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YUAN CHING SECONDARY SCHOOLSecondary Four Express CoursePreliminary Examination 2020CANDIDATE NAMECLASS INDEX NUMBERLITERATURE IN ENGLISHProse and Unseen Poetry Additional Materials : Answer Paper 2065/0115 September 20201 hour 40 minutes READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your name, class and index number in the spaces provided on the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black ink on both sides of the paper. Do not use staples, paper clips, glue or correction fluid. Answer two questions: one question from Section A and one question from Section B.You are reminded of the need for good English and clear presentation in your answers. At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together. All questions in this paper carry equal marks. This paper consists of 6 printed pages. [Turn Over]

2SECTION AAnswer one question from this section.RAY BRADBURY: Fahrenheit 451Remember to support your ideas with relevant details from the text.1 Either (a)‘But she was different.’ How accurate do you think this description is of Clarisse? Or (b)‘Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward.’ How suitable do you think this description is of Faber? Or (c)Read this passage carefully, and then answer the questions that follow it:"Is that what it was in the girl next door? I've tried so hard to figure." 5"She's dead. Let's talk about someone alive, for goodness' sake."Montag did not look back at his wife as he went trembling along the hall to the kitchen, where he stood a long time watching the rain hit the windows before he came back down the hall in the grey light, waiting for the tremble to subside.10He opened another book." ‘That favourite subject, Myself.’ "He squinted at the wall. " ‘The favourite subject, Myself.’ ""I understand that one," said Mildred.15"But Clarisse's favourite subject wasn't herself. It was everyone else, and me. She was the first person in a good many years I've really liked. She was the first person I can remember who looked straight at me as if I counted." He lifted the two books. "These men have been dead a long time, but I know their words point, one way or another, to Clarisse."20Outside the front door, in the rain, a faint scratching. Montag froze. He saw Mildred thrust herself back to the wall and gasp."Someone--the door--why doesn't the door-voice tell us--""I shut it off."Under the door-sill, a slow, probing sniff, an exhalation of electric steam.Mildred laughed. "It's only a dog, that's what! You want me to shoo him away?""Stay where you are!"

3 2530Silence. The cold rain falling. And the smell of blue electricity blowing under the locked door."Let's get back to work," said Montag quietly.Mildred kicked at a book. "Books aren't people. You read and I look around, but there isn't anybody!"35He stared at the