1. (a) Women,v1 for the passage says “the galloping increase in rural poverty is hitting women hardest. /sixty percent of poor are women.
(b) By 20 percent,v1 for they have jumped by 50 percent, as apposed to a 30 percent increase for men.
(c) Although women produce half the developing world food supply, they have for less access to paranormal/prime land and the vital resources.v Although they are the prime producers, they have difficulties obtaining plots./ Although their share of land is mandated by the law, land reform programmes are still unfarourable for them. -Any one irony, 3 marks -The contrast MUST be home art for it to score.
(d) Enable small farmers to drastically increase the production of stable crops.v2
(e) For the economic and political conditions that ignited rapid expansion in those Asian countries were too unique to apply in Africa today.v2
(f) That such programmes only offer short term solutions/ (focus on the non-poor and they only give welfare support...).v The long-term economic future of the poor can only come from development of their own productive resources.v1
(g) More women should access land and other vital resources. Land reform programmes should be in their favour as mandated by land. More women to be in Agricultural extensions. Small farmers should be empowered in production of stable crops. Long –term adjustment programmes favour to the poor are welcome. (47 words)
(h) (i) galloping – spreading/rapid
(ii) barren - unproductive /infertile
(iii) sparked – caused/led to
lydiajane74 answered the question on January 23, 2018 at 07:53
- Explain the different meanings expressed in the sentence below. (2mks)
Flying planes can be dangerous.(Solved)
Explain the different meanings expressed in the sentence below. (2mks)
Flying planes can be dangerous.
Date posted: January 23, 2018. Answers (1)
- In the sentences below complete, the idioms already started for you. (2mks)i. He can write me letters till he’s blue………………………., I’m not going to reply.ii....(Solved)
In the sentences below complete, the idioms already started for you. (2mks)
i. He can write me letters till he’s blue………………………., I’m not going to reply.
ii. She is as blind………………………………….without her glasses.
Date posted: January 23, 2018. Answers (1)
- Fill in the blank spaces with the correct forms of the words given in brackets. (2mks)
i. The……………………………………(broad) of the material could not easily be established.
ii....(Solved)
Fill in the blank spaces with the correct forms of the words given in brackets. (2mks)
i. The……………………………………(broad) of the material could not easily be established.
ii. The ……………………………………of the matter brought the District Commissioner to their village. (grave)
Date posted: January 23, 2018. Answers (1)
- Insert the most appropriate prepositions in the blank spaces.
i. Her performance was amazing any standards.
ii. Since he no longer runs the business, he has been(Solved)
Insert the most appropriate prepositions in the blank spaces. (3mks)
i. Her performance was amazing…....any standards.
ii. Since he no longer runs the business, he has been reduced…begging.
iii. Traffic was moving……a snail’s pace.
Date posted: January 23, 2018. Answers (1)
- Replace the underlined words with appropriate phrasal verbs formed from the words in brackets. (3mks)
I. John’s car which an accident was completely destroyed. (write)
II. The...(Solved)
Replace the underlined words with appropriate phrasal verbs formed from the words in brackets. (3mks)
I. John’s car which an accident was completely destroyed. (write)
II. The teacher could not tolerate the new student’s rudeness (put)
III. I am surprised you cannot discover the deception in the lies he tells you. (see)
Date posted: January 23, 2018. Answers (1)
- Rewrite the sentences below according to the instructions given. (3mks)
i. She will receive a rousing welcome if she arrives before dark. (Begin: should….)
ii. Wafula had...(Solved)
Rewrite the sentences below according to the instructions given. (3mks)
i. She will receive a rousing welcome if she arrives before dark. (Begin: should….)
ii. Wafula had never undergone such an experience before. (Begin: Never…)
iii. I have never seen a more beautiful girl. (Rewrite beginning: This is..)
Date posted: January 23, 2018. Answers (1)
- Read the narrative below and then answer the questions that follow:
Snake, Millipede and Centipede were born triplets to a caring old couple in a far...(Solved)
Read the narrative below and then answer the questions that follow:
Snake, Millipede and Centipede were born triplets to a caring old couple in a far off country. The couple had tried to get children for years but to no avail,
The arrival of the triplets was, therefore, the cause of great joy in the whole village. With the little energy left, they struggled with the day-to-day hustles of new parents. They doted on their little ones and ensured that they got everything they needed. They grew up to be three beautiful daughters and were the envy of the entire village.
Millipede was the eldest and naturally acted as the leader. She was courageous, caring and fiercely protective of her siblings, not one animal dared across her path because of strength and fighting skills she learnt for her father.
Centipede was born second. She often ran into trouble with the neighbours but was always confident that big sister would always come to her rescue. Her mother always had cases to settle with her friends. No one day passed without Centipede being scolded about her carefree lifestyle. Snake, the lastborn, was her mother’s favourite and always got away with mischief, however grave. She was the most beautiful of the sister’s and always got extra attention from parents.
As the sisters grew, the snake got really proud and wanted everything for herself. She often wondered how different life would have been had she born an only child.
She always schemed ways of getting her siblings into trouble and always got away with it.
One day, as they were at the river fetching water, they heard screams from upstream.
“Somebody help me please! I am trapped!”
The girls stopped in their tracks and cocked their ears. They rushed to the source of the cries and to their amazement; they found a man stuck to the waist, mud all around him as the river raged by. When he saw the three sisters, he was much relieved that help has finally arrived.
“Please girls, help me out of here, I’m going to drown,” he pleaded. Millipede and Centipede threw their hands to the poor man and struggled to pull him out. Little beads of sweat formed –on their foreheads as they struggled . “Come on and help” they told snake. “No way! I cannot dirty my delicate hands trying to save such a soul”, she sneered. Akimbo, she watched, bemused that her sisters would waste their time panting and heaving to wriggle the man out of the mud. Once out on dry ground, the man wiped the mud off his tired body and, as a way of appreciation asked the girls to make two wishes each. He told them that he was a genie who had been trapped for hundreds of years in the mud.
Snake was really excited when she heard about the wishes. She requested to be the firsts to make a wish. The sisters agreed but their hearts were heavy because they knew how malicious their sister was. Snake closed her eyes and silently made her wishes, for a big beautiful body and lovely legs millipede was next to make her wishes but because she knew her sister’s heart, she wished for a million of what snake had asked and a small body to go with it.
Centipede was the last to make her wish because of the admiration she had for her sister, wished for half of what her brave sister asked for. The man waved his magic band five times and bang! The sisters’ wishes came true.
Like a flash. Snake’s legs disappeared and her body grew twice its original size. Millipede got a million legs and her sister thousands, while their bodies shrunk to half their original sizes. They were all dismayed but on looking around, the man had disappeared. Snake was really sorry because she knew that she was the reason her sisters acted the way they did.
With shame, and tears streaming down her face, she glided away into the bushes and up to today , still holds a grudge against man for changing her fortunes. She always bites his ankle whenever they meet.
The other sisters accepted their wishes and continued with their lives happily, often helping man to aerate his farm by burrowing into the soil. (Adopted from Sunday Standard December 2006)
a) What type of narrative is this? Give a reason for your answer. (2mks)
b) Identify one social activity of the society in the narrative. (2mks)
c) Which features peculiar to oral narratives are evident in the narrative? (4mks)
d) Identify one character trait of the snake. (2mks)
e) What type of audience would be the target of such a narrative and why? (2mks)
f) “Please girls, help me out of here, I’m going to drown,” he pleaded. (rewrite in reported speech). (2mks)
g) If you were send to the field to collect the above narrative, mention any two method(s) you would use to collect the narrative. (2mks)
h) What is the moral lesson in the above narrative? (2mks)
i) What is the meaning of the following word and phrase as used in the narrative? (2mks)
i)dotedon
ii)dismayed
Date posted: January 23, 2018. Answers (1)
- The play. The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Brecht Bertolt.
2.
Read the following extract and answer the question that follow.
LAWYERS (approaching AZDAK, who stands up, expectantly): A quite...(Solved)
The play. The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Brecht Bertolt.
2.
Read the following extract and answer the question that follow.
LAWYERS (approaching AZDAK, who stands up, expectantly): A quite ridiculous case, Your Honor. The accused has abducted a child and refuses to hand it over.
AZDAK (stretching out his hand, glancing at GRUSHA): A most attractive person. (He fingers the money, then sits down, satisfied.) I declare the proceedings open and demand the whole truth.
To GRUSHA:) Especially from you.
FIRST LAWYER: High Court of justice! Blood, as the popular saying goes, is thicker than water. This old adage…
AZDAK (Interrupting): The court wants to know the lawyers’ fee.
FIRST LAWYER (surprised): I beg your pardon?
(AZDAK, smiling, rubs his thumb and index finger.) Oh, I see, five hundred piasters, Your Honor, to answer the Court’s somewhat unusual question.
AZDAK: Did you hear? The question is unusual. I ask it because I listen in quite a different way when I know you’re good.
FIRST LAWAYER (bowing): Thank you, Your Honor. High Court of Justice, of all ties, the ties of blood are strongest. Mother and child –is there a more intimate relationship? Can one tear a child form its mother? High Court of Justice, she has conceived it in the holy ecstasies of love. She has carried it in her womb. She has fed it with her blood. She has borne it with pain. High Court of Justice, it has been observed that the wild tigress, robbed of her young, roams restless through the mountains, shrunk to a shadow. Nature herself…
AZDAK (interrupting to GRUSHA): What’s your answer to all this and anything else that lawyer might have to say?
GRUSHA: He’s mine.
AZDAK: Is that all? I hope you can prove it. Why should I assign the child to you any case?
GRUSHA: I brought him up like the priest says “according to my best knowledge and conscience”. I always found him something to eat. Most of the time he had a roof over his head. And I went to such trouble for my own comfort. I brought the child up to be friendly with everyone, and from the beginning taught him to work. As well as he could, that is. He’s still very little.
FIRST LAWYER: Your Honor, it is significant that the girl herself doesn’t claim any tie of blood between her and the child.
AZDAK: The Court takes a note of that
FIRST LAWYER: Thank you, Your Honor. And now permit a woman bowed in sorrow – who has already lost her husband and now has also to fear the loss of her child-to address a few words to you. The gracious Natella Abashwili is…
GOVERNOR’S WIFE (quietly) : A most cruel fate, sir, forces me to describe to you the tortures of a bereaved mother’s soul, the anxiety , the sleepless nights, the…
SECOND LAWYER (bursting out): It’s outrageous the way this woman is being treated! Her husband’s palace is closed to her! The revenue of her estates is blocked, and she is cold-bloodedly told that it’s tied to the heir. She can’t do a thing without that child. She can’t even pay her lawyers!!(To the FIRST LAWYER, who, desperate about this outburst, makes frantic gestures to
keep him from speaking:) Dear Illo Shuboladze, surely it can be divulged now that the Abashwili estates are at stake?
a) Describe the events leading to this extract. (2mks)
b) Identify and illustrate any two themes in this extract. (4mks)
c) Describe one character trait for each of the following characters. (4mks)
i) Azdak
ii) Grusha
d) “And I went to such trouble for my own comfort”. From your knowledge of the play explain the trouble that Grusha is referring to. (5mks)
e) Identify one aspect of style in this extract. (2mks)
f) “Can one tear a child from its mother?” Rewrite in reported speech. (2mks)
g) Make notes on the first lawyer’s defence for Natella’s custody of the child. (4mks)
h) What is the meaning of the following words as used in the passage? (2mks)
i)Ecstasies.
ii)Divulged.
Date posted: January 23, 2018. Answers (1)
- Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
The post-Moi years, in particular, highlighted the country’s resilience and ability to grow, despite its difficult...(Solved)
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
The post-Moi years, in particular, highlighted the country’s resilience and ability to grow, despite its difficult past.
But the post-election violence of 2007 and 2008 shocked everybody. It tore apart the nation. When a power-sharing agreement was finally reached, the government was able to restore hope by publicly committing to the need for thorough investigations in the aftermath of the violence.
Only by establishing the truth, and delivering justice and reparations to the victims, could Kenya begin to heal and turn the page.
At Amnesty International, we have just released a report highlighting the testimonies of victims of the violence. One woman we spoke to from Nairobi’s Mathare settlement, told Amnesty International, how she and her husband had been attacked by men wielding machetes. She was fleeing from them when a police officer on patrol offered to take her to his home to get assistance from his wife. When they arrived to an empty house, the police officer raped her. She is now living with HIV.
This woman knew the police officer who had raped her – he is still working at a nearby police station. But she gave up on reporting the crime to the police because, whenever she tried, she was asked to pay bribes or provide original documents as evidence.
The victims fell disillusioned and shut out from the justice system for a wide range of reasons: some have been told that they do not have the right papers, while others have been ‘turned away’ by the police and many more fear repercussions if they talk. While it is important to recognize that the government has provided support for some internally displaced people, this has been limited and has reached too few. Kenya’s justice system has failed to address the needs of the hundreds of the thousands of victims of the post-election violence.
Amnesty International is now urgently calling on the government of Kenya to fulfill its obligations to provide truth, justice and reparation, and ensure that all victims of the violence have their voice heard. As at a first step, the government must conduct further investigations into the 4,000 cases that the director of public prosecutions has stated lack of sufficient evidence to proceed to trial; prioritizing investigations into crimes committed by the police and other security services.
This would at least help send a signal to Kenyans that there is a genuine political will for justice. Secondly, the government should act now to set up the committee for the implementation of the Recommendations of the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation commission and implement a national framework for ensuring victims of the violence get reparations they are entitled to.
Thirdly, we are calling on the government to fully cooperate with the International Criminal Court. Nearly all of the 49 victims interviewed by Amnesty International supported the ICC’s efforts to investigate and prosecute the crimes committed in the post-election violence. Their chance to receive justice must not be obstructed. Finally, the government must do everything it can to ensure the protection of victims, witnesses and human rights defenders working on cases of post-election violence and international justice. It is unacceptable that people are feeling increasingly afraid of reprisals in today’s politicized environment.
a) What does the writer appreciate about the post Moi era? (1mk)
b) Despite the shock of the post election violence, the writer offers hope. Give a statement that captures this optimism. (1mk)
c) What evidence does the writer give to show that little has been done about the post election violence victims? (2mks)
d) Why according to the passage, are victims of violence unable to access justice? (2mks)
e) Explain the writer’s attitude towards Kenya’s justice system. (2mks)
f) “At Amnesty International, we have just released a report highlighting testimonies of victims of the violence”. (Rewrite in the passive) (2mks)
g) In not more than 85 words, summarize the steps Kenya should take to ensure all victims of violence have been addressed. (7mks)
h) What is the meaning of the following words and phrases as used in the passage? (3mks)
i) obligations
ii) disillusioned
iii) reprisals
Date posted: January 23, 2018. Answers (1)
- The Novel Witi Ihamaera, The Whale Rider
“Women provide stability necessary in a society” With close reference to the roles played by women in Witi Ihimaera’s...(Solved)
The Novel Witi Ihamaera, The Whale Rider
“Women provide stability necessary in a society” With close reference to the roles played by women in Witi Ihimaera’s “The Whale Rider” Write an essay showing the validity of this statement.
Date posted: January 23, 2018. Answers (1)
- Replace the underlined word in each of the sentences with appropriate phrasal verb?i. With time, she will overcome her griefii. The shopkeeper discovered she...(Solved)
Replace the underlined word in each of the sentences with appropriate phrasal verb?
i. With time, she will overcome her grief
ii. The shopkeeper discovered she had exhausted her stock of sugar in the evening
iii. My mother bought a scarf which matches her blue dress
Date posted: January 23, 2018. Answers (1)
- Fill in the blanks with appropriate complex preposition.
i. He stood…………the class and confessed his guilt. ii. Whether he is guilty or not, a suspect must...(Solved)
Fill in the blanks with appropriate complex preposition.
i. He stood…………the class and confessed his guilt. ii. Whether he is guilty or not, a suspect must be treated………the law. iii. He has a lot to say………his new job.
Date posted: January 23, 2018. Answers (1)
- Rewrite the following sentences using the comparative or superlative form of the adjectives in brackets.
i. Statistics show that (much) energy is consumed in industry than...(Solved)
Rewrite the following sentences using the comparative or superlative form of the adjectives in brackets.
i. Statistics show that (much) energy is consumed in industry than individuals.
ii. Many people with allergies find that pollen is their (bad) enemy.
iii. This book is the (expensive) of the two.
Date posted: January 23, 2018. Answers (1)
- Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the word in bracket.
i. I had ……………………………(lie) in the sun for one hour before they took...(Solved)
Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the word in bracket.
i. I had ……………………………(lie) in the sun for one hour before they took me to hospital.
ii. Everybody thought that…………………….(statistics) information must be true.
iii. The headmaster told the student that such shocking behavior was likely to earn the school a very…………………….. (flavour) reputation.
Date posted: January 23, 2018. Answers (1)
- Rewrite the following sentences as instructed
i. He likes being idle better than working for his living. Begin: He would rather
ii. Let us play Add a...(Solved)
Rewrite the following sentences as instructed
i. He likes being idle better than working for his living. Begin: He would rather
ii. Let us play Add a question tag
iii. You must on account leave any question unanswered.
Begin: On
Date posted: January 23, 2018. Answers (1)
- The serf by Roy Campbell
His naked skin clothed in the torrid mist,
That puffs in smoke around the patient hooves,
The ploughman drives, a slow somnambulist,
And through...(Solved)
The serf by Roy Campbell
His naked skin clothed in the torrid mist,
That puffs in smoke around the patient hooves,
The ploughman drives, a slow somnambulist,
And through the green his Grimson furrow grooves
His heart, more deeply than he wounds the plain
Long by the rasping shame of insult torn,
Red clod, to which the war-cry was rain
And tribal spears the fatal sheaves of corn,
Lies fallow now. But as the turf divides,
I see in the slow progress of his strides
Over the toppled clouds and falling flowers,
The timeless, surly patience of the serf,
That moves the nearest to the naked earth
ploughs down palaces and thrones, and towers
a) What kind of a person is a serf as portrayed in this poem?
b) Explain the meaning of lines 5 to 9.
c) What does the expression surly patience reveal about the serf’s personality?
d) Explain any two literary devices in the poem.
e) What is the tone of the poem?
f) What is the main message of this poem?
g) Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the poem. (3 marks)
i. Turf
ii. Toppled
iii) Rasping
Date posted: January 23, 2018. Answers (1)
- The Voice had to be listened to, not only on account of its form but for the matter which it delivered. It gave a message...(Solved)
The Voice had to be listened to, not only on account of its form but for the matter which it delivered. It gave a message to the country that it needed greatly. It brought to the common people a realization of their duty to concern themselves with their affairs. The common people were made to take an interest in the manner in which they were governed in the taxes they paid in the return they got from those taxes. This interest in public affairs— politics as you may call it—was to be the concern no longer of the highly educated few but of the many—the poor, the propertyless, the working-men in town and country. Politics was not to be the concern of a small aristocracy of intellect or property of the masses. And with the change in the subjects of politics that Voice brought about also a change in the objects of politics. Till then politics had busied itself mainly with the machinery of Government towards making its personnel more and more native, with proposals for a better distribution of political power, with protests against the sins of omission and of commission of the administration. This Voice switched politics on to concern for the needs of the common people. The improvement of the lot of the poor was to be the main concern of politics and the politician. The improvement, especially of the lives of the people of the neglected villages, was to be placed before Governments and political organizations as the goal of all political endeavour. The raising of the standard of living of the people of the villages, the finding of subsidiary occupations which would give the agricultural poor work for their enforced leisure during the off season and an addition to their exiguous income, the improvement of the housing of the poor, the sanitation of the villages — these were to be the objectives to be kept in view. In the towns, the slums and cherics were to receive special attention. There was especially a class of the poor for which that compassionate voice pleaded and protested. This was for the so-called depressed class, the outcastes of Hindu society. The denial of elementary human rights to this class of people it considered the greatest blot on Hindu society and history. It raised itself in passionate protest against the age-old wrongs of this class and forced those that listened to it to endeavour to remove the most outrageous of them like untouchability. It caused a revolution in Hindu religious practice by having Hindu temples thrown open to these people. It made the care of them a religious duty of the Hindus by re-naming them Harijans.
Questions
a) Give the main reason as to why people had to listen to the Voice
b) Why was politics by the highly educated few no longer appealing?
c) In note more than 60 words, summarize the changes brought about in the objects of politics.
Rough draft
Fair draft
d) Politics was not to be the concern of a small aristocracy of intellect or property of the masses.
(Rewrite the sentence adding a question tag.
e) Explain the genesis of the Hindu religious revolution.
f) What’s the author’s attitude towards the new voice.
g) What was unique about the outcasts of Hindu society?
h) Explain the meaning of the following words and phrase as used in the passage
) Exiguous income
b) Endeavour
c) Compassionate
d) Elementary
Date posted: January 23, 2018. Answers (1)
- Consider the following interview between the manager of a company and Irina; and then answer the questions that follow:
Manager: Good morning, Mr. Irina. Please sit...(Solved)
Consider the following interview between the manager of a company and Irina; and then answer the questions that follow:
Manager: Good morning, Mr. Irina. Please sit down and feel at home
Irina: (Oh God! I really need a job.) Thank you, Sir.
Manager: You have applied for the job of Records clerk
Irina: Yes, Sir ( I wonder whether he is going to give it to me.)
Manager: Do you know what the job involves? Did you read our advertisement in the Newspaper?
Irina: (Looking absent – minded, fiddling with his fingers and avoiding eye – contact.) Excuse me. Did you say something about newspapers? Yes, I read newspapers but not everyday. They are rather expensive, but once in a while I meet a friend who has bought one.
Manager: You are obviously not listening. I asked you a question about our advertisement and the requirements for the job of records clerk
. Irina: (Oh God, I need a job badly. I don’t even have a place to stay.) Yes, yes, you talked about listening. Yes, it is important to listen to your boss.
Manager: Mr. Irina, are you here with me? This is the end of my interview.You will hear from us in due course.
Irina: Thank you, Sir. I hope you consider me for the job.
Questions:
i) Identify the shortcomings in Irina’s listening skills.
ii) List specific listening skills Irina could have used during this interview.
Date posted: January 23, 2018. Answers (1)
- a) Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
THE SMILING FACE
Staring at me from the window
Down upon my head on the pillow.
This legendary...(Solved)
a) Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
THE SMILING FACE
Staring at me from the window
Down upon my head on the pillow.
This legendary round cheese
Smiling from the sky with ease
So beautiful, so bright.
Bathing me in such a mellow comforting light.
i) Describe the rhyme scheme of the poem.
ii) If you were to recite the poem, what effect would the rhyme scheme described in (i) above have?
(iii) How would you perform line 5 of this poem?
b) You are giving a talk on the dangers of the HIV/ AIDS pandemic to a group of young people. Your talk centres around what you have seen in the village, the loss of relatives and friends, orphaned children and the general impoverishment of the area. Describe any two possible ways of ending the talk and explain the advantages of each one of them.
c) State whether we have a falling or rising intonation in the following sentences.
i) Who do you think you are?
ii) How did she travel to Nairobi?
iii) I have been working very hard for the coming examination.
iv) Did he go to school in Mombasa
.
v) Have you ever seen Lake Bogoria?
d) Study the genre below and answer questions that follow. Tenant: What’s the weather like outside? Landlord: Rather like your rent. Tenant: What do you mean. Landlord: Unsettled. i) Classify the genre.
ii) State two functions of the genre above.
State and illustrate three characteristics of the genre.
Date posted: January 23, 2018. Answers (1)
- Olive oil is good for the bones, a two-year (1) …………………….. has found. People who consume olive oil have higher amounts of osteocalcin, a special...(Solved)
Olive oil is good for the bones, a two-year (1) …………………….. has found. People who consume olive oil have higher amounts of osteocalcin, a special (2) ………………..that is found in bones which helps keep (3) ………………………strong. They also found that osteocalcin lowers the risk of osteoporosis a (4) ……………………..in which bones lose density and become fragile and more likely to fracture. In addition, osteocalcin was found to (5) …………………………in metabolic regulations. These findings help explain (6) ………………….....people from the Mediterranean areas of (7)………………………….are the least prone to developing osteoporosis. These people consume a lot of olives and olive oil, along with (8) …………………and vegetables. Other (9) ………………………………...of olive oils include reduced stroke and breast (10) …………………………..risk and liver protection.
10 marks
Date posted: January 23, 2018. Answers (1)