A. EXAMINATED B. EVALUATED C. TESTED D. ADMINISTERED READ THE FOLL...

37. A. examinated B. evaluated C. tested D. administered Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions In 1920, after some thirty-nine years of problems with disease, high costs, and politics, the Panama Canal was officially opened, finally linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by allowing ships to pass through the fifty-mile canal zone instead of traveling some seven thousands miles around Cape Horn. It takes a ship approximately eight hours to complete the trip through the canal and cost an average of fifteen thousand dollars, one tenth of what it would cost an average ship to round the Horn. More than fifteen thousand ships pass through its locks each year The Frech initiated the project but sold their rights to the United States, which actually began the construction of the project. The latter controlled it until the end of the twentieth century when Panama took over its duties