The Atlantic Ocean is one of the oceans that separate the old world from new. For

centuries it kept the Americans from being discovered by the people of Europe.

   Many wrong ideas about the Atlantic Ocean were believed in by people that they didn't 1 to go far out into it. One idea was that it reached out to the  2  that they might go right 3 the earth.  4 idea was that at the equator the ocean would be boiling hot.

   The Atlantic Ocean is only half as 5 as the Pacific. It is the second 6  ocean in the world. It is more than 4,000 miles  7 . Even at the narrowest it is about 2,000 miles wide.

   Something makes the Atlantic Ocean rather unusual. For so  8 an ocean it has very few islands.

   There is 9 much water in the Atlantic that it is hard to 10  how much there is. But suppose no more 11 fell into it and no more 12 was brought to it by 13 . It would take the ocean about 4,000 years to dry up. In most places the water is little more than two miles  14 , but in some places it is much _15 . The deepest  16 is Puerto Rico. This "deep" measures 30,246 feet.

   The Atlantic gives much  17 to the people on its shores. There are a lot of famous fishing places there.

   Today the Atlantic is a great highway. It is not,  18 , always a smooth safe one. We now have such fast ways of traveling that this big ocean seems to have grown 19 . It took Columbus from New York to London in only eight hours 20 and from South America to Africa in four!

1. A. need      B. have      C. dare      D. use

2. A. farthest    B. deepest    C. highest    D. nearest

3. A. into      B. onto      C. off      D. around

4. A. The other   B. One      C. Other     D. Another

5. A. deep      B. big      C. wide      D. narrow

6. A. largest    B. widest     C. deepest   D. highest

7. A. deep      B. long      C. wide      D. high

8. A. large     B. small     C. deep    D. unusual

9. A. such      B. so       C. too      D. very

10. A. imagine    B. think     C. measure   D. calculate

11. A. ships     B. islands    C. water     D. rain

12. A. snow      B. rain      C. water     D. fish

13. A. ships     B. rivers     C. rain      D. snow

14. A. deep      B. wide      C. long      D. high

15. A. deep      B. wide      C. deeper     D. wider

16. A. ocean     B. hole      C. water     D. spot

17. A. money    B. food     C. water     D. interests

18. A. either     B. however    C. as well    D. besides

19. A. smaller    B. bigger     C. younger    D. wider

20. A. way      B. route     C. round     D. trip

 

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