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英文中學會考 普通讀本乙(二)試題
The Lost World
ANG - PAPER BIL
1.
Give the name of the person or thing described as :
Time allowed
14 hours
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"the crabbed old, round backed red-headed news editor". (a).
Answer questions on only TWO of the books in Section I.
Answer ALL the questions in Sections II and III.
Answer in the spaces provided in a single word or short phrase, wherever possible.
Section I Prose
The Adventures of Odysseus
1... Give the name of the person or thing described as :
(a) "enfolder of the earth, blue-haired God of the sea".
(b) "the wizard who knows all the secrets of the sea and
guards the pillars that keep heaven and earth apart".
(b)
"a violent, dangerous, cantankerous character, hated by everyone who comes across him".
(b)
(c) "the veteran Professor of Comparative Anatomy,
among the audience, a tall thin, bitter man
an acid smile".
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(2) In the Kon
(A) a Fren
(D), an old
3) Mr. Poulte
roge
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(A) Wolfe,
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(C) or (D)
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(a)
*tne strongly-curved nose, the hollow, worn cheeks, the dark, ruddy hair, thin at the top, the crisp, virile moustaches, the small, aggressive tuft upon his
(cont.
(b)
projecting chin.
(4) On the Mc
A) unmar
His skin was of a rich flower-pot red
(c) "that wise daughter of Zeus, the goddess with the clear
grey eyes".
from sun and wind".
(d)
women, AD
(c)
(e)
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(d)
"the fair-haired king" of Sparta.
(a)
"an irregular, palm-studded plain, and then the line of high red cliffs". Fill in the blanks :
(5) The Croco
(e)
(e) "and she looked like Artemis the muntress on the hillside:
among the mountain nymphs, taller by the head and fairer
A) Irupes
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to the
and statelier than then all".
was
(a)
2.
Name the speaker of the following passages : (a) "Now tell me this, Goddess, and tell me truly:
escape Charybdis and yet conquer Scylla too?"
le
could I
self.
(4)
5000
Cont.
(b) "Father Zeus! And all you gods of Heaven! Punish the
comrades of Odysseus as they deserve! They have killed! my cons, the cows that were my joy whenever I went up into the starry sky or turned to the earth again."
(b).
A
(c) "Old man, his wife and son will believe no traveller's tale., They have heard too many such, Every wandering beggar, who comes to Ithaca goes to my mistress with some
empty story".
(a)
flying reptile
(b) the dreadful lurking spirit
(0) field-glasses
Manaos
(c).
(a)
Maple White's companion
When the delegates returned to London, they made their first
Zoological Institute. The account of their journey to
given by
An enemy of his said that he was not convinced b
but would be convinced if he could see the creature.
The creature was brought out in a box. It flew about the room, and
Choose an item from A to go with each name in 3.
To what or who:
(1) That) thr
(Campbell
(2) ButtoIg
(TaleForA
(3) If you t
| Pride ant
C) Rebecca
was aware;
5) "They are
in_tombs",
Enmore Park
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"Telemachus, it is not wise for you to be so long away
from nome. You have left behind you dangerous men who may rob you of all you have. But you must be on your guard
for the wooers are lying in wait for as you go home:
you".
(e)
a newspaper
Assai palm
(f)
a town on the Amazon
(g)
(h)
the route of the procession Challenger's home
Zeiss glasses
(a)
(i) a river in South America
Curupuri
(j) Challenger's landmark.
(e)
"Quick, bring the stranger here at once, and let him
speak with me face to face! And if I see that he tells
se the truth I will give him a doublet and a cloak for himself".
(e)
In the following choose the statement that is not true. untrue statement (e.g. (f) A),
(a) The Amazon is a river :
Fill in the blanks
The princes who wanted to marry Penelope were referred to as the
They would not leave Odysseus's
A. in South America
previously explored by Lord Roxton
C.
flowing through Brazil
they said, until Penelope would
บ.
just a little larger than the Thane 3
agree to
one of them,
Telemachus was too young and
(b) The pterodactylis :
Grive them out, When Odysseus came home, he
all of these princes.
A.
B.'
a huge bird
C.
the creature of which Challenger had a photo
the creature brought home by the explorers
Write the letter
that
what or whor
The place
Adventure
(2) "But you'
[round". [1
3) "Keep her
Mill on
It was gl
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cont.
(5) One mo
The Cr
Choose a word from A to go with each name in
D.. a flying reptile
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4. cont.
(c) Pedro Lopez was. I'
Provide the
(a)
Because
admiral
bright-haired
(b)
#ise
(c)
swift-footed
(a)
C Lever
(e).
Loyal-
(f) timid さ
(g) childlike
(h) sorrowful. (1)
ugly.
placid
Cyclops
Laertes
Circel
Achillea
trunaeus
5. To what or whom do the words underlined in the following refert
A. the brother of Gomes
B. a slave-siräver in Peru
6. a man killed by Lord Roxton
D. a half-breed who accompanied the explorers.)
(d) The wards, "We will kill you if we can*.
A.
were spoken by Gomez
B.
may not have been spoken by anyena
c.
were the "talk" of drúms
(a) Alas, poor son, how sorely you need the mighty hand of
your rather to right your wrongs".
D. frightened ur. Malone,
(a)
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(b) "He was my faithful friend, and we were always of one /
mind and gave the same counsel to the Greeks. But I sailed away Irom Troy, and I have never seen him since"..
。) "They dwell alone in oaves among the mountains, and sach one lays down the law himself for has ware and children, and cares for no one else",
*
(0)
"So Penelope went back to her chamber, and the maidens foliowed carrying, the girts; while the prances #eng and danced and made merry until evening came' - "He took it in his left hand ... and it rang beneath his touon, clear as a swallow's note. And as he did so, Zeus sent a peal of thunder, and the hero's heart leapt at the sound. rear came on all the suitors".
(d)
B.
A. smoked a pipe always
objected, in the beginning, to everything Challenger did and said
t.
later apologiseu to enalienger publicly
D.
was a coward/
5. Name the speaker of the following passages
(a)
If he had got anong
There was nothing else to be done. as we should have shot each other in tryin' to down him". (b) "Our young friend makes up for many obvious mental lacunae
by some measure of primitive common sense."
(a) Let me remind you that we came here upon a perfectly
deninite mission, entrusted to us at the meeting of the D. Zoological Institute of London. That mission was to test
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(c) Hamid
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