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Peng 011: English 2009/2010 Academic Year Question Paper
Peng 011: English 2009/2010 Academic Year
Course:Certificate Of Pre-University English
Institution: Kabarak University question papers
Exam Year:2010
COURSE CODE: PENG 011
COURSE TITLE: ENGLISH
STREAM: SEMESTER ONE
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Attempt ALL the questions in the booklet provided.
2. Dirty or untidy work will be penalized.
SECTION A: 20 mks
1. Show whether the following sentences have a rising or a falling intonation. 3 mks
a) Where is the book I gave you?
b) There are several students sleeping in class.
c) Did you see them?
2. Explain how the following sounds are produced. Give two examples for each. 6mks
a) Bilabials
b) Stops
c) Fricatives
3. Give 4 words that have the sound /f/ but do not have the letter f in their spelling.
2mks
4. Provide a word with similar pronunciation as the words given below. 5mks
a) Heir----------
b) Flour-----------
c) One----------
d) Ate -----------
e) Red -----------
5. Your friend is unable to understand anything taught in class because of poor
listening.
State 4 pieces of advice that you can give him in order to improve in listening. 4 mks
SECTION B: 10 mks
a) What is a paragraph? 2mks
b) What is a descriptive paragraph? 1mks
c) Write a paragraph of 6 sentences describing Kabarak University. 5 mks
d) Using the topic sentence given below, write a paragraph made of six supporting
sentences and one clincher sentence. Punctuate your writing appropriately. 6 mks
“There are several causes of poverty in Africa.”
SECTION C: 20 mks
1. Change the following sentences in into the past simple tense. 3mks
a) She likes eating fruits
b) James will come late
c) John is playing chess
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2. Convert the sentences below into yes/no questions. 3mks
a) Jane is in the house
b) Esther went to the market
c) She likes milk
3. Identify by underlining the subject and the main verb in the following sentences. 3mks
a) Most students pass very well in pre-university exams
b) I am not happy
c) The Vice- chancellors party was wonderful
4. Change each of the following active sentences into the passive voice. 3mks
a) John bought a new car
b) I will sell the house
c) She bakes cakes
5. Underline the appropriate verb from those given in parentheses. 3mks
a) She did not (adopt, adapt) Indian culture.
b) Your story does not (affect, effect) any of us.
c) She (hung, hanged) her clothes outside.
6. Punctuate the following sentences. 5 mks
a) Peter said i am sick.
b) What a waste of time
c) Peter was a good man he always helped the needy
d) Buy me the following maize beans a newspaper fruits
SECTION D: 20 mks
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.
The more time children spend watching television the poorer they perform academically,
according to three studies published this week in the US. Excessive television viewing has been
blamed for increasing rates of childhood obesity and for aggressive behaviour, while its impact
on schooling has been inconclusive, American researchers said.
But studies published on the topic in this month’s Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent
Medicine concluded that television viewing tended to have an adverse effect on academic
pursuits. For instance, children in third grade (approximately eight years old) who had 4
televisions in their bedrooms and therefore watched more TV – scored lower on standardized
tests than those who did not have sets in their rooms.
In contrast, the study found having a home computer with access to the Internet resulted in
comparatively higher test scores.
“Consistently, those with a bedroom television but no home computer access had, on average,
the lowest scores and those with home computer access but no bedroom television had the
highest score, “wrote study author Dina Borzekowski of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
American homes with children have an average of nearly three televisions each, the report said,
and children with televisions in their bedrooms averaged nearly 13 hours of viewing a week
compared to nearly 11 hours by children who did not have their own sets.
The American Academy of Pediatrics had urged parents to limit children’s television viewing to
no more than one to two hours per day – and to try to keep younger children away from TV
altogether. In two other studies published in the same journal, children who regularly watched
television before the age of three ended up with lower test scores later on, and children and
adolescents who watched more television were less likely to go on to finish high school or earn a
college degree.
University of Washington researchers reported that 59 per cent of US children younger than age
two watch an average of 1.3 hours of television per day, though there is no programming of
proven educational value for children that young. Their analysis of 1,800 children over a decade
showed television watching was linked to poorer cognitive development among children younger
than three and between the ages of six and seven.
TV watching appeared to help three to five – year – olds with basic reading recognition and
short-term memory, but not reading comprehension or mathematics, so the net effect of
television watching is “limited in its beneficial impact,” wrote study author Fredrick
Zimmerman.
Similarly, Robert Hancox of the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, found that
children and adolescents who watched more television had less educational attainment
regardless of their intelligence, socio-economic states or childhood behavioral problems. 5
But condemning television as a vast waste wasteland-government regulator Newton Minow’s of
quoted diatribe against the medium-would be unfair as programming is not “monolithic”, an
editorial accompanying the studies said.
“Parents should be encouraged to incorporate well-produced, age-appropriate educational TV
into their children’s lives. Such programming represents a valuable tool for stimulating
children’s cognitive development,” wrote Ariel Chernin and Deborah Linebarger of the
University of Pennsylvania.
(Source: Daily Nation, July 2005)
QUESTIONS
1. What, according to the passage, is the result of excessive television viewing in children?
3mks
3. What is the impact of having a home computer with access to the internet? 2mks
5. Provide two suitable words to replace “In contrast” used in the passage. 2 mks
6. What is Robert Hancox’s conclusion on children and adolescents who watch more
television? 2mks
7. Change the following sentence into a question
TV watching appeared to help three to five years – olds with basic reading recognition
and short term memory 1mk
8. What should parents do to ensure that the children benefit from TV watching? 4 mks
9. What is the author’s main concern? 2mks
10. Explain the meaning of the following words and phrases. 4mks
a) Attainment
b) Monolithic
c) Pediatrics
d) Impact
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