If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” Test # 1 Choose the correct answer

25. The Titanic would not have sunk if … .

A) only two compartments had been filled with water

B) the crew had been trained well enough to help the passengers

C) it had been smaller

D) it had a wireless to send messages
26. We understand from the passage that the Californian … .

A) didn't have a wireless

B) had also struck an iceberg

C) was too far from the Titanic to warn

D) sent the Titanic messages about the iceberg
27. Since the Titanic's operator was exhausted, he … .

A) shut up and switched off the wireless

B) was busy sending unimportant messages

C) ignored the warnings

D) didn't want to work long hours
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Lack of tolerance is an important

problem of our age. People have been so in-tolerant of each other that even trivial matters may spark serious arguments. Living conditions can be said to compel people to spend most of their time concentrating on their business or their personal affairs. This may deprive people of exchanging their ideas with others or trying to understand different people. However, it doesn't seem impossible to form a tolerant society. The thing we should do first is to take up social activities to require that we share more with other people.