YHZ,
The following sources are readily available and have the answers you seek....
Handling the Big Jets D.P. Davies
Flying the Big Jets Stanley Stewart
Aerodynamics for Naval Aviators H.H. Hurt, Jr. edited by US Federal Aviation Administration
Once you have studied those, then the following is a useful source of interview tech questions, although it contains some, ahem, imprecise explanations -- to be fair it does not set out to be a text book:
Ace the Technical Pilot Interview Gary Bristow.
The above are all useful for your purpose, and they will continue to be useful resources during your career. All are readily available through Amazon.com and pilot shop websites all over the world.
FWIW, the 'quick and dirty' answers to your questions can be found on pp75-79 of Bristow, but if I were you, I would use Bristow's questions to check your knowledge after studying the other texts. Cathay interviews are notorious for their focus on technical knowledge. If you are serious about your CX interview, you should have your head in those books and not rely on answers you got on Pprune!
Good luck.
Last edited by ITCZ; 29th Dec 2007 at 13:16.