- ID
- 5338084
- Banca
- Aeronáutica
- Órgão
- EEAR
- Ano
- 2021
- Provas
- Disciplina
- Inglês
- Assuntos
Read the text and answer question.
Life on a desert island
Alexander,L.G.
Most of us have formed an unrealistic picture of life on a
desert island. We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of
paradise where the sun always shines. Life there is simple and
good. Ripe fruit falls from the trees and you never have to work.
There is also the other side of the picture: Life on a desert island is
wretched - you either starve to death or live like Robison Crusoe
waiting for a boat which never comes. Perhaps there is an element
of truth in both these pictures, but few of us have had the
opportunity to find out.
Two men who recently spent five days on a coral island
whished they had stayed there no longer. They were taking a badly
damaged boat from the Virgin Islands to Miami to have it repaired.
During the journey, their boat began to sink. They quickly loaded a
small rubber dinghy with food, matches, and cans of beer and
rowed for a few miles across the Caribbean until they arrived at a
tiny coral island. There were hardly any trees on the island and
there was no water to drink, but this didn’t prove to be a problem
since the men collected rain-water in the rubber dinghy. As they
had brought a spear gun with them, they had plenty to eat. They
caught lobster and fish every day, and, as one of them put it, “ate
like kings”. When a passing tanker rescued them five days later,
both men were genuinely sorry that they had to leave.
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The men on the island didn’t go thirsty because they: