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Nandi Central English Paper 1 Question Paper
Nandi Central English Paper 1
Course:Secondary Level
Institution: Mock question papers
Exam Year:2009
Name………………………………………………………. Index No. …………………………….
School …………………………………………………….. Candidate’s Signature…………………
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101/1
ENGLISH
Paper 1
(Functional Skills)
July/ August 2009
Time: 2 Hours
NANDI CENTRAL SECONDARY SCHOOLS
JOINT EVALUATION TEST - 2009
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)
ENGLISH
Paper 1
Time: 2 Hours
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
• Write your Name and Index Number on the spaces provided above.
• Sign and write the date of examination in the spaces provided above.
• Answer ALL the questions in this question paper.
• All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this question paper.
For Examiner’s Use Only
Question Maximum Score Candidate’s Score
1
20
2
10
3 30
Total Score
This paper consists of 6 printed pages.
Candidates should check the question paper to ensure that all pages are printed as indicated
and no questions are missing
1. You are the secretary of the Young Farmers club in your school. In consultation with the chair, you call a meeting for 22nd May, 2009 at 3.00pm. Out of a total membership of 15, 10 attend, four are absent with apologies, and one does not send any apology. (20 mks)
The agenda is as follows:
1. Preliminaries
2. Confirmation of minutes of the meeting of February, 18, 2008.
3. Matters arising
4. Negotiations with the Bursar for the purchase of vegetables.
5. Schedule for the harvesting of the vegetables.
6. Formula for sharing the income
7. A.O.B
Record the minutes of the meeting, giving details of discussions and resolutions made
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2. Read the passage below and fill in each blank space with the most appropriate word. (10mks)
Every year, the government 1______________________hundreds of millions of shillings in tax revenue 2______________________smuggling. Dumping of sub-standard goods 3________________ counterfeit products poses another 4____________________threat 5_________________ the stability, of the economy.
Local traders say smuggling 6_______________________ further fuelled by economic growth registered in the last two years. They attribute this 7___________________ to rising demand for imported goods, especially electronic 8___________________, cars and petroleum products.
And while import volumes 9_____________________ increased substantially in the past two years, facilities and equipment 10___________________ the Kilindini harbour, Mombasa and Kenyatta International Airport (J.K.IA) are overstretched.
3 a) Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow.
The Seed Shop
Here in a quiet and dusty room they lie,
Faded as crumbled stone or shifting sand,
Forlon as ashes, shrivelled scentless dry,
Meadows and gardens running through my hand.
In this brown husk a dale of hawthorn dreams;
A cedar in this narrow cell is thrust,
That will drink deeply of a century’s streams,
These lilies shall make summer on my dust.
Here in their safe and simple house of death,
Sealed in their shells, a million roses leap;
Here I can blow a garden with my breath,
And in my hand a forest lies asleep.
i) Describe the rhyme scheme in the poem above. (2mks)
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ii) What is the effect of rhyme in a poem? (1mk)
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iii) How else has the poet achieved the effect in (ii) above? (4mks)
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iv) Which words would you stress in the last line of stanza one and why? (3mks)
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b) For each set of words below, underline the odd one out. (3mks)
i) Cough Bough Dough
ii) Think Thy Thigh
iii) Not Note Knot
c) Provide another word that is pronounced the same way for each of the words listed below.
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i) bean ……………………………….
ii) wear ………………………………
iii) One ……………………………….
d) For each of these words make two sentences to bring out the difference in their meaning.
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i) Beat
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ii) Produce
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e) Consider the following conversation between Odwak and Njoroge and then explain the short comings in Njoroge’s listening skills. (6mks)
Odwak: Before she died of liver cancer, my sister felt a lot of pain and lost a lot of
weight.
Njoroge: Talking about that I had a toothache last night. I tell you I couldn’t sleep.
Odwak: Yes, so about my sister…
Njoroge: You remind me about my own sister.Infact she wrote to me last week
telling me about her son’s fees. She believes I have more money than I need, and that I should give her some.
Odwak: Well, maybe you have a lot of money. But thank you for being such a good listener! (stands up to go).
Njoroge: What! Have I offended you?
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f) Explain how you would avoid speaking in a monotone and boring your listeners over the radio. (4mks)
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