Variant 1 You could have come first and won the race if you … faster

27. It is implied in the passage that ... .

A) the people in the West no longer like magical performances

B) Westerners are more interested in their safety now than in the past

C) chemicals needed by magicians should be freely available to everyone

D) Houdini took the secrets of his craft to India before he died
In the face of advancing Japanese troops during World War II, US and Filipino forces under General Douglas MacArthur abandoned Manila and retreated west to the Bataan Peninsula. Crippled by malaria, weakened from their decision to share their food rations with the civilians, and demoralised after MacArthur’s departure for Australia, the surviving defenders surrendered when they became convinced that no outside help would arrive. What followed became known as the Bataan Death March. The Japanese led 55,000 American and Filipino prisoners on a brutal six-day, 120-mile trek to a prison in the Pampanga Province. Each day on the way ended with the slaughter of all prisoners too ill to continue. More than half the captives died in this way and another.