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I. READING COMPREHENSION Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (May 22, 1859- July 7, 1930) is the British author most famously known for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction. He is sometimes called Conan Doyle Conan was originally a middle name but he used it as part of his surname in his later years. He was born in 1859 (Edinburgh) and sent to the Jesuit preparatory school Stonyhurst at the age of nine, and by the time he left the school in 1875, he had firmly rejected Catholicism and probably Christianity in general, to become an agnostic. From 1876 to 1881, he studied medicine at Edinburgh University. Following his term at University, he served as a ship s doctor on a voyage to the West African coast and then in 1882 he set up a practice in Plymouth. His medical practice was unsuccessful; while waiting for patients, he began writing stories. His first literary experience came in Chambers s Edinburgh Journal before he was 20. It was only after he subsequently moved his practice to Southsea that he began to indulge more extensively in literature. His first significant work was A Study in Scarlet, which appeared in Beeton s Christmas Annual for 1887 and featured the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes. In 1885 he married Louise Hawkins, who suffered from tuberculosis and eventually died in 1906. He married Miss Jean Leckie in 1907, whom he had first met and fallen in love with in 1897, but had maintained a platonic relationship with out of loyalty to his first wife. Doyle had five children, two with his first wife and three with his second wife. In 1890 Doyle studied the eye in Vienna and in 1891 moved to London to set up a practice as an oculist. This also gave him more time for writing, and in November 1891 he wrote to his mother: I think of slaying (=killing) Holmes and winding him up for good and all. He takes my mind from better things. In December 1893 he did so, with Holmes and his rival professor Moriarty apparently plunging to their deaths together over a waterfall in the story The Final Problem. Public outcry led him to bring the character back Doyle returned to the story, saying that Holmes had climbed back up the cliff afterwards. Following the Boer War in South Africa at the turn of the century and the condemnation from around the world over Britain s conduct, Doyle wrote a short pamphlet titled The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct, which was widely translated. Doyle believed that it was this pamphlet that resulted in his being knighted and appointed as Deputy-Lieutenant of Surrey in 1902. During the early years of the twentieth century, Sir Arthur twice ran for Parliament, but although he received a respectable vote, he was not elected. He did, however, become one of the first Honorary members of the Ski Club of Great Britain. Doyle also caused two cases to be reopened. The first case, in 1906, involved a shy half-british, half- Indian lawyer named George Edalji, who had allegedly penned threatening letters and mutilated animals. Police were convinced of his guilt, even though the mutilations continued after their suspect was jailed. It was partially as a result of this case that the Court of Criminal Appeal was established in 1907, so not only did Conan Doyle help George Edalji, but his work helped establish a way to correct other miscarriages of justice. The second case that of Oscar Slater, a German Jew convicted of bludgeoning (= matraquer) an 82-year-old woman in 1908 excited Doyle s curiosity because of inconsistencies in the prosecution case and a general sense that Slater was framed. In his later years, Doyle became involved with Spiritualism, to the extent that he wrote a Professor Challenger novel on the subject, The Land of Mist. One aspect of this involvement was his book The Coming of the Fairies (1921): He was apparently convinced of the veracity of the Cottingley fairy photographs, which he reproduced in the book, together with theories about the nature and existence of fairies and spirits. His work on this topic was one of the reasons that one of his short story collections, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, was banned in the Soviet Union in 1929 under the pretence of occultism. Arthur Conan Doyle is buried in the Church Yard at Minstead in the new Forest, Hampshire, England. Page 2 / 8
Now say if the following statements about the text are TRUE (T), FALSE (F) or the text DOESN T SAY (DS). 1. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is considered as the inventor of a new form of crime fiction. 2. After leaving Stonyhurst school, he converted to Christianity. 3. He didn t like his job as a ship s doctor. 4. He fell in love with his second wife when his first wife died. 5. Sir Arthur believed that he became a knight and Deputy-Lieutenant of Surrey thanks to his pamphlet about the war in South Africa. 6. He didn t become a Member of Parliament because of his pamphlet. 7. He contributed to the creation of the Court of Criminal Appeal. 8. Sir Arthur said that he had seen spirits and fairies with his own eyes. Underline the correct definition: /16pts Prolific: a) fertile b) highly productive Indulge in: a) allow oneself b) be tolerant toward Featured a) played an important part b) gave a special importance to Eventually a) finally b) possibly Winding up a) liquidating b) making nervous Public outcry a) public strong protest b) public loud cry Was jailed a) was in a cage b) was in prison Miscarriages of justice a) mistakes made by justice b) accidental separations caused by justice Was framed (l.42) a) was enclosed in a frame b) was falsely incriminated /9pts TOTAL READING COMPREHENSION: /25pts Page 3 / 8
II. LANGUAGE PART A. Writing questions: Find the questions corresponding to the answers. Be sure to use the appropriate question word and the appropriate tense. 1.? In China? For six months. I love this country! 2.? Detective novels because she is fascinated by crime. 3.? In that house? Nobody. 4.? Twice a week because she wants to lose weight. 5.? By car? Because he likes driving. /10pts B. Tenses: Complete the following dialogue with the appropriate tense (Present Simple or Continuous; Past Simple or Continuous; Present Perfect; Future Simple or Future going to ). Sephy and Callum are two teenagers. They are sitting together on the beach, listening to the sound of waves. Callum: Can I kiss you? Sephy: What on earth for? Callum: Just to see what s like. Sephy: (Really/want) you to? Callum: Of course! Sephy: Oh, all right then. But make it fast because I (never/kiss) a boy before. Callum kisses Sephy. After a moment, Sephy turns away. Sephy: Yuk! Callum! What (do) you that for? Callum: It (be) that bad, was it? Let s try again. Sephy: That s enough. Callum: Sorry. Sephy: Why (apologise) you? (Not/like) you Page 4 / 8
it? Callum: It was.ok. Actually I was distracted by the sound of waves while I (kiss) you. Pause Callum: Sephy, (ever/dream) you of just escaping? Sephy: If you do go away, (take) you me with you? Pause. Callum sighs. /11pts C. Multiple choice cloze: Read each sentence and circle the right answer. 1. of these green tours are you most interested in? Photographing animals or kayaking? a) What b) Which c) Whose d) Who 2. I need sugar. Have you got? a) some/any b) some/many c) any/some d) a lot/any 3. How does it take you to get to school? About hour. a) often/an b) long/a c) long/an d) much/a 4. A 3-year-old child is 100 people in a busy restaurant. a) more noisy that b) noisiest than c) noisier than d) noisier that 5. Foreign languages are so difficult that people learn them perfectly. a) a little b) a few c) very little d) very few 6. Shall we drive Scotland or go train? a) at/by b) to/with c) to/by d) at/with 7. A: Why are dogs barking? B: Look! There s outside. a) /somebody b) the/anybody c) /anybody d) the/somebody 8. You close the windows; I ll close them later. a) don t have to b) mustn t c) can t d) shouldn t TOTAL LANGUAGE PART: /25pts /4pts Page 5 / 8
III. WRITING PART: Choose ONE subject and write 150-200 words. COUNT YOUR WORDS AT THE END OF YOUR WRITING!! Subject 1: When teenagers commit a murder, should they be punished like adults? Justify with good arguments for and against. Your argumentation must be well structured: short introduction, one paragraph FOR, one paragraph AGAINST, short conclusion. Subject 2: «Yesterday, Hector spent the evening in a bar, with his friends...» Continue the story, using the pictures on the last page. Use every picture!! You can detach the page with the pictures if necessary. Subject number: Page 6 / 8
Number of words: Language Vocabulary Content Special structures & linking words, etc /12 pts /3 pts /8 pts /2 pts Total WRITING: /25 pts Page 7 / 8
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