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日四廿月二年午丙曆室

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英文科

(p-)

鐘英

Answers to the previous exerciser)

普通英文科

B.

resident

dweller

(+-)

許藩芳・

various ----- differen

GENERAL ENGLISH

manifested

showed clearly,

By Mr. Hui Fan Fong

suited -----fitted

eccentric ------ peculiar

Answers to the previous exercises.

1. (a) to contrive to keep away from the ship and the rock

(b) cable - 100 fathome

(c) to happen to

(d) to be able to feel the bottom

fal to have the tendency of

(f) ligatures pieces of thread,

(x) as for mb

(h) downard slope

(A) avess

(1) in token of

2. Precis

On November fifth, the writer's ship was wrecked on a rock. He and five other sellors rowed a life-boat for safety. In half a hole, the boat was upset by a flurry.

The writer belived that all but himself were lost. лe swam ainlessly but was lucky enough to feel the bottom when he was

He walked half a mile to the shore. almost gone.

He could fin no sign of life.

his weariness, the pranay he had taken and the hot weather had a grest offect on him. He fell fast asleep on the grass. He woke at down but could not stir. His whole body was fastened to the ground. He saw nothing but the sky and the sun was offending his eyes. He soon heard a confused voice..

He felt something moving on his body and discovered a human creature about six inches high, with a bow and arrows and forty more of the same kind coming after the firet. He roared. The little creatures escaped but soon returned. One of them ventured to come up to look at his face, and with hands lifted, cried out some incomprehensible words. which were repeated by the others,

Lesson 11

i. Give the proper tense of the verb in bracketsI-

(a) More angry words (pass)

(cross)

to retreat.

(b) Supposing you (be)

money?

D.

d

e

slippery

wet

untouched

clean of

concerning --- about

unconsciously

unawares

anecdotes

soarcity

steered

decency

jaunty

short stories

lack

guided

propriety

gey

b. Noticed her precarious footing

Saw that she walked with great care

relieved her of her burden

to the Cranford sense of decency

helped her

complying with the Cranford people's feeling about

decency

APRIL MA

They made no mystery of the necessity for their being

economical —

they did not hide that they had. to be careful with their money The writer was interested in the Captain's kindness of

heart and the different ways in which he showed it.

No, they were lack of subjects for conversation because

they read little and had plenty of time for conversation, He carried her dinner for her and guided her across the

side.

the street by STONE"

f Her precatious footing told him that she needed help.

They expected

1gan. Capta

matter.

would pay a found of 11s too

thought the Captain was too ashamed to show his repe

They decided to comfort him on his next appearance.

They concluded that the Captain had forgotten all about.

the rhcident.

Exercise

Study the following parse carefully and answer in yourį

own words the questions listed below:

A gentleman. my dear, who ats, to know 15 you. would; seo).

him,' said Miss Jenkyne.

between them, but the judges the spears between them. (compel)

rach, what you do)

with your

Now that my

into the to spend my old age

*IS 17? 10 10

and got no farther.

not

(c) I (leave)

children all (grow) world, I (fecl)

tais neighbourhood soon. up and (go) I like)

in the country where I (bear)

(d) By the time the sun (set) ̈

the book I (write)

(e) "What (heppen) ______

"We both (blow)

this evening I (finish)

for the last six years.

if (touch)

that switchr

to pieces and all the windows in the

7

---- stammered out Miss Jessie

This is his card,' said Miss Jenkyns, giving it to Miss

Jeerie: and while her head was bent over is, Miss Jerkyne

went through a series of tanka and odd faces to me, anu formed her lips into one sentence, of which, of course, 1

could not understand a word.

May he come up?' asked Miss Jenkyns at last.

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*Oh yes! certainly!' said Mise Jessie, as much as to

ṣay, this is your house, you may show any visitor where you

like. She took up some knitting of Miss Matty's and began to be very busy. though I could see how she trembled all

over.

Miss Jenkyns rang the ball. and told the servant who answered it to show Major Gordon up-stairs; and, presently, in walked a tall, fins, frank-looking man of forty, or upwards.

fa shook hands with Miss Jessie; but he could not see her

eyes, she kept them so fixed on the ground. Miss Jenkyns

asked me if I would come and help her to tie up the presar- ves in the store-room; and, though Miss Jessie plucked at ay gown, and even looked up at me with begging eye, I dared not refuse to go where Miss Jenkyne asked. Instead of tying up preserves in the store-room, however, we went to talk in the kining-room and there Miss Jenkyns told me what Major

Gordon had told her:

how he had served in the same

*

regiment with Captain Brown, and had become acquainted with Miss Jessie, then a sweet-looking, blooming girl of eighteent bow the acquaintance had grown into love, on his part, though it had been some years before he had spoken; how when he became possessed of a good estate in Scotland through the will of an uncle, he offered proposal to Miss Jessie but was refused by, though with so much agitation, and evident distress. that he was sure she was not indifferent to him; and how he

had discovered that the obstacle was the fell disease whict

es, even then. too surely threatening her sister. She had лentioned that the surgeons foretold intense suffering; and

there was no one but herself to nurse her poor Mary, or cheer

Ingry,

►

And comfort her father during the time of illness. They had ·*****

had long discussione: and

to pledge beresell on her refusal

co ham es his wife, when all should be over, he had grown

and broken off entirely, and gons xbroad, believing

that she Waa a cold-hearted perron, whom he would do well to forget. He had been travelling in the Fast, and we on his re- turn home when, at Rome, he saw the account of Captain Brown'

death in Galignen3.

a. five for each of the following words another word or phrase

of simlar meaning to that. used in the passage:

stammered. trembles, plucked, regiment, distress

agitation, indifferent, obstacle, intense, pledge

9. Explain the meaning of the following phrases:

nt through-- series of winks and oda face to we,

sure she was not indifferent to him..

broken off entirely,

would de well to forget.

c. Who came to Miss Jesule? ̧

d

Why did Miss Jessie wake herself busy taking up fatty ́s

knitting?

e. Why did Jessie pluck the writer's Co

f. low dia major Gorgon Come LO be acquinted with Big

g. How old was Jessle then?

h. What did Jessie re Puse Major Gordon? by:

1. How and Major Gordon know thut Jessie was not indifferent

to

What we de Gordon so angry that he broke offintirely with

Jessie?

street (break)

2. Explain the words in brackets and use them in the sentences-,

(a) (judicious, judicial)

1) He has been appointed

ii) He was very

(b) (ingenious, ingenuous),

1) He was 80

lil He thought of a

(e) (luxurious. luxuriant)

1) Trees have a

ii) He led a

(d) (momentary, momentous),

1) Such a step was

1) The pain was

(e) (eligible, † illegible)

Secretary.

in the choice of his compansione,

that he would conceal nothing from you.

plan.

growth in the Tropics.

life.

1) I can't make out what he has written because his hand

writing is so

ii) He was

for the membership.

{f} (allusion, illusion)

1) The mirage 18 but an

ii) Do you understand the

(g) (alternate, alternative)'

K(EX)

(八)由水而成菇尔時,債漲大了幾多倍?(約一千七

水過冷或過熱均濶,那,在什麼很股之下,它的密

道

(4) The police had to see

could be taken.

» (1) BKE(ESH) REIÉE - ESKESHKUR

*貼切,基什呢?(恐水症)

Let out

the case before necessary steps)

(d) We should be the alert so that we may not be taken mathsurprise, farting tananın bakaratas

(e) A fine broke out, resulting

do without f

(a) Will you land me your pan? Hine 18

(b) A burglar broke into my house and...

(c) Sho

a heavy loss of lives.

over-eating.

(d) She can't

(*) You have to work hard to

the lost time.

acholar.

in July.

(f) Indigestion orten resulta (g) He is something

(h) A glance

his latter will convince you that he is

'grasping — your money. Every one will grieva

your Lona.i

(1) As soon as he emerged'

of the eyes

in this passage?)

partnership

(3) He embarked

1) There was no

11) We study Algebra on

but to give in.)

days.

Insert prepositions:-

(a) Please see

the work when'I am awy,

(b) We have to see

Bis plan

poverty,

The entered

wealth.

board the steamer, which was to take

men

онов

him to England, where he intended to embark

'trade..

L. Commlete the following sentences with the given phrasal verbs:-

cut dom

set on】

go in for

turned up

make up for"

break-up

"made-off-with;

done for

BY MOWY.

a cry when I atepped on ther "toeinungen

hot-water bottle on a cold night.

(f) Our school usually

(g) After they were returning home they were

robbers.

(h) He has to

KÍ). My brother wifi

smoking since his illness.1

by the

medicins next year.

at the last

(1) I thought he was not coming, but he

minute.,

5. Give the opposites by using prefixest-g

~(a)~antable

-(b)-affable. X

(d) ability__

(g) adaptable

(1) harmony

(m) logical

() absorbent

(h) alterable

(k) idiomatio

(n) - nature

(c) admittance

(f) assailable

(1), hümni

(1) heavenly

liberal