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Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Ocean exploration changed human history

One of humanity’s greatest achievements has been mastering routes across the world’s oceans. Communities separated by thousands of miles 1 (bring) into contact and religious ideas have spread across the waters, while artistic creativity has been motivated by the experience of seeing the products of different civilizations. Customs have been decisively altered by the movement of ships across the oceans. No one drank tea in medieval Europe, but 2 contact had been made with the tea-drinking Chinese, tea became popular with millions of people from Sweden to the United States.

We tend to hold the view 3 the opening of the oceans was the work of the great explorers, especially the 15th century pioneers who edged their way through uncharted waters to southern Africa, the Indian Ocean and the lands of the Indies. These were sailors 4 Christopher Columbus, who chanced upon unsuspected lands that blocked the expected sea route from Europe to China and Japan. But while these men 5 give the Age of Discovery its name, they didn’t start the exploration of the world’s oceans — and there were also scores of merchants who followed in 6 route, taking full advantage of new knowledge about the open ocean to develop trade links across the world, 7 laid the foundation for modern globalization. These were the people who really mastered the oceans and brought the continents into contact.

Since then, the oceans have only continued 8 (tie) the world together — most dramatically when new routes were literally carved out, with the building of the Sues Canal in the 19th century and the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914. The first goods to pass through the Panama Canal consisted of a cargo of 9 (tin) pineapples from Hawaii. The Pacific and the Atlantic were 10 (closely) tied together than ever before.

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