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man-of-war _____ school teacher _____

Ⅴ. Fill the blanks below with some, any, much, or many.

_____dog must have killed that chicken.

No one has_____confidence in that man.

I do not need_____help.

_____men do not believe that the earth moves round the sun.

They found_____gold in the bed of the stream.

There are_____people in the street.

Ⅵ. Write a sentence with each of the following conjunctive phrases.

In order that As if As long as In case that

Ⅶ. Write a sentence with each of the following relative pronouns.

Who Which What That

Ⅷ. Fill the blanks below with appropriate prepositions.

1. I went_____the house.

2. My plan is different_____yours.

3. I parted_____you_____six o'clock.

4. This table is made_____wood.

5. We arrived_____Tsingtao_____June.

6. I shall leave_____Shanghai tomorrow.

Ⅸ. Translate the following excerpt into Chinese.

We are living in the midst of a terrific war in which each side casts upon the other the blame for causing the struggle; but in which each gives the same reason for continuing it to the bitter and……That reason being the preservation from destruction of essential principle of its own civilization.

Ⅹ. Write an essay of not more than 100 words on:

What a University Education Means to Me

国立厦门大学

一九四七年

Ⅰ. The Chen couple live with their son-in-law, Mr. Wang, who has three children. The youngest is a student at Hua Nan College. The second has a beautiful Soprano voice. The eldest married a Mr. Li and has a son five years old.

1. What is Mrs. Wang's maiden name?

2. How many sons and daughters does Mr. Wang have?

3. Is the youngest a boy or a girl?

4. The second?

5. The eldest?

6. If Mrs. Chen, Mrs. Wang and Mrs. Li all married at twenty, how old is Mrs. Chen at least?

7. Is Mrs. Chen a widow?

Ⅱ. Translate into Chinese.

1. The recent student disturbances are a sign of the general unrest that prevails throughout the country.

2. It was not so very long ago that flying was thought impossible but nowadays air travel is a commonplace thing.

3. The intense commercial atmosphere of Shanghai is nor favorable to institutions of learning.

4. His latest volume has just been published by the Commercial Press.

5. If persuasion fails, we must resort to armed force.

6. The great services he had rendered were never properly recognized.

7. This unexpected blow shattered all our hopes.

8. The building faces south and commands an extensive view of the ocean.

9. An indication of intelligence is the ability to grasp a new situation.

10. The speaker's appearance on the platform was greeted with loud applause.

Ⅲ. Translate into English.

1．他的病势严重，所以家里立刻差人去请医生来。

2．我想他是不会同意的。

3．我们邻家的狗昨天咬了两个小孩子。

4．你若碰见他请告诉他这件事。

5．他虽然已经三十多岁了，经济上可还不能独立。

上海圣约翰大学

一九四七年

Part Ⅰ Written English

Write a paragraph on one of the three subjects inserted below. Each subject has been divided into four topics for you. Be sure and write something on each one of the four topics. Write from 10 to 12 lines on each of the four topics. Choose only one subject.

1. The Present European War

(1) The two sides fighting against each other

(2) Causes

(3) Progress of events

(4) Possible result out of the war

2. My opinion of Hitler (or Mussolini or Chiang Kai-shek)

(1) The importance of Hitler (or Mussolini, etc.)

(2) His history

(3) As a man

(4) As a leader

3. The Effect of Sino-Japanese Hostilities on the Inland Provinces.

(1) Spreading the population more evenly than before.

(2) Opening up the country—building roads, starting factories, etc.

(3) Introducing new ideas and ways—of living, working, studying.

(4) Increasing opportunities for cooperation with other provinces.

Part Ⅱ Silent Reading

1. An Elephant in a London Theater

"When an elephant was coaxed down a plank onto the stage of a London theater, she stepped sideways," Mr. Oram, manager of the theater, stated. Although unhurt, she did not forget the incident, and at the end of the performance would not move.

"Six of us worked five hours trying all manner of tricks to get her to leave. There is a small door at the end of the stage, and although the elephant tried crawling on its stomach it could not get through."

"Eventually we decided to unscrew the doors into the corridor. The elephant began to crawl through the opening, but became stuck."

"We then had to knock down one side of the wall but by this time she was tired of the whole business, and stood motionless."

"The elephant, whose name is Lizzie, works with a pony. The pony was led through the opening, and when it started neighing Lizzie decided to join it. She went down a flight of steps into the auditorium, along a gangway, through a corridor, and out by another exit."

"We were glad to see the back of her, and we were too tired to be amused. It was 5 a. m."

(1) An elephant in theater caused (a. the management; b, the audience c. the actors; d. a smaller animal) annoyance.

(2) It was the elephant's (a. obedience to Mr. Oram; b. fall into the auditorium; c. demolishment of the wall; d. devotion to a pony) which caused her finally to leave the stage.

(3) The elephant went out by (a. the same; b. a more complicated; c. a more dangerous; d. a more direct) way than the one by which she had come in.

(4) The men were (a. bored by; b. pleased with; c. exhausted by; d. angry because of) their five hours of work.

2. A Storm in Holland

There were storms in the old town where we lived, and the sea roared tremendously above us and through the wide chimney of our old house, or howled when the wind suddenly dropped. There came a night when no one slept, and voices sounded shrill and gull-like outside, above the wind. From time to time someone would tap on the window-pane to announce in a gruff, weathered voice how high the sea stood behind the dike. Wooden shoes clattered outside. Sometimes Father went out and Mother looked anxious. Bells tolled perpetually and foghorns sounded, though there was no fog. Before midnight we were carried out of the house, each one of us in turn on Father's arm, each one worrying about our old gray cat, though Father already wading waist deep through water before he put us down in the old church which stood on the only mound for miles around.

Fortunately ebbtide came soon, and most of the dike held, but the next morning my brother and I walked with Father along the battered dike, and saw the remnants of a street which had been swept entirely into the canal, and even stood and watched men lift the body of a woman from the canal, her long hair full of broken shell and mud, her eyes wide open and bleached. Also, there was a strange, very large fish on top of the dike, and, where the old cemetery had been, skulls and skeletons lay clean and washed in regimental order.

(1) The town was (a. below sea level; b. in a wooded country; c. in a valley; d. on a hill).

(2) (a. The writer's home; b. The church; c. A street; d. The dike) was destroyed by the storm.

(3) The people in the town were (a. keeping watch; b. running away; c. calling out; d. making noises with their shoes) all night long.

(4) The children saw (a. men; b. a fish; c. their cat; d. a woman) that had been drowned.

3. Living on a Volcano

Dwelling for untold generations in the South Sea island of Niuafoo, on the crater of a volcano, the Tongans, a group of superb Polynesians, have learned to act quickly and shrewdly in emergencies, and in recent years there has been little loss of life.

How they behavewas dramatically illustrated at 4 a. m. on July 25, 1929. A hundred or more villagers, the entire population of Futu, on the northwest coast, were awakened by a rumbling and saw fire breaking out on the hillside less than two mites to the southeast.

No time was lost. The alarm was spread in the village, and the babes in arms, the sick, and the aged were hurriedly carried off along a good road that led to the northern village of Angaha. All realized that safety lay in reaching there or the high ground of the island's circular ridge.

By eight o'clock in the morning most of the abandoned buildings were consumed by fire and buried under floods of heavy basaltic lava. Pouring into the ocean, the hot flow killed fish, sent up clouds of steam, and heaped enormous quantities of black sand along the water front.

Fringing the shore were patches of cultivated land that remained uninjured among the lava streams. In one of these the returning villagers found a few of their horses, pigs, and chickens still alive. Thanks to the prompt exodus, every one of the human inhabitants escaped.

(1) When a volcano erupted in 1929 the inhabitants of a village nearby (a. saved the whole population; b. were buried under the lava; c. abandoned the helpless; d. lost all their animals).

(2) The people of Futu (a. still live in Angaha; b. stayed in the hills; c. went back home; d. left the island in 1929).

(3) The Tongans, (a. know how to act; b. are paralyzed with fear; c. run into the ocean; d. climb the mountain) when the volcano becomes active.

(4) In 1929 the people were first warned of danger by (a. the heat of the streams of lava; b. a continuous dull noise; c. flames; d. a loud explosion).

4. The Family of the King of Abyssinia

The king stood on the top step black-silhouetted against the palace lights. The King's youngest son received me. He was 11, but a more self-possessed and ingratiating young man I have never met. "My father sends you his apologies for being late to receive you—his Somalis kept him overlong, " the boy said to me in perfect French.

The double doors at the end of the Hall of Audience swung; wide and the King walked in. And I received one of the most pleasant shocks of my life. He is less than medium height, delicately made, with small, almost fragile hands and feet. His face, curly-bearded, thin-featured, and clear pale brown, in color, keenly intelligent; his eyes speak eloquently of a generous and sympathetic heart. He wore a white satin, gold-embroidered cape and tight-fitting trousers—his informal evening outfit and shoes—the first Abyssinian I had met not barefoot. The distinguished general who had escorted me to the palace, white bearded, strewn with medals, had never in his life worn a pair of shoes.

His Ethiopean Majesty has only one wife, to whom he has been married 21 years. She entered behind him, a plump, quiet, motherly woman with no interest whatsoever in affairs of state. Behind her came the Princess Royal, 20 years old, with a most aristocratic face, and wearing a European dinner gown. Having spent her life in English and Swiss schools, she speaks English, German, and French without accent; plays Debussy on the piano, and has graceful manners that would distinguish her anywhere. Unmistakably she is a royal princess, conscious of the tradition that she is descended straight from King Solomon.

(1) (a. The King; b. The Princess; c. The Queen; d. The visitor) bad been waiting in the palace.

(2) The Prince was (a. haughty; b. courteous; c. shy; d. ill-mannered).

(3) The King's wife was (a. ignorant of government affairs; b. educated in foreign countries; c. poor in languages; d proud of her royal descent).

(4) The King's appearance showed that he (a. was weak; b. was a barbarian; c. had a good mind; d. was a good speaker).

5. Smugglers in Sussex

Washington, in Sussex County, England, was once a Saxon settlement, and during the late 18th and early 19th centuries a happy hunting ground of highwaymen. A hundred years ago smugglers used it in the transport of bales of silks and kegs of wine and brandy, landed from the luggers (small sailing ships) off-shore.

These banes of hearty ruffians knew every inch of the ground and often gave battle to the King's men. Those days saw the coast guardsman with his cutlass, the gay musketeer, the starlit night, and the lantern man signalling from the shelter of a rocky cove to the lugger lying just off-shore; the landing on the beach, the frequent fight for possession, and the dash up the cliff path. It was a time of ambushes and desperate fights, of carousing in quaint inns, a time to read about rather than to live in.

Ghosts and even demons were conscripted by the smugglers to help their unlawful cause. Fearless themselves, they realized the value of a wholesome terror for other people, and played upon the superstition and credulity of the district.

In this way grew the legend of the ghost drummer of Hurstmon-ceaux, a man of mighty frame, 12 feet tall, with a terrifying voice.

As he strode at nights near the coast line, he drummed, and in many a little cottage there was fear and trembling at his frequent marching. His thunderous notes would ring out over the marshes, and at times he would be heard drumming from the lofty battlements of the old castle.

He was a useful ghost as well, and struck no fear into the hearts of the " freetraders", waiting for the signal that all clear. No doubt the ingenious smuggler who impersonated the ghost found the whole performance highly satisfying to his sense of humor.

(1) The smugglers (a. were terrified by; b. were angry at; c. made fun of; d. made use of) a ghost.

(2) The people who lived along the sea-shore (a. were terrified by; b. were angry at; c. Made fun of; d. made use of) a ghost.

(3) The smugglers lived (a. law abiding; b. adventurous; c. honest; d. sober) lives.

(4) The government forces (a. were ignorant of; b. interfered with; c. put a stop to; d. were indifferent to) the secret landing of goods to avoid customs duties.

6. History of the Horse

The domestic ass is preeminently at home in warmer countries, as one might expect from its African origin; it is comparatively rare in colder lands, and even the climate of Central Europe does not seem to suit it. The domestic horse presents quite another problem. Although this animal avoids the tropics proper, it is otherwise widely distributed throughout the whole world. But the old world is its real home; it was there that the wild horse flourished during the glacial epoch, even passing thence into North America, But these horses of the glacial period were never domesticated. Domestication only begins in the present geological epoch, and the existence of the domestic horse in Europe cannot be definitely proved until towards the end of the later Stone Age, in many instances not until the Bronze Age. There has hitherto been no investigation into the prehistory of the period of the wild horse in Asia. It appears that, at the period when domestication began in Europe and Asia, wild horses only existed north of the great mountain chains, with the exception of the extreme west, when they seem to have crossed the Pyrenees and to have reached Spain. The habitat of the wild horse appears to have stretched eastwards from the sea-coast right across Mid Europe and Central Asia as far as Mongolia, where the last living wild horses are found today. Northwards, it reached as far as Central Sweden and Siberia. It is in this enormous region, therefore, that we must look for the home of the domestic horse.