Reading passages

38 -The author believes that ----.
A) writers are more memorable than soldiers 
B) soldiers who died fighting for a good cause are 
remembered 
C) Rome was a dangerous place for poets
D) it is safer to be a bureaucrat than a poet
E) soldiers are more patriotic than poets 
39 -We learn from the passage that Horace" job 
as a bureaucrat ---- .
A) occupied him too much to write poetry 
B) prepared him for higher ranks in his later life 
C) was not a high -ranking one 
D) proved that he was not a coward 
E) was not actually less dangerous than being a 
soldier 
The Hindenburg was the last in a series of airships 
designed to carry passengers and cargo over long 
distances. It could carry fifty passengers in twenty -
five luxury cabins with all the comforts of a first 
class hotel. Cruising at 125 km per hour, it could 
cross the Atlantic in half the time of the great luxury 

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ocean liners, which it had been built to compete with. 
But in 1937, the Hindenburg came to an unfortunate 
end in New Jersey just as it was about to land. In 
spite of extensive safety precautions, the highly 
flammable hydrogen with which it was filled burst 
into flames. Remarkably though, sixty -two of the 
ninety -seven people on board were able to escape. 
 
40 -It is clear from the passage that ---- .
A) the Hindenburg was one of the most successful 
airships of all times 
B) the Hindenburg had a component containing 
hydrogen 
C) in speed and size, the Hindenburg was much like 
a luxury ocean liner 
D) the Hindenburg exploded as it was taking off 
from New Jersey 
B) none of the passengers survived the disaster 
41 -The passage tells us that ---- .
A) only the very rich could afford to travel on 
airships like the Hindenburg 
B) the luxury ocean liners could cross the Atlantic 
twice the time that an airship could 
C) the number of passengers an airship could carry 
was almost half that of a luxury ocean liner
D) life aboard the great airships was cramped and 
uncomfortable 
E) an ocean liner was slower, but much more 
luxurious than an airship