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Bondo Rarieda English Paper 2 Question Paper

Bondo Rarieda English Paper 2

Course:Secondary Level

Exam Year:2008

101/2
ENGLISH
Paper 2
(Comprehension, Literary appreciation & Grammar)
July / August - 2008
Time: 2 ½ Hours

BONDO-RARIEDA DISTRICTS MOCKS EXAMINATION - 2008
Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)

101/2
ENGLISH
Paper 2
(Comprehension, Literary appreciation & Grammar)
July / August - 2008
Time: 2 ½ Hours

INSTRUCTION TO CANDIDATES
• Write your name and Index number in spaces above
• Answer ALL questions in this question paper.
• All answers must be written in the spaces provided in the question paper.

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QUESTION MAXIMUM SCORE
1 20
2 25
3 20
4 15
TOTAL SCORE

This paper consists of 12 printed pages
Candidates should check the question paper to ensure that all the printed pages are printed as indicated and no questions are missing.
QUESTION 1
READ THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE AND THEN ANSWER THE QUESTIONS WHICH FOLLOW
Common understanding of science does not mean just what is conveyed through, the popular prese or radio or television or films, much of which is now being done very ably and is introducing the ordinary person not only to the exciting developments of science but to the ways in which the scientist goes to work. Science has to be understood at all levels. If we are to have Science
effectively administered by governments and public bodies or by the boards of industries, we have to educate those who are to form the judgments about sciences and to decide priorities. Men of affairs have to be sufficiently well informed to know what, it is that the scientist is talking about, otherwise they may find themselves carried away by the enthusiasm, of the scientist caught, by the glamour of the latest: scientific cult or just bemused; by the jargon of science. Conversely, much that is worthwhile goes begging because those who have to take the decisions cannot properly understand.

This problem is one of education, at all ages. When people ask ‘At what age do you teach a child science? The answer is simple: from the moment a child lisps -''Why?' Innate curiosity has to be encouraged instead of the child being told: Wait until you know all, about kinetics and dynamics and you will understand. To discourage curiosity is to discourage scientific inquiry in later years.

Recently, at an educational conference, I was asked to speak on ‘Teaching science in general education in the year A.D. 2000’. I said I hoped that we would not be teaching ‘science’ as
a subject in general education forty years from now, but that Science would pervade - be as natural as the blood corpuseles and that specialization would be reserved, for much later in the
student's life. Moreover, every university student should be introduced to scientific method and given the background which will make him, even when he is not going to be a career scientist, cap able of evaluating science.

An essential attribute of the rounded man in this day and age is that they should know about the forces which are changing and dominating his life and affecting culture in all its aspects. This is a challenge to educators in every country - those which we call ' developing’ as well as those which are highly developed scientifically and technologically….

The united Nations conference on the Application of science and Technology for the Benefit of loss Developed Areas, at Geneva in February, 1963, spelled out what we know and what is needed. While we would be grateful for some new breakthrough - giving to food problems, for example, the kind of answers which sulpha drugs, antibiotics and DDI gave to medical services-it was evident from that conference that there ware answers already waiting to be applied, and that it is, not a question of sharing knowledge and skills and intention. It is a question of sharing knowledge
and skills and resources that we already have at our disposal.
From: RIICHIE CALDER, ‘Science and the common Man’ , reprinted
from: The UNESCO courier,
(a) According to the author what is crucial in understanding science (2mks)
( b) Why must Science be thoroughly understood by public officials and business loaders? (2mks)
(c ) Why should a child be introduced to science at an early stage? (2mks)
(d) In note form state the goals of teaching science as outlined in the passage (4mks)
(e) According to the passage how can the developing countries overcome food problems? (3mks)
(f) Who are the "Men of affairs" referred to in the passage? (1mk)
(g) Rewrite the following sentences as reported speech
(i) Recently, at an educational conference, I was asked to speak on. "Teaching Science in general education in the year A.D 2000.”
(ii) "Wait until you know all about Kinetics and dynamics and you will understand"
h) Rewrite the following sentence as instructed
At what age do you teach a child science?
Begin Science………………….
(i) Explain the meaning of the following words and phrases in the passage (3mks)
(i) Innate curiosity …………………………………………………………………..
(ii) Breakthrough …………………………………………………………………….
(iii) Disposal ………………………………………………………………………..
2. The Novel: "Coming To Birth" (25 marks)
Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow
The whole year passed like that. Martin did not come on leave. He sent word that he was going instead on a tour organised by his evening- class teachers. When recess came she did not go to Nairobi either She sent word that she was attending a singer sewing class in Kisumu. She did attend it for as long as she could provide the required materials but she stayed with Simon of course. He had made an excuse to send his wife and children home for the school holidays, and an aged deaf aunt was staying with him while attending hospital, to save face. Once a fortnight Paulina.-had spent a night with him, in his house when Martha was away, other times in a friends, house he had fixed, where people coughed and giggled as they walked through to the room prepared for their use. But her hunger was now So great that she could forget the other people, as soon as she had taken her place on the bed that was so generously provided for her benefit If she saw Martha in the town, they passed with a curt greeting. She felt less tired these days and more sure of herself. She was a little fatter and took more care to oil her hair and her skin. It was not surprising that .people talked a bit. There was that club member whose husband worked at the (Town hall with Simon. And one communion day the pastor's wife made the long journey to their local church on the back of her husband's bicycle on purpose, it seemed, to bear Paulina off for a little talk on the responsi¬bilities of community leaders and the discipline of Christian marriage which. rarely (she said) allowed husband and wife to be together all the time since for progressive, educated people doing work and getting money was a natural pre—occupation. But Paulina managed to head her off, discreetly bemoaning the concubine in Nairobi, and the jealousies of the less able women in the club. All the same her mother-in-law was aware of the questioning and began to treat, her more coldly.

The next Christmas martin came. He did not let them know beforehand but appeared off the bus on Christmas morning, red-eyed, lean and angry, Humours hand reached him in Nairobi and had been confirmed when by chance he met a brother of the friend who had allowed Simon the use of his bedroom, and the man taunted him with the knowledge. Blows had followed, and then some hours in a police cell, the need for a bribe and the loss of day's pay.

What was worse, Susanna had heard about it and brought some of the Brethren to plead with him that his own behaviour had put Paulina into temptation, and that he should bring her back to Nairobi, forgive and forget. Fauzia had naturally had some tiling to say about this and had stained his treasured suit with greasy dishwater. Though of course he did not divulge these details at home. Martin had loss of dignity to avenge indeed, and felt very sure that he had been patient with his wife's ignorance and infertility. That she should now be so ungrateful as to deceive him. was provocation intolerable to any man

He beat her heavily and kept her home from church. This was not experimental like that long-ago beating in Pumwani both had matured since then and grown apart, so that he rained down his blows more methodically, she tried to avoid them with the cunning of a now separate and defensible person. She appealed to the headman to testify to her industry and modify modest behaviour at home but the headman shook his head, spat and said that It was not his business to interfere in domestic, matters. Martin spent Christmas night in a bar while Paulina bruised, and frightened as she had never yet known, fear outside Nairobi, cowered behind a barred door. He then made a round of the homesteads, denouncing her and disowning her. Many of them received news with a sidelong grin and several husbands assured him that they had enough of clubs in any case. Before leaving on the bus on Boxing Day afternoon Martin broke two of her chairs .and threw the clothes "out of her best suitcase and took it away with him. He gave his mother five shillings and took a chicken and a pot of ghee for his wife in Nairobi. He did not mention any children or speak of bringing his Swahili wife home.
QUESTIONS
(i) What happens before this extract? (3mks)
(ii) In about 70 words, summarise how infidelity is brought out in the passage (6mks)
Rough copy
Fair Copy
iii. He beat her heavily and kept her home from church (Rewrite in passive voice) (l mk)
(iv) She appealed to the headman to testify to her industry and modest behaviour at home.
(Re-write in direct speech) (l mk)
v. Identify and explain two other themes save for infidelity highlighted in this passage (4mks)
(vi) What traits does Martin exhibit in this extract (2mks)
vii) What stylistic device does the author use in the presentation of this extract (2mks)
viii) Give one word for the following phrasal verb (1mk)
"head her off" ……………………………………………………………………..
ix) Explain the meaning of the following words/phrases as used in the passage.
(a) Bemoaning ………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
(b) a curt greeting ......................................................................................................
(c) divulge ................................................................................................................ (3mks)
x. What does Paulina do after Martin had beaten her and returned to Nairobi? (2mks)
Read the following oral poem and then answer the questions which follow
O elephant possessor of a saving-basket full of money
O elephant, huge as a hill, even in a crouching posture,
O elephant, enfolded by honour; demon, flapping fans of war.
Demon who snaps tree branches into many pieces and moves on to the forest farm,

O elephant, whom ignores 'I have fled to my father for refuge'.
Let alone ‘to my mother’
Mountainous Animal, Huge Beast who tears a man like a garment And hangs him up on a tree,
The sight of whom causes people to stampede towards a hill of safety,
My chant is a salute to the elephant Ajanaku who walks with a heavy tread,
Demon who swallows palm-fruit bunches whole, even with the spiky pistil-cells,
O elephant, praisenamed Laaye, massive animal blackish-grey in complexion,
O elephant, who single-handed causes a tremor in a dense tropical forest,
O elephant, who stands sturdy and alert, who walks slowly as if reluctantly,
O elephant, whom one sees and points towards with all one's fingers. The hunter s boast at home is not repeated when he really meets the elephant
The hunter's boast at home is not repeated before the elephant, Ajanaku looks back with difficulty like a person suffering from a sprained neck.

The elephant has a porter’s—knot without having any load on his head. The elephant's head is his burden which he balances,
O elephant, praisenamed Laaye, O death, please stop following me.
This part and parcel of the elephant’ s appellation. If you wish to know the elephant, the elephant who is a veritable ferry-man. The elephant whom honour matches, the elephant who continually swings his trunk.
His upper fly-switch.
It’s the elephant whose eyes are veritable water-jars,
O elephant, the vagrant par excellence.
Whose molar teeth are as wide as palm—oil pits in Ijesaland,
O elephant, lord of the forest, respectfully called Oriiribobo
O elephant whose teeth are like shafts,
One tooth of his is a porter’ s load,
O elephant fondly called Otiko
Who has a beast-of-burden’s proper nock,
O elephant, whom the hunter sometimes aces face to face.
O elephant, whom the hunter at other times sees from the rear.
Beast who carries mortars and yet walks with a swaggering gait.
Primeval leper, animal treading ponderously.
a) What type of oral poem is this? (2mks)
(b) How is the elephant portrayed in the poem? (2mks)
(c) Explain any three features of style used in the poem (6mks)
(d) What is the persona’s attitude towards the elephant? (2mks)
(e) Name two economic activities of the community from which this poem is derived (2mks)
(f) Explain the Main theme of this poem. (2mks)
(g) Explain the meaning of the following lines. (2mks)
(i) …………………. demon, flapping fans of war
(ii) ………….. who ignores “I have fled to my father for refuge "Let alone to my mother."
(h) Explain any two problems you may encounter when collecting material for this genre. (2mks)
GRAMMAR
Q-4 (a) Re-write the following sentences according to the instructions given after each.
Do not change the meaning of the original sentence.
(i) It's likely that the factories have been vandalized.
(Begin: Many)
ii. Whose car is that?
(Re - write to end in ...... belong)
iii. You have been disturbing me instead of helping
(Rewrite using disturbance )
(b) Rewrite the following sentences replacing the underlined word or words with a
phrasal verb.
i. He tried to disguise himself as rich man, but his rough palms and bent shoes betrayed,
him.
ii. We must remove the factors that cause the war.
iii. The car dealer discovered that he had exhausted her stock of fuel the previous day.
(c) Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the word in brackets
(i) No sooner had the striker ....................................... down than the coach began to
scream (lie)
ii. The former magistrate was taking bribes but the current one is ………........... (corrupt)
iii, Barrack Obama has his .................................... home in Kenya (ancestor)
d) Combine the following sentences -using suitable relative pronoun(s)
(i) The policeman was arrested for taking "bribes". He was jailed for three years.
ii. The spectre international won the tender. It is the largest gas cylinder making company in
East and Central Africa.
iii. My friend is coming to stay with me. I have been writing to him for two years.
(e) Complete the following sentences using suitable quantifiers
(i) The other day my next door neighbour came round to see if she could borrow ………………………….. sugar.
ii. Since that course is very unpopular …………………………. students choose it.
iii. 1 didn't have ……………………………… money to give my niece when she came.

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