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

24. From the passage we can conclude that ...

A) searching for gold in the Canadian winter is the quickest way to get rich.

B) there is still plenty of gold waiting to be found in the Yukon and Klondike Rivers.

C) very few of the prospectors actually achieved what they had aimed for.

D) it is less difficult to find gold in Canada than in some other places.
On 18 April 1810, four months after he and Pottinger had sailed from Bombay, Christie rode through the principal gateway of Herat. He was to remain there for a month, taking careful notes of all what he saw or heard. The city of Herat is situated in a valley, surrounded by lofty mountains. The valley, running from east to west, was thirty miles long and fifteen wide. The city itself covered an area of four square miles and was surrounded by a massive wall. At its northern end was a citadel built of baked brick with a tower at each corner.