READING CONTEST

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READING CONTEST

• STAR 2007

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ROUND I
Hemingway Fleming Silver Vicary Eyre Smith Collins
Hardy Lewis Stevenson Mitchell

• Jane
• Ernest
• Wilkie
• Margaret
• Ian
• Tim
• Robert
• Eva
• John
• Thomas

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• Jane Eyre
• Ernest Hemingway
• Wilkie Collins
• Margaret Mitchell
• Ian Fleming
• Tim Vicary
• Robert Lewis Stevenson
• Eva Smith
• John Silver
• Thomas Hardy

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ROUND II

• Who said it?
• 1)But when I saw him last, what do you think he
  was doing? He was searching for the Elixir of
  Life
• 2) Love means never having to say Im sorry
• 3)I think today Ill begin with the Elephants
  child
• 4) Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!
• 5) Noble and generous Cetacean, have you ever
  tasted Man?
• 6) Ill think of it tomorrow. I can stand it
  then.
• 7) As sweet as balm, as soft as air, as gentle.
  Oh, Antony!
• 8) We were sitting in my room, smoking and
  talking about how bad we were bad from a
  medical point of view I mean, of course.
• 9) Jane, have you a glittering ornament round
  your neck?.. And have you a pale blue dress on?

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• 1)Harry from Times arrow by Arthur Ch. Clark
• 2) Jenny from Love story by Erich Segal
• 3) Crocodile from The Elephants Child by R.
  Kipling
• 4) Captain Flint from Treasure Island by R.L.
  Stevenson
• 5) The small Stout Fish from How the Whale got
  his Throat
• by R. Kipling
• 6) Scarlett O'Hara from Gone with the wind by
  Margaret Mitchell
• 7) Cleopatra from Antony and Cleopatra by W.
  Shakespeare
• 8) J. from Three Men in a Boat by J.K. Jerome
• 9) Mr. Rochester from Jane Eyre by Charlotte
  Bront?

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ROUND III

• What do these numbers mean?

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• 3
• 1.000.000mln
• 120
• 8 years

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ROUND IV

• WHAT WAS THE BASIS OF KIMS
• REMARK?

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• The criminal said he had never heard of Dr
  Robins, but he knew that the doctor was
• a) a dentist
• b) a man

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ROUND V

• The year 3007. High technologies are perfect. But
  you can hardly find a book anywhere for all the
  books are forbidden. If the police find a book in
  someones house, the person will be immediately
  arrested, fined and imprisoned.

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!