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- Rewrite the following sentences as instructed.(Solved)
Rewrite the following sentences as instructed.
i) When they entered the field, it started raining. (Begin Hardly...) ....................
ii) She is too fearful to go out at night (Begin So...that) ........................
Date posted: September 24, 2019.
- Use the correct phrasal verb formed from the word given in brackets to complete the sentences below.(Solved)
Use the correct phrasal verb formed from the word given in brackets to complete the sentences below.
i) The students were told to .................... with suggestions on how to improve the performance. (come)
ii) His friends ................. during the race. (urge)
Date posted: September 24, 2019.
- The volume V of a cylinder varies jointly as the square of the radius R and the height H. If the radius is increased by...(Solved)
The volume V of a cylinder varies jointly as the square of the radius R and the height H. If the radius is increased by 10% and the height decreased by 20% find the percentage change in the volume.
Date posted: September 24, 2019.
- Read the narrative below and answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the narrative below and answer the questions that follow.
HOW CIRCUMCISION CAME TO BUKUSULAND
At Mwiala wa Mango, there was a great man-eating snake. The snake usually crawled out of his dwelling place among the hills and roamed about the countryside in search of human beings. The local people did not know what to do to get rid of this menace that claimed more and more victims as days went by. Then, in their greatest hour of need, a savior in the person of Mango came.
Mango of Mwiala had by his first marriage two sons whom he greatly loved. Early one morning the boys set out to graze their father’s cattle at the riverside. While the cattle were pushing and fighting over the salt lick, the boys settled down to molding calf bulls. They had barely finished making their first two bulls when they heard a tremendous stampede from the salt lick. Cows, bulls, oxen and calves with raised tails came galloping out of the salt lick holes. The boys hastily picked up their chindare sticks and made for the nearest anthill in order to see the cause of this pandemonium. And there, below them, was the monster casually looking around. It stared at them hard and its many tongues shot out. With a cry and a leap, the boys ran for their lives but it was too late. Mango lost his loved ones to the murderous monster.
He sharpened and resharpened his embalu as tears of bitter sorrow rolled down his cheeks. “I must follow the way my beloved ones took to the ancestors.” Day came and Mango started for the hills. The sun was in the centre of the sky when he came to the lonely and forbidding hills. He looked around the cave and newly overturned pebbles showed that the beast was out seeking human flesh. Armed only with embalu and a tree stump, he crawled into the cave. At the mouth of the cave, he put the tree stump and started his long unnerving watch.
In the meantime, news of what Mango was set on doing had spread through the neighbourhood. People from far and wide had come to his home and were anxiously waiting for him. The sun slowly crept towards the west. Its gentle rays fell upon his glittering embalu and he mumbled, ‘It is the light of ghosts already.’ Suddenly, he heard the sound of stones and pebbles knocking against each other. His hand muscles stood out like twisted cords as he tightened his grip on the embalu. He spat on his palm and adjusted his grip. Raising his embalu above his head, he spat upon his chest asking for his ancestors’ protection. The cave became dark as the monsters head rested upon the tree stump. The raised hand came down swiftly and to the mark. A spout of blood told the rest of the story. At his feet lay the headless beast.
His embalu dripping with blood, he rushed to the nearest rock and gave a piercing cry into the gathering darkness. It was a cry of triumph and those who heard it jumped up for joy. He was carried shoulder high amid singing and dancing.
His heroism was acknowledged by the neighbouring Barua tribe, who offered him a beautiful bride. But he had to be circumcised first before he could take his bride. This was the custom of the Barua. Thus, Mango became the father of circumcision in Bukusuland.
a) Classify the above narrative.
b) Describe the character of the following.
i) Mango
ii) The Barua
c) How did Mango become the savior of the people?
d) Identify the socio-economic activities of the community from which the narrative taken.
e) Comment on the following.
i) The sun slowly crept towards the west.
ii) It is the light of ghosts already.
f) Explain how suspense is created in this narrative.
g) Identify FOUR features that show this is an oral narrative.
h) What do we learn from this narrative?
Date posted: September 24, 2019.
- Solve the equation 9tan2theta + tan theta =10(Solved)
Solve the equation 9tan2theta + tan theta =10 for 00 = less than or = 3600
Date posted: September 24, 2019.
- Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow.
HELMER: Naturally you are thinking of your father.
NORA: Yes – yes, of course. Just recall to your mind what these malicious creatures wrote in the papers about papa, and how horribly they slandered him. I believe they would have procured his dismissal if the department had not sent you over to inquire into it, and if you had not been so kindly disposed and helpful to him.
HELMER: My little Nora, there is an important difference between your father and me. Your father’s reputation as a public officer was not above suspicion. Mine is, and I hope it will continue to be so, as long as I hold my office.
NORA: You never can tell what mischief these men may contrive. We ought to be so well off, so snug and happy here in our peaceful home, and have no cares – you and I and the children, Torvald! That is what I beg you so earnestly –
HELMER: And if it did?
HELMER: Of course! – if only this obstinate little person can get her way! Do you suppose I am going to make myself ridiculous before my whole staff, to let people think that I am a man to be swayed by all sorts of outside influence? I should very soon feel the consequences of it, I can tell you! And besides, there is one thing that makes it quite impossible for me to have Krogstad in the Bank as long as I am a manager.
NORA: Whatever is that?
HELMER: His moral failings I might have perhaps overlooked, if necessary
NORA: yes, you could – couldn’t you?
HELMER: And I hear he is a good worker, too. But I knew him when we were boys. It was one of those rash friendships that so often prove an incubus in afterlife. I may as well tell you plainly, we were once on very intimate terms with one another. But this tactless fellow lays no restraint on himself when other people are present. On the contrary, he thinks it gives him the right to adopt a familiar tone with me, and every minute it is “I say, Helmer, old fellow!” and that sort of thing. I assure you it is extremely painful for me. He would make my position in the Bank intolerable.
NORA: Torvald, I don’t believe you mean that.
HELMER: Don’t you? Why not?
NORA: Because it is such a narrow-minded way of looking at things.
HELMER: What are you saying? Narrow-minded? Do you think I am narrow-minded?
NORA: No just the opposite, dear – and it is exactly for that reason.
HELMER: It’s the same thing. You say my point of view is narrow-minded, so I must be so too. Narrow-minded! Very well – I must put an end to this. (Goes to the hall door and calls) Helen!
a) Briefly explain Nora’s fear as revealed in the extract
b) According to the excerpt, why is Helmer reluctant to retain Krogstad as a worker in the Bank?
c) Helmer is disingenuous in his dismissal of Nora’s suggestion that Krogstad should be retained in his job. Explain this statement with clear illustrations from the excerpt.
d) Contrast the character of Krogstad as revealed in the excerpt.
e) Comment on Nora’s character as brought out in in the excerpt.
f) Torvald refers to Nora as an ‘obstinate little person.’ What does this reveal about Torvald’s attitude towards Nora as his wife? Cite one example from this excerpt and another one from elsewhere in the play to illustrate your answer.
g) Describe the mood created at the end of the excerpt.
h) Torvald says, 'His moral failings I might have perhaps overlooked, if necessary –.' By whom and how else in the play is Krogstad referred to in a disgraceful manner in the play?
i) ‘...an incubus in afterlife.’ What does this phrase mean as used in the excerpt?
j) What happens immediately after this excerpt and how does it finally affect their marriage?
Date posted: September 24, 2019.
- The masses of two objects to the nearest 100g are 51kg, and 43kg find the percentage error in the difference of their masses.(Solved)
The masses of two objects to the nearest 100g are 51kg, and 43kg find the percentage error in the difference of their masses.
Date posted: September 24, 2019.
- Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.
A team of ninety experts has been dispatched this morning to audit the teaching and understanding of the new curriculum in public schools across the country. The Government officials, largely drawn from the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development, (KICD) will conduct impromptu visits to schools in eighteen counties as they seek to enforce implementation of the Competence-Based Curriculum (CBC).
A detailed document on the monitoring exercise seen by The Standard reveals that during the visits, the experts will sit in classrooms during lessons, hold feedback meetings with teachers and file daily reports on progress of the implementation of the CBC. For the next ten days, the experts – also known as curriculum developers – will demonstrate to the teachers how CBC lessons should be taught in the classroom. The exercise will end on May 3.
KICD Chief Executive Officer Jwan Julius said the process will provide the teachers with real, first-hand experiences on curriculum implementation. Dr. Jwan said the process will also identify opportunities to improve the curriculum designs and how to transfer lessons from field experiences to subsequent designs.
“What is envisioned in the curriculum designs and what is being taught in class should come out clearly. Where there are gaps in lesson delivery, the experts will take the teachers through the process,” said Jwan. The Standard established that the curriculum developers had already completed three days orientation on a new monitoring methodology dubbed Do It Yourself.
The experts will now spend the next seven days in the field and later meet for debriefing where feedback will be shared to identify areas for correction and improvement. The development comes as the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) threatened to rally teachers to revert to the old teaching methods under the 8-4-4 system. Knut Secretary General Wilson Sossion described the curriculum implementation process as illegal.
'We shall not teach the CBC way as they are pushing us to do until they address all the gaps.'
i) Why have the experts been dispatched?
ii) What is the main intention of the government officials?
iii) In point form, summarize how the experts will carry out the exercise during the visits.
iv) What according to the KICD Chief Executive Officer will the process achieve?
v) Why is the Kenya National Union of Teachers opposed to the new program?
vi) Paraphrase the following, 'What is envisioned in class and what is being taught in class should come out clearly. Where there are gaps in lesson delivery, the experts will take teachers through the process.'
vii) In view of the KNUT Secretary’s remarks, comment on the use of irony.
viii) Give the meaning of the following words and expressions as used in the passage.
i) impromptu
ii) first-hand experience
iii) revert
Date posted: September 24, 2019.
- The fourth term of a geometric sequence is 48 and the seventh term is 384.Find the common ratio and the ninth term of the sequence.(Solved)
The fourth term of a geometric sequence is 48 and the seventh term is 384.Find the common ratio and the ninth term of the sequence.
Date posted: September 24, 2019.
- Make C the subject of a formula in the equation(Solved)
Make C the subject of a formula in the equation
Date posted: September 24, 2019.
- State four ways of caring for a lactating mother.(Solved)
State four ways of caring for a lactating mother.
Date posted: September 24, 2019.
- Note down four qualities of a well-made collar.(Solved)
Note down four qualities of a well-made collar.
Date posted: September 24, 2019.
- List four general rules to observe when making flour mixtures.(Solved)
List four general rules to observe when making flour mixtures.
Date posted: September 24, 2019.
- Explain the hydrolysis method of soap making.(Solved)
Explain the hydrolysis method of soap making.
Date posted: September 24, 2019.
- Identify four problems related to breast feeding and their remedies.(Solved)
Identify four problems related to breast feeding and their remedies.
Date posted: September 24, 2019.
- Giving two examples differentiate between primary and secondary colours.(Solved)
Giving two examples differentiate between primary and secondary colours.
Date posted: September 24, 2019.
- Explain the procedure of cleaning the following items before you resume school.
(a) A plastic basin used by your sick auntie.
(b) A plain kitchen table...(Solved)
Explain the procedure of cleaning the following items before you resume school.
(a) A plastic basin used by your sick auntie.
(b) A plain kitchen table used to cut raw
(c) A long sleeved silk blouse.
Date posted: September 24, 2019.
- Identify two ways of finishing the edge of the sleeve other than using a cuff.(Solved)
Identify two ways of finishing the edge of the sleeve other than using a cuff.
Date posted: September 24, 2019.
- Mention two ways playing can be made enjoyable.(Solved)
Mention two ways playing can be made enjoyable.
Date posted: September 24, 2019.
- State two factors that encourage the use of convenience foods.(Solved)
State two factors that encourage the use of convenience foods.
Date posted: September 24, 2019.
- Highlight two reasons why weaning is done.(Solved)
Highlight two reasons why weaning is done.
Date posted: September 24, 2019.
- Calculate the standard deviation of the given data
3, 7, 2, 1, 8, 9, 13, 6, 4, 7(Solved)
Calculate the standard deviation of the given data
3, 7, 2, 1, 8, 9, 13, 6, 4, 7
Date posted: September 24, 2019.
- State two points to observe when taking body measurements.(Solved)
State two points to observe when taking body measurements.
Date posted: September 24, 2019.
- Mention two disadvantages of canned foods.(Solved)
Mention two disadvantages of canned foods.
Date posted: September 24, 2019.
- Name two types of electric lamps.(Solved)
Name two types of electric lamps.
Date posted: September 24, 2019.
- Mention two points to consider when planning and serving vegetarian meals.(Solved)
Mention two points to consider when planning and serving vegetarian meals.
Date posted: September 24, 2019.
- State two ways of maintaining clothes.(Solved)
State two ways of maintaining clothes.
Date posted: September 24, 2019.
- Differentiate between ironing and pressing.(Solved)
Differentiate between ironing and pressing.
Date posted: September 24, 2019.
- Mention two reasons for storing food.(Solved)
Mention two reasons for storing food.
Date posted: September 24, 2019.
- Estimate the area enclosed by the curve and the x axis from x =0 to x = 2 using mid ordinate rule with four...(Solved)
Estimate the area enclosed by the curve 
and the x axis from x =0 to x = 2 using mid ordinate rule with four strips. ( Leave your answer as a fraction)
Date posted: September 24, 2019.