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Explain the significance of limestone regions.
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June 8, 2019
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Explain factors influencing formation of springs.
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June 8, 2019
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Students carried out field study on desert landforms.
(i) State two type of information they collected through observation.
(ii) Which measures would they have recommended to control desertification?
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June 8, 2019
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Distinguish between shingle beaches and sand beaches.
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June 8, 2019
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Describe formation of coral coast.
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June 8, 2019
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You are planning to carry out a field study on the depositional features along the coast of Kenya
(i) State five objectives you would formulate for your study
(ii) Give five methods you would use to record the information
collected
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June 8, 2019
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Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.
SINGER: So many words are said, so many left unsaid.
The soldier has come Where he comes from, he does not say.
Hear what he thought and did not say:
“The battle began, gray at dawn, grew bloody at noon.
The first man fell in front of me, the second behind me, the third at my side.
I trod on the first, left the second behind, the third was run through by the captain.
One of my brothers died by steel, the other by smoke.
My neck caught fire, my hands froze in my gloves, my toes in my socks.
I fed on aspen buds, I drank maple juice, I slept on stone, in water.”
SIMON: I see a cap in the grass. Is there a little one already?
GRUSHA: There is, Simon. There’s no keeping that from you. But please don’t worry, it is not mine.
SIMON: When the wind once starts to blow, they say, it blows through every cranny. The wife need
to say no more. (GRUSHA looks into her lap and is silent)
SINGER: There was yearning but her was not waiting.
The oath is broken. Neither could you why.
Hear what she thought but did not say:
“While you fought in the battle, soldier,
The bloody battle, the bitter battle
I found a helpless infant
I had not the heart to destroy him
I had to care for a creature that was lost
I had to stoop for breadcrumbs on the floor
I had to break myself for that which was not mine
That which was other people’s
Someone must help!
For the little tree needs water
The lamb loses its way when the shepherd is asleep
And its cry is unheard!'
SIMON: Give me back the cross I gave you. Better still, throw it in the stream. (He turns to go.)
GRUSHA: (getting up) Simon Shashava, don’t go away! He isn’t mine! He isn’t mine! (She hears the
children calling.) What’s the matter, children?
Questions.
1. Place the extract in its immediate context.
2. With illustrations from the extract make notes on experiences during the war expounded in the extract.
3. 'But please don’t worry it is not mine,' Who is it in the statement and explain why Grusha says it is not hers?
4. Explain the mood of the extract.
5. How are Grusha and Simon potrayed in the extract?
6. What is the role of the Singer in this extract?
7. Identify and illustrate one theme from extract.
8. Grusha tells Simon Shashava, “Don’t go away! He isn’t mine! He isn’t mine!” From elsewhere in
the play, quote the instances where she states the opposite.
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June 7, 2019
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Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
When my love swears that she is made of truth,
I do believe her, though I know she lies.
That she might think me some untutored youth,
Unlearned in the world’s false subleties.
Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
Although she knows my days are past the best.
Simply I credit her false speaking tongue
On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed.
But wherefore says shes not unjust?
And wherefore says not I that I am old?
O love’s best habit is seeming trust,
And age in love loves not to have years told.
Therefore I lie with her, and she with me,
And in our faults by lies we flattered be.
Questions.
(i) Identify and illustrate the sound patterns in the poem.
(ii) Explain and illustrate the rhyme scheme in the poem.
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June 7, 2019
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You are chairperson of your school’s Drama Club. Your group has participated in the just concluded National
Drama Competition in Nakuru.
Write a report to the patron about the trip. In your report indicate what you accomplished, the problem you
experienced and what cautionary measures you would take during such trips.
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June 7, 2019
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State the differences between the lakes on the eastern and western areas of East African Rift Valley.
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June 7, 2019
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Explain how each of the following lakes were formed :
(a) Victoria
(b) Tanganyika
(c) Chala
(d) Sare
(e) Kivu
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June 7, 2019
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With examples from Africa, explain the differences between the following river features:
(a) Inland delta and alluvial fan.
(b) Estuarine delta and an estuary.
(c) Bluff and river cliff.
(d) Levees and river bank.
(e) River valley and river channel.
(f) Paired terrace and unpaired terrace.
(g) Drainage pattern and drainage system,
(h) Misfit river and deferred river,
(i) Antecedent drainage and superimposed drainage.
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June 7, 2019
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In what ways can we sustain the process of the hydrological cycle?
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June 7, 2019
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Explain factors that influence percolation of water.
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June 7, 2019
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Imaginative Composition (Compulsory)
Either
(a) Write a story that begins:
'.... It was an extra-ordinary sight that will remain imprinted in my memory….
Or
(b) Write a composition based on the proverb:
He who laughs last laughs best
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June 7, 2019
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List eight major indigenous tree species in West Africa.
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June 7, 2019
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Explain three reasons why only a small part of Kenya is forested.
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June 7, 2019
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Name two industries associated with forestry.
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June 7, 2019
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The following sentences has two possible meanings. Explain them.
Akinyi loves dancing more than Otieno
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June 7, 2019
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Fill in each blank space with the correct form of the word in brackets.
i) It is not possible to spell a word from her ……………………….. (pronounce)
ii) Do not wait for the bus, it comes to this town very ………………… (Regular)
iii) The hunt for the murderers has been …………………………. (intense)
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June 7, 2019
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How do the following factors influence distribution of vegetation in Kenya.
(i) Variation in rainfall
(ii) Variation of temperature
(iii) Variation of altitude/relief.
(iv) Aspect
(v) Soil
(vi) Human activities
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June 7, 2019
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Explain three measures that the Kenyan government has taken to reduce the decline of natural vegetation cover.
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June 7, 2019
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Name the temperate grasslands found in the following countries:
• Canada
• Russia
• Australia
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June 7, 2019
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Fill in the blanks with suitable preposition.
i) His breath smelt ………………………. alcohol.
ii) She was living ………………………… her means.
iii) She sang her heart …………………….
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June 7, 2019
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What is isothermal layer?
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June 7, 2019
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How does clearance of vegetation cause climate change?
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June 7, 2019
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Read the following narrative and answer the questions which follow.
There was a great famine in the land where Obunde and his wife, Oswera, lived with their nine children. The
only creatures who had some food were the ogres and before they would part with their food, they demanded a lot
of things.
One day, Oswera went to one Ogre’s home and asked him for some food, for by then her children were almost
dying of hunger.
‘I have no more food except sweet potatoes, the ogre told her.
‘I shall be happy to have the potatoes. We have nothing, not a grain of food at my house and the children are
starving. Please let me have some and I shall repay you after the harvest.
‘No, if you want food you must exchange with something right now. Will you give me one of your children
in exchange for my potatoes? Oswera hesitated, her children were dear to her, but then they would die without
food.
‘Yes, I shall let you have one of them for his meal, if only you could let us have some potatoes,’ Oswera
answered. Then she took a big basket full of potatoes and told the ogre the exact time he could go to her home to
collect one of her children for a meal.
Oswera thought hard and she decided she would not give a single one of her children to the ogre for a meal.
She therefore cut young banana stalks and cooked them nicely.
When the ogre came, she gave them to him and the beast greedily went away satisfied. Soon the potatoes
were finished and she had to go to the ogre again.
Oswera and Obunde, her husband kept on cooking banana stalks for the ogre each time he came for one of
their children, until one day, she had no more banana stalks to cook for the animal.
“You have now eaten all my children, yet we still need the potatoes. What shall we give your now?” Oswera
asked in despair.
‘Then I shall come for you and your husband,’ the ogre replied angrily as he helped Oswera to load her basket
of potatoes on her head.
‘Yes come tomorrow at the usual time in the afternoon and get me. I shall have cooked myself for you,”
Oswera said calmly.
The following day the ogre went promptly as Oswera had told him and he found the home almost deserted.
He looked everywhere but a part from Obunde there was no trace of anybody.
Then he looked at the usual place and found a huge bowl of a big meal Oswera had cooked for him. The ogre
did not realize they had prepared a dog instead of Oswera. When he had eaten the ogre told Obunde he would
come for him the following day. Obunde got very worried and that night he could not sleep. The following day
he started crying:
Ah Oswera my wife, how did you cook yourself and how shall I cook myself for the ogre?” He sat down in
the dust of his compound and wept. Oswera became very annoyed with her husband.
You, you stupid, foolish man! Why sit and cry there all day long? How do you think I cooked myself? Take
one of the dogs and quickly prepare it for the ogre!’
Very quickly Obunde got up, caught, killed and prepared a dog for the ogre. Then he joined his wife and
children in a huge hollow part of a tree in his compound where they had hidden.
That day the ogre knew he was going to have his last meal of juicy human flesh. Being a generous and
unselfish ogre, he brought many of his fellow ogres. They were going to have a feat.
Suddenly as they were eating, they heard a man singing very happily. No they could not believe it! It was
Obunde singing! And he was boasting of how he had cheated the ogre.
The greedy ogre ate banana stalks
Not my family;
The greedy ogre ate a dog
Not Obunde Magoro!
The greedy ogre ate banana stalks
Not my family;
Now come and get Obunde,
His children and wife.
Obunde sang the words and the ogres got very angry. The first ogre rushed into the hollow of the tree, but
Oswera had heated a long piece of iron until it was white. She pushed the iron into the ogre’s mouth. The beast
fell down dead. The next one rushed into the hollow and Oswera killed him in the same way. In this way she
killed all the ogres and saved her husband and all their children.
My story ends there.
Questions
(a) Whom do you consider to be the hero in this story and why?
(b) In your own words, describe the setting of this story.
(c) Compare Obunde and the ogre as they are presented in this story.
(d) What is the role of the song in this story?
(e) Describe the character of Oswera, the wife as seen in this story.
(f) Other than the song, identify and illustrate one other feature of style used in the story.
(g) (a) Explain the moral teaching of this story.
(b) Use an appropriate proverb to summarize this lesson.
(h) List down three characteristics of the above genre.
(i) If you were to collect the above, what methods of data collection would you use?
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June 7, 2019
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Distinguish between seismograph and seismogram.
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June 7, 2019
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Give two of escarpments in East Africa.
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June 7, 2019
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Name two examples of Horst Mountains in East Africa.
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June 7, 2019