Variant – 1 Choose the best answer

The Panama Canal ...

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

hours.

B) has been officially opened only for travelers.

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

Atlantic and Pacific Oceans much.

D) reduced the distance between the Atlantic and Pacific

Oceans.

31. One can conclude from the passage that before the

Panama Canal opened, ...

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

Ocean, but a rather long one.

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

every eight hours.

C) fifteen thousand ships transported travelers around Cape

Horn every year.

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

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

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

meaning to ...

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