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

24. What happened first?

A) Mozart learned to play the violin. B) Mozart composed s symphony.

C) Mozart composed a minuet. D) Mozart memorized a Miserere

25. A genius is a person who ...

A) has the ability to memorize a piece of music. B) learns how to play a harpsichord.

C) writes at least 600 musical works. D) has an amazing natural talent.

26. What does the word FLAWLESS in the text mean?

A) having an ability to flow B) defective C) perfect D) incomplete

One of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken, the Panama Canal shortcut greatly reduced the time for ships to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, enabling them to avoid the lengthy, hazardous Cape Horn route around the southernmost tip of South America via the Drake Passage or Strait of Magellan. In 1920, after some thirty-nine years of problems with disease, high costs and politics, the Panama Canal was officially opened. This linked the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by allowing ships to pass through the fifty-mile Canal Zone instead of travelling some seven thousand miles around Cape Horn. It takes a ship approximately eight hours to complete the trip through the canal, and costs a tenth of what it would cost the average ship to round the Both. More than fifteen thousand ships use the canal annually.