QUESTIONS 61 – 65 REFER TO THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE. (1) HANS ANDERSEN, A...

40-foot yacht, with all the latest technical and safety gear, and had a pleasant voyage, except

for almost sinking while going around the tips of South America and Africa.

(5) The voyage went so smoothly that, looking back on it, he felt they were too easy. (6)

He needed a new challenge. (7) He decided to build his own boat. (8) In addition, that was

nothing new, but several people had built their own boats and sailed them around the world.

(9) No, he needed a unique boat. Watching TV commercials one day, he got it - ice cream

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sticks! (10) He would be the first man who sailed around the world in a boat was built

exclusively of ice cream sticks.

(11) Within three years, school children from all over Holland had sent Hans 15 million ice

cream sticks. (12) He used these sticks to build a 45-foot replica of a Viking ship. (13) After

all the sticks were glued together, Hans took his new boat out to sea on a one-week voyage.

(14) "It's magnificent, and totally sea-worthy," he proclaimed.

(15) He plans to set sail in early 2008 with a crew of two. (16) He will sail across the

Atlantic to Canada, and then down to Florida and through the Panama Canal then will travel

to Los Angeles, Honolulu, Tokyo around the tip of Africa, and back to Holland. (17) "If

this trip succeeds," he joked, "my next goal will be to build a plane out of ice cream sticks

and fly it around the world!"