【正文】 d harpoon with all his strength. He hit it without hope but with resolution and plete malignancy. The shark swung over and the old man saw his eye was not alive and then he swung over once again, wrapping himself in two loops of the rope. The old man knew that he was dead but the shark would not accept it. Then, on his back, with his tail lashing and his jaws clicking, the shark plowed over the water as a speedboat does. The water was white where his tail beat it and threequarters of his body was clear above the water when the rope came taut, shivered, and then snapped. The shark lay quietly for a little while on the surface and the old man watched him. Then he went down very slowly. He took about forty pounds, the old man said aloud. He took my harpoon too and all the rope, he thought, and now my fish bleeds again and there will be others. He did not like to look at the fish anymore since he had been mutilated. When the fish had been hit it was as though he himself were hit. Questions 1619 (12 points) (Write the letter representing your choice on your answer sheet.) 16. the extract is taken from a novel entitled ______________. A. The Old Man and the Sea B. The Pearl C. Farewell to Arms 17. Paragraph 2 ____________. A. describes how strong and cunning the man was B. describes in detail what the shark looked like C. explains why the shark feeds on all the fishes in the sea 18. In the text, the writer used a lot of violent verbs such as “broke the surface”, “knifing through the water”, “rammed the harpoon down on to the shark’s head”. By using such highly physical verbs, the writer was able to ______________. A. make the scene more vivid and it’s easy for readers to visualise the action B. emphasize the idea that fishing is a physical and exhausing activity C. bring out the contrast between the cruelness of the shark and the kindness of the fisherman 19. Read the last two paragraphs again. How does the old man feel about the fishs he has caught? A. He feels great anger at the death of the fish, as he has taken so long to catch it and now it is useless. B. He feels distreassed and fearful. He was afraid that more sharks might be on their way to attack him. C. He feels a great attachment to the fish he has taken so long to catch. He admires it a regrets its loss to the shark. Text 2 Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. Questions 2022 (9 points) 20. Find an example of figure of speech used in the extract. Name the extract and explain its meaning. 21. Who does the great American refer to? Gee Washington, Thomas Jefferson or Abrahma Lincoln? 22. Summarize the speaker’s points in 2 or 3 sentences. Text 3 He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song。 I was wrong. The stars are not wanted now: put out every one。 Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood. For nothing now can ever e to any good. Questions 2325 (9 points) (Writer the letter representing your choice for Question 23 on your answer sheet) 23. These two stanzas are taken from _____________ by ______________. A. ballad of Reading Goal …Oscar Wilde B. Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone … . Auden C. Wild Nights! Wild Nights! … Emily Dickinson 24. What does the poet mean by the lines “He was my North, my South, my East and West, /My working week and my Sunday rest, /My moon, my midnight, my talk, my song”? 25. What’s the rhyme scheme of the peem? Text 4 Please note: This reading task will be relevant to the writing task in Part Ⅲ . The Man Who Talked to Trees 1. They were twins。hero39。bringer of peace. 39。s womb, almost tearing her apart. Milmaq had slid out with merciful swiftness. 2. They were identical twins. When they were children strangers could not tell them apart. They both had dark black hair and piercing green eyes. They were strong, tall and erect. Until they reached their early teens, they were always together. They slept together, ate together, played together, went to school together, got into trouble togetherthey even fell iii together. And they looked after each other. Anyone who tried to bully one of them would face the anger of the other. And of course they used their physical likeness to play tricks on people, especially at school. 3. By the time they were fourteen the family had returned to its lands in the Nirmat valley. Their father had rebuilt the old farmhouse, destroyed by the retreating rebel army at the end of the war. He farmed the bottom of the valley, growing wheat and tending the rich almond orchards for which the valley was then famous. On the lower slopes he had vineyards from which he produced the strong Nirmat Kashin (Lion of Nirmat) wine. The higher land was forested. The chestnut trees gave nuts in the autumn. The oaks and beeches, as well as the chestnut trees, were carefully tended. Their valuable timber was sold to furniture makers and builders in Jalseen, the town lower down the valley. The trees were cut according to a strict rotation. For every tree they cut down, another was planted. These were wh