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Kakamega East District Mock - English Paper 2 Question Paper
Kakamega East District Mock - English Paper 2
Course:Secondary Level
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Exam Year:2011
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101/2
ENGLISH
(COMPREHENSION, LITERARY,
APPRECIATION AND GRAMMAR)
PAPER 2
JULY/AUGUST 2011
TIME: 2 ½ HOURS
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E.)
English
Paper 2
INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CANDIDATES:-
_ Write your name and index number in the spaces provided.
_ Sign and write the date of examination in the spaces provided above.
_ Answer all questions in this question paper.
_ Answers to all questions must be written in the spaces provided in this booklet.
This paper consists of 10 printed pages. Candidates should check to ascertain that all pages are printed as indicated and that no questions are missing.
1. Read the passage below and then answer the questions that follow:-
Africa is in the midst of a generalized agricultural crisis, the most visible symptom which is the continent’s intermittent inability to feed itself. The problem of widespread agricultural decline first came to public attention during the Sahelian drought of the early 1970’s, when acute famine conditions focused international attention on the underlying weaknesses in a number of West African agricultural systems. The Sahelian tragedy demonstrated that these systems had little or no reserve productive capacity with which to respond to a temporary deterioration of climatic conditions. It demonstrated that, on their own, these countries lacked financial capacity to import sufficient volumes of foodstuffs to avert starvation.
The degree to which intermittent famines and food deficits reflected a pattern of long-term
agricultural decline was portentous. Africa’s food shortages could no longer be understood as the outcome of short-term episodic events-such as droughts, civil wars, or crop blights-but instead, had to be analyzed as the consequence of fundamental structural factors-such appropriate agricultural policies on the part of African nations-states, and adverse features of the international economic system. The beginnings of Africa’s agrarian crisis were visible as early as the immediate post independent period in the 1960s. The continent had already become a net importer of grains, though, as the 1981 USDA report notes, this was not a matter of urgent concern. Import volumes were relatively low, and adequate low-cost supplies were readily available from donor countries prepared to make grain shipments on concessional terms. Foreign exchange reserves were relatively plentiful, so there was sufficient hard currency to finance both food imports and the importation of other economic necessities.
Although drought spotlighted weaknesses in Africa’s agrarian economies, it could be by no
means be held accountable for them. The continent’s need for imports has continued to escalate in both favorable and adverse weather conditions. This escalation has ominous implications: The international donor community, whose patience had already become strained by an extended period of poor agricultural performance, has begun to show signs of increasing reluctance to provide concessional or humanitarian aid, a phenomenon sometimes termed “donor fatigue”. There is a growing conviction on the part of many donor countries that Africa’s food deficits are the product of poor agricultural policies. The appropriate remedy, therefore, is policy reform, not food assistance.
Donor policymakers have also become sensitive to the extent to which food aid contributes to the continent’s crisis, whether through disincentive effort on agricultural prices or by providing a substitute for agricultural reform. Many donor organizations have been offended by the tendency of some African governments to use food aid for political purposes or as a basis for elite corruption.
Although no major donor agency has suggested a termination of food-assistance projects, the donor nations are likely to take steps that will increasingly shift the cost burden of food aid to recipient countries.
Food deficits, however, reflect only one dimension of Africa’s agrarian crisis. Often
overlooked, because of the high visibility of the food crisis, is the fact that export-oriented agriculture has also performed poorly. These two dimensions of the continent’s agrarian problem are directly intertwined, for export-oriented agriculture, which could have provided the foreign exchange earnings necessary to finance food imports, has been unable to do so because of stagnating production. There is one line of argument that suggests that the continent’s food crisis would not exist if there had been more robust performance in the production of exportable agricultural commodities. Since food grains such as wheat, corn and rice are easily available on the world market at prices that are deeply depressed because of oversupply, Africa might have been able to finance the necessary level of food imports out of the foreign exchange earnings derived from agricultural exports.
Adapted from: The Policy Factor; Agriculture Performance in Kenya and Tanzania by Michael F.
Lofchie.
Questions
(i) What shows that Africa is in an agricultural crisis? (1mk)
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(ii) How did the agricultural systems contribute to agricultural decline? (2mks)
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(iii) Rewrite the sentence as instructed:
The continent had already become a net importer of grains, though, as the 1981 USDA report
notes, this was not a matter of urgent concern. (Begin: As…..) (1mk)
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(iv) Do you agree that drought solely accounts for weaknesses in Africa’s agrarian
economics? (2mks)
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(v) State three negative effects of food aid on Africa’s crisis. (3mks)
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(vi) In about 50 words summarize the causes of Africa’s food shortages and the suggested solutions
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(vii) What is the relationship between the food crisis and the export-oriented agriculture in
Africa? (2mks)
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(viii) What do you understand by the following words and phrases as used in the passage? (4mks)
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2. Read the extract below and answer the questions that follow. (20mks)
PETER STOCKMANN: My hat and stick, if you please (Dr. takes off the hat and lays it on the
table with stick). Your authority as the Mayor was short-lived.
(The Mayor takes them up).
DR. STOCKMANN: We have not yet got to the end (TO HOVSTAD). Then you are not
going to print my article in the people’s messenger?
HOVSTAD: Quite impossible-if only for the sake of your family.
MRS. STOCKMANN: You need not concern yourself with his family, thank you Mr.
Hovstad.
PETER STOCKMANN: (Taking an envelope from this pocket). This information will be
sufficient for the guidance of the public, if it appears. It is an official
statement. May I trouble you?
HOVSTAD: (Taking the paper): certainly; I will see that it is printed.
DR. STOCKMANN: But not mine. Do you imagine that you can silence me and strifle the
truth! You will not find it easy as you suppose. Mr. Aslaksen kindly
take my manuscript and once and print it as a pamphlet-at my expense.
I will have three thousand copies-no, four or five thousand.
ASKLAKSEN: If you offered me its weight in gold I could not lend my press for any
such purpose, doctor. It would be flying in the face of the public
opinion. You won’t get it printed anywhere in the town.
DR. STOCKMANN: Then give it back to me.
HOVSTAD: (Giving it). Here it is.
DR. STOCKMANN: (Taking his hat and stick). It will be made public all the same. I will
read it out at a public meeting that I shall call. All my fellow citizens
will hear the truth!
PETER STOCKMANN: No public body in the town will allow you to use their hall for such a
purpose.
ASLAKSEN: Not a single one, I am certain.
Questions
1. (a) Why is the mayor requesting for his hat and stick? (2mks)
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(b) Is Hovstad’s response that he will not print the article for the sake of the doctor’s family genuine?
Give a reason for your answer. (2mks)
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(c) Which information is Peter referring to when he says, “This information will be sufficient..? Of
what importance is this information? (4mks)
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(d) State and illustrate two themes evident in this extract. (4mks)
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(e) Identify and explain two character traits of Dr. Stockmann as portrayed in the excerpt. (4mks)
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(f) I will read it out in the meeting. Write in the passive voice. (2mks)
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(g) Explain the meaning of the statement “It must be flying in the face of the public opinion.” (2mks)
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(h) What happens after the excerpt? (2mks)
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(i) Then give it back to me.(add a question tag).
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(j) State and illustrate the general atmosphere in this excerpt. (2mks)
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3. ORAL LITERATURE
Read the passage below and answer the questions.
The King and two poor men There was once in a town, a King and some people, two of them very poor men. Those poor men loved each other very much. One day, one of them told the other, ‘My brother, we have lived for a long time since we were young, until now we are old, we have not had children!’ The other one told him, ‘God will offer us children.’ Soon enough, their wives became pregnant. They carried their pregnancies until each gave birth to a son. One of the men asked the other, ‘Now both of our wives have given birth, what will you call your son?’. The other told him, ‘I will call mine Nia Moja’. He then asked the other, ‘And what name will you give to yours?’ The other said, ‘I will call mine Nia Mbili!’
They brought up their children until they became adults. Soon both of the fathers fell ill, and after some time, they both died. The two Sons buried their fathers,completed funeral rites and stayed with their mothers until the mothers also fell ill, and died after sometime. After their deaths, Nia Mbili told his companion.‘My brother, we had better leave this place because if we stay, we will be too much in grief. Therefore, prepare your food and I will prepare mine, and then we will leave!’ Nia Moja agreed. They both prepared sweet meats and packed them in their bags together with gourds of water.
They left home and travelled for a long time through forests and wasteland and when they
reached a certain place, Nia Moja told his companion, ‘Brother, let us rest here and eat our food.’ But the other said, ‘Oh my brother, if we eat both packets, they will get finished. Let us first eat your food and drink your water, and when they get finished, we will eat mine.’ Nia Moja agreed and they ate his food. When they finished they rested and started on the journey again. They travelled for a long time, until darkness fell, and they ate the rest of Nia Moja’s food and slept.
In the morning Nia Moja told his companion, ‘My brother, let us eat your food now.’ But Nia
Mbili said, ‘No, let’s go, we will eat later.’ They travelled until it was midday. ‘My brother,’ said Nia Moja, ‘bring the food, even if it is that water.’ Again Nia Mbili said, ‘Aaaha. I am telling you, let’s go.’ They travelled on until darkness fell again. Nia Moja, tired and hungry now said, ‘Oh my brother, I can’t move on any more because of the thirst I am feeling.’ Nia Mbili told him, ‘If you really want to eat, bring those eyes of yours, I take them out.’ ‘I don’t want food, I just want water.
Take off my eyes but give me water!’ said Nia Moja. He told him, ‘Alright, without doubt.’ He took a knife and took out his companion’s eyes and threw them down, and told him, ‘Sit there with your stupidity! You call yourself Nia Moja, good-bye then!’ He then went away.
Nia Moja cried for a long time until it became very dark. He heard the wind roaring, and a
little while later, big birds flying overhead. They cried, ‘Mother tell us, mother tell us,’ and the mother of the birds told them, ‘My children, what can I tell you? These events are full of wonder.
That is Nia Moja whose eyes have been taken out by Nia Mbili. If he knew, he would have rubbed some leaves on his eyes and he would get his sight.’ And the birds flew away. Nia Moja stroked about gently and found the leaves. He squeezed them and rubbed his eyes and soon he could see. He said, ‘Aha, now I have become a medicine man!’ He plucked some of the leaves and filled his bag with them. He traveled for a long time and finally came to a hut belonging to an old woman who asked him, ‘My child, where are you coming from?’ He said, ‘I know where I am coming from but I don’t know where I am going to.’ He added, ‘I, grandmother, am a medicine man; I treat those people who have lost their sight!’ And the old woman said, ‘Oh my son, here we don’t pound, we
don’t sweep or make iron sheets because the King’s child is blind! ‘Mmm,’ said Nia Moja. ‘I can treat the child!’
The grand old woman anxiously waited for dawn and in the morning she ran to the King’s
palace and knocked. She was welcomed and she said, ‘I have come to bring you news. Those who are blind can get their sight.’ When the King was called and told of this news he said, ‘I have employed valuable medicine men with their medicines and they could not cure my child, how can this one succeed?’ The old woman said, ‘Oh King, don’t be doubtful, this one will cure your child!’
The King said, ‘Then bring him, but his head will be at my mercy if my child does not see’ -Nia Moja was called and he said, ‘I don’t refuse, but let the child sleep on a sack of rice and in the morning cook the rice and call many people for a party. Then, I will come and treat him!’ That night the child slept on a sack of rice and in the morning a party was held. And even we, did not cook anymore, we went to eat at the King’s palace. When we reached there the party was opened, and the King himself was given food inside. Nia Moja then squeezed those leaves and rubbed them on the eyes of the blind child and the child could see. He asked the child, ‘Who do you see?’ Am I a white person or a black one?’ and the child said, ‘A black person.’
He took the child outside where thousands of people were gathered and he told the child,
‘Show me your mother.’ And the child did so, and also the father. Nia Moja gave the child a needle and thread and asked the child to thread it. This was done. The King exclaimed, ‘Ah! My child can see!’ A cannon was fired, and a wedding arranged. Nia Moja was made the King.
He stayed for a long time until one day he saw a beggar from up where he was and he sent for the beggar to come. When the beggar was brought to him he gave orders. ‘Bathe him, give him food and a nice place to sleep.’ The beggar stayed there for a period of seven days and on the eighth, Nia Moja said, ‘Cook food, I want to eat with that poor man. ‘When the food was ready they sat down and ate. When they finished Nia Moja) asked the beggar, ‘Well, do you know me?’ and the beggar said, ‘No, Lord, I don’t know you.’ Then Nia Moja said, ‘How many were you when you left home?’
He said, “We were two, my brother, Nia Moja died on the way.’‘Aha,’ said Nia Moja. ‘Nia Moja was your brother, but he died on the way, eh?’ The beggar said, ‘Yes.’ They continued, ‘Then I am Nia Moja, the one whose eyes you took off.’ The beggar shouted, ‘Oh! So it is you? Then take me there so that you give me eyes and kingship and wealth.’
Nia Moja took Nia Mbili, the beggar, where he had been left and did the same to him and
then returned home. At night those big birds came. ‘Mother tell us, mother tell us,’ and the mother told them, ‘What can I tell you, me your mother, eh? Give me that wealth and kingship!’ he said.
The big birds came down and ate Nia Mbili. When Nia Moja came to check, he found leftovers. Nia Mbili had been eaten. He returned to his kingship and lived happily and comfortably thereafter.
My story ends there.
Edited by Kavetsa Adagala and Wanjiku Mukabi Kabira
Questions
(a) Identify three aspects in this story that are characteristics of oral narratives. (3mks)
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(b) What does this story reveal to us about the beliefs of the community? (2mks)
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(c) What role do the birds play in this story? (2mks)
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(d) With illustrations from the story, give one economic, one social and one political activity
that the people in the community practice. (3mks)
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(e) Describe the character of Nia Moja, Nia Mbili and the King. (6mks)
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(f) What lesson do you learn from what happens to Nia Mbili. (2mks)
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(g) Rewrite the following sentence in reported speech. (1mk)
The beggar shouted “oh! so it is you? Then take me there so that you give me eyes and kinship and wealth
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(h) Supply a question tag:
“My story ends there,……?
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4. GRAMMAR
(a) Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given.
(i) Mariga is the most popular footballer in Kenya. (Begin: No…)
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(ii) The young man was very hungry. He swallowed the food without chewing it.(Begin: So….)
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(iii) The teacher found out how intelligent Lichungu was when he started the discussion.
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(b) Replace the underlined phrasal verbs with other words of the same meaning.
(i) The children kept breaking in on our conversation.
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(ii) The activists stood up for what they believed.
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(iii) The building project has really eaten into my savings.
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(c) Fill the gaps with an appropriate preposition. (2mks)
(i) The prefect is answerable_________________ the behaviour of the class.
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(ii) I have placed the coffee table______________ the shade of that tree over there.
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(d) Complete each of the following sentences with one of the words in brackets. (3mks)
(i) They saw_____________ animals in the park than they expected.(less, fewer).
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(ii) After walking for three kilometers, they were lucky to get____________ water from the stream.
(little, a little).
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(iii) We cannot accommodate another person; there is______________ space left.(little, a little).
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(e) Correct the error in each sentence below. If you think they are correct, write “correct” in the
space: if wrong, rewrite the sentence correctly. (2mks)
(i) I went for shopping yesterday.
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(ii) How do you hope to get the lost child between so many people?
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(f) Explain the meaning of the idiomatic expressions in the following sentences. (2mks)
(i) They arrived at the eleventh hour.
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