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TERMINAL EXAMINATION

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BT 3242 English Composition B.Tcch. Pass (AH Technologies) Summer 2011

This is a three-hour examination and consists of review questions only. You may attempt not more than four review questions. Q. 1 a) Why was Hollywood chosen as a natural place for making movies? b) What are some of the subjects Shakespeare wrote about? Q.2 a) What kinds of songs were the basis of Jazz? Who sang them? Where? b) How did many of the early architects plan the first skyscrapers? How did Sullivan's design revolutionize the appearance of the skyscrapers? Q.3 a) Quirk says it is possible to have a language in common and yet to have political impendence and national identity. What does he mean? b) What are the similarities and differences between British and American English? Q.4 a) Name three groups of immigrants who have contributed to the vocabulary of American English. Give examples of words borrowed from each, b) Discuss the two well-defined speech types in Australian English. What are they called? Which of the two types is most distinctive and which is closer to British English? Q.5 a) There were four invasions of the island of Britain after the Celts settled there. Who made the invasions? What languages did they speak? b) In what ways are American a mobile people? How does this mobility suit their temperament? Q.6 a) What did the blue singers sing about? What form did the blues develop? b) What are the names of some of Shakespeare's characters? Is their appeal national or international? Q.7a) Describe the early movies. What was photography like? How did the people move in the film? b) What is suburb? What effect did the automobiles have on city suburbs?