106 F. Read the text and answer the questions:

Football has become the most popular game in the world.  Its premier competition, the World Cup, is the biggest sporting event on the planet, eclipsing even the Olympic Games.  It has been used by politicians from the despotic to the democratic, and is coveted by businesses and television for the large amount of income it can generate.  It has provided people with a means of social and political expression and has often been the focus of local and national pride.

  a. Why is football longed for by businesses and television?
  b. How is football important to the people of the world?
  c. Write down the sentence which indicates that football has been used
      by all politicians in the world?
  d. What does the underlined pronoun "it" refer to?
  e. What does the underlined word "premier" mean?
  f. Find a work in the text which means
     "doing much better than anything else".