The following big question based on the LSC F3 syllabus. Enjoy your time!
- George Orwell wrote Animal Farm basing on the history of Russia from 1917 to 1943, in which the story "Battle of the Cowshed" resembled the "Russian Civil War" fought from 1921 to 1924.
- Compare the "Battle of the Cowshed" with the "Russian Civil War".
- Lenin died not long after the Russian Civil War. Stalin succeeded Lenin in 1927. During Stalin's 26-year rule, he carried out lots of reformation.
- Describe Stalin's measures on economy, agriculture, manufacturing industry, politics and foreign relationship.
- Towards the end of Stalin's regime, the Second World War broke out. The Second World War fought from 18 September 1931 to 15 August 1945. 80 million died during the war.
- Estimate the mean death toll per day during the war, correct to 1 person.
- Imagine that the war hadn't finished till now and the number of deaths per day kept constant.
- In any programming language, write a computer program that can calculate the number total deaths from the beginning of the war to the moment of execution automatically, with time periods correct to 1 day.
- The Holocaust added 6 million Jewish deaths to the total death count of the World War II. The Germans sent the Jews to gas rooms, and poisonous gas was released, killing the whole room of people, about 2000, in 3 minutes.
- You're a German official and you found that a German soldier had accidentally inhaled some poisonous gases. Provided that you have unlimited supplies of air, water, ammonia and energy, draw an experimental set-up of a process to generate a necessary chemical to revive the faint soldier.
- Support your set-up with balanced equations and draw the electron diagram of the wanted product, showing the outermost shell only.
- Japan surrendered after the atomic bombing at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The US airforce bombed Hiroshima with a bomb carrying a uranium-235 core weighing 60kg. It's given that at the fission of 1 kg of uranium-235, 7.7×1013J of energy is released. It's also given that a healthy diet needs 9000J per day.
- If all the energy released by the bomb are turned to harmless chemical energy and consumed by humans on the same day, estimate the maximum number of persons that can be fed to fullness, regardless of the total number of persons on earth.
- To what extent did the atomic bombing poison the land of Japan?
- After the bombing, as the land was infertile, most people relied on preserved food. Explain with the term water potential how is food preserved.
- 長崎原子彈爆炸後，日軍撤出中國，經過八年抗戰後，中國取得最終勝利。
- 請用大約二百字寫出中國勝出抗日戰爭的原因及其影響。
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- 能量
- 鈾元素
- 八十年代，中英就香港問題展開會談。受到鄧小平收回香港的強硬要求，戴卓爾夫人在離場時仆倒。
- Compare this with Jesus' curse on the fig tree. You may answer in Chinese or English.
- Hong Kong finally returned to Chinese rule on 1 July 1997. Many trade, industrial and commercial agreements were signed with mainland China. The relationship between Hong Kong and mainland became closer and closer.
- Describe the future of trade in Hong Kong with about 70 words.
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