Passage 2
         Around the world, millions of people have lost their jobs or ____26____ by their governments to stayat home. Yet stock markets have ____27____ from steep drops in March. The most striking ____28____have been made in the US, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq up a whopping 42% and the wider S&P 500 up 15%on the year. But the UK’s FTSE 100, with its struggling oil companies, banks and airlines, all of whichwere ____29____ by the pandemic, ____30____ such an easy time.
【題組】26.
(A) been paid
(B) paid
(C) being paid
(D) are paying