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Remember your early childhood days when mother used to take you Test Paper I
to the hospital for vaccination?

Have you wondered why you were injected even when you were fit I. Answer the following questions. (5 x 2 = 10 marks)
1. What do you call animals that give birth to young ones?

and fine? You were injected with the life-saving vaccinations. 2. What do you call the story of a person’s life written
by another person?

What are vaccines? 3. What do you call a person who repairs machines,
motors and cars?
A vaccine is a medicine that helps you to fight 4. Which is the tallest artificial structure in the world?

disease causing germs. Doctors give you these 5. Which form of matter has a fixed shape and does not flow?
medicines well in advance so that when your body
comes face to face with the dangerous germs it can fight them. II. Identify the following pictures. (4 x 3 = 12 marks)

How do vaccines work?
A vaccine contains a little bit of a disease-causing germ that is weak

or dead. Since the germ has been killed or weakened before it is used
to make the vaccine, it does not make the person weak. 1. 2. 3. 4.
III. Write ‘T’ for true and ‘F’ for false against each statement. (7 x 2 = 14 marks)

1. Barbecue is an old form of farming.

2. Amphibians are animals that live on land and in water.
The army of antibodies then 3. Dolphins are reptiles.
helps to trap and kill the

harmful germs that could 4. Different shapes of the Moon are called phases.
lead to disease. When a person receives a 5. Plant roots are found in the top soil.
vaccine, the body’s defence 6. ATM stands for Automated Teller Machine.

system jumps into action 7. The smallest dog in the world is the greyhound.
and reacts strongly by

making antibodies. IV. Fill in the blanks with the correct words. (7 x 2 = 14 marks)
1. Madam Tussaud’s wax museum is in .

2. To write in capital letters on a computer you use the key.
3. A does experiments based on science.
4. A is a story in which animals speak like humans and it ends with
Are all vaccines injected? a lesson or moral.

No, some vaccines like the polio vaccine may also be given as oral drops. 5. A is a big fish and has whiskers like a cat.
6. have dry and scaly skin.
Like all babies, you have also been vaccinated against many diseases. Ask 7. A is a group of stars seen as a pattern in the sky.
your parents the names of all those vaccinations.
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