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- One of the words is a general term which includes the other three. Select the word in each case.
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One of the words is a general term which includes the other three. Select the word in each case.
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Date posted: September 6, 2018. Answers (1)
- Read the passage below which contains blank spaces that are numbered 1-16 and for each of the blank spaces fill the best fitting word.
When a...(Solved)
Read the passage below which contains blank spaces that are numbered 1-16 and for each of the blank spaces fill the best fitting word.
When a problem 1_ in the family, it should be solved peacefully 2_ involving the children. I strongly 3_ parents who give their children the impression that this father of yours or this mother of yours does not care for you or love you.
4_, a parent’s occupation may result 5_ children clinging more to one parent than the other. Take, for example, a parent 6_ works away from home. Such a parent may spend no more than one week a year 7_ the children. As 8_ the young children won’t know him, and there will be no closeness 9_ them.
In modern society, we have many such cases. This 10_ can be eased if the parents inform their children 11_ their absent parent is not always around and how caring he or she is. 12- the other hand, when at home the absent parent should make all 13_ to socialize with the children, 14_ fatherly love. If a father or mother 15_ afford a week with the children per year, 16_ why not make arrangements for the children to visit the place where he or she works?
Date posted: September 6, 2018. Answers (1)
- Read the passage below which contains blank spaces that are numbered 1-16 and for each of the blank spaces fill the best fitting word.
Crying can...(Solved)
Read the passage below which contains blank spaces that are numbered 1-16 and for each of the blank spaces fill the best fitting word.
Crying can help. Sometimes crying together 1_ the surviving parent can help 2_ of you. You may come 3_ the surviving parent crying alone. If you put your arms around him or her, you will 4_ each other and become closer and stronger. You 5_ find it useful to talk to other members of the family 6_ what happened, your feelings and plans for the future. You may find the other members of your family feel 7_ like you and so you won’t feel so alone. It might help to 8_ your thoughts down in your diary. A diary does not have to be 9_ expensive one 10_ an exercise book will do. A diary is like a friend who will listen. You 11_ put on paper a lot of your secret feelings when you find it 12_ difficult to talk about them. Once 13_ are in the diary it’s as 14_ you have dealt with them. They are over; you do 15_ have to deal with the pain 16_.
Date posted: September 6, 2018. Answers (1)
- Read the passage below which contains blank spaces that are numbered 1-16 and for each of the blank spaces fill the best fitting word
The future...(Solved)
Read the passage below which contains blank spaces that are numbered 1-16 and for each of the blank spaces fill the best fitting word
The future 1_ the remaining rhinos in Kenya is, 2_ looking brighter. It 3_ been proved 4_ well-patrolled and effectively 5_ sanctuaries provide 6_ protection for the rhino from its arch enemy, the 7_. Anti-poaching patrols alone are often 8_ to protect them in the wide open spaces from well organized gangs 9_ poachers with 10_ automatic weapons, who may spend several weeks in the bush hunting 11_ the last of the species. Let us 12_ that other tropical African countries may follow Kenya’s example in 13_ their rhinos and allowing 14_ to live and breed 15_ sanctuaries, for the benefit of 16_ generations.
Date posted: September 6, 2018. Answers (1)
- Read the passage below which contains blank spaces that are numbered 1-16 and for each of the blank spaces fill the best fitting word.
This is...(Solved)
Read the passage below which contains blank spaces that are numbered 1-16 and for each of the blank spaces fill the best fitting word.
This is 1_ doubt a dilemma for many parents. Coming up2_ a solution 3_ striking several compromises. If we choose to involve 4_ children in the family decision making process we 5_ the danger of being seen as weaklings 6_ cannot control our families. 7_, if we continue to 8_ our children’s freedom of expression we should be prepared to 9_ their respect. In this case, there 10_ be a never-ending cold war between parents and their children. In most cases it is the children who win in this 11_ war when, in 12_ teenage years, they grow too tired of 13_ by their parents and 14_ authority. They take 15_ drugs and general rioting as a 16_ of defying parental authority.
Date posted: September 6, 2018. Answers (1)
- Read the passage below which contains blank spaces that are numbered 1-16 and for each of the blank spaces fill the best fitting word.
Trouble came...(Solved)
Read the passage below which contains blank spaces that are numbered 1-16 and for each of the blank spaces fill the best fitting word.
Trouble came when I got the 1_ of sharing a house with a fellow who shared the same 2_ with me that cooking is not for real men. In 3_ circumstances, the house would go without a meal being cooked at all for such 4_ periods that the cockroaches in the house 5_ starve to death. 6_ I knew how to survive when things became 7_ bad. I would 8_ with lots of good reasons 9_ why we should be cooking more 10_ in the house until my housemate was convinced. I would 11_ cook the worst meal ever tasted on earth. 12_, he would 13_ cook for 14_ rest of the time 15_ I stayed 16_ him.
Date posted: September 6, 2018. Answers (1)
- Read the passage below which contains blank spaces that are numbered 1-16 and for each of the blank spaces fill the best fitting word ...(Solved)
Read the passage below which contains blank spaces that are numbered 1-16 and for each of the blank spaces fill the best fitting word I 1_my head to rest for the night, and 2_ I reflected on the happenings of the day, my heart felt heavy. I felt pinned down, backed up into a corner with no possibility of escape. As my mind 3_ to wander I 4_ not help listening to the strained voice of dad as he 5_ in yet another heated debate with mum over what I was sure was a 6_ matter. It 7_ longer bothered me as it was now a deep-set tradition. Squabbling, squabbling and 8_ squabbling. That 9_ all they ever seemed to do.
I 10_ about the romance novels I 11_ to read. 12_ all used to talk about13_, a happy life, a pleasant 14_, and a peaceable 15_. Was it all just fantasy, the 16_ of over imaginative mind? What about religion? It could not give much, I had already concluded.
1. Laid 2.as 3.began 4.could 5.engaged 6.trivial 7.no 8.more 9.was 10.thought 11.used 12.they 13.love 14.marriage 15.family 16.product.
Date posted: September 6, 2018. Answers (1)
- Read the passage below which contains blank spaces that are numbered 1-16 and for each of the blank spaces fill the best fitting word.
It is...(Solved)
Read the passage below which contains blank spaces that are numbered 1-16 and for each of the blank spaces fill the best fitting word.
It is 1_ for a team to win a game if it has 2_ prepared itself3_ for a competition. This is what4_ to our football team5_it went for6_ inter-schools’ competition7_term. It did not score8_goal, but9_ opponents scored five goals. As aresult10_ this shameful defeat, it has began11_for the next inter-schools’ competition,12_will take place next term. It,13_, hopes that14_ round it15_ 16_.
Date posted: September 6, 2018. Answers (1)
- Outline three importance of colon as a punctuation mark
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- Explain how the exclamation marks have been used in the below sentences:
i) Come here! ii) Hallelujah! Praise the Lord. (Solved)
Explain how the exclamation marks have been used in the below sentences:
i) Come here! ii) Hallelujah! Praise the Lord.
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- List three forms in which sentences can be illustrated.
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List three forms in which sentences can be illustrated.
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- Define the term compound sentence and give an example.
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- From the sentence below which words indicate the subject and object respectively?
Onyango caught a fish.
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From the sentence below which words indicate the subject and object respectively?
Onyango caught a fish.
Date posted: September 6, 2018. Answers (1)
- "What there is shall go to those who are good for it". Support this statement using Caucasian chalk circle (Solved)
"What there is shall go to those who are good for it". Support this statement using Caucasian chalk circle .
Date posted: August 28, 2018. Answers (1)
- Rewrite the following sentence as according to the instructions in the bracket without changing the meaning of the sentence. ...(Solved)
Rewrite the following sentence as according to the instructions in the bracket without changing the meaning of the sentence. A wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.(Begin:A foolish friend is ....)
Date posted: August 13, 2018. Answers (1)
- Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.
We are moving inexorably into the age of automation. Our aim is not to devise a...(Solved)
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.
We are moving inexorably into the age of automation. Our aim is not to devise a mechanism
which can perform a thousand different actions of any individual man but, on the contrary which
could by a single action replace a thousand men.
Industrial automation has moved along three lines. First there is the conveyor belt system of
continuous production whereby separate operations are linked into a single sequence. The goods
produced by this well-established method are untouched by the worker, and the machine replaces
both unskilled and semi-skilled. Secondly, there is automation with feedback control of the
quality of the product; here mechanisms are built into the system which can compare the output
with a norm, that is, the actual product with what it is supposed to be, and then correct any
shortcomings. The entire cycle of operations dispenses with human control except in so far as
monitors are concerned. One or two examples of this type of automation will illustrate its
immense possibilities. There is a factory in the USA which makes 1,000 million electric light
bulbs a year, and the factory employs three hundred people. If the pre-automation techniques
were to be employed, the labour force required would leap to 25, 000. A motor manufacturing
company with 45,000 spare parts regulates their entire supply entirely by computer. Computers
can be entrusted with most of the supervision of industrial installations, such as chemical plants
or oil refineries. Thirdly, there is computer automation, for banks, accounting departments,
insurance companies and the like. Here the essential features are the recording, storing, sorting
and retrieval of information.
The principal merit of modern computing machines is the achievement of their vastly greater
speed of operation by comparison with unaided human effort; a task which otherwise might take
years, if attempted at all, now takes days or hours.
One of the most urgent problems of industrial societies rapidly introducing automation is how to
fill the time that will be made free by machines which will take over the tasks of the workers.
The question is not simply of filling empty time but also of utilizing the surplus human energy
that will be released. We are already seeing straws in the wind: destructive outbursts on the part
of youth whose work no longer demands muscular strength. While automation will undoubtedly
do away with a large number of tedious jobs, are we sure that it will not put others which are
equally tedious in their place? For an enormous amount of sheer monitoring will be required. A
man in an automated plant may have to sit for hours on end watching dials and taking decisive
action when some signal informs him that all is not well. What meaning will his occupation bear
for the worker? How will he devote his free time after a four or five hour stint of labour?
Moreover, what, indeed, will be the significance for him of his leisure? If industry of the future
could be purged of its monotony and meaninglessness, man would then be better equipped to use
his leisure time constructively.
a) What is the main purpose of automation, according to the passage?
The main purpose of automation is to devise a mechanism which can by a single action replace a thousand men.
b) Explain why less men are required for the first type of industrial automation than in a manual
system?
This is because in the conveyor belt system there is continuous production whereby the operations are linked into a single sequence without the worker touching them. The machine replaces both unskilled and semi-skilled.
c) What is more sophisticated about the second industrial automation system than
the first?
The second industrial automation system has feedback control of the quality of the product, an inbuilt system which can compare the output with a norm (the actual product with what it is supposed to be, and then correct any shortcomings).
d) What is the main benefit of computing machines?
The main benefit of computing machines is the achievement of their vastly greater speed of operation compared to unaided human effort.
e) Comment on the biggest drawbacks of automation in industrial societies.
The biggest drawbacks of automation in industrial societies are: how to fill the time that will be made free by machines which will take over the tasks of the workers; another is how to utilize the surplus human energy that will be released; doing away with tedious jobs may unfortunately be replaced by others which are equally tedious (e.g. monitoring).
f) How would the sense be changed if the phrase “a single action” (lines 2-3) were replaced by “a
thousand actions”?
Undoubtedly, automation will do away with a large number of tedious jobs, but they will surely be replaced by others which are equally tedious.
g) What does the phrase “if attempted at all” refer to?
) The phrase refers to a task that may take a long time to achieve results without the assistance of the computer.
h) What does the author consider as important as “filling empty time”?
The writer considers the utilizing of the surplus human energy that will be released as important as filling empty time.
i) The three lines of industrial automation referred to by the author are:
• The conveyor belt system of continuous production
• The automation with feedback control of the quality of the product
• Computer automation for banks, accounting departments, etc
Date posted: July 25, 2018. Answers (1)
- Give the homophones for the following words: knows, weight, plum, colonel, thyme (Solved)
Type or copy and paste your question here..give the homophones for the following words:
knows
weight
plum
colonel
thyme
Date posted: July 24, 2018. Answers (1)
- Mary washed the house. (write in passive form)(Solved)
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Date posted: July 24, 2018. Answers (1)
- Indicate which word is the odd one out in terms of pronunciation.
i)Fear, phone, pill
ii)Drought, draught, draft
iii)Sue, sure, sugar
iv)Horn, house, honest.(Solved)
Indicate which word is the odd one out in terms of pronunciation.
i)Fear, phone, pill
ii)Drought, draught, draft
iii)Sue, sure, sugar
iv)Horn, house, honest.
Date posted: July 5, 2018. Answers (1)
- Read the following poem and answer the questions that follows.
Crows on the wing!
What grace as they swing,
Rising and diving,
Like a fish in the billow,
In the...(Solved)
Read the following poem and answer the questions that follows.
Crows on the wing!
What grace as they swing,
Rising and diving,
Like a fish in the billow,
In the willowy air,
Or soft as feathers
From broken pillows
Crows on the wing;
What a symphony sings
The wind in their wings
As they swoop and they rise
To the sea: to the skies:
As they float in the light
Air, like fragments of night.
i)Which words would you stress in the first two verses of the poem and why?
ii)How would you perform verse two of the poem.
Date posted: July 5, 2018. Answers (1)