FORM IV EXAMINATION
CHILDREN $ YOURTH
DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE CENTRE (CYDIC)
TERMINAL
EXAMS ENGLISH FORM:
IV
NAME:
____________________________________ DATE:
02.06.2017
TIME:
3 HRS
INSTRUCTIONS
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This paper consists of
sections A, B, C and D
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Answer the questions as
instructed under each section
SECTION A (10 marks)
COMPREHENSION AND SUMMARY
Answer all questions in this section
1. Read the following passage below carefully and answer the questions that
follow
Half the world does not have enough to eat. Each year as a result many millions die
young, as surely as if shot by the guns of a tyrant. Many more are maimed for life by hunger, in
body or in spirit.
We say to you this suffering can and must be stopped. When all of us whether we live with it or far
away in the rich, well fed families make up your minds to end this hunger.
The earth is ruled mainly by people out of touch with the young
world. They know that people starve and
die in millions. But they think it more
important to make guns, bombs warships, rockets to send us to fight one another
than to provide seed and water, schools and hospitals so that we might feed and
serve one another.
If you live in a poor country, demand adequate food for your
fellows. Do not turn your backs on the
land and people who provide the food, instead work with them for rural
development. Plan with them, so that
starting with what little they have, they themselves can develop in body and
spirit.
If you are educated in special skills and knowledge, do not accept the
old priorities. Know that science and
technology that can send men into space, need only to be released into into the
poor lands to work even greater miracles.
See that your skills are used to help the needy.
If you are a young parent, resolve to end the suffering of children,
know too how to plan the size of your family, so that the progress of all is
not compromised.
Let us make plan to the rulers that division of world into rich and poor
must end and that we know that efforts equivalent to the many billions of
dollars wasted on armaments are needed to develop political or financial
systems prevent a just distribution of food and wealth, those systems must be
replaced.
Above all we must show our willingness to work for world development and
demand that we be given that opportunity to do so. Humankind is one family in which each of us
has the duty to help the other.
Questions
a- Write the letter of the correct answer in order to answer questions i-v
i)
Young people in developing
countries are asked to
a) Become educated and migrate to a developed country which can make use of
their skills.
b) Help establish
research centres in their countries
Help establish
research centres in their countries
c) Improve the spiritual health of rural people
d) Use their ability to help their people
e) Raise up against unjust politicians and kill them
ii)
Rulers according to this
passage must be learn that
a) Food should be made available equitably and that spending on arms is a
waste
b) They risk their lives if they do not distribute wealthy justly
c) 
The world should be
united into one state
The world should be
united into one state
d) International barriers to trade should be removed
e) All their political and financial institutions should be replaced
iii)
Which of the following is
not true according to the passage?
a) 
Educated young people
should help needy people
Educated young people
should help needy people
b) Rulers are unaware that many people starve
c) The size of families should be planned
d) All men and woman belong to the same family
iv)
The most suitable title for
this passage would be
a) 
The many causes of
Evil
The many causes of
Evil
b) The fight against unjust rulers
c) How starvation and the guns of Tyrants kill many people each year
d) The fight against hunger
e) How ignorance and population growth prevent world progress
v)
Give a word or phrase of
your own to replace each of the following words as used in the passage
a) A tyrant
.....................................................................................
b) The young world........................................................................
c) Armaments................................................................................
d) Make up our
minds...................................................................
e) Human kind ..............................................................................
2. Read the following passage and summarize it in 20 words.
The problem of poverty in terms of in adequate cash is basic, but there
are in addition some difficult adjustment from rural lives which add to the
urban Africans’ frustration. Life in an
African village is dull and unrewarding and for the young Africans who have had
some education it seems intolerable. But
until they leave they do not realize the
extent to which it gives them security and place in the society. Their duties are clearly defined, they will
never be in want and they will never be lonely.
SECTIONS B (20 marks)
PATTERNS AND VOCABULARY
Answer
all questions in this section
3. Complete the following biological story with the correct tense of the
verbs given in the box below
Be,
produce, accompany, call, made, appear, go, leave
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Ali Issa (i)..............................Jiandae High School at the age
of 17 and (ii)....................to UDSM.
There, he joined a drama group which (iii)........................a play
(iv).....................”one sack off” they (v) .......................and
performed in many places and this (vi).....................the group
famous. At the age of 21, Ali and his
group were equested to (vii)................... the President of Tanzania on a
tour of Kenya, this (viii)..................................a surprise.
4. Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given
after each sentence
i)
Their parents are rich
nevertheless the children are not proud
(use: even though)
ii)
It was not easy for me to
find my way in or my way out
(Use: either............or......)
iii)
We have plenty of
chairs. Twenty people can sit
comfortably.
(Join using............enough)
iv)
We shall go to school though
it is raining
(Begin Despite............)
5. In each of the sentences below, one of the words is written
wrongly. It is written wrongly because
that is what it sounds like in non standard British English. Read the sentences carefully and use the
context to correct the wrongly written word.
i)
She’s a rider of romantic
novels
ii)
They were jailed for robin a
bank
iii)
We watched TV and den we
went to the beach
iv)
Can you old the umbrella
while I get my keys out
6. Choose a statement to complete each of these sentences. Write the letter of the correct answer in
your answer sheet.
i)
If we happen to meet
again. I shall tell you where Anita
lives
a) 
For you know her
address already
For you know her
address already
b) Otherwise she won’t know who are you
c) As I’m likely to meet her in a day or two and can ask her
d) As certainly she is your best friend
ii)
The referee looked at his
watch, put the whistle to his lips and blew it to
a) 
Defend the goal post
Defend the goal post
b) Signal the end of the match
c) Kick the ball into the net
d) Ask the linesmen to raise their flags up
iii)
My father is such a kind man
a) 
Because he always
pays my school fees on time
Because he always
pays my school fees on time
b) That everybody who knows him loves him
c) Than all the other men in this town
d) As he can possibly be
iv)
Buy enough meat from the
market
a) 
To our village which
is three kilometres
To our village which
is three kilometres
b) To feed all our visitors
c) Which you can carry home
d) And buy fish and tomatoes too
7. Fill in the blanks using suitable word
i)
You will not
succeed.............................. you work hard
ii)
We travelled to
Arusha.........................road
iii)
Of all the students in the
class, Anet is the .............................
iv)
A: How do you do
B: .......................................................................................
SECTION C (30 marks)
LANGUAGE USE
Answer
questions 8, 9 and two (2) of the four alternatives given in question 10
8. Rearrange the following sentences in a logical order to make a
meaningful paragraphs by writing the letter beside the item number in the
answer sheet provided. For example
(i)-----F
A: It is harvested by
machines called combine harvesters
B: Here it is stored until
it is needed
C: The grain is put into
lorries and sent to large silos
D: Wheat is grown on
large-scale farms
E: their function is to cut
the crop and separate the grain from the stalks
9. Match the items in List A with responses in List B to make meaningful
sentences by writing the letter of correct answer beside the item number in the
answer sheet provided
LIST A
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LIST B
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i)
The Police officer threw
herself into the river
ii)
She was given four strokes
iii) The robbers fired in the air
iv) The travellers removed the rock
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A.
If you have any problem
B.
Everything was cheap
C.
To save the drowning girl
D. Which was blocking their way forward
E.
When I stood to speak to
them
F.
As they speed away in the
shopkeeper’s ear
G. What was happening
H. Because she left her brother alone
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10. Answer tw0 (2) questions from the four (4) alternatives A,B,C and D
A: Your young
brother/sister has been selected to join form one in your school
write him/her a letter
in which you
o
Explain briefly the way the school is organized.
o
Inform him/her of the extra-
curricular activities in the school
o
Advise him/her on how to
succeed as a student
B: Imagine that your
classmate has not attended school for one week because of
sickness. You then visit him/her at home and have a
conversation. Write a
dialogue in not less
than 200 words.
C: if you are successful in
your form four examination what are your future plans?
(250 words)
D: At present, in the towns
these are many problems of dirty and disease.
Write
a composition of not
less than 250 words detailing what measures should be
taken to improve the
situation.
SECTION D (40 marks)
RESPONSE TO READING
Answer
two question from this section one should be selected from poetry and the other
from novels, short stories or plays.
List
of readings
NOVELS
AND SHORT STORIES
A Wreath
for father Mayer of Masasi – SN Ndunguru (1997
(mkuki wa nyota)
Unanswered
cries - Osman Conteh Maclmillan
Passed
like a shadow - B. M Mapalala (2006) DUP
Spared - S. N Ndungure (2004) Mkuki wa nyota
Weep
not child - Ngugi wa Thiongo (1987) Heinemann
The
Interview - P.
Ngugi (2002) Macmilan
PLAYS
Three
Suitors One Husband - O. Mbia (1994) Eyre Methuen
The
Lion and the Jewel - W. Soyinka (1963) OUP
This
Time Tomorrow - Ngugi wa Thiongo (1972) Heinemann
The
Black Hermit - Ngugi wa Thiongo (1963) Heinemann
POETRY
Songs
of Lawino and Owl - O. P’Bitek (1979) EAPH
Growing
up with poetry - D. Rubadin (ed) (1989) Heinemann
Summons - R. Mabala (1960) T.P.H
11. Read the following poem and then answer questions that follow it
Sprawled in the dust outside the Syrian store
A target for small children, dogs
and flies
A heap of verminous rags and
matted hair
He watches us with cunning
reptile eyes
his noiseless, smallpoxed face creased in a sneer.
Sometimes he shows his yellow stumps f teeth
And whines for alms perceiving
that we fear
The curse of pity a grotesque
mask of death
With hands like claws about his
begging bowl.
But of he is lying alone
Within the shadow of a crumbling wall
Lost in the trackless jungle of
his pain
Clutching the pitiless red earth
in vain
And whimpering like a stricken
animal.
Questions
i)
What is the poem about?
ii)
Who is “he” in the
poem? How do you know him?
iii)
Mention and exemplify the
following
a) One poetic device
b) One figure of speech
iv)
Mention two major themes of
the poem
v)
Is the poem relevant to
Tanzanian society? How?
12. “Poetry is not just playing with words rather it has strong and useful
message to the society” justify the statement using two poems you have studied
under this section.
13. What are the causes of protest in two plays you have read under this section? How did the characters who were protesting
demonstrate their dissatisfaction?
14. “Novels portray social reality” with reference to two novels show what
social realities are depicted by the novalists.
