Reading passages

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  

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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.