Variant – 1 Choose the best answer

29. The passage informs us that ...

A) it took much more than four decades to build the Panama

Canal.

B) high costs and politics were the only obstacles to

construct the canal.

C) the Panama Canal built between the Atlantic and Pacific

Oceans is least than 55 miles.

D) all diseases have been combatted since theuarreletion of

the canal.
30. Which of the statements is true according to the passage?

The Panama Canal ...

A) reduced the distance between the Atlantic and Pacific

Oceans.

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

hours.

C) didn't succeed in cutti’g down the route between the

Atlantic and Pacific Oceans much.

D) has been officially opened only for travelers.
31. One can conclude from the passage that before the

Panama Canal opened, ...

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

the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean it wouldn't take longer.

B)’fifteen thousand ships transported travelers around Cape

Horn every year.

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

Ocean, but a rather long one.

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

every eight hours.

32. The word "hazardous" in the “assage is”opposite in

meaning to ...

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