WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet

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Your leave and favour to return to France;

From whence though willingly I came to Denmark,

To show my duty in your coronation.

Yet now, I must confess, that duty done.

My thoughts and wishes bend again toward France

And bow them to your gracious leave and pardon.

(Act 1, Scene two, Lines 51 -57)

The other character present at the scene is

• A. Rosencrantz
• B. Ophella
• C. Guildenstern
• D. Polonius

Constitutional Government is run

• A. by lawyers
• B. by the politicians
• C. by applying arbitrary rules
• D. according to the laws of the land

(a) Describe the life cycle of the variegated grasshopper.

(b) List five ways through which diseases are spread on crop farms.

(c) List six characteristics of a good layer.

In the diagram, MN//PO,< ∠ PMN = 112°, ∠ PNO = 129° and ∠ MPN = y°. Find the value of y

• A. 51°
• B. 54°
• C. 56°
• D. 68°

An action taken by a seller to avoid risks from unforeseeable price fluctuation is known as

• A. tendering
• B. aunctioneering
• C. quotation
• D. hedging

In MS Excel, the cell that contains the pointer or cursor is called

• A. active cell
• B. current cell
• C. default cell
• D. passive cell

In computer architecture, the type of bus that connects the major components of a computer system is

• A. address
• B. data bus
• C. control bus
• D. system bus

UNSEEN PROSE AND POETRY

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The fact was that, no sooner had the sickles began o play than, the

atmosphere suddenly felt as if cress would grow in it without other

nourishment. it rubbed people's cheeks like damp flannel when they

walked abroad: There was a gusty, high warm wind: isolated raindrops atarred the window-panes at remote distancees; the sunlight

would flap out like a quickly opened fan, throw the pattern of the window

upon the floor of the room in a milky, colourless shine, and withdraw as suddenly as it had passed.

The passage deals with

• A. atmosphere
• B. temperature
• C. scene
• D. clouds

A block is acted upon by TWO horizontal forces as illustrated in the diagram below. The block accelerates at 1.5\(ms^{-2}\). Calculate the mass of the block.

• A. 6kg
• B. 9kg
• C. 10kg
• D. 15kg

'The rate a reaction is proportional to the number of effective collisions occurring per second between the reactants'. This statement is associated with the

• A. Kinetic theory
• B. rate law
• C. atomic theory
• D. collision theory