form three

{2016)

This paper consists of seven (7) printed pages. | AKHY MUBARAKA

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

BISMI LLAHIR RAHMAANIR RAHIIM

IBUN JAZAR ISLAMIC secondary SCHOOL

Form three Terminal EXAMINATION

P.O.Box 66 VIKINDU COAST- REGION

   Time 02:00 hours                                                                                                       June , 2016

 

           INSTRUCTIONS:

ü  This paper consists of sections A, B, C and D.

ü  Answer all questions in section A and B; and section C and D as instructed under each section.

ü  Answers should be written in the answer sheets provided.

ü  Cellular phones and calculators are not allowed in the examination room.

ü  Write your Names on every page of your answer sheet (s).

SECTION A: COMPREHENSION AND SUMMARY (10 Marks)

Answer all questions in this section.

1.      Read the following passage below carefully then answer the questions that follow.

At his mother’s hut in Thabai village, Karanja crammed a few clothes into a bag. “You’ll not let me make you a cup oftea?” his mother asked. She sat on a stool near the fireplace; her right leg bent at the knee, resting on a hearthstone. Wairimu was wizened, with hollow eyes and protruding jaws. Her eyes now watched the silent movement’s f her son at the door. “No,” Karanja said, after a pause as if words and speech cost him pain. “It is raining outside. A cup of hot tea will warm you inside since you say you’ll not stay here for the night”

  “I’ve already said I don’t want tea – or anything,” he said, his voice raised with obvious irritation. The irritation was directed less at Wairimu than at the bag he handled, the smoke-ridden hut, the drizzle outside, at the life and things in general.

  “Hii, I was only talking” Wairimu said in a withdrawing voice. It was never easy to tell the relationship between Karanja and his mother. She was the third of the four wives that Karanja’s father had acquired by paying so much bride price in goats and cattle. Wairimu’s children died at birth; Karanja was the sole survivor, the only living evidence of her man’s surprise visits to her bed. They often quarreled. But in rare moments when son and mother came together, she would gently tell him a story to illustrate the fate of every idle person. It was in this story that Karanja often remembered his mother and in time of agony it made him long for her.

 “Once, long ago,” she would begin, “there was a poor woman who had only one son. Njoki, for that was her name, wanted her son to realize that they were poorand could only get enough to eat by working hard. Every morning her son woke up and polished his shoes and ironed his clothes carefully and then went to his playmates in the shops and streets. In the evenings he would come back with a crowd of young men and women, and would ask his mother for food. Njoki was a generous woman and liked young people in the house. She would give them food and tell them stories. But every day she grew sadder because her son would never take a jembe or a panga to the shamba. Because she did not want to embarrass her son, she always hid her sadness whenever there were people in the house. Njoki was a woman with a good heart and people always praised her generosity and hard work. This pleased her son, because he was really proud of his mother and people called him son of Njoki.

“One day he brought home three great friends from a distant village. He had visited them many timesand was always lavished with food and drinks. He in turn talked about his home and had often promised them a similar treats should they ever visit him. That is why he now asked his mother to treat them to a feast. Njoki lit a good fire. She laid a clean cloth on the table. She brought plates and spoons and wiped them clean. Then she went back to the kitchen. Her son was very happy and talked about his motherand her cooking. A short while later, Njoki came back from the kitchen with three plates and on each plate was a pair of shining shoes. She put the plates and the shoes on the table.

     “I am afraid today I did not go to the shamba,” she said. “I spent the whole day polishing these shoes, and so this is all there is to eat.”

         “Her son could hardly talk for a shame. The following morning, he took a panga and a jembe and never left a field until sunset.”

       ‘Aah Mama, that is meant for me,’ Karanja would say. ‘All right, tomorrow I shall come to the shamba with you.’

Questions:

(A) Choose the best answer and write the letter in the answer sheet provided.

(i)        According to the passage, Wairimu’s children died at birth and Karanja was the only survivor, this means that ………

A.    Karanja was not Wairimu’s son of her own.

B.     He was the only son who was the laziest of all other children.

C.     He was the only living son despite being exposed to life threatening danger.

D.    Karanja was Wairimu’s adopted son.

(ii)   From the story, Njoki is portrayed as a generous woman, this is because…………

A.    People always praised her generosity.

B.     She was a woman with a good heart.

C.     She always hid her sadness in front of the people.

D.    She liked young people in the house.

(iii)  Why Njoki’s son was very happy in the story?

A.    Because people call him son of Njoki.

B.     Because his mother lit a good fire and laid a clean cloth on the table.

C.     Because his mother put the plates and the shoes on the table.

D.    None of the above.

(iv) The writer reports: “His voice raised with obvious irritation” the underlined word means………

A.    Annoyance.

B.     Delight.

C.     Disappointment.

D.    Expectation.

(B)  With reference to the passage you have read, complete the following questions.

(i)  Why was Njoki always very sad in the story?

(ii)What treatment did Njoki’s son get from his friends?

(iii)  What do you think is the reason behind Wairimu to tell Njoki’s story to her son?

2.         Read the following passage and summarize it in five (5) clear sentences.

A certain man, the only son of his parents, once wanted a woman. And the woman also wanted to marry him and have children. But the man kept on putting off the marriage because he wanted to build a new hut so that children would be born in a different hut. “We can build it together,” she often told him. In the end, she was tired of waiting and letting life dry in her. She married another man. The first man went on trying to build the hut. It was never finished. Our people say that building a house is a life long process. As a result the man never had a woman or children to continue his life fire.

SECTION B: PATTERNS AND VOCABULARY (20 Marks).

Answer all questions in this section.

3.      Select the letter of the correct word (s) and write it beside the item number.

(i)        The old lady told her daughter to return………………to the owner.        

(A) Back the bag.            (B) The bag back.

(C)  The bag.                    (D) The bag soon back.

(ii)      Seldom does it…………..here.

(B)  Rain.                          (B) Rains.

(C)  Raining.                    (D) Rained.                         

(iii)    Wise students spend most of their time………………    

(A) Study.                        (B) Studies.

(C) Studied.                    (D) Studying.

(iv)    In big cities like Dar es Salaam, most students go to school……………. 

(A) And buses                  (B) By buses

(C) In buses                     (D) With buses.

4.      In each of these sentences one word is wrong. Correct them by writing the correct word.

(i)        Pendo and me we are students.                

(ii)      The teachers they are in the office now.   

(iii)    The chairs were not enough, so some students were sitting in the floor.  

(iv)    The men has not yet gone to sleep. 

5.      Join the following sentences using the words given in brackets.

(i)        The man is astranger. I saw him at the gate      (Whom)

(ii)      The students were happy. The teacher was happy too.   (both…………and)

(iii)    Baraka is young. He can not join school this year.   (enough to……………)

(iv)    The car was going very fast. It hit the schoolboy.   (Which).

6.      Rewrite the following sentences as instructed.

(i)        The students did this work last week.(Begin: This week work…………..)

(ii)      Unless she studies hard, she will not pass.(Begin: If she……………………….)

(iii)    John is such a naughty boy that he cannot play with us.(Use: so………………….that………..)

(iv)    Although she worked slowly, she finished her work on time.(Begin: Slowly as……………………)

7.      Choose the best alternatives

i)        I am not worried ------------- the exams

a)       In                         b)  about                                 c)  to                       d) of

ii)      I’ m going to apply -------------a job after the exams

a)       At                         b)  to                                    c)    by                     d)  for

iii)    I feel proud ---------------all the work I have done this year

a)      Of                        b)    on                                   c)     by                      d)   of.

iv)                I  have never heard------------ any one passing who didn’t work hard

a)      At                    b)   of                                         c)  to                              d) over  

SECTION C: LANGUAGE USE. (30 Marks)

Answer questions 8, 9 and select any two (2) in question 10.

8.       Re –arrange the following sentences into logical sequence to make a meaningful paragraph.

A.       Several years earlier, a man had built a locomotive, but it was meant to travel on the road not on rails.

B.        George Underson realized that a railway was necessary.

C.        Hundreds of people went watch the train on its first journey.

D.       George Underson was the real father of the railway engine and the railway.

E.        He built his first line in the north of England and it was opened in 1825.

ANSWERS

Answer	1	2	3	4	5
Letters

9.      Match the items in Column A with those from Column B by writing the letter of your choice from column B against the item numbers in column A.

	COLUMN   A		COLUMN   B
(i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v)	As we approached the factory….H You should not blame me…D If the oranges are ripe……E I am thirsty……………F  A deadline is …………G	A B C D E F G H I J	A line which kills people or animals trying to cross it. Let us eat them all. I need food. For your personal failures. Tomorrow we shall make juice. Can I have water? A time limit by which a test must be finished. The noise made by the machines became louder and louder. Because you have failed totally. We saw a big snake chasing a small rat.

Questions	i	ii	iii	iv	v
Answers

10.  Answer two questions from the four alternatives A, B, C and D.

a)      You have been invited by your neighboring school to participate in a debate with the   motion “School fees should be abolished at all levels of education.”  Argue for or against the motion in not more than 250 words. Give eight points.

b)      Cooking using charcoal does more harm than good. Write a composition of 300 words to give out opinion on the matter. Give eight points

c)      In about 250 words write a short story ending with the words ……… “That is how I realize that life is tough..

d)     In not more than 250 words, write a composition on “Why Tanzania is regarded as a poor country?”

Give eight points.

SECTION D. (40 Marks): RESPONSE TO READING.

           Answer only two (2) questions from this section.

11.   Read the following poem carefully and then answer the questions that follow.

           EAT MORE

“Eat more fruits’. The slogan say,

More fruits, more fish, more bread

But I’m on employment pay

My third year now and wed.

And so I wonder when I‘ll see

The slogan when I pass

The only one that would suit me,

“Eat more bloody grass!”

a)      Who is the speaker in this poem?

b)      What is the poem talking about?

c)      How many number of stanza does the poem has?

d)     What are the possible themes in the poem?

e)      What do you concider to be the message of thius poem?

12.  Mantion (seven) functions of literature

13.  Deferentiate the following terms:

a)      Round character and flat character

b)      Static character and developing character

c)      Simile and metaphor

d)     Tragic and comedy drama

“”If you try to please everybody, you will end up pleasing nobody.””