Daia High
School
Stream: First Year Literary Classes Time
Duration: 02hours
Third Term Exam
Part One: Reading
Read the text carefully then do the activities.
Jim Hawkins? The young hero of the story, found
a packet. Some pirates tried to steal it and Jim decided to take it to Squire
Trelawney, the most important person in the village. The Squire is with Dr
Livesey.
The servant led us down a passage
and showed us at the end into a great library, all lined with bookcases, where
the Squire and Dr Livesey were sitting, pipe in hand, on either side of a
bright fire.
“And so Jim”, said the doctor, “you have the
thing that they were after, do you?”
“Here it is , sir”, I said and gave him the
packet. It had been sealed in several places. The doctor opened the seals
carefully, and there fell out a map of an island with names of hills and bays
and every particular to bring a ship to safe anchorage upon its shores. It was
about nine miles long and five across; shaped like a fat dragon standing up.
There were three crosses of red ink- two on the North part of the island, one
in the Southwest- and beside this last, these words: Bulk of treasure here.
Over on the back, the same hand had written this information:
The bar silver is in the North cache; you can
find it by the line of the East hill, ten fathoms south of the black crag with
the face on it.
That was all; but brief as it was, it filled
the Squire and the doctor with delight. And the Squire said, “Tomorrow, I start
to Bristol. In
three weeks time, we’ll have the best ship and the choicest crew in England.
Hawkins shall come as cabin-boy. You’ll make a famous cabin-boy, Hawkins! You,
Livesey, you are the ship’s doctor; I am admiral.”
Adapted from Treasure Island by R.L. Stevenson
A)
COPMREHENSION and
INTERPRETATION
1)
Are there any
quotations (direct speech) in the text? If yes, how many?
2)
Are the following
statements true or false?
a)
Pirates tried to steal the packet.
b)
Dr Livesey and the Squire were in the library.
c)
The packet contained a book.
d)
The map was dragon-like shaped.
3)
Answer these questions
according to the text.
a)
Why did Jim decide to take the packet to
Squire?
b)
What did the packet contain?
c)
How did the Squire and the doctor feel after
reading the information? Choose more than one adjective from the list:
·
exited, *disappointed, *happy, *please,
*embarrassed,*frightened,*interested,*terrified.
4)
Give a title to the
text.
5)
Find in the text
synonyms to the following words: *
mountains, *next to
B)
TEXT EXPLORATION
1)
Find in the text
opposites to: *shut, *dangerous.
2)
Complete the following
paragraph with “who, which, whom”
Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish
writer-----was born in 1850 in Edinburgh.
He wrote Treasure Island ------was a
children’s story. He is also the man------we should thank for writing Dr
Jekyll and Mr Hyde -----is a horror story.
3)
Combine the following
pairs of sentences:
a)
Stevenson was ill. He spent most of his time
travelling to find a cure for his illness.(so----that----)
b)
Stevenson trained as an engineer at first. He
gave up his studies because he was ill. (so/however)
4)
Write sentence (b) so
that it means the same as sentence (a):
a)
“I will take the packet to the Squire”, said
Jim.
b)
Jim said
that-----------------------------------------------------------------------
a)
“If we sail tomorrow, we will arrive there in
three weeks time”, said the Squire.
b)
The Squire said that
if------------------------------------------------------------
5)
Rewrite the following
paragraph starting with ‘by’
In 2060, children will forget about Treasure Island because it will be replaced by tales and
stories of robots and machines.
6)
Reorder the following
sentences to get a coherent biography of Robert Louis Stevenson:
a)
and published Treasure
Islandand Dr Kekyll and Mr Hyde
b)
he died in 1894
c)
R.L.Stevenson was a Scottish writer
d)
he
trained as an engineer
e)
he took up law to become a lawyer in 1875
f)
but because he got ill
g)
born in 1850 in Edinburgh
h)
by this time, he decided to become a writer
Part
Two: Written Expression
Choose only one topic.
Topic one:
The Squire,
the doctor and Jim are going to sail to the Treasure
Island. But some pirates on their ship follow them to steal the
map from them. Imagine what will happen.
Topic two:
You have
certainly read many books and stories. Choose one of them (give the title) and
say why you liked it or you didn’t like it.
موضوع: اختبار الفصل الثالث في الانجليزية للسنة اولى ثانوي آداب 
الإثنين فبراير 08 2010, 22:08
