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Butere/Mumias District Mock- English Paper 2 Question Paper
Butere/Mumias District Mock- English Paper 2
Course:Secondary Level
Institution: Mock question papers
Exam Year:2007
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101/2
ENGLISH
PAPER 2
(Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)
JULY/AUGUST 2007
TIME: 2 ½ HOURS
BUTERE-MUMIAS DISTRICT MOCK EXAMINATIONS - 2007
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)
101/2
ENGLISH
PAPER 2
(COMPREHENSION, LITERARY APPRECIATION AND GRAMMAR)
JULY/AUGUST 2007
TIME: 2 ½ HOURS
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
• Write your name and Index number in the spaces provided above.
• Answer ALL the questions in this question paper
• All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in the question paper.
This paper consists of 12 printed pages.
Candidates should check the question paper to ensure that all pages are printed as indicated Read the following passage and then answer the questions that follow. (20 marks)
There are these individuals who when stressed out either grind their teeth, bite or pick at their nails. I pick at my face, scouring it for pimple or in their absence anything else to exfoliate.
And so you see, it is during one such tour that I unearthed the horrific_a discovery I best articulated in a panicked email to a friend: “help me”. I said: “it’s official… I’m growing a beard!”
A topic of my laughter amongst my friends’ facial hair was always just that-something to laugh about.
But now, having discovered a few strands of my own, it suddenly didn’t seem too funny. I was in a hairy situation and I didn’t like it.
Indulge me for a moment and understand where Iam coming from. I am not referring to a microscopic fuzz. This here was a very bold and aggressively developing mane, which I could either pluck , shave, tweeze, have electrolysis performed or damn it, just grow and groom.
I would not have been the only one. The problem of unwanted facial hair extends to approximately 41 million women in the United States and more than a few I have bumped in to at Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi.
And some of these bearded ladies have been smart, leaving their mark in history. There was lady Olga, born in 1874 as Jane Barnwell, who had a 65 year long career side show attraction, traveling with the Ringling brothers and Barnum and Bailey. And remember Vivian wheeler, the IIinois woman who for her 11 inch beard, made it into Guinness book of world records for having the “longest female Beard Hair? Having shaved since the age of seven, Vivian endured four marriages before setting “Rapunzel” to grow.
But be as it is, beard and all, nature is still kinder to women than men. Despite challenges such as comparatively lower access to wealth, employment, healthcare and education, women are still on top when it comes to living it out… life that is. Not only are women ahead in numbers but they also have a greater life expectancy, than men. In the US, for instances where the life expectancy averages 79 years for women, it is about 72 for men, and women over the age of 65 outnumber men by a ratio of three to two.
This is particularly interesting when one considers the numerous physical and cultural advantages men have over women. We are shorter and hence more prone to weight gain and poorer hence less likely to get medical care. Even in US, older women are the single poorest group with 35 per cent living alone and 52 percent widowed as compared to men, where only 14 percent live alone and 23 percent are widowers.
So how does this happen? Men it seems are doomed well from the start. Not only do they die more frequently than girls in infancy but in each subsequent year of life.
Come puberty many speed it up. Succumbing to what has been termed “testosterone toxicity”-the increase in testosterone that prompts boys to thump their chests and take greater risks than girls-nothing like knitting when you can jump off a wall!.
In their 40s, many begin to see symptoms of heart disease such that by the time they are aged 55 to 64, they are twice as likely to die from heart disease and accidents as women of the same age. And in developing countries they are also four times as likely to commit suicide.
If women are, indeed, the weaker sex, little evidence proves it. While their husbands puff on a kiraiku (unfiltered tobacco roll), our kamba women fetch firewood, water, cultivate and cook meals. And in our cities, others work longer hours for peanuts hand washing clothes and scrubbing floors to feed families they only see in evenings, as their second job, that of parenting, begins.
Despite all these, women have been conditioned to rely on men and to paradoxically believe that they are lifeless-cripples, without the support and companionship of a man.While our longer lives don’t necessarily translate into healthier lives (we have our share of osteoporosis, diabetes, hypertension and HIV\ AIDS), our worth amounts to more than we hear. It is exhibited in our inner strength and in our ability to grow stronger when weakened.
Isn’t it time we learned from Madame Jeanne Calmert who died at the age of 122? Her life teaches us one thing __it is that women shouldn’t count on marriage to finance their old age. Ladies, you may try it but he’ll be long gone when you’re old. You may have a companion, a loving dog, Perhaps, but you’ll otherwise be alone in your rocking chair stroking your beard.
QUESTIONS
a) Why does a topic that makes the writer laugh causes her misery? (2mks)
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b) Punctuate the following sentence correctly. Women face challenges such as lower access to
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c) If women are, indeed, the weaker sex little evidence proves it. (Rewrite this sentence starting
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d) Specify two areas the passage singles out where women outperform men. (2mks)
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e) Explain the irony behind men’s shorter lifespan. (3mks)
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f) Not only are women ahead in numbers but they also have a greater life expectancy.( write two
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g) In note form state in what ways the lives of men are doomed (4mks)
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h) Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the passage. (4mks)
i. Exfoliate
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ii. Microscopic fuzz
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iii. Succumbing
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iv. Symptoms
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DRAMA: William Shakespeare: The merchant of Venice
Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow.
GRATIANO: O be thou damned in execrable dog,
And for thy life let justice be accused!
Thou almost mak’st me waver in my faith,
To hold opinion with Pythagoras
That soul of animals infuse themselves
Into the trunks of men. Thy currish spirit
Governed a wolf, who hanged for human slaughter-
Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet,
And whilst thou layest in thy unhallowed dam,
Infused itself in thee: for thy desires
Are wolvish, bloody, starved, and ravenous.
SHYLOCK-Till thou canst rail the seal from off my bond,
Thou but offend ‘st thy lungs to speal so loud.
Repair thy wit, good youth or it will fall
To cureless ruin. I stand here for law.
DUKE: This letter from Bellario’s doth commend
A young and learned doctor to our court
Where is he?
NERRISA: He attended here hard by
To know your answer whether you’ll admit him.
DUKE: With all my heart. Some three of four of you
Go give him courteous conduct to this place.
(Exeunt several ATTENDANTS)
Meantime the court shall hear Bellario’s letter.
(Reads) Your grace shall understand that at the receipt
Of your letter Iam very sick; but in the instant
That your messenger came, in loving visitation was
With me a young doctor of Rome. His name is Balthazar.
I acquainted him with the cause in controversy between
The Jew and Antonio the merchant.
We turned over many books together.
He furnished with my opinion which (bettered with his own learning, the greatness whereof I
cannot enough commend)
Comes with him at my importunity to fill
up your Grace’s request in my stead. I beseech you let
His lack of years be no impediment to let him lack a
Reverend estimation, for I never knew so young a
Body with so old a head. I leave him to your gracious
Acceptance, whose trial shall better publish his commendation,
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QUESTIONS
2 i) State what has triggered Gratiano’s outburst towards shylock? (4marks)
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ii) Explore the character traits of Gratiano in this passage. (2 marks)
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iii) Rewrite the following sentence omitting the parenthesis.
a) Repair thy wit, good youth, or it will fall to cureless ruin. (1 mark)
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b) Rewrite the following sentence using the superlative form of the adjective
‘Go give him courteous conduct to this place. (1mark)
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iv) Identify any thematic concern raised in this passage. (1mrk)
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v) In about 65 words, summarises the contents of the letter. (6marks)
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iv) Explain the irony of the letter. (2marks)
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vii) From elsewhere in the scene, state the appeals made by other characters to shylock to
reconsider his stance towards Antonio. (3marks)
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viii) Write the following statement using a question tag ‘We turned o’er many books together.
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ix) Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the passage.
a) infuse
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b) to hold opinion
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c) thou but offend ‘est thy lungs (3marks)
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3. Read the following oral poem and answer the questions that follow.
After a brief struggle I got my
Self a job;
My food was meat and banana
Flour
A hundred cents a month and soon I had some money.
Soon afterwards I bought myself
A beautiful girl
My heart was telling me this
Was a fortune,
So, heart you were deceiving
Me and I believed you.
On a Saturday morning as I was
Leaving work;
I was thinking I was being
Awaited at home
But on arrival I couldn’t find my bride.
Nor was she in her parent’s
Home
I ran fast to a river valley;
What I saw gave me a shock-
There was my wife conversing
With her lovers.
I sat and silently wept;
I realized there was no luck
In this world
People are not trustworthy and
Will never be
Girls are not trustworthy and
Will never be!
a) Place this song in its appropriate genre. (2marks)
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b) State and illustrate two functions of this song. (2marks)
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c) What evidence is there to show that this is an oral poem? Give two illustrated features.
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d) If you were to do a solo performance of this oral poetry what elements would you emphasize
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e) what is the singer’s attitude towards his subjects (s) in the song. (3marks)
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f) Give any two character traits of the singer. (4marks)
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g) Give this oral poem an appropriate title (1mark)
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GRAMMAR:
4 a) Rewrite the following according to the instructions after each.
(i) The dog attacked the children, but only because they provoked it. (3mks)
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ii) The students were too excited to sleep (use so …………that ……….)
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iii) If you had worked hard, you would have passed your exam. (Begin: had ……..)
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b) Change the following to passive sentences. (3marks)
i) The visitors chose the smaller room.
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ii) Somebody will show you where the office is.
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iii) The have lent us a car for four days
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c) choose the correct verb from those given in brackets. (4marks)
a) I’II let you know if I (find / found) out what’s happening.
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ii) If I won the lottery, I (will / would) give you half the money.
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iii) I know I will feel better if I (stop / stopped) smoking.
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iv) It (will / would) be a pity if she married Fred.
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D Give a word of phrase that means the same as the underlined phrasal verb. (2marks)
i) My uncle put me up when I went for drama festivals in Nakuru
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ii) Can you hang on for a minute – I will be right back.
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E) Use the correct from of the word in brackets to complete the sentences below (3marks)
i) The doctors contribution to the development of HIV AIDS vaccine is (value)
ii) The made by the principal annoyed the teachers (general)
iii) The student was warned by the teacher to avoid of important words
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