities because existing organisers were their only possible support.DThey created opportunities instead of depending solely on existing organisers.

10. Prepositions

    10.Complete the article's formulation: 'Restricted opportunities were at odds ___ their professional ambitions.'

    AforBbyCwithDinto
11. 11.Complete the sentence: 'Staging an event is not tantamount ___ founding a lasting institution.'

    AtoBforCofDby
12. 12.Complete the sentence: 'The players acted in conjunction ___ a promoter.'

    AwithBatCfromDinto

13. Vocabulary & Synonyms

    13.What does 'belied' convey in the description of the contracts' face value?

    AIt demonstrated that the ambition had already been fulfilled.BIt understated the scale of the ambition behind them.CIt provided an accurate financial valuation of the ambition.DIt proved that the ambition was insincere.
14. 14.In this article, a 'breakaway' is best understood as which of the following?

    AA temporary interruption within an otherwise unchanged tournament.BAn automatic promotion within an existing governing body.CA settlement that requires all parties to retain existing arrangements.DA departure from an established structure to develop an alternative.
15. 15.What does 'instructive' mean in the conclusion?

    ASetting out mandatory rules for present-day athletes.BOffering useful insight into how change can be organised.CProviding exhaustive operational instructions for tournaments.DEstablishing that the same strategy will always succeed.