High-Q | סימולציה 3

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סימולציה מס' 3

פרק שני

– אנגלית

16. The purpose of the final paragraph is to -

(1) suggest some practical applications of Raskin's research (2) present the conclusions which can be drawn from Raskin's research (3) suggest some further avenues of biochemical research (4) produce evidence which tends to support Raskin's findings.

17. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage above?

(1) Aspirin Induced Protection Among Plants (2) Airborne Aspirin for Diseased Plants (3) Aspirin vs. Pesticides (4) Tobacco Mosaic Virus - No Longer a Threat?

Text II (Questions 18-22)

The quality of Shakespeare's plays is obvious. But this does not mean that he was writing for readers. He was writing for the stage. He and his company profited mainly from the production, not the publication, of his plays, and there is no evidence that he prepared any of them for the press. The question, then, of how his plays got from his own manuscripts to our modern texts is of importance and interest. 5 Eighteen of Shakespeare's plays were published separately as pamphlets known as quartos. These were reprinted in the folio collection of 1623, and 18 unpublished plays were added. The editors of the folio condemned the earlier quartos as “stolen and surreptitious copies, maimed and deformed by the frauds and stealth of injurious impostors.” In the folio it was claimed that these plays were “cured and perfect of their 10 limbs” and the unpublished plays “absolute in their numbers as he conceived them.” For over two centuries these words were taken literally, but modern research has shown that usually the folio editors reprinted an earlier quarto when there was one. Often they used a recent quarto, with its accumulated misprints, rather than the earliest one. But they did often introduce changes, apparently from a playhouse script. Furthermore, some of 15 the quartos show signs of having been set up from Shakespeare's own manuscript or a faithful copy of it. Prejudice against the quartos is well justified, however, in the case of six, now always called “the bad quartos.” They are the “Romeo and Juliet” of 1597, the “King Henry The Fifth” of 1600, the “Merry Wives” of 1602, the “Hamlet” of 1603, and the “Henry The 20 Sixth” of 1594. These badly garbled texts certainly never came from the prompter's copy or the author's manuscript. They were either taken down in faulty shorthand by an agent in the audience or, more probably, reconstructed from memory by an actor or other employee of the company.

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