a student is writing a research paper about the panama canal read the paragraph from the research paper and answer the question
that follows. the panama cuts through the country of panama to connect the atlantic and pacific oceans. before the canal was built. ships going from one ocean to another had to sail around the southernmost point of south america. this route added thousands of extra miles to the journey. the french began building the canal in the 1800s, and it was completed by the united states in 1914. which sentence would provide the best conclusion for the paragraph?
The sentence that would provide the best conclusion for the paragraph is:
Building the Panama canal proved to be a very difficult project.
<h3>What is the best conclusion for a paragraph?</h3>
The description from the text shows that the project was not a very easy one. Here, we see that a lot of effort was put into the project. Also, the project spanned about 100 years before it reached its conclusion. The longer routes that were plied by the ships made the task even more difficult.
A fitting conclusion is one that would summarize the nature of the Panama canal project. The option that provides this kind of exact description is the first option selected above.
2000 might be when the disease peaked. It mentions in the passage that the government started to ban farmers from feeding their livestock high risk meat, and that the disease peaked shortly after that. Since 2000 is 'shortly after' 1997, the source from 2000 might be from the peak.
