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EXTRA TUITION for m.6 SUMMATIVE TEST (T1-54) by P’Nan & P’May

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Summary of External Readings

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

by Louis de Bernières

Summary

When Megalo Velisarios, a man with a reputation for being extremely

strong, visits the island of Cephallonia in Greece to give a performance, he

accidentally hurts Mandras, a local fisherman. Mandras will later thank him

because his wounds lead him to the house of the local doctor, Iannis, and to

the doctor’s daughter, Pelagia. Mandras and Pelagia fall in love and become

engaged. But soon the war reaches Greece, Mandras leaves to the front and

Pelagia receives no answer from him to her letters and thinks that he doesn’t

love her anymore. When Mandras returns, she does not recognize him. Pelagia

learns that he has not answered her letters because he can’t read or write.

Meanwhile, Italian troops are sent to Albania as part of a plan to attack

Greece. Carlo Guercio is a homosexual who doesn’t dare admit his sexual

condition for fear of rejection. He joins the army and falls in love with

Francesco, a soldier from Genoa, who will never know about Carlo’s love.

Together, they march from Albania to Athens, suffer extreme cold and hunger

and are defeated by the Greeks. Francesco dies, and some of the soldiers are

saved when a German invasion forces the Greeks to fight on two fronts.


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While the islanders wait for an imminent invasion, Mandras recovers

and Pelagia feels increasingly guilty. On 30 April 1941, the Italians arrive in

Cephallonia and the villagers are ordered to provide them with

accommodation. Captain Corelli stays at Dr Iannis’s house. He is an Italian

officer with a sense of humour, a mandolin that he calls Antonia and with plans

to become a professional musician when the war comes to an end.

His character, his music and his sensitivity gradually win Pelagia’s love.

During his stay at Iannis’s house, Corelli organizes an opera group, La Scala.

Günter Weber, a German soldier with a Nazi conviction of superiority, joins the

group. Mandras, in the meantime, joins ELAS, a Communist group of freedom

fighters under the leadership of Hector. With this group, his resentfulness finds

expression and he becomes a cruel murderer and rapist in the name of

historical necessity.

Both Pelagia and Corelli are aware of the cost that an affair with

a member of an occupying force could have for a Greek girl engaged to a local

fisherman who is away fighting the invasion. So their love stays platonic while

they make plans for an after-war marriage. It is during this period that Bunny

Warren, a British spy, turns up and is helped by Dr. Iannis.

When the Allies invade Sicily and Italy surrenders, the Italian soldiers in

Greece are abandoned to their fate. Corelli knows what to expect and tries to

prepare his soldiers for the fights that will come. He leaves his mandolin in

Dr. Iannis’s house, parts with Pelagia and stays with his men. Gandin, the

leader of the Italian troops, decides to negotiate with the Germans a way out

of Greece for the Italians, a mistake that costs the lives of many Greek civilians


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who die under German bombing, most Italian soldiers who are executed, and

his own. The order to execute the Italians is given to Weber, who tries to

refuse it but is informed that disobeying an order is punished by death. When

the Italian soldiers are being shot, Carlo protects Corelli’s body with his own,

and when Weber finds that Corelli is alive under Carlo’s body, he lets him live.

Velisarios brings Corelli to Dr. Iannis’s house, where bullets are removed

from his body. Velisarios, the doctor and Pelagia find Carlo’s body and bury it

with a simple ceremony. When he recovers, and with Bunny Warren’s help,

Corelli escapes from the island in a boat. In spite of Corelli’s promise to come

back, Pelagia feels empty and devastated.

In 1944 the Germans are ordered to leave the island. The Greek

Communists, known as the EAM (the former ELAS), advance against the

fascists and say that anybody who is not with them, is against them. Dr. Iannis,

suspected of having fascist ideas, is kidnapped, and Pelagia, now alone, shares

her days and sorrows with Drosoula, Mandras’s mother.

Mandras, who is now a member of the EAM, returns to the island,

resentful and aggressive. In his anger, he tries to rape Pelagia, and she shoots

him in his shoulder. When Drosoula arrives, she curses him for what he has

become. Shattered, Mandras drowns himself in the sea.

Dr. Iannis returns two years later, broken and speechless, and finds a girl

in his house, Antonia. She had been abandoned at his door during his absence,

and Drosoula and Pelagia had adopted her. She could have been the daughter

of a German, Italian or Greek father, but she never finds out.


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When in 1949 the national government regains power, Pelagia and her

father have switched roles and now he helps her assist the sick and wounded.

The villagers find them an odd family, and Pelagia develops a belief in ghosts,

since she sees Antonio come every year and disappear before her eyes.

In August 1953 a strong earthquake hits the island. Houses are

destroyed; many people die and survivors feel guilty for not having helped

their dead. Pelagia can’t forgive herself for not having helped her father.

Antonia and Drosoula encourage her to finish writing her father’s history book,

which gives her some comfort. Time goes by. Pelagia receives anonymous

postcards from different cities in the world. Antonia marries Alexi, a 32-year-

old lawyer, and has a baby that Pelagia calls Iannis. Drosoula opens a taverna

where her old house used to be. At her death, Pelagia takes charge of the

taverna and, after some time, hires a musician to work there. Iannis becomes

interested in music and starts playing Corelli’s mandolin.

Corelli finally comes back and tells Pelagia he thought she had married.

In spite of her fury because she feels he has betrayed her and they have lost

a life together, she finally holds to him as they go to visit the hut where they

had secretly met many years before.

Exercise

Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?

____T____ 1. Corelli was a man with a sense of humor.

____T____ 2. Wars are between countries, not between individuals, so

sometimes men forget their countries are enemies.


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____F____ 3. Being on the same side, the Italians and the Germans liked each

other a lot.

____T____ 4. Hector thought that the end justified the means.

____F____ 5. Corelli agreed with Gardin’s idea that Italians should surrender to

the Germans and he trusted the Germans.

____F____ 6. Corelli agreed with Carlo that the Allies would help the Italians in

Greece.

____T____ 7. The Italian warships in the Greek harbours sailed to Italy on the

night of the Italian surrender to the Allies.

____T____ 8. Corelli’s family had died in Libya, so he had no home in Italy.

____T____ 9. Large numbers of Italian soldiers and Greek civilians were killed

by German bombs.

____T____ 10. The German officer that ordered Weber to kill the Italian

soldiers considered they weren’t prisoners but traitors.

____F____ 11. Corelli tried to keep the spirit of his soldiers high by playing the

mandolin.

____F____ 12. Father Arsenios saved Corelli’s life.


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Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

Summary

Mr. Lockwood is a new tenant at Thrushcross Grange, an isolated estate

on the windy moors of Yorkshire. His landlord, Heathcliff, lives on a nearby

estate, Wuthering Heights. He is a surly educated dark-skinned man. On his

first visit to Wuthering Heights, Mr. Lockwood finds a hostile environment

inhabited by a rough young mistress, Catherine, who is the widowed wife of

Heathcliff ’s son, a rough young man, Hareton, who is the mistress’s cousin,

a kind woman-servant, a rough old man-servant, Joseph, and a hoard of fierce

dogs that attack him.

A heavy storm forces Mr. Lockwood to stay overnight. In his room, he

finds 25-year-old handwritten books and has a look at some fragments. They

are authored by a Catherine Earnshaw or Linton and narrate episodes in which

she and Heathcliff are abused by Catherine’s brother, Hindley. During the

night, Mr. Lockwood has a terrible nightmare and the ghost of a Catherine asks

him to let her in. This awakes Heathcliff, who violently sends him out and stays

in the room desperately calling Catherine’s name. Lockwood’s trip back home

under the snow makes him sick, and his housekeeper, Nelly Dean, eases his

stay in bed by narrating the history of their neighbours.

Hareton’s father, Hindley Earnshaw, his sister Catherine and their

parents live in Wuthering Heights. When Hindley is 14, Mr. Earnshaw brings

home from Liverpool a starving boy, Heathcliff, whom he adopts as his child.

Hindley resents his father’s love for the newcomer, and Heathcliff seizes every


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opportunity to turn Mr. Earnshaw against him. Catherine; however, becomes

Heathcliff ’s inseparable companion. When Mr. Earnshaw dies, Hindley, now

married to Frances, takes his revenge on Heathcliff by treating him badly and

making him an outcast. He becomes even worse when Frances’s death, shortly

after Hareton’s birth, leads him to gambling and heavy drinking.

In the meantime, Catherine makes friends with their neighbours at

Thrushcross Grange, the elegant Lintons. Isabella, a young girl, becomes very

fond of her and Edgar falls in love with her. Catherine is divided between her

wild nature and passionate love for Heathcliff and her awareness of her social

position and warm love for Edgar. When Heathcliff overhears her telling Nelly

that marrying him would degrade her, he leaves too soon to hear her say how

much she loves him. Three years later, Catherine marries Edgar.

Three years after Catherine’s marriage, Heathcliff returns, a wealthy,

elegant and good-mannered man, intent on taking revenge on those who ill-

treated him and separated him from Catherine. He settles down in Wuthering

Heights, finances Hindley’s gambling and brutalizes Hareton. He marries

Isabella, which makes Edgar furious and Catherine seriously ill, and becomes

extremely cruel to her immediately after their marriage. After a final encounter

in which Catherine and Heathcliff blame each other for their unhappiness and

feel unable to part from one another, Catherine and Edgar’s daughter, Cathy, is

born, and Catherine dies. Heathcliff is heartbroken. Isabella escapes and has a

son, Linton. Hindley dies, and Heathcliff becomes the owner of Wuthering

Heights.

After twelve peaceful years, Isabella writes to Edgar. She is ill and wants

him to take charge of her and Heathcliff ’s son, Linton. So at her death, Edgar

sets out to fetch him. In his absence, Cathy sees her chance of exploring the

moors, escapes and is invited to Wuthering Heights, where she meets Hareton.

Soon afterwards, a pale, feeble and moody Linton arrives at Thrushcross

Grange and is immediately claimed by Heathcliff, who plans to educate him

and marry him to Cathy, which will give him control over Thrushcross Grange.


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Cathy, unaware of Heathcliff ’s nature and plans, and keen on socializing, uses

different stratagems to see Linton, who becomes increasingly weak and unable

to oppose Heathcliff ’s pressure to marry her. In the meantime, Edgar falls ill.

With the excuse of Linton’s weak health, Heathcliff manages to have

Cathy and Nelly visit Wuthering Heights, where he keeps them prisoners until

Cathy marries Linton. Soon after the marriage both Edgar and Linton die and

Heathcliff gets control over Thrushcross Grange. Cathy is forced to move to

Wuthering Heights and earn her living as a servant. Hareton is both attracted

to her and hurt by her conceited manners. Heathcliff looks for a tenant for

Thrushcross Grange.

Mr. Lockwood goes back to London but returns after a few months to

find a different Wuthering Heights – open and aired, alive and peaceful. Nelly

tells him that after he left, Catherine became more affectionate towards

Hareton and started his education, and Heathcliff, increasingly fixated with his

memories of Catherine, abandoned his revenge and spent his time in the

company of Catherine’s ghost, which he said had haunted him since her death.

He dies. Cathy and Hareton, now in love with each other, regain control of

their families’ properties. The dead rest in peace.

Exercise

Arrange the sentences in chronological order. Write number 1-6.

1. According to Zillah, Heathcliff’s ideas about Mr. Lockwood’s bedroom were strange. 3

2. Hindley commanded Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff to go up and listen to Joseph’s prayers. 1

3. Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff felt that the house was colder than the moors. 2

4. Mr. Lockwood stretched his arm and fingers closed on the fingers of a small hand. 5

5. Somebody opened Mr. Lockwood’s bedroom door violently, and he saw a light approaching. 6

6. Zillah rescued Mr. Lockwood from the dogs, threw some cold water down his neck and took him to the kitchen. 4


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OBJECTIVE book : Exam folder

ชวงนนองๆม.6 ทกคนคงตองขยนเรยนกนสดฤทธ เพราะตองสอบทงในรร. และสอบเขามหา’ลย พแนนและพเมยขอใหกาลงใจ และขออาสามาชวยประหยดเวลาใหกบนองๆทกคน โดยไดสรปเนอหาสาคญในบทเรยนซงนองๆสามารถนาไปทบทวน และฝกทาโจทยๆๆๆๆไดกอนสอบกลางภาคครงสาคญน

คะ เรามาเรมอดถกกนเลยดกวา….

Vocabulary

เนนๆกนเลย จาไวใหจงหนกวา ศพท Phrasal verbs, ศพทเตม one-word และการสราง

ค าศพท (Word Building หรอ Word Formation) มอยในขอสอบเตรยมฯมาตงแตสมยคณพยงสาว เปนขอสอบฮตมากทอาจารยเกงๆลวนใหความสนใจ ทสาคญขอสอบเปนขอเขยนเปนสวนใหญนะ เทคนคงายๆคอ ทวนมนทกวน ทกเวลา บอยทสดเทาทจะท าได หรอทวนศพทในหนงสอ Vocab Absolute ทม Vocab Tree ซงจะชวยนาเราไปสการทวนศพททง Seen Vocab และ

Unseen Vocab อยางเปนระบบนะคะ……ลองทาโจทยขางลางกนเลยดกวา

Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only

one word in each gap.

WHAT IS A SHORT STORY?

That might seem (1)___to_____ be a silly question. We all know

(2)__what__ a short story is. It’s a short story, (3)__for__ heaven’s sake.

A story that is, say, up to 5,000 words long, perhaps, (4)__much__ more likely

in today’s markets to be rather less. It tells you about something happening to

people. It’s not a novel, (5)__then__ it must be a short story.

Right. But it’s not quite as easy (6)__as __ that. Recognising a short story

when you read it is (7)__one___ thing; recognising it before you actually write

it is quite another. There are certain fundamental differences (8)__between__

a short story and a novel. I have read short stories that were more (9)__than__


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articles, stories that (10)__ought__ to have been novels, stories that didn’t

seem to be (11)___about___ anything at all.

A short story is (12)____not____ merely a smaller version of a novel. The

theme for a novel will not fit into the framework for a short story; it is like

trying to cram a mural (13)____into____ the frame of miniature. And, as in

a miniature painting, details (14)__need___ to be sharp. The short story is an

illustration of one facet of human nature, generally that moment when

a character alters in some way: undergoes some change of attitude to life

(15)__or___ a problem, experiences a development of personality. The short

story (16)___must___ say something but it is not an attempt to explain the

entire meaning of life.

Complete the following sentences with the phrases in the box. You may need

to make changes to the verbs.

1. Robin _sighed with relief_ when he saw the children getting safely off the

plane.

2. They suspect that the trees __caught fire__ because someone failed to put

a cigarette out properly.

3. She’s exhausted. She __had been rushing from pillar to post__ all day.

4. Please _make way for__ the food trolley.

5. We’ll pay you back for what you bought for the picnic. We don’t want you

_to be out of pocket_.

6. The best way to get business in our line is _by word of mouth_.

7. Please reply to this letter __return of post__ if at all possible.

8. The ship __sets sail__ at midday tomorrow. Let’s go down to wave it off.

(ใช Pres Simp เพราะบอกอนาคตเวลากาหนดแนนอน)

talk sense make way for return of post set sail

sigh with relief be out of pocket be lying face down catch fire

by word of mouth rush from pillar to post put it in a nutshell


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9. Emma is rather impractical with some of her suggestions but Mary always

_talks sense__.

10. The man __was lying face down__ by the side of the road.

11. There’s a lot I could say about the show but to _put it in a nutshell_, it was

terrible.

ขอสอบการสรางศพทเปนขอสอบทวดความเขาใจในการใชศพทภาษาองกฤษของนร. นองๆตองเตมค าศพททขอสอบก าหนดมาให โดยตองเปลยนรปรางของค านนใหเปนไปตาม Parts of

Speech ทเหมาะสม หรอเตม Prefix ขางหนา เพอใหไดความหมายของประโยคทสมบรณทสด

ขอสอบจะมหลายรปแบบทงเปนประโยคเดยว หรอเปน Cloze Passage…..เดยวลองมาตะลยขอสอบ ฝกทาโจทยกนดกวา

Word Building (Word Formation)

1. If you are a member, attendance at the meeting is _obligatory_. (oblige)

2. My _instructions__ are that I must not let anyone in. (instruct)

3. The writer had great skill in __narration__. (narrate)

4. The criminals stayed in _concealment__ until the police had passed.

(conceal)

5. You gave us an _indecent__ amount of work to do. (indecency)

6. I’ve missed the train; how _tiresome / tiring__ repetitions. (tire)

7. Lack of money _necessitates_ a change of plan. (necessary)

8. I’m trying to _dissimulate__ my feelings. (dissimulation)

9. ‘Good heavens!’ is an _exclamation__ of surprise. (exclaim)

10. _Antiquarian / Antiquary__ is a person who studies, collects, or sells

antiquities. (antique)

11. The _assassin__ was caught red-handed. (assassinate)

12. It’s just __conceivable__ that he’ll win, but it’s very unlikely really.

(conceive)


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‘I do not pretend that I was (1)_faithful_ to her. FAITH

She was not young when I married her and we had been married

for ten years. She was small and thin, and she had a bad

(2)_complexion _. She had a bitter tongue. She was a woman COMPLEX

who suffered from a (3)_fury __ of possession, and FURIOUS

she could not bear me to be attracted to anyone but her.

She was (4)_jealous _ not only of the women I knew, JEALOUSY

but of my friends, my cat, and my books. On one occasion in

my absence she gave away a coat of mine merely because

I liked none of my coats so well. But I am a man of equitable

(5)_temperament__. I will not deny that she bored me, but TEMPER

I accepted the (6)_acrimonious__ disposition and no more ACRIMONY

thought of rebelling against it than I would against the bad

weather or a cold in the head. I denied her (7)_accusations _ ACCUSE

as long as it was possible to deny them, and when it was impossible

I shrugged my shoulders and smoked a cigarette.

‘The constant scenes she made did not very much

(8)_affect _ me.’ I led my own life. Sometimes indeed, EFFECT

I wondered whether it was (9)_passionate __ love and hate PASSION

were very near allied.

‘So we might have continued to the end of the chapter if

one night a very (10)_curious _ thing had not happened.’ CURIOSITY

I was awakened by a piercing scream from my wife. Startled,

I asked her what the matter was. She told me she had had

a (11)_fearful _ nightmare, she had dreamt that I was FEAR

trying to kill her. We lived at the top of a large house and the well

round which the stairs climbed was broad. She had dreamt that

just as we arrived at our own floor I had caught hold of her

and attempted to throw her over the balusters. It was six

(12)_stories __ to the stone floor at the bottom and certain STORY

death.


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SUMMARY of GRAMMAR POINTS

1. Past Simple

We lived in London until I got a job in Oxford. (เกดและจบในอดต)

They went to the beach at weekends in summer. (เกดซาๆในอดต)

2. Past Continuous

I was living in London when Kennedy was assassinated. (กาลงเกดในอดต)

The plane was coming in to land when it was struck by lightning. (เหตการณหนงกาลงเกด แลวมอกเหตการณเขามาแทรก)

While I was trying to phone her, she was trying to phone me. (สองเหตการณเกดขนพรอมกน)

They were forever asking for favours, but they never did anything for

anyone else. (ใชกบ always และ forever เพอแสดงการกระทาทเกดซาหลายครงในอดต)

3. Present Perfect

That shop has had five new managers, and it’s still losing money.

(ยงคงมอยในอดต สบเนองถงปจจบนและดาเนนตอไปอนาคต)

They’ve lived at three different addresses since June. (เกดซาๆหลายครงในอดต

เรอยมาถงปจจบนและดาเนนตอไปในอนาคต)

Cancel the skiing trip – I’ve broken my leg. (การกระทาในอดต สงผลถงปจจบน)

How long have you worked here? – I’ve been here for two months.

(แสดงชวงเวลาของการกระทาในอดต เรอยมาถงปจจบน)


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4. Present Perfect Continuous

She’s been helping me with the housework but now she’s got bored with

it. (เนนเวลาตอเนองของการกระทาในอดต เรอยมาถงปจจบน และสงผลถงอนาคต)

He’s been seeing a new girlfriend most evenings. (เนนเวลาตอเนองของการกระทา

ทเกดซาๆในอดต เรอยมาถงปจจบน และสงผลถงอนาคต)

It’s been raining. The streets are wet. (การกระทาอาจจะจบลงแลว หรอยงไมจบกได

แตมผลใหเหนเดนชด)

Has she been writing her novel for a long time? (แสดงความตอเนองของชวงเวลา

ตอการกระทาททามาในดต เรอยมาถงปจจบน และสงผลถงในอนาคต)

5. Past Perfect

Before I was 18, I hadn’t been outside my hometown.

We already felt like old friends even though we had only met that

morning.

(แสดงเหตการณทเกดกอนอกเหตการณหนง)

6. Past Perfect Continuous

They had been planning their expedition for months before I joined their

team. (เนนเวลาตอเนองของการกระทาในอดตทเกดกอนอกเหตการณหนง)

He’d been drinking. I could smell it on his breath. (แสดงเหตการณทกาลงเกดใน

อดต และสงผลถงปจจบน โดยมหลกฐานแสดงใหเหนอยางชดเจน)

At breakfast I wondered why I felt so tired, then I remembered that at

2 a.m. I’d been listening to my neighbors arguing again. (เนนระยะเวลาของการ

กระทาทเกดซาแลวซาอกในอดต)


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7. Cleft sentences

The thing (that) I like about him is his honey. (มกใชกบ one thing / the thing /

something หรอ one person / the person / someone)

All (that) I want is your happiness. (ใชกบ the only หรอ all เพอเนนยา)

The climate was what I really liked. (ใช what เพอแทน the thing that)

= The climate was the thing that I really liked.

It was you that created this problem, not me. (มกอยในรปของ it + be)

It was my brother who cut down the mango tree.

It was the mango tree that my brother cut down.

(ใชเพอเนนประธานหรอกรรมของประโยค)

Nadej is such a nice guy. (ใชกบ so และ such)

We’re starving! (ใชแสดงคาพดทกลาวเกนจรง)

She’s absolutely beautiful. (ใชแสดงการขยายคาโดยกรยาวเศษณ)

You’re as cold as ice! (ใชกบการเปรยบอปมาอปไมย)

Why on earth did you say that? (ใชกบ on earth ในประโยคคาถาม)

Under no circumstances would he agree to that.

Little did she guess what would happen next.

(ใชในประโยค inversion)

I’m going to tell him my confidential information. I promise. (ใชเพอแสดงความ

ตงใจหรอความแนนอน เมอมกรยาชวย)

He does enjoy a good detective novel! (ใชกบ do, does, did เพอแสดงการเนนยา

ใหกบกรยาหลก)


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เทคนคการท าขอสอบ Error Detection และ Cloze Passage

1. __ใชหลกการ Tree Tactics__

2. ดวาโจทยวดความรเรองอะไร โดยดจาก

Error Detection:___ตวเลอกทขดเสนใต__

Cloze Passage:___ตวเลอกทสามารถทาใหประโยคสมบรณได___

3. คดอยางเปนระบบดวย__Strategic Structure__

Error Detection

Find the errors in these sentences.

1. A matchmaking club (a.) of more than 40,000 members, First Tuesday takes

wannabe (b.) entrepreneurs and, with a little luck and hard work (c.), aiming

to make (d.) them millionaires. แกเปน aims

2. The computer network that (a.) for 30 years was (b.) the exclusive club

of a few physicists was (c.) suddenly thrust to the fore when a young

Englishman named (d.)Tim Berners-Lee invented a way to share documents

and pictures between users. แกเปน had been


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3. Writing was invented long ago, but writing a piece of news by hand one

hundred times and distributing those one hundred copies to different

people would have taken much longer than simply telling everybody (a.).

Newspaper only became practical after the printing press had been

invented in the 15th century (b.) : a large number of identical copies – much

more than a hundred – could be printed fairly quickly. Newspaper started to

appear regularly in the 17th century, and they gradually grew bigger and

more important (c.). Until the middle of the 20th century, newspaper had

reached their peak (d.). แกเปน reached เพราะพดถงเรองของการเจรญเตบโตของธรกจ

หนงสอพมพ โดยใชรป Past Simple Tense ไดอยางถกตองทกสวน แตมเพยงนทประโยคม

ใช Tense ผดรปแบบ (ทนญปน 2009)

4. In the (a.) move never properly acknowledged (b.), Berners-Lee did (c.)

something special : he gave (d.) the technology away for free and the World

Wide Web was born. แกเปน a

5. The problem was that anyone with an interest in the Internet were (a.)

unlikely to know anything about venture capital and, even if (b.) one did, the

venture capitalists were (c.) more likely to call security than write a cheque

should a khaki-clad, technobabble-speaking geek manage (d.) to get into

their offices. แกเปน was

6. The students were having (a.) so much fun playing (b.) during their (c.) recess

period that they didn’t even notice when the bell had rang (d.).

แกเปน had rung (CU-AAT)

7. Despite the incessant (a.) winds earlier this afternoon, overall (b.) there

have been (c.) fairly (d.) nice whether this week.

แกเปน has been (CU-AAT)


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8. Although we do not think (a.) much of it, at this very moment there are

multitudes (b.) of people who will be suffering (c.) from problems many

Western minds do not care to even try imagining (d.). แกเปน suffers

9. Neither the architect nor the engineer were (a.) able to uncover the

mechanical genius of Antonio Gaudi whose (b.) structures were (c.)

as technically sound as (d.) they were mysterious. แกเปน was (CU-AAT)

10. On a camping trip with an established outfitter (a.), a tent and sleeping

bag, a down water- proof model (b.) is (c.) the equipment (d.) you need.

แกเปน are

11. Throughout history, men’s and women’s roles have constantly changed

(a.). Today if we enter a department store, it is common to find many

cosmetic shops on the first floor selling make-up and perfume to mainly

female customers (b.). However, if we took a trip back in time to Europe

over 22 years ago (c.), we would have found it was men who mainly used

make-up and perfume. In fact, only recently has the wall separated

traditional occupation for men and women started to crumble (d.).

แกเปน Only recently has the wall separating traditional occupation for men

and women started to crumble. = Only recently has the wall that separated traditional occupation for men and women started to crumble.

12. They realised that putting people with (a.) ideas in the same room as

people with (b.) money, shutting the doors and added (c.) free drinks

could (d.) be the recipe for something special. แกเปน adding


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13. Within (a.) months, attendance in London was (b.) in the hundreds and

First Tuesday events were (d.) appearing everywhere from Rotterdam

to Prague, Tel Aviv to Cardiff. Now First Tuesday was (d.) the traditional rite

of passage for anyone with an Internet idea. แกเปน is

14. Although the stars shone (a.) with unmistakable brilliance, there was (b.)

still a number of accidents that night (c.); rather than illuminate the street it

seems the twinkling stars (d.) distracted most drivers. แกเปน were

15. The firework display, which we will witness (a.) from the bridge, involve (b.)

some pyrotechnics (c.) that are not yet established as legally (d.)

permissible in certain states. แกเปน involves

Cloze Passage (CU-AAT)

Choose the best answer to fill in each blank.

In the case of a living author, an appraisal of his personal character on

the basis of his writings might unduly honor him, or, on the other hand, justify

a suit for libel. No critic would venture to judge by such an unreliable criterion.

For he knows that a weakling can write a novel of blood and passion or a play

full of 1.______. On the other hand, a red-blooded scoundrel sometimes writes

pretty verses which are entirely 2.______ in character.

1. (a.) goodness (b.) harmful (c.) kindness (d.) noxious

(e.) naughtiness

2. (a.) affection (b.) harmless (c.) abnormal (d.) regular

(e.) normal


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All of us communicate with one another nonverbally, as well as with

words. Most of the time we are not aware that we are doing it. We gesture

with eyebrows or a hand, meet someone else’s eyes and look away, shift

positions in a chair. These actions we assume are random. But researchers

have 3.______ in recent years that there is a system to them almost as

consistent and comprehensible as 4.______.

3. (a.) communicated (b.) discovered (c.) gestured (d.) lasted

(e.) ended

4. (a.) language (b.) science (c.) education (d.) position

(e.) relations

The growth of knowledge is one of most irreversible forces known to

mankind. It takes a catastrophe of very large dimensions to 5._______ the total

stock of knowledge in the possession of man.

5. (a.) diminish (b.) increase (c.) retain (d.) support

(e.) react

Economic development is a slow process, requiring sustained effort over

a period of decades. Where political control changes hands frequently, and

where this involves a wholesale overturn of administrative officials, sustained

development becomes 6.______.

6. (a.) impossible (b.) invincible (c.) inevitable (d.) irrelevant

(e.) sensible


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Explorations of Antarctica for minerals are disasters to the continent.

Other 7.______ are also multiplying rapidly. One of them is tourism. Most

environmentalists accept it as inevitable, perhaps even 8.______. Note that

visitors, who tend to be rich and interested, can become influential advocates

for protection when they return home.

7. (a.) conveniences (b.) sources (c.) explorations (d.) threats

(e.) alternatives

8. (a) harmful (b.) powerful (c.) helpful (d.) successful

(e.) bountiful

Industrial espionage, especially directed toward military products and

processes, has been a fact of international life for centuries. From bows and

arrows to missiles, the military unit with the best equipment is often the one

that wins the battle, and therefore rivals want to match or better each other,

innovation for innovation. Moreover, industrial spying does not go in only one

direction. Western governments spy on the East to learn the state of its

9.______ and probe areas where the Soviets are ahead of the U.S. But because

the West is so far 10.______ of the Soviet bloc in most fields, the risk of loss for

the U.S and its allies is proportionately greater.

9. (a.) poverty (b.) military (c.) economy (d.) technology

(e.) science

10. (a.) superior (b.) inferior (c.) ahead (d.) behind

(e.) rear


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(CU-ATT) Plants have fed the world and cured .........(1)....... ills since life

began. Now we're destroying their principal ...........(2)........... at the rate of 50

acres every minute. We live on this planet by courtesy of ........(3).......... green

cover. Besides .........(4)......... fragile soils from erosion, plants regulate the

atmosphere and ...........(5).......... water supplies for agriculture. Without plants

man could not survive.

Yet ..........(6)........ this, we destroy a tropical .........(7).......... three times

the size of Switzerland every year. This seems to be a crisis. ...........(8).........

once the forests go, they are gone forever.

It is ........(9).......... a vast problem we can hardly think of a practical

.......(10)......... to make up for the loss.

1. a. its b. our c. ours d. theirs

2. a. habit b. habitat c. inhabit d. inhabitant

3. a. earth's b. earthen

c. the earth d. the earth's

4. a. protect b. protecting c. to protect d. protected

5. a. maintain b. to maintain c. maintaining d. maintenance

6. a. know b. to know

c. knowing d. having to know

7. a. rainy forest b. raining forest

c. forest rain d. rain forest

8. a. At b. As c. For d. Although

9. a. so b. too c. such d. enough

10. a. conservation plant programme b. plant conservation programme

c. plant programme conservation d. programme plant conservation


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In many countries today, laws .........(1)........ wildlife. In India the need

for such protection was realized.

About 300 B.C. an Indian writer .......(2)......... forests that …......(3)..........

somewhat like national parks today. The killing of game beasts was carefully

supervised. Some animals were fully protected. Within the forest, nobody was

allowed to cut timber, burn wood for charcoal, or trap animals for their furs.

Animals that .......(4)........ dangerous to human visitors were trapped or killed

outside the park, so that other animals would not become uneasy.

The need for wildlife protection ..........(5)......... greater now than ever

before. About a thousand species of animals .........(6)......... in danger of

extinction, and the rate at which they .........(7)....... has increased. With

mammals, for instance, the rate of extinction .........(8)........ now about one

species every year; from A.D.1 to 1800, the rate....... (9)........ about one species

every fifty years. Everywhere, men ..........(10).......... to solve the problem of

preserving wildlife while caring for the world's growing population.

1. a. protected b. is protecting c. protect d. protects

2. a. describes b. described

c. has described d. was describing

3. a. were b. was c. be d. are

4. a. become b. was becoming c. becomes d. became

5. a. are b. is c. was d. were

6. a. are b. is c. being d. was

7. a. was being b. is being destroyed

c. destroyed d. are being destroyed

8. a. are b. being c. is d. was

9. a. was b. is c. are d. were

10. a. is trying b. are trying c. tried d. tries


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เทคนคการท าขอสอบ Reading Comprehension

1. ตองอาน แบบ scan __คาถาม__ กอนเสมอ

2. ถาอยากรวาเรองทอานเกยวกบอะไร ใหไปดท __Paragraph แรก___

3. กลบไปอานทละยอหนา แลวดวาตอบขอไหนไดบาง เพราะคาถามมกเรยงตามลาดบ

** ศพทคาไหนทแปลไมออกใหอานทบศพทไปกอน แลวดความหมายจากภาพรวมของประโยค ถาโจทยถามคาศพทนน ใหดจากบรบท และวเคราะหโครงสรางประโยคดวย

Strategic Structure จะชวยใหเขาใจความหมายศพทมากยงขน

Ever wished you could decide what to dream at night? A Japanese

toymaker says it has a new gadget that can help you do just that.

Tokyo - based Takara Company says that its "Dream Workshop" stand --

shaped like an oversized cellular phone dock and about 14 inches tall -- can be

programmed to help sleepers choose what to dream.

While preparing for bed, the user mounts a photograph on the device of

who should appear in the dream, selects music appropriate to the mood –

fantasy, comedy, romantic story, nostalgia -- and records key word prompts,

such as the name of a romantic crush.

Placed near the bedside, the dream - maker emits a special white light,

relaxing music and a fragrance to help the person nod off.

Several hours later, it plays back the recorded word prompts, timed to

coincide with the part of the sleep cycle when dreams most often occur.

It then helps coax the sleeper gently out of sleep with more light and music so

that the dreams are not forgotten.


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The device targets sleep-deprived businessmen, a company official said.

"There are many businessmen today who say they don't sleep because they

are too busy. This gadget can be used to help them dream a good dream," said

Takara spokeswoman Mayuko Hasumi.

In a study conducted on a group of men and women between the ages

of 20-40, the device had a success rate of 22 percent in inducing dreams in

which one of the prompt words appeared.

1. What is the main idea of this passage?

a. to report success in controlling a human's mind

b. to show how a new gadget helps us select our dreams.

c. to reveal that technology can help solve the business dilemma

d. to point out that technology can do anything beyond imagination

2. What is the most suitable headline for this article?

a. No More Insomnia

b. The Dream-Maker Device

c. The Wonder of Technology

d. Technology Can Serve All Our Needs

3. What did Takara Company call its new gadget?

a. Dream Catcher b. Dream Chooser

c. Dream Machine d. Dream Workshop

4. What does the user have to do with a photograph in order to operate the

device?

a. press it on b. attach it on

c. click it on d. present it on


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5. What mode should a person who wants an alien to appear in his/her dream

select?

a. fantasy b. comedy c. western d. romance

6. What would be the target group of the new device?

a. teenagers b. toymakers

c. businessmen d. company officials

7. What does it mean when a person ‘nods off’? He/she .................

a. feels sleepy b. sleeps late

c. falls asleep d. gets some sleep

8. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the word `coincide’?

a. combine b. convey

c. cooperate d. correspond

9. Who would be most likely to buy the new gadget?

a. A musician b. A banker

c. A teacher d. A scientist

10. Why do the dreamers who use the new device still remember their

dreams?

a. Because they sleep soundly.

b. Because they have a good memory.

c. Because they easily drift into sleep.

d. Because they gently drift out of sleep.


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Interesting Idioms

WORD

be as good as your word = to do exactly what you have promised to do = ทาตามทสญญาไว

: She said she’d get everything organized, and she was as good as her word.

not breathe a word also not say a word = not to tell anyone anything = เกบเปนความลบ ไมบอก

ใคร

: You can trust me. I won’t breathe a word to anyone.

: She had to promise that she wouldn’t say a word about the new designs.

by word of mouth (of information) = heard directly from people you know = พดปากตอปาก

: The most reliable way to choose a language school is by word of mouth.

from the word go = from the beginning = เรมตน

: The marriage was a disaster from the word go.

not get a word in edgeways = not to get a chance to speak because someone else is talking

too much = ไมมโอกาสไดพดคย

: Once he starts talking about politics, no one else gets a word in edgeways.

give sb your word (that) = to promise someone very seriously ( that ) = ใหคาสญญาอยางจรงจง

: I’d like to tell you, but you have to give me your word you won’t tell anyone else.

hang on sb’s every word also hang on sb’s words = to listen carefully to every word

someone says = ตงใจฟงอยางระมดระวง

: She’s a brilliant speaker and the audience were hanging on her every word.

sb has the last word = someone is the person who make the final decision about

something, or the final point in an argument = ผทเปนคนตดสนใจสดทาย

: She took a deep breath, determined that she would not let him have the last word.


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have a word (with sb) = to talk to someone, usually privately = พดคยเปนการสวนตว

: I’d like to see you in my office, I need to have a word with you about the survey.

in a word = used to introduce one word that expresses everything you want to say = ใชเพอ

แสดงทกอยางทตองการจะพดออกมา

: The show was well directed, well-acted, full of colour and life- in a word, sensational.

sth is a dirty word = a particular activity or quality is not generally approved of = การกระทาทไม

เปนทยอมรบ

: Politics is a dirty word among the young people in this country.

keep your word = to do what you promised = รกษาสญญา

: He have kept our word since the last election – taxes have not risen.

be the last word in = to be the best, most modern thing of its type = ดทสด

: First prize in our competition is a deep-pile carpet- the last word in luxury.

a man/woman of his/her word = someone who always does what they have promised to

do = ผทรกษาสญญา

: I’ve always found him to be a man of his word.

mum’s the word = don’t tell anyone about this = ไมบอกความลบใหคนอนร

: Remember, mum’s the word – I don’t want anyone else to know until I’m certain.

put in a (good) word for sb = to say good thing about someone to help them get

something = พดสงดๆเพอใหคนอนมาใหความชวยเหลอ

: I’m not promising anything, but I’ll put in a good word for you at the meeting.

(just ) say the word = just ask, and I’ll do what you want = ขอแคพดออกมา เราจะทาตามทเธอขอ

: Hey, if you want any help with that, just say the word.

take sb at his/her word = to believe what someone says = เชอในสงทไดยนมา

: Louise promised he’d pay me back on Friday, and I took him at his word.


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take my word for it = believe me = เชอ, ไวใจ

: You don’t have to take my word for it, you can check from the other members of staff.

sb’s word is law = everyone always obeys a particular person = คาพดทศกดสทธ เปนคาพดทใครๆกเชอ

ฟง

: Mum was kind and fair-minded, but her word was law.

word for word = in exactly the same words as before = คาตอคา, ทกคา

: She told me almost, word for word, the same story as Rob did.

the word (on the street) is that also word has it that = the news is that = ขาวแววมาวา, เมาทกนวา

: The word on the street is that stripes are making a comeback.

WORDS

(be forced to) eat your words = to admit that what you said was wrong = ยอมรบวาสงทพดออกไป

นนผดพลาด

: He was forced to eat his words at angry meeting of European finance ministers.

famous last words = that is likely to be the last thing you say before something happens to

prove it wrong = อาจจะเปนคาพดสดทายทพดออกมา

: “Don’t worry, I can see where I’m going.” Famous last words, I thought, as I heard her

stumble into the dustbin.

have words (with sb) = to argue with or speak angrily with someone = โตเถยง

: I had words with Mark’s teacher about that letter.

in so many words = (said) very clearly, directly, and usually rudely = อยางชดเจน ตรงไปตรงมาและ

หยาบคาย

: My boss told me, in so many words, to quit my job.


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not in so many words = not clearly or directly, but having a particular meaning = อยางไมชดเจน

และออมคอม

: A: “Did he admit he did it?”

B: “Not in so many words, but I’m not really sure that’s what he was getting at.”

lost for words also a loss for words = unable to say anything because you are surprised,

shocked, unhappy etc. = ชะงกงน พดไมออก

: She was lost for words when her friend s sprang a surprised party for the 70th birthday.

(you) mark my words = pay attention to what I’m saying = ตงใจฟงในสงทเรากาลงพด

: We haven’t heard the Last of him, you mark my words.

not mince (your words) = to say exactly what you think = พดตรงกบสงทคด ‘ปากกบใจตรงกน’

: Believe me, you’ll know if she’s angry. She doesn’t mince her words.

put words in (to) sb’s mouth = to say that someone said something that they did not

actually say, or suggest that they are going to say something that they do not intend to say

= อางวาเปนคาพดของ

: I did not say you were lazy! Don’t you dare put words into my mouth!

words fail me = I don’t know what to say = เราไมรวาจะพดอยางไรด

: The way that man just drove right in front of me- well, words fail me.

you took the words (right) out of my mouth = you said exactly what I was going to say = พด

ตรงกบสงทเรากาลงจะบอกเลย

: “What a waste of time that was!” “You took the words right out of my mouth.”

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