The Bermuda Island

INGLES Junio 2000
INSTRUCCIONES GENERALES Y VALORACIÓN TIEMPO: 1 hora y 30 minutos INSTRUCCIONES: 1. Lea todo el texto cuidadosamente 2. Lea atentamente todas las preguntas de la prueba. 3. Procedaa responder en lengua inglesa a las preguntas en el papel de examen. PUNTUACIÓN: La puntuación máxima de la prueba es de 10 puntos. The Bermuda Islands Many visitors have been attracted to thestring-of-pearl island of Bermuda ever since Spanish explorer Juan de Bermudez sailed by these luxuriant volcanic islands in 1511. As the story goes, Juan “came, saw, left his name and fled”. He did not dareto venture close to shore because of the surrounding coral reefsthe world’s top scuba-diving1 destination today-, which were a dreadful sight to 16 th century sailors. One of thee first to set footon Bermuda was accidental British “tourist” Henry May, whose French vessel was snared by the Bermudian coral reefs and ran aground on them in 1593. Nevertheless, the most famous fortuitous visitorswere the shipwrecked passengers of a flagship that was sailing to Virginia in 1609, under the command of British Admiral Sir George Somers with the mission to rescue starving colonists in there. The SeaVenture, as his flagship was called, hit one of the reefs and could not sail any father. Somers claimed the islands for Britain, and a passenger’s account of the shipwreck that was read by Shakespeareis believed to have to have inspired him to write The tempest. Today the main force working to attract visitors to Bermuda is the Ministry of Tourist, whose tireless minister, D.H. Allen, haslaunched a promotion campaign. Mr. Allen’s aim is to mend the previous government’s neglect of the islands’ main industry and to restore Bermuda to its former glory as an elite vacation site for educatedtourists who want more that just sun and sand.
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Scuba-diving: “buceo”. QUESTIONS 1. Are the following sentences TRUE or FALSE? Copy the evidence from the text. No marks are given for only TRUE or...