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Trans-Nzoia West District Mock - English Paper 2 Question Paper
Trans-Nzoia West District Mock - English Paper 2
Course:Secondary Level
Institution: Mock question papers
Exam Year:2008
Name ……………………………………………………………. Index No. ………………………
School ……………………………………………………………
101/2
ENGLISH
(Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)
Paper 2
July / August 2008
2 ½ Hours
TRANS-NZOIA WEST DISTRICT MOCK EXAMINATION - 2008
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)
101/2
ENGLISH
(Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)
Paper 2
July / August 2008
2 ½ Hours
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES:
_ Answer all the questions in this question paper.
_ All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this question paper.
Candidates should check the question paper to ensure that all the printed pages are printed as indicated and no questions are missing.
1. Read the passage below and then answer the questions that follow. (20 Marks)
Snoring Snoring, a very common occurrence, affects millions of people worldwide, mostly older adults. Why so many snore is unknown, but the source of the noise is clear. When these people sleep, their throat muscles relax and as air passes over the soft palate (the soft part at the back of the roof of the mouth) it causes vibrations similar to those produced when someone plays a woodwind instrument. Instead of musical tones, however, snoring creates harsh, rasping noises. These sounds are more disturbing to sleeping partners than to the snorers themselves, who are usually unaware of the problem until someone complains of the noise.
Males who snore greatly outnumber women and the likelihood that a person of either sex will snore increases with age. Among people in their thirties, about 5 per cent of women and 20 per cent of men have the problem, compared with 40 per cent of women and 60 per cent of men at the age of 60. Snoring can occur at any stage of sleep, but it seems to be most pronounced during the REM, or dreaming stages. Sleeping on one's back often contributes to the problem and having the mouth open might also be a factor. However, some people snore no matter What sleeping position they assume and whether their mouth is open or closed The use of alcohol, tranquillizers, sleeping pills and antihistamines and other medications which relax the muscles of the throat and dry the mucous membranes promote snoring. Smoking similar effect.
Certain characteristics promote snoring. People who are markedly overweight are three times more likely to snore than those who are thin. Blockage of the nasal passages accounts for some cases of snoring, especially in children with overgrown adenoids and adults 10 have a deviated septum.
a) According to the passage what is snoring? (3mks)
b) What is the contrast in the second statement? (2mks)
c) How does snoring take place? (2mks)
d) Basing your answer on the passage is it true that males who snore are greatly outnumbered?
Write your answer in about 50 words.
e) Make a list of what causes snoring.
f) (i) People who are marketing overweight are three times more likely to snore than those who are thin.
Start: People who are thin ……. (1mk)
ii) Spending a night in a diagnostic laboratory will be recommended. Change the statement
into a question. (1mk)
g) What is the writer’s attitude towards what he is writing about? (2mks)
2. COMING TO BIRTH
Her house at home was neat and comfortable. She had bought a new bed and mattress, a food
cupboard and some upright chairs as well as helping her mother-in-law, out of her income from the club. She did some crochet and a little sewing for other families and made regular trips to Kisumu for shopping. She wanted to ask Martin to help her buy a sewing-machine but hesitated because in some places, she heard, this was the gift given to sweeten the first wife for the arrival of the second.
All this time the vision of Uhuru was growing larger and larger. Delegations came and went to London for complicated talks. There were black ministers. There was going to be a black prime minister. It was a bit hard to imagine, but after all they had got used to having a black bishop long before there was a secondary school headmaster who was not foreign. One by one Emergency restrictions, which Paulina felt she knew more about than anyone in her home place, were broken down. Kenyatta was first moved, then freed, then elected. At home people got restless. Stones were thrown. A European was left to die when his car fell into a river near Maseno, although someone had dived far enough down to get his watch and his clothes. Institutions were confused with the foreigners who ran them.
When a college bus overturned, villagers refused to help right it till assistance was called ' from
outside. Several students were worse injured than they need have been and one girl lost a leg. Paulina could not understand it all, though they listened regularly to the shopkeeper's radio in the market.
People one looked up to were changing and moving, but the country and the country people did not seem to change much and she could not make out what was the advantage of being free. And yet she had become free, in a sense, of Martin, and she had changed. She provided for herself, lived by herself. Although she had obligations to him she neither hungered for him nor expected him from day to day. She made decisions for herself, of course, what to buy, what train to travel on whether there were momentous decisions resolutely she closed her mind to them and considered how to teach the women about changes.
a) Place this extract in its immediate context. (2mks)
b) Characterize Paulina and the narrator. (2mks)
c) Explain what the narrator mean by the ‘vision of Uhuru’? Trace it in the rest of the text.
(2mks)
d) How has the write used repetition in the passage? Give examples and explain.
e) Describe the political happenings in this extract in a summary of 40 words. (6mks)
f) Identify the changes that have taken place in Paulina. Give your answer in note form.
(4mks)
3. Read the following proverbs and answer the questions after each.
(a) No cleverest person ever saved his own head.
(i) Explain the meaning of the above proverb and give an example of a situation in which it
could be used. (2mks)
(b) Authority is the tail of a water rat.
(i) What type of audience would be suitable for the above proverb and why? (3mks)
(ii) Identify and explain the image used in this proverb. (3mks)
(iii) Under what category would you place this proverb? (1mk)
c) Give four characteristics of proverbs
(i) …………………………………………………………………………………………………
(ii) ………………………………………………………………………………………………..
(iii) ……………………………………………………………………………………………….
(iv) ………………………………………………………………………………………………..
d) Give four functions of proverbs. (4mks)
e) If you were to carry out field work to collect proverbs, cite three main problems you would encounter.
(i) …………………………………………………………………………………………………
(ii) ………………………………………………………………………………………………..
(iii) ……………………………………………………………………………………………….
f) Give two similarities between proverbs and oral narratives. (2mks)
(i) …………………………………………………………………………………………………
(ii) ………………………………………………………………………………………………..
4. GRAMMAR
(a) Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given after each. (3mks)
(i) I really doubt if he commented, because so far, nothing good has come out of fellow.
(Change to reported speech.)
(ii) The little girl dared to tell her mother the truth. (Rewrite the sentence and supply a
suitable question tag)
……………………………………………………………………………………………………
……………………………………………………………………………………………………
(iii) The …………………………….. yatch was being sailed across the
……………………………… sea
(complete the sentence in filling in the adjectives in the correct order:- blue, golden, sporty, brown, motor, calm)
b) Fill in the blank spaces using the correct form of the word in brackets. (3mks)
(i) She was reminded that she was not ……………………………… (dispense)
(ii) Such .................................................(vandal) is unacceptable in the school.
(iii) What is the life..............................................(expect) of the average Kenyan today?
(c) Explain the meaning of the following idioms. (3mks)
(i) Bite the bullet.
(ii) A dog in a manger.
(iii) Speech is silvery but silence is golden.
(d) Replace each of the underlined words with a phrasal verb that means the same. (3mks)
(i) The criminal investigation department will have to investigate the matter.
(ii) The chief tried to minimize the crowds’ fear.
(iii) Can you decifer the meaning of this coded message?
e) Each of the following sentences has two possible meanings.
Rewrite the sentences to show the difference in meaning. (3mks)
(i) Barasa likes chicken more than Jane
(a)
(b)
(iii) He is free mason.
(a)
(b)
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