d. Great Britain is smaller than Australia. e. How many f. How old is your uncle? He was fifty (write word) a g. Whose gloves are these? They are mine. h. Who eats the birds? It is said that the cat eats them. i. Where are you going? I am going home. j. Of whom are you thinking? I think of a friend of whom I spoke. 6. Translate into English: Une pauvre petite fille avait perdu son père et sa mère. Elle n'avait rien au monde que les habits qu'elle portait sur elle, et un morceau de pain qu' elle tenait à la main. Cependant elle était tranquille, elle espérait en Dieu, car elle était bonne. Elle quitta la petite ville, où personne ne la connaissait et alla vers la forêt. En chemin elle rencontra un pauvre homme qui la pria de lui donner du pain. Elle prit son morceau de pain et le donna à celui qui lui semblait avoir plus faim qu' elle-même. Connaissait = knew; alla went; rencontra met; semblait seemed. GERMAN. Time: one hour and a half. 1. Translate into English: a. Es regnet nicht; es schneit. Nicht wahr? c. Bist du dessen gewiss? Ich weiss nichts davon. d. Es ist an mir zu spielen. Das ist mir lieber. e. Sind Sie es, mein Herr? Ja freilich, ich bin's. f. Ich rede ohne Zunge, Und schreie ohne Lunge; Ich nehme teil an Freud und Schmerz, 2. Translate into German: a. The leaves are falling from the trees. b. I am right and you are wrong. c. How much bread did he want? Only one piece of bread. d. What are you doing here? We are learning our les sons. e. Where were you the day before yesterday? f. There are eleven eggs in those nests. 3. Write down in German the name of every month in the year. 4. Decline, through all the cases, singular and plural, der Mann, die Frau, das Schaf. 5. Give (a) the gender (by the addition of the definite article), (b) the nominative plural, and (c) the meaning of Blume, Feder, Feld, Geist, Graf, Hund, Hut, Irrtum, Kopf, Land, Stall, Wald. 6. Give the comparative and superlative of bitter, ehe, gut, gross, hoch, lang, leicht, nahe, reich, reizend, stark, viel. 7. Give, in the third person indicative, (a) the present tense, (b) the preterite, and (c) the present perfect of dürfen, eilen, haben, kommen, können, lernen, mögen, müssen, reisen, sein, sollen, wollen. 1. Add together ALGEBRA. Time: one and a half hours. a3b (c2a) (3a + 5c), — 3a2 — {c (4ab2c+3)} and ebe+2(c-1)}. 2. (i) Simplify a2 − b [(a + c) — {b-3 (2a - 5. b-c)}] 3. In a certain division sum the quotient was 262 the divisor 2ab + 6b2 + 3a2, and the remainder a2 the dividend. 4. Divide 2 x 21 x5 y2 – 15 x1 y3 - 2 x33 y4 by x3-3x2 y — 2 xy2. 3 6 25 x 2y-3x 6 -- (-)= 6. In an examination A obtains 8 marks more than one-third of full marks; B gets 18 marks less than three times the excess of A's marks above 20% of full marks. A's marks are of B's. Find the maximum and A's and B's marks. GEOMETRY. Time: two hours. [Briefly describe how each figure is drawn.] 1. The minute hand of a clock is 63 cms. and the hour hand 5.2 cms. long. Find, by plotting, the shortest distance between their tips at a quarter past seven. 2. Describe a triangle on a base 27 inches long, with the angles at the base 60° and 45°. Bisect the sides of the triangle and find the distances between the points of bisection. The protractor must not be used. 3. Prove that the angles of an equilateral triangle are all equal. 4. If one angle of a triangle be greater than another, prove that the side opposite the greater angle is greater than the side opposite the less. 5. Without using the set-square, draw two lines LB and LC at right angles to each other. Also draw two other lines MD and ME at right angles to each other. Measure the angle between LB and MD; also the angle between LC and ME. Prove that the two angles should be equal. 6. If a straight line fall on two parallel straight lines prove that it makes the two interior angles on the same side together equal to two right angles. 7. Describe an isosceles triangle ABC on a base AB, and produce AB both ways. Bisect the exterior angles of the triangle so formed, calling the point at which the bisectors meet D. Prove that DAB is an isosceles triangle, and that the line DC bisects AB. JUNIOR EXAMINATION PAPERS, 1906. ENGLISH LITERATURE. Time: two hours. 1. Analyse fully these sentences: a. Men will forget what we suffer and not what we do. b. If you be fearful then must we be bold. 2. Parse fully the words in italics in the previous question. Construct a sentence in which "but" is an adverb. 3. Write out with careful attention to spelling and punctua tion: a. The five lines beginning "O good gray head." b. The six lines beginning "Never did sun." c. The five lines beginning "Last noon." d. The four lines beginning "Rome shall perish." 4. Give the meanings of the following words: wimple, recheate, maugre, stentorian, unscathed, behests, oyez, mantelets. 5. Explain the references in the following passages and say in what poem each occurs: a. "Bohemia's plume and Genoa's bow and Caesar's eagle shield." b. "Thou from thy Alpine holds at length art driven." C. "That England that was wont to conquer others d. "Nor mourn ye less his perished worth 6. Write short notes on: waes hael, laissez aller, clipt within the ring, Knights Templars. |