Skólaskýrsla 1995 - Verzlunarskóli Íslands

GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT
Replace the underlined words with the correct form of the most suitable phrasal
verbs selected from the following list:
bear out; beat up; blow over; bring off; draw up; hold up; iron out; keep on; make
off; make over; put up; run through; strike off; take off; tell off.
19 Charles used to mimic him ____________.
20 Several people are prepared to corroborate ___________ what she says.
21 The scandal was soon forgotten ___________.
NEWSBRIEF
22 Mohammed strove ___________ to overcome opposition.
23 The Monopolies ___________ and Mergers Commission is an independent body which
is called upon by the British government to investigate situations . . .
24 This marked a formal end to the former dissident’s __________ years of persecution.
MACBETH
At the beginning of the play the witches chant “Fair is foul, and foul is fair” (Ii 11) and
just before Macbeth meets with the witches he says: “So foul and fair a day I have not
seen” (Iiii 38).
25 Explain the significance of Macbeth’s echoing the witches and in what way is this
a foreboding (prediction) of what is to come
Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be
What thou art promised - Yet do I fear thy nature:
It is too full o’the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great;
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly,
That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false,
And yet wouldst wrongly win. (I,v:13)
26 Who says the above and what does that person mean by the underlined passage
He chid the sisters
When first they put the name of king upon me,
And bade them speak to him; then, prophet-like,
They hailed him father to a line of kings.
Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown,
And put a barren sceptre in my gripe,
Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand,
No son of mine succeeding.
27 Paraphrase the underlined passage.
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
28 When does the story of Catherine and Heathcliff take place
a) late 15 th century
b) late 16 th century
c) late 17 th century
d) late 18 th century
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