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UNIT 1
Questions 1 - 4
First Passage
"Yes, of
course, if its fine tomorrow", said Mrs Ramsay. "But you'll have to be up with
the lark" she added. To her son these words conveyed an extraordinary joy, as
if the expedition were bound to take place, and the wonder to which he had
looked forward, for years and years it seemed, was, after a night's darkness
and a day's sail, within touch. Since he belonged, even at the age of six, to
that great clan which cannot keep this feeling separate from that, but must let
future prospects, with their joys and sorrows, cloud what is actually at hand,
since to such people even in earliest childhood any change in the wheel of
sensation has the power to crystallise and transfix the moment upon which its
gloom or radiance rests, James Ramsay, sitting on the floor cutting out
pictures from the illustrated catalogue of the Army and Navy stores, endowed
the picture of a refrigerator as his mother spoke with heavenly bliss. It was
fringed with joy. The wheelbarrow, the lawn mower, the sound of poplar trees,
leaves whitening before rain, rooks cawing, brooms knocking, dresses rustling,
- all these were so coloured and distinguished in his mind that he had already
his private code, his secret language, though he appeared the image of stark
and uncompromising severity, with his high forehead and his fierce blue eyes,
impeccably candid and pure, frowning slightly at the sight of human frailty, so
that his mother, watching him guide his scissors neatly around the
refrigerator, imagined him all red and ermine on the Bench or directing a stern
and momentous enterprise in some crisis of public affairs.
Question 1
Consider the sentence "It was fringed with
joy" from the middle of the paragraph above.
This sentence refers to:-
A"...the wonder to which he had looked forward, for years and
years it seemed..."
B the various elements in James Ramsay`s
experience
C the sound of his Mother`s voice
D the
picture of the refrigerator.
Question 2
The wheelbarrow,
the lawn mower, the sound of poplar trees, leaves whitening before rain, rooks
cawing, brooms knocking, dresses rustling….".
These items are listed
together because;-
A All the items naturally go together by
virtue of belonging to the same environment
B They all represent
sounds
C They are all items in James Ramsay`s awareness
D
The author wants to link together as many items as possible, so as to connect
the opening of the paragraph to its conclusion.
Question 3
The passage is most concerned with depicting a psychological tendency
towards
A Projection
B Distortion
C
Obsession
D Irrationality
Question 4
"From the
author`s point of view, the primary reason that James Ramsay`s mother"
...Imagined him all red and ermine on the Bench" is because:
A
The image prepares us for the heavy judgemental tone of the second
passage
B The image suits the fact that he looks distant and
serious
C James Ramsay looks different from the way that he
feels
D Mrs Ramsay sees the world very differently from her
son
SECTION
ANSWERS
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