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a) Write a story ending with
...as I sat down wondering why all this had happened, I came to the realization that 'when the deal is too good, think twice'.
or
b) 'Both men and women should have equal rights in the job market.” Using adequate illustrations, write a composition for or against the statement.
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April 8, 2019
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Rewrite the following sentences according to instructions given after each.
i) Had John not quickly intervened, the situation would have worsened. (Begin: But....)
ii) If he arrives on time, we will leave for the party. (Rewrite using: should) iii) Ben was too weak to stand for the rest of the presentation. (Begin: So ... .)
iv) The mourners sang a sad song. (Begin: A sad ...)
v) 'Is there any pending issue for discussion?' asked the chairperson. (Rewrite in reported speech.
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April 8, 2019
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Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow
The earth does not get fat.
It makes an end- Of those who wear the head plumes We shall die on the earth.
The earth
does not get fat.
It makes an end of those who act swiftly as heroes.
Shall we die on the earth?
Listen O earth.
We shall mourn because of you. Listen O earth.
Shall we all die on the earth? The earth does not get fat.
It makes an end of The chiefs.
Shall we die on earth? The earth does not get fat.
It makes an end Of the women chiefs.
Shall we die on earth?
Listen o earth. We shall mourn because of you.
Listen O earth.
Shall we all die on earth? The earth does not get fat.
It makes an end Of the nobles.
The earth does not get fat It makes an end of the royal women.
Shall we die on earth?
The earth does not get fat.
It makes an end
of the common people.
Shall we die on the earth?
The earth does not get fat.
It makes an end of all the beasts Shall we die on the earth?
Listen you who are asleep, who are left
tightly closed in the land.
Shall we all sink Into the earth? Listen O
Earth the sun is setting tightly.
We shall enter into the earth.
We shall not enter into the earth.
(From: 'The Heritage Of African Poetry
a) What is the poem about? (3 mks)
b) Who is the persona in the poem? (2 mks)
c) Identify and illustrate any two features of style used in the poem? (4 mks)
d) What is the tone of the persona in the poem? (2 mks)
e) What in the poem shows that death is indiscriminate in its manifestations? (2 mks)
f) Describe the political setting of the community from which the poem originates. (2 mks)
g) What is the mood of the poem? (2 mks)
h) Explain what the expressions below mean : (3 mks)
i) The earth does not get fat .
ii) Those who wear the head plumes
iii) Earth the sun is setting tightly
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April 8, 2019
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Explain four types of efficiency in education.
Date posted:
April 8, 2019
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Problem drinkers and alcoholics pay severe penalties for their drinking. It has been estimated that alcoholics are likely to die ten to twelve years sooner than non-alcoholics and half die before the age of fifty, which is one reason there are so few elderly alcoholics. The mortality rate (that is, the number of persons per 100,000 who die each year) among alcoholics is more than two and a half times higher than that of the general population.
Alcoholics often die under violent circumstances; serious accidents, homicide, and suicide are not uncommon. This, together with the physical deterioration accompanying alcoholism, helps explain the limits on life expectancy. No one really knows how many deaths are directly attributed to drinking, and all such statistics are estimates. One reason for our limited knowledge is that many physicians do not report alcoholism as the main cause of death out of concern for the feelings of the family of the deceased.
Research on the physiological effects of alcoholism has increased in the last few years. Heavy drinking is known to be
associated with various types of cancer, particularly among persons who also use tobacco. Alcohol abuse also increases the
probability of hypertension, stroke and coronary heart disease. Alcoholics frequently suffer illness and death from cirrhosis of the liver, a disease in which the liver becomes fatty, scarred and incapable of functioning normally. In large urban areas, cirrhosis is the fourth most common cause of death among men aged twenty -five to forty -five.
Alcohol affects the brain, often permanently damaging the mental functioning of alcoholics. Drinking may reduce the number of living cells in the brain. Since brain cells do not grow back, alcoholics may suffer from organic psychosis (a mental illness traceable to brain damages), loss of memory, and poor physical and mental coordination. One out of four persons who are admitted to mental hospitals are diagnosed as alcoholics and 40 percent of all admissions are alcohol related.
Many of the alcoholic inmates are unlikely to recover.
The unborn children of female alcoholics are subject to harm from drinking in what is called foetal alcohol
syndrome. Because alcohol tends to be a substitute for a balanced diet, alcoholics are often malnourished.
Consequently, the infants of alcoholic women are likely to be less healthy and less well developed than other babies.
Moreover, when a pregnant woman drinks, so, in effect, does her foetus. The new born children of alcoholic women may die shortly after birth unless they are medically treated from the shock to their systems for suddenly being cut off from alcohol. Furthermore, the impact of alcohol on the woman and her foetus is a major cause of birth defects and organically based mental deficiency among the newborn. The effects of foetal alcohol syndrome on the children of female alcoholics are usually chronic and may be permanently disabling. Clearly, it is not too much of an exaggeration to say that alcohol kills and maims people. When abused, alcohol is a highly dangerous drug.
a) Why are there so few elderly alcoholics ? (2 mks)
b) Outline two major factors limiting life expectancy among alcoholics according to the passage (2 mks)
c) Mention any four physiological effects of alcoholism (2 mks)
d) What reason makes physician find difficulty in reporting alcoholic related death? (2 mks)
e) Many of the alcoholic inmates are unlikely to recover. Rewrite beginning 'Recovery...' (1 mk)
f) Explain what the following sentence means:
'Alcohol tends to be a substitute for a balanced diet'
g) In not more than 70 words, summarize the effects of alcohol on the unborn babies. (5 mks)
h) Explain the meaning of the following words and phrases as used in the passage (4 mks)
i) mortality
ii) deterioration iii) diagnosed iv) cut off
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April 8, 2019
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Provide a word which sounds the same as each of the following
i) beer -
ii) lessen -
iii) mettle -
iv) heir -
v) quire
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April 8, 2019
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Read the poem below and then answer the questions that follow
Why do we Grumble?
Why do we grumble because a tree is bent
When, in our streets, there are even men who are bent? Why must we complain that a new moon is slanting? Can anyone reach the skies to straighten it?
Can't we see that some cocks have combs on their heads but no plumes in their tails?
And some have plumes in their tails but no claws on their toes? And others have claws on their toes but no power to crow? He who has a head has no cap to wear, and he who has a cap has no head to wear it on.
He who has good shoulders has no gown to wear on them, and he who has the gown
has no good shoulders to
wear it on.
The Owa has everything but a horse's stable.
Some great scholars of Ifa cannot tell the way to Ofa:
Others know the way to Ofa, but not one line of Ifa.
Great eaters have no food to eat, and great drinkers no wine to drink:
Wealth has a coat of many colors.
(An oral poem from Nigeria in Oral Poetry from Africa: Longman, U.K. 1983. Compiled by Jack Mapanje and Landeg White)
(i) Identify and illustrate two aspects that make this oral poem easy to perform. (4 marks)
(ii) Which words would you stress on the last line of the poem 3, and why? (2 marks)
(iii) How would you perform line 4 of the poem ? (2 marks)
(a) Assume that you are the principal of Bidii School where the governor makes a visit. Introduce Sarah Mwangi
(a medical doctor) who is a member of the Board of Management to the Governor (2 marks)
You.
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April 8, 2019
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Read the passage below and fill in each blank space with an appropriate word
Some scientists have been (1)________that the continuing destruction of our environment (2)_________that at some point, the earth will not be able to (3)________ even a quarter of us. This does not come as a (4)________at all. In the beginning, God created the earth beautiful and green (5)_______ with time, our stubbornness, has ruined it all. With all the (6)________ God has given us, we should be able to look (7)_______ our environment better. I am sure God feels (8)________ when .He sees this destruction. My roommate and (9)_______ have come up with an ambitious programme (10)_______ to as Save the Earth to help the government tackle or address the problem.
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April 8, 2019
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You have just received your KCSE result and have score an “A” plain as your mean grade. Consequently, you have won a scholarship to study law at Harvard University. The university wants to know more about you and has requested for your
brief autobiography. Write your autobiography and email it to the Dean Faculty of Law, Harvard University
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April 8, 2019
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Explain instances when a court might review an administrative action.
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April 8, 2019
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Read the poem below and then answer the question that follow
AFRICA
Africa my Africa
Africa of proud warriors in the ancestral savannah's Africa my grandmother sings of
Beside her distant river
I have never seen you.
But my gaze is full of your blood. Your black spilt over the field. The blood of your sweat The sweat of your toil The toil of slavery
The slavery of your children. Africa, tell me Africa, Are you the back that bends.
Lies down under the weight of humbleness? The trembling back stripped red.
That says yes to the whips on the road of noon? Solemnly a voice answers me
“Impetuous child, that young and sturdy tree. That tree that grows.
There splendidly alone among white and faded flowers. Is Africa, your Africa. It puts forth new shoots. With patience and stubbornness pouts forth news shoots. Slowly its fruits grow to have
That bitter taste of freedom.
1. Who is the persona 2 mks
2. What is the message of the poem? 3 mks
3. Identify any three stylistic devices used in the poem. 6 mks
4. What is the tone of the poem? 3 mks
5. From the above poem, explain the meaning of the following lines?
a)' But the gaze is full of your blood. Your blood spilt over the field. 1mk
b)' Africa, my Africa
Africa of proud warriors in the ancestral Savannah 1mk
6. But my gaze is full of your blood. 1mk
(Add an appropriate question tag)
7. What is the meaning of the following words?
i) Solemnly
ii) Sturdy
iii) Toil
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April 8, 2019
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What is the role of management accounting in the overall performance of the organization?
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April 8, 2019
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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
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April 8, 2019
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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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April 8, 2019
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What is the centrality of performance in oral literature?
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April 8, 2019
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State five uses of copper in pre-colonial Africa.
Date posted:
April 7, 2019
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Two towns P(60° N, 15° W) and Q(60°N, 30°E) are on the same parallel of latitude. An aircraft flying along the parallel of latitude takes 4 hours 10 minutes to fly from P to Q. Taking the radius of the earth to be 6370 km, calculate to the nearest whole number,
i)the distance covered by the aircraft from P to Q
ii)the speed of the aircraft.
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April 6, 2019
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Explain Five Reasons Why Kenya Is Changing Its System Of Education From That Of(8-4-4 To 2-6-6-3).
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April 6, 2019
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Reasons Why Kenyans Adopted The New Constitution 2010
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April 6, 2019
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Discuss The Process Of Law Making
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April 6, 2019
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What are the effects of maternal practices to a developing foetus?
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April 5, 2019
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Briefly explain several ways in which agriculture can indirectly contributes to creation of employment opportunities.
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April 5, 2019
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Discuss criticisms of training and visit systems that hinders agricultural extentionists not to use the training and visit (T&V) approach in agricultural extension work.
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April 5, 2019
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A radioactive element decays to 1/128 of its original activity after 49 days. Determine its
half –life
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April 5, 2019
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The figure shows the circuit of a modern X-ray tube
Name the part labeled C and state its function
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April 5, 2019
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An x-ray tube is operating with an anode potential of 12Kv and a current of 10.0m.A:
(i) Calculate the number of electrons hitting the anode per second
(ii) Determine the velocity with which the electrons strike the target
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April 5, 2019
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Give three European countries that signed treaties with Seyyid Said
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April 5, 2019
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Describe the social organization of the Ameru during the pre-colonial times.
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April 5, 2019
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Outline the constitutional powers of the president in Kenya.
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April 5, 2019
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State three duties of the Prime Minister in Kenya.
Date posted:
April 5, 2019