Reading passages

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


42 -It is stated in the passage that ---- .
A) the Hindenburg was one of the first great airships
B) there were sixty -two people on board at the time of the disaster
C) ocean liners filled with hydrogen often ended up with explosions
D) after the Hindenburg disaster, there were no more airships of the same type
E) the great airships had a passenger capacity of from twenty -five to fifty passengers

Mountaineering as a sport has developed since about 1857, when the Alpine Club was founded in London. Earlier, climbers did not climb for pleasure but for some scientific or monetary motive, Dr Paccard of Chamonix was the first to scale Mont Blanc, in 1786, to show that man could live above the snow -line, but it was the lectures of Albert Smith, who climbed the peak in 1851, that kindled British interest. In 1854, Wills climbed the Wetterhorn and eleven years later, Whymper made his famous ascent of the Matterhorn. By 1880, all the major peaks of the Alps had been scaled, and so climbers went further afield to the Andes and the Himalayas.

43 -The passage states that before the 1850s, ---- .
A) one had to pay in order to climb mountains
B) mountain climbing cost a lot of money
C) the Alpine Club opened in London
D) people only climbed for research purposes
E) climbing was not regarded as a hobby


44 -British People in general first paid attention to mountaineering when --- .
A) Mont Blanc was climbed for the first time
B) the Alpine club was initially founded in London
C) they realised that man could live above the snow -line
D) a man made a series of, speeches on the subject
E) Dr Paccard climbed Mont Blanc in 1786