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11+英语
ENGLISH – SECTION A
Questions
1. Which statement best describes the picture of England given in the first paragraph?
A. People boasted of how they were not afraid of the violent robberies
B. Violent robberies were frequent and people were afraid
C. People wore disguises so their bravery was not recognised
D. People boasted of how good their disguises were
Your answer: ___________________
2. Where did most of the robberies occur?
A. In Turnham Green
B. Outside London
C. In London
D. In St Giles’ church
Your answer: ___________________
3. What is the effect of the writer’s use of semi‐colons in this paragraph?
A. To make the narrator seem out of breath for effect
B. To ensure that the sentences do not get too long
C. To build up long descriptive sentences for effect
D. To show that each sentence follows on from the last
Your answer: ___________________
4. What do you understand by the following phrase: ‘the highwayman in the dark was a City tradesman in the light’?
A. Highwaymen do the same work as City traders
B. City tradesmen turned out the lights for highwaymen
C. City tradesmen have to work two jobs to survive
D. A City tradesman might rob people at night
Your answer: ___________________
5. What happens to the mail?
A. A bloody shootout occurs, after which no‐one resists further robberies
B. A bloody shootout occurs, after which no‐one dares rob the mail
C. A bloody shootout occurs, after which peace is restored
D. A bloody shootout occurs, after which a peaceful silence ensues
Your answer: ___________________
6. What are we told regarding the Mayor of London?
A. The Mayor shows a great deal of potential delivering a speech on Turnham Green
B. The Mayor is forced to deliver mail to Turnham Green because there are no postmen
C. The Mayor is robbed on Turnham Green and humiliated in front of his followers
D. The Mayor is robbed on Turnham Green and delivers a speech showing his potential to his
followers
Your answer: ___________________
7. What do you understand by the phrase ‘nobody thought any of these occurrences much out of the common way’?
A. Common people did not think much about these events
B. Common people did not go out of their way to consider these incidents
C. People thought that these events were not common
D. People thought that these incidents were common
Your answer: ___________________
8. What is the effect of the opening sentence of paragraph two?
A. To move the story on from London to Dover
B. To move the story on to specific events
C. To give a sense of the history behind the narrative
D. To introduce the history of the mail business
Your answer: ___________________
9. Which of the following is the best synonym for the word ‘lumbered’ in this context?
A. Climbed
B. Burdened
C. Plodded
D. Loaded
Your answer: ___________________
10. Which word in the second or third paragraph emphasises how muddy the road is?
A. Reek
B. Mire
C. Tremulous
D. Clammy
Your answer: ___________________
11. From where has the coach come?
A. Dover
B. Shooter’s Hill
C. Blackheath
D. Turnham Green
Your answer: ___________________
12. Why are the passengers walking?
A. They wanted to get some exercise
B. They were scared of being trapped inside by robbers
C. The horses had decided to stop
D. The horses could not pull them and everything else
Your answer: ___________________
13. Who is feeling ‘mutinous’?
A. The passengers
B. The horses
C. The driver
D. The highwaymen
Your answer: ___________________
14. What do you think the word ‘capitulated’ means in this context?
A. Gave in
B. Returned to the capital city
C. Agreed
D. Considered their options
Your answer: ________
15. What do you understand by the last sentence of paragraph two?
A. After a rest, the horses are refreshed and continue walking
B. The horses are terrified of the coachman
C. The horses are exhausted and find continuing the journey difficult
D. The horses want to continue but they are stuck in the mud
Your answer: ___________________
16. What technique is the writer using when he says ‘as if they were falling to pieces at the larger joints’?
A. Metaphor
B. Simile
C. Personification
D. Analogy
Your answer: ___________________
17. What type of words are ‘mashed’, ‘floundering’ and ‘stumbling’?
A. Prepositions
B. Adjectives
C. Adverbs
D. Verbs
Your answer: ___________________
18. ‘There was a steaming mist in all the hollows, and it had roamed in its forlornness up the hill, like an evil spirit, seeking rest and finding none’ – what two techniques are used in this sentence?
A. Simile and metaphor
B. Metaphor and personification
C. Simile and personification
D. Metaphor and analogy
Your answer: ___________________
19. What is the narrative effect of the description of the mist in paragraph three?
A. It makes it seem like a horror story
B. The lack of visibility contributes to the tension
C. It helps the reader see a picture in his or her mind of the mist
D. It makes it clear that there is a highwayman hidden in the mist
Your answer: ___________________
20. What does the writer imply through the following statement: ‘each was hidden under almost as many wrappers from the eyes of the mind, as from the eyes of the body’?
A. They were covered from head to toe in clothing
B. Their eyes were covered so they could not see
C. Their imaginations were affected by the mist and cold
D. They revealed nothing to each other because they were suspicious
Your answer: ___________________
21. Which statement best describes the character of the coachman?
A. Friendly, impatient and nervous
B. Friendly, patient and nervous
C. Irritated, impatient and nervous
D. Irritated, patient and nervous
Your answer: ___________________
22. Why is the coachman ‘vexed’?
A. He can hear people approaching
B. He is afraid they will be shot
C. He feels they are going too slowly
D. He does not get on with the guard
Your answer: ___________________
23. What is the effect of the short sentences at the end of the passage?
A. It makes the coachman and guard seem tense and fearful
B. It makes it easier to read
C. It shows that the coachman and guard are not very clever
D. It slows down the pace of the passage, allowing the reader to think more carefully
Your answer: ___________________
24. How does the writer build tension at the end of this passage?
A. He deliberately confuses the reader with a lot of detail
B. He does not tell the reader who is approaching through the mist
C. He does not tell the reader who is on the coach
D. He deliberately provides a minimum of detail to the reader
Your answer: ___________________
25. What do you think an ‘adjuration’ is, based upon the context?
A. A desperate request
B. A whispered order
C. A movement
D. A fearful thought
Your answer: ___________________
ENGLISH – SECTION B
TASK:
Continue the story, recounting what happens next as the passengers on the coach find out what is coming towards them.
Spend 5 minutes planning your writing in the box below
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