Subject: English, asked on 14/9/13

Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.

He mechanically set about making the preparations for departure. He had to set a time table to accomplish a task thought to be unachievable by many. Around the world in eighty days! By eight o'clock Passepartout had packed the modest carpet-bag, containing the wardrobes of his master and himself; then, still troubled in mind, he carefully shut the door of his room, and descended to Mr. Fogg. He was perplexed and worried for he too could not understand his masters objective. With these thoughts he proceeded. Mr. Fogg was quite ready. He was set for his journey. Under his arm might have been observed a red-bound copy of Bradshaw's Continental Railway Steam Transit and General Guide, with its timetables showing the arrival and departure of steamers and railways. He took the carpet-bag, opened it, and slipped into it a goodly roll of Bank of England notes, which would pass wherever he might go.

"You have forgotten nothing?" asked he.

"Nothing, monsieur."

"My mackintosh and cloak?"

"Here they are."

"Good! Take this carpet-bag," handing it to Passepartout. "Take good care of it, for there are twenty thousand. Together they commenced the journey with eagerness for one and confusion for the other.

Q 1:Who do you think is Passepartout?

Q 2:Why was Passepartout worried?

Q 3:What does the word perplexed mean?

Q 4:What was the task thought to be unachievable by many?

Q 5:The journey commenced with eagerness for one and confusion for the other. Who do you think was eager and who was confused out of the two men?

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Subject: English, asked on 8/9/13

Read the following passage carefully.

They had to study the night skies through their telescopes every Wednesday at midnight and learn the names of different stars and the movements of the planets. Three times a week they went out to the greenhouses behind the castle to study Herbology, with a dumpy little witch called Professor Sprout, where they learned how to take care of all the strange plants and fungi, and found out what they were used for.

Easily the most boring class was History of Magic, which was the only one taught by a ghost. Professor Binns had been very old indeed when he had fallen asleep in front of the staff room fire and got up next morning to teach, leaving his body behind him. Binns droned on and on while they scribbled down names and dates, and got Emetic the Evil and Uric the Oddball mixed up.

Professor Flitwick, the Charms teacher, was a tiny little wizard who had to stand on a pile of books to see over his desk. At the start of their first class he took the roll call, and when he reached Harry's name he gave an excited squeak and toppled out of sight.

Professor McGonagall was again different. Harry had been quite right to think she wasn't a teacher to cross. Strict and clever, she gave them a talking-to the moment they sat down in her first class.

"Transfiguration is some of the most complex and dangerous magic you will learn at Hogwarts," she said. "Anyone messing around in my class will leave and not come back. You have been warned."

Based on your reading of the passage, complete the following sentences.

Q 1:History of Magic was taught by _________.

Q 2:Students studied Herbology in the _________.

Q 3:One of the toughest classes was that of _________.

Find words/phrases from the passage that mean the same as the following.

Q 4:talk dully

Q 5:tedious

Solutions

1.Professor Binns, the only ghost teacher at Hogwarts

2.greenhouses behind the castle

3.Transfiguration, which was taught by Professor McGonagall

4.drone on

5.boring

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