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Choose the word or phrase which best completes each blank in the following passage
Samuel Cunard's first ship, the Britania, made its first voyage from Liverpool in England to the US in 1850. In those days there was little choice about .....(1).... of travel. Anyone who ...(2).... to go the US from Britain had to sail across the Atlantic. .......(3)....... that, there was no way of getting there. The Britania was ......(4)....... a mail ship, but it also .....(5)...... passengers. On the first ...(6)...., as records showed, there was a ...(7)..... of 63 of them, including Samuel Cunard and his daughter and, .....(8)...... for that time, the ship had private bathrooms.
But Samuel Cunard would find it hard to .....(9)...... much similarity between his beloved Britania and the Cunard company's most famous liner today, the QE2, named after Queen Elizabeth II of England. The Britania is ....(10)...... to have had two members of staff .......(11)...... every passenger. The passengers probably didn't sleep in cabins as comfortable and with as much .....(12)..... as rooms in a good .....(13)........ of hotel, as they do on the QE2 today. The QE2 ......(14)...... on her first voyage across the Atlantic from Southampton on the south coast of England on May 2, 1969. Five days later, she arrived in New York to an enthusiastic .....(15)... Since that day she has carried over one and a half million passengers around the world.
1. a. procedures |
b. processes |
c. courses |
d. means |
2. a. thought |
b. wished |
c. dreamed |
d. fancied |
3. a. Apart from |
b. Else |
c. Instead of |
d. Otherwise |
4. a. at most |
b. above all |
c. overall |
d. vastly |
5. a. fetched |
b. brought |
c. took |
d. sent |
6. a. incident |
b. occasion |
c. event |
d. circumstances |
7. a. total |
b. sum |
c. number |
d. quantity |
8. a. distinctly |
b. differently |
c. extremely |
d. remarkably |
9. a. see |
b. know |
c. tell |
d. catch |
10. a. doubtful |
b. improbable |
c. uncertain |
d. unlikely |
11.a. to |
b. with |
c. by |
d. of |
12.a. breadth |
b. space |
c. extent |
d. expansion |
13.a. level |
b. status |
c. class |
d. rank |
14.a. set off |
b. went away |
c. got out |
d. came along |
15.a. meeting |
b. applause |
c. welcome |
d. acceptable |