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a) The clouds darkened the land and were the face of some desperate god of personal spite.
b) Negative attitude (does not score)
Pessimistic, cynical -they believed that there was always a problem ahead.
c) When she espied traffic danger that the driver was apt to overlook or not sufficiently keen to acknowledge in advance.
d) More often, the thanks we gave were more often for what we had missed than for what we had missed than for what we
had been given. (The comma is mandatory)
e) - Advice from various non- drivers
- rivers and bridges
f) She was inclined to try and try the auto as one did a horse and ended up almost immediately in a ditch tugging at the
steering wheel and shouting Whoa!
g) As a matter of history her fears were not groundless, they were just too prevalent weren't they?
h) She had a theory that so much water was bound to be secretly eating away the supports.
i) The ever present danger of unknowingly driving off the end of a demolished bridge -finding yourself and vehicle
suddenly suspended in min air , thoroughly conscious that in twinkling of an eye, you and yours would be plunged into
eternity in the dark waters of the flood beneath you.
j) i) left to, given to
ii) Overbearing, domineering, bossy, arrogant, authoritarian, haughty, imperial, high handed.
iii) Abandoned, lonely, miserable, dejected
marto answered the question on April 8, 2019 at 07:35
- Use the correct alternative to complete the sentences below(Solved)
Use the correct alternative to complete the sentences below
i) Teaching ………………… (practice/practise) is not an essay job for teacher-trainees.
ii) The prophet‟s ……………(prophecy/prophesy) was misleading to his audience.
iii) He …………. (ensured/insured) his car with UAP.
Date posted: April 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- Rewrite the following in inversion.(Solved)
Rewrite the following in inversion.
i) The lioness slid down the hill.
ii) Mr. Mwiti is coming here.
iii) A big rock hung over the cave
Date posted: April 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- Rewrite the following in the passive.(Solved)
Rewrite the following in the passive.
i) My grandfather built this castle in 1900.
ii) Weru tea factory has employed more than a hundred workers.
iii) Careless driving causes many accidents
Date posted: April 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- Rewrite the following according to the instructions given after each.(Solved)
Rewrite the following according to the instructions given after each.
i) If I knew how to do it, I ……………… make a big wooden box for the safety of my belongings.
(Fill in the blank space using the most appropriate modal auxillary)
ii) Githingithia is …………….. criss-crossing the universe in pursuant of popularity.
(Use an appropriate preposition).
iii) We …………. The blind man in his benefactors abode where he ………….happily ever after.
(Fill in the blank spaces using the correct past form of live and leave).
iv) Mr. Muthama had just reached the forest edge where the elusive leopard killed him.
(Rewrite beginning: Hardly……)
v) When I arrived in the school this morning, I was very tired that I had to rest for an hour before doing anything. (Rewrite the sentence correctly)
Date posted: April 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow. What can be more ridiculous than to be....(Solved)
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.
What can be more ridiculous than to be than 47 per cent of Kenyan youth have no qualms with and admire those who acquire wealth through dubious means? Or that 40 per cent would only vote for those who bribe them? And that 30 per cent of youth think 'corruption is a profitable venture' that they would pursue to realize their dreams?
Well, that is according to the Aga Khan University's East African Institute, which commissioned a survey between 2014 and 2015, conducted in the East African states of Rwanda, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. It captured some 1,854 youth aged between 18 and 35 from rural and urban centres across the county, as reflected in the Kenya Youth Report 2015.
On the hair-raising revelation that fifty per cent of Kenyan youth believe it does not matter how one makes money, so long as they stay clear of the gallows and docks, no one surmises it better than the fiery anti-corruption activist John Githongo, who comments that it isn?t surprising, since corruption has been glorified for more than 50 years.
The rule of law has been thrown to the dogs and corrupt thieves are having a field day distributing money earned dubiously in fundraisers and harambees. Don?t even mind some of the loot ends up in church coffers.
The eye-popping report further reveals that 73 per cent of youth would rather not stand up for what is right for fear of retribution and being deemed politically incorrect.
It is my wish that today?s youth stop viewing graft as acceptable and shun their vulnerability to electoral bribery as it degrades their efforts at trying to achieve better service delivery from their elected leaders.
The modern youth must understand that the Constitution grants them the right to demand proper service delivery without being at risk of any penalties and without any conditions other than being a citizen in Kenya.
Therefore, the notion that a politician can only help voters financially before being elected into office must cease henceforth.
(Alvin Abok, Maseno)
The recently published survey on the thinking of youth about life is a confirmation of how the mind of the youth has been poisoned.
This is compounded by what has come to be known as digital colonization. Most youth think the world is a place where humans are supposed to enjoy life.
The reality is opposite. Life is a struggle. Period. Whatever position, status, county you will be born or will live in, you will be struggling with one thing or another, That just how life was designed to be very fair. You will never get everything. One needs to look at what those who are driven by greed end up with.
The sad thing is that they will learn about this the hard way - through experience.
(Cornelius Oliko)
(The Daily Nation Thursday January 21, 2016)
QUESTIONS
a) And that 30 percent of youth think, 'Corruption is a Profitable Venture' that they would pursue to realize their dreams. What
is the effect of quotation marks in the above statement? (2 marks)'
b) According to the extract, where was the survey in question conducted and by who? (2 marks)
c) In note form, make a summary of the youths? precaution of life as illustrated in the passage. (4 marks)
d) Show understanding of the advice the author gives to the youth. (3 marks)
e) Life is a struggle.
i) Negate the sentence above.
ii) Supply a question tag to the sentence in (i) above, (the answer in (i). (1 mark)
f)'Most youth think the world is a place where humans are supposed to enjoy life'. What is the irony in this statement?
(2 marks)
g) Comment on the attitude of the author towards corruption. (2 marks)
h) Explain the meaning of the following words/phrases as used in the passage. (3 marks)
i) Surmises
ii) Thrown to the dogs
iii) Retribution
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- Underline the part (syllable) where the stress falls in each of the words below. (3 marks)(Solved)
Underline the part (syllable) where the stress falls in each of the words below. (3 marks)
i) coward
ii) contest (verb)
iii) discuss (verb)
iv) friendly
v) superb
vi) acknowledge
Date posted: April 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- Identify the silent letter in the following words(Solved)
i) Mnemonic
ii) Gnash
iii) Indictment
iv) Solemn
v) Scepter
Date posted: April 8, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the poem written below and answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the poem written below and answer the questions that follow.
want to die when you love me
I want to die when you love me While yet you hold me fair While laughter lies upon my lips And lights are in my air
I want to die while you love me I could not bear to see
The glory of this perfect day Grown dim or cease to be I want to die while you love me Oh! Who would care to live Till love has nothing more to ask And nothing more to give
I want to die while you love me And bear to that still bed Your kisses, turbulent, unspent To warm me when I am dead.
i) Identify the rhyme scheme of the poem. (2 marks)
ii) What effects is achieved by the use of rhyme? (2 marks)
iii) Identify and illustrate instances of alliteration in the poem. (2 marks)
iv) How would you say the last two lines of this poem? (2 marks)
b) What intonation would be use in the following sentences? (4 marks)
i) Are you sick?
ii) Why haven't you washed your clothes?
iii) She has gone.
iv) That's wonderful.
c) For each of the words given provide another with the same pronunciation. (5 marks)
i) Elicit
ii) Billed
iii) Wet
iv) Qay
v) Draft
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- Read the passage below and fill in the blanks with appropriate words(Solved)
Read the passage below and fill in the blanks with appropriate words
The gap 1, ______ the rich and the poor is widest among Africans 2, ____. According to the latest World Bank 3, _______, seven out of ten nations in the list of the top ten most unequal countries are in the continent.
4, ______ report, ,Poverty in a Raising Africa,' found inequality 5, ________ high and Southern Africa.
The 6, ____________ come at a time when another survey by consultancy firm Knight Frank showed that the number of high net worth individuals (HNWI) in Africa 7, _________ despite difficult economic times last year. Kenya, for 8, _______, added 202 more dollar millionaires. The fact that the continent has 9, ________ steady expansion, which has not “resulted 10, _______ substantial improvements in well-being was high-lighted. Africa has averaged growth of 4.5 per cent
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- Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow
What I did not enjoy at the university was the discrimination I and my fellow female colleagues faced. Bearing in mind
my first encounter with the professor of zoology in early 1996, it became important to ensure that the female members of staff were accepted as equal members of the university‟s academic staff and received the same benefits as their male colleagues. Before Vertistine Mbaya and I arrived, there had never been an African woman among the academic members of staff in the faculty of veterinary sciences at the University of Nairobi, and the members of women on the academic members of staff of any faculty at the university was at that time tiny. Vertistine, an African American who had come in Kenya in the early 1960‟s and was married to a Kenyan, Simon Mbaya, taught in department of Biochemistry and was qualified to get all the benefits due to academic members of the staff. So was I.( A woman married TO another member of academic staff complicated the issuance of benefits such as housing , health insurance, and a pension because it would mean duplicating benefits. Neither of our husbands, however, enjoyed the status). I met professor Mbaya , or Vert, as she is known to her friends, in the second-floor corridor outside our offices at the Chiromo campus. Only three offices separated us we hit it off immediately. She has been a wonderful and trusted friend ever since.
Vert and I waged this fight for equality together. Many of the benefits given to male professional staff at the university were legacies of the colonial era, when young male teachers from Britain were encouraged to work in Kenya and other colonies and were provided with incentives in addition to their salaries. These included housing, free tuition for their children‟s education, and paid holiday time. When Kenya became independent, we took over most these systems completely intact. The University also had a number of incentives that, taken together, amounted to a large increase of one‟s salary. However, the University‟s full benefits accrued only to men. At that time, only single women or widows on that professional staff could receive university housing. Married women were expected to be housed by their husbands and it was argued that they therefore did not “need “ a housing allowance or insurance coverage or a pension. I argued with the University that this was completely unacceptable and the terms of service must be equal. Professional women, I said, could not be discriminated against just because during the colonial times no women professionals came to work in the colonies. This seemed a completely reasonable proposition. It never occurred to me that Vert and I would have to fight this battle. That I or other women should be paid less than our male colleagues of equal standing was very irritating to us. Because of that type of discrimination, junior male staff took home more than we did, despite our senior academic positions.
(Adapted from: Wangari Maathai, 2006:UNBOWED, pg. 114-115)
QUESTIONS
1. According to the passage, what two things did the author not enjoy at the University? (2 marks)
2. Briefly explain the situation at the University of Nairobi before the arrival of the author. (2 marks)
3. According to the passage, what are some of the benefits accrued to male professionals at the University? (3 marks)
4. Based on the passage, explain the relationship between the colonial and post-colonial gender relations in work places.
(2 marks)
5. Make notes on various forms of gender discrimination addressed by the author in the passage. (5 marks)
6. In what ways does the University's policy disadvantages married women? (2 marks)
7. Supply the appropriate question tag for the sentence below?
It never occurred to me that Vert and I would have to fight this battle
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- For the following words underline the stressed syllable to give the intended meaning.(Solved)
For the following words underline the stressed syllable to give the intended meaning.
i) Address (verb)
ii) Produce (noun)
iii) Recess (noun)
iv) Refuse (verb)
v) Conduct (noun)
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- You are invited to be the guest speaker at the form Four Leavers? Party. How would you deal with fear and anxiety associate
with public speaking(Solved)
You are invited to be the guest speaker at the form Four Leavers‟ Party. How would you deal with fear and anxiety associate
with public speaking
Date posted: April 5, 2019. Answers (1)
- Identify any five pairs of words that are pronounced the same.(Solved)
Identify any five pairs of words that are pronounced the same
Bath birth bale head
Berry mind heard mad
Made bury burrow
Bail hand maid
Ball herd berth
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- You are part of a group discussing the live performance of The Caucasian Chalk Circle. One of the members present a point
that you strongly disagree...(Solved)
You are part of a group discussing the live performance of The Caucasian Chalk Circle. One of the members present a point
that you strongly disagree with. How would you interrupt politely? Give five phrases.
Date posted: April 5, 2019. Answers (1)
- The following interview took place between a company manager and Mogaka. Read it and answer the questions that follow(Solved)
Manager: Good morning Mr. Mogaka. Please sit down and feel at home. Mogaka: Oh my it is really hot. Thank you sir.
Manager: You have applied for the IT job?
Mogaka: Yes sir.
Manager: Do you know wat the job entails? Did you read the advertisement in the newspaper?
Mogaka: (Looking absent minded. Fiddling with his fingers and avoiding eye contact.) Excuse me.
Did you say something about newspaper. Yes, I read newspapers but not everyday.
Manager: You‟re certainly not listening. I asked you a question about our advertisement and the requirements of the IT job.
Mogaka: Yes, Yes. You talked about listening. Yes, it is important to listen to you boss.
Manager: Mr. Mogaka, are you here with me? This is the end of the interview. You will hear from us in due course.
Mogaka: I hope you will consider me for the job.
Give four reasons why Mogaka is not likely to get the job
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- Fill in the following blank spaces.(Solved)
Fill in the following blank spaces.
The story had it (1)____________ many years ago when Mr. Nwege was (2) __________ poor , hungry elementary teacher- that is before he (3) ___________ his own grammar school and became rich but apparently still hungry - he had an (4) _________ rickety bicycle of the kind the villagers gave the onomatopoeic name anikilijia. Needless to say the brakes were
(5)_________. One day he was (6)___________ down a steep slope that led a narrow bridge at the (7) __________ of the hill he saw a lorry - an unusual (8)_________ in those days coming down the opposite slope. It looked like a (9) __________ collision on the bridge. In his extremely Mr. Nwege had raised his voice and cried to passing (10) __________. In the name of God push me down
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- Every society is unique; this is as dictated by their own cultural practices,' support this statement in reference to Witi
Ihimaera's The Whale Rider.(Solved)
Every society is unique; this is as dictated by their own cultural practices,' support this statement in reference to Witi
Ihimaera's The Whale Rider.
Date posted: April 5, 2019. Answers (1)
- Fill in the blank spaces in the sentences below with a suitable connector(Solved)
Fill in the blank spaces in the sentences below with a suitable connector (3 marks)
i) The thieves talked in whispers ………………………………….. they be overheard.
ii) My dog is small …………………………………… fierce.
iii) The old man is very sharp ……………………………. her age.
Date posted: April 5, 2019. Answers (1)
- Rewrite the sentences below according to the instructions given at each.(Solved)
Rewrite the sentences below according to the instructions given at each.
i) That was the worst storm the village had ever experienced.(Rewrite beginning with Never …..)
ii) John was so ill that the doctor advised him to stay at home for a few days.
(Rewrite beginning with. Being …..)
iii) The farmer bought a cow that had been stolen from school.(Rewrite in passive)
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- Replace the underlined word in each of the sentences with the most suitable phrasal verbs.(Solved)
Replace the underlined word in each of the sentences with the most suitable phrasal verbs. (3 marks)
i) The doctor remarked that the girl resembles her father.
ii) The looters stole goods of unknown value during the city riots.(make)
iii) When the regained consciousness he was amazed to realize that he was in hospital.(come
Date posted: April 5, 2019. Answers (1)