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Read the passage below and fill in each blank space with an appropriate word.   (10 marks)

I met Frank as soon as he was 1 ................... from the hospital. He felt 2 ................... to be alive. His seat-belt had kept him from going 3 ................... the windscreen, and he had only a 4 ................... cheek and some double-vision to indicate he 5 ................... had a nearly fatal crash. In the weeks that followed, 6 ..................., I began to notice strange after effects. Frank forgot to return phone calls. One afternoon, while writing out payroll cheques for his staff, he repeatedly asked me the date. I watched as his pen froze over the yellow cheque-book. He would 7 ................... flip the pages to check the spelling of a colleague's name. At the piano, he played the same note over and over again, seemingly 8 ................... to proceed to the next. It 9 ................... be months before any of us were willing to accept the painful 10 ................... that his music career was over.

 

3        Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow.

 

"Song of the wagondriver".    B.S. Johson

My first love was a ten-ton truck They gave me when I started, And though she played the bitch with me I grieved when we were parted.

Since then I've had a dozen more,

The wound was quick to heal,

And now it's easier to say

I'm married to my wheel.

I've trunked it north, I've trunked it south, On wagons good and bad, But none was ever really like The first I ever had.

The life is hard, the hours are long,

Sometimes I cease to feel,

But I go on, for it seems to me

I'm married to my wheel.   .   ;

Often I think of my home and kids, Out on the road at night, And think of taking a local job Provided the money's right.

Two nights a week I see my wife And eat a decent meal, But otherwise, for all my life, 5.     I'm married to my wheel.

 

 

(a) Briefly explain what the poem is about.   (2 marks)

 

(b) What is contradictory about the persona's relationship with his first truck?   (2 marks)

 

(c) The persona is facing a real dilemma. Which is it?                  (2 marks)

 

 

 d) Identify and illustrate any two literary devices that the poet uses.         (4 marks)

 

 (e) What makes the persona's job demanding? Give your answer in note form.         (4 marks)

 

 (f) Explain the meaning of the following lines: (i) Sometimes I cease to feel

 (i) Sometime I cease to feel                           (2 marks)

 (ii) Provided the money's right                           (2 marks)

 

(g) Explain the meaning of the words below as used in the poem.

(i) grieved .........................................................................................................................................      (1 mark)

(ii) trunked ........................................................................................................................................      (1 mark)

4       (a) Rewrite the following sentences in Direct Speech.   (2 marks)

 

(i) The tourist exclaimed that Kenya was a beautiful country.

 

(ii) Halima told James to go where she was.

 

(b) Rewrite each sentence below to make it communicate more sensibly.   (2 marks)

 

(i) They left the field full of sweat.                                                  

 

(ii) Powerful and comfortable, the buyer really liked the car.

 

(c) Fill in the blank spaces with an appropriate pronoun.   (3 marks)

 

(i) The children and ..................... ought to leave immediately if we want to arrive there before dark.

 

(ii) The organisers have invited Mwamburi and ..................... but I don't intend to go.

 

(iii) Since she obtained the highest grade, the school should give the award to no one else but

 

(d) Fill in the blank spaces -with the correct form of the verb in brackets,               (3 marks)

(i) A flock of birds ..................... (fly) away from this lake every week.

 

(ii) I wondered why they had ..................... (sing) that particular song.

 

(iii) The ball must have been ..................... (hit) too hard.

 

(e) Rewrite each of the following sentences as instructed.                     (3 marks)

 

(i) It is amazing that the couple takes care of so many orphans.

(Begin: That......)

 

(ii) What we need in Kenya is patriotism.

(End: .......... in Kenya.)

 

(iii) My students don't drink. My students don't smoke. (Join into one sentence using 'neither ....)

 

(f) Fill in each blank space with the appropriate word.                     (2 marks)

(i) I stopped the child from chewing a ..................... of grass.

 

(ii) The doctor told her to take the ..................... of medicine according to the prescription.