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101/1 ENGLISH PAPER 1 (FUNCTIONAL SKILLS) OCT./NO.2006 2HOURS THE KENYA NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL K.C.S.E ENGLISH PAPER 1 TIME: 2HOURS Question 1 (20mks) You are the chairperson of your school’s Wildlife Conservation Association (WICA). Your group has just come back from a visit to a national park in a neighbouring country. Write a report to the patron of WICA about the trip. In your report indicate what you accomplished, the problems you experienced and what cautionary measures you would take during trips. ……………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………… Question 2 (10mks) Fill in each of the blank spaces in the passage below with the most appropriate word. There was time when telecommunication 1………………Africa was nearly non-existent. With the 2……………of one or two more developed nations, most African countries 3 …………… infrastructure and telephony was out of reach for 4………………. of the population. But mobile telephony has 5……………. a lot of that and has demonstrated Africa’s 6……………. to leap-frog older technologies with new ones more 7…………. to the environment. Telecommunication in Africa is growing 8………….. there is room for improvement and development. A number of new networks 9………. coming up all over the continent and the African telecommunication market is growing 10………. The driver of this growth? Mobile telephony. (Adapted from African Business, May 2004) Question 3 a) Read the oral narrative below and then answer the questions that follow. Nyasaye (God) wanted to put a stop to the rampages of death-death which claims the lives of everyone Young and old Boys and girls Men and women Strangers and kinsmen;

Death which kills The innocent and the guilty Chiefs and their subjects The healthy and the sick The wise and the foolish. So one day he sent a servant to earth with a message for all his people. “send me an offering of fresh, untainted fat,” he ordered. “It should be as clean and sparkling as the...