WAH KIU YAT POO 郭日僑
occupied by luxurious vegetation,
full of plankton which is marketable and is expensivë..
頁二第張三第 日六十月三年西辛膳夏
1981
中學會考試題預習專欄
in Bne 20, the word "cavernous" means
A hungry.
·B. empty.
C. numerous
英
文
(#t)
立基出版社劉浩瀌提供資料
ENGLISH [27].
Stephen Lau (Foundation Press}
Dear Students,
exam-
Last week we started our "mock".. ination with the appearance of Specimen Paper 1. At that time I was so busy that I forgot to write any introductory remarks before I started the paper. Here I'd like to apologise for that, Another
needs. my
White Here thing
my apology
some
is the regrettable fact that my book, Toward Better Certificate English, will have to appear later than previously expected, owing unforeseen complications during its publication process and my exacting, somewhat finicky -proof-reading. But I can assure you that it is
now under active production.
Seeing that the Specimen Papers in coning book will not reach your hands sta time very much earlier than the HKCEE comes, I have deliberately borrowed them and put them in this column for your benefit.
D. huge.
The long distance of water through which
Humpbacks migrate consists of.
A many feeding grounds.
abundant food.
B
.C.
little food.
D
numerous breeding grounds.
The first report on the migration of Blue Whales was made....
A.
before the nineteenth century.
B
in the twentieth century
C
in the nineteenth century:
in 1954:
5. Regular r marking of whales began
necessity of finally agreeing on a foolproof method of international nuclear control. We must conclude that if we live and if we work to live, then we still have a chance to survive and to keep from passing the point of no return. But time is fast running out. It is up to the men of today, in this present generation, within the very next few years, to permanently decide: will we, the human race, live or die?
11. The number of hydrogen bombs we now have can be described as, for all practical purposes,.....
A
inadequate.
B adequate:
more than enough,
D just enough,
12. The writer thinks that no nuclear, wars have been broken out in previous international crises because
A
D
we were on the verge of death,
many dedicated men worked for such nucicar incidents.
we were merely a little lucky.
we were serious about the probability
that they would not happen.
13, In the 20th century, every person is ex
pected to on medical grounds,
A in about 1920,
B
before 1920.
C
in the last century..
D
in the 1930s.
A
die more
when tubular metal
B
dic later
C:
die less
6: The giant whales
cylinders for marking are fired at them.
die carlier
14. The writer thinks that....can remove the
menace of a nuclear incident.
·期星
C
saw
stared
25. It is the .... in Hong Kong for the father of the bridegroom to pay for the wedding.
日十二月四年一八九一曆公年十七國民華中 育教僑華
whole picture of the coming Certificate
Examination.
A
In view of
B
For the good of
C
Intending to
D
With the view of
42. The chairman ends his speech by saying:
"I would like to thank you all for attending this meeting."
A
habit
B
normality
C
custom
D
common
26. It is almost
".... thinking to say that the oil prices will drop.
At last
A
Lastly
A hopeful
C
B
wishful
D
faithful thoughtful
27. When Robert was hospitalized, he received
a number of cards, one of which read “We now send you our best wishes for a speedy
survival.
B relief,
C
-Di
recovery. repose.
28. When Mabel was still a little girl, she was taught not to interrupt when someone else.
was
A
saying. talking.
D
remarking.
discussing.
29. Nowadays we seldom see a bus conductor
walking around the bus asking the passen
gers to pay the
Eventually DEventfully
43. They all regard him as a good doctor...
he is very patient with oven the less co operative patients.
A is because
·D
C.
such that
is that
D in that
44. Little did I know about the new arrange-
ment,?
A has it
К
C
didn't I
did I Dhasn'til
45. He is that kind of person who takes in
every gossip; he really cares
people
A for
B of
Think,
C with
what
N Als muy picasdio,
C
D
I wouldn't dream of doing that. No, I will
58. This essay topic is the most popular choice
but a death-trap vocabularywise for the average candidate
This means that
A
**
this essay topic traps those candidates. with a good vocabulary.
the average candidate will be in a dan- gerous position if he or she attempts this topic without the appropriate
vocabulary is
?
this essay topic very popular among
average candidates but not these who are above average.
this essay topic attracts the average candidate and he or she shows a wise choice of words.
59. Although he was treated with the newest
drug, his present situation is no better than last month's
From this we kriow that...
A his present situation is better than his
situation last month.g
B
his situation has been deteriorating.
C
D
his situation has remained more or less the same.
his present situation is worse than last month's,
60. For good results in examinations, constant revision of i material is the method of.
choirs-aught matejau 15, 1
ans that if one wants to have good
This means
results in examinations, one should...
A
feels almost nothing
B
my
are painfully hurt
·become sick.
D
dte
A
increased life expectancy
A fee.
D about
A
7
In summer, one can find a Blue Whale
B
A in the north-west coast of Africa.
walking away from the edge of a cliff decreased death rate
B
bla
A
C
journey:
46. To convince her,
I need is patience
B
B
in the sea off the Gulf of en.
international agreement
Dfare,
and considerateness.
C
in the sea off the Galapagos Islands,
D
in the Antarctic Ocean.
15. In line 14, the word verge meas
A edge
30. Rupert: I was really lazy. I didn't deserve
to pass. I was just
B all that'
C
only what
A risky.
B
-occasional
umusical.
D lucky.
I have to make it crystal clear that the notion of these Specimen Papers being "tips". of whatever nature is entirely erroneous, depending more on misconstrued expectations than on any impartial appreciation of the pur- pose of these Papers. They are designed for revision purposes, and not for providing any so-called short cuta
If my timing is correct, it's time I wished you all a very happy Easter
SPECIMEN PAPER II
One hour and fifteen minutos
Answer ALL questions.
PART 1 COMPREHENSION
PASSAGE A
Read this passage and then answer questions 1-10.
Although the tropics conjure up an Image of luxurious vegetation and colourful coral reefs, the blue waters of the tropical seas are generally deficient in nutrients and as a result underpopulated. A dearth of plankton results in poor fisheries and comparatively few of the giant whalebone whales that feed on krill are found. Exceptions are the sea off the Caribbean Sea, the Galapagos Islands, and the Gulf of Aden, where the waters teem with plankton, an abundance of fishes, school of porpoises and dolphins, together with Sei Whales, Bryde's Whales and Sperm Whales, as well as migratory Blue Whales, Fin Whales and Humpbacks. These have to travel through thousands of kilometres of barren water from the polar seas, before reaching their tropical feeding grounds. While actually migrating, they find little food and, for at least four months of the year, their cavernous stomachs are almost empty. Yet, during this time, they may travel more than 6400 kilometres, some of them. nant or suckling their young.
while preg The oldest report on the migration of Blue Whales dates back to the last century, when whales caught at Norwegian whaling stations were found to carry within their bodies the fragments of American bomb-lances. This indicates that Blue Whales migrating north along the American coast must cross the North Atlantic. In 1954, the stomach of a whale killed off New Zealand was found to contain a tin "of tooth powder, inside which was a piece of paper on which was written the name and address of a member of the crew of the Willer Barends. It was found later that the tin had been thrown overboard, south of Madagascar, during the previous whaling season.
The systematic marking of whales was not begun until about 1920, but it was only at least 10
years later that whales began to be marked regularly by means of tubular metal cylinders fired at close range (not more than 20 metres) from
a specially modified Harpoon gun. The giant whales show no signs of reacting to these attentions, which are probably no more than pin-pricks to them. From the
of such recovery of marks, when whales have been subsequently caught, it is now known that Blue Whales Fin Whales migrate each winter to tropical regions-rich in food, such as the north-west coast of Africa, the Gulf of Aden and Bay of Bengal, returning year after year in summer to the same areas of the Antarctic Ocean.
Tropical seas are very often
A
crowded with whales.
B
deficient in sea lives
and
8. There.. in the migrating whales.
are some mothers sind mothers-to-be
A
are
only male whales:
B
are no mothers
C
D
are whales
9.
The writer tells us that....
who eat their young.
A all tropical seas are deficient in plank
zon.
all tropical seas are deficient in-plants:
some tropical seas consist of abundant fish.
some tropical seas are colder than others.
10. The migration of Fin Whales, to tropical
· regions is a/an
A
diurnal event
B
anntial event."
C
biennial everat
De quarterly event,
PASSAGE B
Read this passage and then answer questions 11-20.
Bombs have increased in power from the 20-ton chemical bombs of the carly 1940s to the 20-thousand-ton atomic bombs of 1945 and on to the 20-million-ton hydrogen, bombs after 1953. Today there are enough hydrogen bombs of the greatest destructive power (100 million sons) to wipe, out all life on our planer. Will we make even larger bombs in the future? We can if we want to, but even for the most over. whelming military purposes we do not need to.
We have already reached some sort of limit. How much more dangerous can the situation get? At the present time, we are very near the verge of death. Every year or two, in some major international crises-Korea, Suez, Berlin, Cuba; Vietnani-there is a serious probability of an accident that could lead to a nuclear war. Dedicated men have worked hard and long in each of these situations to avoid a nuclear inci- dent, but we may not continue to bes
lucky. Next time, it may be a nuclear, terrorist or a maniac or a mistaken junior officer or just. faulty equipment. It is foolish of us to boast of the decrease in our death rate and the increase in the individual human life expectancy in the 20th cent
as long as this nuclear danger is
This is the so uncontrolled. This.
first time in the history of the human race that babies-all babies everywhere have had such a smalt chance of living to an old
bear the indeed very near We age. are limit in this danger. This situation cannot con.. tinue. We cannot live very long walking on loose at the edge of a cliff. Either in 10, 20, or 30 years, we fall over the nuclear cliff; or else very soon before that time runs out, we arrive at an international understanding and move back from the.
danger. Some people talk of yet:
of yet another possibility. we might have nuclear wat with a few people. surviving by going underground into shelters and mines. But this, even if i could work, would only temporarily postpone the horrible problem. Do the survivors come out of the shel- ters and mines at last to bury, to clean up and to rebuild only to have their survivors go under ground again after a revival of nuclear powers in another 20 years or sot, And then again 20 years after that?
This is obviously not an alternative at all.
It is nothing more than a refusal to face the
B heart.
danger. probability,
16. In line 22, the word "maniac" mean
A
mad man:
B
very masculine man.
Ca person who sets a dynamite,
a terrorist.
17. In line 23, "boost of" means.
A
B
"work hard for
increase the chances of".
Cpraise
D increase rapidly".
18. In line 49, the writer refers to an "alterna-
tive" What is this alternative?
A
B
Building nuclear powers underground. Some people survive a nuclear war in underground shelters.
تنة
31: Joe: He needn't do that, need he?
Richard: Yes, P'm afraid.
A all what
D only that
Muriel: Have you read this week's Time? Cellar I'm afraid
A Thadn't
Bhoj
C... haven't
D not.
48. Dolly: Are you not a secretary?
Rachel
D No.
constantly revise one's lessons.
constantly revise one's method of
choosing the subject to be studied.
choose a good method of study. D teach others who do not know their
lessons.
61. There is no room for doubt that the new
hotel is the best in the world,
This means that ...
A the new hotel is full, doubtlessly.
Bit is with doubt that the new hotel is
the best.
D
the new hotel consists of more rooms than others
the new fotel, is really the best in the world.
62. Lawrence brought all his family to thy.
party, let alone his lovely daughter. This means that....
Lawrence brought all his family except
his lovely daughter to the party.
B Lawrence left his lovely daughter be
C
A
he needs
B
he need.
C
he must.
he needn't
A
Yes, I'm not,
B. No, I'm.
32. It's not her fault, I am the one that:
C Yes, I am
Aam to blame.
B
am to be blamed
C
is to blame."
49
D
to be blamed
Maybe you think it's easy. But you can have no idea....just to make ends meet,
A
A how hard we have tried
33.1 didn't have time to ask her what she
B
that we have tried hard
thought of the book, but she seemed
C we have tried so hard
it very much.
D
so hard we have tried
D.
Rebuilding nuclear weapons. 40 lator
Rebuilding nuclear weapons 20 years lator.
A to have enjoyed
B
to enjoying
50. Colin Happy New Year.
years
C
enjoyed
Sue
A. 11 need it,
B. You're welcome.
C
Thanks, the same to you,
A
D It's my pleasure.
B
51: Gilbert:
bert. Give my best regards to your wife. Harvey
C
A Thank you, I certainly will
Hawaii
B How about you?
C· · It's my pleasure.
19. A suitable title for this passage can be
Nuclear war an avoidable holocaust, Bombs.
A
B
How to survive in a nuclear war, We need more hydrogen bombs.
20. Has the writer answered the question in the first paragraph: Will we make even larger bombs in the future?
A. Yes, in the second paragraph,
Yes, in the third paragraph.
C. Yes, in the fourth paragraph. "D No.
PART II USAGE
In each of the following questions, decide which one of the four choices given would most stitably complete the sentence if inserted at the place marked...
21. Winson: I think. F'd better quit.
Tommy: You've made a very
decision.
I think any reasonable person would do the same thing.
A sensitive Bonsible
sensational serised
22, Alan Aren't you sorry for all this mess?
Angela: I'm sorry to hear that, Surely I'm
not. for your own mistake.
to blame
B faulty
wrong wrong-doing
to what was expected, he decided
stay home and look after his younger brothers;
"A Contradictory
-B Unlike
C
Opposed Contrary
24. 'I don't know what's the trouble with Nancy. She at me for the whole mom- ing without saying anything..
A glimpsed
watched
D having enjoyed
34. I will telephone you if you
A
would be like:
B will like
C like.
D liked.
35. Did I hear you say that you
during the summer holidays? A will not go
Bwould not be going
zią not to go
are not going
36. My sister can't type faster than 60 words
per minute. I can't type faster than that
A neither,
B elther,
C ever: D. not.
37. You cannot stop reading if you are to kcèp
A
the time,
the times:
C with time.
D with the times.
38. I have liked reading since the time when
1.... a child.
A had been
B have been
C D
was
Tue
39. I had just locked the door", to bed
when I heard people downstairs shouting at one another foudly.
A and went
B
going
Cand gone
went
40. 1 .... my second book, I began last August
and have written twenty-six Days so far.
A have been nearly completing
B.
have nearly completed
Cnearly complete
Dam nearly completed
improving fifth-formers English, 1
have written this book for them to have a
D. That's trouble at all.
no
52. Bob: I'm afraid I've made a mess of your
nice table-cloth.
Larg
A
Thank you.
B Oh, that doesn't matter..
CIt's my pleasure.
D
53. Lawrence:
hind to look after the house.
Lawrence's lovely daughter is not a
member of his family.
D Lawrence brought every member of his family, including his lovely daughter, to the party.
63. It's all one to Titus, the mathematician, whether or not he can be elected chairman, This means
than that:
Titus has received only one vote for his election.
Titus does not care about whether or not he can be elected chairman.
there is unanimous approval for Titus? being elected chairman.
D. all the other candidates of the election. are against Titus no matter what the outcome will be.
64. Argumentative essays seem to bring out the worst in our students, so reluctant ré they to express anything approaching a personal opinion,” a teacher said This teacher thought
cher vald dejectedly,
A his students' argumentative
essays
were done badly because they were reluctant to express their own ideas in their essays.
Bargumentative essays lee bad
You are welcome.
Carroll Not at all.
A Aren't you feeling well?
Having you nothing else to do?:
C
C
What troubled you?
Do you mind if I open the window?
D
54, Ann: Have you been to Hawaii before?
Kevin...
A Yes, I had gone.
B
Exactly
C No. 1 haven't.
D: Yes, I had been.
55, #: Oh, I'm so sorry, I think I trod on
your foot.
Jocelyn:
It didn't hurt,
A It's my pleasure,
B
(t's not necessary.
You're welcome,
D That's quite, all right.
56. Hilary:
ary: What a beautiful dress you'v Futée:
A Not at all.
The pleasure is mine.
B
C.Thank you.
DI really like this kind of dressing:
37. Fred: Don't tell anyone about this. Keep it
only to yourself.
Dora:
A
Yes, I won't.
have a chance of passing
students
only the worst students were recluctant to discuss their opinions.
his students did not approach their. opinions from the right angle and hence wrote unsatisfactory essays.
65. The politicians were skilful in concealing the tragic fact that the days of the peasants peaceful existence were numbered.
ans that.... This means
A
the peasants secretly counted their -peaceful chays:
B the politicians were skilful in keeping the time from the knowledge of the peasants.
the peasants were ignorant of the im- pending destruction of their peaceful
Ufe
the politicians did not tell the peasants that the politicians were responsible for recording and standardizing the time in their country.
END OF PAPER
MERICAN PRESIDENT LINES
·九綠變東鐵路件中心1302號 電話:3.699171.
美國總統輪船公司
(全貨櫃服務·定期航裁來往)
美加西岸及東岸捷運
總代理:
LINE
日本郵船(香港)有限公司
康樂大廈廿三樓 電話:6-248081
福來輪船公司
香港干話道中84586號先施大厦廿五樓
雙話:6–4539119920
澳門代理 遠東洋行 澳門荷蘭周正街30號地下
貨運部 電話:75381
# #
RUPIN
船
ASISTANAX
名
日期
藏
5,995
5月9日
土地中海各
地中海 K
NAEANO MARU
513
萃油垢:遮打,露卡巴
兼收波多黎各貨鐵
FUSHIMI MARU
月11日
·
利民怡美利
往:登谷、星加坡、庇能、加爾各答
吉大港。
()
吉布地,互理•荷地打
五月四日 五月六日
紅海
集運藏貨 散裝識貨 開 行
VERBENA
5月13日:
蘇丹港,啞了
ELIE
515
詹森總統
PRESIDENT JOHNSON
20/4 21/4 22/4
(2300) ........(_1200 3
22/422/4: 24/4.
遮打
KAI MARU
4月19日
BİSTOL MARU
4月28日
直航遮打
RAMONEVERETT A
新菲島怡美利
JOHNEVERETT
往:門司、神戶、横濱、名古屋。
五月十五日五月十七日
論,將於展期,
從紐西抵港,停泊
尚有航訊在
於海强衙起鉛貨向,追
第三張第四頁
杜魯門總統
格蘭烤
PRESIDENT GRANT
5月8日
PRESIDENT TRUMAN
(1200)(2500)
孟加拉灣
HAMPTON MARU
29/4 29/4
1/6
MIRE MARU
5589
有六卷。翔光,即倫 坡、古會。
新菲島怡美利
A 257
四月二十日
藩市*崙。5 | 髖、長堤、奧克蘭、三,停泊於躪段四號掎起 | (+11)BUK¥•E (+1)BRAN 掛上落貨物,並於翌日「實證函,將於星期四
珊瑚( NEPTUNE Co咸頓,列提頓。 日本抵港,泊於現代 LOYD MADR ASI |RABI{(+D) NEWBIECNEDL RAL J袂貨服优雅,... 夜華輪船公司就下 一運有限公司旗下之蔷薇 航事必羣島!渥克、 六本眞於星期四八廿三日 起落實腐,並於翌日(
KWEI CHOWE ZEN
|有限公司代理之貴州由娘、阿巴丹、醋、
***(2) +E)PORE • O.
|海珊瑚經日本赴美 貴州從紐西蘭到 渣華馬德里將往西非
航訊
JOHNEVERETT -
(2800)*( 1,200)
#
IWAZHIRO MARU
5月12日
麥油臣總統
PRESIDENT MADISON
4/5 5/5 6/5
香港怡美利五月 一日 THOMASEVERETT
五月天日的
(2300) (1200)
南菲
西菲
E.R. BRUGGE
„VESTA
5月11日
德琳開普敦、伊利沙 白皓•
5月12日
山西菲各单
往;星洲、椰加速、三寶盤、泗水。
五月十六日,五月十三日
亞拉伯灣、東南亞航線
ED
巴 A VESSEL
6月11日
印巴各地
散貨藏貨開行
S. K. LINE
六月十七日
六月八日
皮亞士總統
PRESIDENT PREICE
傑佛臣總統
PRESIDENT JEFFERSON
·2/5
4/6
TAMURAEVERETT
(2300
16/5 18/5
(2300)
BT3-7210247
本公司葵涌四號碼項辦:
2:12 2690ZI
「收貨始:葵涌四號碼鎖 電話12 296121 套桀部:3.599171 編權及圖客服秘部:尖沙咀海洋中心1301號 電話:3699171 落貨紙及提貴躍部:尖沙咀羽洋中1301 電話:3699171
香港至椰加達全貨櫃服務(FCL ONLY)
直放:椰加達(泗水新收貨櫃貨)
往:椰加達、泗水
BLUE MARS
JERSDY
KOBE FIVE
SOVEREIGN ACCORD.
三十日期行 三十日抵港
KOBE FIVE
JERSDY
SOVEREIGN ACCORD
寶盤。
四月二十日抵港 二十日開行, 四月廿六日抵港 廿六日開行 四 [DOCUMENT SWITCH ONLY)
四月十九日抵港 十九日 四月二十日抵港
四月廿六日抵酒 廿六日 四月三十日抵港三十1
五月廿式日批貨 廿三日游 廿四星期行 收貨站:九龍聯益倉 紅磡蕪湖街
TEL: K-334111 EXT.227
售票處:
每半小時開航一班 上環新城地港澳船碼頭電話:444441,438648 九龍旺角彌敦道斯大厦 電話:K848188
莱利怡美利
MAKEVERETT 印尼怡美利
墨西哥國家船務公司 墨西哥航棧遠東——墨西哥 我:安遜那繫,文華路、阿卡滿嫩科及中裹,科 林多港·想約翰,拜塔阿勒那斯• GINA "LUISA
港澳飛翼船有限公司
卽日預售七天來回票
週末及公眾假期四十元
星期一至五 卅元
(往澳門另加人頭投八元) 港澳對開由上午八時至下午五時卅分
不隨禮柯多新彩無報請遠 另報拜式采穎色任販就道 收附出印多雜華 歡訂近閱 費送版刷姿誌僑迎閱向户
報日僑華閱訂期長請
訂閱電話:5 229081內線3號
全經包專新歷 僑濟羅刋聞史 稱報萬豐翔悠 許導有富實久
Page 10Page 11