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Kericho District English Paper 2 Question Paper
Kericho District English Paper 2
Course:Secondary Level
Institution: Mock question papers
Exam Year:2008
101/2
ENGLISH
PAPER 2
KERICHO/KIPKELION DISTRICTS MOCK 2008
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)
ENGLISH
PAPER 2
JULY / AUGUST 2008
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
? Answer ALL the questions in this paper.
? All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this question paper.
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Question Maximum Score
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20
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Total Score
This paper consists of 11 printed pages. Candidates should check the question paper to ensure that both pages are printed as indicated and no questions are missing
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
Our emotions are such an important part of us that we should be on guard to notice how others may try to play upon them. When a salesman at your door tells you of several prominent people who have bought his goods, he is not giving you a reason for buying. He is trying to persuade you by an appeal to your pride. The art of persuasion lies in a skillful playing on emotions, adapted to the situation and to the person appealed to. It may be used rightfully when the emotion is a noble one and when it is supported by one or more good, sound reasons. For example, President Wilson in his famous message to congress urging a declaration of war gave several good reasons why the United States had a grievance against Germany. These occupied more than nine-tenths of the message. At the close he appealed to the nations’ sense of loyalty to its high principles and the nobility of sacrifice in a worthy cause.
Examine these statement as examples of persuasion.
1. THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
BY Abraham Lincoln
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honoured dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
2. DEAR FATHER:
I am getting along well here at school but I have run out of money. Last week I bought a secondhand car, for all of the fellows here at the house have cars, and I know you wouldn’t want your son to be the only one without. Can you send me fifty right away?
Your loving son,
TOM
3. DEAR MADAM:
Wouldn’t you like to live a pretty new house in an aristocratic part of the city?
We are offering the public rare values in houses with up-to-date improvements. These houses are built of brick or stone and are designed by the best architects. They have the newest conveniences to make life comfortable and pleasant.
Think of the pleasure of entertaining your friends in an attractive new home. Think how they would envy you. Let us show you these houses.
Just telephone us - 17-243 – and we shall be pleased to give you further details.
Yours truly,
4. A VOICE OVER THE TELEPHONE
“Oh, come on, Judy. We all want you to go to the show. Everybody says it’s grand. You don’t have to study tonight. We’re not going to. Anyhow, Miss Perkins hasn’t any right to give us such long lessons. You enjoy movies as much as the rest of us, so why don’t you come?”
5. HEARD OVER THE RADIO:-
Today our city opens its safety Drive – safety for both drivers and pedestrians. We are out to wage war against death and suffering. Daily we read of accidents on our streets and from time to time we read the total losses to our nation for the year – all unnecessary. Won’t you study the rules for safe driving and safe walking? Won’t you think of the hundreds of blind and crippled children in our country today because of somebody’s carelessness? Won’t you pledge to do all you can to make our city safe?
Questions
1. Make notes on the significance of the war that Abraham Lincoln refers to in his speech.(4mks)
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2. Using about 40 words summarize the emotions each of the five statements in the passage appeals to. (5mks)
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3. Which of the five statements make the right use of emotion? (2mks)
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4. Explain the meaning of these words and phrases as used in the passage. (5mks)
(a) play upon them
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(b) a worthy cause
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(c) engaged
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(d) in vain
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(e) Pledge
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5. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this ( Begin: That……) (1mk)
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6. Think of the pleasure of entertainment your friends in an attractive new home. (Change it into a rhetorical question suitable for the statement). (1mk)
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7. Identify one instance in the 5th statement that sounds paradoxical. Explain. (2mks)
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2. Read the following passage and answer the questions after it.
Paulina never knew who in Nairobi could have heard of her move, but on the second Sunday Martin appeared at the little house, neat, polite and distant, like someone sent with a message. She could not spend long with him as the children were to be taken to tea in a neighbour’s house, but he expressed formal regret for the death of the child and asked for news of family and friends. For the first time she was able to express to somebody in words the numbness of Nyanza after the shock that had burst upon it that Saturday, the indignity of the curfew, the hardly believable acceptance of death, the terrible silences. Martin had lost weight, his checks were hollow, his eyes deep and staring. He told her he had not been home. There seemed no point in it.
“We can’t do anything,’ he kept saying, ‘we can’t do anything.’ He shook hands and promised to come again. He had left Kibera and got a room in Eastleigh, but he still worked for the same company, as outside salesman now, which got him a few extras and more chance to see the world than the man at the counter.
“I did not think,’ he said, ‘when I first brought you to Nairobi, that there would ever be a time you would feel safer here than at home.’
I can make a home here now that I am alone,’ she said practically, ‘I like the people. There is plenty to do.’
But he shook his head, murmuring that only Gem was home, which seemed odd, since she could have no welcome if she went back there. She had to bring the children back from the tea party and get them ready for bed, so there was no time to brood on it.
She often slept in a corner of the children’s room if their parents were going to be out late, and sometimes she made extra reasons to sleep there when men banged on her door in the night and troubled her. She always told them to go away because she was not allowed to receive visitors, and for the time being did not find it hard to do so. The child’s death left her hyperconscious of sin and Martin’s nearness reminded her that she had not been the first to break faith. She did not ask him about the Coast girl.
The months passed. The elections and the curfew were forgotten. Jaramogi, in detention, was not spoken of. But Tom’s death, the previous year, was always remembered, and his photograph still appeared in shop windows and picture-framing booths. The papers said that Njenga had been hanged for the murder, though somehow, amid all the other alarms, the fact had not reached the news at the time. But no one took any account of Njenga, for the circumstances of the murder remained as hidden as they had been that final Saturday, when Kisumu Show closed down and Okeyo had been a dancing little boy, not understanding why grown-ups glued their ears to the radio, and there had been another day when they lined up by the roadside to watch the hearse pass and yet he came back unharmed and demanded meat for his supper and astonished everyone by his cleverness. It was better not to remember.
Q. 2
(i) In about 50 words write notes on what happens before the passage . (5mks)
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(ii) Write the following sentence in reported speech.
(a) “I can make a home here now that I am alone’’ (1mk)
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(b) The election and the curfew were forgotten, (add a question tag ) (1mk)
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(iii) How is Paulina’s personality revealed in this passage? (4mks)
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(iv) From your knowledge of the novel write a summary of about 70 words to show that there was nothing to celebrate after Independence (7mks)
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(v) Explain the meaning of the following phrases as used in the passage.
(1) The numbness of Nyanza (1mk)
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(2) to brood on it. (1mk)
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(vi) Why does the death of the child make Paulina hyperconscious of sin? (1mk)
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(vii) Which stylistic device stands out in this passage?. (2mks)
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(viii) She did not ask him about the coast girl (Rewrite beginning: He…… (1mk)
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(ix) Why does Martin only murmur that only Gem was home? (1mk)
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3. Read this poem and answer the questions that follow. ( 20 marks)
WE THANK THEE
For flowers that bloom about our feet,
For tender grass, so fresh and sweet,
For song of bird and hum of bee,
For all things fair we hear or see-
5 Father in heaven, we thank thee!
For blue of stream and blue of sky,
For pleasant shade of branches high,
For fragrant air and cooling breeze,
For beauty of the blooming trees –
10 Father in Heaven, we thank thee!
For mother-love and father – care,
For brothers strong and sisters fair,
For love at home and here each day,
For guidance, lest we go astray,
15 Father in heaven, we thank thee!
For this new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For ev’rything His goodness sends,
20 Father in Heaven, we thank thee!
Question 3
(a) Who is the persona in this poem? (2mks)
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(b) What is the poem about? (2mks)
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(c) Identify any three poetic devices used and comment on their effectiveness. (6mks)
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(d) Paraphrase the last stanza (3mks)
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(e) Giving illustrations from the poem identify any three senses that the poet appeals to. (3mks)
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(f) Explain the meaning of the following lines
(i) Blooming trees (1mk)
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(ii) for brothers strong and sisters fair (2mks)
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(iii) Lest we go astray (1mk)
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Grammar
(a) Rewrite these sentences as instructed. (5mks)
(i) One must appreciate ……………….……… own culture first in order to be able to appreciate other cultures. (Fill in the correct word.)
(ii) Yours is the red one. (Rewrite the sentence in the interrogative form.)
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(iii) This scenario is however unacceptable. Punctuate correctly.
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(iv) The woman who sells vegetables has won the lottery. (Write the sentence in the
passive.)
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(v) I did not know you then and so I couldn’t help you. (Rewrite beginning: Had……….)
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(b) Express the sentences below in three different ways that still refers to the future (3mks)
Sentence: She will begin her lessons on Monday.
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(c) Complete the following sentences with the most appropriate preposition(3mks)
(i) His breath smelt ………………… alcohol.
(ii) She was living ………………………. her means.
(iii) The meeting was to start at 10 a.m. She arrived at 9.56 am so she was ………. time.
(d) Complete the following sentences with the correct form of the words in brackets.
(4mks)
(i) The gas was stored in a ………………………………….(pressure) container.
(ii) Marriage …………………..……… (blissful) is just but a dream.
(iii) The …………………………………… (sell) of the shamba has been stopped.
(iv) Sammy was dogged by ……………………….……….. (fail) throughout his career.
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