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Thika Provincial School Examinations English Paper 1 Question Paper
Thika Provincial School Examinations English Paper 1
Course:Secondary Level
Institution: Kcse question papers
Exam Year:2010
Q1. Functional Skills (20 marks)
You are secretary to the social Welfare club that has been asked to investigate and recommend the best ways in which to spend a donation to your school. The club has observed the following needs.
(a) Improve library facilities.
(b) Expand recreational facilities.
(c) Start a school farm.
Taking these needs into account, write a report to the principal making your recommendations.
Q2. CLOZE TEST (10 marks)
Fill each blank space in the following passage with the most appropriate word.
The cornerstone of plato’s thought was his theory _______________________(1)
forms or ideas. It disturbed plato that he could not gain satisfactory intellectual control over the world. The quality of virtue, for example, meant different things in different situations as____________, (2) honesty, courage, truth and beauty. Generally speaking, for example, virtue__________(3) individuals to honour and obey their parents____________(4). If a parent engaged in illegal behavior, virtue required offspring to __________(5) the offence and ______________(6) punishment.
How was it possible, then to understand virtue as an abstract quality? In seeking an answer to this question plato developed his belief that the world, in which we live was not the genuine world. Indeed, was not the world of genuine reality but only a pale and imperfect reflection of the world of forms or ideas. Display of virtue or all others ________________(7) in the world imperfectly reflected the ideal qualities. Only by entering the world of forms or Ideas______________(8) it possible to understand the true nature of virtue and other qualities. The secrets of this world were available____________(9) to philosophers - those who applied their rational facilities to the ______________(10) of wisdom.
Q3 (a) Select five pairs of words with similar pronunciation from the following. (5 marks)
Our cut chute flow
Right pew cat soot
Sent led pure sow
Scene flew red show
Sin rite hour blew
Blue cue kill queue
scent
3. (b) Indicate whether the following have a falling or rising intonation. (5 marks)
(i) How could you!
(ii) Wash your clothes now.
(iii) It was time to cook.
(iv) She got a bouncing baby girl!
(v) Do you know why?
3. (c) Underline the silent letters in the following words (5 marks)
Often
Debris
Where
Succumb
Debut
3. (d) Indicate by an apostrophe the stressed syllable in the following words. (3 marks)
VERB NOUN
Refuse
Project
Insult
3. (e) Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow (7 marks)
Diana doesn’t dwell on trivialities
For this damage the brain dry
And drench one into thoughts which untainted
Send one’s head tossing and turning
Driving one to the town’s streets
Dressed but in one’s birthday attire.
Like a nude tailor’s dummy
Courting danger in the dingy town’s alleys
From a trigger that drills a hole
Through the brain damaged dry.
QUESTIONS
(I) Using two different illustrations, identify one poetic sound device that stands out in the poem. (3 marks)
(ii) What would the device in (i) above help in achieving if the poem were to be recited in a live performance? (2 marks)
(iii) What is the poem about? (2 marks)
3. (f) Complete this dialogue with appropriate responses (10 marks)
Father: (angrily) where were you for a whole week? (2 marks)
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Father: You better look for another lie. You were not there. I confirmed with the headmaster.
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Father: I don’t need apologies. Did you pay the fees I gave you? (2 marks)
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Father: (reprimandingly). You did not lose the money. You drank it all at Mnazi Bar. I know.
Why did you do that? (2 marks)
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Father: Since you have become an adult and began drinking, you don’t need to be in school; or
do you? (2 marks)
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Father: (interrupting) I am giving you three days to decide whether you want to be in school or
not.
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