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(The Lost World
GENERAL READING
PAPER BI
1.
Give the name or the person or thing desoribed "as":
Time allowed - 14 hours)
(a)
"just a homicidal megalomaniac with a turm for science". (8)
1
(a),
All the questions in Sections I and III.
estions on only TWO of the books in Section
b)
the spaces provided in a single word or short phrase Inherever possiblez
an odd." swartny, aried-up person of uncertain age, with a' dark pilot jacket and brown leather gaiters".
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PROSE
(a)
n of her!
(4)
(a)
Lows)
Guan's homel
moving along?
le to see bet
I glanced at
ly come:
Is there
was from the
tures of odyssees]
The name of the person described as:
the most afflicted of all mortal, men">
honoured by her husband and her people as no other] woman in the world is honoured":
sits in his house-sorrowing and wasting away with]
Terier.
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"the bright-haired daughter of the Sunshe is a Goddess with magic.nower..but her voicelis the voice of
(d)
mortal woman"
the minstrel whom the wooers nad forced to sing befora'
(e)
then
Speaker of the following passages
hear me warrior maiden, child of Zeus and deliver
.son from the enemies who lie in wait for him"
farewellstranger) remember me; sometimes even whenly Woutareshome again tiniveur nativa langforitivasithe
rirat
torner plyou
hear me, Poseidon, enfolderyoftheearth.bluechaired, kodjer neises.Igrant the prayer_of_mine"]
It is Odysseus above all whom I long to see once more. afbare stranger II have called him by his name, and that.
(c) "He was no indian, but a white man: indeed, I may say!
a very white man. For ne was riaxen-haired ... he was. clan in rags. was very enaciated, and borelevery_trace (of prolonged hardship”)
(a) Then seating himself, opposite to me The looked at mel long and fixedly with his strange twinkling."reckless!
eyes eyes or a cola light-blue Ithe colour of a-
glacier: Lake".
the rose-tinted waters bolled and heaved with. strange Life ... The sandbanks far out were spotted) with uncouth crawling forms". 2: Fill in the blanks :
Challenger cut_down_a_huge,
(0)
(a)
to make a bridge from the spire-likely
to Maple White Land. The four Englishmen croased on
walked across After they were across they heard
W
had tilted over their bridge, because
whom Lord Roxton had killed.
iti
&
frightful cr
crash..
he wanted to revenge the memory of his
Choose an item from A to go with each name in 3 :
A
(a) Challenger! s home
(b) Lord Roxton's home
(c) the dreadful lurking spirit)
(d) a large steam launchi
(e) `an enormous blood tick
(f)
a town on the Amazon
(g)
a flying reptile
(a,
(h) a newspaperi
should not do; for he is still my dear master, though be11s far away".
doubting heart!] Other men can trust in their friends! holare weak and mortalfand know less thanII. Ilam a
dess and I^guard:you constantly/iplall(your perils!(e)
The Gazette
The Albany
The London Irish
(1) a river in South America
(j) a Rugby team)
The Esmeralda,
Exodes Maloni
Write the letter of that
fer
2"(8)
(b)
(a)
le blanks
hefaca
,{discovered that the stranger was Odysseus when
had given him, long)
the wound that the wild
did not believe it was really Odysseus until he told
tree, and that]
had built their bridal chamber around an
The had shaped) into e
from A to go with each name in B →
B
In the following choose the "statement that "is"not"true. untrue statement (e.g. (f) A).
(a) Jimmy Colver was 1
A. Maple White's companion
B
A man of whom Challenger hadja picture'
C.
A man Challenger was called to help
D.
A very fat man..
(b) Mr Waldron":
A was a popular lecturer)
quarrelled with Challenzerl
B
Was Challenger's friend
C.
D,
14 cont
made fun of a student with a red tie.
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(*),
ite the
UBLY
Taithful
Agnorant
agen
deformed)
horrible
2004-Tor-nothing.
Telemachus
Helen]
Melanthius
Ddysseus
Hermes
der or when do the words underlined"in" the following’passages
But Father Zeus had determined that he should
reach his home at last".
yfriend, how well your words bring back to me)
and the noble men]
that war and all we suffered there. #lostajex and Achilles and my_own_son,the_best'
warriors
So the ship put in to shore," and Telemachus landed;"
(b)
Across the countrystill, he reached the gawinenerd's.hut".(e.
the rest sailed round to the city, while he went alone
Once he used to follow.t One carecaror him now when his nester, was away. and ha! Lay there covered with verwin_on"; a dung-heap in front]
the hunters to the chase. but no
the getes
and
(4)
Penelope took it from the peg and drew off'lts shining. 130b bed over it. Then she went to meet the princes".
she sat down and laid it on her knees, and
To cambos
1. guarded" the possessions of the explorers,
3
was a black mercules
. (finally deserted the explorers)
D. returned to London with them.
(a) When Challenger wanted "to be the first to cross to the Funkow land")
Lord John refused to allow it because. :i
A. he wanted to prepare for possible danger)
b.
ne, trowane ne should gò first misseur:
he thought Challenger might be eaten by connibals)
ne thought they should wait till theyretched their guns.)
The "London pterodactyl" :)
V.
An flew out the window:
Da was said to have perched upon the roof of Queen's Hall
C. caused Private Miles to desert his post"
D.was later captured at sea.
5. Name the speaker or the following passagesTM
(a) "A pretty business it is!..It struck me as preposterous?
an. London, but I'm bound to say that it seems even more iso upon closer acquaintance I don't know what is inside
this envelope"}
(5)
(b) trust the fallacious instincts or undeveloped savages-
irather than the highest.product.of",modern, European culture"
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