IT CAN BE INFERRED FROM THE PASSAGE THAT ______A. THE CANAL IS A C...

43. It can be inferred from the passage that ______A. the canal is a costly project which should be reevaluated B. despite all the problems involved, the project is beneficial C. many captains prefer to sail around Cape Horn because it is less expensive D. problems have made it necessary for three governments to control the canal over the years 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 Of six outer planets, Mars, commonly called the Red Planet, is the closest to Earth. Mars, 4,200 miles in diameter and 55 percent of the size of Earth, is 34,600,000 miles from Earth and 141,000,000 miles from the Sun. It takes this planet, along with its two moons, Phobos and Deimos, 1.88 years to circle the Sun, compared to 365 days for the Earth. For many years, Mars had been thought of as the planet with man-made canals, supposedly discovered by an Italian astronomer, Schiaparelli, in 1877. With the United States spaceraft Viking I’s landing on Mars in