Test Paper

I.Read the text below.For questions 1-5,choose the answers(A,B,C or D) which you think fits best according to the text.(50 points) He was a big man,made bigger by his persistence in eating and drinking too much.He walked stiffly,with the upright carriage of a hereditary officer.Yet he had a small,fine head;the delicate hands of an artist;and when he spoke,his voice,which one would have expected to be deep and powerful,was thin and reedy-almost a falsetto-the voice of an academic,not of a man of action.Nor did he always present the same face to the world.He lives in history clean-shaven,except for a heavy moustache.Actually he wore a full beard for long periods in his life;and this at a time when beards were symbols on the continent of Europe of the Romantic movement,if not of radicalism.In the use of a razor,as in other things,Bismarck sometimes followed Metternich,sometimes Marx.Despite his Junker mien,he had the sensitivity of a woman,incredibly quick in responding to the moods of another,or even in anticipating them.His conversational charm could bewitch tsars,queens and revolutionary leaders.Yet his great strokes of policy came after long solitary brooding,not after discussion with others.Indeed he never exchanged ideas in the usual sense of the term.He gave orders or,more rarely,carried them out;he did not co-operate.In a life of conflict,he fought himself most of all.He said once:Faust complains of having two souls in his breast.I have a whole squabbling crowd.it goes on as in a republic.When someone asked him if he were really the Iron Chancellor,he replied:Far from it.I am all nerves,so much so that self-control has always been the greatest task of my life and still is.He willed himself into a line of policy or action.His friend Keyserling noted of his conversion to religion:Doubt was not fought and conquered;it was silenced by heroic will. 1.Bismarck 2.He A.had a deep and powerful voice A.never shaved B.had a surprisingly high-pitched voice. B.was always clean shaven C.was an artist. C.never wore a moustache D.was not a man of action. D.sometimes wore a full beard 3.Bismarck A.was insensitive. B.was a poor speaker. C.followed the advice of his friends. D.spent long periods on his own. 5.Bismarck A.managed to overcome his doubts. B.never had any doubts. C.never had any friends. D.never had any religious beliefs. II. You have recently had a class discussion on the importance of friends and friendship in our lives.Your teacher has asked you to write an essay,giving your opinion on the following statement: Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one. -C.S.Lewis.Write your essay in 180-200 words.(50 points) 4.He A.co-operated with others B.enjoyed discussing his ideas with others C.was less-confident than he seemed. D.was always calm and relaxed.