1. - Webs · William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was ـــــــــــــــــــــــ after a failed love affair. With both care and ـــــــــــــــــــــــ,

Grade 12 - English 2nd Semester Revision Page ( 1 )

Second Semester Revision

A- Vocabulary

1. Almost all of us ـــــــــــــــــــــــ phrases from British poets. However, our theft of their words may be considered a tribute to their genius. (A) feign (B) allay (C) finesse (D) revile (E) purloin 2. A British poet who wished to remain anonymous could use a ـــــــــــــــــــــــ. (A) banality (B) pseudo.nym (C) finesse (D) nemesis (E) mesmerism 3. Although some modem readers find his writing heavy-handed and lacking subtlety, others think poet and essayist John Milton" (1608-1674) wrote with great ـــــــــــــــــــــــ. (A) finesse (B) banality (C) bellicosity (D) glibness (E) nemesis 4. Satirist Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was a master of the ـــــــــــــــــــــــ. His satires, which ridicule conventions of his day, are still considered to be among the best ever written. (A) lampoon (B) finesse (C) nemesis (D) propriety (E) euphemism 5. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was ـــــــــــــــــــــــ after a failed love affair. With both care and his friend and fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) helped Wordsworth move ,ـــــــــــــــــــــــbeyond his sadness and despair. (A)glib .. lampoon (B) lugubrious ... finesse (C) banal ... nemesis (D) nefarious ... glibness (E) bellicose ... finesse


6. Much of Robert Burns's (1759-1796) poetry is about the everyday, even ـــــــــــــــــــــــ, events experienced by ordinary people. (A) glib (B) nefarious, (C) banal (D) lugubrious (E) bellicose 7. The shy Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) and the aggressive, almost ـــــــــــــــــــــــ Arthur Henry Hallam (1811-1833) were friends. Hallam's early death left Tennyson ـــــــــــــــــــــــ and heartbroken for years. (A) bellicose ... lugul1rious (B) glib ... nefarious (C) nefarious ... banal (D) banal ... lugubrious (E) banal ... bellicose 8. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1192-1822) believed that the good could triumph over the ـــــــــــــــــــــــ. He himself worked as the __ of evil in order to vindicate oppressed people. (A) glib ... finesse (B) lampoon ... pseudonym (C) banal ... lampoon (D) bellicose... finesse (E) nefarious…nemesis 9. Among -the memorable characters created by William Shakespeare are the angry, ـــــــــــــــــــــــ Tybalt and the witty, Jovial Falstaff, whose ability to ـــــــــــــــــــــــ people and situations help make him a comic figure. (A) bellicose ... lampoon (B) nefarious ... finesse (C) glib…purloin (D) lugubrious... lampoon (E) bellicose ... purloin 10. Tuberculosis was John Keats's (1795-1821) ـــــــــــــــــــــــ. Knowing that the disease was killing him, he wrote poetry that was sincere, not (A) nemesis ... glib (B) pseudonym ... bellicose (C) lampoon ... lugubrious (D) finesse ... banal (E) nemesis ... nefarious


11. Mrs. Epstein's plan for the seminar in our English literature class was ـــــــــــــــــــــــ until she made a resolution to focus on Mary Wollstonecraft's feminist views. (A) nebulous (B) phlegmatic (C) distraught (D) abject (E) commensurate 12. When they heard what the topic was, students were at first ـــــــــــــــــــــــ, but they became actively interested when they learned more about Wollstonecraft's ideas. (A) commensurate (B) prosaic (C) omniscient (D) phlegmatic (E) abject 13. Each day our discussions grew more lively, becoming ـــــــــــــــــــــــ with our increased knowledge of Wollstonecraft's writings. (A) abject (B) prosaic (C) commensurate (D) distraught (E) nebulous 14. "Wollstonecraft flew in the face of ـــــــــــــــــــــــ," Mrs. Epstein said, "for she openly criticized traditional ideas." (A) nebulousness (B) abjection (C) euphemism (D) commensuration (E) propriety 15. "Wollstonecraft was distressed, or ـــــــــــــــــــــــ , over injustices suffered by women she knew. Her pain was ـــــــــــــــــــــــ with, or proportionate to, her awareness of inequalities." (A) distraught ... commensurate (B) prosaic ... abject (C) nebulous ... phlegmatic (D) commensurate ... distraught (E) nebulous ... abject


16. "Look around," Mrs. Epstein said. "There are miserable people living in ـــــــــــــــــــــــ poverty, and there are women whose jobs are not ـــــــــــــــــــــــ with, or equal to, their abilities." (A) commensurate ... nebulous (B) distraught ... phlegmatic (C) phlegmatic ... abject (D) abject ... commensurate (E) euphemistic ... distraught 17. One of our classmates, Ruben Pare, is idealistic and sensitive, which is really just a(n) ـــــــــــــــــــــــ for "hopelessly romantic." (A) admonishment (B) euphemism (C) commensuration (D) propriety (E) abjection 18. Ruben was upset when Bruce, a true chauvinist, ـــــــــــــــــــــــ Wollstonecraft for her feminist ideals. Ruben ـــــــــــــــــــــــ Bruce for his narrow minded views, politely censuring him. (A) reviled ... absolved (B) admonished ... inveigled (C) reviled ... admonished (D) feigned ... reviled (E) admonished ... purloined 19. Bruce does not like to be reproved, but he accepted Ruben's ـــــــــــــــــــــــ without becoming angry. However, I could tell that Ruben was ـــــــــــــــــــــــ that such attitudes still exist. (A) propriety ... nebulous (B) abjection ... phlegmatic (C) euphemism ... commensurate (D) revilement ... prosaic (E) admonishment ... distraught 20. "Whether people lead ordinary, ـــــــــــــــــــــــ lives or extraordinary ones/they should be treated with respect. We should all care about women's rights," Ruben concluded. (A) phlegmatic (B) nebulous (C) prosaic (D) distraught (E) euphemistic


21. The longer we stayed, the more convinced I was that Mr. Brice was ـــــــــــــــــــــــ, masquerading as someone else. (A) cognizant (B) discursive (C) incognito (D) fortuitous (E) assimilated 22. We did not see anyone else for the next twenty-four· hours, but I was ـــــــــــــــــــــــ of presences and equally conscious that people were watching us. (A) discursive (B) cognizant (C) farcical (D) incognito (E) omniscient 23. You may think this merely ـــــــــــــــــــــــ, but I had goose bumps over every inch of my body. (A) ennui (B) incognito (C) mesmerism (D) assimilation (E) hyperbole 24. The next day, I wandered around the gloomy ruins behind the castle and wondered how my family could avoid being ـــــــــــــــــــــــ into this strange place. Its eerie atmosphere made me think that we were all in danger of being absorbed by this strange community. (A) farcical (B) cognizant (C) omniscient (D) assimilated (E) discursive 25. Now my father had become ـــــــــــــــــــــــ rambling in a disconnected way about how we had found ourselves here. (A) discursive (B) omniscient (C) fortuitous (D) farcical (E) cognizant


26. Eric was bored and complained of ـــــــــــــــــــــــ, so I told him to go outside. To use ـــــــــــــــــــــــ, he ran out as swiftly as a cheetah. (A) mesmerism ... ennui (B) hyperbole ... mesmerism (C) ennui ... hyperbole (D) incognito ... omniscience (E) discursiveness ... incognito 27. It was lucky, or ـــــــــــــــــــــــ, that I happened to be outside just when Eric vanished into the woods. I ran after him but soon realized I was involved in a(n) ـــــــــــــــــــــــ , or preposterous, chase. Eric had vanished. (A) cognizant ... discursive (B) fortuitous ... farcical (C) farcical ... incognito (D) incognito ... cognizant (E) discursive ... omniscient 28. I wished I were ـــــــــــــــــــــــ, able to know not only what was happening to Eric but to everyone else as well. I was afraid that my father had fallen under the hypnotic spell, or ـــــــــــــــــــــــ, of Mr. Brice. (A) farcical ... ennui (B) incognito ... hyperbole (C) discursive ... ennui (D) omniscient ... mesmerism (E) fortuitous ... hyperbole 29. I wanted to be completely aware, fully ـــــــــــــــــــــــ of our circumstances. That could help me figure out a way to get us out of this once ـــــــــــــــــــــــ but now serious situation. (A) discursive ... fortuitous (B) farcical ... incognito (C) fortuitous; .. cognizant (D), assimilative ... discursive (E) cognizant ... farcical 30. If only I could be ـــــــــــــــــــــــ! If I were all-knowing, I could not be fooled by anyone, whether openly identified or ـــــــــــــــــــــــ. (A) omniscient ... incognito (B) discursive ... cognizant (C) farcical ... omniscient' (D) fortuitous ... discursive (E) mesmerized ... incognito


31. Shakespeare borrowed from other works and was ـــــــــــــــــــــــ, aptly combining stories from different sources. (A) choleric (B) blazoned (C) adroit (D) despotic (E) gratuitous 23. Shakespeare took the idea of the murder of Duncan from a historical account of the murder of King Duff by Donwald, an ambitious, angry, and ـــــــــــــــــــــــ subject. (A) despotic (B) blazoned (C) choleric (D) expatriated (E) prosaic 33. In the play, Macbeth takes on some of the dark traits associated with the historical Donwald. Like Donwald, Macbeth pretends to be more courageous than he actually is; he uses ـــــــــــــــــــــــ to hide his fears. (A) colloquy (B) blazon (C) conference (D) bravado (E) expatriation 34. The witches' prophecies stimulate, rather than ـــــــــــــــــــــــ, Macbeth's ambitious design to become king. No longer in doubt, he begins to plot. (A) blazon (B) expatriate (C) adroit (D) feign (E) allay 35. Shakespeare's witches ـــــــــــــــــــــــ an interest in helping people, but actually they are expert, or .at deceiving those to whom they reveal their prophecies ,ـــــــــــــــــــــــ(A) blazon ... choleric (B) blazon ... despotic (C) allay ... choleric (D) expatriate ... adroit (E) feign ... adroit


36. Shakespeare's ـــــــــــــــــــــــ, inventive descriptions make it easy to picture armies proudly displaying their ـــــــــــــــــــــــ , or coats of arms. (A) choleric ... bravado. (B) adroit ... blazons (C) despotic ... expatriates (D) fortuitous ... adroitness (E) sanguine ... bravado 37. If King James I attended a play, it was a major event that would have been ـــــــــــــــــــــــ throughout England. The king disliked long plays, so to ـــــــــــــــــــــــ any criticism, Shakespeare kept Macbeth short. (A) feigned ... expatriate (B) allayed ... blazon (C) bravado ... expatriate (D) blazoned ... allay (E) feigned ... despotic 38. Apparently the king, a ـــــــــــــــــــــــ himself, did not object to plays about absolute monarchs whose rage leads them to commit murder. Nor, evidently was he depressed by the somber ـــــــــــــــــــــــ played after death scenes. (A) dirge ... bravado (B) despot ... dirges (C) expatriate ... blazons (D) colloquy ... expatriates (E) despot ... colloquies 39. Shakespeare may have held ـــــــــــــــــــــــ with people who had been ـــــــــــــــــــــــ from England for political reasons, learning much from these talks. (A) blazons ... alla.yed (B) bravado ... feigned (C) colloquies ... expatriated (D) blazons ... feigned (E) dirges ... allayed 40. Scholars often hold __ to discuss Shakespeare's writing. Some of these meetings are quite large. (A) colloquies (B) dirges (C) expatriates (D) blazons (E) bravados


Structure & Usage

A- Identifying Errors:

1. He is not sure if (A) he should (B) buy the new computer now or (C) wait until he receives (D)

his next bonus. No error (E).

2. Mark scored poorly (A) on the test, which (B) is not surprising since (C) he did not prepare

adequately (D). No error.(E)

3. I prefer (A) Marlene to any (B) hairdresser I have visited (C) in the past because she has such

a good understanding of her clients' (D) needs. No error (E).

4. The archivist had (A) not only (B) a deep interest (C) but also a clear understanding of the

historical documents in (D) the museum. No error.(E)

5. With skill and surprising (A) gentleness the fireman managed to (B) lower the injured cat

down (C) from the top of (D) the tree. No error (E).

6. Was the woman who (A) you think you saw (B) leaving the building wearing (C) a nurse's (D)

uniform? No error (E).

7. As he held open (A) the door for her, she could not ignore the look on his face, (B) a look

that aggravated (C) her self-consciousness as they proceeded (D) along the street. No error (E).

8. Many people genuinely want to be (A) fitter, but few (B) have the tenacity for sticking (C) to a

suitable regime (D) of diet and exercise. No error (E).

9. Safety precautions and emergency exits, matters of great concern for (A) builders of

commercial establishments, are (B) often overlooked (C) when designing (D) a new home. No

error (E).

10. From the time he took up (A) his new position as (B) head of the department, he has been (C)

concerned about (D) the legitimacy of his appointment. No error (E).

11. My grandmother sees remarkable (A) well considering that (B) she has endured four

operations on her eyes and suffered from (C) vitamin deficiency during (D) her childhood. No

error (E).


12. The academy members waged (A) a relentless war against my supervisor and I (B) because

our (C) research seemed to (D) contradict the findings of the head of the institution. No error (E).

13. You seldom see anyone in Europe spitting (A) in public nowadays, mainly (B) because they

(C) had a successful campaign against (D) this health hazard in the post war years. No error (E).

14. Neither of the artists we have commissioned (A) to execute the mural are (B) able to start (C)

work before (D) September. No error (E).

15. Professor Chandra's (A) pioneering work on (B) rainwater harvesting and recharging of

groundwater in drought prone areas have been (C) drawing media attention (D). No error (E).

16. The presence of strong feeling, the cause of which (A) is not fully understood, always has

the effect (B) of making we (C) human beings (D) uneasy. No error (E).

17. The new law is too (A) stringent; it (B) will be (C) neither respected or (D) obeyed.No error (E).

18. I do not wish to make (A) a formal complaint, but I would have been better pleased (B) if

you gave (C) the award to the person who (D) best deserved it. No error (E).

19. After you have written (A) a definition in your vocabulary notebook, add a few (B) ways to

use the word or (C) a sentence to illustrate it's (D) meaning. No error (E).

20. The tribesmen made offerings to placate (A) the gods, whom (B), they believed, were (C)

angry with them (D). No error (E).

21. Many physicists initially regarded (A) quantum theory as (B) unnatural, absurd, and (C)

incompatible to (D) common sense. No error (E).

22.From ancient times (A), sculpture had been (B) considered the prerogative (C) of men, and

even now, in some parts of the world, women sculptors face (D) hostility and suspicion. No

error (E).

23. It is an old criticism of the medical profession that they (A) have considered (B) the

symptoms and causes of (C) disease without sufficient reference to (D) the causes of health. No

error (E).

24. According to (A) Hume, it is not logic and reasoning that (B) determine (C) our actions, but (D)

emotion. No error (E).

25. The ornate pillars and life-size (A) statues that the magnate has chosen (B) to adorn his (C)

swimming pool are like a Greek temple (D). No error (E).


26. Sonia Gandhi stepped aside (A) just as she had secured (B) the Prime Minister's position,

and (C), in the process, asserting (D) her moral superiority. No error (E).

27. It will be (A) hard to soothe your mother now that you have so aggravated (B) her by

refusing to take her eminently (C) sensible advice (D). No error (E).

28. The general reported that (A), as a result of (B) financial constraints, less (C) soldiers would be sent on (D) peace-keeping missions this year. No error (E).

29. None of the presents I received (A) on my birthday this year was (B) equally (C) as memorable as the necklace you gave (D) me last year. No error (E).

30. The racing champion had (A) made no mention (B) in his (C) speech of the mechanics on

whom (D) his success had depended. No error (E).

31. Of the two best performances on the program, that (A) of the Yemeni acrobats is (B)

significantly more likely (C) to impress us (D) with its athleticism. No error. (E)

32. By investigating (A) thoroughly, the police officer was able to determine that the car thief

was less interested in how expensive cars were than in (B) whether it was (C) parked near (D)

the highway. No error. (E)

33. That (A)running the marathon this year was easier for Andrea, who(B) had trained vigorous

(C)during the previous ten months, came(D)as no surprise to her friends. No error. (E)

34. Some argue that fierce corporate competition for customers could raise (A) our standard of

living because companies facing (B) competition invent and improve (C) products faster than (D)

monopolies do. No error. (E)

35. Excessive use of insecticide could affect the lake’s larger ecology because certain animals

that feed (A) on insects will decline and perish (B) at as great (C) a rate as the insects

themselves (D). No error. (E)

36. The young sheep look (A) alike, but you will find that each (B) has its (C) own unique

personality (D). No error. (E)

37. The Russian painter Natalia Goncharova was a colleague (A) of Mikhail Larianov, who (B)

she met (C) after completing her studies (D) in Moscow. No error. (E)

38. The other delegates (A) and him (B) immediately (C) accepted the resolution drafted (D) by

the neutral states. No error. (E)

39. The students have discovered (A) that they (B) can address issues more effectively through

(C) letter-writing campaigns and not (D) through public demonstrations. No error. (E)

40. After (A) hours of futile debate, the committee has decided to postpone (B) further

discussion of the resolution (C) until their (D) next meeting. No error. (E)


Jane Eyre - Plot Summary

Chapters 11 - 21

Jane arrives at Thornfield, having been met at the George Inn. Mrs

Fairfax bewilders her a little at first, because she is so informal and

welcoming. But in due course Jane discovers that Mrs Fairfax is the

housekeeper.

Jane's pupil, Adele Varens, is the eight-year-old French ward of Mr

Edward Rochester, the owner of the house. (We learn later that her mother had claimed she was his

illegitimate daughter. Mr Rochester is not convinced by this claim, but felt he could not leave the little

girl destitute when her mother died.)

Adele is a pleasant little girl, even if she is not a particularly eager student. Life goes on very peacefully

for three months, until the return of Mr Rochester. Jane first meets him on his horse, and her description

of him is quite fanciful. He takes a fall and Jane helps him, although she does not know who he is until

they are both back at Thornfield.

It is obvious to the reader, although not to Jane, that the reason why Mr Rochester stays at Thornfield

much longer than usual is that he finds her company enjoyable. Jane, unknowingly at first, falls in love

with him.There is something about Thornfield that is mysterious. Jane is encouraged to focus her

attentions on the servant Grace Poole.

It is clear to the reader, though, that Mr Rochester's emotional engagement is immense. When his bed is

set on fire, Jane rescues him, but does not understand why the matter is not pursued, despite Mr

Rochester assuring her the culprit is Grace. The next morning Grace behaves as though she has done

nothing wrong.

Eventually, Mr Rochester leaves, to go to a house party. He brings everyone at the party back with him,

transforming the atmosphere in the house, and delighting Adele. One of the guests is Blanche Ingram,

whom Mr Rochester is confidently expected to marry. However, it is clear from the way she is portrayed

in the book that she is arrogant; our sympathies are not with her.


Mr Rochester is called away from the house, and when he returns he chooses to play the role of a fortune

teller. It is clear to the reader that one of his motives is to try to turn Blanche against the idea of marriage

to him. While he has clearly bothered her, he is unsuccessful. With Jane his emotion is very clear, but

why he is so caught up less so. However, it is obvious he wants happiness for Jane.

A visitor had arrived at the house while Mr Rochester was away, a Mr Richard Mason. News that this

man was staying clearly upset Mr Rochester, but a bigger upset was to come. Jane was called to help in

the night. Mason had been savagely attacked, his flesh torn by a knife, but also by teeth. Jane still thinks

it is Grace, but the reader realises Mason must hold some key to the mystery, as Mr Rochester tells him

and Jane to say nothing to each other while he fetches the doctor - supposedly to save Mason's strength.

Mason leaves with the doctor. Jane is left with Mr Rochester. Their closeness is very apparent. The

following afternoon, Jane hears that John Reed is dead and Mrs Reed, who is probably on her death-bed,

has been asking for her. With strict instructions from Mr Rochester to return quickly, she sets off to

Gateshead. On arrival, she realises she no longer hates her cousins. However, Mrs Reed is still bitter

towards her, owing to the fact that Jane's mother was Mr Reed's favourite sister and this resulted in him

apparently favouring Jane over his own children.

A short time later, Mrs Reed gives Jane a letter from her uncle, John Eyre, that was written three years

earlier. It explains how he planned to adopt Jane and allow her to inherit his fortune. Mrs Reed never

handed the letter over because of her bitterness. Jane tries once more to seek reconciliation, but without

success; her aunt dies that night.

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