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Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
Bananas ripe and green and ginger- root,
Cocal in pads and alligator pears,
And tangerines and mangoes and grapefruits,
Fit for the highest prize at parish fairs.
Set in the window, bringing memories,
Of fruits- trees raden by low- singing rills,
And deny dawns and mystical blue skies
In benediction over non- like hills
My eyes grew dim, and I could no more gaze,
A wave of longing thought my body swept,
And, hungry for the old, familiar ways,
I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.
(Claude Mckay)
(i) How does the poet achieve rhythm in the poem above? (3 mks)
(ii) Identify and comment on the rhyme scheme (2 mks)
(iii) Which words would you stress in the last line of the poem? Why? (2 mks)
(B) Construct two sentences using each of the following words. In the first sentence use the word as a verb and the second as a noun
(i) Record
(ii) Disgrace
(iii) Present
(iv) Refuse
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April 3, 2019
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Explain the factors that have led to dominance of subsistence production despite development
in technology in Kenya.
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April 3, 2019
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Write in full the following abbreviations:
i) Franco
ii) O.N.
iii) C.W.O
iv) I.O.U
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April 3, 2019
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For each of the following production activities, indicate whether it is direct or indirect type of
production.
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April 3, 2019
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You are the student who excelled in the K.C.S.E examination in your former school last year. The principal has requested you to prepare a speech on 'time management' Which you will deliver to the students during the school prize giving day.
Write the speech
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April 3, 2019
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Classify the following items into either basic wants or secondary wants
ITEM WANT
(a) Furniture
(b) Medical care
(c) Sausages
(d) shelter
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April 3, 2019
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Explain three reasons why listening is an important aspects of communication (3 mks)
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April 3, 2019
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Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
THE EAGLE
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Rung’d with azure world, he stands
The wrinkled sea beneath with crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls
a)(i) Identify two sound patterns employed in the poem (2 mks)
(ii) What has the poet achieved by use of the patterns above? (2 mks)
(iii) Which word would you stress in the last line and why? (2 mks)
(iv) What gesture would you use while reciting line 1 of the poem? (2 mks)
b. A small woman who cooks better than your mother. Answer. Bee,
(i) Identify the above genre (1mark)
(ii) Translate into English, an example of the genre you identified in (i) above using the correct format (3 mks)
(c) Write, another word with similar pronunciation as these (5 mks)
i. Time
ii. Aren’t
iii. Need
iv. Weigh
v. Aural
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April 3, 2019
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Outline four benefits that accrue to a company by using a prize winning competition to promote
its products
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April 3, 2019
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Indicate whether the following resources are renewable or non-renewable
Resource Classification
1. Limestone
2. Natural rubber
3. Solar energy
4. Biogas
5. Rivers
6. Wildlife
7. Soda ash
8. Forest
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April 3, 2019
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Identify four sources of energy available in Kenya
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April 3, 2019
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State four factors that may limit an individual ability to satisfy his basic wants.
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April 3, 2019
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The table below contains various categories of members of the society. In the spaces provided
indicate the activity of social responsibility that a firm should undertake to each group
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April 3, 2019
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Complete the following dialogue between you, the principal and the school watchman.
Watchman: …………………………………………………………
Principal: You have done a good thing. Bring him inside.
Watchman: (pushing you) ______________ (1 mark)
You: Don’t push me.
Principal: I have heard about you many times.
………………………………………. (2 mks)
You: No sir, I did not sneak out of the school. I was just standing at the gate.
Principal: …………………………………………… (2 mks)
You: Yes, he’s lying. He is a very big liar.
He’s always been against me.
Principal: Young man, you have to apologize to the watchman for calling him a liar.
You: ……………………………………………
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April 3, 2019
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A guest speaker came to your school and after her presentation, every student wanted to shake her hand as her speech was very captivating. Explain two verbal and two non- verbal skills the speaker may have employed to make her presentation more effective. (4 mks)
i. Verbal skills
ii. Non- verbal cues
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April 3, 2019
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Read the following poem and answer the questions that follow.
This is the voice of people
From the people to some people
From the hillocks and the steeple
This voice will cause a ripple
For it is the voice of the people
From the hills together we have sung
As children in the swings we have swung
We have cherished cheerfully our youth
Now it’s Bang! Bang! Bang!
And pangas causing pangs
We are tired
We are tired my people
Hearken this voice of the people!
(a)
(i) Explain four features of style the writer has used to achieve rhythm (4 mks)
(ii) Which line would you emphasize in this poem and why? (2 mks)
(iii) Describe the rhyme in the first stanza (2 mks)
(b) Give words that are pronounced the same as each of the following (5 mks)
(i) Way
(ii) Tide
(iii) Him
(iv) Sail
(v) Flu
(c) Circle the silent letter for each of these words
-Thump
- Solemn
-Parliament
- Snatch
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April 3, 2019
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Mr. Mirugi has opened a retail outlet at Lukoye Trading centre. Advise him on four ways of
creating an enabling business environment for the prosperity of his business
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April 3, 2019
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Fill in the cloze test below.
A __ (1) __ was arraigned before the magistrate in the Kazi Bure law __ (2) __ yesterday afternoon. Aged about twenty three, the man was __ (3) __ of trespassing into his neighbours __ (4) __ and stealing a chicken. The man however pleaded not __ (5)__. He claimed he did not even know Kasee, the complainant. He even __ (6) __ having met him as he escaped with the chicken. The man __ (7) __ laughter when he claimed he did not even take meat. He said Kasee was trying to _____8_____ old scores with him by taking him to court. The magistrate ordered him to be ________9________ in custody until proper _______10_______ were carried out.
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April 3, 2019
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Name the internal environments whose effects are described by the following statements:
(a) Allows duties to be allocated to the right people thus resulting
in higher productivity
(b) Helps the business achieve its objectives e.g. higher production
level of goods and services
(c) Makes employees to acquire norms and code of conduct that is
acceptable to all
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April 3, 2019
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You have just completed your form four examination. You then come across an advertisement on Computer studies at a newly opened computer college near your residence. You are interested and decide to make a visit to get more information. Complete the dialogue below. Read through first before filling in the blanks.
Receptionist: Good morning. Can I help you?
Student: _______________ ___ (2 mks)
Receptionist: Are you interested in the January intake?
Student: _____________________ (1 mark)
Receptionist: Fine. O.K Well, we have ....um.... the short intensive full time courses this term.
Student: ___________________________ (2 mks)
Receptionist: Yes. Each course last for three weeks
Student: ________________________ (2mks)
Receptionist: Well, it's about twenty- three hours a week. Usually four and a half days each week.
Student: _____________________ (2 mks)
Receptionist: The whole course will cost you Kshs. 15,000. We require a deposit of Ksh 5, 000 and Ksh 500 registration fee.
Student: ___________________________. (1 mark)
Receptionist: You're welcome
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April 3, 2019
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Identify the importance of the following types of environment to a business.
i) Intermediaries
ii) Technological
iii) Demographic
iv) Competitors
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April 3, 2019
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Complete the list below by getting another word pronounced in the, same way as the ones
i) Pair, pear, _____
ii) _____, sent, cent
iii) Write, ____ right.
iv) ______, chord
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April 3, 2019
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Success is Counted sweetest (By Emily Dickinson)
Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need
Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag today
Can tell the definition
So clear of victory
As he defeated - dying –
On those forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Burst agonized and clear
(a). Describe the rhyme scheme of this poem. (2 mks)
(b). Which words would you emphasize in a stanza one and why? (3 marks)
(c). i) Which words have an imperfect rhyme in the poem? (1 mark)
ii) A student play will be followed an awards dinner honoring students who have served both your school and the surrounding community. The mayor has been invited and will attend. You have been asked as the entertainment prefect to pass a vote of thanks on this day.
What non- verbal clues will make your speech effective? (4 mks)
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April 3, 2019
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The breath analysis ______________ for alcohol that was withdrawn after just _______ months use following legal challenges is set for a comeback. According ______ the traffic police chief all that is remaining a publication of a legal notice that will take care of the _______ loopholes that forced suspension of the device.
Alco Blow, as it was ____ known, was introduction at the beginning of December 2005.______ a short time, however, aggrieved motorists had managed to get court injunctions ______use of the device, and it was withdrawn in February, last year.
There were some serious issues around the gadget, _____ some of the complaints taken to court were frivolous. All in all, a system that makes it ____ to keep drunken drivers off our roads is for the benefit of all
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April 3, 2019
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List the characteristics of educational planning.
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April 3, 2019
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Outline the types of educational planning.
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April 3, 2019
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Give the reasons why the social demand for education has been so high that the government has not been able to meet it.
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April 3, 2019
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Read the poem below and answer the questions that follow. Adam's song
Come live with and be my love
Come romp with me in Eden's grave
In unabated joy, not shy
But unbashed by nudity
Where you can bare - sans shame - your
breast
Until the fell forbidden feast
Thereafter I shall toil and sweat
To earn whatever bread we eat
And you, in bearing children, shall
Know pain and suffering
The fall will bring us sickness, death and
fear
Embarrassment and underwear
(For which fig.donates its leaf)
And poets who are surely deaf
Bob Mckerity
(i). Describe the rhyme scheme of this poem. (2 marks)
(ii). Other than rhyme, identify and illustrate two sound devices used in this poem. How effectively have they been used? (2 marks)
(iii). Which words would you stress in the first and last lines? Explain.
(2 marks)
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April 3, 2019
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Describe the Social Demand Approach to Educational Planning
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April 3, 2019
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Functional writing
(a). Write a letter to the clerk of your local council complaining about the loud music in the bars near where you live. Indicate how residents spend sleepless nights due' to the loud music, and what you think should be done. (10 marks)
(b). Your family intends to go on holiday at Kilindi Beach Hotel. Write to the customer service Manager requesting for advance booking and transport charges. (10 marks
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April 3, 2019