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- Fill in the blank with the correct preposition(Solved)
Fill in the blank with the correct preposition
Our school is equi-distant _______________ the two shopping cent res.
Date posted: April 4, 2019. Answers (1)
- Explain the difference in meaning between the following pairs of sentences.(Solved)
Explain the difference in meaning between the following pairs of sentences. (2 marks)
(i) Mutunga has ten-day-old puppies in this kennel.
(ii) Mutunga has ten day-old puppies in this kennel.
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- Add a suitable prefix to the underlined words.(Solved)
Add a suitable prefix to the underlined words. (3 marks)
(i) After the terrorists were arrested by the KDF, they were armed.
(ii) A few students could spell the synonym.
(iii) We all felt that the coach was perfect
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- Fill in the gaps below with words to complete the idiomatic expressions used.(Solved)
Fill in the gaps below with words to complete the idiomatic expressions used. (3 marks)
(i) Sheila _______________ caution to the wind for she got pregnant.
(ii) We were told to clear the ___________________ in relation to the missing money.
(iii) Ask me about it. There is no ____________________ lost between them, that is why they cannot cope.
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- Complete the following with an appropriate quantifier from the list given below.(Solved)
Complete the following with an appropriate quantifier from the list given below.
(i) As the drought intensified, the school cow produced ________________________ milk.
(ii) Since the game is quite risky, ____________________ students participate in it.
(iii) Don't worry , _______________________ paraffin will push you till mid-night.
(some, any, little, a few, a little, few)
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- Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given after each.(Solved)
Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given after each.
(i) Kenya was privileged to receive two foreign dignitaries in 2015. (begin: It was….)
(ii) She is proud, but she must still obey her boss order. (Begin: Proud….)
(iii) Many students attended the seminar. They were from all over Mbooni sub - county. (Combine into one sentence using a relative pronoun)
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- Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow: May the proceedings of this tribunal begin and may God save the King....(Solved)
Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow.
'May the proceedings of this tribunal begin and may God save the King.' intoned the DO. The twins looked at him with
interest. He was actually white - not cloud white, but an indefinable translucent co lour with spots of red on the cheeks, the ears and the tip of his long nose. His hair was an amazing yellow and wonder of wonders hid eyes were blue. Nevertheless he was human and spoke with a human if strange voice - rather resonant with an unusual timbre, somewhat harsh to the ear. 'Great chief. I am a widow. My husband was the chief of Sakwa. We had two sons. The first one who would have been chief died in the big war of the white people. His brother also died accidentally soon after taking over the chief's stool. He left one child, a son who is but a toddler. For this reason my late husband's brother has taken over the chief's stool supposedly in custody for my grandson. However it has become clear that he has no intention of relinquishing that seat; what is more he has grabbed all his brother?s wealth and is now at war with me, trying to grab my own personal wealth as well. He feels that being a woman I deserve nothing. Now if this is allowed to happen, what will my grandson use to pay the bride price and reclaim the chief?s stool? May Were, God of the rising sun (the interpreter translated that simply as God) give his wisdom to you so that you can decide this matter fairly. Thank you.' She sat down.
The DO was lost in thought for a few minutes. He had lived in this part of the country since the end of the war and he was well aware how deeply these people were steeped in their tradition - they called it Chik. Chik governed every aspect of the life of the people. It was the glue which held the people together, thus preventing disintegration of the fabric of society and chaos. Without Chik to tell each person where he fitted in the exact order of things, where he came from and where he could expect to go, there would be confusion and apprehension. Very few rebelled and were outcast, cut off from the people like a branch from a tree. The majority were glad to avail themselves of the surety it offered; to do and to be done by.
According to Chik the brother should have married his brother's widow and become guardian of the grandson and custodian not owner of the chief's stool. Animosity must run very deep in that family for this not to have been done. He cleared his throat and spoke.
'This is a very deep and serious matter which cannot be decided in one sitting. May a team be dispatched to the village to further investigate this matter. Then the woman may bring her appeal in three months to the visiting District Commissioner. Next case.'
Akoko and her nephews left the tribunal and went back to their benefactor's home. They discussed the DO's decision. 'You mean there is a bigger white chief than this diyo?' Odongo asked.
'Looks like it,' replied the twins.
'Don't you think he should have decided? Aunts case is after all so clear.' 'May be he should have taken a longer time to think.'
'He probably does not understand the way of Chik. After all he is white.'
'My sons,” said Akoko. 'Do not decide the wisdom of a man by the brevity of his quiet or the multitude of his words. It is only a wise man who can decide quickly that he doesn't know and needs to seek more knowledge. A fool knows everything. It is only a wise man who does not hide his folly behind many words. I think this Diyo will help me
a. What had happened before this extract? (3 marks)
b. What did the boys find wondrous about the DO? (1 mark)
c. In note form outline the traditional practices of the community in this excerpt. (5 marks)
d. Apart from traditions which other three themes are evident in this excerpt? (6 marks)
e. Identify and illustrate two stylistic devices employed in this extract. (4 marks)
f. Akoko tells her nephews that she thinks this,Diyo, will help her. How does this happen later in the story. (4 marks)
g. I think this Diyo will help me.
(Rewrite the sentence and add a question tag) (1 mark)
h. What is the name of the benefactor mentioned in the extract?
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- Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow: Calls to improve education most frequently.....(Solved)
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
Calls to improve education most frequently circulate around the need for better prepared teachers, improved governance, expanded infrastructure and a relevant curriculum. Changes in these areas take time; investments in them are not easily quantifiable, and may reduce the financial attraction of the private sector.
Textbooks, meanwhile, are rarely discussed as an investment, yet they are one of the most effective ways to improve students? learning. For the private sector in particular, they provide a straightforward and effective way to invest in education and see tangible results.
And there is real pressing need for this investment. A new paper by the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report at Unesco shows that cutting through debates about the quality of textbooks is a fundamental problem: millions of children simply do not have access to such materials at all. In Kenya, as in many other sub-Saharan Africa, textbooks are becoming less accessible over time, rather than the reverse.
Without textbooks, children end up spending too many of their school hours copying content from the blackboard, which severely reduces time for engaged learning. In 22 sub-Saharan African countries, providing one textbook to every student in a classroom increased literacy scores by up to 20 percent. While the buck should stop with governments, they are currently not investing enough in textbooks. In 2012, in 36 countries with data, governments were spending less than 2 per cent of primary education budgets on teaching and learning materials on average, far less than the 3-5 percent target recommended by the World Bank.
The result is that parents are often left holding the burden; they are forced to cover the cost of learning materials for their children. For the poorest children, this creates a vicious cycle: parents have precious few funds for textbooks, serving as an additional barrier to learning.
Getting a textbook to each and every child is not as easy as it sounds. There are several steps to its production, including the development, procurement, distribution and storage, all of which have their own complications, including corruption and transport issues.
With so many parties involved in such a long process, the predictability of financing improves the chances that each child will possess a textbook. Unfortunately, it is precisely this predictability that is lacking in many low-income countries. Consider the situation in Africa where many countries have shifted towards decentralized textbook supply systems and away from ministries of Education deciding how many books each school should receive.
In practice, this has led to schools buying different combinations of textbooks for the same subjects and grades. The result is neither cost-effective nor practical in providing uniformity across schools. At the school level, the capacity to effectively forecast the demand for textbooks and other teaching and learning materials remains tenuous.
This is why our paper has investigated the benefits of shifting to a nationally centralized textbook system, which would pool demand for textbooks and ensure long-term and predictable financing. According to our estimates, this could take upto $3 off the price of each book, saving almost $1 billion in sub-Saharan Africa alone. Kenya could save $64 million from its textbook bill.
Pooling and forecasting demand in this way would open the door for innovative financing that could present smart investments for the private sector. A similar approach has been used by the health sector to finance vaccines through the
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
Questions
a. Why would the private sector find it less attractive to make financial investment in education? (2 marks)
b. Why are textbooks of great interest to the private sector? (2 marks)
c. What evidence do we have that governments are not keen on providing enough textbooks? (1 marks)
d. According to the writer, what is the best way forward to cater for demand and costs of textbooks? (2 marks)
e. What is the writer?s attitude towards parents in sub-Saharan Africa? (3 marks)
f. In not more than forty words, give examples of factual information that has been provided by the writer. (4 marks)
g. What do you find ironical in the above passage? (2 marks)
h. Getting a textbook to each and every child is not as easy as it sounds. (Rewrite this sentence using the phrase ,easier said
than done') (1 mark)
i. Give the meaning of the following words and phrases as used in the passage. (3 marks)
-Paper
-The buck should stop
-Tenuous
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- Fill the gaps below with the most appropriate words to complete the cloze test.Such was the picture of Bengal's economy at this crisis of its...(Solved)
Fill the gaps below with the most appropriate words to complete the cloze test.
Such was the picture of Bengal's economy at this crisis of its life. Rahoul knew. There was the colossus of authority, cold and inhuman,........1…. steer the stricken people..... 2..... the hunger with the aid of its fawning puppets. The administration was leprous with corruption from the neck to heel.
Corruption had grown like an epidemic. Money had become a mad hunger, flowing...... 3....great swollen streams. It made private lakes for the rich, who grew vastly richer while the poor grew proportionately poorer. Never in the land's history had the process that made the rich richer, and the poor poorer gained......4....ruthless intensity.
Destitute humanity poured....... 5....the rich city in terms of thousands Misery's overflow from the countryside. What impenetrable distress overwhelmed their homes........6..... No one knew the full details. A minister of His Excellency of Bengal had suggested that rural food stock and the people's needs should be officially.......7.....but His Excellency had scrapped the idea.....8...a waste of time.......9.......it would not help the war effort. His Excellency, who bit into the people's bread and their life, smug in the comfort of his mental sanctuary, was also a symbolic shaped, mused Rahoul. Pencil in hand, he........10....lines on the blotting-pad, making that symbolic shape.
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- Complete the cloze test below with the most appropriate word. Officially, alcoholism is a dependence......1....alcohol to such an extent that it shows noticeable interference with.......2.....or...(Solved)
Complete the cloze test below with the most appropriate word.
Officially, alcoholism is a dependence......1....alcohol to such an extent that it shows noticeable interference with.......2.....or mental health, interpersonal relations and satisfactory social and economic functioning.
After HIV/AIDS, heart disease and cancer, alcoholism is the next largest cause of death......3.......those between the ages of twenty five and fifty-five. In Kenya alone, the number of......4.....has increased to alarming proportions.
Usually a progressive disease, alcoholism moves......5....from overdrinking to chronic and uncontrolled....... 6.....affecting the liver, heart and nervous systems of its victims, often isolating them.....7....the society. As one anthropologist, says, "The alcoholic is someone for whom alcohol is both irresistible and progressively poisonous." To counteract these effects, much private and public money, time and attention..... 8..….been given to discovering possible issues, to finding ways to check this almost certain slide......9.....destruction. As a result, many ways of treating this condition.......10..….devised, some less successfully than others, none perfect. Among the least successfully ways of treating alcoholics are some of the standard reactions of those around the alcoholic.
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- Complete the cloze test below with an appropriate word.
Parents who abuse their children......1.....generally been found to exhibit one of four...... 2....of personality characteristics. First of...(Solved)
Complete the cloze test below with an appropriate word.
Parents who abuse their children......1.....generally been found to exhibit one of four...... 2....of personality characteristics. First of all, abusive parents often exhibit hostility and aggressiveness........3.......other people besides their children. Always angry......4.....something or at someone, these people are plagued by internal conflict that blow ordinary problems out of proportion. Second, abusive, abusive parents.......5....rigid and compulsive, laking warmth, reasonableness, and flexibility.........6.....their thinking and beliefs. Often displaying this set of personality characteristics are the compulsive house cleaners who fly off the handle when a child makes a mess or interrupt routine. ............7...., parents with strong feelings.....8.....passivity and dependence can also be child abusers. Sad, moody, and immature, they are ill-equipped for parenthood and.......9......pressure. Finally, fathers who cannot support their families and who are plagued with feelings of.......10.......and ineptness may see their children as the source of their difficulties and take out their frustrations on the helpless victims.
Date posted: April 3, 2019. Answers (1)
- You are the president of the students council in your school. You are supposed to give a speech on students
leadership during Prize Giving Day to...(Solved)
You are the president of the students council in your school. You are supposed to give a speech on students
leadership during Prize Giving Day to be held in your school.
(i) What preparations would you make to ensure that your speech is a success?
(ii) What would you do during the actual speech delivery in order to be understood properly?
Date posted: April 3, 2019. Answers (1)
- Identify and explain two situations in which it would be courteous for you to maintain a respectable distance as you interact
with people(Solved)
Identify and explain two situations in which it would be courteous for you to maintain a respectable distance as you interact
with people.
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- Complete the list below by getting another word pronounced in the same way as the ones below(Solved)
Complete the list below by getting another word pronounced in the same way as the ones below
i) Pair, pear, _________.
ii) _____________, sent, cent.
iii) Write, __________ , right.
iv) ___________, chord
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- Read the following poem then answer the questions that follow(Solved)
Read the following poem then answer the questions that follow:-
A song in springs
O little buds all burgeoning with spring
You hold my winter in forgetfulness
Without my window like branches swing
Within my gate I hear a robin sing
O little laughing blooms that lift and bless!
So blow the breezes in a soft caress
Blowing my dreams upon swallows wing;
O little merry buds in dappled dress
You fill my heart with very wantonness
Oh little buds all burgeoning with spring.
By Thomas S. Jones Jr.
Questions
a. Explain what makes this poem an oral poem? (2 marks)
b. How has rhythm been achieved in this poem? (2 marks)
c. How would you perform the last two lines in this poem?
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- Read the passage below and fill in each blank space with an appropriate word(Solved)
Read the passage below and fill in each blank space with an appropriate word
Abortion is the (1)…………………….of pregnancy by the expulsion of a foetus or embryo (2)………………… the uterus. An
(3)………………………..can occur spontaneously due to (4) ………………………..during pregnancy; or can be
induced. (5) …………………………. abortion induced to preserve the health of the mother is termed as therapeutic
abortion, while (6)…………………………. induced for any (7) ………………….. reason is termed as elective
abortion.
From time (8) ………………………………, abortion has been induced by various methods including the use of sharp tools and
other traditional methods. Currently, abortion is (9)……………………in Kenya except if performed to save the (10)
…………………………… of the mother.
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- You are a student of Ushindi High School. Your class has just finished reading „The Caucasian Chalk Circle? by Bertolt
Bretch. They would like to perform...(Solved)
You are a student of Ushindi High School. Your class has just finished reading „The Caucasian Chalk Circle‟ by Bertolt
Bretch. They would like to perform the play at your School Hall.
a) Write a book review of the play. (12 marks)
b) Write an E-mail to the Principal seeking permission to stage the performance. (8 marks)
Date posted: April 3, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.
Over the years man has cultivated to exhaustion the better soils in the plains. This has led to progressive destruction of land to the point where some of the steeper hills slopes are cultivated so that widespread erosion has been initiated. Meanwhile, the livestock are continuously being forced on to smaller areas of poorer land and further up the hill slopes where they have to compare with foresters. As a result the quantities of animals proteins, so necessary to human health, have steadily declined. Surprisingly, instead of accepting the responsibility for all his destruction, man blames livestock and in particular the goat.
Man has repeatedly failed to do anything to restore the fertility of the soils he has ravaged. After the last miserable crop has been harvested the land has been left to weeds. No attempts has been made to plant grass or to under plant the last agricultural crop with fodder species. Had this been done rehabilitation would have been quicker and sure and erosion would have been reduced. Thus the gradually worsening situation would be arrested.
If man would shoulder the responsibility for his own greedy misuse of the land, the goat could easily carry the blame for its own much smaller share in this degradation. Unfortunately, because human nature is what it is, man will find something to blame for his own carelessness. The goat has been chosen to carry this blame largely because it is the last animal to be seen wrestling a precarious living from the areas where man has done his worst and from which cattle and sheep have long since been forced to move Conservation of land depends on proper planning. Livestock numbers therefore, irrespective of species, should be strictly limited to a density which will permit pasture renewal instead of causing its degeneration. This adjustment of numbers should help man to have a balanced mixture of livestock.
Many writers in recent years have tried to show that there has been considerable improvement in mountain grazing areas after the banishment of the goat. Most, however, fail to indicate to what extent this has been due solely to the removal of the goat or to a reduction in other livestock densities or other measures such as erosion control, terracing the building of gabions and grass plan planting. It is essential to ensure that results which are obtained in one environment are not automatically applied to a different one
Questions
(a) Sum up the authors argument in one sentence (2 mks)
(b) In paragraph two, what two words show that the land has not been very productive? (2 mks)
(c) Is man ready to shoulder responsibility for misuse of land? Give reasons for your answer (2 mks)
(d) “Conservation of land depends on proper planning”. Rewrite this sentence beginning, “Proper planning………..” (2 mks)
(e) “Thus the gradually worsening situation would be arrested,” (Add a question tag)
(1mk)
(f) Make notes on factors that has lead to destruction of land (3 mks)
(g) Give the meaning of the following words and phrase as used in the passage(5 mks)
i. Initiated
ii. Miserable
iii. Banishment of the goat
iv. Precarious
v. Degradation
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- Read the passage below and fill in each blank space with an appropriate word.(Solved)
Read the passage below and fill in each blank space with an appropriate word.
The road ______ 1_______ the formation of the proposed grand coalition that helped to ________2______ ethnic tension in the country was not easy, President Kibaki _____3_______ yesterday The head of state said that there were _____4_____ he thought that nothing close ______5_______ the deal reached ______6______ himself and ODM leader Raila Odinga could be realized.
Giving a first hint_______7_______ the tribulations that bedeviled his administration after the _____8_____ presidential polls, the president said never again _______9_____ the country allow itself to sink that low.
He was speaking ______10______ the burial of retired Machakos Catholic bishop in Machakos.
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- You are the student who excelled in the K.C.S.E examination in your former school last year. The principal has requested you to prepare a speech...(Solved)
You are the student who excelled in the K.C.S.E examination in your former school last year. The principal has requested you to prepare a speech on 'time management' Which you will deliver to the students during the school prize giving day.
Write the speech
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