FEZA BOYS’ SECONDARY SCHOOL

FORM THREE MIDTERM TEST

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

TIME: 3 HOURS 29.03.2010

INSTRUCTIONS
1. This paper consists of (4) four sections, A, B, C and D.
2. Answer all questions in section A, B and C and two questions in section D.
3. Read all instructions carefully before answering.
4. All answers must be written in the answer sheets provided.

SECTION A (10 MARKS)

COMPREHENSION AND SUMMARY

1. Read the passage below carefully and answer the questions that follow.
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It is the height of selfishness for men who fully appreciate in their own case the great advantage
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of a good education, to deny these advantages to women. It is argued that women have their
domestic duties to perform and that if they were educated they would bury themselves in their
books and have little time for attending to the management of their households. Of course it is
possible for women, as it is for men to neglect necessary work in order to spare more time for
reading sensational novels. But women are no more liable to this temptation than men, and most
women would be able to do their household work all the better for being able to refresh their minds
in the intervals of leisure with a little reading. Education would even help them in the performance
of the narrowest sphere of womanly duties for education involves knowledge of the means by which
health may be preserved and improved, and enables a mother to consult with modern books and
will tell her how to rear up her children into healthy, men and women and skillfully nurse them and
her husband when diseases attack her household. Without education she will be likely to listen with
fatal results to the advice of superstitions quacks who pretend to work wonders by charms and
magic.

But according to a higher conception of women’s sphere women ought to be something more
than a household drudge. She ought to be able not merely to nurse her husband in sickness, but also
to be his companion in health. For this part of her wifely duty, education is necessary; for there can
not be congenial companionship between an educated man and an uneducated wife.

Also one of the mother’s highest duties is the education of her children. A child’s whole future
life, to a large extent, depends on the teaching it receives in early childhood and this first foundation
of education cannot be well laid by an ignorant mother. On all those grounds, female education is a
vital necessity.

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 QUESTIONS
(i) The women are denied the advantage of good education because ………………
A) they have domestic duties to perform.
B) they can not appreciate the advantages of good education.
C) they will spend time in reading without doing the household work.
D) men are highly selfish.
E) children may disturb the,

(ii) Women sometimes neglect, necessary work ………………………………

A) because men also neglect such work.
B) to have spare time for reading.
C) as they have domestic duties to do.
D) to refresh their minds.
E) to enjoy life.

(iii) What should be the role of a woman according to the higher conception among women?
A) house-hold duties.
B) Rearing up children.
C) A companion to her husband.
D) All the three above.
E) None at all.

(iv) The word “temptation” in the passage relates to ………………….

A) reading books to refresh minds.
B) Neglect of work to read novels.
C) Performing domestic duties.
D) Spending little time for reading.
E) Rearing children.

(v) What does a woman need in order to perform the duties of a wife
A) the means to preserve and improve health.
B) The knowledge to rear children
C) Education.
D) Consulting modern books.
E) Giving knowledge.

2. Read the following passage then summarize it in not more than 30 words.

James found himself as personally responsible for teaching English at Makonde Secondary
School, but at the same time he understood that private companies dealing with writing educational
materials were the agents of raising the standard of education in the entire nation.
Hence James joined one of private companies dealing with educational materials that would
also be used by Makonde Secondary School students

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 SECTION B : 20 MARKS
PATTERN AND VOCABULARY

3. Choose the correct answer by writing the letter of the correct answer.
(i) The two lorries met at a narrow section of the road. Narrow means:
A) Thin
B) Big
C) Wide
D) Long
E) Fat

(ii) You like adventure films ______________________.

A) do you?
B) Didn’t you?
C) Don’t you?
D) Did you?
E) Doesn’t you?

(iii) She gave her watch _______________________ a lady she didn’t know.
A) to
B) for
C) over
D) from
E) above

(iv) Men ________________ to abolish wars up to now, but may be they will find away in the
future.
A) never managed
B) have never managed
C) will have never managed
D) had never
E) managed

(v) All ______________________ Mariam went swimming.

A) Accept
B) Except
C) Not
D) Besides
E) Before

4. Complete the following analogies:

A) Right is to wrong, as bright is to _____________________________________________
B) Knife is to cut as gun is to __________________________________________________
C) Wing is to bird as ________________________________ is to fish.
D) Author is to book as __________________________________ is to picture.
E) Arrow is to bow as _________________________________ is to gun.

5. Write down a synonym for each of the following words.

A) Careless
B) Congested
C) Faint
D) Casualty
E) Strategy
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6. Change the following verbs into their past simple form.
i) creep
ii) flee
iii) ring
iv) feel
v) grind
SECTION C : 30 MARKS
LANGUAGE USE

7. Re-arrange the following sentences into a logical sequence by writing letters in the answer sheets
provided.

a) “You are late” The commander on duty shouted at me.

b) I had to leave the food and run to the parade ground.
c) When I arrived at the dining hall many people had already got in.
d) I was among the last recruits to get food.
e) As I started to eat the whistle for afternoon parade blew.

8. Match the item in Column “A” with responses in Column “B” to make meaningful sentences by
writing the letter of the correct answers in the answer sheet provided.

COLUMN A COLUMN B
(i) The harder a student works a. I would be able to be advised.
(ii) He opened the door quietly b. Needs discipline and tolerance.
(iii) If I were in your position c. The wiser you become a very little money.
(iv) The problem is becoming serious d. We have to do something before it become worse.
(v) To be educated e. The greater the victory.
f. Because he didn’t want to make the children know.

9. Choose two (2) topics from the following and write a composition of not less than 250 words each.

a) Give a description of a person you know well so that the reader gets the impression of her/his
physical appearance and character.

b) In not more than 250 words, write a composition about “who is more important to the society,
a teacher or a doctor”?

c) Write a letter to a former teacher of yours who left the school two years ago and has written to
ask you how have you been doing in these two years time. Tell him/her about the progress you
have made in your studies, the part you have taken in sports and other activities and the
changes made in the school, your name is Bahati Sogea of P.O. Box 1, Lushoto.

d) In not more than 250 words, write a composition on “Motor Accidents in Tanzania Roads, their
causes and suggest ways on how this problem could be controlled.

SECTION D : 40 MARKS
RESPONSE TO READING
Answer any two questions

10. With examples from oral and written literature, define the term “Literature”.

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11. With examples explain the statement that “Not all in print is literature”.

12. Define the following terms:-

(a) Paradox.
(b) Irony
(c) Scence
(d) Round character
(e) Hyperbole.

13. “Illiteracy has been one of the greatest barriers against progress. By referring to two plays you have
read, discuss the statement. Use the plays you have read.

14. Is it true that literary works are more than something to amuse people?