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Dear Students,

Last week you had some practice in short comprehension questions of the type set in the HKCEE. Today let's tum to comprehension questions on passages.

*. I'm going to discuss Paper III first. There are four questions in this year's (ie. 1980) Paper III, all of which are to be answered. The first question requires you to extract information in point form from a given passage, and to write a precis on it. The second one is subdivided into a number of smaller questions which are based on the same given passage. The third one requires you to rewrite 8 sentences by following the instructions given (Transformation of sentences). The last question contains a cloze passage, ie, a passage with a number of blanks (30 in this case) into which one word is to be filled.

Comprehension questions on an unseen passage are meant to test your understanding of a given passage. What you should generally do is outlined as follows:

(1) Read the given passage carefully and try to get a general idea of the subject it deals with. In other words, try to grasp its theme. (2) Read the passage again, this time more thoroughly. While doing so, take a mental, and preferably written, note of the various points discussed. Look for the topic sentence, if any, in each paragraph. (3) Now read through each question in turn and make sure of its meaning(s). Tum to the passage and make out the answer. (4) Having answered all the questions, re-read the passage to ensure that you have given the correct answer with no misunderstand-- ing in both the passage and the questions of course, as far as you can afford. After something general, let's go to something specific. Marks are often lost in answers to questions on comprehension through failure to observe the following points. So make sure that you know and practise them.

MARKS-EARNING HINTS

1. Make sure that you answer the whole question, especially if it contains more than one section.

2. Unless you are asked to quote from, the passage, it is advisable to answer in your own words.

3. Each question must be answered fully. but concisely. Keep each answer to the point, ie relevant, and do not waste words and time on unnecessary elaboration.

4. Answer in sentences, unless otherwise 'stated. Never answer just yes or no, it

is often a good idea to tum the ques- tion into a statement in your answer. Avoid rhetorical questions and figures of speech.

5. If you are asked to state reasons, do not be satisfied with giving only one reason.

6. When giving the meaning of a word or phrase, always check your answer by substituting your explanation for the word in the passage to see if it fits the context. Be careful to explain an ad jective by an adjective, a noun by a noun, etc.

7. If you are asked to explain a phrase, a clause or a sentence, do not merely copy the words of the original, eg. if you are required to put in your own words, "share common goals", it is no good saying, "share the same goals", The words in Italics should also be rewritten in your own words. A possi- ble answer could be, "aim at the same things. In this way, you have endeav oured to explain, in your own words, every word (as far as this is possible)

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细閉下面一篇文字,然後根據内容回答所附 問題

序大有由作者自己寫的,有由他人作 老書寫的。作者自己寫的序文,無非說明寫 作的動機以及希案得到的效果,材料的泉源 <以成胙怎猴的手法掌經組織脱書等等。道種喆 在正文中是容納不下的,可是必得一說,视

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in the given phrase.

8. In answering questions on vocabulary, no word should be ignored even if you do not know its meaning, the prefix or the suffix on a word is often an indica tion of its meaning.

Now let's turn to some exercises. I've included. three passages varying in the subject matter and length, after which comprehension ques tions and a question requiring you to extract information from the given passage are set, These questions are modelled on past certificate questions, and are graded according to their difficulty.

"Again, I'll give you the answers next week. Allow yourself about 30 minutes for each passage and its questions.

PASSAGE 1

Read this passage, and then answer questions 1 and 2.

(A) The great advantage of early rising is the good start it gives us in our day's work. The early riser has done a large amount of hard work before other men have got out of bed. In the early moming the mind is fresh, and there are few sounds or other distractions, so the work done at the time is generally well done. In many cases the early riser also finds time to take some exercise in the fresh morning air, and this exercise supplies him with a fund of energy that will last until the evening. By beginning so early, he knows that he has plenty of time to do thoroughly all the work he expects to, and is not tempted to hurry over any part of it. All his work being. finished in good time, he has a long interval of rest in the evening before the hour when he goes to bed. He gets to sleep several hours before midnight, at the time when sleep is most refreshing, and after a sound night's rest rises early next moming in good health and spirits for the labours of a new day.

(B) It is very plain that such a life as this is far more conducive to health than that of the man who shortens his waking hours by rising late, and so can afford in the course of the day little leisure for necessary rest. Anyone who gets up late, must, if he wishes to do a full day's work, go on working to a correspondingly late hour. and deny himself the hour or two of even- Ing exercise that he ought to take for the benefit of his health. But in spite of all his efforts, he will probably not produce as good results as the early riser, because he misses the best working hours of the day.

List 7 advantages (each on a separate line) which early risers get over those who get up late. Each answer should not contain more than FIVE words and need not be a complete sentence. Any answer containing. more than FIVE words will receive NO MARKS.

2. (a) Find words or phrases in paragraph (B) which are similar in meaning to the following:

(1) contributive

(ii) furnish

(iii) easy to understand.

(iv) despite

In paragraph (A) the writer explains that morning exercise would supply

(ii) The writer also says that the easly. riser by having a refreshing sleep will get up next morning well pre-

pared for

(c). In paragraph (B), we are told that those who get up late reduces (1) and so have

to work until (ii)

(d) Why is the early riser not tempted to

hurry over his day's work?

(e) Why are late risers unable to produce similar satisfactory results out of their work as early risers'?

PASSAGE 2

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說明自: 的見解,藏看批評它的意義和影響,意者制 新它的要旨和髒術。說話常取介紹者的慈 度、戴受的對象是間精這書的讀者。擅者屋 然不一定要林然了自己的眼力,完全信微仆 超者的話,可是有這座一番話,在那農作品 參考書料,總比軟獨個兒去探常來得有靠修, 一廳。所以建程序次具有價值,是讀者所不 **T BALAT *

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Read this passage and then answer ques- tions 1 and 2.

(A) The task of education is to make children -fit to live in a society by persuading them into learning and accepting its codes – the rules and conventions of communication whereby the society holds itself together.

(B) There is first the spoken language. The child is taught to accept tree' and not boojum as the agreed sign for that (point- ing to the object). We have no difficulty in understanding that the word 'tree is a matter of convention. What is much less: obvious is that convention also governs the delineation of the thing to which the word is assigned. For the child has to be taught not only what words are to stand for what. things, but also the way in which his culture has tacitly agreed to divide things from each other, to mark out the boundaries within our daily experience.

(C) Thus scientific convention decides whether

a spider shall be an insect or not, and":{ grammatical convention determines what experiences shall be called objects and what shall be called events or actions. How arbitrary such conventions may be can be see from the question, "What happens to my fist [noun-object] when I open my hand? The object miraculously vanishes because an action was disguised by a part of speech usually assigned to a thing! (D) In English the differences between things

and actions are clearly, if not always logi. cally, distinguished, but a great number of Chinese words do duty for both nouns and verbs so that one who thinks in Chinese has little difficulty in seeing that objects are also events, that our world is a collec- tion of processes rather than entities; (E) Besides language, the child has to accept many other forms of code. For the necessi- ties of living together require agreement as to codes of law and ethics, of etiquette and art, of weights, measures and numbers, and, above all, of role. We have difficulty. in communicating with each other unless we can identify ourselves in terms of roles father, teacher, worker, artist, regular guy', gentleman, sportsman, and so forth. (F) To the extent that we identify ourselves with these stereotypes and the rules of behaviour associated with them, we our- selves feel that we are someone because our fellows have less difficulty in accepting us that is, in identifying us and feeling that we are under control. A meeting of two strangers at a party is always somewhat embarrassing when the host has not identi- fied their roles in introducing them, for neither knows what rules of conversation and action should be observed.

1. List 5 codes (each on a separate line) which a child has to learn through education. Each answer should not contain more than FIVE words and need not be a complete sentence. Any answer containing more than FIVE words will receive NO MARKS:

2. (a) () will receiv

In paragraph (A), if a society "holds itself together", this means

that it

(ii) In paragraph (B), if something is much less obvious", this means that

(iu) In paragraph (F), if "we identify ourselves with these stereotypes”,

this means that we Find words in paragraphs (B) and (C) which are similar in meaning to the following:

(i) representation

(ii) depending on choice

(ii) conventional

(c) In paragraph (B) the writer explains that his culture has already agreed to divide things from each other, and that "agreement' 15

(d) What is the advantage of some Chinese

words over English ones?

(e) In paragraph (F), we are told that if the

host of a part has not identified the

roles of two strangers in introducing

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(3)制析業書的要旨和藝術。

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(iii) trouble

(c) Why is a child's life not perfectly happy?

(d) What responsibilities does an adult have

that a child does not have?

Read this passage and then answer ques- tions 1 and 2.

(A) How often one hears children wishing they were grown up, and old people wishing they were young again. Each age has its. pleasures and its pains, and the happiest person is the one who enjoys what each age gives him without wasting his time in useless regrets.

(B) Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities to make life. difficult. If a child has good parents, he is fed, looked after and loved, whatever he may do. It is improbable that he will ever again in his life be given so much without having to do anything in return. In addition, life is always presenting new things to the child things that have lost their appeal for older people because they are too well known. A child finds pleasure in playing in the rain, or in the snow. His first visit to the seaside is a marvellous adventure. But a child has his pains: he is not so free to do as he wishes. as he thinks older people are; he is continu ally being told not to do things or being punished for what he has done wrong. His life is therefore not perfectly happy.

(C) When the young man starts to earn his own living, he becomes free from the discipline of school and parents; but at the same time he is forced to accept responsibilities. He can no longer expect others to pay for his food, his clothes and his room, and has to work if he wants to live confortably. If he spends most of his time playing about in the way that he used to as a child, he will go hungry. And if he breaks the laws of society as he used to break the laws of his parents he may go to prison. If, however, he works hard, keeps out of trouble and has good health, he can have the great happiness of seeing himself make steady progress in his job and of building up for himself his own position in society.

(D) Old age has been thought of as the worst age to be, but it is not necessary for the old to be unhappy. With old age should come wisdom and the ability to help others with penetrating advice. The old can have the. joy of seeing their children making progress in life, they can watch their grand children. growing up around them; and, perhaps best of all, they can, if their life has been a use ful one, feel the happiness of having come. through the battle of life safe and sound and of having reached a time when they can lie back and rest, leaving others to con- tinue the fight.

List 9 things (each on a separate. line) which children can enjoy. Each answer should not contain more than FIVE words and need not be a complete sentence. Any answer containing more than FIVE words will receive NO MARKS.

2. (a) In paragraph (C),

If "the young man starts to earn his own living", this means that he

(ii) If he is forced to accept responsi- bilities", this · means, that he

(iii) If someone "keeps out of trouble"

this means that he.

(b) Find single words in paragraphs (A) and (B) which are used with the same mean- ings as the following:

(i) attraction

(ii) no matter what:

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B向他人發出命令。

C*他人一科事

DD向他人表示自己的情感我

星翻日,你學校的籃球隊和解枚作了一場友 甘不老師要你寫一篇「記本校與鄰校的籤 球友誼賽」。你打算被熊專情的先後次序 用直假的方式把這篇文章響出來。下面那 個大蝴的次序最符合你的要求? +1 RAGER - BURA

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(e) If a young man is

(i)

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enjoy his (11).

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he

and

(f) Name two faculties which should ac-

company old age.

(g) In paragraph (D), we are told that the greatest happiness which an old man can

have may well be

ANSWERS (WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES) TO LAST WEEK'S MCQs

1 C The key is self-explanatory (other op- tions being incorrect interpretations of the given sentence).

2.

3.

B The key is again self-explanatory

The sentence can be restated as:

Chris was unlike his wife in that while he did not enjoy window-shopping, his

enjoy wing wife did.

Distinguish between dislike and unlike, 4. D Note very carefully that we must hope

for the best never means we must hope- the best thing will happen, rather it means we must be as hopeful as possible.

Incidentally, at all cost can have nothing to do with money; in other words, the cost may not be monetary, and indeed more often than not it isn't.

7.

8.

B all the better much better

B quick on the uptake ⇒ quick to under-

stand

C. The sentence essentially means Nicholas will never stóp to take advantage of others; and the answer presents its meaning in another way.

D affluence=wealth

Hallmark here means a distinguishing characteristic or feature.

9. B The key explains itself.

(salient prominent)

10. D (commonplace unremarkable/ordinary) Note that here promise does not mean something promised, but rather a cause or ground for hope or expectation of success or distinction. “

11. C getting along in years growing old

Distinguish between used to and be irsed to the latter means be accustomed or habituated to while the former indicates a former(i.e, past) practice, fact or state. 12. D Here a grass-root upheaval means; a

-violent agitation that occurs in the local. and popular strata of society (as dis tinguished from the centres of political leadership), and teetering on a tightrope simply means at stake,

13. Ca soft answer

an answer to a question which really avoids answering the question and is really only intended to please the questioner.

14. A follow suit

➡ do something that someone else has

done. masquerade

a social gathering of persons wearing masks and often fantastic costumes:

15. D Save here means except. Students are, however, advised to use save in this sense sparingly, for as a preposition the word is now obsolete in ordinary speech and prose..

16. A few and far between very rare.

Note that this phrase has little to do with distance of separation.

17, C The key may well be self-explanatory 18. D Again, self-explanatory 19. A only to merely to (usually in connec

tion with something unpleasant or dis- appointing)

20. B That is, no natives are taller than one and a half metres, and most of them are really much shorter than that.

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