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I.

Directions:

Explain

in

English

the

meaning

of

the

underlined

words

or

expressions in each sentence (10%)

1. Besides, I intend to be quick about it, and not dawdle.

2. Obsessed though I was with the notion of bringing life into the three eggs, I wasn

’

t quite prepared

to pay the price.

3. Well, what was she raving about?

4. She wrenched away, crying for him to take his rope and go to hell.

5.

By

this

time

Fifth

Avenue

is

deserted

by

all

but

a

few

strolling

insomniacs,

some

cruising

cabdrivers, and a group of sophisticated females.

6. He earns $$100,000 a year, is a gentleman of impeccable taste.

7. People slump behind newspapers or walk aimlessly about with no place to sit, nobody to talk to,

nothing to do.

8. But now and then, they coalesce into a fire which is an inflammation of the mind of him who

watches.

9.

This

mailman

and

his

pancreas ---careful

neighbors

for

fifty-two

years

until

the

night

the

one

turned rampant and set fire to the house of the other.

10. In his fallen mouth a single canine tooth, perfectly embedded, gleams, a badge of better days.

II.

Directions:

Among

the

four

choices,

choose

the

one

that

is

the

closest

in

meaning to the italicized word. (10 %)

1. He

tarried

to tell his hostess how much he had enjoyed the party.

a. neglected

b. attempted

c. lingered

d. struggled

2. He is the most

intrepid

explorer in the present century.

a. successful

b. fearless

c. reliable

d. enthusiastic

3. The picture is

tilted

; please straighten it.

a. high

b. level

c. crooked

d. adjustable

1

4. Your mood seems very

meditative

this evening.

a. gleeful

b. thoughtful

c. desperate

d. stern

5. The gunfire was

sporadic

.

a. intermittent

b. frequent

c. continuous

d. distant

6. To

implore

his friend

a. beg

b. deceive

c. please

d. entertain

7.

Labyrinthine

forests

a. very dense

b. pathless

c. having intricate paths

d. man-made

8. Eat with

relish

a. distaste

b. much taste

c. hesitation

d. refined delight

9.

Lucid

thoughts

a. free-flowing

b. honest

c. clear

d. hard to explain

10.

Furtive

actions

a. clever

b. quick

c. stealthy

d. dishonest

III. Paraphrase (20%)

1.

They are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and their false accusations.

2.

My

gander,

the

widower,

lived

a

solitary,

life---nobody

to

swap

gossip

with,

nobody

to

protect. He seemed dazed.

3.

A gander carries his head high and affects a threatening attitude.

4.

A goose

’

s eye is a small round enigma.

5.

Pain invents its own language.

6.

An anger rises toward her for the charge she has given.

7.

The

bridge

is

an

almost

restless

structure

of

graceful

beauty

which,

like

an

irresistible

seductress....

8.

He swallowed the words red hot, his face burned.

9.

You might as well talk to a sieve as that woman when she got going.

10.

I must take care what sparks I let fly toward such inflammable matter.

IV

. Reading Comprehension (30%)

Passage A

Unlike the carefully weighed and planned compositions of Dante, Goethe

’

s writings have always

the sense of immediacy and enthusiasm. He was a constant experimenter with life, with ideas, and

with forms of writing. For the same reason, his works seldom have the qualities of finish or formal

beauty

which

distinguish

the

masterpieces

of

Dante

and

Virgil.

He

came

to

love

the

beauties

of

classicism, but these were never an essential part of his make-up. Instead, the urgency of the moment,

the spirit of the thing, guided his pen. As a result, nearly all his works have serious flaws of structure,

of inconsistencies, of excesses and redundancies and extra niceties.

In

the

large

sense,

Goethe

represents

the

fullest

development

of

the

romanticist.

It

has

been

argued that he should not, be so designated because he so clearly matured and outgrew the kind of

romanticism

exhibited

by

Wordsworth,

Shelley,

and

Keats.

Shelley

and

Keats

died

young;

Wordsworth lived narrowly and abandoned his early attitudes. In contrast, Goethe lived abundantly

and developed his faith in the spirit, his understanding of nature and human nature, and his reliance

on feelings as man's essential motivating force. The result was an all-encompassing vision of reality

and a philosophy of life broader and deeper than the partial visions and attitudes of other romanticists.

Yet

the

spirit

of

youthfulness,

the

impatience

with

close

reasoning

or

“

logic- chopping,

”

and

the

continued

faith

in

nature

remained

his

to

the

end,

together

with

an

occasional

waywardness

and

impulsiveness

and

a

disregard

ed

artistic

or

logical

propriety

which

savor

strongly

of

romantic

individualism.

Since

so

many

twentieth-century

thoughts

and

attitudes

are

similarly

based;

on

the

stimulus of the Romantic Movement, Goethe stands as particularly the poet of the modern man as

Dante stood for medieval man and as Shakespeare for the man of the Renaissance.

1. The title that best expresses the ideas of this passage is

A. Goethe and Dante

B. The Characteristics of Romanticism

C. Goethe’s Abundant Life

D. Goethe, the Romanticist

2

. Goethe’s work shows a lack of

A. inconsistencies

B. formal polish

C. repetitions

D. a vision of reality

3. A characteristic of romanticism NOT mentioned in this passage is

A. interest in nature

B. disregard of form

C. simplicity of language

D. youthful attitude

4. Goethe is called the poet of the modern man because

A. he developed his faith

B. he lived longer than Shelley and Keats

C. he presents many twentieth-century ideas

D. his writings are less polished than Dante's

5. Good medieval writing was characterized by

A. careful planning

B. lack of beauty

C. use of Latin

D. avoidance of ideas

Passage B

Every profession or trade, every art, and every science has its technical vocabulary, the function

of

which

is

partly

to

designate

things or

processes

which

have no names

in

ordinary

English,

and

partly to secure greater exactness in nomenclature. Such special dialects, or jargons, are necessary in

technical

discussion

of

any

kind.

Being

universally

understood

by

the

devotees

of

the

particular

science or art, they have the precision of a mathematical formula. Besides, they save time, for it is

much more economical to name a process than to describe it. Thousands of these technical terms are

very properly included in every large dictionary, yet, as a whole, they are rather on the outskirts of

the English language than actually within its borders.

Different occupations, however, differ widely in the character of their special vocabularies. In

trades

and

handicrafts,

and

other

vocations,

like

farming

and

fishery,

that

have

occupied

great

numbers of men from remote times, the technical vocabulary, is very old. It consists largely of native

words, or of borrowed words that have worked themselves into the very fibre of our language. Hence,

though highly technical in many particulars, these vocabularies are more familiar in sound, and more

generally understood, than most other technicalities. The special dialects of law, medicine, divinity,

and philosophy have also, in their older strata, become pretty familiar to cultivated persons, and have

contributed

much

to

the

popular

vocabulary.

Yet

every

vocation

still

possesses

a

large

body

of

technical terms that remain essentially foreign, even to educated speech. And the proportion has been

much increased in the last fifty years, particularly in: the various departments of natural and political

science

and

in

the

mechanic

arts.

Here

new

terms

are

coined

with

the

greatest

freedom,

and

abandoned

with

indifference

when

they

have

served

their

turn.

Most

of

the

new

coinages

are

confined

to

special

discussions,

and

seldom

get

into

general

literature

or

conversation.

Yet

no

profession is nowadays, as all professions once were, a close guild. The lawyer, the physician, the

man of science, the divine, associates freely with his fellow-creatures, and does not meet them in a

merely

professional

way.

Furthermore,

what

is

called

“popular

science”

makes

everybody

acquainted with modern views and recent discoveries. Any important experiment, though made in a

remote or provincial laboratory, is at once reported in the newspapers, and everybody is soon talking

about it--as in the case of the Roentgen rays and wireless telegraphy. Thus our common speech is

always taking up new technical terms and making them commonplace.

6. This passage is primarily concerned with

A. a new language

B. technical terminology

C. various occupations and professions

D. scientific undertakings

7. Special words used in technical discussion

A. may become part of common speech

B. should be confined to scientific fields

C. should resemble mathematical formulae

D. are considered artificial speech

8. It is true that

A.

the

average

man

often

uses

in

his

own

vocabulary

what

was

once

technical

language

not

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