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English Form 3 Holiday Revision Question Paper

English Form 3 Holiday Revision

Course:English

Exam Year:2015

ENGLISH HOLIDAY REVISION
FORM 3
Comprehension
Read the passage below and answer all the questions that follow.
It has been part of Nelson’s prayer that the British fleet might be distinguished by humanity in the victory he expected. Setting an example himself, he twice gave orders to cease firing upon the Redoubtable, supposing that she had struck because her great guns were silent; for as she carried no flag, there was no means of instantly ascertaining the fact from this ship, which he had thus twice spared, he received his death. A ball fired from vessels was not more that fifteen yards from that part of the deck where he was standing, struck the epaulette on his left shoulder about a quarter after one.Just in the heat of action. He fell upon his face on the spot which was covered with his poor secretary’s blood.
Hardy, who was a few steps from his turning around, saw three men raising him up. They have done for me at last Hardy” said he. “ I hope not I” cried Hardy. “Yes,” he replied, “my backbone is shot through yet even not for a moment losing his presence of mind, he observed as they were carrying him down the ladder, that he tiller-ropes which had been shot away, were not yet replaced and ordered that new ones should be roped immediately. Then that he might not be seen by the crew, he took out his handkerchief and covered his face and his stars. Had he but concealed these badges of honour from the enemy, England perhaps would not have had cause to receive with sorrow the news of the battle of Trafalgar. The cockpit was crowded with wounded and dying me: over whose bodies he was with some difficulty conveyed, and laid upon a pallet in the midshipmen’s berth. It was soon perceived, upon examination that the wound was mortal. This, however, was canceled from all, except Captain Hardy, the chaplain and the sensation in his back, and the gush of blood he felt moment within his breast, that no human care could avail him insisted that the surgeon should leave him, and attend those to whom he might be useful.

1. i) What is meant by ‘supposing that she had struck’?
ii) How can Nelson be said to have been partly responsible for his own death?

iii) What do you understand by ‘mizzen-top’?

iv) Why did Nelson insist that the surgeon should leave him and attend to others?

v) What qualities in Nelson’s character are revealed in the passage?

2. Read the following excerpt from Marjorie Oludhe Macgoyes, Coming to Birth and answer the questions that follow.
Nancy didn’t leave enough of herself behind for Martin particularly to miss or resent her, but she had left a mirror, a little framed one which could be hooked on the wall, and he noticed this and examined his face during one of thrice-weekly shares. In fact, it was the first time since the assassination he had felt steady enough to do it himself. There was always, a fair-weather barber under a tree to do it for you didn’t feel up to it.

Although his paunch had grown a little, Martin’s face was thinner than it had been when he was a young man, though not much lined. Still the basic convexity of the Luo features remained. His eyes were a bit bloodshot, he had needed to keep half in a stupor to get through those days at all.
His hairline was receding slightly. He was thirty six, three years younger that Tom had been, and what had he achieved?

The household was plain but decent. He could provide bedding and dishes for several guest. His library had expanded from the leftover school books to a neat row of professional texts and Kenyan documents. He knew how to use resources of the town for what he counted reference book, a haircut, a likely pick-up of a chance to observe the top people. He did not see himself as maturing but as deprived of the chance of maturity, a childless man who could not keep a wife, whose house at home was shamed and where house in town could never be home.
He had long since ceased to wear the silver-gilt wedding ring he had assumed that day at St. John’s Pumwani. It could provoke too many questions. But he was growing all the same. He had adjusted from a vision of freedom in which the figure of a mythical leader, released from prison, hovered distant and glorious like the queen, to an actual country in which shops and houses changed hands, the wage structure remained very much the same, and the man you addressed as ‘sir’ haggled just as before over discounts and overtime. He found himself correcting even foreign customers about the size of envelopes and index cards. Greatly daring, he found that he could enjoy a film better in the comfort of the Kenya Cinema than in Starehe Hall and that the extra few shillings earned him the command of the luxurious foyer and the darkness in which dreams come true. He actually went to a bedroom in the New Stanley Hotel, high up, helping a salesman to hump his bags of samples, and had a drink there ordered imperiously by phone. On good days, he could even remind himself that there were big people in the country who were still bachelors, so he need not to be so worried.

In one way, working relationships were changing Asian customers started speaking to you differently ‘Bwana’ or ‘my friend’ or ‘you there and some unnecessary handshakes. But working hours did not get any shorter and excuses were not tolerated for lateness,though a little attending funerals or school interviews. Births and wedding, hardly came up on the list of special requests-one might have thought that birth and marriage would take on more significance now that everyone was born a Kenyan but somehow it was not so. People have once been underdogs on a communal basis, but now if you were an underdog, it was somehow your own fault. Martin was glad he had realized it in time.

i) How often did Martin share?
ii) Make notes on what we learnt about Martin in this excerpt.
iii) In a paragraph of a few words, mention the changes that had taken place in independence.
iv) Why did Martin see himself as deprived of the chance of maturity?
v) “But he was growing all the same” In the context of the excerpt, explain the kind of growth referred to.
vi) Give two examples of luxuries that Martin enjoyed
vii) Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the passage.
(a) Paunch
(b) Haggled
(c) Imperiously
(d) Hump

3. Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
THE SICK ROSE
O rose, thou art sick!
The invisible warm
That lies in the night,
In the howling storm

Has found our thy bed
Of crimson joy
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy

i. On which words would you put special as you read this poem aloud?
ii. Identify and explain an instance of Onomatopoeia in this poem.
iii. Is there a rhyme scheme in this poem? Explain its effect.

4. a)Write out the words in the brackets in their correct form to fill in the blanks.

AIDS education for youth aims at behavior
(i)…………………..(develop) and change. The change implies
(ii)………………..(clarify) of values by individuals and the society at large.
Some of these values are (iii)……………….(sense) and deeply rooted in culture and any attempt to change them will be met with (iv)………………..(resist) and (v)……………………..(resent) therefore need for teachers to use (vi)…………(suit) methods to cope with this situation. The methods are (vii)…………………….(participated) in that they actively involve the youth and the teacher in (viiii)……………….(acquired) of knowledge and skills, as well as the development of attitudes. The method involve the participation in the process of problem solving and (ix)………………..(decide) making. The issues that are handled in AIDS education are valued-laden and hence the content will need to be handled through value-clarification methods. Some of these methods include : debates, (x)……………….(discuss), role-play, case studies and games.

b) In each of the following sentences, supply a verb in agreement with subject
(i) To take play and then not to work dishonest
(ii) The cost of all these articles………………..risen
(iii) The jury…………………divided in their opinion
(iv)That night, everyone of the boat’s crew down with fever.
(v) One or the other of those fellow………….stolen the watch.

c) Rewrite these sentences, beginning with the word given in brackets
(i) They have already filled the vacancy. ( The vacancy……………………..)
(ii) The information is kept on our computers. ( We………………)
(iii) “What do you want?” I said. ( I asked him what……………..)
(iv) Let’s go for swim. ( How about……………………)
(v) I’m sorry I’m not a millionaire. ( I wish……………)

IN THE INNER CITY-LUCCILLE CLIFTON
In the inner city
Or
Like we call it
Home
We think a lot about uptown
And the silent nights
And the houses straight as

Dead men

And we hand on to our no place
Happy in the inner city
And in the inner city

Or
Like we call it
Home
Like we call it
Home

(i) What do the people referred to in the poem as ‘we’ call the inner city?
(ii) What part of the city, besides the inner city, is mentioned in the poem?
(iii) What word is used to describe the nights and the lights in uptown?
(iv) To what are the houses in uptown compared? Speaker’s feeling about uptown.
(v) Identify three stylistic devices used in the poem.

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