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FIRST CLASS.

HISTORY. Wednesday, 9-12.

1. What do you know of the following: Anselm, Geoffrey of Anjou, Stephen Langton, Simon de Montfort, Maid of Norway, Jack Cade, Perkin Warbeck, Roger Bacon, Sir Thomas More, Cranmer, Sir Francis Drake, and Edmund Spenser.

2. Compare the reigns of Edward II and Richard II.

3. Who fought the following battles and which side won. Northallerton, Fair of Lincoln, Bannockburn,

Nevill's Cross, St. Alban's, Tewkesbury, Flodden and Pinkie.

4. In whose reigns did England make great conquests in France. Give the names of the battles.

5. What events happened in 1100, 1172, 1215, 1327, 1483, 1492, 1587, 1600,

6. Write a short account of the conquest of Wales.

FIRST CLASS.

GRAMMAR.

Tuesday, 2-4.30.

1. Explain how some propositions come to have the function of conjunctions, give examples. Are

there any instances of the converse?

2. Give 6 examples of each of the sub-divisions into which you would separate Adverbs of Time.

3. What is the difference between Restrictive and Co-ordinate clauses. Give illustrations.

4. Under what circumstances does the predicate precede the subject.

5. Analyse-This being admitted can it be denied that the education of the common people is a most

effectual means of securing our persons and our property.

6. Parse the underlined words in the following-

Both the panther and the leopard are widely diffused through the tropical regions of the old

world, so that they have a much more extensive range than either the tiger or lion.

7. Paraphrase:~

!

Old men and beldams, in the streets,

Do prophesy upon it dangerously;

Young Arthur's death is common in their mouths;

And when they talk of him they shake their heads

And whisper one another in the car

And he that speaks doth gripe the hearer's wrist:

And he that hears makes fearful action,

With wrinkled brows, with nods, with rolling eyes.

FIRST CLASS.

GEOGRAPHY.

Thursday, 2-4.30.

1. Give the names of the principal rivers whose basins incline to the Atlantic.

2. Describe accurately the positions of Kiev, Stettin, Antwerp, Rouen, Malaga, Leghorn, Belgrade,

Prague, Bergen, Helsingfors, Aberdeen, Cadiz, Cork and Bristol.

3. Mention the Capes, Islands, and Seas a ship would pass and traverse in sailing from Liverpool to

Archangel.

4. Classify the Countries of Europe according to their religions.

5. Give roughly the extreme limits of Latitude and Longitude which bound the European Continent.

What are the most Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western Capes.

6. Describe carefully the causes of a lunar and of a solar eclipse.

7. What are the causes of the Trade winds?

FIRST CLASS.

MAP DRAWING.

FIRST CLASS.

Translation into Chinese.

The inhabitants of the sea-shore in tropical countries wait every morning with patience for the coming of the sea breeze. It usually sets in about ten o'clock. Then the sultry heat of the oppressive morning is dissipated, and there is a delightful freshness in air, which seems to give new life to all for their daily labours. About sunset there is again another calm. The sea breeze is now over, and in a short time the land breeze sets in. This alteruation of the land and sea breezes--a wind from the sea by day, and from the land by night-is so regular, in the tropical countries, that it is looked for by the people with as much confidence as the rising and setting of the sun.

FIRST CLASS. Translation into English.

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泥者乎若不勤加洗濯將日積月累疾病多由此而 屬小民肩挑貿易操作任勞以致身積垢穢衣染塵 渙向防穢氣之薰蒸曳從容猶恐汗汚之蒩結况 並重此非徒欲壯觀贍實欲以杜疾病耳夫優游津 禮言儒士浴身與浴德同稱詩詠后妃薄衣與薄私

亦間有此等頑梗無知之輩可勝慨哉 何相待之刻薄耶然此不但中國爲然凡各處地方 離不計病者之呼號故嘗見其隕身不顧者有之噫 或以言語激其怒或以戲弄誘其狂徒逞一已之笑 旁觀任其無連而己豈不惜哉甚至有等無賴之徒 規條所載凡有瘋狂之人醫院多不收要亦袖手 凡有疾病皆蒙醫治而於癲狂則以爲莫可救藥故

FIRST CLASS.

DICTATION.

A majestic uniformity is the character of European woods, which often consist of only one species of tree; but in the tropical forests an immense variety of families strive for existence, and even in a small space one tree scarcely ever resembles its neighbour. Even at a distance this difference becomes apparent in the irregular outlines of the forests, as here a dome-shaped crown, there a pointed pyramid, rises above the broad flat masses of green, in ever varying succession. On approaching differences of colour are added to irregularities of form; for while our forests are destitute of the ornament of flowers, many tropical trees have large blossoms, mixing in thick bunches with the leaves, and often entirely overpowering the verdure of the foliage by their gaudy tints.

FIRST CLASS.

COMPOSITION.

Describe the origin, object, and results of International Exhibitions.

Government Central School.

GEO. H. BATESON WRIGHT, M.A.,

Head Master.

Europe,.....

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