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ENGLISH
Paper 2
(Comprehension, Literary
Appreciation and grammar)
Form 3
Time: 2 ½ hours

Instructions to candidates
(a) Write your name and index number in the spaces provided at the top of this page.
(b) Sign and write the date of examination in the spaces provided above.
(c) Answer all questions in this question paper in the spaces provided

For Examiner’s use only

Question Maximum score Candidate’s

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3 15

TOTAL SCORE 55

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1. COMPREHENSION (20 MARKS)
You may think that expecting food to change your life is too much to ask. But have you considered that
eating the right food at the right time will increase your energy, help you manage weight and word off major
illnesses?
Researchers have found that eating a meal with plenty of protein leaves you feeling more satisfied for longer
when compared to a meal loaded with low-quality carbohydrates. Your body takes longer to digest leading
to gradual increase in blood sugar. The high protein breakfast will therefore carry you through the morning
and more importantly, through your tea break. Many high carbohydrate meals are absorbed quickly and send
blood sugar on a roller coaster ride, taking your appetite with it and depleting your energy.
Many foods contain antioxidants, but fruits and vegetables may be the richest source. Behaving like
chemical warriors, antioxidants neutralize molecules known as free radicals before they damage arteries and
body cells. This protects you from heart diseases, high blood pressure, cancer and diabetes. You can now see
why antioxidant foods should be consumed in generous portions.
Actually, forget pills-antioxidants work best when consumed in foods. In fact, nutritionists recommend that
we eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day. It’s less daunting than it sounds; a portion equals a piece
of fruit, three tablespoons of cooked vegetables or a glass of fresh juice.
And you desire to relief yourself of some baggage? Calcium is the latest weight-loss star to appear on the
scene. Scientists stumbled on its magic by accident. From a study that measured the blood pressure of obese
people, it was discovered that those who took one large tub of yoghurt a day in their diet lost an average of
eleven pounds of body fat in one year, even though they did not eat less.
A follow-up study found that people on a high calcium diet lost more weight and fat than did people on a
low-calcium diet and again both consumed the same number of calories. Researchers believe calcium
encourages fat cells to stop “getting fatter”. Instead, the cells burn extra fat without you having to go
anywhere near a gymnasium.
It probably sounds strange to say that you can eat more in order to lose weight. Obviously, the question you
should ask immediately is “Eat more of what?” we are talking about foods rich in fibre. They have what is
referred to as low-energy density, that translates to few calories relative weight. This means that you can
down a mountain without fear of calorie overload.
Fibre also aids weight loss because it’s filling. Most high fibre foods take a lot of chewing, triggering your
body’s fullness censors. Moreover, you absorb the food more slowly so you feel full longer
Will the wonders of food ever cease? Not if researchers in nutrition keep their pace. Let them keep the
goodnews flowing-such as the fact that we don’t have to starve ourselves to lose weight and keep diseases at
bay.
(Adapted from reader’s digest January 2004)
Questions.
(a) From the information given in first paragraph, how can you improve your life? (1 mark)

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(b) In not more than 35 words, summarise the effects of eating carbohydrates. (4 marks)

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(c) Explain how free radicals contribute to the occurrence of high blood pressure and cancer.
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(d) In what two forms can antioxidants be consumed? (2 marks)

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(e) “In fact, nutritionists recommend that we eat five portions of fruit and vegetable a day.”
Rewrite the sentence above as a question without changing the meaning,
Beginning: Don’t ……. (1 mark)

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(f) What is the attitude of the author towards calcium as a weight cutting measure? (3 marks)

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(g) According to the passage, how can you use up excess fat? (2 marks)

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(h) Identify an instance of irony in the passage (2 marks)

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(i) Explain the meaning of the following expressions as used in the passage. (3 marks)
(i) Daunting

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(ii) Baggage

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(iii) Down a mountain

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3. POETRY
ONCE UPON A TIME
Once upon a time dear son
They used to laugh with their hearts
And laugh with their eyes, but now they only
Laugh with their teeth
While their ice-cold-block-eyes
Search behind my shadow

There was a time indeed

They used to shake hands with their hearts
But that’s gone son
Now they shake hands without hearts
As their hands search my empty pockets
‘feel at home’, ‘come again’
They say but when I come
Again and feel at home, once, twice
There will be no thrice
For then I find the doors shut on me.

So I have learned many things, son

I have learned to wear many faces
Like dresses, home face, office face,
Cocktail face
With all their conforming smiles
Like a fixed portrait smile

And I have learned too

To laugh with only my teeth
And shake hands without my heart
I have also learned to say ‘Goodbye”
When I mean ‘Good riddance’
To say ‘Glad to meet you’
Without being glad: and to say ‘it has been
Nice talking to you’ after being bored
But believe me son I want to be what I used to be when I was like you

I want to unlearn these muting things

Most of all, I want to re-learn
How to laugh, show me how
I used to laugh and smile
Once upon a time when I was like you

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 Questions.
(a) Who is speaking in the poem? (2 marks)

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(b) What is the poem about? (3 marks)

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(c) Identify any two images that emphasise what the persona is saying. (2 marks)

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(d) Explain two poetic devices used in the poem (4 marks)

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(e) Explain the following lines as used in the poem (4 marks)
(i) Like fixed portrait smile

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(ii) I want to unlearn these muting things

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(iii) Laugh with their teeth

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iv) Laugh with their eyes

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(f) What is the relationship between the persona and the son? (2 marks)

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(g) Describe the tone of the poem? (3 marks)

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4. GRAMMAR.
(a) Use the words in the brackets to complete the following sentences (3 marks)

(i) Most of her crimes are ....................................................... (forgive)

(ii) The club refused ................................................. (admit) to anyone wearing school uniform.

(iii) Her only fault is ................................................................ (indolent)

(b) Use a preposition to complete the following sentences (3 marks)

(i) The buffalo charged ....................................... Lillian.

(ii) The thief was oblivious ................................................. trap.

(iii) Lazy students prefer sleep .......................................... studies.

(c) Rewrite each of the following sentences according to the instructions given after
each (3 marks)
(i) That was the worst storm they had ever experienced.
(Rewrite beginning: Never)

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(ii) Let us go to the gardens (add a question tag)

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(iii) Kenyan footballers have not had greater openings at any time in their careers than
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(d) Change the words in bold into their negative forms. (3 marks)

(i) The guest speaker in the forum was a noble person.

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(ii) She said that my argument was very prudent.

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(iii) Ngugi wa Thiong’o writings are famous with the west readers.

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(i) The suspect confessed after a long interrogation.

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(ii) Nyambura rejected Waiyaki’s proposal for marriage

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(iii) Our principal does not tolerate indiscipline

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