UNIBEN English Language 2012/2013 Past Questions

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Question 1
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow
This book consists of lectures given by me at Cambridge. Though they have been largely written. I have kept a good deal of there original-from, as being (I hope) rather less formal and less dogmatic. For tom dogmatism, those who write on language seem, for some reason, particularly prone; and I should like to make it clear at once that, if at times I have put my views strongly, I do not forget that such matters of taste must remain mere matters of opinion.
In addition I have included a good many specimen passages from various authors. Perhaps I have quoted too much. But a book on styles without abundant examples seems to me as ineffectual as a book on art, or biology, without abundant illustrations. Many of these, passages are in French. That maybe Gallo mania on my part: and I must apologize if they trouble some readers. But some abilities to read French prose does seems to me most desirable for anyone who would write-well in English. I have tried to choose pieces not too difficult in syntax or vocabulary. And in these days less than ever can we afford to be insular
according to the author (in the preface) the book is
  • A.the original version of his Cambridge lectures
  • B.a revised version of his Cambridge lectures
  • C.an imitation of his Cambridge lectures
  • D.anegation of his Cambridge lectures
Objective
Question 2
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow
This book consists of lectures given by me at Cambridge. Though they have been largely written. I have kept a good deal of there original-from, as being (I hope) rather less formal and less dogmatic. For tom dogmatism, those who write on language seem, for some reason, particularly prone; and I should like to make it clear at once that, if at times I have put my views strongly, I do not forget that such matters of taste must remain mere matters of opinion.
In addition I have included a good many specimen passages from various authors. Perhaps I have quoted too much. But a book on styles without abundant examples seems to me as ineffectual as a book on art, or biology, without abundant illustrations. Many of these, passages are in French. That maybe Gallo mania on my part: and I must apologize if they trouble some readers. But some abilities to read French prose does seems to me most desirable for anyone who would write-well in English. I have tried to choose pieces not too difficult in syntax or vocabulary. And in these days less than ever can we afford to be insular
the author says that writers on language are
  • A.inclined to be dogmatic
  • B.opposed to dogmatism
  • C.unlikely to be dogmatic
  • D.resolved to be dogmatic
Objective
Question 3
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow
This book consists of lectures given by me at Cambridge. Though they have been largely written. I have kept a good deal of there original-from, as being (I hope) rather less formal and less dogmatic. For tom dogmatism, those who write on language seem, for some reason, particularly prone; and I should like to make it clear at once that, if at times I have put my views strongly, I do not forget that such matters of taste must remain mere matters of opinion.
In addition I have included a good many specimen passages from various authors. Perhaps I have quoted too much. But a book on styles without abundant examples seems to me as ineffectual as a book on art, or biology, without abundant illustrations. Many of these, passages are in French. That maybe Gallo mania on my part: and I must apologize if they trouble some readers. But some abilities to read French prose does seems to me most desirable for anyone who would write-well in English. I have tried to choose pieces not too difficult in syntax or vocabulary. And in these days less than ever can we afford to be insular
in the author's opinion, a book on styles
  • A.inclined to be dogmatic
  • B.need not have any examples
  • C.is a book on art
  • D.will be ineffectual with insufficient examples
Objective
Question 4
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow
This book consists of lectures given by me at Cambridge. Though they have been largely written. I have kept a good deal of there original-from, as being (I hope) rather less formal and less dogmatic. For tom dogmatism, those who write on language seem, for some reason, particularly prone; and I should like to make it clear at once that, if at times I have put my views strongly, I do not forget that such matters of taste must remain mere matters of opinion.
In addition I have included a good many specimen passages from various authors. Perhaps I have quoted too much. But a book on styles without abundant examples seems to me as ineffectual as a book on art, or biology, without abundant illustrations. Many of these, passages are in French. That maybe Gallo mania on my part: and I must apologize if they trouble some readers. But some abilities to read French prose does seems to me most desirable for anyone who would write-well in English. I have tried to choose pieces not too difficult in syntax or vocabulary. And in these days less than ever can we afford to be insular
to write English well, the author says it is helpful to
  • A.be able to write French fairly well
  • B.be able to read French fairly well
  • C.to know French thoroughly
  • D.be able to read English well
Objective
Question 5
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow
This book consists of lectures given by me at Cambridge. Though they have been largely written. I have kept a good deal of there original-from, as being (I hope) rather less formal and less dogmatic. For tom dogmatism, those who write on language seem, for some reason, particularly prone; and I should like to make it clear at once that, if at times I have put my views strongly, I do not forget that such matters of taste must remain mere matters of opinion.
In addition I have included a good many specimen passages from various authors. Perhaps I have quoted too much. But a book on styles without abundant examples seems to me as ineffectual as a book on art, or biology, without abundant illustrations. Many of these, passages are in French. That maybe Gallo mania on my part: and I must apologize if they trouble some readers. But some abilities to read French prose does seems to me most desirable for anyone who would write-well in English. I have tried to choose pieces not too difficult in syntax or vocabulary. And in these days less than ever can we afford to be insular
our understanding of the last sentence in the passage is that we
  • A.can now afford to be insular
  • B.can be insular in future
  • C.cannot afford to be insular
  • D.must never be insular
Objective