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

29. One can conclude from the passage that before the Panama Canal opened, ...

A) fifteen thousand ships transported travellers around Cape Horn every year.

B) if anyone wanted to undertake the journey by ship from the Atlantic to the Pacific it wouldn't take longer.

C) ships could travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean every eight hours

D) there was another route from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, but a rather long one.

30. The word HAZARDOUS in the passage is opposite in meaning to ...

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

VARIANT 81

1. ... you ever ...to Japan? - Yes, I... there the year when there was an earthquake.

A) Have/gone/had been B) Have/been/was C) Will/go/will be D) Do/go/would be