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1 QUESITI CLASSE A345 A346 INGLESE n. 2 Read the following passage and put a cross on the letter of de sentence which you consider most appropriate on Your answer paper. I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents. I was sent to a public school, I wasted two years doing my national service, I went to oxford; and there I began to discover I was not person I wanted to be. I had long before made the discovery that I lacked the parents and ancestors I needed. My father was through being the right age at the right age at the right time rather than through any great professional talent, a senior army officer; and my mother was the very model of a would be Major generals wife. That is, she never argued with him and always behaved as if he were listening in the next room, even when he was thousands of miles away. Like all men not really up to their job, he was a stickler for external and petty quotidian things; and in lieu of an intellect he had accumulated an armory of capitalized Key-word like Discipline and tradition and Responsibility. If I ever dared- I seldom did to argue with him, he would produce one of these totem words and cosh me with as no doubt in similar circumstances he cosched his subordinates. If one still refused to lie down and die. He lost, or loosed, his temper. His temper was like a violent red dog, and he always had it close to hand. During my last years at school, I realized that what was really wrong with my parents was that they had nothing but a blanket contempt for the sort of life I wanted to lead. I was good ad English, I had poems printed pseudonymously in the school magazine I thought. D.H. Lawrence then greatest human being of the century. My parents had certainly never read Lawrence, and probably never heard of him. There were things, a certain emotional gentleness in my mother, an occasional euphoric jolliness in my father, I could have borne providers, for whom I couldn t feel much else. I led two lives. At school I got a small reputation as a wartime aesthete and cynic. But I had to join the regiment- Tradition and Sacrifice press ganged me into that. I insisted, and luckily the headmaster of my school backed me, that I wanted to go to university after the army. 1) The author says a) he was happy with his parents and ancestors b) had known for a long time he didn t have the ancestors he wanted c) he didn t have ancestors d) he had recently realized he respected his parents 2) The author s father: a) had an unsuccessful career b) had been lucky in his career c) was married to a major- generals daughter d) was young for his age 3) The author s father a) was an i8ntelligent man b) often lost his temper with his dog c) was very capable in his job d) believe strongly in discipline 1

I was sent to a public school, I wasted two years doing my national service, I went to oxford; and there I began to discover I was not person I wanted to be.

2 4) The author s parents: a) had much in common with the author b) completely rejected the author s proposed life style c) were both very unhappy people d) frequently gave the author book tokens as presents 5) The author a)refused to join the army b)had a headmaster who helped c) was obliged to join the army d) believed in traditional ideals at school COMPETENZA LINGUISTICA Choose the most appropriate item to fill the gap from the alternatives below 6) I meant book, but the shop was shut. a) to buy b) buy c) bought d) buying 7) his doctor advised him smoking a) giving up b) give up c) to give up d) given up 8) it was a difficult problem, bu8t he worked a solution a) of b) out c) by d) out of 9) At school I Wasn t very keen studying a) In b) of c) on d) to 10) The two thieves in a stolen car a) got away b) carried away c) gave away d) took away 2

appropriate item to fill the gap from the alternatives below 6) I meant book, but the shop was shut.

3 11) yesterday Peter us a lift in his car a) made b) did c) too d) gave 12) By next tear we to speak Italian fluently a) used b) will be able c) can d) could 13) In no circumstance this light switch a)you must put at b) must you put at c) must you turn on d) you must to put in 14) she s a tipical teenager who just thinks about what s best for herself! a) self b) selfmost c) selfish d) overself 15) It s very late, it s time a) we left b) to leaving c) we will leave d) leave LETTERATURA E CIVILTA INGLESE Read the following questions and mark with a cross the most appropriate answer on YOUR answer paper 16) Hermeneutics is: a) the science concerning the principles and methods of the interpretation of literary texts b) the study of esoteric level of meaning of literary texts c) the study of the arrangement of words in a sentence and of sentences in a paragraph d) the study of the method for comparing different version of a text 17) We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep These lines are taken from a) Shelley s Ode to the West Wind b) Shakespeare s The Tempest c) Keat s Endymion d) Tennyson s Ulysses 3

a) self b) selfmost c) selfish d) overself 15) It s very late, it s time a) we left b) to leaving c) we will leave d) leave LETTERATURA E CIVILTA INGLESE Read the following questions and mark with a

4 18) Which of these stories deals with the Doppelgänger Theme? a) R. L. Stevenson s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde b) D.H. Lawrence s Sons and Lovers c) H.G. Well s The Time Machine d) E. Gaskell s Cranford 19) Which is correct chronological order of the following works? a) Animal Farm. The picture of Dorian Gray, Frankenstein, the French Lieutenant s Woman hard Times b) the French Lieutenant s Woman, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Animal Farm, The French Lieutenant s Woman, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Animal Farm, The French Lieutenant s Woman c) Frankenstein, Hard Times, The picture of Dorian Gray,Animal Farm, The French Lieutenant s Woman d) The Picture of Dorian Gray, Hard Times, Frankenstein, The French Lieutenant Woman, Animal Farm 20) An Acrostic is: a) arrangement of words in which certain letters in each line, such as the first or the last, when taken in order, spell out a word, a motto, etc b) a riddle presented in short poem c) a bitter satire, usually dealing with a political subject d) a line in which all the stressed words begin by the same letter 21) The correct name of Britain is a) The United Kingdom of England, Scotland and Wales b) The United Kingdom of England of Great Britain and Northern Ireland c) The United of Kingdom of England, Scotland Wales and Eire d) The United of Kingdom of England, Wales and Ireland 22) The right of Habeas Corpus a) is suspended in the case of suspected terroristic b) has never been suspended c) has been removed from the civil code d) was contained in the Magna Charta 23) Which of the following countries uses common low a) Italy, France b) U.S.A., England; Australia c) England, Greece d) England Turkey 24) Georgian poets belong to a) the Augustan Age b) the Puritan Age c) the early 20 th century d) the Victorian Age 4

The picture of Dorian Gray, Frankenstein, the French Lieutenant s Woman hard Times b) the French Lieutenant s Woman, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Animal Farm, The French Lieutenant s Woman, The

5 25) A. Pope s The Rape of the Lock is a) a heroic tragedy b) an epic poem c) a mock-heroic poem d) an elegy 26) The author of Moby Dick is: a) E. Hemingway b) in the Elizabethan Age c) H. Melville d) M. Twain 27) The Comedy of manners Flourished a) in the Age of Chaucer b) in the Elizabethan Age c) during the restoration d) after the Second world War 28) The Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott is from a) Australia b) British West Indies c) South Africa d) Canada 29) Choose the correct statement a) a distinct feature of post modernism is faith in progress, truth, authority an d hierarchy b) in Postmodernist fiction the narrator strives to make himself invisible in order to achieve a status of perfect objectivity and impersonality c) the aesthetics of Postmodernism is based on the idea that the writer s aim must be to give a coherent, consistent, unified presentation of reality d) postmodernism works are characterized by epistemological and ontological skepticism, and their aim is not present the real world, but possible, virtual ones 30) Which critical current claim that every decoding is another encoding and that, consequently, a definitive interpretation of the text can never be achieved? a) structuralism b) New criticism c) the Rezeptioncritik d) Deconstructionism 5

Twain 27) The Comedy of manners Flourished a) in the Age of Chaucer b) in the Elizabethan Age c) during the restoration d) after the Second world War 28) The Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott is from a)

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