Text-1 Read the text. Then choose the correct answer for questions 1-2

28. What does the word “flawless” in the text mean?
A) having an ability to flow B) defective
C) perfect D) incomplete


Read the text. Then choose the correct answer for each question below (29-32).
One of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken, the Panama Canal shortcut greatly reduced the time for ships to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, enabling them to avoid the lengthy, hazardous Cape Horn route around the southernmost tip of South America via the Drake Passage or Strait of Magellan.
In 1920, after some thirty-nine years of problems with disease, high costs and politics, the Panama Canal was officially opened. This linked the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by allowing ships to pass through the fifty-mile Canal Zone ad Of travelling some seven thousand miles around Cape Horn. It takes a ship approximately eight hours to complete the trip through the canal, and costs a tenth of what it would cost the average ship to round the Both. More than fifteen thousand ships use the canal annually.