READ THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE AND MARK THE LETTER A, B, C, OR D TO I...

2.2. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate thecorrect answer to each of the questions.Past explorers have made vast contributions to our knowledge of the world today.They braved the oceans to discover the world and to bring their goods to othercountries to trade.Many explorers had to overcome their fear of the unknown to travel around theworld on their sailing ships. Submitting themselves to unpredictable weatherconditions, each explorer either traveled further than his predecessor or tried tofind a different route to already discovered countries. For example, Vasco DaGama, a Portuguese explorer, established a sea route from Europe to India. Hehad extended the sea route that Bartolomeu Dias had already done when he lattersailed around the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa.More importantly, explorers first closed the gap between the east and the west bytrading their local goods with foreign ones. India was known for its spices such asnutmeg and cinnamon while China was known for its silk. A part of the east wasbrought to the west when western gourmets developed a taste for eastern spices intheir food. People in the east dressed in clothes that were previously only worn inthe west. Without the explorers, many of us would still be living in our ownenclave with little knowledge of the vast world and what other foreign countrieshave to offer us.