MPT Comprehension Ex 3.4

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Answer the following questions according to the text.

1. Swimming the Channel is not as easy as it might seem _____. *

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A) as the distance between the two counties is far too much.

B) and it always takes more or less 20 hours.

C) and only two people have managed to do it so far.

D) so few people even try to swim it.

E) for there are very strong currents.

2. The first time anyone swam across the Channel _____. *

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A) was in the last century.

B) was when England and France organized a swimming competition.

C) no one really believed him.

D) he was helped by favorable currents.

E) he reached Dover just before 10 in the evening.

3. The time Captain Webb needed to swim across the Channel _____. *

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A) was unbelievably short.

B) has since been nearly reduced to half.

C) still remains a record.

D) was thought to be far too long.

E) hasn’t been equaled by any French swimmer.

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