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23. From the information given in the passage one can tell that a minutes is ...
A) 3 symphony B) a letter of recommendation C) a piece of music D) A Miserere
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.
27. The passage informs us that.
A) all diseases have been combatted since the construction of the canal
B) it took much more than four decades to build the Panama Canal.
C) the Panama Canal built between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans is less than 55 miles.
D) high costs and politics were the only obstacles to construct the canal.
28. Which of the statements is TRUE according to the passage? The Panama Canal ...
A) makes it impossible to cover seven thousand miles in eight hours.
B) reduced the distance between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
C) didn't succeed in cutting down the route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans much.
D) has been officially opened only for travellers