3. Read the following advertisement carefully, and then answer from it the
questions printed below:—
THE SHORTEST DISTANCE BETWEEN TWO POINTS IS A CURVE
The swooping curve of steel wire which now leaps across the Firth of Forth
looks good to motorists. When the Forth Road Bridge, of which it is part,
opens in 1963, the Edinburgh-Dunfermline run will be cut from 40 tedious
miles to 7. For key-jobs like this, bridge builders depend, of course, on
5 STEEL: 6,000 tons of high-tensile steel plate in the two 500 foot main
towers; 30,000 miles of high-tensile steel wire in the 2 ft. thick main cables—
each made of 11,618 separate wires, only thick but with a breaking point
of over 100 tons a square inch. Another 16,000 tons of high-tensile steel will
be added in the roadway of the bridge, plus 880 tons in balustrading and
10 railings. In all, some 39,000 tons of steel will span the Forth, its curves set
against the more severe lines of the Forth Rail Bridge, which back in 1889 was
the world’s first great bridge to be built of steel. Today, as then, steel—
tremendously strong and versatile—is the modern metal.
STEEL SHAPES TOMORROW
Marks
(а) Write down two statements which are facts. (2)
(б) Write down two statements which are expressions of opinion. (2)
(c) What significance do you attach to the use of:—
(i) leaps (line 1);
(ii) tedious (line 3) ? (2)
{d) Suggest (i) an advantage, and (ii) a disadvantage, in the use of figures. (2)
(e) Illustrate from the advertisement two different literary devices used by
the copy-writer. ’ ^ (2)
(C+155S)
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