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Laikipia District Mock- English Paper 1 Question Paper
Laikipia District Mock- English Paper 1
Course:Secondary Level
Institution: Mock question papers
Exam Year:2010
NAME………………………………………………INDEX NO……………………………...
SCHOOL…………………………………………….......SIGNATURE……………………….
DATE………………………………
101/1
ENGLISH
(Functional skills)
PAPER 1
JULY/AUGUST 2010
2 HOURS
FORM FOUR LAICOMET 2010
101/1
ENGLISH
PAPER 1
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES:
- Write your name and index number in the spaces provided above.
- Answer all questions in this question paper
- All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this question paper
1. Your brother, Tarus has just graduated with a master’s degree in Theology
(a) Write a congratulatory e-mail to him (10mks)
(b) Write a letter to your uncle who lives in Kampala informing him about your brother’s excellent performance (10mks)
CLOZE TEST
2. Read the passage below and fill in each blank with an appropriate word (10mks)
The education ..1…………..very small children is in the ..2………….of the mother and the nurse.
It is..3………..on through lullabies. In these, the …4…………...history and tradition of the
family…5…………clan are sang and, by hearing…6……….….lullabies daily, it is easy
for…7…………..children to take in this early teaching without an difficulty…8……………...is
one …9…………… the methods by which the history of the people has passed from generation
to…10…………….
3. Below is a telephone conversation between you and the principal of your former school
shortly after. Fill in the gaps
(a) The KCSE results are out
You…………………………………………………………………………………………. (1mk)
Principal: Hallo
You:…………………………………………………………………………………………………
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Principal: What can I do for you?
You:…………………………………………………………………………………………………
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Principal: What grade did you get in K.C.S.E and what was you target?
You:…………………………………………………………………………………………………
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Principal: What made you not attain your target?
You: ……………………………………………………………………………………….................
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Principal: Do you have any document to prove that you actually got ill?
You:…………………………………………………………………………………………..
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Principal: In that case, arrange to bring the documents to school for your case to be considered.
You:……………………………………………………………………………………………….
………………………………………………………………………………………… .(1mk)
Total 8 mks
(b) 1. In the following sets of words, identify the odd one out (2mks)
(i) bird, curse, hard, heard, girl
(ii) bought, pork, short, saw, knot
2. Match the following words with the sounds below them (3 mks)
Bit, say, tie
/ei/ /ai/ /i/
(c) Identify by underlining, the silent letters in the following words (4mks)
(i) Comfortable
(ii) Sudden
(iii) Glistening
(iv) Comb
(d) Identify the intonation in the following utterances (4mks)
i) The couple has left the compound.
ii) Take him away!
iii) Why are the students so late?
iv) Is that the correct thing to say?
(e) Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow.
Every day is tune
With its own shades of bile
Casting shadows that stretch
Into the toneless tomorrow…
Every day is prison, darkly
Every hour different cells
Every day is note struck out
In an endless symphony-
Vast, like the desert dunes
Grey, ageless time…
Every day is a web
Where loneliness of the soul
Wraps the whole being in a cocoon
Of angst………
Every day is one feeble step
In the torturous journey
Out of the web of despair
Into the sun of hope
(B. Ogundayo)
i) If you were reciting the poem, what would you do so as to portray the atmosphere of the poem?
(2mks)
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ii) Identify the sound patterns in the following lines.
a) ‘vast, like the desert dunes’ (2mks)
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b) ‘Out of the web of despair” (2mks)
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iii) What’s the significance of the punctuation in lines 4, 11and 12? (3mks)
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