汤布里奇公学入学考试笔试真题

作为继伊顿、哈罗之后的第三大贵族男校之一，汤布里奇公学一直被称为“小牛剑”。光是从该校20%以上的学生步入牛剑这一数字来就足以说明该校的学术成绩有多么优秀，除此之外，该校还为学生提供了丰富多彩的体育活动，因此，越来越多的学生去该校留学，可是，入读私校要经过笔试，下面，小编就为大家带来了汤布里奇公学写作入学考试笔试题库，希望对大家有所帮助：

　　写作

时间:1小时10分钟

总分:60分

笔试的三个部分都要回答。建议你在每一个问题上花25分钟

A和B部分，C部分20分钟。

所有部分得分相等。

在一张纸上写上你的名字开始每一部分。

Section A

Argue against one of the following statements:

a) ‘Aliens do not exist.’

b) ‘Friends are more important than family.’

c) ‘Some triangles can have four sides.’

d) ‘Humans and animals are equal.’

e) ‘Stealing is always wrong.’

Section B

Write a short story on one of the following topics:

a) The other side of the mirror

b) My great grandmother

c) The walk along the motorway

Concentrate more on description and characterisation than fitting in a complicated plot. It’s fine if only one thing happens, as long as you describe it, and how it makes your character feel, in an interesting way!

Section C

Read this extract from Simon Schama’s A History of Britain.

In your own words summarise Schama’s argument.

Historians like a quiet life, and usually they get it. For the most part, history moves at a deliberate pace, working its changes subtly and incrementally. Nations and their institutions harden into shape or crumble away like sediment carried by the flow of a sluggish river. But there are moments when history is unsubtle; when changes arrive in a violent rush, decisive, bloody, traumatic; as a truck-load of trouble, wiping out everything that gives a culture its bearings –custom, language, law and loyalty. 1066 was one of those moments.

It is certainly true that, for the majority of the population of Anglo-Saxon England (let alone the rest of Britain), 1066 was mostly a matter of exchanging lords. The slaves at the bottom of Anglo-Saxon society who could be bought and sold could hardly have cared less what language their masters spoke. Peasants ploughed their fields, fed swill to their pigs, prayed to avoid poverty and pestilence and watched the seasons roll around.

It is true that every spring, the grass came up green again. But in 1066 there were bones under the buttercups and the entire governing class of Anglo-Saxon England, some 4000 to 5000 lords, had been made to vanish and power, wealth, men and beasts had been given to foreigners. You could survive and still be English. You could even speak the language. But politically you were now a member of an inferior race. You lived in England, but it was no longer your country.