What kind of a listener is Rehema? (4 mks)
Non-emphathetic (1 mark)
She is impatient
She is dismissive / selfish / impolite.
marto answered the question on April 4, 2019 at 13:17
- Give the silent letter in the following words. (4 mark)(Solved)
Give the silent letter in the following words. (4 mark)
i) Parliament -
ii) Rendezvous -
iii) Biscuits -
iv) Basically
Date posted: April 4, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the passage below and fill in each blank space with the most appropriate word(Solved)
Read the passage below and fill in each blank space with the most appropriate word.
More than 500 (1) _________________ including experts on curriculum from Kenya and further afield, met in Nairobi (2)
________________ other week with the question of the nation‟s (3) _______________ system on (4)________________ of the
agenda. It is right that the current system (5) ______________ was put in place over these decades ago to subjected to
exhaustive review.
The criticisms against the status que are numerous but the most important is that it (6) _____________crammily and role
learning and it does not inspire (7) ______________ thinking.
The world is a dynamic place and , to survive, one (8) ____________________to develop their facility for creativity and
adaptability. (9) ___________________ it is too early to know the prescriptions that emerged from the deliberations, the
proposals of a taskforce (10) ________________ by professor Douglas Othiambo after a good guide of the thinking among
educations.
Date posted: April 4, 2019. Answers (1)
- Fill in the blanks with the correct preposition (i) You must not lean ….. the wall during the assembly.(Solved)
Fill in the blanks with the correct preposition. (2 marks)
(i) You must not lean …………………….. the wall during the assembly.
(ii) Robbers broke ……………………. our house while we were away.
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- Explain the meaning of the following idiomatic expressions (i) A skeleton in the cupboard.(Solved)
Explain the meaning of the following idiomatic expressions. (2 marks)
(i) A skeleton in the cupboard.
(ii) Show one's teeth
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- Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given.(Solved)
Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given.
(i) If you have nothing more to contribute we will stop fundraising.
(Begin: Unless……………)
(ii) Only the head boy among the other prefects remained in the school.
(Begin: All……………...)
(iii) They had just entered the house. The shooting started.
(Join as one sentence beginning: Hardly…………)
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- Complete the sentences using the correct form of the word in brackets (i) In summary writing, you should observe both accuracy and..(Solved)
Complete the sentences using the correct form of the word in brackets. (3 marks)
(i) In summary writing, you should observe both accuracy and ……………………….. (brief)
(ii) That we cannot add one and one is ……………………… (conceive)
(iii) Phil Collins is a famous ……………. all over the world. (piano
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- Arrange the adjectives in the following sentences in their correct order. (Solved)
Arrange the adjectives in the following sentences in their correct order. (3 marks)
(i) I hate blue toilet big ugly flies.
(ii) They found gold handsome round Swiss old watches.
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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.
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- Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow. You may think that expecting food to change your life is too much to ask(Solved)
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
You may think that expecting food to change your life is too much to ask. But have you considered that eating the right food at the right time will increase energy, help you manage weight and ward off major illness?
Researchers have found that eating a meal with plenty of protein leaves you feeling more satisfied for longer when compared to a meal loaded with low-quality carbohydrates. Your body takes longer to digest protein, leading to a gradual increase in blood sugar. The high protein breakfast will therefore carry you through the morning and more importantly, through your tea break. Many high carbohydrate meals are absorbed quickly and send blood sugar on a roller coaster ride, taking your appetite with it and depleting your energy.
Many foods contain antioxidants, but fruits and vegetables may be the richest source. Behaving like chemical warriors,
antioxidants neutralize molecules known as free radicals before they damage arteries and body cells. This protects you from heart diseases, high blood pressure, cancer and diabetes. You can now see why antioxidant foods should be consumed in generous portions.
Actually, forget pills - antioxidants work best when consumed in foods. In fact, nutritionists recommend that we eat five
portions of fruit and vegetables a day. It's less daunting than it sounds: a portion equals a piece of fruit, three tablespoons of cooked vegetables or a glass of fresh juice.
And do you desire to relive yourself of some baggage? Calcium is the latest weight-loss star to appear on the scene.
Scientists stumbled on its magic by accident. From study that measured the blood pressure of obese people, it was discovered that those who took one large tub of yoghurt a day in their diet lost an average of eleven pounds of body fat in one year, even though they did not eat less.
A follow-up study found that people on a high calcium diet lost weight and fat than did people on a low-calcium diet - and again, both consumed the same number of calories. Researchers believe calcium encourages fat cells to stop “getting fatter” instead, the cells burn extra fat without you having to go anywhere near a gymnasium.
It probably sounds strange to say that you can cat more in order to lose weight. Obviously, the question you should ask
immediately is, “Eat more of what?' We are talking about foods rich in fibre. They have what is referred to as low-energy density; that translates to few calories relative to weight. This means that you can down a mountain without fear of calories overload.
Fibre also aids weight loss because it's filling. Most high-fibre foods take a lot of chewing, triggering your body?s fullness sensors. Moreover, you absorb the food more slowly so you feel full longer.
Will the wonders of food ever cease? Not if researchers in nutrition keep their pace.
Let them keep the good news flowing - such as the fact that we don't have to starve ourselves to lose weight and keep diseases at bay.
((Adapted from Reader's Digest, January 2004)
(a) From the information given in the first paragraph, how can you improve your life? (1 mark)
(b) In not more than 35 words, summarize the effects of eating carbohydrates. (4 marks)
(c) Explain how free radicals contribute to the occurrence of high blood pressure and cancer. (2 marks)
(d) In what two forms can antioxidants be consumed? (2 marks)
(e) In fact, nutritionists recommend that we eat five portions of fruit and vegetable a day. Rewrite this statement as a question.
(1 mark)
(f) What is the attitude of the author towards calcium as a weight-cutting measure? (3 marks
(g) According to the passage, how can you use up excess fat? (2 marks)
(h) Identify an instance of irony in the passage. (2 marks)
(i) Explain the meaning of the following expressions as used in the passage. (3 marks)
(a) Daunting
(b) Baggage
(c) Down a mountain
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- Provide another word that will form minimal pairs for the following words(Solved)
Provide another word that will form minimal pairs for the following words
(i) Not ………………………………………………….
(ii) Play ………………………………………………….
(iii) Rips .........................
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- Identify the word with the odd sound from the following sets of words. (5 marks)(Solved)
Identify the word with the odd sound from the following sets of words. (5 marks)
(i) Pooh poop pool poor
(ii) Tortoise boy join ploy
(iii) Scuttle scythe scullery sculpture ……………………….
(iv) Gingivitis gigolo gist gender ……………………….
(v) Cannibal caesura calcium cachet
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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.
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- 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?
Date posted: April 4, 2019. Answers (1)
- 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.
Date posted: April 3, 2019. Answers (1)