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i) The weather today is more forbidding than yesterday’s. (forbidding)
ii) This is the most timid student in this class. (timid)
iii) I could do with a finer brush; this one is worn out. (fine)
iv) Which is the cake with the least sugar? (little)
v) Is this one really as bad as that one? (bad
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- Most people neglect how stylish headboards can change the overall look of their bedrooms. The expensive...(Solved)
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.
Most people neglect how stylish headboards can change the overall look of their bedrooms. The expensive dressing table with elaborate carvings, the awesome chandelier or the unique wall art will create a style statement in your room but will not offer the real glam.
If your bed doesn’t have one, it is time to consider the option as it offers a finishing touch to the bed. For those who already have, they can consider updating them to create an interesting focal point. There are limitless ideas available and the only thing that could limit you is the size of the wall behind the top of your bed and, of course, your imagination.
Here are a few ideas of creating unique headboards;
•If you already have one, consider reupholstering it with new fabric. Fortunately, you can get affordable fabric in the local stores. For a wooden headboard, paint it a lively colour to excite the space.
•Create a headboard by hanging a beautiful quilt, rug or carpet above your bed to add colour, texture and pattern to your space. The best places to find a unique quilt are mitumba (secondhand) shops.
•Use a beautiful curtain rod to hang a curtain fabric above the wall to create a backdrop, which will serve as a headboard. Using fabric for the headboard adds warmth and cosiness to the bedroom. Ensure the fabric is an interesting colour with beautiful patterns to add style to the room.
•A bookshelf can also make a great headboard. Paint it any colour you fancy and you have a beautiful space to store materials you love reading at night.
•For your child’s room, a black-board headboard will work well. Create one on the wall using blackboard paint to paint the inside area and moulding to finish the outside edges. Leave sweet messages for your children to wake up to everyday.
•A gigantic artwork or wall mural can also make for a headboard. The width of the painting should be lesser or equal to the width of the bed for aesthetic perfection.
•Construct a wooden frame then cover it with a fabric that you love. Put some padding beneath the fabric before you staple it to the frame; and there you have a headboard.
•Create an arrangement of framed photos grouping them by size, theme or frame colour. This will create an illusion of a headboard.
•If your bedroom is small, a mirror or mirrors, will make an ideal headboard. Use one mirror in a unique shape or arrange many to create a special glow.
The choice is yours: You don’t have to run around looking for a headboard. All you need is a bit of creativity and the zest to try things differently.
(Adapted from standard on Sunday; Eve woman P.5)
Questions
a)State two ways of making a bedroom look stylish.
b)Why should one consider having all the items to make their bedrooms stylish?
c)What factors could hinder one from acquiring headboards?
d)Describe how one would refurbish old headboards
e)Rewrite the sentence below and add a question tag at the end.
Most people reflect how stylish headboards can change the overall look of their bedrooms.
f)What are the advantages of a headboard made of fabric?
g)How can one use a headboard beneficially to expand knowledge?
h)In point form, describe how one would make a wooden headboard covered with fabric.
i)Explain the meaning of the following words and phrases as used in the passage.
a)Glam
b)Colour you fancy
c)The zest to
d)To excite the space
Date posted: October 9, 2019. Answers (1)
- Use the verbs in the box, in the correct simple present tense form to fill in the gaps in the sentences.(Solved)
Use the verbs in the box, in the correct simple present tense form to fill in the gaps in the sentences.
i) Mary is always smart because she neatly ......... her uniform.
ii) The forest ............ what we say.
iii) Tyson .......... very well and wins all his contests.
iv) Jane ............ French fries to her children every evening.
v) The preacher ............... to worship every day.
Date posted: October 9, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the following paragraph and indicate the word class (parts of speech) of the underlined words in the spaces provided.(Solved)
Read the following paragraph and indicate the word class (parts of speech) of the underlined words in the spaces provided.
The late professor Wangari Mathaai is one of Kenya’s most celebrated women. A lot can be said about what she did but the most outstanding achievement was winning the Nobel peace prize in 2004. This made her the first Kenyan as well as the first African woman to win the coveted prize.
Date posted: October 9, 2019. Answers (1)
- The following is a riddling session. In each space, indicate the name of the stage.(Solved)
The following is a riddling session. In each space, indicate the name of the stage.
Abby: Riddle, Riddle
Bob: Riddle come
Abby: My house has no door
Bob: A stone
Abby: Not correct.
Bob: An orange
Abby: No Give me a prize.
Bob: I give you London city.
Abby: Thank you. And the correct answer is an egg.
Date posted: October 9, 2019. Answers (1)
- Underline the odd one out according to the pronunciation of letters ‘S’(Solved)
Underline the odd one out according to the pronunciation of letters ‘S’
i) Set one (helps, cooks, lanes, pigs )
ii) Set two ( consul, unsure, censure, insult)
Date posted: October 9, 2019. Answers (1)
- Write the silent letter.(Solved)
Write the silent letter.
i) Guilt
ii) Asthma
iii) Drastically
iv) Buffet
v) Condemn
Date posted: October 9, 2019. Answers (1)
- Provide homophones for the following words.(Solved)
Provide homophones for the following words.
i) Serial
ii) Mail
iii) Gorilla
iv) Profit
v) Cent
Date posted: October 9, 2019. Answers (1)
- Fill in the blank spaces with the most appropriate words.(Solved)
Fill in the blank spaces with the most appropriate words.
Praise songs are songs....1...describe the ....2....qualities that some individuals or possessions such as cattle....3..., and which put them above others....4... praise songs use ....5... to describe qualities that ....6.... those praised above those who are just ....7.... Those praised in the song are usually ....8... to animals that are revered for their positive qualities ....9..... bravely, gracefulness and wisdom. Kings, chiefs, warriors and famous medicine men/women are the....10.... of most praise songs.
Date posted: October 9, 2019. Answers (1)
- Fill in the blanks with the suitable prepositions.(Solved)
Fill in the blanks with the suitable prepositions.
i) Students eat ugali ....... Fridays.
ii) The weather keeps changing .......time to time.
Date posted: October 9, 2019. Answers (1)
- Rewrite the following sentences changing them into the passive form.(Solved)
Rewrite the following sentences changing them into the passive form.
i) Mr. Mote is teaching Mathematics.
ii) The young girl moved the table.
iii) The teacher will supervise exams
Date posted: October 9, 2019. Answers (1)
- Rearrange the adjectives in the following sentences in the correct order to describe the italicized nouns.(Solved)
Rearrange the adjectives in the following sentences in the correct order to describe the italicized nouns.
i) The band performed their ...... song. (reggae, new ,exciting)
ii) They saw an ...........baboon. (old, ugly,Congolese)
Date posted: October 9, 2019. Answers (1)
- Use the relative pronouns which,who or whose to join each pair of the sentences below.(Solved)
Use the relative pronouns which,who or whose to join each pair of the sentences below.
i) I do not know the name of the student. The student gave away my spoon.
ii) The teacher has recovered completely. The teacher’s leg was broken on sports day.
iii) Do you know a shop .......sells good bags?
Date posted: October 9, 2019. Answers (1)
- Place a stress mark or underline the syllables that make the following words to be nouns.(Solved)
Place a stress mark or underline the syllables that make the following words to be nouns.
i) Reject
ii) Contest
Date posted: October 9, 2019. Answers (1)
- Indicate intonation in the following sentences. Write F and R against each sentence to represent falling and rising intonation respectively.(Solved)
Indicate intonation in the following sentences. Write F and R against each sentence to represent falling and rising intonation respectively.
i) Who was shouting at the back of the classroom?
ii) Is it raining?
Date posted: October 9, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the following poem then answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the following poem then answer the questions that follow.
MADE FOR PURE PLEASURE
Like buds too wonderful to name,
Each miracle unfolds,
And Catherine-wheels begin to flame
Like a whirling marigolds
Rockets and Roman candles make
An orchard of the sky,
Whence magic trees their petals shake
Upon each gazing eye
Questions
i) What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
ii) Using a vivid example, explain how rhythm has been achieved in this poem.
Date posted: October 9, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the excerpt below and answer questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the excerpt below and answer questions that follow.
'So it is you who chewed my son’s hand to near amputation?' the old woman asked in a low rumbling and frightening voice. She sneered at Resian contemptuously and spat on the ground. 'What were you guarding so tenaciously and valiantly when I am told you are not yet a woman? Are not ashamed to be among intoiye nemengalana at your age? Ptu!'
Resian was shocked by the words of the old woman and she stared at her frightfully, a new hopelessness and helplessness threatening to wreak more havoc to her already wrecked nerves. But the old woman was not finished with her yet.
'I hear your father is stinking rich,' She said mocking Resian derogatorily. Then roaring with a demonic derisive laughter, she said disdainfully, 'I am also told, you, being his favourite daughter, was always fed in bed with a silver spoon. This is what we have been trying to do to you in the last few days. I don’t know whether we have succeeded. We looked for a silver spoon in the whole neighbourhood but we could not find any. I hope the ordinary spoon we have used to feed you does not make you retch!” then she burst out and laughed uproariously.
Oh my God! What is this?” Resian cried out silently unable to bear any more the detestable, stressful, and disgusting verbiage from the old witch. She found it offensive, repugnant and downright obnoxious.
The much she could do was to listen to the old woman as she spewed out her loathsome nastiness and foul grossness.
'Listen to me you daughter of Olkarsis,' She growled like an irate bull, her irritating foul language grating on Resian’s nerves. “I hear your father and that Ol-ushuushi called Oloisudori to whom he had betrothed you and from whom my gallant and valorous Moran snatched you are combing every bush,every cave and every river bank looking for you, as if you are the only esiankiki in the whole world. Anyway let them try for I know they are not going to find you. I am not going to allow it.
Questions
a) Place this excerpt to its immediate context.
b) Who is the woman being referred to in the excerpt?
c) Identify and illustrate two character traits of the woman referred to in (b) above
d) Identify and illustrate two stylistic devices evident in this excerpt
e) Identify and illustrate the dominant theme in this excerpt.
f) From elsewhere in the novel who were the three blind mice who did not seem to know that the world was changing? Give the local names.
g) Rewrite in reported speech.
Are you not ashamed to be among intoiye nemengalana at your age?
h) Give the meaning of the following word as used in the excerpt.
Betrothed
Date posted: October 9, 2019. Answers (1)
- Fill in the blank spaces in the passage below with the most appropriate word.(Solved)
Fill in the blank spaces in the passage below with the most appropriate word.
One good reason to ........1...... Africa would be the big number of games parks there. They cover almost ......2........the different types of geographical terrain found in the continent. The geographical terrain found in the continent. The Abedare National Park is a mountain range that rises 13,120 feet, and is laced .....3 ..... waterfalls. Crowned with exotic alphine plants ...........4.........is even one that blooms only once every twenty years. There, .....5..... of elephants, rhinos and warthogs roam the forest. Samburu National Reserve is.......6......in an entirely different terrain. Lying on the edge of the great desert of Northern Kenya, it is a vast stretch of scrubland ....7..... by elephants and leopards. Mt.Kenya is also a good ....8..... to observe animals and plants. If one drives up the flank of the mountain, one would pass....9.... great bamboo jungles and mountain forest all the way up to the alphine zone with its giant plants ....10.... foliage, this is a place which botanist would love.
Date posted: October 9, 2019. Answers (1)
- Explain the difference in meaning between the pair of sentences.(Solved)
Explain the difference in meaning between the pair of sentences.
Juan wrote a letter to herself.
Juan herself wrote a letter.
Date posted: October 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- Choose the better alternative from the ones given in brackets to fill the blank.(Solved)
Choose the better alternative from the ones given in brackets to fill the blank.
i. Previously, the bus attendants used to issue passengers with ............ (tickets, receipts)
ii. She padded in ...................feet towards the door. (bare, bear)
iii. You have a ..............of sh. 500 because you paid sh.1000 for the bag that costs sh.500. (balance, change
Date posted: October 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- Fill in the more suitable pronoun from the alternatives given in bracket.(Solved)
Fill in the more suitable pronoun from the alternatives given in bracket.
i. Look at that young boy running away! He must have been ........who stole your bag. (he, him)
ii. Neither Helmer nor ............is selfless. (her, she)
iii. Always say ‘may I get in?’ around Mr. Nockrise and ..............if you don’t want your earlobe twisted. (they, them)
Date posted: October 8, 2019. Answers (1)