RIOTERO S.D.A.

MIXED SECONDARY SCHOOL

NAME : ……………………………………………………. CLASS : ………

ADM. NO : ……………… DATE : ………………..

FORM TWO
ENGLISH END OF TERM 2, 2024.
TIME: 2 hrs.
Instructions to examinees
a) Write your name, admission number, class and the date in the spaces
provided.
b) This paper consists of 8 printed pages.
c) Answer ALL the questions in the four sections in legible handwriting.
d) Examination cheating is highly punishable.
Examinees should ensure that all the pages in the question paper are
printed and NONE is missing.

SECTION TITLE MAXIMUM EXAMINEE’S

SCORE SCORE
A FUNCTIONAL 10
WRITING
B CLOZE TEST 10
C COMPREHENSIO 20
N
D GRAMMAR 30
TOTAL 70

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Q1.
FUNCTIONAL WRITING
1. Write a diary entry for your first week of the upcoming August Holiday.
(10mks)

Q2.
CLOZE TEST (10mks)

People can be addicted to different things such as alcohol, drugs, certain foods
or.................television. People who have such an.......................are compulsive;
that is, they have a very ..........................psychological need that they feel
they.......................satisfy. According to psychologists, many people are
compulsive spenders. This compulsion, like most others, is.......................and is
impossible to explain reasonably. Many of those affected believe they can
buy.................on credit. Their pleasure in spending enormous amounts
is.............................greater than the pleasure they get......................................the
things they buy. Many times, they cannot.........................buying that are on
discount. They, ..............., often buy things they don't need just because they are
cheap.

Q3.
COMPREHENSION (20mks)
Information Technology (IT)

Information Technology (IT) is advancing at a terrific rate thus turning the world
into a global village. Imagine you could be seated in your classroom exchanging

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ideas with Form Two students in America, Japan, Britain, Russia, France – all over
the world. You could be seated in a Kenyan university or even in your house or a
cyber cafe exchanging ideas with a lecturer in Makerere, Manchester, Oxford,
Cambridge, Harvar d or any other university abroad.
You could also carry out a business deal with a business person in Tanzania, South
Africa, Japan, Dubai, Germany, France or any other part of the world and collect
your commodity at the port of Mombasa with all transactions carried out over the
internet.
There is, therefore, no need to travel to make your purchase. The commodity is put
into your full view through the internet. You could then make your choice
depending on your taste and strength of your purse.
The internet will also allow you read any country's newspaper at will. It will enable
you to do many other things. With a click of a computer icon, the whole world
comes on the screen before you! Isn't the age we are living in a marvel?
You may have started asking, “What is the internet?” The internet is a global
computer network. A network is a connection of two or more computers to enable
sharing of information and other resources. These computers are owned by
organisations, institutions like your school and even individuals.
Many people may ask, “Where did the internet come from?” The internet was
developed in the mid1960s when the United States Department of Defence (DoD)
was concerned about how its communication network could survive a nuclear
attack. The DoD paid for the development of a communications system that could
continue functioning if one or more of its communications centres were not
working. Later in the 1980s the network was extended to higher institutions of
learning. Today, the internet is accessible to people at a fee. If you have a
computer, why not try to connect it to the internet the earliest possible? You will
be abreast with world trends.

Answer the following questions according to the passage.

1. What is internet? (2mk)

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2. Explain how the internet has turned the world into a global village. (3mks)

3. Why does the writer feel that the age we are living in is a marvel? (3mks)

4. Rewrite the following sentences beginning: Is there............. (2mks)

There is therefore no need to travel to make your purchase.

5. Which country developed the internet? (1mk)

6. For what purpose was the internet first developed? (2mks)

7. Make sentences using the following words. (3mks)

i. Global village

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 ii. Cyber cafe

iii. Put into your full view

8. Make sentences using the following words (2mks)

i. Marvel

ii. Accessible.

9. As a student, do you think internet is important? Explain your answer.

(2mks)

Q4.
GRAMMAR (30mks)
1. Fill in the blanks with the correct preposition. (5mks)

i. He assured the members .......... his competence ......... accounting.

ii. I met Osoro when I was ............ high school.

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 iii. I will have completed my holiday assignment ....... Friday.
iv. The aunt divided the sweets.....................all the children.
v. Our classroom is...........the second floor of the central administration
block.

2. Fill in the blank space with the most appropriate word. (3mks)

i. Everyone attended the ...........................(fist, feast).

ii. His speech was marred by his poor.............................. (pronunciation,
pronounciation).
iii. Write your names in the.................................(foolscap, fullscap).

3. Punctuate the following sentences correctly. (5mks)

i. the august holiday is around the corner

ii. our drama club sang danced played games during the prize giving day

iii. my brother and i have never been to mombasa

iv. what a clever student you are

v. kamau took juma to town.

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4. Fill in the gaps using the adjectives given in brackets in the right order.
(3mks)

i. I have just finished reading a ....................................................................

novel. (boring, long, investigation)

ii. She gave me a ........................................................ jewellery box.

(metal, square, huge)

iii. Our little child played with a ..................................................... toy.

(plastic, lovely, small)

5. (a) Identify independent clauses in the following sentences. (3mks)

i. Since we could not agree, we thought it wise not to sign the contract.

ii. Before they got the results, they all looked tense and worried.

iii. The students alighted from the school bus when they learnt it had a
puncture.

(b) Identify the subordinate clauses in the sentences below. (2mks)

i. Belinda will tell her mother the truth before it gets too late.

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 ii. Although Samson bought the painting, it was an unfinished project.

6. Fill in the blanks with the simple present form of the verbs in brackets.
(4mks)
a) Nairobi ………. the capital of Kenya. (be)
b) The posts ……… very heavy. (be)
c) She and her sister ……………. very hard. (work)
d) They …….. to work by bus. (come)

7. Choose the correct forms for each of the following words given in brackets.
(3mks)

i. Jack and Jill ............ over the hill. (is, are)

ii. There ................... Julius and his friend. (goes, go)
iii. Susan is one of the singers who.............. (is, are) always off key.

8. Supply question tags to the following statements. (2mks)

i. He didn't come to school, .................................?

ii. She is a smart lady, ............................................?

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