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X. Complete the passage
Samuel Cunard's first ship, the Britannia (..1..) its first voyage from Liverpool in England to the US in 1850. In those
days there was little choice about (..2..) of travel. Anyone who wished to go to the US from Britain had to sail across the
Atlantic. (..3..) that, there was no way of getting there. The Britannia was at (..4..) a mail ship, but it also took passengers.
On that first occasion as records show, there was a (..5..) of sixty three of them, including Samuel Cunard and his
daughter and remarkably for that time, the ship had private bathrooms. But Samuel Cunard would find it hard to see
much similarity between his (..6..) Britannia and the Cunard company's most famous liner today, the QE2, named (..7..)
Queen Elizabeth II of England. The passengers on the Britannia probably didn't sleep in rooms as comfortable and with
as much space as rooms in a good (..8..) of hotel as they do on the QE2 today. The QE2 (..9..) on her first voyage across
the Atlantic from Southampton on the south coast of England on May 2nd 1969. Five days later, she arrived in New York
to an enthusiastic (..10..). Since then, she has carried nearly million passengers.
1. A. took
2. A. methods
3. A. Instead of
4. A. most
5. A. total
6. A. wrecked
7. A. with
8. A. status
9. A. called for
10. A. welcome
B. made
B. means
B. As a result of
B. last
B. number
B. spoiled
B. under
B. condition
B. turned up
B. departure
C. ran
C. ways
C. On account of
C. least
C. quantity
C. beloved
C. after
C. class
C. played down
C. destination
D. transferred
D. measures
D. Apart from
D. once
D. plenty
D. ruined
D. on
D. position
D. set off
D. itinerary