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Nyamira English Paper 2 Question Paper
Nyamira English Paper 2
Course:Secondary Level
Institution: Mock question papers
Exam Year:2009
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101/2
ENGLISH
(Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)
Paper 2
Time: 2 ½ Hours
NYAMIRA DISTRICT JOINT SECONDARY SCHOOLS
EVALUATION TEST – 2009
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)
101/2
ENGLISH
(Comprehension, Literary Appreciation and Grammar)
Paper 2
Time: 2 ½ Hours
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1. Read the passage below and then answer the questions that follow
Most of the 10 million Kenyans threatened with starvation are not where you thought
they would be.
They are not in the drought-stricken rural areas. They are, instead, in the country’s urban centres, huddled in the informal settlements famously known as slums.
A new official report lays bare the reasons for Kenya’s hunger— and they go well beyond rain failure. Drought is only one of a growing number of causes of the hunger threatening nearly 10 million people in the country.
The Kenya Food Security Update — released early this week — says that the highest number of people who are likely to starve are low-income earners who live in urban informal settlements. According to the February 2009 survey, 4.1 million people in Nairobi and Mombasa slums are threatened with starvation because of reduced earnings resulting from the loss of employment after the elections violence.
Matters a lot worse
Matters have been made a lot worse by rising food prices. In the slums, 37 per cent - or nearly four in every 10 — of the households reported having only one meal a day. And adults are required to be of good behavior by restricting the food portions they consume. People are running into debt, moving elsewhere or selling whatever belongings they have to survive, according to the survey.
Ironically, this population is receiving the least help from the government, aid workers and Good Samaritans who are lining up to give donations everywhere.
‘The unfortunate reality is that intervening organisations tend to respond to emergencies fairly quickly and have less enthusiasm for funding and implementing non-food interventions that are, at the minimum, mitigative in nature,” says the report. It is jointly published by the government, the World Food Programme, the United States Agency for International Development and the Famine Early Warning Systems Network.
As the global economic crisis bites and its effects are felt at home, it is unlikely that the rains - in whatever quantity - will alleviate the suffering of the urban hungry. The army of manual workers, domestic and office support staff, security guards and idlers is hungry.
If they are not fed - and urgently, too — Kenya’s urban middle class can expect a spike in larceny and other petty crimes, all to their detriment. Not to forget the public face of the famine, those affected by the extended drought season are only 2.5 million — and they have among their number some 850,000 school-age children.
Another 1.9 million people are faced with starvation because they are affected by HIV and Aids — either directly or have lost a breadwinner to the condition. A shocking admission in the report is that there are 150,000 people displaced after the elections who are in transit camps close to their homes but cannot return or farm. This number receives food rations from the UN World Food Programme’s Emergency Operation.
Officially, the government claims that it has moved 255,000 people out of camps for the displaced. With 150,000 depending on donor dole, the resettlement effort has only benefited 105,000 people.
This number constitutes 16 per cent of the revised total of 663,000 displaced people, which is the official figure from the Ministry of Special Programmes.
Obviously, truth is something that makes the Coalition Government extremely uncomfortable that it spends most of the time sugarcoating it.
(a) Where are most starving Kenyans assumed to be? 2 marks
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(b) What steps are the victims of hunger taking for their survival? 3 marks
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(c) What are the likely consequences of hunger on Kenyan’s urban middle class? 2 marks
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(d) Rewrite the following sentence beginning:
Rising…………………. 1 mark
“Matters have been made a lot worse by rising food prices”
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(e) What according to the passage is wrong with the approach taken by the groups assisting the hungry? 2 marks
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(f) Make notes on the reasons for Kenyan’s hunger. 4 marks
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(g) Why is the rain unlikely to alleviate the suffering of the urban hungry? 2 marks
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(h) Explain the meaning of the following expressions as used in the passage. 4 marks
Alleviate
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Larceny
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Donor dole
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Sugarcoating
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Q2 Read through the following extract and answer the questions that follow;
DR. STOCKMANN: I will tell you that too, later on. (Holds out the card to PETRA.) There, Petra; tell sooty – nose to run over to “the Badger’s” with that, as quick as she can. Hurry up! (PETRA takes the card and goes out to the hall.) Well, I think I have had a visit from every one of the devil’s messengers to – day! But now I am going to sharpen my pen till they feel its point; I shall dip it in venom and gall; I shall hurl my inkpot at their heads! They’ ll find out that a pen is mightier than an umbrella.
MRS. STOCKMANN: Yes, but we are going away, you know Thomas.
(PERTA comes back.)
DR. STOCKMANN: well?
PETRA: She has taken it.
DR. STOCKMANN: Good! Going away, did you say? No, I’ll be hanged if we are going away! We are going to stay here, Katherine!
PETRA: Stay here?
MRS. STOCKMANN: Here, in this town?
DR. STOCKMANN: Yes, here. This is the field of battle – this is where the fight will be. This is where I shall triumph! As soon as I have had my trousers sewn up I shall go out and look for another house. We must have a roof over our heads for the winter.
HORSTER: That you shall have in my house.
DR. STOCKMANN: Can we really?
HORSTER: Yes, quite easily. I have plenty of room, and I am hardly ever at home.
MRS. STOCKMANN: How good of you, Captain Horster!
PETRA: Thank you!
DR. STOCKMANN: (shaking his hands): Thank you, than you! That is one trouble over! Now I can set to work in earnest. There is an endless amount of things to look through here, Katherine! Fortunately I shall have all the time; because I have been dismissed from the Baths, you know.
MRS. STOCKMANN: (with a sigh); Oh yes, I expected that.
DR. STOCKMANN: And they want to take my practice away from me too.
Let them! I have got the poor people to fall back upon, anyway – those that don’t pay anything; and, they need me most, too. But, oh, they will have to listen to me: I shall preach to them in season and out of season, or whatever the phrase is!
MR. STOCKMANN: But, dear Thomas, I should have thought events had showed you what use it is to preach.
DR. STOCKMANN: You are really ridiculous, Katherine. Do you want me to let myself be beaten off the field by public opinion and the ‘compact majority’ and all that nonsense? No, thank you! And what I want to do is so simple and clear and straight forward. I only want to drum into the heads of these mongrels the fact that the liberals are the most insidious enemies of freedom – that party programmes strangle the new truth – that consideration of expediency turn morality and justice upside down – and that they will end by making life here impossible. Don’t you think, Captain Horster that I ought to be able to make people understand that?
HORSTER: Very likely: I don’t know much about such things myself.
DR. STOCKMANN: Well, look here – I explain! It is the party leaders that must be destroyed. A party leader is like a gluttonous wolf. He requires a certain number of smaller victims to prey upon every year, if he is to live, Just look at Hovstad and Aslaksen! How many smaller victims have they finished off or at any rate maimed and mauled until they are fit for nothing except to be householders or subscribers to the People’s Messenger! (Sits down on the edge of the table) Come here, Katherine – look how beautifully the sun shines to – day! And this lovely air I am drinking in!
MRS. STOCKMANN: Yes, if only we could live on sunshine and fresh air, Thomas.
Questions
(a) Briefly describe the happenings that lead to the events taking place in this extract 3 marks
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(b) Who is sooty – nose? 2 marks
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(c) Identify an adjective in the extract that is used in the comparative degree 1 mark
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(d) Dr. Stockmann seems to contradict his earlier decision. Explain the contradiction 2 marks
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(e) Discuss the character traits of the following as revealed in the extract
(i) Horster
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(ii) Dr. Stockmann
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(f) Explain the irony in Mrs. Stockmann utterance’ “Oh Yes, I expected that” 2 marks
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(g) Identify and explain any one theme that has been highlighted in the extract 3 marks
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(h) Explain the imagery of the following as brought out in the extract
(i) the pen 2 marks
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(ii) the sun 2 marks
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(i) Explain the meaning of the following words used in the extract 2 marks
Ridiculous
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Mongrel
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(j) Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given after each.
(i) No, I’ll be hanged if we are going away
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(ii) I shall hurl my inkpot at their heads
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Questions 3
Read the story below and then answer the questions that follow.
The Greedy Hyena and the Stump (Atugen story)
Long, long ago, there was a bee – keeper who went to check on his bee – hive in the forest. It was late in the evening when he arrived at the tree where his bee – hive was hanging. He lit some fire and climbed on top of the tree to collect the honey from the bee – hive. After collecting enough honey, he descended the tree. As he stood on the ground, he heard some queer noise in a bush close by, but he could not see the bush clearly.
After tying a bunch of pieces of wood and lighting it so as to use it as a torch, he started on his journey homewards. Hardly had he gone a short distance when he heard the same noise he had heard before. This time the noise was trailing him. He stopped to see what it was that made the noise. Behind him was a huge hyena. When he stopped, it also stopped and when he moved, it also moved towards him.
He went on and when he was near his home, he stopped. Looking behind he saw the same hyena a short distance away from him. He thought and thought. How could he stop the hyena from following him? He saw the stump of as tree in front of him. He decided to cover the remaining distance to it in darkness.
He placed the torch of pieces of wood beside the stump. Meanwhile the hyena had receded out of his sight and did not see him go. It thought the man had placed the fire on the ground and slept. What a feast it would have, the hyena thought! It waited in an adjacent bush till the flames of the fire went off. It came towards the dim burning charcoal and mistook the stump beside the fire for the man’s head.
It went stealthily towards the stump. Its teeth sunk deep into the stump and got stuck. The hyena tried to pull its teeth out but all was in vain. The teeth remained stuck to the stump. It struggled and struggled, it tugged and tugged but all in vain. The hyena stayed in that condition the whole night. Very early the following morning a young girl who was going to fetch water from the river saw it struggling. She ran back home and reported what she had seen. Her father sent an alarm for the villager’ warriors to take up their weapons and kill the hyena. After a short while, the men were gathered near the hyena ready to kill it. The man who had been followed by the hyena the previous night was there. When he saw the hyena’s long teeth stuck in the stump he told the man that he would have been the victim had he not placed the fire beside the stump. The hyena was killed.
(Chesaina,C,1991. Oral Literature of the KALENJIN. Nairobi. East African Educational Publishers Ltd.)
Questions
(a) Why was it risky for the bee – keeper to go harvesting at night? 2 marks
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(b) What did the man and the hyena have in common? 2 marks
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(c) How does the man prove that he is creative? 3 marks
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(d) Rewrite the following sentence beginning; “No sooner ………………..
“Hardly had he gone a short distance when he heard noise”. 1 mark
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(e) Which actions by the hyena prove its stupidity? Illustrate your answer 3 marks
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(f) Identify and illustrate any two features of oral literature used in the story 4 marks
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(g) The hyena had wrongly assumed it had a ready meal. Which proverb would be appropriate to caution him against over confidence? 2 marks
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(h) Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the story. 3 marks
(i) receded
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(iii) stealthily
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GRAMMAR
(a) Fill in each of the following blank spaces with the correct expression from the brackets 5 marks
(i) Mary and _________________ ( I / me) are sisters
(ii) The man to ________________ (whom/who) you lent your car is a thief
(iii) The students ________________ (who/whom) sneaked out of school were suspended.
(iv) Was it _______________ (she/ her)?
(v) The race is now between you and ________________ (they/them)
(b) Rewrite each of the following sentences as instructed. Do not change the meaning 5 marks
(i) He joined the cabinet. The president expected him to be loyal
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(ii) He kills the rat.
(Rewrite using the future perfect tense)
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(iii) Dan ate a mango
(Rewrite using passive voice)
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(iv) God created men in his image and likeness
(Rewrite replacing the underlined word with a gender neutral one)
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(v) She told me a very interesting story.
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(c) Replace the underlined words with one word 5 marks
(i) He was accused of stealing knives, forks and spoons from the hotel.
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(ii) His crime was living on the street and begging from the people
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(iii) Most of the relief work was done by people who do a job willingly without being paid.
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(iv) The brothers and sisters fought over their parents’ property.
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(v) The thief stole the container used by very young children as toilet, mistaking it for a bowl.
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