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Kisumu District Mock - English Paper 2 Question Paper
Kisumu District Mock - English Paper 2
Course:Secondary Level
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Exam Year:2008
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101/2
ENGLISH
Paper 2
(Comprehension, Literary appreciation & Grammar)
July / August - 2008
Time: 2 ½ Hours
KISUMU DISTRICT JOINT EVALUATION TESTS - 2008
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)
101/2
ENGLISH
Paper 2
(Comprehension, Literary appreciation & Grammar)
July / August - 2008
Time: 2 ½ Hours
INSTRUCTION TO CANDIDATES
• Answer ALL questions in this question 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 ascertain that all the
Pages are printed as indicated and no questions are missing.
1. Read the passage below and then answer the questions that follow. (20 Marks)
BAKING soda or soda bicarbonate or edible soda (ENO), as it is also called, is sodium bicarbonate in chemistry books. It is
different from washing soda or soda ash, which is sodium carbonate. Soda bicarbonate was called 'saleratus' in earlier days.
In the human body, it is the main mildly alkaline substance. The human body makes it out of carbon dioxide breathed in and
sodium obtained from the salt in the diet. It helps to maintain the delicate balance between acidity and alkalinity that is
necessary for the normal chemical activity in the body. It helps transport carbon dioxide to the lungs, neutralises stomach acids
and as a component of saliva, helps cut down on tooth decay. The blood of a healthy human being is slightly alkaline. When
the amount of sodium bicarbonate in the blood is insufficient, we suffer from acidosis. The digestive juices from the liver and
pancreas are alkaline. The gastric juice in the stomach is decidedly acidic and contains hydrochloric acid.
To most people, baking or edible soda in tablet form or as a powder is a comforting medicine to soothe acidity. A teaspoon
dissolved in a glass of water is a popular and effective remedy for indigestion. A cupful dissolved in bathwater along with two
cupfuls of starch helps relieve the itching of allergic reactions.
When mixed with water to form a paste, it helps alleviate the pain of minor burns and a paste of soda bicarbonate and water or
cold cream, relieves the discomfort of insect bites. For fungus on your feet, especially between the toes, apply a soda bicarbonate
paste. For foot odour, soak your feet in a solution of soda bicarbonate in water. Take soda bicarbonate and mix it in a little
bit of water, and apply it with fingers along the gum-line in your teeth. Brush your teeth after this. It will help you to stop all
sorts of gum diseases. Mixed with a little common salt, soda bicarbonate makes an excellent toothpowder. Most toothpastes
contain a little soda bicarbonate.
As a formidable plaque deterrent soda bicarbonate was recognised as an efficient dental cleaner in 1931 only. Soda
bicarbonate is now a major component of best-selling tooth pastes. There is also an exclusive soda bicarbonate toothpaste.
From the home medical cabinet, soda bicarbonate has now moved to the industry. Today, it is used to curb acid emissions
from chimneys and to help I prevent acid rain, to keep toxic materials like lead and copper out of drinking water , to help in
the biodegradation of sewage and to remove contamination from soil. It may turn out to be the world's 'greenest' natural
chemical. It has more than 300 j applications in industry and more and more uses are still being discovered. Soda bicarbonate
is also added to cattle feed. Cattle raised for meat industry are fed a high-energy, low-fibre diet to maximise weight gain, are
given supplementary soda bicarbonate to speedup their digestion process. Dairy cows, which are given a similar diet, also have
soda (bicarbonate mixed with their feed. It (increases their milk production. Use of soda bicarbonate in baking was an instant
success as a time-saver. Yeast breads needing a rising time of two to three hours were quickly joined by quick-rising baking
soda batters, breads and biscuits.
When soda bicarbonate is combined with an acid like vinegar (acetic acid), butter-milk containing lactic acid, carbon dioxide
is released to create an instant cleaning agent.
Scour tarnished brass and copper pots with a paste of soda bicarbonate and lemon juice. They will shine once again. Flush one
cup of soda bicarbonate down the toilet every week. It helps clean clogged septic tanks. For food stuck or burnt into pots and
pans, cover the burned food generously with soda bicarbonate. Add enough hot water and let it soak for a few minutes. Wash
thoroughly.
(Adapted from the Standard Newspaper)
1. a) How does the human body obtain soda bicarbonate? (2 mks)
b) In note form, what is the importance of Soda bicarbonate in the human body? (4 mks)
c) The digestive juices from liver and pancreas are alkaline. (1 mk)
(Begin: Both ……………………………)
d) In a paragraph of not more than 40 words, summarize the uses of edible soda at home? (8 mks)
e) Soda bicarbonate is used to curb acid emission from chimneys and to help prevent acid rain
(1 mk)
(Begin: Not only ………………………….)
f) Give the meanings of the following words and phrases as used in the passage.
a) Comforting medicine to soothe acidity. (1 mk)
b) Remedy (1 mk)
c) Greenest natural chemical (1 mk)
d) Deterrent (1 mk)
2. Read the excerpt below and then answer the questions that follow.
'So my dad said we couldn't go on to school for a while because he needed all his money to get another woman to look after
us. And when he was there she was all right to us, but she started going queer when she got her own baby: then she hated the
sight of us and used to keep beating us for every little thing. And then last she started saying that she didn't get married to
come and live in a back-of beyond village with a load of kids, and not any nice or hair oil or nice soap like her friends had for
their babies, and only seeing her man one day or two in the month, and then she started to drink. And then she didn't cook
every day, and never early in the morning, and started saying it was our fault that my dad didn't pay her attention. He only
wanted his first wife's children and all that. In the end my little brother got so hurt he ran off to his granny: she doesn't have
much, but she likes him and tells him stories. But my sister had to stay to help look after the baby, so my dad said. But me, she
said I didn't do anything around the place but eat, and so one day when she beat me worse than usual I ran to my friend's big
brother who is conductor on a country bus, and he talked with his dad and put some ointment on the bad places and gave me a
ride on the bus free. That was about two-months ago.'
"He didn't know anything,' put in Muhammad Ali. ‘Lucky for him I found him wandering about. I showed him the temples,
where they give you free food if there is a celebration going on. And how to find the eating places, where good food
sometimes gets thrown out when they close, and how - well, all sorts of things I showed him. He just didn't know how to stay
alive.'
'Well, you're not very fat yet, Che. What about I that place the man said at Kariokor? I know where it is.'
‘Oh, we all know where it is,' Che replied, for the first time claiming the fellowship of the down and out. 'But if you take their
free meals and their bed, within a fortnight you've got to be sent back where you came from. No thank you! She'll kill me
rather than take me in, and if I can manage for myself long enough I'll kill her, and take my sister away, and get a place for her
to stay and proper dresses and all that.
You think I'm thin? You haven't seen my sister.'
"And couldn't you get a message to your father?'
‘My father is sleeping on some doorway in Nakuru. The difference is that he gets paid for it. But my father is finished. Is that
what having a wife does for you? He drinks too, now that he finds her with the stuff, and he's too far gone even to listen to our
side of it. No, you learned a lot since you came to Nairobi and you’re all right aren't you? I'm going to learn too and however
hungry I am I'm keeping well away from that Kariokor place. Nobody's going to say I come crawling back.'
(This message is extracted from Coming to Birth by Marjone Oludhe Macgoye pages 135 – 136)
a) In a summary of about 50 words, describe what happens before this extract. (5 mks)
b) Rewrite the following sentences in the passive.
(i) I found him wandering. (1 mk)
(ii) I showed him the temples where they give free food. (1 mk)
c) Identify and illustrate the character traits of the following as revealed in the extract.
(i) Che (2 mks)
(ii) Che’s father (2 mks)
d) Write the following sentence in the reported speech.
“Oh, we all know where it is,” she replied. (1 mk)
e) Identify and illustrate two themes portrayed in this extract. (4 mks)
f) What is so striking about the street urchins in this extract. (2 mks)
g) What effect does the use of dialogue achieve in this passage. (2 mks)
h) In the end my little brother got so hurt he ran off to his granny. (1 mk)
i) Explain the meaning of the following words and phrases as used in the excerpt.
a) Queer
b) Father is finished
c) Wandering
d) Our side of it
4. Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
She Whose eyes twinkle like blue water
Gently cascading among tall reeds
By a gentle fall
On some smooth grey rocks
She whose teeth are as white as cattle egrets
As white as Kilimanjaro’s crown
Whose tender skin
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Is as smooth as a long – used milk gourd
Whose tapering legs
Downwards dovetail
Like the “yago” fruit
She will pick me up
From the sea washed sandy beach
She’ll open her “osanye” lips
And suck the thorns from my feet
And she’ll summon
The bellied tattoos
The uncountable waist beeds
The bangles and necklaces
To sing lullaby for us to “lala”!
Jared Angira
a) Describe the relationship between the persona and the lady depicted in the poem. (2 mks)
b) Quote the two lines of the poem showing what the lady intends to do to the persona. (2 mks)
c) Identify the two styles used in this poem and state their significance. (6 mks)
d) Mention two economic activities of the people portrayed in this poem. (4 mks)
e) List the body parts singled out by the persona in the descriptions. (2 mks)
f) Explain the meaning of the following lines as used in the poem. (2 mks)
(i) White as Kilimanjaro crown
(ii) And suck the thorns from my feet
g) What is the significance of tattoos, waist beads, bangles and necklaces mentioned in the last stanza of the poem?
(2 mks)
4. a) Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions after each. Do not change the meaning.
(i) There is no excuse for rudeness (End with excusable………………………..)
(ii) Wasonga says, “I feel like eating boiled meat.” (Rewrite in reported speech)
(iii) I have met two celebrities. Much has been written on one of them. (Join the sentences using “of whom”)
(iv) Hardwork leads to success. It helps one to become a role model. (Begin: Besides ……………….)
b) Replace the underlined word in each of the following sentences with an appropriate phrasal verb.
(i) The girl resembles her mother.
(ii) Mutua was attacked by a mob of angry villagers.
c) Fill in each of the blank spaces with the correct preposition.
(i) Omedo deals …………………………………………………………………….. second hand clothes.
(ii) She is ignorant ……………………………………….………………….. what she pretends to know.
(iii) Mary arrived ……………………………………..………… time and found the meeting in progress.
d) Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the word in brackets.
(i) It is …………………………………………………………………….……. (desire) to win elections.
(ii) The officer is ……………………………………..……………, he does not take bribes. (Corruption)
(iii) The parcel had …………………………………………………… there uncollected for a week (lie)
d) Replace the words in brackets with one word with the same meaning.
(i) I (take it for granted) that you are the new teacher.
(ii) This government has (done away with) all taxes.
(iii) The disease is (able to be caught by contact)
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