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Kakamega South District Mock - English Paper 2 Question Paper

Kakamega South District Mock - English Paper 2

Course:Secondary Level

Exam Year:2008

Name…………………………………………………., Index No………………../………………..….
School………………………………………………… Candidates’ signature……………………….
Date……………/…………….……/………..
101/2
English
Paper 2
July/August 2008
2 ½ hrs
KAKAMEGA SOUTH DISTRICT MOCK EXAMINATION- 2008
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)
101/2
English
Paper 2
July/August 2008
2 ½ hrs
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES:
Write your name and index number in the spaces provided above
Answer ALL the questions in this paper
All your answer must be written in the spaces provided in this question paper.
Candidates should check carefully to ensure that all the
pages are printed as indicated and no questions are missing.
QUESTION ONE
Q1 Read the passage below and then answer the questions that follow
Though there are compelling moral arguments to cancel crippling Third World debt, they don't amount to much when they appeal to pity and not to enforceable law. Further, debt relief will not solve the problem of poverty if it does not also address the root causes.
It has rightly been argued that if industrialized countries really wish to eliminate Third world poverty, they must reform oppressive world trade laws skewed in their favour, drop subsidies that distort world markets, strengthen efforts to curb graft, and help poor countries crack down on corruption and recoup their stolen assets stashed in Western banks.
Some of the "poorest" indebted nations are also the richest in natural resources. They are poor because their governments abuse their resources, not because they are indebted to the West.
HENCE, CANCELLING THE DEBT won't automatically improve their situation. It might even give bandit governments the funds to maintain illicit power.
Debt cancellation might even encourage poor economic policies by letting irresponsible lender and borrower governments off the hook, conferring a type of legitimacy upon corrupt regimes and their financiers.
After all, most of these debts are just an international fix in which developed nations parcelled out Third World resources to themselves and to corrupt elites, or propped up corrupt governments to further their "strategic" interests.
Writing off questionable debts without determining their legitimacy will allow corrupt creditors to conceal their complicity in the misuse of public funds by despotic rulers, then pose to be lauded as having contributed to the elimination of poverty through debt cancellation.
Blanket cancellation also means a country is not creditworthy. Even if the debts were written off, poor countries still must borrow. Their inability to service their obligations today will affect the cost of their borrowing in the future.
To avoid this, the Third World should stop seeking mercy from those who fixed them in the first place, and demand justice, holding both creditors and corrupt local officials to account.
There is nothing to be forgiven: looters on both sides have to pay. Graft is a two-way street and the complicity of industrialized nations in Third World corruption must be punished.
Under international law, countries have a right to repudiate odious debts that were contracted without the consent of the people.
For example, demands that the Congolese repay Americans and others who helped Mobutu oppress them have no basis in law under the Doctrine of Odious Debts, created to further international finance by limiting the ability of governments to repudiate debts.
In 1927, Alexander Sack, the Paris-based Russian legal scholar on public debts, wrote: "If a despotic power incurs a
debt not for the needs or in the interest of the State, but to strengthen its despotic regime, to repress the population...
this debt is odious for the population of all the State.... This debt is not an obligation for the nation; it is a regime's debt, a personal debt of the power that has incurred it. Consequently, it falls with the fall of this power."
Most countries take on the odious debt of former regimes due to political pressure or the fear of being penalised by creditors in the future, and the fact that translating a clear moral issue into a technically sound case in international
law is a complex process.
(From Daily Nation , May 12, 2008)
Questions
1 (a) In about 45 words, summarize how poverty can be eliminated in third world countries. (5mks)
(b) According to Alexander Sack, what is an Odious debt?. (2mks)
(c) Why is the word “strategic” in quotes? (1mk)
(d) In note form, state why the writer does not agree with debt cancellation. (4mks)
(e) Identify and explain one use of irony in the passage. (2mks)
(f) Explain the meaning of the following phrases. (4mks)
(i) …..bandit governments
(ii) ….a- two- way street
(iii) …..written off
iv) let off the hook -
(g) Through there are compelling moral arguments to cancel crippling Third world debt, they
don’t amount to much.
Paraphrase. (2mks)
Read the extract below and then answer the questions that follow
2. EXTRACT
Paulina entered the house and found the sick man lying in the centre of the room where the rope bed had been lifted so that he could see visitors by the shaft of daylight from window and door, rather than Lying in the dark and secret recess. He was so thin and shrunken that for a moment she hardly recognized him, thinking back to the grandfather who had been more constantly at home and whose gradual retreat from flesh had not, in childhood,alarmed her. Father had always been straight-shouldered, unbending, laying down the law as far as her recollection of him went. He used perpetually to wear a cloth cap and an old -fashioned shirt like a military uniform. Now to see the sparse white hair uncovered, the skinny shoulders in a tattered singlet that still did not disguise the heavy development of muscle there had been, the thin chest wheeling, was to lament a shaping force of which she had never been much aware before. Perhaps, after all, he had been subdued by his employment and for that reason had kept it a world away from home, so that the home remained intact.
'How are you, father?' she asked, knowing now that the bus fare and the doctor's fee would not be needed.
'As you see me, girl, as you see me. Is it Florence? I can't see very well in this wretched dark house."
'No, father, I am Paulina-Akelo'.
'Akelo, you have come after a long time.' He spoke with an effort between long pauses. "And Were - is Were with you?'
'No, father, he has not yet come. From Nairobi it is a long way.'
'But if you can come......'
The effort was too much, and he turned aside, coughing.
'Now you must go get tired talking. Baba Akelo,' one of the older women insisted. 'She will come back and see you after she has had some gruel. She has just come from a journey.'
'Ah yes, gruel,' murmured the old man, and hopefully they brought him some, in a mug with a handle as the gourd was too heavy, but he turned aside and left them holding the cup.
Paulina obediently went to drink her gruel in the kitchen hut and to hear the news of the course of the illness.
Her older sister, Florence, arrived later in the morning. Her other brother was making a long distance delivery and had not been contacted yet. All day they drifted in and out of the house, talking softly but each time with less and less risk of disturbing the dying man. About four o'clock a shriek from Paulina's mother, who had been sitting silently beside the bed, alerted them to the other sudden silence. The struggle for breath had ended.
Immediately the house was filled with wailing and voices outside took up the lament till it spread beyond the home itself to the whole neighbourhood. People began to slash and twist branches from the trees and run up and down with them, singing and weeping. Paulina found herself weeping and singing with the rest. Fragments of old praise songs which she thought long forgotten came to her unbidden. She did not understand all the allusions made by the
old people, but the pattern was familiar and it gave tongue to what she felt.
QUESTION TWO
(a) What happens just before the extract. (2mks)
(b) In note form, describe the old man’s condition. (4mks)
(c) From your knowledge of the text, why isn’t Martin here? (2mks)
(d) “No, Father, I am Paulina Akelo”, she said. Rewrite in reported speech. (1mk)
(e) She said not understand all the allusions made go the old people, but the pattern was familiar
and it gave tongue to what she felt
Rewrite using ‘despite’ (1mk)
(f) The struggle for breath had ended.
What does this means? (2mks)
(g) Identify and explain one theme in the extract. (3mks)
(h) Identify and explain one use of flashback in the extract. (3mks)
(i) Give two character traits of Paulina in this extract. (4mks)
(ii) Give the meaning of the following words
(2mks)
i) Secret recess……………………………………………………………………………..
ii) Unbidden
(k) Give the synonym of the word, disguise (1mk)
Read the passage below, then answer the questions that follow
3. THE LEPER AND THE BEAUTIFUL VILLAGE GIRL.
There was a certain leper who lived by the palace gales of the Kabaka (King). And in another village some distance away lived another man and his wife with their unspeakably beautiful daughter. Many men wanted to marry her and the Kabaka soon heard of her beauty and like wise determined to get the young woman. On hearing this, the other suitors left the suit. After all, when the Kabaka enters a matter, who is there to gainsay any action taken'? But things were to prove a little difficult for the Kabaka to get his beautiful bride-to-be.
He wooed by proxy as became men of his position, so he sent a trusted chief to go and get him this prize,this long sought-after and cherished jewel. Naturally enough the chief was welcomed very warmly and they cooked all kinds of food for him. But you see the trouble with eating when you are sent on such a mission is that you become foolish- eating too much was and is always a sign of foolishness. logically enough the chief forgot what had brought him and so he set of for the palace unaccompanied. The Kabaka saw him far off and looked on with itching fingers and a watering mouth, but no girl was in sight.
When asked, the chief had nothing to say in his defence and the Kabaka sent him packing bag and baggage from his sight. In the chief’s stead he appointed another one and sent him the same task. This one also met with the same fate and was similarly dealt with. And surprisingly enough about ten chief’s underwent similar experiences.
Finally the Kabaka decided abandon the whole idea. After all, beautiful things are dangerous, it was said.
However, the leper we mentioned in the beginning of the story heard this and was indignant, for he dearly loved his lord. He said to him -self 'How can the Kabaka be refused by a mere woman, beauty or no beauty?' So he
volunteered to undertake the same experience as his predecessors, but he did not eat a lot of food. Instead he took to his pipe, his chief comforter and thought giver, and started to smoke. After some ,he put his goatskin and the pipe underneath the mat on which he was sitting and left. Soon afterwards this was discovered and the young reigning beauty was told to go and give the leper his things.
She ran quickly down the path and called to the leper 'Leper' here is your pipe and lyre!
He replied, "Bring it to me, my dear. He who goes with a beautiful one does not tell anybody when he is leaving. I am going with a beautiful one and 1 have told nobody.'
Whenever she came near he moved on singing thus till he reached the palace and handed the young girl to the Kabaka. The Kabaka was exceedingly pleased and proceeded to give out land , maids and all manner of riches to the leper.
QUESTION 3
1. Classify the above narrative (2mks)
2. Give 3 features that shows that this is an oral narrative. (6mks)
3. Contrast the character of the leper with that of the chiefs (4mks)
4. What moral lesson do you learn from the above narrative (2mks)
5. Give a proverb that would summarise the narrative. (2mks)
6. “How can the Kabaka be refused by a mere woman beauty?” the leper wondered. Change into reported speech.
(1mk)
7. Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the passage (2mks)
(i) gain say
(ii) bags and baggage
Question Four
4. (a) Rewrite the following according to the instruction given
(i) Victor would have failed his exams if he had not studied hard
(Begin: “Had…………..)
(ii) We had just closed the door and the dogs started barking.
(Begin: “Hardly………..)
…………………………………………………………………………………………(1mk)
(iii) I thought they were hungry, I gave them food.
(Begin: with a present participle)
……………………………………………………………………………………………(1mk)
(b) Fill in the correct alternative (3mks)
(i) She had in the field for two hours before we found her.
(Laid, Layed, Lain, Lay, Lie)
(ii) This pencil is .(hers, her’s, hers’)
(iii) faithfully, he signed. (your’s, yours, yours’)
(c) Use the appropriate question tag (2mks)
(i) Let’s go out
(ii) I am taller than he is (2mks)
(d) Punctuate the following sentence
One person matters most in my life my standard one teacher. (1mk)
(e) Replace the underline words with one word.
(i) The magistrate found him guilty of failure to fulfil his part of the contract (1mk)
(ii) My neighbour took me to court for trespass. (2mks)
(f) Complete the following sentences using the collect form of the words in brackets
(i) It was impossible to the rowdy crowd.(peace)
(ii) You must that he has worked very hard.(concession) (2mks)
(g) Fill in with the correct preposition
(i) This situation is indicative good things to come
(h) My father’s preference fast cars is annoying.

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