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Pre-University English Question Paper
Pre-University English
Course:Pre-University Programme (Pre-University)
Institution: Kabarak University question papers
Exam Year:2011
KABARAK UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS
2011 ACADEMIC YEAR
FOR THE CERTIFICATE OF PRE – UNIVERSITY ENGLISH
COURSE CODE: PENG 011
COURSE TITLE: PRE-UNIVERSITY ENGLISH
STREAM: SEMESTER ONE
DAY: MONDAY
TIME: 2.00 – 4.00 P.M.
DATE: 22/03/2010
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Answer ALL questions in this paper.
2. All your work must be neat
SECTION A: (15 MARKS)
1. What is air stream mechanism? State two sources of air stream mechanism involved in
the production of human sounds. (4mks)
2. Explain the difference in the production of the following sounds. Give an example for
each. (3mks)
(a) Nasal sounds
(b) Oral sounds
(c) Voiceless sounds.
3. Give an example of the following; (2mks)
(a) Bilabials
(b) Labiodentals
4. Place the correct stress on the underlined words in the following sentences. (2mks)
a) She will import a new car
b) The refuse will be thrown outside
5. Write the correct sound of the underlined letters. (1mk)
(a) Shin
(b) Sing
6. Indicate whether the following sentences have a falling or a rising intonation. (2mks)
(a) Does he drive?
(b) Martin prays everday.
7. Give two words that have the following sound; /Oi/ /Oi/ (1mk)
SECTION B: (15 MARKS)
8. Giving one example for each, to differentiate between an adverb and an adjective.
(4mks)
. Rewrite the following sentences into the passive. (2mks)
(a) Jane bought a car.
(b) The man stole my money.
10. Change the following statement into questions. (2mks)
(a) Rose loves singing
(b) There is someone outside.
11. Combine the following sentences using appropriate conjunctions. (2mks)
(a) (i) She is old
(ii) She can run very fast.
(b) (i) Felicia is pleasant.
(ii) Felicia is cooperative.
12. Fill in the blanks using the correct preposition. (2mks)
(i) She sat _______________ the sun.
(ii) Tom limped ______________ the dusty road.
13. Identify the subjects and the objects in the following sentences. (3mks)
(a) James baked a cake.
(b) Peter sold flowers yesterday
(c) Write all your answers.
SECTION C: (10 MARKS)
14. Explain and illustrate two ways in which each of the following punctuation marks is used.
(a) Apostrophe (4mks)
(b) Semi- colon (4mks)
15. What do the following abbreviations stand for? (2mks)
(a) pp.
(b) viz.
(c) fig
(d) anon.
SECTION D: (10 MARKS)
16. (a) What is a paragraph? (2mks)
(b) Explain the meaning of the following.
(i) Topic sentence (1mk)
(ii) Supporting sentence (1mk)
(iii) Clincher sentence (1mk)
17. Imagine that you were attending an important public lecture. State any five effective
listening skills that you would use. (5mks)
SECTION E: (10 MARKS)
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:
SPARE THAT SPIDER
If, one morning, you happened to see a spider on the window, you probably would say; “Nasty,
horrid spider.” You might even run for a duster or a brush or roll up a newspaper and knock
the poor spider down. If you did this; you would have slandered and perhaps murdered one of
your best friends.
Why, you may wonder, should spiders be our friends? The reason is that they destroy so many
insects, and insects include some of the greatest enemies of the human race. If it were not for
the protection we get from insect-eating animals, insects would make it impossible for us to
live. They would devour all our crops and kill our flocks and herds. We owe a lot to the birds
and beasts who eat insects, but all of them put together kill only a fraction of the numbers
destroyed by spiders. Moreover, unlike some of the other insect eaters, spiders never do the
least harm to us or our belongings.
How many spiders are engaged in this work on our behalf? One authority on spiders made a
census of the spiders in a grass field in the south of England. He estimated that there were
more than 2,250,000 in one acre. That is something like 6,000,000 spiders of different kinds
on a football pitch.
Spiders are busy for at least half the year killing insects. It is impossible to make more than the
wildest guess at how many they kill, but they are hungry creatures, not contented with only
three meals a day. It has been estimated that the one year would be greater than the total
weight of all human beings in the country.
There are in Britain about 540 species of spider, ranging in size from the one we are all
familiar with, the house spider, which is the largest, down to some so small that one can barely
see them. And they are everywhere, from the tops of the highest mountains down to the edge
of the sea.
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The only spiders that count for anything are the ladies. Men are kept very severely in their
place by their wives. Indeed, some spiders appear to think that the only proper thing to do with
a husband is to eat him! It is essentially a woman’s world.
Even if you cannot learn to like these hard-working faithful friends, remember the old rhyme
that warns you: If you wish to live and thrive, let a spider run alive.
Comprehension Questions
i) Why might you describe a spider as nasty and horrid? (2 mks)
ii) In note form, give the advantages human race get from spiders. (4 mks)
iii) How can you tell from Spare that Spider that a football pitch is larger than
one acre? (2 mks)
iv) Find proof from the passage to show that some spiders are cannibals.
(2 mks)
v) Why are ‘men’ spiders severely kept by their wives? (2 mks)
vi) It is essentially a woman’s world.
(Give the contextual meaning of the above sentence) (2 mks)
vii) How does the following sentence summarize the content of the passages?
‘If you wish to live and thrive, let a spider run alive’ (2 mks)
viii) Give the meanings of the following words and phrases as used in the
passage. (4 mks)
a) Slandered
b) Horrid
c) Contented
d) Edge of the sea
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