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19. It can be understood from the passage that Puerto Rico ...
A) is famous not only for its antiquity, lovely scenery, but also with its dishes.
B) was conquered by Taino people who arrived from Spain.
C) was immigrated by Boriken people brought as slaves from the Caribbean Sea.
D) is an island in the Caribbean which was discovered by African people.
20. What does the word RODENT in the passage refer to?
A) greens B) animals C) seafood D) vegetable
21. According to the passage, ...
A) Puerto Rico exports coffee, sugarcane all over the world.
B) Taino cuisine acquired flesh products from the Spanish.
C) Taino people were herbivorous before the arrival of Africans.
D) Oranges grown in Puerto Rico are consumed by everyone.
22. It can be inferred from the passage that ...
A) Africans taught Puerto Ricans how to grow sugarcane in 1508
B) Taino cuisine is the combination of Puerto Rican, Spanish and African food.
C) The Spanish bred cattle, and sheep in the meadows of Puerto Rico.
D) Taino people moved to Puerto Rico being admirer for its meal.


There were around two and a half hours between the time The Titanic rammed into the iceberg and its final submersion. In this time 705 people were loaded into the twenty lifeboats while over 1,500 people drowned. These figures raise an important issue. Why there were not enough lifeboat to seat every passenger and crew member on board?
The Titanic had sixteen lifeboats and four collapsible boats which could carry just over half the number of people on board her maiden voyage and only a third of the Titanic’s total capacity. Regulations for the number of lifeboats required were based on outdated British Hoard of Trade regulations written in 1894 for ships a quarter of the Titanic's size, and had never been revised. Under these requirements, the Titanic was only obliged to carry enough lifeboats to seat 962 people. At design meeting in 1910, the shipyard's managing director, Alexander Carlisle, had proposed that forty eight lifeboats be installed on the Titanic, but the idea had been quickly rejected as too expensive. Discussion then turned to the ship’s decor, and as Carlisle later described the incident ... ‘we spent two hours discussing carpet for the first class cabins and fifteen minutes discussing lifeboats'.