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Passage
One
For
months, Mabel had been servantless in the big house, keeping
the home together in penury for her ineffectual brothers.
She had kept house for ten years. But previously, it was
with unstinted means. Then, however brutal and coarse everything
was, the sense of money had kept her proud, confident. The
men might be foul-mouthed, the women in the kitchen might
have bad reputations, her brothers might have illegitimate
children. But so long as there was money, the girl felt
herself established, and brutally proud, reserved.
No company came to the house, save dealers and coarse men.
Mabel had no associates of her own sex, after her sister
went away. But she did not mind. She went regularly to church,
she attended to her father. And she lived in the memory
of her mother, who had died when she was fourteen, and whom
she had loved. She had loved her father, too, in a different
way, depending upon him, and feeling secure in him, until
at the age of fifty-four he married again. And then she
had set hard against him. Now he had died and left them
all hopelessly in debt.
She
had suffered badly during the period of poverty. Nothing,
however, could shake the curious sullen, animal pride that
dominated each member of the family. Now, for Mabel, the
end had come. Still she would not cast about her. She would
follow her own way just the same. She would always hold
the keys of her own situation. Mindless and persistent,
she endured from day to day. Why should she think? Why should
she answer anybody? It was enough that this was the end,
and there was no way out. She need not pass any more darkly
along the main street of the small town, avoiding every
eye. She need not demean herself any more, going into the
shops and buying the cheapest food. This was at an end.
She thought of nobody, not even of herself. Mindless and
persistent, she seemed in a sort of ecstasy to be coming
nearer to her fulfillment, her own glorification, approaching
her dead mother, who was glorified.
(from The Horse Dealer's
Daughter by D. H. Lawrence)
(356 words)
1.
It can be inferred from the passage that months before
Mabel's
family had been living __________. (
B
)
(a) a poverty-stricken life
(b) a rich life
(c) a servantless life
(d) a respectable life
2.
Mabel had been proud because _____. (
C
)
(a) life was brutal and coarse
(b) her brothers were ineffectual
(c) there was money in the house
(d) she could keep the home together in penury
3.
Which of the following is true? (
B
)
(a) Mabel loved her father the way she did her mother.
(b) Mabel disliked her father when he married again.
(c) Mabel always loved her father.
(d) Mabel always longed for the company of her own sex.
4.
We learn from the passage that _______ . (
C
)
(a) Mabel tried to dominate her family
(b) Mabel lived an absent-minded life after her father's
death
(c) Mabel tried to control her own fate
(d) Mabel was willing to live a poor life
5.
In the final paragraph, Mabel seemed to ______. (
B
)
(a) be in ecstasy
(b) be ready for death
(c) look down upon everybody else
(d) look down upon herself
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Passage
Two
Long
ago in Spain there were two very learned men, so clever
and knowing so much that they were famous all over the world.
One was called rabbi Moses Maiminides, a Jew─blessed be
his memory!─and the other was called Aristotle, a Christian
who belonged to the Greeks.
These two were great friends, because they
had always studied together and found out many things together.
At last after many years, they found out a thing they had
been specially trying for. They discovered that if you took
a tiny little vein out of a man's body, and put it in a
glass jar with certain leaves and plants, it would gradually
begin to grow, and would grow and grow until it became a
man. When it had grown as big as a boy, you could take it
out of the jar, and then it would live and keep on growing
till it became a man, a fine man who would never die. He
would be undying. Because he had never been born, he would
never die, but live for ever and ever. Because the wisest
men on earth had made him, he didn't have to be born.
When they were quite sure it was so, the
rabbi Moses Maimonides and the Christian Aristotle decided
they would really make a man up till then, they had only
experimented. But now they would make the real undying man.
The question was, from whom should they
take the little vein? Because the man they took it from
would die. So at first they decided to take it from a slave.
But then they thought, a slave wasn't good enough to make
the beginning of the undying man. So they decided to ask
one of their devoted students to sacrifice himself. But
that didn't seem right either, because they might get a
man they didn't really like, and whom they wouldn't want
to be the beginning of the man who would never die. So at
last, they decided to leave it to fate; they gathered together
their best and most learned disciples, and they all agreed
to draw lots. The lot fell to Aristotle, to have the little
vein cut from his body.
(372 words)
6.
The two friends in the above passage found that they _________. (
C
)
(a) could make a man born in a glass jar
(b) could always live and never die
(c) could make a tiny vein out of a man's body and let it
grow into a man
(d) could make a fine man always live
7.
The question faced by the two friends was: _______.
(
C
)
(a) were they able to make an undying man?
(b) who were the wisest men to make an undying man?
(c) from whom should they take the little vein?
(d) would the one die who offered the little vein?
8.
The two friends felt that it was not right to let one of
their students sacrifice himself because ______. (
B
)
(a) it meant murder
(b) they might get a man they didn't like
(c) a student was not good enough to make the beginning
of the undying man
(d) no
student was willing to die.
9.
At the end of the passage, ________. (
D
)
(a) the two friends left the matter to fate and did nothing
(b) the two friends decided that Aristotle would offer
the little vein
(c) the two friends asked their students to draw lots
(d) Aristotle was the one to have the little vein cut from
his body
10.
The tone of the passage is ______. (
D
)
(a) serious
(b) worried
(c) sarcastic
(d) playful
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Passage
Three
David
Herbert Lawrence was born at Eastwood, Nottiinghamshire,
in 1885, fourth of the five children of a miner and his
middle-class wife. He attended Nottingham High School and
Nottingham University College. His first novel, The White
Peacock, was published in 1911, just a few weeks after
the death of his mother to whom he had been abnormally close.
At this time he finally ended his relationship with Jessie
Chambers (the Miriam of Sons and Lovers) and became engaged
to Louie Burrows. His career as a schoolteacher was ended
in 1911 by the illness which was ultimately diagnosed as
tuberculosis.
In 1911 Lawrence eloped to Germany with
Frieda Weekley, the German wife of his former modern languages
tutor. They were married on their return to England in 1914.
Lawrence was now living precariously, by his writing. His
greatest novels, The Rainbow and Women in Love,
were completed in 1915 and 1916. The former was suppressed,
and he could not find a publisher for the latter.
After the war Lawrence began his
"savage pilgrimage" in search of a more fulfilling mode of life
than industrial Western civilization could offer. This took
him to Sicily, Ceylon, Australia and, finally, New Mexico.
The Lawrences returned to Europe in 1925; Lawrence's last
novel, Lady Chaterley's Lover, was banned in 1928,
and his paintings confiscated in 1929. He died in Vence
in 1930 at the age of forty-four.
Lawrence spent most of his short life living.
Nevertheless he produced an amazing quantity of work─novels,
stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, translations
and letter...After his death Frieda wrote: "What he had
seen and felt and known he gave in his writing to his fellow
men, the splendor of living, the hope of more and more life...a
heroic and immeasurable gift."
(294 words)
11.
Lawrence's first novel was _________. (
A
)
(a) The White Peacock
(b) Sons and Lovers
(c) The Rainbow
(d) Women in Love
12.
The Miriam of Sons and Lovers was ________. ( B
)
(a) Lawrence's mother
(b) Jessie Chambers
(c) Louie Burrows
(d) Lawrence's schoolteacher
13.
When Lawrence married Frieda Weekley, his economic
means were ________.
( C
)
(a) sufficient
(b) scarce
(c) uncertain
(d) rich
14.
Lawrence began his "savage pilgrimage" in order to find
________.
( C
)
(a) industrial civilization
(b) savage countries
(c) a better mode of life
(d) a religious life
15.
According to Frieda, Lawrence ________. ( D
)
(a) lived a sad life
(b) lived fully and optimistically
(c) wished he could live longer
(d) wrote about the splendor of life
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