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英文中學會考普通讀本。壹試題
(d) Ajax
went out of his mind.
GE READING B. 1.
B
C
Time allowed one hour and fifteen minuten,
Examiner's No.........
Index No....
Marks
(1)
Answer all the questions.
(1)
A
(iv)
Write your answers in the spaces provided.
Answer all other questions in a single word or snart phrase.
SECTION 1 - PROSE.
The Trumpet-Maj.
Answer those questions which provide answers marked A. B. COD by writing one letter.
10.
(e) Apolla.
ZAVA
wrestled with Odysseus.
killed the two sons of Atreu.
shared the armour of Surpedon with Diomedes,
helped to build the walls of Troy.
was chased by Achilles.
helped Diomedes in a chariot race, had a priest named Chryada.
Say who or what is referred to in the wordi underlined: -
{e}..........
(a)
he was far indeed from the refreshment, (a).. of bathe and changed clothing.
(b)
He was frightened at the sight of his father in his glittering armour.
[b].
(c)
1 have no one tell in all Troy to be kind to me OT 10 care for me."
1.
(a)
Give the name of the person described thes
She was fashionably dressed
and wore 1
(a).
(d) He ordered it to be burned, hoping that after- wards his daughter would forget to mourn,
(d)
{e!
He bore down upon Achillea himself, falling with such weight upon his shield that Achilles could no longer stand upright.
No Highway
(e).
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velvet Spanish hat and leather.
(b) His mouth opened and shut like a frog's in a drought.
(c) The Fantine man with the bine jacket and lace."{ck.
lap His regular white teeth showed themselves like
snow in a Dutch cabbage.
(e)
... advancing along the street with a
firm countenance. bert null and rigid atarina aves. [«)....、、、、、、.
El in the blanks with the appropriate word:.
"I have nothing to make up." 9216. distress. She Bull fully oe.eved the
away...
with Bor..
to have SMUAS
....... because of his own interest in that lady, which must have made his professions to
............... a mere paatime;but that very conduct had in it the curious advantage to herself pt seinng............... fret.
name the svesker of the following.
(a) "That's the way for man's bride to come in him!"
(b)
"A Beneme for a kiset"
(a).
(b)...
(ch.....
(4) "1 took to it naturally when I was a little boy," (4).
"Heads I got tails I don't."
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(c) "It turned out to be to be the bough of a cherry-tree a-waving in the wind."
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21,
Name the persons described thus:-
(a) A very pleasant-josing young woman fa pyjamas and a kimono,
(a) A small sandy-ha and man of about fifty. rather fat.
(d).....
(b)
(c) A big dark man w.
and the face of an ance
They were discriminang pitare-goera.
bushy black eyebrows monk.
(br..
(d).......
(e) "A girl with fair, rt of auburn halz."
(e)....
12.
El in the blanks wi
he appropriate word: -"
Then came the pro with smashed seats ar
and ...
wing and the engines, and the
that be was right about
rnt upholstery, and the behind it, practically undamaged, 1 reflected that
had been quite right about that;
as well?
stové
car it to prova
15.
Match the items in Comn A with the FIVE iteme in Column B with which they are connected in me book. Write (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) in the space provided,
A
(6)
1. 440
L altitude
Reindeer
(b) high Mach numbers
pyramidology
$lectura
Country Dancing
Name the speaker of the followingt-
Marjorie Corder
Tiilure
Elspeth Holley **
Rauntlet
Myra Tuppen Mary Honey,
(a) "He was in Bomber Command, and got shot down.over Dortmund,
(alm.
(b) "Don't go and gatjea:en by a modnu in Labrador."
(b).........
(c) "live". Just got to Sally, now's sex me way. 1'11 (c).......... tell you on the lot. ...
(e) you won't ringi C.A.T.O....... I will,"
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香港英文中學會考試題解答
英文
Boglish School Cert. Examination
General English (1)
1. My friend Joan has always appeared to our
form-mistress to be a very promising student.'
She applies herself diligent to her school
work to a view of entering the University in due course. She has an insatiable thirst for knowledge and is appreciative of her "teacher's advice. She has, however, one weakness: she delights in learning her notes by heart and takes it for granted that that is: sufficient.
1
2. Albert: Hello! Have you seen John Chan lately?. Dick: No, Albert. I remember having met him in the City Hall Library a few months. ago. When I greeted him, he was looking for a rare book. He told me he had planned for two years to write and proâace a play and then he showed me his typescript with a certain air of pride.
'Albert: How interesting! I wish I had time
.to write a play myself, When will his play be produced?
Dick: Next September, I think. Oh, that reminds me: I forgot to book two tickets for the Shakespeare play.
Albert: You absent-minded" fellow! If you
had told me an hour ago, I would have booked the tickets through a friend. Dick: Never mind. Let me do the booking
this afternoon.' Cheeriol
Which of the hour questions la anawered by the quotation which follows them? ♪
Write A, B, C ar D.
(a) A.. "When d'ye think Bob will be here?"
(2) PUTER
B.
"When will you marry me, my dear?'
"When will Boney try it?"
D.
"When will you be leaving with Captain Hardy?"
"I can't answer to a day, put it will certainly be in a down-channel Elde, "
(a)....
"Can you see what is written on the paper. Bob?"
(b) A.
B.
"What is the King's flag like?"
C.
"What is that picture of?"
D.
"What her figure-head?"
"A coat of arms, supported on this side by a sailor." fbj..
(c) A,
"How is it that you're not on board a man-of-war?"
B
"Why weren't you married earlier?"
C.
"How is it you're not married yet?"
D.
"Why were you not prepared to take the letter yoursmif?"
"I should have been, but 'tis womankind has hampered me." (c).........
(d) Ambo you' mow who that is, Bob?
B.
Who is he going to marry?"
C.
"And what is she like, M.Coznípk2”...... other naZIA?"
L
That I don't know. The woman is a stranger." [e),A. "Have ye seen Matilda anywhere?"
Haven't you been to Budmouth to see the King?"
B.
C.
"Have ye seen the Franch?"
D.
"Did và lạnh in Phu coin binnh
"If i had I shouldn't ha1 sead than, IE
(-)
Say who or what are referred to in the underlined words.
(a)
"But we can see him... The light of that corner (a).
candle falle right upon his cheek."-
(b) "Faith, was the first thing that came to hand. .(b),'.
(c)
seemed a tablecloth to me."
apoplexy; „71 I ought to unție his neck,"
(d) "But you won't expect me to join in, i can
sheer off that day very easily, you know.
l
(d) "In fact, it must he just about dead by now.";
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15.
Say who or what are referred to in the underlined wordste.
--
(a) "They cut them asts off with a hacksaw,"
(a)..
(b)
"... about thirty pounds of it in the larger." (c) it was now: zoning
(b).
(d)
I should give her the sack!! i wäre you. She, doesn't seem to be yazy, reliably.
thlon
(*) "Nobody can possibly tell anything from
that it's only about xixteenth of an inch long."
SECTION II - DRAMA.
The Enchanted Island
la
OXOKO
fat......
"A black object was discernible on the ground (@)....................................... before the presa pang."
„Greeks and Trojans,""
Name the speaker of each of the following:="
(a) The sacrifice most he dothing less than the.
aldest and favourite, daughter of Agamemnon,
(b) You cannot put me off by your talk of the
renseless doings of birda, Ng
(c)."I might have been wounded like this by a woman or a careless boy,MEANIN (d)"The fret thing to do is for us at tO RAVE S meal, so that we may be fit for the day of battle,"
(*) "The gods are taking care of me, but now your fata is separate from mine."
Fill in the blanks with the appropriate word:-
Meanwhile Hector and Odysseus were messering out the ground' contest would take place. Then they put two..
KAMATAZAMA and one for
was to decide which of the two should have the first throw
Give the name of the person described thuss-
(a) She was the cause of the whole Trojan war. (b) ghe most dangerous driver Menelaua had /
(d)lly looken as rougs as nɛa never made a
(d) He was old enough to have boon the grader.
Tether of either Agamemnon or Achillead
(*). He knew every trick fo wrestling.
ONE statement about each person ip UNTRUE, Threo are crus.
ake latter of the UNTRUE statement. Y
killed by the Trojane becuase they did poł sva bio wa
pear at the wooden hersN;
was thought to have insulted Athene, KONDIDIT
atmusli should toad the Mysmitoną,
young man,
other men,
..tell your piteque heart
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(a). (b)..
(d)....
i6. – titve the name of the speaker of the following passageic-
There's no harm done.
de not disturb'd with my tntiamzangoj
(c) I have broke your heat to say so. (The dukedom i resign,
Go with me,
To bless this twain, that they may
Fill in the blanks with the appropriate word:=
- nenenkypus be. **
...which had no
The ministers of
Prospero and Miranda but gutem into
Cheslefil
and which was so dangerous that even the ...............ERLER
• Ch3, 210 92 what are described thus:el
Achats something stain' With wrief that's beauty's canker ..........
)·• Poor worm? thou are infectad
my potent master «»d
9.5-sitting his arms in this sad knot,
Though they threaten. they are merciful,
Question 19 and 20 refer to all FOUR books,
19. Match the questions in Column A with FIVE of the answeri in Colúmn B.”
Write (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) in the space provided.
Ab
Who fell downEGISTRY
WHO WOTE & magie cloak7
Who turned into a'swan?
tay who died in Spald❤
(o) Who was becalmed at sea?
John Loveday Agamemnon
Anne Loveday
Mariel
Bill Ward
Prospero
Alonso Ma
Elspeth Honey: Poseidon
Match the statements in Column A with FIVE or the reasons given In). Colpo M. Write (®), (b), (c), (d) or (e) in the space provided,
(4) Frosparo could perform
because he was uncertain: own patriotism because of i
(b) Bob Loveday did not volunteer because as was prosveting
of his
Colour (verb): I don't know why the artist should
colour the house pink.
Head(verb);When we learned that John had gone
home, we headed for his house right,
away.
Perfect(verb) Some scientists have been trying
~~ to perfect a way of reaching the
moon.
Hand(verb) The Chairman was asked to hand in his
resignation.
Back(adjective); The police carried out a light
ning raid on the back room of the restaurant.
Mean(adjective); the killer had a mean "streak
in him.
Minute(adjective): Cholera 18 caused by manute
organisms found in refuse.
Refuse(noun):The term'refuse' as used above
would imply any dirty receptacle that has hot been properly dia- infected.
Bent(noun); The driver patred unto nis neighbour
car, causing a big bent in the bumper, Invalid(noun): My uncle, an invalid in a rental
asylum for thirteen years, will be discharged soon."
4.(Original Passage for Precis Writing)
I knew a man who used to say that, if a person began a sentence with the words, est tell you
deliberate
fact"
', you could be sure he was about to
lie, be: a monumental untruth,--not a d it noted, but something which he had only shaky evi
dence for believing, but which, in the heat of the argument, he made himself believe absolutely so that he could overwhelm you with his information, and win the argument, without feeling remorsefully that he did not know what he was talking about, Such a man, not wanting to say what he did not know to be true, would first of all deceive himself,
Similarly, a remark preceded with the words,
a child he is probably repeating what his father or teacher has said; if he is an adult he is “ probably repeating what he has read in a newspaper: in neither case has he critically examined the on he 18 expressing, which is what is most impor It is suggested to many English children, for ins- tance, that the. Mona Lisa le a beautiful painting- and that Leonardo da Vinci is one of the world's greatest painters, and this the before they have seen a ain -except for havir
production of th
the size of the
Thap
if one of
tour, the
museum in Paris, he me
believe long
of his pictures,- oket size
at reduse her head
ostage stamp. Then, actually Bees, on
Banging t
thing at all
tiredness, but rather than admit he ig lacking in taste, he will appear even to himself. to be overawed by the picture's beauties.
Answer
Jome people like to persuade others to believe
ng they have little reason to belle
Anni
bacausa oLTE
Honey returned from his
boneymoon'
because of death
Because they were good;
friends in
res, When
You ar
begin by saying
-sure they are going to Atruth wha oeve
the reward of AchtLLƏST
galagadi,
Priam gave gifts to Achilles ! because of socrat
(él. John "zaided his hands
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