English Practise Paper

nuance this man projects, “He smirked when we passed each other.” And, “Our eyes met

17. Write answers in paragraphs in response to two of the following questions. Each answer should be approximately 200 words. Support your answer with specific references to Still Stands the House. Organize your ideas to express them clearly and coherently.

His mind reeled in such agony that he dropped the blade he had drew and clamped his hands over his ears, slamming his eyes shut as the voice grew louder. "...As for why you are here, what you are looking for...I do not know. But I have a guess as to what you want." So loud. "...I did not think you would take so long." His jaw clenched as his teeth crushed together, his knees almost buckling. What was she doing? It was all...

Indeed, I can quite understand the effect, for the sounds disturbed even me, though I was some distance away. It was now after the dinner-hour of the asylum, and as yet my patient sits in the corner brooding, with a dull, sullen, woe-begone look in his face, which seems rather to indicate than to show something directly. I cannot quite understand it (108).

Sun dipped into the train through the passing houses. Dan grasped his ticket as he tried to sleep on the rough seat. The train rushed along the tracks with a constant reassuring hum. He was trying to think about who was desperate enough to still talk to him at school. He must have gone to sleep and dropped his ticket, like an idiot.

place as when he got to the railway line he felt as if he had 'left

"Percy," She started slowly, for she was scared of what she would say if she spoke to fast. "Im scared of losing you," A tear starts to slip out of her eye. "With everyone trying to kill

“His head was all on one side, and one of his eyes was half shut, as if he were taking aim at something with an invisible gun”

That seemed to shut Percy up. He sat silently, and stared at the blankets on her bed, refusing to look at anyone else. Annabeth glanced over at him, and noticed the way his eyebrows furrowed together in the way they did when he was frustrated, and the thin line of his mouth. She squeezed his hand, and when he looked at her, she gave him a smile.

shouted rashly and the people nearby in the train were alarmed. Albus now wanted to stay in

This right away is going to make the film version of the book completely different. The book starts with Percy talking to the reader:

He stomped down the apartment stairs and started walking towards his house. He caught glances from others and tried to look ahead, ignoring them. He wished people wouldn’t look at him. It seemed as though he could almost hear their thoughts --

Paul bolted out of the bed and flung the blankets off. He dashed out of the room and across the hall, where the screams were coming from. When he opened the door to Percy’s room the screams doubled in volume. Paul rushed to the teen’s side as he thrashed restlessly, his face contorted into a painful grimace,

After sleeping for months Percy awoke running, he was running away from two gorgons, Stheno and Euryal. He had to sliced them up countless times with his blade, riptide, but somehow they seemed to keep reappearing out of their ashes. He had no other choice but to run, because

train slows to its shuffling stop and lets out a piercing whistle as if to announce to the