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Butere District Mock- English Paper 2 Question Paper
Butere 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
BUTERE 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:
• Write your name and index number in the spaces provided above.
• Answer all the questions in this question paper.
• All your answers must be in the spaces provided in this question paper.
This paper consists of 11 printed pages
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 following passage and answer the questions that follow.
Problem drinkers and alcoholics pay severe penalties for their drinking. It has been estimated that alcoholics are likely to
die ten to twelve years sooner than non-alcoholics half die before the age of fifty, which is one reason there are so few elderly alcoholics. The mortality rate (that is, the number of persons per 100,000 who die each year) among alcoholics is more than two and a half times higher than that of the general population.
Alcoholics often die under violent circumstances; serious accidents, homicide, and suicide are not uncommon. This, together with the physical deterioration accompanying alcoholism, helps explain the limits on life expectancy. No one really knows how many deaths are directly attributed to drinking, and all such statistics are estimates. One reason for our limited knowledge is that many physicians do not report alcoholism as the main cause of death out of concern for the feelings of
the family of the deceased.
Research on the physiological effects of alcoholism has increased in the last few years. Heavy drinking is known to be associated with various types of cancer, particularly among persons who
also use tobacco. Alcohol abuse also increases the probability of hypertension, stroke and coronary heart disease.
Alcoholics frequently suffer illness and death from cirrhosis of the liver, a disease in which the liver becomes fatty,scarred, and incapable of functioning normally. In large urban areas, cirrhosis is the fourth most common cause of death among men aged twenty -five to forty -five.
Alcohol affects the brain, often permanently damaging the mental functioning of alcoholics. Drinking may reduce the number of living cells in the brain. Since brain cells do not grow back, alcoholics may suffer from organic psychosis (a mental illness traceable to brain damages), loss of memory, and poor physical and mental co-ordination. One out of four persons who are admitted to mental hospitals are diagnosed as alcoholics and 40 percent of all admissions are alcohol related.
Many of the alcoholic inmates are unlikely to recover.
The unborn children of female alcoholics are subject to harm from drinking in what is called foetal alcohol syndrome.
Because alcohol tends to be a substitute for a balanced diet, alcoholics are often malnourished. Consequently, the infants of alcoholic women are likely to be less healthy and less well developed than other babies. Moreover, when a pregnant woman drinks, so, in effect, does her foetus. The new born children of alcoholic women may die shortly after birth unless they are medically treated from the shock to their systems for suddenly being cut off from alcohol. Furthermore, the impact of alcohol on the woman and her foetus is a major cause of birth defects and organically based mental deficiency among the newborn. The effects of foetal alcohol syndrome on the children of female alcoholics are usually chronic and may be permanently disabling.
Clearly, it is not too much of an exaggeration to say that alcohol kills and maims people. When abused, alcohol is a highly dangerous drug.
i) What are the major causes of death among alcoholics? (2mks)
ii) Which reason does the writer give as to why physicians do not report alcoholic related deaths?
(2mks)
iii) One out of four persons who are admitted to mental hospitals are diagonised as alcoholics.
(Rewrite using a few …………………… )(2mks)
iv) Alcoholics often die under violent circumstances …………………………… (add a question
tag) (1mk)
v) What is the attitude of the writer towards people who abuse alcohol? (3mks)
vi) Explain what the following sentence means. Alcohol tends to be a substrate for a balanced diet
(2 mks)
vii) Make notes on the effects of alcohol to expectant mothers and their children. (4mks)
viii) Supply a suitable title for the passage. (1mk)
ix) Explain the meanings of the following words and phrases as used in the passage. (3mks)
• Attributable
• Scarred
• Statistics
2. Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:
Paulina focused all her indignation on the Mutai case, all the complaints of woman in a man's world which she dared not relate to (her own commonplace experiences. She even overcame her usual reticence to the point of shouting at Martin when he sat down to eat, without showing any particular emotion, on the day the sentence was announced. Perhaps his public emotions had been used up while hers were conserved. At the time of Tom Mboya's murder she had been too happy with Okeyo to feel much grief; the later 'incident' was camped by her private sorrow at the loss of her child. She could hardly have told you when the election was held or the curfew lifted. The Sedition Trial had hardly touched her; it was like a stage play in a church hall - one could not really believe that such things were going on. And J.M.'s death had crystallised a feeling of belonging, so that though she herself had dared to go up and take the hand of the widow when she visited the house, and pour out what phrases of consolation she could manage in Swahili (for mourning was something you ordinarily did only in the mother tongue and had to be rethought if your sympathies lay outside), people had thought more of themselves than of the dark terror of those moments, the betrayal by friends, the gradual chopping off of fingers. But Chelagat, a strapping young woman and single, was within her comprehension, cut off from friends and constituents, humiliated in the cell, sent out to dig, kept from the news of other sufferers which she had been demanding before anyone
remembered the incitements said to have occurred so many months back, when she had not yet addressed the press conference or posed the awkward statements and the defiant questions.
'We must do something,' Paulina howled at Martin.
'Don't shout at me. I'm not the High Court of Appeal. What do you think we can do?'
'Write to our MPs, make processions, sign petitions, strike . ..’
'You going to strike against Mrs M.? To persuade her to do something she wouldn't have wanted to do?'
'Well, of course I don't have to, but you know what I mean.'
'I know you can't do anything. Anything at all. Only government can do it.'
'But we are the government. Mrs M. says ...'
'If you are the government, you get Mr M. to queue up to put his cross on a bit of paper with your symbol on it: fig-leaf or
something, or a militant crochet-hook. I don't see….’
'We put them there and we help them to act’.
(a) What explanation does Paulina give for Martin to eat without showing any particular emotion,
on the day the sentence was announced? (2mks)
b) Give four cases of political oppression found in this passage. (4mks)
c) “What do you think we can do?” Paulina asked Martin. Re-write in reported speech.
(1mk)
d) Explain the sense of helplessness and hopelessness that is evident in this passage. (3mks)
e) Why does Chelagat’s issue interest Paulina more than J.M’s death and Tom Mboya’s murder?
(3mks)
f) But Chelagat, a strapping young woman and single, was within her comprehension, cut off
from friends and constituents. (Rewrite replacing the underlined phrasal verb with one
word) (1mk)
g) In not more than 45 words, cite evidence to show that the charges leveled against Chelagat are false. ( 5mks)
h) Basing on your knowledge of the rest of the text say why Chelagat Mutai was sentenced to a thirty months imprisonment term. (2mks)
i) Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the extract above. (4mks)
(i) Indignation
(ii) Reticence
(iii) Comprehension
(iv) Humiliated
2. ORAL NARRATIVE
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:
This thing happened long time ago when people first appeared on the earth One day the people were told that if they didn't want to die they should send a Chameleon with a fat piece of meat to take to the Moon who would pass it to God.
They were also told to give Lizard a hoe to take to the Moon. Then, if Chameleon reached the Moon with the fat piece of meat before Lizard with the hoe, the people would not die, but would live for ever.
That day, the people never slept a wink. They stayed awake throughout the night and early the next morning they sent Chameleon far a head of Lizard. However, on the way, the temptation to taste the succulent appetizing piece of meat proved too great, so Chameleon stopped to taste a little of meat. The Lizard came hurrying and passed him on the way while he was still enjoying the fat meat. The meat proved to be tender and juicy and Chameleon ended up eating a big chunk of it. The remaining piece that was to be taken to the moon became dirty, covered with soil. Once Chameleon realized that he was late, he lowered the meat down from his back and begun to hurry, dragging it along. As Chameleon hurried along, all the other animals stared at him, sniggered and hid away. But of course most of them had been envious of Chameleon for the important errand on which he had been sent. So they were happy to see that he had failed. By the time Chameleon reached the Moon, with the dirty piece of meat, Lizard had already handed the hoe over to the Moon and man thus lost a golden opportunity to acquire immorality. ‘The Moon chased away the Chameleon and threw the dirty piece of meat after him. The hoe which Lizard carried was to be used by the Luo to dig graves and bury their dead. Death had been born.
Since the time that Chameleon messed up the Moon's gift meat, the type of death from which an individual would die is fixed right on the day of his or her birth! And initially death didn't come secretly to human beings. Death just sent word to whoever he wanted to take away to get ready on a particular day. But since no one liked to die, people used to give Death a hard time. He always had to
chase one person for days, before he overpowered and caught him people used all sorts of tricks to evade death, so he decided to come secretly and catch them unaware. That's why human beings never
know the date they die.
(i) With illustrations classify the above narrative. (3mks)
ii) Describe the character of the following as brought out in the narrative. (4mks)
a) Lizard
b) Chameleon
(iii) Identify and illustrate three oral features that make the above an oral narrative. (6mks)
(iv) Give two functions of the narrative that you have identified in (i) above. (2mks)
(v) Identify and illustrate two economic activities of the community from which this narrative is drawn. (2mks)
vi) Explain the meanings of the following words and phrases as used in the narrative. (3mks)
Sniggered:
Immortality
Succulent
4. a) Rewrite the following sentences according to the instruction given after each. Do not
change the meaning. (5mks)
(i) I have never heard a more ridiculous story. (Rewrite beginning: That is ……….)
(ii) Jane came to work late. She was rude to the matron. (Rewrite as one sentence
beginning: Not only……..)
(iii) The District officer represented the District Commissioner during the meeting. (Rewrite
replacing the underlined word with an appropriate phrasal verb).
(iv) They should not have stolen the money. (Rewrite the sentence using: “known better”)
(v) Bats make very faint sound although one has to listen very carefully to hear them. (Begin;
If one…..)
b) Fill the blank spaces using the correct form of the word in brackets given at the end of
each sentence. (3mks)
(i) …………………………… has not returned to the country yet. (normal)
(ii) We had thought that the ……………………………. would be more generous (donations)
(iii) The ………………………….. in her speech made it hard for us to comprehend.
(ambiguous)
c) Select the best of the four choices given to complete the following sentences. (3mks)
(i) I would like to apply, but I am not sure whether I am really ……………………….. for the
job (legible, illegible, eligible, illicit)
(ii) The commissioner of Police said that their action had been highly ………………………
(commendatory, commemorative, commendable, complimentary)
(iii) He has no regular source of income and his family just live from
……………………….(hand to mouth, pillar to post, the frying pan into the fire)
d) Choose the correct pronouns from the brackets to complete the following sentences
correctly. (2mks)
(i) My brother and ……………………………. (I, me) will go Jamaica next week
(ii) I think you are prettier than ……………………………… (they, them)
e) The following sentences are all in direct speech. Punctuate them appropriately.
(2mks)
(i) Certainly said Kiande I will see the manuscript next week
(ii) Do you live in Kenya asked Njoroge.
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