Reading passages

 
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newspapers made fun of him. Yet today, space scientists consider the 1926 experiment an event 
as important as man's first successful flight. 
295 -The passage makes it clear that ---- . 
A) hardly anyone took Goddard and his rocket seriously at the time 
B) Goddard found financial support after the experiment 
C) Goddard was not in the habit of exaggerating things 
D) space flight was considered a real possibility 
by many people after 1926 
E) it is best to experiment with rockets when the weather is cold 
296 -We learn from the passage that ---- . 
A) it is always cold in New England in March B) the Smithsonian Institution met the entire expense 
for Goddard's rocket 
C) Goddard's experiment was important in the development of future rockets 
D) Goddard was put on trial for his errors as a physics professor 
E) Robert Goddard owned a farm in New England 
297 -We can assume from the passage that before the experimental flight in 1926, ---- .
A) many others had tried to do a similar thing 
B) the director of the Smithsonian Institution was not hopeful of any success 
C) other scientists had attempted to do it 
D) no one believed that it would be successful 
E) Goddard had made other trials but had failed 
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. 
298-The passage gives us the information that ----- . 
A) the Panama Canal was built in order to combat certain diseases 
B) there were more political problems than problems with disease during the construction of the 
canal 
C) the Panama Canal is built at the narrowest point between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans D) it 
took a little less than four decades to build the Panama Canal 
E) the Panama Canal has been used by about fifteen thousand ships since its construction