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Kericho District Mock- English Paper 2 Question Paper
Kericho District Mock- English Paper 2
Course:Secondary Level
Institution: Mock question papers
Exam Year:2007
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101/2
ENGLISH
(COMPREHENSION,
LITERARY APPRECIATION AND GRAMMAR)
JULY / AUGUST 2007
2 ½ HOURS
KERICHO DISTRICT MOCK EXAMINATION
Kenya Certificate Of Secondary Education 2007
101/2
ENGLISH
PAPER 2
JULY / AUGUST 2007
2 ½ HOURS
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
Answer ALL the questions in this paper.
All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this question paper.
This paper consists of 12 printed pages. Candidates should check the question paper to ensure that both pages are printed as indicated and no questions are missing
Read the following Passage and then answer the questions that follow. (20mks)
There are those 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 I am 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 on or darn 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 into 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 Barnell, who had a 65 - year long career as a side show attraction, travelling with the Ringling
Brothers and Barnum and Bailey. And remember Vivian Wheeler, the Illinois 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 letting "Rapunzel" 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 instance, 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 physically 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 the US, older women are the single poorest group with 35 per cent living alone and 52 per cent widowed as compared to men, where only 14 per cent live alone and 23 per cent 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 evening as their second job. That of parenting begins.
Despite all this, women have been conditioned to rely on men and to paradoxically believe that they are lifelesscrippled,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? In 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.
1. (a) Why does a topic that makes the writer laugh cause her misery? (2 marks)
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(b) Punctuate the following sentence correctly.
Women face challenges such as lower access to wealth employment healthcare and education
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(c) Women are, indeed, the weaker sex, little evidence proves it. (Rewrite this sentence starting with:
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(d) Specify two areas the passage singles out when women outperform men. (2 marks)
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(e) Explain the irony behind men’s shorter lifespan (3 marks)
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(f) Not only are women ahead in numbers but they also have a greater life expectancy (Write
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g) In note – form, state in what ways the lives of men are doomed? (4 marks)
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(h) Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the passage (4 marks)
(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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2. DRAMA: William Shakespeare: The Merchant Of Venice
Read the following passage and then answer the questions that follow. (25 mks)
PORTIA: Ay, that's a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but talk of his horse, and he makes it a great appropriation to his own good parts that he can shoe him himself. I am much afeard my lady his mother played false with a smith.
NER1SSA: Then is there the County Palatine.
PORTIA: He doth nothing but frown - as who should say, 'And you will not have me, choose!' He hears merry tales and smiles not. I fear he will prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old. being so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth. I had rather be married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth
than to either of these. God defend me from these two!
NERISSA: How say you by the French lord, Monsieur Le Ron?
PORTIA: God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. In truths know it is a sin to be a mocker, but he! - Why, he hath a horse better than the Neapolitan's, a better bad habit of frowning than the Count Palatine; he is every man in no man. If a throstle sing, he falls straight a-capering; he will fence with
his own shadow. If I should marry him, I should marry twenty husbands. If he would despise me, I would forgive him - for if he love me to madness, I shall never requite him.
NERISSA: What say you then to Falconbridge, the young baron of England?
PORTIA: You know I say nothing to him, for he understands not me, nor I him. He hath neither Latin,
French nor Italian - and you will come into the court and swear that I have a poor pennyworth in the English. He is a proper man's picture - but alas, who can converse with a dumb-show? How oddly he is suited!
I think he bought his doublet in Italy, his round hose in France, his bonnet in Germany, and his behaviour
everywhere!
NERISSA: What think you of the Scottish lord, his neighbour?
PORTIA: That he hath a neighbourly charity in him, for he borrowed a box of the ear of the Englishman and swore he would pay him again when he was able. I think the Frenchman became his surety and sealed
under for another.
NERISSA: How like you the young German, the Duke of Saxony's nephew?
PORTIA: Very vilely in the morning, when he is sober - and most vilely in the afternoon, when he is drunk. When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.
And the worst fall that ever fell, I hope I shall make shift to go without him.
NERISSA: If he should offer to choose, and choose the right casket, you should refuse to perform your
father's will if you should refuse to accept him.
PORTIA: Therefore, for fear of the worst, I pray thee set a deep glass of Rhenish wine on the contrary casket, for if the devil be within and that temptation without, I know he will choose it. I will do anything, Nerissa, ere I will be married to a sponge.
NERISSA: You need not fear, lady, the having any of these lords. They have acquainted me with their determinations, which is indeed to return to their home and to trouble you with no more suit, unless you may be won by some other sort than your father's imposition, depending on the caskets.
PORTIA: If I live to be as old as old as Sibylla, I will die as chaste as Diana unless I be obtained by the manner of my father's will. I am glad this parcel of wooers are so reasonable, for there is not one among them but I dote on his very absence; and I pray God grant them a fair departure.
3. (i) In a summary of about 45 words, give the circumstances which led to this conversation?
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(ii) In note form, outline the faults of the French Lord (4 marks)
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(iii) If I should marry him, I should marry twenty husbands. (add a question tag) (1mark)
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(iv) I fear he will prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old, being so full of unmannerly
sadness in his youth. (Use one word to describe this type of person) (1mark)
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(v) Discuss Portia’s character traits as revealed in this extract. (4 marks)
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vi)What stylistic devices are evident in this extract? (4 marks)
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(vii) ‘I will do anything Nerissa, ere I will be married to a sponge.’ (Using Standard English,
rewrite this sentence in indirect speech) (1 mark)
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(viii) Which qualities in human race is Shakespeare criticizing? (2 marks)
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(ix) Explain the meaning of the following phases in the context of the passage. (4 marks)
(a) If a throstle sing, he falls straight a –capering……..
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(b) He will fence with his own shadow
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(c) How oddly he is suited
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(d) I’ll be married to a sponge
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3. ORAL POETRY
Read the following song and answer the question that follow. (20mks)
You came into your land
You came into your capital
You chose your hour for coming
A chief commands
He speaks his will
Lift up your head
Look at the sea of faces
It is your world
It is your people,
Which sits
When you say sit
Which rises
When you say rise
You are a new chief
You are chosen as chief
Your people is with you
The barriers are cut
We must follow
For all will follow
You are a new chief
Lift up your head!
Look at the sea of faces,
That answers when you call
Oral Literature
(a) What is this song about? (4 marks)
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(b) Give any two occasions where this song is likely to be performed (4 marks)
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(c) State any two functions of this song (2 marks)
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(d) What type of people are the chief’s subjects? (4 marks)
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(e) Highlight any three aspects of performance that can be lost if this song is written down
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(f) Explain the meaning of the following lines as used in the song. (3 marks)
(i) You chose your hour for coming
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(ii) The barriers are cut
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(iii) Look at the sea of faces
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GRAMMAR
4. Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions (3 marks)
(a) (i) I did not go out on Sunday. I did not speak to anybody either. (Join into one sentence using
neither)
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(ii) We managed to see the manager (use succeeded.)
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(iii) Mutua is an extremely accomplished cook (rewrite using -----most-----)
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(b) Complete the blank spaces with the correct form of the word in brackets (3 marks)
(i) There will be a ----------------------------service for the departed souls (memory)
(ii) When Jane was demoted as a monitor, she was delighted but ------------------ (apprehend)
(iii) What is your -------------------------- (prefer)
(c) Each of the following sentences has two different meanings. Explain the different meanings.
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(i) Atieno likes reading more than Ouma.
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(ii) Visiting friends can be annoying.
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(d) Fill in the blank spaces with the appropriate word (3mks)
(i) The company was restrained from disposing -------------- its property by a court order.
(ii) My mother congratulated me ----------- my success in the mid year exams
(iii) You look sick, “John told Mariamu.” (rewrite in indirect speech)
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(e) Use a phrasal verb to replace the underlined word or phase (2 marks)
(i) No amount of money could compensate for the loss of his wife.
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(ii) Children soon recover from their troubles
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