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- Use the correct preposition to fill the blanks.(Solved)
Use the correct preposition to fill the blanks.
(i) I am indebted ______________ him for the help he gave me.
(ii) She has always confided ______ him.
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- Use the correct form of the word in brackets to fill in the blanks.(Solved)
Use the correct form of the word in brackets to fill in the blanks.
(i) His __________ (deceive) cost him his life.
(ii) The dog barked __________ to the stranger. (menace)
(iii) The ______ between Kameno and Makuyu is damaging. (enemy)
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- Read the extract below from DOLL’S HOUSE and answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the extract below from DOLL’S HOUSE and answer the questions that follow.
Mrs. Linde: Still I think the sick are those who most need taking care of.
Rank: (shrugging his shoulders) Yes, there you are. That is the sentiment that is turning Society into a sick-house. (NORA, who has been absorbed in her thoughts, breaks out into smothered laugher and claps her hands).
Rank: Why do you laugh at that? Have you any notion what Society really is?
Nora: 'What do I care about tiresome Society? I am laughing at something quite different, something extremely amusing. Tell
me, Doctor Rank, are all the people who are employed in the Bank dependent on Torvald now?
Rank: Is that what you find so extremely amusing?
Nora: (smiling and humming) That's my affair! (walking about the room) It's perfectly glorious to think that we have — that Torvald has so much power over so many people. (takes the packet in her pocket) Doctor Rank, what do you say to a macaroon?
Rank: What, macaroons? I thought they were forbidden here.
Nora: Yes, but these are some Christine gave me.
Mrs. Linde: What! I ?-
Nora: Oh, well, don't be ashamed! You couldn't know that Torvald had forbidden them. I must tell you that he is afraid they will spoil my teeth. But, bah! — once in a way —That's so, isn't it, Doctor Rank? By your leave! (Puts a macaroon into her mouth)
You must have one too, Christine. And I shall have one, just a little one — or at most two. (walking about) I am tremendously happy. There is just one thing in the world now that I should dearly love to do.
Rank: Well, what is that?
Nora: It's something I should dearly love to say. If Torvald could hear me.
Rank: Well, why can't you say it?
Nora: No, I daren't; it is so shocking.
Mrs. Linde: Shocking?
Rank: Well, I should not dvise you to say it. Still, with us you might. What is ti you would so much like to say if Torvald could hear you?
Nora: I should just love to say— Well, I'm dammed!
Rank: Are you mad?
Mrs. Linde: Nora, dear- !
Rank: Say it, here he is! Nora (hiding her packet) Hush! Hush! Hush! ) HELMER comes out of his room, with his coat over his arm and his hat in his hand.)
Nora: Well, Torvald dear, have you got rid of him?
Helmer: Yes, he has just gone.
Nora: Let me introduce you — this is Christine, who has come to town.
Helmer: Christine - ? Excuse me, but I don't know — Of course. School friends of my wife's I presume?
Mrs. Linde: Yes, we have known each other since then.
Nora: And just think, she has taken a long journey in order to see you.
Helmer: What do you mean? Mrs. Linde. No, really, I—
Nora: And when she heard you had been appointed manager of the Bank — she travelled here as quick as she could Torvald, I am sure you will be able to do something for Christine, for my sake, won't you?
Questions
a) Why does Mrs. Linde feel that those who are sick need taking care of?
b) Identify use of symbolism in the excerpt.
c) Give Nora's traits brought out in the excerpt.
d) What amuses Nora when she finds out that Helmer has so much power over many people? Explain
e) What is it that Nora would dearly love to say?
f) Hush! Hush! Hush! Identify the style used here.
g) What happens immediately after the excerpt?
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- Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given after each.
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Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given after each.
(a) The career market is full of many opportunities. (Begin: There ..............)
(b) The waste of time and resources would have been avoided if they had considered a career that did not require the ability to handle Mathematics and Physics well. (Begin: If ............)
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- Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.
Choosing a career
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Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.
Choosing a career
The career market is full of opportunities. Gone are the days when we had ‘either…. or’ career choices. The time when women, for example, choose between only nursing, teaching and secretarial work are long gone. The explosion in communication technology, and the liberalization and globalization of the world economy has ensured that there is no longer a dearth of career choice. Today,
colleges and universities offer a wide range of training opportunities to high school graduates. This has made choosing a care an involving process. It has also given rise to the need for career counseling.
When choosing a career, whether you have the help of a career counsellor or not, there are several factors that you should consider. These include your abilities or talents, your interests, your priorities, and the available opportunities in the job market.
The skills required in a particular career and the ability to gain them through education must be considered when choosing careers. Becoming a doctor, for instance, requires extensive education and training, and many years of educational commitment. In addition to the compulsory subjects, the academic background required for this career is good grades in Chemistry and Biology at secondary school level. If your ability in these subjects is just average, you would be overstretching your luck to enroll for a Bachelor of Medicine degree course. In the past, students have chosen to pursue training in engineering, even when their ability to handle Physics and Mathematics was low. This, in many cases, has made them drop out of the class mid-course. The waste of time and resources would have been avoided if they had considered a career that did not require the ability to handle Mathematics and Physics well.
There are times when people have been driven to choose a particular career because of the salary and prestige associated with jobs in that field. At times, the desire to take certain courses comes from within the individual, but most times, individuals feel pressured by peers or family to take certain courses. Joining a career in which you have no interest is a recipe for a dull life since you will spend most of your working hours doing something you do not like. Your career does not necessarily have to be your passion, but it should not bore you to death either. You can work out your interests by identifying the subjects you enjoy most at school, or the topics that are of interest to you and for which you take the initiative to read on your own.
It is true that many young people are attracted move by the social mobility that the job might provide than by their interest in the career. However, big role in job satisfaction as many people think. Of course we all have to make a living, but if you do not like your job, it does not matter how much you get paid to do it. What does matter is how well a career choice matches your values. If you value variety, collaboration, and creativity, for example, you would not find job satisfaction in a career where you are working alone and doing the same thing every day.
The availability of jobs in a particular field should also be a factor in choosing a career. This should be considered alongside the skills and education sought in a given field. Most times, highly competitive field require more education but may not pay well. When there are more applicants for a particular position, unique personality traits become an added benefit. However, in fields where there are fewer applicants than the positions available, the pay may be more and the job may require less education
Nevertheless, one should be discouraged by the scarcity of employment positions because institutions of higher learning now emphasize that they are not simply training people to get out and look for jobs. They are training people to get out and create jobs. Therefore, the availability of job opportunities is not necessarily limited to presence of employers. It also encompasses opportunities for self-employment which everyone is free to explore.
1. What has ensured that there is no longer a dearth of career choice
2. What has created the necessity for career counseling?
3. Why is one’s ability an important factor in career choice.
4. According to the passage, which career should a person who values variety choose?
5. Make notes on factors to consider when choosing a career?
6. What drives people to choose a particular career?
7. What evidence is given in the passage to support the statement ‘money does not play as a big role in job
satisfaction’?
8. Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the passage? (4 marks)
(a) Dearth
(b) Social mobility
(c) Liberalization
(d) Collaboration
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- Add a question tag to the following statements.(Solved)
Add a question tag to the following statements.
a. Let us help the sick
b. You will wait for them here
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- Fill in the spaces with the correct form of word in the brackets.(Solved)
Fill in the spaces with the correct form of word in the brackets.
a. No single female candidate won the ___________________________ seat in the election (governor)
b. _______ has not returned to the country yet.(normal)
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- Fill in the blank with the most suitable prepositions.(Solved)
Fill in the blank with the most suitable prepositions.
a. John is fond __________________________________ his daughter.
b. He is very bossy. He loves ordering people_______________________________
c. She inherited the house ........................ her grandmother.
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- Rewrite the following sentences as instructed.
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Rewrite the following sentences as instructed.
i. He understood why people had been laughing after he realized the ugliness of his headgear. (Rewrite using present participle)
ii. Malenge did not bother to campaign .he was convinced that he was the students’ favorite for the post of a school captain. (Rewrite using Past Participle)
iii. I have been studying in this school complained the student but I have never scored a hundred percent in any subject. (Punctuate correctly)
iv. The watchman spotted the student sneaking from school(Rewrite to remove the gender bias)
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- Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
One of the oldest forms of recreation known to human kind, sports are the one arena in which many of the society’s
traditional strictures about masculinity are often loosened ,allowing boys to experience parts of themselves they reared experience elsewhere. At their best, sports provide boys with an opportunity for play in a free atmosphere so that they can be themselves and express a full range of emotions-from the exhilaration of a last minute goal to the acute disappointment of being defeated by the opposing team, from the joy of being the one to pull of unexpected play to the embarrassment of fumbling the ball in the last quarter of the game
Sports provide boys with the theater for the unfettered expressions of their feelings, a place where it is OK to be spirited, a motive and passionate. As twelve- year- old Max told me,”During school we have to be quiet, and raise our hands to talk. It is boring and sometimes I feel like there is nobody to talk to. I love doing sports after school because we can all be
together. We to run fast, shout out things, scream, whatever. It lets me be me.”
For many boys, sports can be a form of intimacy and a way to be honest. By temporarily freeing boys from the Boy Code — especially from the rules that say boys shouldn’t express feelings, show, and affection or expose their yarning for connection -sports can become one of the most important activities through which our sons, as their genuine selves, can relate closely with girls and other boys.
But just as much as they can offer a break from the Boy Code, a chance for openness, expressions and intimacy, sports can also push back loneliness, shame and vicious competition. “It’s rough out there” one high school football player recently told me. “Some guys play hard just the way they should. But other guys just seem like they are out to get you-you know, they try to demolish you”. Thus sports can also be a place where boys show unbridled aggression, let out inappropriate feelings of anger and frustrations, and actually hurt other boys.
And then sports can thrust boys into a cult of competition, the goal of winning at any cost, a quest for narcissistic glory at the expense of others. They cause some boys- especially those who are not interested in sports or who are not skilled at playing them —to feel left out unworthy, a shamed.
I firmly believe that the positive benefits to boys dim when sports cease to be play. D.W. Winnicott, to distinguished English pyschoanalist observed that for children, play is at the heart of health integrated development. His words were especially pertinent to boys whole inner selves are too often suppressed. “Playing shows that the child is capable of developing a personal way of life and eventually becoming a whole being... welcomed by the world at large.”
Sheer competition among ooysreareiyouna character and does little to bring boys closer to one another.
But sports, when they are played, can be a tremendously good thing for boys. The late commissioner of baseball and Renaissance scholar Giamatti A.BatletGiamati spoke of sports as, “that aspiration out of the self-for a moment in touch-with a joy free of all constraints. It is a sensation not of winning, but of fully playing “. When sports are kept in proper perspective — when we see sports primarily as a chance for boys come together for joyful, spirited high energy play-they can help boys discover new competencies, buttress their feelings of self-worth and reunite them with their authentic voices, enabling them to express the deepest stirrings of emotions in their hearts, widening their cycles of connection.
QUESTIONS.
1. In your own words, write the point that the author makes in the first sentence of this passage.
2. What is Max’s attitude towards school?
Re write the following sentences following the instructions given after each. Do not change the
meaning.
(a) Some guys play hard just the way they should,” said the student. (Rewrite in reported speech)
(b) During school we have to be quiet .(Add a question tag)
4. When do sports cease to be play according to the author?
5. What do you think the author means by Boy Code?
6. In not more than sixty words, summarize the disadvantages of sports as portrayed in the
passage
Rough Copy
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Fair Copy
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7.Give the meaning of the following words as used in the passage
(a) Unfettered
(b) Pertinent
(c) Buttress
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- Add question tags to the following statements. (Solved)
Add question tags to the following statements.
(i) William is such a talented guitarist.________________________________________
(ii) Mwombe dared the mob to attack him. _____________________________________
(iii) Let’s respond to the distress call. __________________________________________
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- For each of the following sentences, write the tense of the verb in brackets according to the instruction given.
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For each of the following sentences, write the tense of the verb in brackets according to the instruction given.
(i) The canoe ends (taper) to make the craft glide through the marsh.
(Present continuous tense)
(ii) The plants, called blushes, (provide) both new and replacement coverings for summer
lodges. (Future tense)
(iii) The Kalispel women (follow) this way of life for many years. (Past tense)
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- In the following sentences, insert the word in brackets into the correct position.(Solved)
In the following sentences, insert the word in brackets into the correct position.
i) They had a political argument. (absurd)
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ii)(ii) She sold her house. (comfortable, wooden)
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- Rewrite the following sentences using the words in brackets.
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Rewrite the following sentences using the words in brackets.
(i) We will give the winner a prize. (whoever)
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(ii) “Goodness always conquers evil,” is my favourite life saying. (me)
..............................................
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Choose the correct form of words in brackets to complete each of the sentences below.
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Choose the correct form of words in brackets to complete each of the sentences below.
(i) Who broke the handle (off, of) this cup?
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(ii) Choose (among, between) these sick.
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- Use the comparative form of the word in brackets at the end of each sentence to fill the blank space correctly.
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Use the comparative form of the word in brackets at the end of each sentence to fill the blank space correctly.
i) Grace could not have been _________________ about our plans. (happy)
(ii) The cake has a ______________ flavor than the one you made last week. (rich)
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- Join the following sentences into the passive voice . ...(Solved)
Join the following sentences into the passive voice .
i) The farmer breeds such many animals
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ii) The police are seeking the criminals .................................................
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- Rewrite the following sentences supplying appropriate question tags . ...(Solved)
Rewrite the following sentences supplying appropriate question tags
i) Let us go away ...................................
ii) You can’t be serious about going to the party this late.........................
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- Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences with appropriate prepositions .(Solved)
Fill in the blank spaces in the following sentences with appropriate prepositions.
i) We prohibited …………………….. parking our bicycles at the gate.
ii) The carcass weighed …………………. five hundred kilograms
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- Rewrite the following sentences following the instructions given without changing the meaning. ...(Solved)
Rewrite the following sentences following the instructions given without changing the meaning.
i) Joshua would not fail his exams under any circumstances. Begin: Under no.......
ii) The students had hardly got out of class when the rain started. Begin: Hardly .......
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