Variant – 1 Choose the best answer

The Panama Canal …

A) has been officially opened only for travelers.

B) reduced the distance between the Atlantic and Pacific

Oceans.

C) makes it impossible to cover seven thousand miles in eight

hours.

D) didn’t succeed in cutting down the route between the

Atlantic and Pacific Oceans much.

31. One can conclude from the passage that before the

Panama Canal opened, …

A) fifteen thousand ships transported travelers around Cape

Horn every year.

B) ships could travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean

every eight hours.

C) there was another route from the Atlantic to the Pacific

Ocean, but a rather long one.

D) if anyone wanted to undertake the journey by ship from

the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean it wouldn’t take long.

32. The word “hazardous” in the passage is opposite in

meaning. A) dangerous B) slow C) safe D) perilous