Here is the second part of the 2015 Grade 10 English Examination Paper. Check out the other post on Multiple Choice Questions . For questions 26 to 29, refer to the passage below. A Fence Around The Cuckoo The title of the first volume of Ruth Parker’s autobiography, A Fence Around the Cuckoo, refers to building a fence around a symbol of spring, the cuckoo, in order to prevent the changing of the seasons. Ruth Parker’s autobiography captures and preserves for all time her growth from childhood to womanhood, the springtime of her life. There are many events recorded in this book. This summary will outline some of these that the author sees as helping to shape her adult life. Ruth’s early years are spent in Te Juiti, the centre of the King country in New Zealand’s North Island. Her father is a road builder working in the surrounding rainforest areas. Ruth loves the nature about her and lives quite a solitary life with her parents until she starts school, where she has a great respect for the nuns that teach her. Her best friends are her father, Mera Parker, and Roha Tawhai, a Maori girl who starts school at the same time as Ruth. Ruth has an eventful childhood. She loves her father’s stories and those she hears from the local Maori people. At a young age she writes her own stories, dreaming of one day becoming a professional writer. Ruth is also exposed to unpleasant things such as the scene of the cart driver who kills himself when his horse, his means of making a living, dies. It is the time of the Great Depression and most people struggle to earn enough to survive. Ruth’s father becomes very depressed when he can no longer fulfil his role as breadwinner for his family. QUESTION 26 What is an autobiography? QUESTION 27 What does a person who kills himself commit? QUESTION 28 What is the cause of Mr. Parker’s depression? QUESTION 29 Which period does Ruth Parker refer to as the springtime of her life? For questions 31 to 36, change each word given below into its correct form to complete the numbered blanks in the passage. Make sure each word is correct in grammar, spelling and punctuation. Example 0. southern 31. be 32. origin 33. fight 34. independence 35. tours 36. majesty Naples, Italy is situated at the foot of a range of hills on the west coast of 0. southern Italy. It is considered a microcosm of European history as a result of __31_ governed by so many different cultures, including the Goths, Normans, Spanish and Germans. The city of Naples was established by the Greek colonists in the 17th century B.C. It was ____32____ known as Palaepolis and was later named Neopolis, meaning: “new city.” By 236 B.C, it was under Roman leadership and became a favourite resort for affluent Romans. After the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 A.D, diverse populations ____33____ for control of Naples; the Byzantines, Lombards and others controlled the city for short periods of time during the Middle Ages. In 1942, Naples came under the control of Spain, making the Spanish language dominant for the next 250 years. For a brief period of time, Naples became the capital of an ____34___country. Later, during the Napoleonic Wars of 1799-1814, Napoleon appointed his brother Joseph as King of Naples. The Bay of Naples is Italy’s second most important seaport, delivering hundreds of cruise ships and _____35___ to each shore every day. Naples is a conundrum of how well modern high-rise offices and apartments can seamlessly blend with ancient monuments. Fountains, thousands of years old, stand ______36___ in front of modern glass and steel edifices. QUESTION 37 What is the hull? QUESTION 38 Where on the boat is the stern located? QUESTION 39 Which part keeps the sailboat steady on water? QUESTION 40 Apart from the mast, what else supports the main sail? For questions 41 to 50, write the correct word in your Answer Sheet. Each word must be correct in grammar, spelling and punctuation. LETTERS Readers can often best enter into the inner spirit of a writer through close contact with his or her letters. Through the writer’s more casual handling of relationships, incidents, cameos and atmospheric flavours in letter-form they occasionally allow more of their true beliefs, values and attitudes to come through, unchecked, to the reader. Of course, there ______41______exceptions to this. Some writers’ letters can be self-conscious and studied, like the letters of Henry James, but, in the main, there are often more chance of a relaxed, intimate style of presentation in this particular mode. A sense of audience plays a crucial part in letter _____42___. The style, tone and mood of the different letters vary considerably according to the writer’s awareness of how his message might be received. D. H. Lawrence’s two letters are revealing in this context; they are ____43___ about the same incident but whereas his letter to Frieda is passionately engaged, not stopping to weigh the exact effect of his words, his letter to Ernest Weekley, Frieda’s husband, is much more measured because of the uncertainty about how it will be received. The writer’s comparative position and place is also an _____44___ aspect of letter writing. George Jackson, in a position of increasingly alienated loneliness, devoted all his time in prison to an attempt to ‘understand his surroundings’ through reading, studying and thinking. And his letters, emotionally committed though they are, sometimes read like political or historical essays____45 __ than communications with his parents. His attempt to make sense of his position in his own way through the act of putting his thoughts down on _____46____ is at least as important as sharing his experiences with his parents. A deliberately wide range of letter writing has ____47______ attempted in this selection. Starting with the more nakedly personal letters of Lawrence, through the rather awkward confession of Robert Frost, isolated in Scotland with an embarrassing situation on his hands; there is a progression ____48_____ personal to public. Of course it isn’t as simple as that. There are subtleties within the entire spectrum, ______49____ as the E.E. Cummings piece that appears, on first reading, to be spontaneously racy until you look again and recognize the element of conscious artifice that underlies it. Van Gogh’s letters show the preoccupations of a working painter aroused by new sights and new feeling from his excursion to the Drenthe area. The detailed observation of the painter’s eyes is found in the accuracy of remarks _____50______ ‘dashes of more or less glaring lilac, grey, white, a single rent through which the blue gleamed’ in describing the sky. END OF EXAMINATION Check out also : Multiple Choice Questions
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