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PAPER 2

JULY/AUGUST 2016

Time: 2 ½ hrs.

BUSIA SUB – COUNTY FORM FOUR JOINT EXAMINATION 2016

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education ( K.C.S.E)

English

Paper 2

Instructions to candidates

Write your name and index number in the spaces provided above.

Sign and write the date of examination in the spaces provided

Answer all the questions in the spaces provided.

All working must be clearly shown necessary.

For Examiner’s use only

Question	Maximum score	Candidate’s score
1	20
2	25
3	20
4	15
Total score	80

1	Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow	(20mks)

There is one statement that William Ellery Channing, renowned theologian, made that sums up everything that books means to those who loved them. It is chiefly through books that you enjoy intercourse with superior minds. He went on to say that great people talk to us and give us their most precious thoughts through books.

What William Ellery meant was that books are the greatest source of knowledge. If we have a prosper, then we have to develop the urge, the thirst and the desire to read. People have really not understood the fact that the only way of shedding ignorance, and making an informed and meaningful contribution to society is through acquisition of knowledge through reading.

It is sad to note that young people do not look up to widely read and knowledge people as their role models. They do not appreciate someone who has made accomplishments in the intellectual arena in the same spirit that they fall behind a sport personality or entertainment celebrity. Many young people imitate sports people and entertainers lavishly and look up to them as their only heroes and heroines’.

The media is partially to blame for this trend. It has not always acted responsibly in the way it has featured personalities. In most cases, the media only features, as celebrities, people who excel in sport and entertainment. This ignores the fact that celebrities are found in all fields of life. Some of the personalities the media features, such as musicians and artists of dubious moral standing, alienate the youth from the grim realities of their society. Blinded by the glamour of the lives that the celebrities live, the youth lose interest in intellectual development.

Very few students in secondary schools or even in universities are aware that reading can open up limitless possibilities to them. Some of those that the reading of books ends with the last examination one takes. Sooner or later such people become illiterate in thought. They stop being originators of ideas and turn into mere consumers of ideas because they are not close to the fountain of intellectual nourishment. What is the difference between them and those who have been unable to have access to education?

There must be sharing of ideas for development to take place. When people share ideas, they develop mentally as well as in other facets of life. There are very few reading clubs; meetings where members get together to exchange meaningful ideas acquired through reading. In their free time, people gather in social set – ups where nothing serious transpires. In bars, for example, There is no intellectual discourse that goes on. Obnoxious and unimaginative exchange of obscene words can hardly measure up to anything constructive. The lack of interest in debates of national importance can be attributed to the bankruptcy of ideas as a result of the lack of the reading culture.

The truth of the matter is that books are capable of doing any things for us. Very few young people know that they can turn their grades from E’s, D’s and C’s to Bs and A’s by simply reading books. If only they improve their ability to read, they will be able to open any door they choose to go through.

Reading also instills in young people the skill of self confidence that they need in the competitive world they are living in.

Reading activates and exercises the mind. It forces the mind to discriminate between good and evil, and pushes us to use our imagination, thus making us more creative. In a sense, reading actually does activate the mind in the same way we activate muscles when we lift weights. The more active our minds are the more agile they become, which results in a higher level of creativity. Someone wisely pointed out that the mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

Developmental psychologists estimate that less than five percent of us are still creative by the age of 18. By this age, many young people will have “wasted” themselves watching television shows and films where images and sounds are already packaged and ready for them at the click of a button. They use little imaginations because everything is done for them. They do no critically think about how to dress think or behave. Consequently, they do not develop the habit of thinking for themselves.

Paraphrase the statement: it is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior

minds;	(2mks)

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b) From the passage explain how the writer views celebrities	(3mks)

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c) In point form list down the benefits of developing a reading culture	(4mks)

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d) Explain what the media is accused of in this passage	(2mks)

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e) According to the passage, why do people who have completed school or secondary school stop

reading?	(2mks)

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f) From the second last paragraph show how is reading similar to weight lifting?	(3msk)

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g) In not more than 20 words explain why watching of television is detrimental to the youths

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h) Explain the following words as used in the passage	(2mks)

Lavishly

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Dubious moral standing

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2	Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow	(25mks)

My fathers, “it is shameful thing for my wife to leave her husbands house and return to her father’s house. This outrageous thing had occurred only because I was not here to prevent it”.

“Our Chief, we are saddened by this unfortunate state of affairs, but you must admit that your mother has a point or two. Long have we pleaded with you to take mother for too long have we pleaded with you to take another wife for yourself and you have adamantly refused? Now she has left you, you are like a misumba, a bachelor which would not have been case if you had another wife. We beg you take another wife for yourself” this was from Oyier, a grizzled old man who had been his mother’s greatest champion in her quest for a wife for Owuor. He realized that the old geezer’s were going to give him a hard time of it, so he changed his tactics.

“Fathers, you are the wise men of this community that is why you sit in the council. Is it that you have forgotten the ways of chick or that your determination to get me to marry other wives has clouded your judgment? Do you not know that a man’s Mikai is the greatest jewel that adorns his compound? That her position in maintained and protected by taboos imposed by the ways of chick? That if I die, was forbid, my body can only in state in her house? And this would do so even if she herself were dead? To lose ones Mikai is to lose ones right hand.

The Jodongo nodded sagaciously at the wisdom uttered by the chief. It is true that the Mikai is the center post that hold up a man’s hut. Without her, or if she were stupid, only Were could rescue such a man from being blown away from the people like so much chuff. She it is who saves a young man from the follies and stupidities of youth. Indeed the people of Ramogi had a saying which declares that “the medicine for stupidity in marriage.” Yes, the chief had spoken wisely but Oyier would not give up so easily.

a) Explain what happens just before this excerpt	( 3mks)

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What is the borne of contention between Akoko and her mother - in – law, Nyar Asembo	( 3mks)

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c) “The girl child” briefly explain the relevance of this sub – heading to the rest of the novel	( 2mks)

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d) Oyier sounds sarcastic in his speech. Identify and explain the sarcasm	( 2mks)

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e) Basing your answer on what we see in the excerpt. Contrast the character of Owuor with that of

his brother Otieno.	( 4mks)

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f) Explain the meaning of the following line as used in the extract.

“It is true that ‘ Mikai’ is the centre post that hold up a man’s hut”	(2mks)

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g) Identify parenthesis, in the last paragraph of the excerpt.	(1mk)

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h) Explain the main theme that comes out of this excerpt.	(2mks)

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i)Form your knowledge of the novel, describe the role of ‘ jadongo’ in the community represented in this novel’

Write your answer in note form	(3mks)

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j)Local language is used in this excerpt. Give two examples and explain its significances	(2mks)

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k) Discuss the mood that is prevalent in this extract	( 1mk)

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3.	Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow

Conquerors

By sundown we came to a hidden village

Where all the air was still

And no sound met our ears, save

For the sorry drip of rain blackened trees

And the melancholy songs of swinging gates

Then through a broken pane some of us saw

A dead bird in a rusting cage, still

Pressing his thin tattered breasts against the bar

His beak wide open. And

As we hurried through the weed - grown street

A gaunt dog started up from some dark place.

And shambled off on legs as thin as sticks

Into the wood, to die at least in peace.

No one had told us victory was like this:

No one amongst us would have eaten bread

Before he filled the mouth of a grey child

That sprawled, stiff as a stone, before the shattered door.

There was no one of us who did not think of home.

Questions

Briefly describe what the poem is about	(3mks)

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What mood does the poet evoke in you?	(2mks)

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Identify two aspects of style and illustrate them	(4mks)

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“ No one had told us victory was like this” what tone would you use in saying this line.

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Explain as well as you can the irony in the poem	(2mks)

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Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given without changing the meaning. A gaunt dog started up from some dark place and shambled off on legs as thin as sticks into the wood, to die at least in peace.	(1mk)

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Identify features in this village that created the scary feeling in the conquerors. ( 3mks)

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Give the meaning of the following words as used in the poem.	( 2mks)

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Clearly describe the speaker in the poem	( 1mk)

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4	(a) Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given.	(3 mks)

i)Mariga is the most popular footballer in Kenya ( Begin: No…….……….……………………………………

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ii)	The young man was very hungry. He swallowed the food without chewing it.

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The teacher found out how intelligent Lichungu was when he started the discussion

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(b) Replace the underline phrasal verbs with other words of the same meaning.	(3mks)

i)	The children kept breaking in on our conversation.

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ii)	The activists stood up for what they believed.

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iii)	The building project has really eaten into my savings.

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c) Fill the gaps with an appropriate preposition	(2mks)

i)	The prefect is answerable ……………………………………...…….……………the behaviour of the class.

I have placed the coffee table …………...………………….………….the shades of that tree over there

d) Complete each of the following sentences with one of the words in brackets.	( 3mks)

i)	They saw……………………………….………..animals in the park than they expected ( less, fewer)

ii)	After walking for three kilometers they were lucky to get …………………….………………..water from the stream (little, a little)

We cannot accommodate another person: there is ……………..………..space left ( little, a little)

e) Correct the error in each sentence below. If you think they are correct, write ‘correct; in the

space.	(2mks)

if I went for shopping yesterday

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How do you hope to get the lost child between so many people?

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f). Explain the meaning of the idiomatic expressions in the following sentences.	( 2mks)

i)	They arrived at the eleventh hour

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ii)	Most people prefer to sit on the fence during disputes.

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