Nyando District Joint Evaluation Test - 2008

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101/2

ENGLISH

(Comprehension, Literary appreciation and Grammar)

Paper 2

July / August 2008

2 Hours

NYANDO DISTRICT JOINT EVALUATION TEST - 2008

Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)

101/2

ENGLISH

(Comprehension, Literary appreciation and Grammar)

Paper 2

July / August 2008

2 Hours

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES:

Answer ALL the questions in this question paper.
All your answers MUST be written in the spaces provided.

FOR EXAMINER'S USE ONLY

Number of Question / Maximum Scores / Candidates Score
1 / 20
2 / 25
3 / 20
4 / 15
TOTAL

This paper consists of 12printed pages

Candidates should check the question paper to ensure that all the

printed pages are printed as indicated and no questions are missing.

1.Read the passage below and then answer the questions that follow.

The youth in Kenya spend Shs.9 billion a year. This is money they haven't worked for. By the end of the day today, they'll have spent Sh. 25 million.

A study on Kenyan youth recently conduced by Consumer Insight shows that they greatly influence what the older generation spend their money on.

Consumer Insight spoke to more than 1,300 youth living in major towns acrossKenya, and other people who interact closely with them, like deejays radio presenters, teachers, religious leaders, parents and sociologists. The research known as "Holla 2007" indicates that the youth spend most of their money on snacks, beverages, educational materials and mobile phone airtime. Most of this money comes from parents who, as a youth counselor says, don't have enough time to spend with their children so they give them money to make up for it. Despite having so much money, only 8 per cent of the youth have bank accounts.

Apart from going to school and performing a few chores at home, the youth don't do much else with their time. For those between seven and 12 years listening to music is their topmost passtime, followed by reading books, and then watching TV. It is the same for teenagers.

TV and radio are the youths greatest influences but they also go to church for varied reasons. According to a youth pastor, when they are kids, they go to church as a routine, but when they become adolescents, they go to church to hook up with their friends."

Of the Sh. 25 million that cinema theatres make from youth audiences every month, most ticket sales are for action flicks, Football holds a commanding podium position with athletics gaining in popularity over the years. This can be attributed to the successes of Kenyan athletes in the local and international arenas.

Fashion is very important. What you wear isn't just a way of covering your body, but a statement on who you are. And to make their statements loud and clear, almost 60 per cent of the youth prefer second-hand clothes to new ones because they are more affordable.

Teens aspire to be successful. Success to them is material possessions. About a third aspire to be rich, with 11 per cent aspiring to have families of their own. Education and career are top on their priorities in life. With traditional careers like medicine, aviation, law, engineering and accounting being shunned for emerging careers like communication, music (due to a belief that it has quick returns),art, design. IT and sports (especially football and rugby) with choice cell phones packing, music players FM and even TV receivers, the importance of the youth as media consumers is definitely on the increase. Kiss 100 still remains their preferred radio station, though Easy FM's increasing popularity is threatening and eroding kiss 100's. dominance.. Kiss plays more hip-hop, a genre boys like, while Easy FM's R&B play list attracts the girls.

On the small screen, NTV leads in the number of youthful eyeballs it attracts, followed by KTN, Citizen and KBC. The Daily nation has more youth readers. The newspapers they read are largely determined by what parents buy. Sunday Nation's Buzz takes the lead when it comes to in-paper magazines, followed by the Young Nation, Lifestyle, Saturday Magazine and The Standard's Pulse in that order. The mixture of beauty, fashion and relationships makes True Love and Drum appeal more to the youth than Insyder, which is a youth targeted magazine.

QUESTIONS

(a)How do teenagers spend their time?(2mks)

(b)Why do the youth associate with the church?(2mks)

(c ) Only 8 percent of the youth own bank accounts (Rewrite in the passive)(1mk)

(d)Who is to blame for the youth mismanagement ofmoney? Give reasons.(3mks)

(e)In note form, write the career priorities of the youth.(4mks)

(f)Most of the money come from parents …………………………………… (Supply a question tag) (1mk)

(g)In not more than 22 words state how the youth spend their parents’ money.(3mks)

(h)Football does not hold a commanding podium position (rewrite beginning: Not once…….

(i)Give the meaning of the following words and phrase used in the passage.(3mks)

(i) Shunned

(ii) dominance

(iii) podium position

2.Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow;

Her crochet work prospered and she began to ask whether they could not think of moving into one of the brick houses that were easier to keep clean and where you would have four walls to yourself. And because there was no chance and not enough money either, Martin would grow angry and go out in the evening. The house was not so oppressive for him as for her since nowadays he habitually came home late - sometimes it was overtime, sometimes an evening class. People were not nervous in the evening as before and occasionally he came after the radios had stopped playing, smelling of beer and not hungry, although he could not afford to drink regularly and did not neglect the housekeeping money or his own appearance.

Eight months passed uneasily in this way and with no sign of another baby. She did not catch him win another woman and he did not sleep out except on two occasions when he told her he was going to a wake for a fellow clansman on the other side of town. Each time he borrowed from her ten shillings which she had put aside from her work money to buy more yarn for crochet. Of course she could only get it back by paring the food money, and one day when the charcoal man was dunning Martin to pay the bill and he therefore swore at her for sitting idle with no tablecloth in hand, she found it hard to bear and made a pretext to go and sit in Rachel's house a little while but she never went anywhere he could not keep her in his sight.

Fatima returned to jeer at her a number of times, and twice when Martin was home in the early evening she put her head, shiny and evil-scented, right through the little window, begging him to take a stroll with her outside, since she had accounting problems to discuss which might disturb Mrs. Were or even wake up the little ones, since they were so quiet that they might be thought not to be there at all.

Martin froze and told her to go to a proper accountant. He had not the time or knowledge to take on outside engagements, he said. But Paulina could not tell from his face whether he was really shocked or only offended, and she knew by now that this kind of invitation occurred commonly in front of Majengo wives and as often as not was eagerly accepted.

She bore it and looked aside. He hardly ever walked out with her now but he found little reason to quarrel with her either.

a)Place the extract in its immediate context.(4mks)

b)“ People were not so nervous in the evening as before……”

Why had people been nervous before?(2mks)

c)Identify the mood in the second paragraph and explain its cause.(3mks)

d)What is the authors attitude towards Fatima? Pick a word from the extract to support your answer. (2mks)

e)In a paragraph of not more than 40 words explain the things that Martin did that would make one suspect him of ill-motives. (4mks)

f) Basing your answer on the extract what type of person is Paulina.(4mks)

g)Give the meaning of the underlined words as used in the extract.(2mks)

(i) “He told her he was going to a wake for a fellow clansman.

(ii) Martin froze and told her to go to a proper accountant.

h)What type of place was Majengo?(2mks)

i)Identify and explain one use of sarcasm in this extract.(2mks)

3.Read the following narrative and answer the questions that follow.

Once upon time there was as beautiful maiden. She was so beautiful that whoever saw her had to turn twice and gaze again at her. She had the qualities of beauty of her time—dimples in her cheeks, dark skin on her face, a gap in her upper teeth, large white-and-black eyes that kept rolling in the sockets and a long creased neck. She was the only daughter of her old parents and she used to work herself to the bone -in order to help them. She would fetch water from the well, collect firewood and graze the goats. Whenever she went to the shamba her mother had to remind her to come back home, for she could easily work the whole day. Accordingly this girl was given the privilege of selecting her own husband who would not have to pay a bride price to get her. Many men came to court her, including chiefs from various places. She refused all of them, including the chief of her own village, for she was in love with a young man whom she hoped to marry. This young man, Tutu, was a peasant and a native of the girl's village. He was a man of great physical powers, a great warrior yet at the same time kind-hearted. He loved the girl whole-heartedly and looked , forward to their marriage.

One day a neighbouring village declared an attack on the girl's village. The chief, knowing that if Tutu was dead he would be able to marry the beautiful girl himself, rounded the village warriors up, gave them the news of an imminent battle to take place a short distance away, and made Tutu the head warrior. He knew that Tutu would then be subjected to the attack and hoped he would be killed. As he said goodbye to the girl, Tutu did all he could to assure her that he would return soon with victory. The girl knew that Tutu was very strong and was likely to come back, but she did not like the idea of being left like that. She wept endlessly and could not be consoled even by her old mother who became anxious about her daughter's health and future.

The battle went on for days and the girl remained hopeful though no news came from Tutu. At last she became uneasy. Her instinct warned her against hope as she imagined how Tutu was leading the warriors. She longed to go and see him herself but that was beyond her powers. She wanted to send somebody there but she had no one to send. She became even more desperate when more suitors— seeing that Tutu was absent—came to court her, bringing her presents which she could not accept. The village chief was confidently among these suitors.

At last the girl could bear it no longer. She had stopped working and eating and her lower eyelid was twitching regularly, a sign of bad luck. The butterflies used to watch her crying and they pitied her and surrounded her. She told them her troubles and they were sympathetic and asked her if they could do anything to help her. She asked them to

fly over to the battlefield and come and tell her news of Tutu. They kindly agreed and flew instantly to the battlefield, only to find Tutu wounded and lying flat on the ground with a spear in his chest. Tutu had been speared by one of his own warriors who had been ordered to do so by the chief of the village. The battle was still going on. The butterflies were moved with pity and they did not dare go back and tell the girl about it. So they flew over Tutu's body which was now lifeless, mourning naturally.

Meanwhile, when the girl could not see the butterflies, she became so impatient that she asked the sun to cast his rays and see if Tutu was safe in the battle. The sun squinted and saw Tutu dead on the battlefield. The battle was ended and Tutu's side had the victory. The warriors had captured the other warriors from the enemy village and were deciding what to do with Tutu's body and with their wounded. The sun from its stationary throne looked at the girl and his rays became blurred; he was so moved with compassion that he asked the girl if he could help her.

The girl, paralysed with grief, begged the sun to lift her and take her , to Tutu. The sun rays stretched out, lifted the girl gently, and carried her to her lover's body. When she got to the body she collapsed instantly and for the whole day she did not regain consciousness. The sun grew silent and watched, the butterflies mourned and the warriors sang funeral dirges while the grass trembled uncomfortably. The owl announced the death of the two true lovers everywhere. Tutu and the girl were buried in the same grave and the warriors, shaking their heads in wonder about such true love, said 'We shall report this at home', as they left for their village.

The butterflies remained there. After some time, the sun smiled at the grave of Tutu and the girl. He smiled at a seedling that was rising from the grave. The seedling was of a strange species and it grew into a huge tree which the father sun nursed and tended. It blossomed in bright red flowers and these flowers became the home for the loyal butterflies. The tree was named ekinyhalisa or the flame tree in English. It signifies the love of a woman that is violent like a flame and the soft heart of a woman that is easily broken.

QUESTIONS

a)Why would this narrative be categorized under explanatory narratives?(1mk)

b)State the character aspects of(4mks)

(i) Tutu

(ii) The girl

c) Give one reason why the society depicted in the story is superstitions.(2mks)

d)Explain the moral lesson learnt from the story.(2mks)

e)With illustrations from the narrative, justify societal participation in social economic and political activities. (6mks)

f) Explain how this narrative fulfils the structure of a traditional oral narrative.(2mks)

e)Identify any theme portrayed in this narrative.(2mks)

h)Explain the role of butterflies in the narrative.(1mk)

4.Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given after each. Do not change the meaning. (4mks)

a) (i) The students were rowdy following the food shortage. They were sent home immediately. (Join the two sentences using consequently)

(ii) The bus would have collided with the trailer were it not for the quick action taken by the bus driver. ( Begin: But ………………..)

(iii) Someone will have to deal with this matter right away. (Write in the passive)

(iv) They lived in a …………………………………………….. (family strange stone-walled four – bedroomed) house for very many years. (Arrange the adjectives in the correct order)

b) Replace the underlined word(s) in each of the sentences with a phrasal verb which has the same meaning as the word(s) underlined. (3mks)

(i) Why do people always despise Negroes?

(ii) The young recruit fainted on the parade ground.

(iii) My sister was one of the cadets at the graduation parade.

c)In each of the following sentences provide one word for the underlined words.(3mks)

i) The young, beautiful Vera Sigu surprised everybody present when she took a vow of remaining unmarried all her life.

ii) After working in a place where leather is tanned for fifteen years, Otang developed a severe Spinal problem.

iii) The bride was given a bunch of flowers by the bridegroom.

d)Fill in the blank spaces with the correct form of the verb in brackets.(3mks)

I was …………………………………(fury) by Kigen when he entered the classroom ……………………………….(hurry) and announced that the trip to Mombasa had been postponed……………………………………….. (definite). This is what had kept me in school!

e)Give the meaning of the following idiomatic expressions.(2mks)

(i) The proud workers were made to eat a humble pie.

(ii) There was no love lost between Diana and her sister- in – law.