Directions: Read the text and answer the multiple-choice question by

selecting the correct response. Only one response is correct.

After the service sector. agriculture is the next largest contributor to Kenya's
GDP. Agriculture, including fishing and forestry, accounted for 24 percent of
the GDP, 18 percent of wage employment and 50 percent of export revenue.
Kenya is the most industrially developed country in East Africa. Yet its
manufacturing sector accounts for just 14 per cent of the GDP. Kenya has a fast
growing cement production industry. It has an oil industry that processes
imported crude for domestic use. In addition to this, there is small scale
manufacturing of household goods, auto-parts and farm implements. This
sector is becoming a major contributor to the Kenyan economy. Other
industries include forestry, fishing and mining. Kenya has few minerals and the
mining industry is relatively small.

Question 1 of 15-Which of the following statements is true with reference to

the Kenyan economy?
1. Agriculture is the main pillar of the Kenyan Economy.
2. The manufacturing sector of Kenya is not as strong as it should be.
3. Kenya has a rapidly growing mining industry.
4. The overall contribution of the Kenyan small sector is negligible.
Directions: Read the text and answer the multiple-choice question by
selecting the correct response. Only one response is correct.
It is shocking to note that the majority of our schools do not even have the
buildings. The classes are taken under the trees. These schools cannot afford
the luxury of games. Sports activities in are nonexistent as the schools and
colleges do not have infrastructure to give students the proper training. The
hockey stick is present but the ball absent; the football is in front of us but
without air. Sports generate sportsman spirit in the child, the ability to take
decisions according to the situations and to struggle in situations that do not
favor them.
Question 2 of 15-Which of the following most accurately summarizes the
opinion of the author in the text?
1. Sports and games generate a feeling of competition in the child and
strengthen it.
2. The schools lack sports infrastructure.
3. The school education often fails to cover an important aspect of child
education.
4. The school curriculums need to be revisited to include sports as an
important part.
Most people don’t mind working out a bit, but are discouraged by the thought
of exercising hard. The idea of sweating buckets is so daunting that they avoid
exercising. Fortunately, exercise is not a matter of all or nothing. There is some
reward at every level of effort, provided it is regular. Spend at least 30 minutes
a day in action like brisk walking to errands climbing stairs, carrying heavy
shopping or children, doing outdoor gardening. Your rewards will not be
immediate, but you can expect a reduced risk of problems like brittle bones,
heart disease and poor blood circulation. You work up a decent appetite and
sleep well, but improvement in body-shape will be minimal.Light regular
exercise helps your heart. Such activity can include anything from brisk
walking, jogging, cycling, swimming, any light sport or even disco dancing. The
reward is immunity to colds and flu, less stress, slightly healthier levels of
cholesterol and blood pressure. The figure trims down a little but only
gradually.
Question 3 of 15
Read the text and answer the question by selecting all the correct responses.
More than one response is correct.
Which of the following statements about light exercise can be supported from
the text?
1. Even some routine activities can serve as light exercise.
2. If putting your body into complete shape is your aim, you might be in for
some disappointment.
3. It is necessary to exercise different parts of the body daily.
4. Put in some aerobic activity for working up a sweat.
5. It builds resistance to chronic diseases and infections, and your heart
performs strongly.
Communication is the sharing of information. It is the power to create in the
minds of others, feelings or information that you want them to have. It is the
need to communicate that has given rise to speech, language, alphabets, and
writing. The same need led to the invention of paper, printing presses,
typewriters, and finally computers and the internet. The power to
communicate in depth has allowed humans to dominate earth. The fast
development of the same power has allowed human technological evolution to
overtake biological and social evolution.
There are three principal needs of communication. The need to communicate
in presence of the receiver gave rise to speech and language. The need to
communicate in one’s absence gave rise to alphabet, writing, paper, printing
press, all kinds of recording devices, and finally the modern day computer with
its features. The need to communicate over a distance included everything
that one needed to communicate in one’s absence, but also gave rise to
signals, telegraph, telephone, the postal system and the internet.

Question 4 of 15-Read the text and answer the question by selecting all the
correct responses. More than one response is correct.
Which of the following questions about communication can be answered from
the text?
1. Why do we communicate?
2. How do we communicate?
3. What do we communicate?
4. Where do we communicate?
5. When do we communicate?
Question 5 of 15-The text boxes in the left panel have been placed in a
random order. Restore the original order by dragging the text boxes from the
left panel to the right panel
1. Although there is not yet a cure for the illness, there may be hope for a cure
with a protein called nerve growth factor.
2. Alzheimer’s disease impairs a person’s ability to recall memories, both
distant memories and memories as recent as a few hours before.
3. Using a group of rats with impaired memory, the scientists gave half of the
rats doses of nerve growth factor while giving the other half a blood protein as
a placebo, thus creating a control group.
4. Based on this relationship, scientists from the University of Lund in Sweden
and the University of California at San Diego designed an experiment to test
whether doses of nerve growth factor could reverse the effects of memory loss
caused by Alzheimer’s.
5. The protein is produced by nerve cells in the same region of the brain where
Alzheimer’s occurs.
Question 6 of 15
The text boxes in the left panel have been placed in a random order. Restore
the original order by dragging the text boxes from the left panel to the right
panel.
1. High-fat diets and “life in the fast lane” have long been known to contribute
to the high incidence of heart failure.
2. A higher percentage of heart attacks occur in cold weather, and more people
experience heart failure on Monday than on any other day of the week.
3. Researchers have become increasingly interested in identifying the potential
risk factors that trigger heart attacks.
4. But according to new studies, the list of risk factors may be significantly
longer and quite surprising.
5. In addition, people are more susceptible to heart attacks in the first few
hours after waking.
Question 7 of 15
Directions: In the text below, some words are missing. Click words from the
drop-down box below to the appropriate place in the text. To undo an
answer choice, drag the word back to the box below the text.
Drax, operator of Britain's largest coal-fired power station, is Blank 1 plans to
build two biomass plants in the UK with Germany's Siemens in a fresh Blank 2
to the future of renewable energy. The company Blank 3 a lack of financial
help from the government for the decision which involved an Blank 4 of
around 1.4bn.appreciated
Options- shaping, blow, boost , blamed , investment , income, scrapping
Question 8 of 15-Directions: In the text below, some words are missing. Click
words from the drop-down box below to the appropriate place in the text. To
undo an answer choice, drag the word back to the box below the text.
The world has come a long way from the forbidding computing mainframes of
the 1960s and 1970s. The power of Blank 1 has been brought to the Blank 2 of
every user across the world. The progress in computer and communications
technology has been Blank 3. Most people, organizations and countries have
been Blank 4 in one way or the other by the rapid spread of the Internet.
Options-energy, fingertips, spared, tremendous, influenced, slow, computing
Question 9 of 15
Directions: In the text below, some words are missing. Click words from the
drop-down box below to the appropriate place in the text. To undo an
answer choice, drag the word back to the box below the text.
The field of Leadership Development, with its Blank 1 of books, seminars,
courses, videos, and executive coaches, has become a billion dollar industry.
Unfortunately, I believe that much of what is Blank 2 within the industry is
simply misleading and Blank 3. Books such as ‘Leadership for Dummies’, ‘The
Idiots Guide to Leading’, and ‘Leadership Made Easy’, all Blank 4 on the fact
that many want to be a leader, but few are actually able, or want to put forth
the effort required to really become one.
options- scarcity, truthful, plethora ,capitalise ,shown, embodied ,abstain,
deceptive
Question 10 of 15
Directions: In the text below, some words are missing. Click words from the
drop-down box below to the appropriate place in the text. To undo an
answer choice, drag the word back to the box below the text.
Vincent Macaulay Blank 1 his research on the basis of ecological and
archaeological evidence and Blank 2 that “modern humans left Africa via a
southern migration route“. They had to master Blank 3 travel, life was pretty
hard for them, but Blank 4 the Red Sea would not have been impossible and
they had successfully crossed the sea on a raft. They used boats to Blank 5 a
distance of 12000 km to reach Australia.
Options -rowing, crossing ,reflected ,contended, showing, conducted ,ocean,
cover
Question 11 of 15
Directions: Below is a text with blanks. Click on each blank, a list of choices
will appear. Select the appropriate answer choice for each blank.
Little more than a hundred years ago, Seattle in America was called “the
emerald city”. It was a quite lumbering town. The gold rush Blank 1 the city
into an industrial and commercial city of the Pacific Northwest. Situated
between Elliott Bay and Lake Washington, it is bounded by the Olympic
Mountains and the Cascade Range. The city withstood the Indian attack of
1856, anti-Chinese riots of 1880 and a Blank 2 fire of 1889 and soon emerged
as the gateway to the Orient and Alaska. In the 1890s, it was the chief supply
depot for the Yukon and Alaskan gold rushes. World War II brought a
tremendous prosperity to the city, with shipyards and the aircraft industry
playing important roles in its Blank 3 and advancement. In 1891, a four page
paper was published by Alden J. Blethen with a daily circulation of 3500 which
rose to 70000 in 1915. Mr.Blethen was a very hardworking American who
dreamt that “The Seattle Times” would serve the city for centuries. “The
Seattle Times”, has won Seven Pulitzer Prizes; it is Blank 4 internationally for its
quality reporting, freedom of the press, excellent printing, photography and
design. The Company owns seven affiliate newspapers in Washington and
Maine, a network of online news, information, and research and advertising
web sites. It has the largest Sunday circulation network. Today, under the
Blank 5 of the fourth generation of Blenthens, more than 1.5 million people
read “The Seattle Times”.
Blank 1 –reserved ,stagnated ,transformed , created
Blank 2 –disastrous ,unfortunate, miraculous ,hopeless
Blank 3 -creative, modernity ,modesty, existence
Blank 4 –assumed , recognised ,considered,appreciated
Blank 5- guidance ,Light, pressure, assumption
Question 12 of 15
Directions: Below is a text with blanks. Click on each blank, a list of choices
will appear. Select the appropriate answer choice for each blank.
The Jazz Age Blank 1 the period of the 1920s, the years between the end of the
First World War and the beginning of the Great Depression in America, where
the African Americans brought their culture and new jazz music and dance.
Styles of music Blank 2 Dixieland and Blues and Charleston styles became
immensely popular. Other dances such as Cake Walk, the Turkey Trot, the
Black bottom and Bunny Hug gained Blank 3 popularity. Louis Daniel
Armstrong displayed his amazing talents as a trumpeter, comet player, and
singer during the jazz age. Scott Fitzgerald was perhaps the first author who
coined the name “jazz age” referring to the wealthy White flappers, whose
antics were immortalised in the cartoons of John Jr. In the 1920s, a new
woman was born. She was the heroine of the jazz age. The flapper was a new
rebel defying old Blank 4 of acceptable feminine behaviour and no longer
confined to home and tradition. She smoked in the public, drank, exposed her
limbs and danced the nights away. In the Jazz Age, the female bust was
suppressed, the waist disappeared, the shoulders became broader and narrow
boyish hips were preferred. Health and beauty clubs emerged which helped
women Blank 5 their silhouettes while getting fitter and healthier.
Blank 1-inscribes,depicts ,describes ,prescribes
Blank 2- Including , like ,referring ,naming
Blank 3-gigantic ,gross ,immense ,infinite
Blank 4-council , assembly , procedures , conventions
Blank 5 –refine , define , explain , claim
Question 13 of 15
Directions: Below is a text with blanks. Click on each blank; a list of choices
will appear. Select the appropriate answer choice for each blank.
The real trick -- as demonstrated yesterday at the Hammerstein Ballroom on
West 34th Street amid a blast of sonic and visual spectacle celebrating the
150th anniversary of the so-called safety elevator -- is Blank 1 people that they
will not go down unexpectedly at bone-shattering velocity.
The Otis Elevator Company, a subsidiary of the United Technologies
Corporation, built its Blank 2 on the invention, which turned out to be the
grandfather of the modern passenger elevator. It featured a spring device that
Blank 3 into place automatically upon the severing of the hoist rope. The
company's founder, Elisha Graves Otis, Blank 4 his machine, which he called
the safety elevator, at P. T. Barnum's Crystal Palace Exposition in New York in
1854, a year after he sold his first three for $300 each.
''The thing that made the skyscraper possible is this: one was Blank 5 if the
rope broke,'' Frank Adams, an engineer for the company, said as he waited for
a re-enactment of the Crystal Palace show to begin.
Blank 1-convincing ,protecting ,persuading ,insuring
Blank 2-character , reputation , opinion ,theory
Blank 3- closed , joined ,opened ,locked
Blank 4 – classified , analysed ,arranged ,displayed
Blank 5-safe ,secure ,vulnerable ,dangerous
Question 14 of 15
Directions: Below is a text with blanks. Click on each blank; a list of choices
will appear. Select the appropriate answer choice for each blank.
All man–made laws are designed to Blank 1 human conduct in the interest of
society. In absence of such rules each person would regard himself free to do
what he likes, regardless of impact of his actions on others' corresponding right
of freedom of action. In fact, the very existence of society would be Blank 2 if
there were no universally recognized laws. A lawless society would mean
endless confusion, possibly a reign of terror, and might result in a terrible mess
where the only effective law of the jungle. Before regular laws were Blank 3
and enforced, might was right: the physically stronger individual dominated
the set–up and the weak person had perforce to surrender to the wishes of the
might one or get destroyed. Laws thus enforce justice; provide Blank 4 rights
and opportunities to everyone, weak or strong, male or female, rich or poor.
Blank 1-control, dictate, describe, regulate
Blank 2-endangered ,risky ,Exterminated ,peril
Blank 3-governed ,pronounced ,enacted ,implemented
Blank 4 – statutory , equal, legal ,civic
Question 15 of 15
Directions: Below is a text with blanks. Click on each blank; a list of choices
will appear. Select the appropriate answer choice for each blank.
At the corporate level, businesses need to ask themselves Blank 1 questions
such as ‘Which business should we be in?’ At the business level, a business
needs to ask itself. ‘How do we Blank 2?’ It is at this latter level that we
position our thinking. The organization has decided that it will compete in a
certain market and is seeking ways to optimize what it should do in pursuing its
goals, in other words, what its strategy should be. How we think about
business strategy, has evolved and changed as new and better ideas have
become more widely Blank 3 and accepted as the needs of business have also
changed. Business strategy has had many definitions but these are two that
give a sense of what is involved, Blank 4 of where we are in time: Strategy is
about matching the competencies of the organization to its environment. A
strategy describes how an organization aims to meet its objectives’.
Blank 1- elementary , structural , commercial , monetary , fundamental
Blank 2 – compete , survive , engage ,stay, brilliant
Blank 3-appraised ,rewarded , awarded ,known ,acknowledged
Blank 4-,inspite ,despite ,irrespective ,mindful ,aware