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JULY / AUGUST 2012
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Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (K.C.S.E)
101/1
ENGLISH
Paper 1
(Functional Skills)
JULY / AUGUST 2012
Time: 2 Hours
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INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
Write your name and index number in the spaces provided above.
Sign and write the date of examination in the spaces provided
Answer ALL questions in this question paper.
All your answers must be written in the spaces provided in this question paper.
FOR EXAMINER’S USE ONLY
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Assuming you completed college one year ago and you come across an advert of Kenya
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Airports Authority in need of ICT Project Manager. The qualifications and experience required
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University degree in IT or related field.
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Minimum one year experience as a project manager.
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Project management certificate
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You are a highly qualified candidate for this job. Write the C.V you will attach to your
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Last year, when the country 1_________________a severe sugar shortage, domestic
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market escalated prices 2____________________ nearly 200 per cent. Wholesalers added to the
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gravity of the shortage by 3__________________________.Whatever little sugar in the market,
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pushing prices up further. Retailers also compounded the consumers’ troubles 4 ______________
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shortfall becomes the central of bruising battles 9_________________________ sugar barons out
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group them appropriately. The first example has been done for you.
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Explain the peculiarity in the pronunciation of the following words, considering
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Chururu si ndondondo ( A tickle is not the same as a gush) (Kiswahili)
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Vulele Vumanyi Mwani Dave (Slipperiness knows no king) (Luhya)
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Assuming you were translating proverb I. What two challenges will you face?
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Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow.
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Life has loveliness to see,
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All beautiful and splendid things,
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Blue waves whitened on a cliff
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Holding wonder like a cup.
Life has loveliness to see,
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Eyes that love you, arms that holds,
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And for your spirits still delight,
Holy thoughts that star the night.
Spend all you have for loveliness,
Buy it and never count the cost,
For one white singing hour of peace
Count many a year of strife well cost,
And for a breath of ecstasy
Give all you have been or could be.
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What is the tone of this poem?
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Describe the rhyme scheme of this poem.
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A teacher walks into a classroom
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This being my first time in class, I must tell you my name is Mr. Kerotwa
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Don’t ng’e me! I said my name is Otwenka Kerotwa.
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