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The Panama Canal ………
a) didn`t succeed in cutting down the route between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean
b) reduced the distance between The Atlantic and Pacific Ocean
c) has been officially opened only for travelers
d) makes it impossible to cover seven thousand miles in eight hours


474. 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 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 Horn. More than fifteen thousand ships use the canal annually.
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) fifteen thousand ships transported travelers around Cape Horn every year.
c) if anyone wanted to undertake the journey by ship from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean it wouldn`t take longer.
d) ships could travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean every eight hours.


475. 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 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 Horn. More than fifteen thousand ships use the canal annually.