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英中會考英國文學試題

ENGLISH LITERATURE

Time allowed. Two hours and thirty minutes

11.00a.m. 1.30.p.m.

Answer: FIVE questions in au. Choose TWO questions from Section A ONE question from Section B and TWO questions from Section C (N.B There is no need to copy out any of the questions.) SECTION A (Answer EITHER Part 1 OR Part (1)

Part I The Merchant of Venice

Answer Question I and ONE other question

Choose THREE of the passages (a) to (d) and answer briefly the questions which follow each passage (Do NOT write out the passaan or questions.)

ANTONIO

I am as like to call thee so again,

To spit on thee again, to spurn thee tou.

if thou wilt lend this money, lend it not

As to thy friends; for when did friendship raki

A breed for barren metal of his friend?

But lend it father to thine enemy,

Who, if he break, thou may's with better face Exact the penalty

Explain a breed (line 5) and break' (line 7).

According to what Shylock has said just before this speech, for what two reasons does Antonio 'spum Shylock?".

fil) Referring to the rest of the scene, explain how Shylock

makes use of Antonio's remarks about friendship.

SHYLOCK How now Tubal, what news from Genoa? Hast

thou found my daughter?

TUBAL

SHYLOCK

I often came where I did hear of her, but cannot find her

Why there, there there, there, a diamond gone cost me two thousand ducats in Frankfort The. curse never fell upon our nation till now, I never felt it till now Two thousand ducats in that, and other precious, precious jewels. I would that my. daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear Would she were hearsed at my foot and the ducats in her coffin No news of them?

Explain 'in Frankfort' (line 6) and 'hearsed (line 11)

fit Immediately after this extract what news does Tubal give to

Shylock that Shylock finds good news"?.

fi State briefly what we learn of Shylock's character, from

his extract

BASSANIO

And I beseech you Wrest once the law to your authority To do a great right, do a little wrong,

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Explain portly (line 2) and well-govern'd' (line 4)

(i) To whom is Capulet speaking, and about whom?

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(At the next meeting of the well-govem'd youth and the gentle coz", what happens to justify Capulet's descrinnon ur the passage above?

MERCUTIO Alas, poor Romeo! he is already dead; stabbed with a white wench's black eye; shot through the ear with a love-song; the very pin of his heart cleft with the blind bow-boy's butt-shaft and is he i man to encounter Tybalt?

Explain the blind bow-boy's butt-shaft (line 4).

To whom is Mercutio speaking, and what news has he jus been given about Tybalt?

iii) Who is the white wench ine 27 How does Mercutio's language here remind us of Romeo's language earlier in the play?

FRIAR LAURENCE

A pack of blessings lights upon thy back.. Happiness courts thee in her best array But, like a misbehaved and sullen wench, Thou pout'st upon thy fortune and thy love Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable Go get thee to thy love, as was decreed, Ascend her chamber, hence and comfort her: But look thou stay not the watch be set

Explain array (line 2) and 'pout'st upon (line 4)."

What are the blessings that Friar Laurence refers to in line 12.

f) Explain briefly what Romeo said and did earlier in this

scene that made Fnar Laurence criticize lum..

JULIET

Indeed, I never shall be satisfied.

With Romeo, till i behold him dead, Is my poor heart so for a kinsman vex'd; Madam, if you could find out but a man To bear a poison, I would temper it,

That Romeo should, upon receipt thereof, Soon sleep in quiet.

Explain "vex'd" (line 3) and temper' (line 5)."

To whom is Juliet speaking? What has this person just suggested?

fili) Explain briefly how, this extract looks forward to the final

meeting of Romeo and Juliet

المتعة

Discuss the view that what happens to-Romeo and Juliet is presented by Shakespeare as some liung completely beyond their control.

What is the function of Friar Laurence in Romeo and Juliety Include in your answer relevant references to his words and his actions.

Discuss the views of marnage presented in Romeo and Juliet and the way in wiuch these views add to the dramatic effect of the play

SECTION B (Answer EITHER Part 1 OR Part II)

Part 1 Selected Poems:

Answer ONE question only

And curb this cruel devil of his will.

PORTIA

It must not be there is no power in Venice

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Can alter a decree established

Twill be recorded as a precedent.

And many an error by the same exampl Will rush into the state. It cannot be

2) and

Explain wrest

precedent (une:7)

Exactly where are Bassanio and forta? o does Bassano believe Portia to be?.

State befly the means by which Ports later curos "this cruel devil of his wül and how it does not altes decree.establisheri

WERISSA

What talk you of the posy or the value? You swore to me when I did give it you That you would wear it till your hour of death, And that it should be with you in your grave Though at for me, yet for your vehement oatlis You should have been respective and have kept it

Gave it a judge's clerk! no, God's my judge.

The clerk will ne'er wear hair on's face that hadis

GRATTANO He will an if he live to be a man.

ff) Explain posy' (line 1) and 'respective" (line 6).

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What is Nerissa suggesting in line 8? In what sense are her. words in this line true?"

Explain clearly how the marrel, ants worse and how it is finally settled.

Discuss the similarities and differences between the world of Venice and the world of Belmont In The Merchant of Venice.

Compare and contrast the relationship of the lovers in any TWO of the following pairs. Your answer will deal with two men AND two

women

Bassanio and Portia; Lorenzo and Jessica; Gratiano and Nerissa

Discuss and Ulustrate the contribution made to the humour of the play by Gratiano and the two Gobbos. What furtier comedy do you find in the play?

Part II Romeo and Juliet

Answer Question 5 and ONE other question.

Choose THREE of the passages (a) to (d) and answer briefly the questions which follow each passage, (Do NOT write out the passager or questions.)

(01. CAPULET

Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone: He bears him like a portly gentleman; And, to say truth, Verona brags of him To be a virtuous and well-govern'd youth

would not for the wealth of all the town Here in my house do him disparagement.

Choose TWO poems from your selection, in each of which there is a contrast between the past and the present For each poem. discri the contrast-and how the past has affected the present.

With reference to TWO of the following poems discuss the view that the poet's choice of simple and familiar words makes his poetry easy to understand. Refer in your answer BOTH to the words used AND to what you think the complete poems mean

"When you are old

Home Burial Stopping by Woods The Grey Squirre "Who's Who

Wuch ONE of the poems in your selection do you think makes the most effective use of sound and thythm? Give reasons and careful Hlustrations.

What aspects of human behaviour are revealed by the poets in TWO of the following poems? Which of the two poems you have chosen is the more interesting account of human behaviour, and why"

An Elementary School Classroom in a Slum

After the Last Bulletins

Sunday Morning"

Farting, without a Sequel"

Part - Unseen Poem

Write a critical appreciation of the following poema

THE PYLONS*

The secret of these hills was stone, and cottages

Of that stone made,

And crumbling roads

That turned on sudden, hidden villages

Now over these small hills, they have built the concrep

That trails black wire.

Pylons, those pillars

Bare like nude giant girls that have no secret.

The valley with its gilt and evening look

And the green chestnut

Of customary roof

Are mocked dry like the parched bed of a brook

But tar and above as sight endures

Like whips of anger

With lightning's danger,

There runs the quick perspective of the future.

This dwarfs our emerald country by its trekt

So tall with prophecy

Dreaming of cities

Where often clouds shall lean their swan-white necks

*Tall lowers for carrying high voltage electric cables

A long cross-country journey.

英中會考附加數學(一)試題

ADDITIONAL MATHEMATICS

PAPER I

Time allowed Two hours

10:30a.m. 8.30 am

Answer ALL questions ph Section A and THREE questions in Seenan B chooning not more than TWO questions,ftum za of the two aroups: Mathemania tables and grüül paper will be supplied -All working

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(4 marks)

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Part of the graph of the equation is shown in figure 2: Find the value

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SECTION C (Answer ONE question from Part. E and ONE question from

Part

EITHER The History of Mr. Polly OR Oliver Twist

On what does the comedy of The History of Mr. Polly depend?. Answer with reference to at least TWO different scenes that you find. comic.

The history of Polly is the history of an insignificant and uninteresting little man, and we do not much care what happens to such people. With reference to Mr. Polly's actions and attitudes and your imaretsinne of them, say whether you agree.

Do you find Oliver Twist, more interesting for the questions it raises about social problems or for the account it gives of the problems of individuals? You should refer to BOTH kinds of problem.

In Oliver Twist, what effects does Dickens achieve in his description both of places and of people?

Part II

EITHER The Kite" and Other Stories OR A Man for All Seasons OR The Secret Agent

What effects does Somerset Maugham achieve by the use of a narrator in HER

The Kite and The Man with the Scar

OR

Mabel and A Marriage of Convenienca

"Somerset Maugliam's short stories place ordinary people in extraordinary situations Discuss. with reference to at least TWO short stones trom vour selection..

'Bolf has written a play which centres on people and events of the sixteenth century, but its theme is relevant to a modern society Discuss...

21/ un what ways does Bolt's presentation of TWO of the following characters help the audience to understand More's character more clearly?

Richard Rich. Norfolk; Margaret

Does Conrad give the reader more reason to admire the work of the police than to admire the work of the anarchists in The Secret Agent? Discuss, with reference to the motives and actions of both the police and the anarchists

Referring to Conrad's presentation of Verloc and Stevie in the story and to his account of their deaths, explain the different effect on the reader of Verloc's death and Stevie's death

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