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- Replace the underlined phrasal verb with one word that means the same as the phrasal verb.(Solved)
Replace the underlined phrasal verb with one word that means the same as the phrasal verb.
i)We could not make out what the speaker was saying.
ii)The next issue of the famous magazine comes out next week.
iii)I cannot put up with his behavior anymore.
Date posted: February 28, 2020. Answers (1)
- Supply a gender neutral word for each of the following.(Solved)
Supply a gender neutral word for each of the following.
i)Spokesman
ii)Chairlady
iii)Policeman
iv)Salesman
Date posted: February 28, 2020. Answers (1)
- Rewrite the following sentences according to the instruction given after each.(Solved)
Rewrite the following sentences according to the instruction given after each.
i)She was too tired to move.(Rewrite using 'very')
ii)They proposed what seemed impracticable.(Rewrite using 'proposal')
iii)My teacher asked us whether we were taking part in the organized walk.(Rewrite in direct speech)
Date posted: February 28, 2020. Answers (1)
- Choose the correct word to complete each of these sentences.(Solved)
Choose the correct word to complete each of these sentences.
i)The secret between you and ................ must be kept.(I / me)
ii)You and .......can do it.(she / her)
Date posted: February 28, 2020. Answers (1)
- Fill each blank space with the appropriate word.(Solved)
Fill each blank space with the appropriate word.
i)He is taking care of a ..................... of sheep.
ii) Ochieng keeps a ..................... of fish in his compound.
Date posted: February 28, 2020. Answers (1)
- Complete each of the following sentences using the appropriate form of the word in brackets.(Solved)
Complete each of the following sentences using the appropriate form of the word in brackets.
i)It is a requirement that all items be taken to the .................... (maintain) office.
ii)All learners should check on their ......................(pronounce)
iii)She has a book of great ...................(broad)
Date posted: February 28, 2020. Answers (1)
- Use the word in brackets to form a phrasal verb to replace the underlined words.(Solved)
Use the word in brackets to form a phrasal verb to replace the underlined words.
i)The president visited the sick cabinet secretary last week. (call)
ii)Her business has finally succeeded (come)
iii)The meeting was postponed to the following week.(put)
Date posted: February 28, 2020. Answers (1)
- Rewrite the following sentences according to instructions given after each.Do not change the meaning.(Solved)
Rewrite the following sentences according to instructions given after each.Do not change the meaning.
i) That he is a graduate of a Kenyan University makes a great difference.(Begin: His being ....................)
ii)It was too dark to see anything.(Rewrite using so .................)
iii)My sister's results were not as good as I expected.(use: not up to)
Date posted: February 28, 2020. Answers (1)
- The Crucified Thief
I am a crucified thief,
Dying for my unnumbered sins;
Beside me dies the ‘sinful’ God
Who takes away the sin of the world.
His fingers freeze...(Solved)
The Crucified Thief
I am a crucified thief,
Dying for my unnumbered sins;
Beside me dies the ‘sinful’ God
Who takes away the sin of the world.
His fingers freeze from cold,
His eyes are dark with desert dust,
His throat is coarse from thirst
He suffers thus for me and you.
I am a crucified thief,
Stealing away the love of God,
I am crucified with Christ
To be with Him Paradise.
The sun above for fear hides,
The earth beneath in pain shakes,
And buried soul’s awake to weep,
While angels bow and wink in tears.
Alone I stole, I stole
But here with Christ I die
He dies for crucified thieves,
And steals their sins away.
By John Mbiti.
a.What is the poem about?
b.Describe the attitude of the persona towards the ‘sinful’ God.
c.Why does the poet write the word ‘sinful’ in quotation marks?
d.Identify and illustrate two stylistic devices evident in the poem.
e.Give the contrast between the crucified thief and the ‘sinful’ God.
f.In note form, identify and illustrate the different reactions to the death of Christ.
g.I am a crucified thief. (Add a question tag).
Date posted: November 18, 2019. Answers (1)
- The history of alcohol in Kenya is not a sober one. It staggers back to the colonial days when anything stronger than peppered goat –...(Solved)
The history of alcohol in Kenya is not a sober one. It staggers back to the colonial days when anything stronger than peppered goat – head soup required an official letter from a chief. Today, Kenyans have taken their drinking to off-limits counters and require the return of the infamous Alcoblow to reduce the number of deaths occasioned by drunken driving.
Never mind the Alcoholic Drinks Control Act 2010, famously known as the “Mututho Law” which sought to control drinking hours. But Kenyans are special in many bottled ways. The World Health Global Status Report on alcohol reveals that they consume the highest amount of beer in East Africa. That thirsts a long throat, stretching back to the days when being spotted on a “White Only” establishment could lead to a stint in jail.
Consider the story of Hussein Warutere, as contained in Al Kag’s Living memories. Warutere – who requested his real name not be used – spent 13 years in the slammer because of, you could never guess this one…diarrhoea! Warutere, 99 years old and going blind, when he was interviewed for Living memories, was a rickshaw runner at Nairobi Norfolk Hotel. He was transporting Frederick Marshall, a pitiless police reservist, when he experienced a minor, “State of emergency’ with his bowels. The meaning of life depended on locating a toilet. Warutere had no option but to rush to a “Whites Only” loo. As fate would have it, he was done, just as Marshall was getting in, he was accused of “trying to assist the Mau Mau by planting a bomb in the loo”. After a 15 minute trial, he was found guilty. Warutere spent six years in Manyani Prison and another six in Mwea. The same strictness was observed regarding consumption of bottled alcohol, though not of the “Manyani” proportions.
And while explorers, missionaries, Indian coolies, and colonialists brought with them foreign spirits, enactment of laws prohibiting ‘natives’ from quaffing bottled stuff saw them resort to the more familiar brews. These were taken on special occasions – strictly by men. Alcohol, before the killer illicit brands from greedy “brew – trepreneurs” had a respected place in African Societies irrespective of one’s station in life, community, or geography. Indeed traditional brews were not the preserve of ne-er-do wells like today. They were drunk sparingly too, and thus few succumbed to thirst-induced poisoning as alcohol was not laced with chemicals that can interest the government Chemist and morticians.
Things changed with the lowering of the union Jack in 1963 – when East African Breweries turned 41 years since George and Charles Hurst founded it. Kenyans were free, and so were their collective thirsty throats. They could drink bottled booze with brand names like the defunct City Lager. With one shilling at the time, one could stagger home after tipping a waiter, a packet of cigarettes in hand.
Many people wanted to come to Nairobi for its perceived economic and social opportunities. The ensuing rural-urban migration saw the proliferation of slums in the 1970s. Most ruralites alas were uneducated. But they needed to earn a living all the same.
A study carried out in Nairobi’s Mathare slums revealed that four out of five women brought home the bacon, okay the boeflo, on the strength of selling busaa, a traditional brew popular in Western Kenya. Come the 1980s and chang’aa took over, becoming the major illicit liquor. To increase profit, brewers discovered the potency of methanol, an industrial alcohol used in antifreeze among other products. Methanol provided the direct injection preferred by those desiring to get to High Street fast, on the cheap. Despite methanol-laced chang’aa causing coma, blindness, and death, few Kenyans have let “kill-me-Quick” out of the grip.
The 2010 World Health Organization Global Status on Alcohol indicates that 70 percent of families in Kenya are affected by alcoholism despite the fact that the government has designated banned traditional liquor as “illicit” since independence. To rectify the situation, parliament in 2005 considered introducing the requirement that they be packaged after lifting the ban. But the government raised duty on alcohol, increasing beer prices forcing juicers to hunt illicit shebeens.
Kenya’s escalating cost of living has not sobered matters, either; instead it has pushed more tipplers off the prohibitive, but safe-bottled drinks, to down market brews that have, and are still killing.
(Adapted from an article from the Daily Nation by Kamau Mutunga, Monday October 3rd 2011)
a. What does the writer mean by “The history of alcohol in Kenya is not a sober one?”
b. Why was drunkenness less rampant among Africans during the colonial period?
c. State how the laws governing the consumption of alcohol were discriminatory during the colonial period.
d. Give evidence to show that Kenyans are unique in their drinking habits in the region.
e. List the ways alcohol causes death according to the passage.
f. Explain how the position of traditional brews changed after independence.
g. Why according to the writer do many Kenyans continue to drink illicit brews despite the danger they pose?
h. To increase profit, brewers discovered the potency of methanol, an industrial alcohol used in antifreeze among other products. (Rewrite the sentence beginning: The discovery………………………………..).
i) Explain the meaning of the following words as used in the passage:-
i) Bottled.
ii) Morticians.
iii) Proliferation.
iv) Prohibitive.
Date posted: November 18, 2019. Answers (1)
- Supposing you are given the opportunity to introduce the guest speaker, Peter Mugambi, who is a medical doctor. Write what you would say.(Solved)
Supposing you are given the opportunity to introduce the guest speaker, Peter Mugambi, who is a medical doctor. Write what you would say.
Date posted: November 18, 2019. Answers (1)
- Your friend has organized a farewell party for his sister who is travelling abroad. You
have been asked to give an impromptu speech. List the elements...(Solved)
Your friend has organized a farewell party for his sister who is travelling abroad. You
have been asked to give an impromptu speech. List the elements of your speech in the
order in which they will appear.
Date posted: November 18, 2019. Answers (1)
- Indicate the correct intonation in the following sentences using “F” for falling and “R” for rising intonation.
(i) How did you get here?
(ii) You actually...(Solved)
Indicate the correct intonation in the following sentences using “F” for falling and “R” for rising intonation.
(i) How did you get here?
(ii) You actually met the president?
(iii) What an amazing student you are!
Date posted: November 18, 2019. Answers (1)
- Underline the stressed syllable in each of the following words.
(i) Reply
(ii) advice
(iii) abuse
(iv) friendly
(v) colleague(Solved)
Underline the stressed syllable in each of the following words.
(i) Reply
(ii) advice
(iii) abuse
(iv) friendly
(v) colleague
Date posted: November 18, 2019. Answers (1)
- Give a word that is pronounced in the same way as the words below.
(i) earn -
(ii) time -
(iii) bruise -
(iv) main - (Solved)
Give a word that is pronounced in the same way as the words below.
(i) earn -
(ii) time -
(iii) bruise -
(iv) main -
Date posted: November 18, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the passage below and fill in each blank space with the most appropriate word.
It …………. be impossible for us to continue living in this...(Solved)
Read the passage below and fill in each blank space with the most appropriate word.
It …………. be impossible for us to continue living in this world if ……..……..…. of us knew exactly ………………….fate had in …………………for him. So God in His mercy ………………….. the future from all His creatures, and reveals only the present. ………………… a lamb had reason like a man, it could not ……..…………happily, knowing it was destined to be killed for human food. ………………….., being quite ignorant of its fate, it is happy to the last minute of its short life contentedly …………………….in the meadow, and even in its innocence licks the hand of the butcher …………………….is about to slaughter it.
Date posted: November 18, 2019. Answers (1)
- Rewrite the following sentences according to instructions after each. (Solved)
Rewrite the following sentences according to instructions after each.
i) They were smoking in the room and forgot to close the door. (Begin: Smoking......)
ii) The president addressed the nation for three hours. He did not talk about war on graft. (Join into one sentence using however.)
iii) What you are doing cannot be acceptable in an ordered society. (Rewrite beginning: Under no circumstances..................)
vi)The teachers were not in school. The principal was not in school. ( Rewrite beginning: Neither the teachers
Date posted: November 7, 2019. Answers (1)
- Underline the verbs in the following sentences and indicate whether they have been used transitively or intransitively.(Solved)
Underline the verbs in the following sentences and indicate whether they have been used transitively or intransitively.
i) The widowed lady wept bitterly beside the casket.
ii) The school choir sang beautifully at the competition.
iii) My old grandmother spiced the food.
Date posted: November 7, 2019. Answers (1)
- Use complex prepositions to fill in the blank spaces.(Solved)
Use complex prepositions to fill in the blank spaces.
i) I am apologizing......................of my class.
ii) The boys were convicted...............................drug trafficking.
iii) ...................................what I have said, mothers should be role models.
Date posted: November 7, 2019. Answers (1)
- Use the most suitable form of the word in brackets to fill in the blank spaces.(Solved)
Use the most suitable form of the word in brackets to fill in the blank spaces.
(i) Learning, our principal told us, is a ..........................process. (CONTINUE)
(ii) Due to the widespread .................................in the country, youths are not enthusiastic about education. (EMPLOY)
(iii)That yard is where ......................of old vehicles takes place. (MAINTAIN).
Date posted: November 7, 2019. Answers (1)