GRADE 5 AUGUST 2024 ENGLISH ASSIGNMENT.

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Write your name, class and phone number in the spaces given.
2. Do ALL questions ONLINE.
3. After you finish doing your work online, SUBMIT. It will be marked immediately. Check and do Corrections.
Read the following passage filling in the blank spaces with the most appropriate words given in the choices.
Many families __1__ displaced by floods every year. Together with their ___2___ or cattle, they stay in the __3___ for days. When it has not ____4___, they do not have a problem. When it does, the roads become __5____.

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Kanje lived in such a place. She usually walked for a ___6___ to work and __7__ a river ___8__ She worked until lunch time one day then ___9___ went back home for lunch . Suddenly, it started to ___10____. When she got to the bridge, the river had already ___11___. There was __12___ to help her cross the river __13____. Kanje returned to __14___ hungry __15___ tired.

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Choose the sentence which is correctly punctuated.

17. Choose the correct preposition. The senator stopped the meeting _____ it was raining.

18. Which one of these statements is correct?

19. Our teacher urged us to revise ______ for the forthcoming examination.

20. Which one of these is not correct.
In a library we should_________

21. The sister to my nephew is my ________

22. Identify the silent letter in the word comb.

23.If you don't eat well, you will ________ thin.

24. If you go partying at night, you will ______asleep in class.

25. Which of these words has the same meaning as sickness?

26. After Henry painted the picture, it looked ________ than before.

27.  My bag is the_______ of all.

28. We go home _____ bus.

29. Mother goes to the market _________ foot.

30. All parties agreed _____ plans to expand the school.

Read the passage below and answer questions 31-40.

The computer as we know it today had its beginning with a 19th century English mathematics professor named Charles Babbage.
He designed the Analytical Engine and it was this design that the basic framework of the computers of today are based on.

Generally speaking, computers can be classified into three generations. Each generation lasted for a certain period of
time,and each gave us either a new and improved computer or an improvement to the existing computer.

First generation: 1937 – 1946 - In 1937 the first electronic digital computer was built by Dr. John V. Atanasoff and Clifford Berry. It was called the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC). In 1943 an electronic computer name the Colossus was built for the military. Other developments continued until in 1946 the first general– purpose digital computer, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) was built. It is said that this computer weighed 30 tons, and had 18,000 vacuum tubes which was used for processing. When this computer was turned on for the first time lights dim in sections of Philadelphia. Computers of this generation could only perform single task, and they had no operating system.

Second generation: 1947 – 1962 - This generation of computers used transistors instead of vacuum tubes which were more reliable. In 1951 the first computer for commercial use was introduced to the public; the Universal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC 1). In 1953 the International Business Machine (IBM) 650 and 700 series computers made their mark in the computer world. During this generation of computers over 100 computer programming languages were developed, computers had memory and operating systems. Storage media such as tape and disk were in use also were printers for output.

Third generation: 1963 - present - The invention of integrated circuit brought us the third generation of computers. With this invention computers became smaller, more powerful more reliable and they are able to run many different programs at the same time. In1980 Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS-Dos) was born and in 1981 IBM introduced the personal computer (PC) for home and office use. Three years later Apple gave us the Macintosh computer with its icon driven interface and the 90s gave us Windows operating system. The CPU is the central processing unit of the computer.

As a result of the various improvements to the development of the computer we have seen the computer being used in all areas of life. It is a very useful tool that will continue to experience new development as time passes.

32. The person who designed the framework for today's computer was called___

33. According to the passage, computers can be classified into how many generations?

34. The first computer was called _____

35. Which one of the following years is one likely to find the second generation computers?

36. The first generation computer could weigh up to __________

37. Today's computers are called the ______ generation computers.

38. Which computer today can be carried around to work with?

39. In computer language CPU stands for_____

40. Which one of the following words would closely mean the same as generation as used in the passage?

Thank you for completing your English homework.