Reading passages

35-It's implied in the passage that breakfast at the White Cloud Hotel ---- .
A) was served from seven to seven forty -five
B) was delivered by room service to some guests
C) could be selected from a wide -ranging menu
D) was generous and delicious with fast service
E) was served whether guests wanted it or not
36 -We can conclude from the author's statements that her overall impression of the hotel was that ---.
A) it was generally efficient and well -run B) it was extremely luxurious and relaxing
C) the service was slow and inefficient D) it was shabby and totally impersonal
E) the catering at the hotel was superb

By his own account, Quintus Horatius Flaccus was a terrible soldier. He fought for the losing side in civil wars. When the order came to "Attack!", he dropped his shield and ran in the wrong direction. Back in Rome, he got a job as a petty bureaucrat. It was not a very good job, but it left him plenty of time to write. And his writing is what the poet whom we know as Horace is still remembered for to this day. Maybe it is a good thing that he dropped his shield and ran. Who remembers the ones who died, or their cause? This is, perhaps, the proof that the pen really is mightier than the sword!

37 -Quintus Horatius Flaccus is best known as ----.
A) a terrible soldier
B) a coward who ran away from battles
C) the man who reformed the Roman bureaucracy
D) the man who proved that the pen is mightier than the sword
E) the poet who wrote under the name of Horace
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 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.