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Passage II 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 …We went there every year for our summer holidays. I do not suppose, now, that it was a very large house, but it seemed enormous then. I had a nursery on the top floor and every morning I woke up there, except for the day or two before the horrid end of the holidays, seemed a renewal of happiness. In my memory the sun always shone at Blithbury though I do not think there was really anything especially remarkable about the climate in Staffordshire in the 1920s. My parents lived in the South of France for most of the year. It was their home, but for me home was not on the Riviera but at Blithbury. When I went there twice a year on leave from school, I would be looked after by my redoubtable 1 aunt, who lived there all the time and was the merriest of spinsters 2 . When the car collecting me from the station turned the corner into the little park and I saw the house in the distance I would feel I was back where I belonged. I remember the house with almost painful clarity. I am sure it was Blithbury that gave me the feeling for beauty which for me is one of the most important values in the world. Everything there was calculated to please, from the panelled hall with its portraits of our rather brief lineage supplemented by a few eighteenth-century ladies and gentlemen who came with the house, to the narrow, creaking housemaids’ corridor, scrubbed by generations of Staffordshire lasses. My aunt kept the house in impeccable order, and it was filled with a sense of cleanliness and care. It had a smell of beeswax, and soap, and roses, and old leather, at least I suppose those were the ingredients. I have hardly found that smell anywhere else and nowadays it probably scarcely exists. The library was my favourite room. It had been added to an older house in the late eighteenth century, by James Wyatt 3 we liked to think. It retained its original bookcases and a marble chimneypiece with rams’ heads in the corners, and everything in the room, the curtains, the carpets, the backs of the books, seemed to have faded to the same soft honey colour. It had a large table for a dozen readers, but there were seldom any readers there apart from me. Even on the brightest days, when sun and sports beckoned, I found myself drawn to the library, wanting to read everything in the world, impelled by the pleasures and dangers and excitements awaiting me between the covers of books. It became known as my room, and when I was needed someone always looked for me in the library. The garden I loved almost as much. The house stood on a little hill, with hanging woods (on a modest scale) beneath it. Stretching to the south was a series of lakes, connected by streams with little bridges over them. Huge elms overhung the lakes, and in summer when one rowed or punted around, one seemed to be in an enchanted landscape, shaded by great trees, with lapping water all around one and in the distance the prospect of smiling countryside where nonetheless giants might lurk. During those afternoons, the lakes would be almost silent, with only the wood pigeons to disturb the stillness. Recently, the house was destroyed. Nobody wants to live now in a place devoted to beauty, and elegance, and peace. They prefer to live in bungalows 4 along the arterial road. And with the house my childhood disappeared, too. —Giles Waterfield excerpted from The Long Afternoon, 2000 Review 1 redoubtable — inspiring reverence 2 spinster — an unmarried woman 3 James Wyatt — a famous eighteenth-century architect 4 bungalow — a one-story cottage Comp. Eng. — Session Two – Aug. ’08 [5] [OVER]
Multiple-Choice Questions Directions (1–10): Select the best suggested answer to each question and write its number in the space provided on the answer sheet. The questions may help you think about the ideas and information you might want to use in your essay. You may return to these questions anytime you wish. Passage I (the autobiographical excerpt) — Questions 1–5 refer to Passage I. Passage II (the novel excerpt) — Questions 6–10 refer to Passage II. 1 The narrator originally views his move to college as a benefit because he can (1) earn more money (2) have new experiences (3) meet some celebrities (4) make many friends 2 In lines 22 and 23, the narrator’s return to the family brings about a change in his (1) self-image (3) time schedule (2) personal finances (4) well-being 6 The narrator is telling the story of Blithbury Hall from the perspective of (1) an owner (3) a developer (2) an adult (4) a judge 7 Where does the narrator believe that his appreciation of beauty was developed? (1) in his aunt’s mansion (2) at a French villa (3) at his boarding school (4) in a local bungalow 3 In lines 30 and 31, the nature of change on farms is emphasized through the use of (1) personification (3) irony (2) simile (4) hyperbole 8 The narrator reinforces the idea of “cleanliness and care” (line 20) through his use of (1) situational irony (3) sensory imagery (2) direct quotation (4) extended metaphor 4 In lines 33 through 36, the narrator implies that decisions about farms are primarily driven by (1) economics (3) weather (2) education (4) legislation 5 The narrator believes that the poet’s criticism of the valley is based on the poet’s (1) environmental activity (2) prejudiced acquaintances (3) difficult childhood (4) limited viewpoint 9 In line 40, the word “giants” seems to suggest a (1) sailor’s warning (2) future problem (3) child’s imagination (4) modern achievement 10 According to the narrator, Blithbury Hall was destroyed because of (1) financial problems (3) ongoing wars (2) natural disasters (4) current attitudes After you have finished these questions, turn to page 2. Review Your Task and the Guidelines. Use scrap paper to plan your response. Then write your response to Part A, beginning on page 1 of your essay booklet. After you finish your response for Part A, go on to page 7 of your examination booklet and complete Part B. Comp. Eng. — Session Two – Aug. ’08 [6]
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