兩星期前的 GAT(General Aptitude Test,基本能力評估),測驗範圍如名所示,主要是最基本、應有的閱讀理解、數理邏輯跟資料歸納,十五分鐘閱卷時間,之後三小時內須完成兩篇作文及七十道四選一選擇題。
第一篇文章是說明文,要把提供的兩頁資料連圖片整理為一篇介紹鑽石的文章。第二篇則是辯論文,以四句陳述句中的一或多句為基礎,寫一篇清楚闡述自己觀點的文章,今年是談 heroes(中譯「英雄」意義不盡相同)。選擇題都是不同形式的,大概是語言跟數學各佔一半。
很多題目都頗有趣,這裡節錄四題,都是關於本文標題所指的那首詩。很有意思吧?
(閱讀全文)Prosperity
monday to friday at the plant
concrete yards are busy with
vehicles and movement altho most of what
moves is machinery
now and then a human figure crosses the open
space looking small & helpless
in the sky above the plant not much is blue
behind the buildings in a grey channel something
oozes past seeming to have been a riveron friday night when the machines are silent
and the watchman finishes his rounds
walking away with gun and torch like some
mistaken supplicant then only the dark
finds its way through wire fences
& sometimes due to atmospheric conditions (for which
the management is not responsible) the wind will rise
or in the wasteland hours of industrial sunday
rain might start falling inadvertently as if
still thinking of a plant as some kind of
flowerMichael Dransfield



