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Teso District Mock- English Paper 1 Question Paper

Teso District Mock- English Paper 1

Course:Secondary Level

Exam Year:2007

Name………………………………………………… Index No. …………………….
School ………………………………………………...
101/1
ENGLISH
PAPER 1
(Functional Skills)
JULY/AUGUST 2007
TIME: 2 HOURS
TESO DISTRICT MOCK EXAMINATIONS - 2007
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)
101/1
ENGLISH
PAPER 1
(Functional Skills)
JULY/AUGUST 2007
TIME: 2 HOURS
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
Write your name and Index number in the spaces provided above.
Answer ALL the questions in this question paper
All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in the question paper.

This paper consists of 12 printed pages.
Candidates should check the question paper to ensure that all pages are printed as indicated
and no questions are missing
1. FUNTIONAL WRITING (20MKS)
Imagine that cases of drug abuse, rudeness and theft are on the increase in your school. As the
chairperson of peer counseling, write an internal memo to fellow peer counselors and
prefects, reminding them to take their work seriously.
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2. Fill in each of the blank spaces in the passage below with the most appropriate word.
(10mks)
The fight against HIV and AIDS in Kenya is beginning to ………………………………..
fruits. By early December 2003, the number of people dying …………………………. HIV
and AIDS had gone ………………………………………….. from 700 to 300 a day. While
this is a significant decrease, it is no reason to let down our guard and celebrate
……………………………. the fact remains that Kenyans are still dying. More children are
being …………………………… by the hour. There are still cases of mother-to-child
………………………………………. of the HIV virus, and a large percentage of AIDS
……………………………… have no access to life prolonging drugs because they cannot
afford …………………………………… We cannot also claim …………………………. all
Kenyans have access to basic information …………………………….. the pandemic when
people are still getting infected with the virus by the minute.
3. a) Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow
I SHALL RETURN
I shall return again. I shall return
to laugh and love and watch with wonder eyes
at golden noon the forest fire burns,
watching their blue-black smoke to sapphire skies.
I shall return to loiter by the streams
that bath the brown blades of the bending grasses.
And realize once more my thousand dreams
of water rushing down the mountain passes
I shall return to hear the fiddle and fife
of village dance, dear delicious tunes
That stir the hidden depths of native life.
I shall return, I shall return again.
To ease my mind of long, long years of pain.
i) Identify any three sound patterns used by the poet. (6mks)
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ii) Describe the mood of the poem. (2mks)
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iii) What non-verbal cues would you use to enhance the recitation of the poem? State what
lines you would use them. (2mks)
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b) Complete the following dialogue.
You are very exhausted and thirsty and your friend asks you:
FRIEND: Do you mind a glass of milk?
YOU: ……………………………………………………………………….. (1mk)
YOU: (Taking the milk) Thanks a lot for the milk.
FRIEND: …………………………………………………………………………… (1mk)

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c) Imagine that you are going to take part in a debate. Briefly explain what you should or
should not do before and during the debating session. (5mks)
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d) Underline the odd word out in the following sets. (4mks)
i) Search, chance, scheme
ii) That, Think, Three
iii) Enough, Though, Rough
iv) Gate, Take, Bare
e) Read the conversation below and fill in the blank spaces with either “Rising” or “Falling”
to show the intonation at the end of the sentence. (4mks)
Alice: Are you sure your name is Jane? ………………………………………..
Jane: (with finality). Yes. ……………………………………………………….
Alice: I didn’t hear you. Did you say “yes?”
Jane: I did

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Betty: Jane, you actually said “no”……………………………………………….
Jane: (surprised) I did?
Betty: Yes, you did.
Jane: I’m so sorry then. ………………………………………………………….
3. Read the following proverb and answer the questions that follow
“Too many cooks spoil the broth”
i) Give another proverb with a similar meaning. (1mk)
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ii) Give a proverb that contrasts it. (1mk)
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iii) Cite an incident where the above proverb can apply. (2mks)
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g) Give two different meanings for the word below. (1mk)
Refuse
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