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Narok District Mock - English Paper 1 Question Paper

Narok District Mock - English Paper 1

Course:Secondary Level

Exam Year:2007

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School ………………………………………………...
101 / 1
ENGLISH (Functional skills)
JULY / AUGUST-2007
2 HOURS
NAROK DISTRICT MOCK EXAMINATION – 2007
Kenya Certificate Of Secondary Education (KCSE)
101 / 1
ENGLISH (Functional skills)
JULY / AUGUST-2007
2 HOURS
• Answer ALL the Questions in this Question paper.
• Your answer must be written in the spaces provided.
This paper consists of 8 printed pages.
Candidates should check the question paper to ensure that all pages are printed as indicated and no questions are missing
Question 1
Your friend Martha lives far from your home area. Write an electronic mail (e-mail) inviting her to
your 18th birthday party at your home. Since she has never been to your place, give her clear directions
on how to get there from the nearest town. (20mks)
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Question 2.
In the passage below, fill in each blank space with the most appropriate word (10mks)
There is always a hustle and (1) of activity at a railway (2)
just before the train leaves. Porters are loading (3) into the luggage truck;
passengers are saying goodbye to their relatives and friends and the guard is preparing to
(4) his whistle as a signal to the (5) ________ driver to move off.
Sometimes, at the last (6) a post office van will bring in sacks of letters to be put in
the (7) van. Finally the train leaves, first moving slowly and then (8)
speed as it chuffs away. Rattling along the (9) it goes through
dark tunnels and over road and river bridges until at last it reaches its (10) _____.
Question 3
a) Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
WISHES.
I stand at the cross roads
I look to the right-
Nothing
I look to the left -
Nothing
I look straight in front -
Silence.
I put the pepper in my mouth,
I recite the old spells,
I walk on a little,
I see a calabash,
Inside is a brass crown,
I bend to pick it up,
It says, ‘No-
But you may have six wishes’
I say ; O crown of brass,
Give me money,
A wife,
A child,
Good health,
Success,
And let me come back again to try another life!’
i) Which two words would you stress in stanza one? Why? (2mks)
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ii) How would you demonstrate the first seven lines of the poem? (3mks)
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iii) In what way would you bring out the two different voices in the poem? (2mks)
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iv) Give two words each, outside the poem, that rhyme with the following. (3mks)
Calabash
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Crown
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Health
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b) Underline the word whose vowel sound is different from the others. (5mks)
i) Cast Cursed Caused
ii) Pun Pane Pan
iii) Through true though
iv) Raw row brow
v)Gnaw now know
c) Underline the word with the correct stress which correctly completes the sentence.
(5mks)
i) All the information must be ¢recorded / re¢corded in the book.
ii) Metals can ¢conduct / con¢ duct heat.
iii) The assistant manager pre¢sented / ¢presented a cheque worth fifty thousand
shillings.
iv) The entire pro¢jects / ¢project is to be completed in six months’ time.
v) Kopejo had to pro¢duce / ¢produce his driving license at the police station.
d) Read the following conversation and answer the questions that follow.
Nasieku: Hallo……….
Operator: Emergency which service do you want?
Nasieku: Is this emergency? There’s has been a terrible accident and I want you to
do something about it. You see, there was this little boy and….
Operator: Will you tell me which service you want please?
Nasieku:……..and….and somehow he got into this empty house. I was just…….
Operator: Which service? Fire, police or ambulance?
Nasieku; Oh, yes please. Anyway, there has been a fire and I ………
Operator: what is your telephone number?
Nasieku: Telephone number? Oh, yes 07456224, Nairobi.
Operator: Thank you. I am putting you through
Five station: Hello, Fire service. Please tell me the exact site of the fire.
Nasieku: Okey. As I was telling that lady there is this little boy, you see he got
into this empty house. I was just walking a long the street, you see…..
Five station: Fine. And where is that?
i) Identify the shortcomings in Nasieku’s listening skills and correct them. (2mks)
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ii) Why would it be difficult to provide help to Nasieku? (2mks)
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iii) Help Nasieku answer the last question from the fire brigade. (2mks)
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e) Use the correct interjection to make each of the following sentences meaningful. (4mks)
i) Keep it up!
ii) That needle hurts
iii) I should not have said that in her presence.
iv) What a filthy compound they’ve got.
v) That was close. I almost crashed my finger.

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