LOLIPPOPS AND ROSES = IDIOMATIC PHRASES 5.

The following taboo phrases were used by

which writer? “I fart at thee”, “shit on your
Select the best answer to each question. head’, “dirty bastard”
1. Who wrote this line? “Where ignorance is a. Ernest Hemingway
bliss, it is folly to be wise”.
b. Henry James
a. Robert Browning
c. Ben Johnson
b. William Shakespeare
d. Arnold Bronte
c. Rudyard Kipling

d. Edgar Allan Poe 6. In the book’ The Lord of the Rings’, who or
what is Bilbo Baggins?
2. What nationality was Robert Louis Stevenson, a. man
writer of ‘Treasure Island’?
b. hobbit
a. English
c. wizard
b. Welsh
d. dwarf
c. Irish

d. Scottish 7. Name the book which opens with the line ‘All
children, except one grew up’?
3. Which Bronte writer authored “Jane Eyre”? a. The Jungle Book
a. Charlotte b. Tom Sawyer
b. Emily c. Peter Pan
c. Cristina d. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
d. Anne
8. How many lines does a sonnet have?
4. In which century were Geoffrey Chaucer’s a. 12
Canterbury Tales written?
b. 13
a. 14th
c. 14
b. 15th
d. 15
c. 16th

d. 17th 9. Who was the author of the famous storybook

‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’?

a. H.G. Wells
b. Lewis Carroll b. William Shakespeare’s play “Richard III”

c. Mark Twain c. Oscar Wilde’s short story “The Young King”

d. E.B. White d. Joyce Kilmer’s poem “Kings”

10. “Cabbages and Kings” (1904) is either a 13. Which novel, eventually published in 1945,
novel or a collection of related short stories was rejected by a New York publisher stating ‘it
written by O. Henry. In it, he coined the phrase is impossible to sell animal stories in the USA’?
“banana republic.” On what was his title based?
a. Animal Farm
a. Mark Twain’s “The Prince and the Pauper”
b. Black Beauty
b. Alice Hegan Rice’s “Mrs. Wiggs of the
Cabbage Patch” c. Watership Down

c. “The Shahnameh” — an 11th Century Persian d. The Tale of Peter Rabbit

epic poem

d. Lewis Carroll’s poem “The Walrus and the 14. Which writer of spy fiction, and creator of
Carpenter” Smiley, was rejected with the words ‘you are
welcome to **** – he hasn’t got any future’?

11. Two versions of Robert A. Heinlein’s novel a. Ian Fleming

“Stranger in a Strange Land” have been
b. John le Carré
published: the edited version first published in
1961 and the original full-length (60,000 words c. Eric Ambler
longer) published posthumously in 1991. From
what does the title derive? d. Len Deighton

a. The play “Antony and Cleopatra” by William

Shakespeare 15. ‘The Good Earth’ was rejected fourteen
times, before being published and going on to
b. The Old Testament Book of Exodus win the Pulitzer Prize. Who was the author?
c. The novel “Gulliver’s Travels” by Jonathan a. Pearl S. Buck
Swift
b. John Steinbeck
d. The book “Utopia” by Sir Thomas More
c. Edith Wharton

12. Southern American poet, novelist and d. Henry Miller

literary critic Robert Penn Warren wrote “All the
King’s Men” in 1946. The novel won the 1947
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. On what is the book’s 16. Irving Stone’s ‘Lust for Life’ was rejected
title based? sixteen times, with one rejection stating ‘a long,
dull, novel about an artist’. Which artist did the
a. A verse in the nursery rhyme “Humpty book feature?
Dumpty”
a. Sigmund Freud
b. John Noble d. Canterbury Tales

c. Michelangelo ANS. D

d. Vincent Van Gogh The collection of traditionally derived and orally

transmitted literature, material culture and
17. Who is presented as the most honest and custom within predominantly literate and
moral of Chaucer’s pilgrims? technologically advanced societies is referred to
as:
a. The Knight
a. folk tale           
b. The Parson
b. folk literature       
c. The Reeve
c. folk song       
d. The Wife of Bath
d. folklore
Out of the following four pilgrims, which is the
most corrupt? 22. Is the longest epic ever written
a. The Sergeant /Man of Law a. Lam Ang         b. Hammurabi        c.
Mahabharata      d. Lament
b. The Wife of Bath

c. The Reeve
23. The Pseudonym of Samuel Clemens
d. The Pardoner
a. Mark twain     

b. Henry Longfellow    
19. He translated “The Fall of Princes” from the
French. c. Robert Frost    
a. William Langland d.  Ulysses
b. Sir Thomas Malory
24. Father of English essay
c. Geoffrey of Monmouth
a. William James    
d. John Lydgate
b. Francis Bacon     
ANS. D c. James Joyce      
 What work contains these lines: “There hurls in d. George Orwell
at the hall-door an unknown rider . . . Half a
giant on earth I hold him to be.”
25. Oldest form of Egyptian writings
a. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
a. cuneiform    
b. Morte D’arthur
b. alibata      
c. Piers Plowman
c. hieroglyphics       30. a speech made by a person who reveals his
thoughts
d. cursive
a. soliloquy      

26. Greatest American writer of horror and b. dialogue    

detective stories
c. metaphor     
a. William Shakespeare   
d. personification
b. Edgar Allan Poe    

c. Emily Dickinson     31. a meditative form of grief

d. Elizabeth Barrett Browning a. epic      

b. elegy       
27. An Allegory is:
c. allegory      
a. a short story
d. facsimile
b. a poem of sadness 

c. a note of love  32. Stories which reflect the people’s belief and
handled down from generation to generation to
d. a narrative which meaning is beyond the generation by word of mouth
surface
a. prose     b. folktales    c. poetry      d. novels

28. A long narrative poem which depicts

adventure and heroism 33. He authored “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
which revolves around a headless horseman’s
a. legend       tale
b. epic      a. Washington Irving  
c. novel      b. Bernard Shaw
d. elegy c. Robert frost  

d. George Orwell
29. a verse with 14 iambic pentameter lines

a. ballad      34. Considered as one of the world’s greatest

short stories which depicts terror about living in
b. epic     
a morbid fear
c. sonnet     
a. Macbeth     b. Anabel Lee    c. The Raven   d.
d. verse The Fall of the House of Uber
35. “If eyes are made for seeing, then beauty is 39. Known for his excellence of
its excuse for being. ” is taken from the poem: characterization, swiftness of narrative and
clarity of style
a. The Bells     
a. Edgar Allan Poe
b. Rhodora     
b. Ralph Waldo Emerson   
c. The Rape of the Lock   
c. Guy De Maupassant     
d. Sonnets
d. George Bernard Shaw

36. A great epic poem whose plot center around

the anger and wrath of Achilles against 40. A literary term which means harsh and
Agamemnon discordant sounds introduced for poetic effect

a. The Odyssey     a. Cacophony    

b. The Myth     b. Assonance    

c. Troy     c. Alliteration     

d. The Iliad of Homer d. Trochaic

PHILIPPINE LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

37. “I am the master of my faith, I am the
captain of my soul.” is taken from what poem? 41. What rhythmical device is used in this line
from Latorena’s The Small Key?  “…even the low
a. O captain, my Captain   square nipa house that stood in unashamed
relief against the gray green haze of grass and
b. Invictus     leaves.”
c. The Tragedy of Lords A.  alliteration
d. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love B.  assonance

C.  consonance
38. The speech of Abraham Lincoln which ends,
thus; “That the government of the people, by D. anaphora
the people, for the people, shall not perish from
the earth.” is taken from his famous
42. What sense image is used in this line from
a. Inaugural Address Latorena’s The Small Key?  “There were dark,
newly plowed furrows where in due time
b.  Gettysburg Address timorous seedlings would rise to sturdy stalks
and golden grain, to a rippling yellow sea in the
c. Farewell Address at Springfield   
wind and sun during harvest time.”
d. Speech before the Union
A.  tactile

B.  olfactory

C.  visual
D. auditory C. the discovery of how life’s values
change with time

43. “Soledad nodded.  Her eyes followed her D. the doubts and uncertainty that stand
husband down the road, noting the fine set of in a relationship.
his head and shoulders, the ease of his stride.  A
strange ache rose in her throat.”  Which
emotion best describes Soledad’s feelings in this 47.  “Things that are beautiful have a way of
excerpt from Latorena’s The Small Key? hurting.  I destroy when I feel hurt.”  What does
Fabian’s thoughts reveal about his character?
A.  fervent desire
A.  bitter B.  goal-
B.  instinctive suspicion oriented C.  persistent D. 
vindictive
C.  discomfort from sore throat

D.  twinge of sadness 48.  “They dressed him in purple and linen, in
myth and mystery, put him astride a black
stallion, at the wheel of a blue automobile.” 
44. What figure of speech is used in this last
How do the townspeople regard Mr. Reteche in
paragraph from Latorena’s The Small Key? 
Rotor’s Zita?
“How quiet and peaceful the day was!  A cow
that had strayed by looked over her shoulder A. They find him difficult and confusing.
with a round vague inquiry and went on
chewing her cud, blissfully unaware of such B. They mocked him.
things as a gnawing fear in the heart of a
woman and a still smoldering resentment in a C. They were at awe with his presence.
man’s.”
D. They respected and admired him.
A.  irony B.  simile
C.  personification D. metaphor
48.  “She did not have the courage to break into
the wedding feast.”  What did the ‘wedding
45. Alfredo Salazar undergoes epiphany at the feast’ stand for in the relationship of Awiyao
end of Marquez-Benitez’ story.  What does and Lumnay in Daguio’s “Wedding Dance”?
epiphany mean?
A. village tradition
A.  regret B.  insight
C. desire to have a child
C.  freedom D. confusion
B. love for each other
46. What do ‘dead stars’ symbolize in Marquez- D. patriarchal society
Benitez’ story?

A. the let-down feeling over the truth of a 49.  “And far away in the middle of the fields a
disillusionment cow lowed softly in answer.”  What sense image
is used in this excerpt from Arguilla’s How My
B. the dilemma between responsibility and
Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife?
freedom
A. visual
B. olfactory A. guardia sereno B. candle
C. mirror D. midnight
C. tactile

D. auditory 54. How long is the span of the story May Day
Eve?
50. “A little green snake slithered languidly into A.  one month B.  almost 50 years
the tall grass a few yards from the kamansi C.  overnight D.  3 years  
tree.”  What does the snake symbolize in Love
in the Cornhusks?
55. What does Magnificence refer to in Alfon’s
A.  betrayal story?
B.  temptation A.  the girls’ innocence
C.  the father’s protectiveness
C.  distrust
B.  Vicente’s kindness and generosity
D.  lust  
D.  the mother’s comforting presence

51. “She was deep in the road before she

56. “There was nothing to fear, for the man was
became conscious of her shoes.  In horror, she
always so gentle, so kind.”  What literary device
saw that they were coated with thick, black
is employed in this line from Magnificence?
clay.  Gingerly she pulled off one shoe after the
other with the hand still clutching the letter.”  A.  foreshadowing B.  en medias
What does the underlined word in this excerpt res C.  symbolism D.  flashback
from Love in the Cornhusks mean?

A.  disgustedly 57. What is Cordero-Fernando’s view on the

educational system in The Visitation of the
B.  carefully
Gods?
C.  hurriedly
A. She hates the rotten side of the system.
D.  determined 
B. She is proud of the administrators.

C. She questions the role of educators.

52. What historical time is Nick Joaquin’s May
Day Eve set? D. She upholds quality education.
A. Japanese occupation
58. What character of Miss Noel is revealed in
B. Spanish regime
this statement?  “Sir, during the five years that
C. American time I’ve taught I’ve done my best to live to my
ideals.  Yet, I please nobody.  It’s the same old
D. Martial law era narrow conformism and favor-currying.”

A. militant
53. What symbol is used to link the events of
the three generations in May Day Eve? B. stubborn
C. idealistic D. The wind whistled against my cheeks and the
rattling of the wheels on the pebbly road
D. pessimistic echoed in my ears. 

59. “It was not quite five, and the bread was not 62. Which story shows the conflict of person vs.
yet ready.”  What does the bread symbolize in self?
N.V.M. Gonzales’ Bread of Salt? 
A. The Visitation of the Gods
A.  The boy’s unreciprocated love for Aida.
B.  May Day Eve
B.  The embarrassment of the boy in the
presence of Aida. C. The Virgin

C.  The boy’s dream of becoming a famous D.  Magnificence

violinist.

D.  The differences in the social status between 63. Which of the following stories is in medias
Aida and the boy. res?

A.  Love in the Cornhusks

60. “I felt all ardor for her gone from me C.  Dead Stars
entirely.”  What epiphany does the character
experience in N.V.M. Gonzales’ Bread of Salt? B.  Wedding Dance
D.  The Small Key
A. The boy did not like Aida’s aristocratic
upbringing.
64. Which story uses the first person narrator
B. His love for Aida was but an infatuation. point of view?

C. He has found another girl to love. A. Bread of Salt

D. Aida did not like him.  B. How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife

C. The Visitation of the Gods

61. Which is an olfactory image?
D. Harvest
A. The sun had sunk and down from the
wooded sides of the Katayagan hills shadows
were stealing into the fields. 65.Which story is a satire?

B. He swallowed and brought up to his mouth A.  The Virgin

more cud and the sound of his insides was like a C.  The Visitation of the Gods
drum.
B.  Wedding Dance
C. The thick unpleasant smell of dangla bushes D.  Harvest
and cooling sun-heated earth mingled with the
clean, sharp scent of arrais roots exposed to the
66.In which story does the main character
night air and of the hay inside the cart.
experience epiphany?

A.  Visitation of the Gods

B.  How My Brother Leon Brought Home a A. He wants Adrian to apologize for his affair
Wife? with Nita.

C.  Bread of Salt B. The cyanide in Adrian’s coffee is taking effect.

D.  The Small Key C. Adrian is getting drunk and incoherent.

D. His wife’s infidelity makes him suffer in

67. Which among these objects is a phallic silence.
symbol in literature?

A.  key B.   cornhusks 72. “Gonzalo:  I attach myself to nothing and to

C.  Waig D.  pencil nobody.”  What character trait does Gonzalo
reveal in this excerpt from Guerrero’s Three
Rats?
68. Which story has a circular plot?
A. shyness B. indifference
A. Dead Stars B. May Day Eve C. pride D. boldness
C. Magnificence D. Harvest 
74. Montano’s Sabina opens with this scene
69. Which is not characteristic of a story of local A. novena prayers for the dead
color?
C. confrontation between Sabina & Mr. George
A.  mores and traditions of a particular locality
B. burial of Sabina’s mother, Maria
B.  description of the local setting
D. Sabina lighting the lamp
C.  bias and prejudice of characters

D.  politeness and address markers 75. “A bamboo flute is heard far away.  Once
more we hear the turtle crying.”  What sense
imagery is used in this description of the scene?
70. The figure of speech implied in this line from
Alfon’s Forever Witches: “MARING:  Bastos!  I A. visual B. auditory
know what you really wanted to say.  Pusa ka C. tactile D. olfactory
din!!”

A. metaphor B. pun C. 76. What is the tone of the father’s statement in

personification D. hyperbole this line from Florentino’s The Dancers? “
FATHER: (mimicking her).  She’s still a baby!  I’m
telling you, she’s old enough to have a  Baby!
71. What does Gonzalo mean by “a little longer”
in this excerpt from Guerrero’s Three Rats?       A. bitter B. sarcastic
C. thrilled D. hopeful
Adrian:  (Laughing): I expect to live a little
longer, Gonzalo.
77. Which comic technique is used in Agana’s
Gonzalo:  A little longer is right.  (Adrian’s face
New Yorker in Tondo?
slowly begins to get red.  He feels a giddiness in
his head – he presses his temples.)  
A. mistaken identity
C. reversal of fortune 83. What emotion is expressed in these lines
from Manalang-Gloria’s Poems?  “The madcap 
B. physical blunder
D. ridiculous situation       inspirations, bent/On flinging stars
about,/Contrive to break away before/I know
that they are    out”
 78. This play is a satire
A. confusion B. excitement C. awe
A. Forever Witches C. The D. fear
Husband of Mrs. Cruz

B. The Dancers D. 84. What figure of speech is used in this line

Sabina from Alvero’s poem?  “Could Gods refuse/Such 

      tempting wine?”
79. Which of the following plays is a farce?
A. apostrophe B. rhetorical question C.
A. Forever Witches C. The allusion D. metaphor
Husband of Mrs. Cruz

B. The Dancers D. 85. This line is an example of personification

Sabina
A. And hold secret a bird’s flowering

80. This play is naturalistic in orientation B. Seeking a truer heaven in/The loved
deep
A. Sabina
C. The Dancers C. And so while thoughts went to and fro

B. Forever Witches D. to teach the trees all that I could

D. Three Rats
AFRO-ASIAN LITERATURE

81. The rhyme scheme in Villa’s Sonnet 1 86. According to this religion human beings are
bound to the wheel of life which is a continual
A. quatrain B. couplet cycle of birth, death, and suffering.
C. octave D. sestet
A. Hinduism

82. What characteristic of poetry is referred to B. Buddhism

by the line “It must be slender as a bell” in
C. Shintoism
Villa’s 
D. Taoism
 Sonnet 1?

A. rhyme & rhythm

87. __________ is a collection of sacred hymns
C. form & structure
in archaic Sanskrit which exalt the deities who
B. figurative language personify various natural and cosmic
D. imagery phenomena.
A. Dhammapada Time is a Pair of Scissors

B. Upanishads
Time is a pair of scissors
C. Bhagavad Gita
And life, a bolt
D. Rigveda of brocade

Section by section the

88. This is a story of a learned Brahman named brocade is cut;
Vishnusarman who used animal fables to
instruct the three dull-witted sons of a king. When the last section is
done
A. Panchatantra
The scraps are
B. Gitanjali committed to a bonfire.
C. The Little Clay Cart
Time is an iron whip,
D. On Learning to be an Indian
And life, a tree
full of blossoms.
89. __________ dominates every scene in a
Sanskrit drama and allows the audience to take One by one the flowers
part in the play and be one with the characters. are lashed off;
A. artha B. rasa When the last on is
C. kama D. moksha gone,

The fallen
90. What is the rhythmical development of this petals are trampled into the dirt and sand.
excerpt from the Rigveda, ‘The Hymn of Man?’

When they divided Purusa, how many portions

did them make? 90. What figure of speech is used in the title?
What do they call his mouth, his arms?  What A. simile B. metaphor
do they call his thighs and feet? C. personification D. hyperbole
The Brahman was his mouth, of both arms was
Rajanya made. 92. What is the central idea of the poem?
His thighs became Vaisya, from his feet the A. cruelty of time
Sudra was produced. C. destruction of  beauty

B. impermanence of life
A. free verse B. quatrain D. beauty of nature
C. couplet D. octave

93. All of these are Chinese genres in poetry

Read the poem below by Ping Hsin then answer except __________.
questions 91 –92
A. li sao B. chueh-chu
C. shih D. renga 98. He is one of the most widely translated of all
Japanese writers, and a number of his stories
have been made into films such as Rashomon
94. Which is not characteristic of Chinese
theater? A. Yasunari Kawabata
C. Oe Kenzaburo
A. follows the unities of time, place, and
action B. Junichiro Tanizaki
D. Ryunosuke Akutagawa
B. conveys an ethical lesson in the guise of
art in order to impress a moral truth
99. What is the atmosphere created by the
C. a total theater with singing, recitation image of nature when linked with the image of
of verses, acrobats, and dancing the woman?
D. there are two types of speeches – the
dialogue and the monologue Blossoms on the pear;

And a woman in the moonlight

95.China’s most famous teacher, philosopher,
and political theorist, whose ideas have Reads a letter there …   (Buson)
influence all civilization of East Asia.

A. Confucious A. romance B. boredom

C. weariness D. excitement
B. Lao-tzu

C. Li Po
Read the excerpt below from Chinua Achebe’s
D. Tu Fu The Voter then answer questions 100 –101.

We have a Minister from our village,

96. A farce normally performed between the Nō one of our own sons.  He said to a group 
tragedies
of elders in the house of Ogbuefi
A. kabuki B. kyogen Exenwa, a man of high traditional title, 
C. Jorori D. bunrako
“What honour can a village have?  Do
you ever stop to ask yourself why we
97. Yukio Mishima’s four-part epic including
Spring Snow, Runaway Horses, The Temple of           5 should be single our of this honour?  I
Dawn, and The Decay of the Angel is known as will tell: it is because we are favoured by 
__________.
the leaders of PAP.  Whether we cast
A. The House of Sleeping Beauties our paper for Marcus or not PAP will

B. Snow Country continue to rule.  Think of the pipe-

borne water they have promised us …
C. The Sea of Fertility
Besides Roof and his assistant, there
D. The Wild Geese were five elders in the room.  An old 
 hurricane with a cracked sooty glass B. opportunities during election campaign
chimney gave out yellowish light in their d. vote-buying during elections

         10 midst.  The elders sat on very low

stools.  On the floor, directly in front of them, 102 __________ is the movement organized by
African writers who wished to reunite black
lay two shilling pieces.  Outside the people to their own history, traditions, and
moon kept a straight face.  “We believe languages, to the culture which truly expresses
their soul.
every word you say to be true,” said
Ezenwa.  “We shall every one of us drop  A. Tigritude B. Apartheid
C. Negritude D. Orature
his paper for Marcus.  Who would leave
an ozo feast and go to a poor ritual 
103. The study of Asian literature cannot be
mean?  Tell Marcus he has our papers,
dissociated from all of these except one.
and our wives papers, too.  But what we
A. history B. religion
         15 do say is that two shillings is shameful.” 
C. philosophy D. politics
He brought the lamp close and tilted

it at the moment before him as if to

104. The world’s first known novel, The Tale of
make sure he had not mistaken its value. 
Genji was written by __________.
“Yes, two shillings, it is shameful.  If
A. Lady Murasaki B. Wu Chengan
Marcus were a poor man which our 
C. Sei Shōnagon D. Valmiki
ancestors forbid I should be the first to
give him my paper free, as I did before.

    But today Marcus is a great man.  We 105. The religion of this country is based on the
did not ask him for money yesterday; we perception of life as a process of continual
change in which opposing forces, such as
         20 have climbed the iroko tree today and heaven and earth or light and dark, balance one
would be foolish not to take down all the another.

firewood we need.”  A. India B. China

C. Japan D. Africa
100. The ‘iroko’ tree mentioned in line 20
symbolizes __________.
1. Among Filipinos, what characteristic makes
A.  responsibilities B. privileges English difficult to understand?
C.  opportunities D. resources A. It is a complex language.    

B. It is a second/third language.
101. What ills in society are being condemned
in this satirical story? C. It is a strange language.    

A. unqualified yet popular candidates D. It is a universal language.

c. politician’s unkempt promises
2. ESP is centered on the language appropriate C. National Education Act
to various activities that relate well with
grammar, lexis, register, discourse, and D. Kindergarten Education Act of 2012
___________.
6. Examples, activities, songs, poems, stories,
A. genre     and illustrations, are based on local culture,
history, and reality. This strategy particularly
B. prose refers to ____________.

C. poetry         A. localization           C. cultural adaptability

D. composition     B. contextualization    D. authenticity

3. An English teacher may administer a 7. The Philippine Qualifications Framework

performance-based assessment in ESP using a (PQF) is very significant in the development of
rubric as a measuring instrument. In which of ____________.
the following tests is a rubric best applicable?
A. content and performance standards
A. Dictation test    
B. learning resources
B. Sentence transformation
C. critical content
C. Oral interview    
D. learning competencies
D. Analyzing sentences
9. While there is no absolute way to prevent
4. Use of grade readers is one approach applied ankle ___________, exercise such as ankle lifts
in ESP to teach students with a low level of can help strengthen the joint.
knowledge of English. In general, these
materials refer to ____________.      A. sprain    C. sprains

A. books read by the students from Grade I – VI     B. sprain’s   D. sprains’

B. multi-graded books received in the different 10. Substituting different sounds for the first
grade levels sound of a familiar song just like the example
below can help in developing ___________.
C. different versions of books with simplified
grammar and vocabulary           Row, row, row your boat     

D. books used by several grade levels           Gently down the stream.

5. An Act enhancing the Philippine Basic           Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily;

Education System by strengthening its
          Life is but a dream.
curriculum and increasing the number of years
for Basic Education, appropriating funds           Bow, bow, bow, your boat
therefor and for other purposes, is known as
___________.           Bently bown the beam.

A. Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013              Berrily, berrily, berrily, berrily;

B. Trifocalization Act                 Bife is but a beam.

        A. phonological awareness       D. Of the areas, that produce lanzones, the
Camiguin Island is the sweeter.
        C. phonological stress
16. Among ASEAN countries, Singapore is
        B. word recognition         known as a ____________ paradise.
        D. emergent word reading skills    A. shopper’s    C. shoppers’
11. Lila bought coffee for Isabelle and     B. shop’s         D. shops’
____________.

    A. me        C. Both me and I are correct 17. An example of a word formation process
that changes kindergarten to “kinder” and “air
    B. mine    D. I
conditioning” to “aircon” is known as
12. After the show, the board members went to _____________.
another area and _____________ out with their
    A. coining                 C. blending
fans.
    B. compounding     D. clipping
   A. hung         C. hanged
18. The speaker should change the language
   B. hunged    D. hang
according to the needs of the listener or based
13. Neither you nor your children ___________ on the dictate of the situation like the examples
the problem. below except for ____________.

     A. understands             A. speaking differently in a classroom than on

a playground
     C. is understanding
    B. talking differently to a baby than to an
     B. are understanding   adult

     D. understand     C. giving background information to an

unfamiliar listener
14. Eminent educators have observed that
qualified jobs are becoming ___________.      D. sophisticating the language by using high
terminologies for basal learners
    A. scarcest    C. scaring   
19. A semantic study of Philippine English
  B. more scarce   D. scarcer shares how unique meanings are in contrast to
its standard counterpart. An example is the
15. Which statement is correct in structure and
term room for someone who stays in a
form?
dormitory or shared room of a boarding house
    A. Of the areas that produce lanzones, the without meals provided is known as
Camiguin Island is sweeter. ___________.

    B. Of the areas that produce lanzones, the      A. bed pals    C. roommate
Camiguin Island is the sweetest.
     B. bed spacer    D. transient
    C. Of the areas that produce lanzones, the
20. Someone who can operate his/her linguistic
Camiguin Island, is the sweetest.
competence and his/her sociolinguistic
awareness of the relationship between
language and the context refers to what kind of     C. intrinsic motivation    
speaker?
    D. life-long motivation
     A. Intercultural    C. Technical
26. “All the bitterness melted out of him
    B. Adapt                D. Context-driven suddenly and the world renewed itself out of
the youth and happiness that was all around
21. The study of ways in which non-native him, PROFLIGATE as the spring sunshine.” The
speakers acquire, comprehend, and use capitalized word means ____________.
linguistic patterns or speech acts in a second
language is known as ____________.    A. superfluous    C. over-abundant

    A. Contrastive Rhetoric       B. openly               D. brightly

    C. Jargonized Expression 27. Which is an example of a bound morpheme

ending in-ion that changes a verb into a noun?
     B. Intra-language Variety    
   A. Action    C. Scion     B. Nation    D. Mention
     D. Inter-language Pragmatics
28. In applying passive voice, which should you
22. They are speech sounds made simply by use on an official sign?
shaping the oral cavity to give the sound a
particular color or “timbre”.      A. Beyond this point, do not permit
pedestrian.
    A. Vowels    C. Consonants
     B. Do not permit pedestrian beyond this
     B. Digraphs    D. Diphthongs point.
23. Linguistic interference occurs when students      C. Beyond this point, pedestrian should
____________. permit to go.
     A. learn another language or dialect      D. Pedestrians are not permitted beyond this
point.
     B. learn their mother tongue
29. EVERYONE met at the contest venue. The
     C. speak without readiness
capitalized pronoun is an example of a/an
     D. learn to speak and hide their fear ____________.

24. A summary of main points of a text, lecture,      A. indefinite pronoun    

or course of study is referred to as __________.
    C. demonstrative pronoun
     A. Lesson exemplar   C. Course
    B. relative pronoun    
Outline
    D. interrogative pronoun
     B. Subject Framework    D. Unit plan
30. Vince said, “I’m studying English a lot at the
25. Learning for empowerment and better self-
moment”. The indirect speech is ___________.
image is an example of ___________.
   A. Vince said I was studying English a lot at the
    A. genuine motivation   
moment
    B. extrinsic motivation
   B. Vince said he was studying English lot at the      III. How to divide the words in parts and read
moment each part                         IV. Read the word by
combining the parts
   C. Vince said he was studying English a lot at
that moment    A. I, II, III and IV    C. I and II

   D. Vince said he were studying English a lot at    B. II and III    D. I, III and IV
that moment
35. Which is one implication on listening and
31. Roniel and Carl who ____________ a speaking for language teaching?
restaurant in Manila are now the youngest
partner entrepreneurs.    A. Link listening and speaking tasks to
promote social interaction in specific situations.
     A. run        C. runs
   B. Link listening and speaking tasks to develop
     B. has run    D. have run viewing skills in real life situations.

32. The adjective that expresses the supreme     C. Link listening and speaking tasks to
value of the noun like the capitalized phrase in improve students’ self-confidence.
the sentence, “English is the MOST
INTERESTING subject for Ryza,” is called    D. Link listening and speaking tasks to provide
_____________. opportunities for students to notice how   
language is used in different contexts.
    A. Superlative adjective    
36. To enhance the power of the mind, learners
    B. Demonstrative adjective read literary text in the target language and
memorize vocabulary lists translated into the
    C. Predicate adjective   native language. Explicit grammar instruction of
rules and their exceptions is the main focus to
    D. Possessive adjective
master the target language. What is this
33. Which is NOT a variable of functional approach?
grammar?
A. Grammar-translation    
     A. Term which represents the role of the
B. Natural
interlocutors.
C. Audio-lingual    
     B. Tenor is concerned with the nature of the
relationship among the people involved. D. Direct
    C. Field which represents the content or topic  37. What is the ability of the listener to
of the social activity. understand the speaker’s intentions?
    D. Mode is the medium and role of language     A. Intelligibility    C. Acceptability
in the situation.
     B. Interpretability    D. Comprehensibility
34. When decoding multisyllabic words, what
do students need to know? 38. The THIRD child is the most intelligent. The
capitalized word is an example of ___________.
     I. What a syllable is
    A. descriptive adjective    C. ordinal adjective
     II. That a syllable contains one vowel sound
    B. cardinal adjective    D. limiting adjective    B. conflict          D. complication

39. Some people feel that his ___________ to 45. Which type of paragraph would this topic
the president was unnecessary. sentence be considered? The day I won the
oratorical title changed my self perception.
    A. delusion    C. allusion
   A. Expository    C. Descriptive
     B. convulsion    D. illusion
    B. Narrative     D. Persuasive
40. Analogies are comparisons based on
relationships between ideas. Finish the analogy 46. Sound words like bam, bang, booing are
below. examples of ____________.

Dwindle: increase: stiffen: ___________ A. metaphor    

        A. relax       C. crawl B. onomatopoeia 

        B. cringe    D. freeze C. simile           

41. When the word “consumables” refers to  D. idiom

resources such as toner, ink, and paper which
get used up, it is regarded as a/an 47. A type of comedy based on a far-fetched
____________. humorous situation often with ridiculous or
stereotyped character is called _____________.
   A. technological jargon    C. computer
jargon      A. sequel    C. farce

    B. Multimedia jargon        D. ICT jargon      B. simile      D. fable

42. In Bloom’s Taxonomy of Thinking Process, 48. “Life is like a roller coaster.” is an example
which verbs help you design activities for the of what figure of speech?
creating level?
     A. Simile                    C. Metaphor
     A. Justify, debate, invent    C. Recommend,
     B. Personification    D. Hyperbole
design, produce
49. Which refers to the use of a word whose
    B. Modify, apply, debate    D. Compose,
sound in some degree imitates or suggests its
imagine, propose
meaning? Example: “Keeping time, time, time; A
43. Which type of plot device ends abruptly so sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation
that the main characters are left in a difficult that so musically wells, from the Bells, bells,
situation without offering any resolution or bells.”
conflict?

    A. Foil              C. Cliffhanger A. Rhyme   

    B. Anti hero    D. Archetype B. Rhythm

44. The intensification of the conflict in a story C. Alliteration   

or play is called ___________.
D. Onomatopoeia
    A. exposition    C. rising action
50. “it was the best of times, it was the worst of    C. Who wrote the poem? Does the poet’s life
times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age suggest any special point of view, such as
of foolishness…” In this opening line of the political affiliation, religious sect, career
novel The Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens interest, musical talent, family or personal
uses ___________. problems, travel etc.?

A. didacticism       D. When was the poem written and in what

country? Such information will help readers
B. juxtaposition understand what’s in a poem and why?
C. consonance    
54. Which among the following options best
D. concession
explains what imagery is?
51. “The time is out of joint, O cursed spite
    A. Cartoon shows that makes everyone laugh
         That ever I was born to set it right.”
    B. When an author compares two things
The two lines above from Shakespeare’s Hamlet
    C. The author sends mental images in the
use what literary device which is characterized
reader’s mind using words
by having two successive rhyming lines in a
verse and the same meter to form a complete     D. Expressive picture hanging on the wall
thought?
55. “My two decades of experience as a
        A. Couplet    C. Free verse journalism teacher, my tireless commitment to
the children in this community, and my
        B. Assonance    D. Meiosis
willingness to share my pedagogical knowledge
  52. Which figure of speech uses exaggeration make me an ideal candidate for principal ship,”
for special effect like: “…where the corn grows is an example of an appeal to ____________.
so tall they have to go up on a ladder to pick the
    A. pathos    C. bathos
ears off.”?
    B. ethos    D. logos
           A. Onomatopoeia    C. Hyperbole
56. In a novel or a short story, this is the point
          B. Alliteration    D. Metaphor
of view assumed by the narrator from which he
53. In analyzing poetry, one must first is able to tell everything that happens in the
understand context. Which among the following story. This is known as ____________.
is NOT included in a poem’s context?
    A. eyewitness    C. first person
   A. Does the poem belong to a particular
    B. omniscient    D. stream of consciousness
period or literary movement? Does the poem
relate to imagism, confessional verse, beat
movement, the Harlem Renaissance, the Civil 57. Which type of paragraph has the goal of
Rights Era etc.? convincing another person to change or think
about changing his/her opinion on something?
    B. How long is the poem? The longer the
poem is; the more focus is demanded of the     A. Descriptive    C. Expository
readers.
     B. Persuasive    D. Narrative
58. A plot device in literature which is usually     D. the first sentence of the introduction
employed where visions are realized due to the
action of the character who tries to prevent 63. A scene in a short story, a novel, a narrative
them. An example of this is “Oedipus Rex. poem, or a play that interrupts the story to
show an event that happened earlier or in the
A. Oracle          past is known as ____________.

B. Self-fulfilling prophecy A. foreshadowing    

C. Foresight     B. retreat

D. Insight C. review                    

59. The ten commandments of a modern story D. flashback

are: it must have compression, unit,
immediateness, momentum, characterization, 64. The glass unicorn in the Glass Menagerie,
verisimilitude, style, culmination, soul, and it the rocking horse in the Rocking-horse Winner,
must be ___________. and the road in Robert Frost’s The Road Not
Taken are all examples of _____________.
     A. publishing    C. read in one sitting
     A. fable         C. subject
     B. short             D. complete in one reading
     B. imagery    D. symbolism
60. What is the method of storytelling in which
the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of 65. The resolution of the conflict in a story is
all the characters in the story? known as ___________

    A. Third person limited     A. denouement    

    C. First person point-of-view B. diasporas

    B. Second person point-of-view   C. coda                  

    D. Third person omniscient D. epilogue

61.  The stylistic device in which a word or 66. In fiction, the transformation of a character
phrase is repeated at the end of successive from arrogance to humility is referred to as
clauses is known as ____________. ____________.

    A. polyptoton    C. gradation A. catharsis          

     B. epiphora       D. symploce B. realism

C. turning point    
62. The most important sentence in any essay is
D. mellowing
____________.
67. Which of the following is a characteristic of
     A. the first sentence in the body of the
a formalist’s criticism?
paragraph
     A. It is dependent on the writer’s
     B. the thesis sentence in the introduction
background.
     C. the final sentence of the conclusion
     B. Criticism is focused on the work itself. 72. The funeral home was built next to a
children’s nursery is an example of
     C. It is extrinsic in essence. ___________.
     D. Criticism describes the objective of the A. oxymoron    
author.
B. juxtaposition
68. The person assigned to dictate the actor’s
line if he forgets is called a/an ____________. C. metaphor    

     A. prompter      C. substitute D. paradox

    B. understudy    D. assistant 73. “Debit card and Bad credit,” “The
earthquake and the queer shake,” are examples
69. A poem that tells a tragic story is called of _____________.
____________.
A. anagrams    
A. parable    
B. contracts
B. sonnet
C. puns       
C. epic            
 D. oxymoron’s
D. ballad
74. Read the stanza and answer the item that
70. What literary device refers to a situation of follows:
poetic justice where the good characters are
rewarded and the evil character are punished         In the fell clutch of circumstance
for their vices?
        I have not winced nor cried aloud.
A. Ambiguity      
        Under the bludgeoning of chance
B. Nemesis
        My head is bloody, but unbowed.
C. Apocalyptic    
“My head is bloody, but unbowed” is an
D. Objectivity example of which figure of speech?

71. “It’s no wonder everyone refers to Mary as A. Hyperbole    

another Mother Theresa in the making; she
loves to help and care after people everywhere B. Simile
from the streets to her won friends”, is an
 C. Alliteration    
example of a/an_____________.
D. Metaphor
A. metaphor    
75. The words spoken by an actor to the people
B. allusion
watching a play that the characters in the play
C. irony              do not hear is called a/an _____________.

D. historical paradox      A. lines                C. aside

     B. monologue    D. symbolic narrative

76. What figure of speech is: “O wild, west 81. What does the presence of these three
wind!” divinities: Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos in
Greek myth symbolize?
A. Apostrophe    
    A. Immortals play a great part in mortal’s life
B. Irony
    B. Destiny cannot be controlled by anyone
C. Hyperbole    
    C. Power of immortals over mortals
D. Metaphor
    D. Mortal’s fate depends on the gods
77. The Trojan War can be seen today as
___________. 82. Maria Makiling is a famous Filipino
____________.
    A. women’s empowerment
    A. folktale    C. myth
     B. the war over lands and boundaries
    B. legend    D. fairy tale
     C. men’s exhibition of grief
83. In Greek mythology, who was the hero who
    D. the reign of political dynasty sailed in the long ship Argo to search for the
Golden Fleece?
78. The myths of the Greeks reflect
_____________. A. Ulysses    
    A. a view of the universe that acknowledges B. Paris
the mystery and beauty of humanity
C. Achilles    
     B. that humans are the center of the universe
D. Jason
    C. that humans and gods live alike
84. Who was the mythical strong man punished
     D. a less strange and frightening magic than by the gods for stealing fire?
the myths of other ancient civilizations
    A. Jason      C. Prometheus
79. For what act is Antigone sentenced to
death?     B. Ulysses    D. Hercules

     A. She refused to marry the King’s son. 85. Which of the following lines from the poem
“Vulture” by Chinua Achebe, represents a
     B. She killed her own father. miserable or bleak scene?
     C. She disobeyed her sister’s command.       “In the grayness
     D. She performed the burial rituals for her         And drizzle of one despondent
brother.
        Dawn unstirred by harbingers
80. Si Malakas at Maganda is a famous Filipino
___________.         Of sun break a vulture

    A. legend       C. creation myth         Perching high on

    B. folk tale     D. story         Broken bones a dead tree…”

   A. Dawn unstirred by harbingers        A. Only a fearless mind can hold its head
upright.
   C. In the grayness
    B. There must be unity in diversity.
   B. Of sun break a vulture    
    C. Bravery is better than cowardice.
   D. Broken bones and a dead tree
    D. Liberation is best achieved by force.
86. Li Qingzhao, the greatest Chinese poetess is
NOT known for ___________. 89. Egyptian literature is identified as
____________ literature.
    A. Employment of figure-ground theory
    A. Mediterranean    C. Asian
    B. Utilization of foregrounding such as
repetition and metaphor     B. Middle Eastern    D. African

    C. Use of imagery to enrich the content 90. The FENCE in the story written by Jose
Garcia Villa refers to ____________.
    D. Dominance of hyperbole
    A. free standing structure designed to restrict
87. What is revealed in the following lines taken movement across a boundary
from the poem, “The Answer,” by Bei Dao?
    B. represents the distance between two
       Debasement is the password of the base families
        Nobility the epitaph of the noble     C. walls representing hindrances that
separate the families
        See how the glided sky is covered
    D. protection from intrusion of other people
        With the drifting, twisted shadows of the
dead 91. Read the excerpt below, then answer the
question.
    A. Condemned voices of the suppressed    “Are you insulting my poor father?
    B. Slavery as a pressing concern in societies     He gives me a piece of sodden land?
    C. Disparity between the rich and the poor     Impossible! Oh if he were to know what sort
of son-in-law he was getting, he would have
    D. High disposition enjoyed by the aristocrats
made a wise decision. But I shall have a better
88. What message is expressed in the first line son-in-law
of the poem by Rabindranath Tagore entitled,
  who’ll not depend on his wife’s dowry.” What
“Mind is Without Fear?”
is revealed in the character   of the one who
utters the above lines?
        “Where the mind is without fear
     A. She acted as an over-protective mother.
        And the head is held high; 
    B. She loved her father very much.
        Where knowledge is free;”
    C. She wanted a good son-in-law.
    D. She regretted marrying her husband. 95. What traditional Japanese poem consists of
three lines totaling only seventeen syllables and
92. Who popularized Haiku poetry in Japan by treats the world in its natural setting?
creating visual auditory multimedia sensations
with few strokes of his writing brush as given in
the lines below? Example:    “A bead of water

        Clinging to a willow branch

        “Absolute stillness
        The first drop of rain.”
        Piercing into rocks

        The voice of the locust.”     A. Tanka    C. Haikai

    B. Sintaishi    D. Haiku

    A. Ikkyu    C. Boncho
96. What is the oldest Indian document of
    B. Basho    D. Gyai Sanskrit literature that consists of 1,028 hymns
recited in solemn rituals?
93.         “Awake for Morning in the Bowl of
Night A. Mahabharata    

        Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to B. Ramayana

Flight:
C. Upanishads        
        And lo! The hunter of the East has caught
D. Rig Veda
        The Sultan’s Turrent in a Noose of Light.”
97. What does the phrase “merciless Indian
savages” used by Jefferson refer to?
        The above stanza is taken from the famous
poem of ___________.
A. Asian-American   
    A. Rabindranath Tagore   
B. Britons
    B. Khalil Gibran
C. Indian-Americans    
    C. Omar Khayyam  
D. Native Americans
    D. Nelson Mandela
98. What could be the reason why Benjamin
94. Who is the Chinese leader whose essays and Franklin added Humility in the list of 13 virtues?
poems depicted the totalitarian rule in China
and advocated a revolutionary movement?     A. Humility best reflects the strength of
character
A. Chou en Lai    
    B. He believes that conceit spoils even the
B. Mao Tze – Tung finest genius

C. Lao – Tze              C. He is reminded of his friend Quaker about

how overbearing and insolent he is
D. Confucius
    D. Success without humility is worthless
99. How can the new criticism school in poetry B. Babbling 
be characterized?
C. Holophrastic
    A. Intellectual and metaphysical
D. Telegraphic
    B. Sentimental and didactic
4. What is difference between acquisition of a
    C. Impressionistic and symbolical language and learning of a language?

    D. Emphasis on craft over content a. Learning is natural while acquisition is

conscious way of getting language
100. What does the forest in Shakespeare’s
Midsummer Night’s Dream symbolize? A place b. Acquisition is natural and learning is
to ____________. conscious effort to get language

    A. to face trials for the characters to pass  c. Acquisition focuses on grammar while
learning not
    B. lose virginity and innocence
d. None
    C. lose one’s memory
5. Which one is a traditional method of learning
    D. reach adulthood a language?
************************************ a. GTM 
1. The inability to produce or comprehend the
speech because of damage to certain parts of b. Audio lingual
brain is called
c. Silent
a. Anaphora
d. Drill method
b. Aphasia 
6. When you mix L1 and L2 and make another
c. Cataphora  language is called

d. Diexes a. Interlanguage 

2. When the baby is three month old, they can b. Fore langue
produce velar sounds /k/, /g/ and vowels /i/
and /u/ this stage is known as c. Post language

a. Cooing  d. Coding

b. Babbling 7. While speaking one language if we shift to

another language it is called
c. Holophrastic
a. Code Mixing
d. Telegraphic
b. Code Switching 
3. By the six month, a baby can produce nasal
and fricative sounds. This stage is called c. Coding

A. Cooing d. None
In conversation, if we use the words of two d. Accent
languages it is called
 When a language developed for some practical
A. Code Mixing  purpose goes beyond that purpose and
becomes the first language of social community,
B. Code Switching it is called
C. Coding A. Pidgin
D. None B. Creole 
 English is derived from which of the following C. Dialect
major language
D. Accent
a. Latin
The personal dialect of each individual speaker
b. Greek of a language is called
c. German  a. Register
d. French b. Jargon
A particular form of a language which is peculiar c. Triglossia
to a specific region or social group is called
d. Idiolect 
a. Accent
 Variations in a language according to use in
b. Dialect  specific situations is called
c. Bilingualism A. Register 
d. Pidgin B. Jargon
 Dialect is peculiar to vocabulary while accent is C. Diglossia
peculiar to _______ of a specific group of
people D. Idiolect

a. Grammar  Technical vocabulary associated with a specific

field or 
b. Spelling
group is called
c. Pronunciation 
A. Register
d. Tenses
B. Jargon 
 A variety of language developed for some
practical purpose among groups of people who C. Diglossia
don’t know each other languages is called
D. Idiolect
a. Pidgin 

b. Creole

c. Dialect
 When we speak two varieties of one language c. Both none
in a society, one is formal and other is informal,
it is called d. None

A. Register  Who gave the concept of competence and

performance?
B. Jargon
a. Chomsky 
C. Diglossia 
b. Sapir
D. Idiolect
c. De Saussure
 The study of language in relation to brain is
called d. Watson

a. Sociolinguistics The concept of language and parole is given by

b. Psycholinguistics A. Chomsky

c. Neurolinguistics  B. Sapir

d. Applied linguistics C. De Saussure 

 The study of language in relation to society is D. Watson

called
 The set of all possible grammatical sentences in
A. Sociolinguistics  the language is called

B. Psycholinguistics a. Langue 

C. Neurolinguistics b. Parole

D. Applied linguistics c. Performance

 Scientific study of production, transmission, d. None

reception of speech sounds is called
The set of all utterances that have actually been
a. Phonetics  produced in the language is called

b. Linguistics A. Langue

c. Phonology B. Parole 

d. Anthropology C. Competence

 According to Chomsky, the native speakers’ D. None

knowledge of his language, the system of rules
26. The major names related to the theory of
he has mastered, his ability to produce and
Behaviorism are
understand a vast number of new sentences is
a. Chomsky and De Saussure
a. Competence 
b. Watson and De Saussure
b. Performance
c. Fraud and Chomsky b. Skinner

d. Skinner and Watson  c. Henry Sweet 

27. “Big” and “small” are the examples d. De Saussure

of________ antonyms
32. The study of language ignoring its history is
a. Gradable  called

b. Non-Gradable a. Diachronic study

c. Both  b. Synchronic study 

d. None c. Both 

28. According to_____________ we perceive d. None

the world as our language leads us to perceive
it. 33. The study of language through different
periods of its history is called
a. Sapir- Whorf hypothesis 
a. Historical linguistics
b. Behaviorism
b. Diachronic linguistics
c. Performance and competence
c. Synchronic linguistics
d. Langue and parole
d. A and B 
29. The forms of verb ‘to be” (is, are, am, was,
were) are technically known as 34. A flood of French words came in to English
in its___________
a. Anaphora
a. Old period
b. Aphasia
b. Middle period 
c. Copula 
c. Modern period
d. Cataphora
d. All
30. The originator of theory of Structuralism is
35. English is considered as ‘lingua franca’ what
a. De Saussure  does it means?

b. Chomsky a. Easy language

c. Skinner b. Language of communication 

d. Watson c. Tough language

31. “Language may be defined as the expression d. Old language

of thought by the means of speech sounds”.
Who defines language in these words? 36. Omission of a word or more from a
sentence is called
a. Chomsky
a. Elision
b. Ellipsis  a. Infinitive

c. Assimilation b. Gerund

d. Analogy c. Participle

37. The study and analysis of text in regard to d. Predicate 

their linguistic and literary style is called
42. This, That, These, and Those are 
a. Sociolinguistics
a. Reflexive Pronouns
b. Stylistics 
b. Personal Pronouns
c. Psycholinguistics
c. Demonstrative Pronouns 
d. Historical linguistics
d. Relative Pronouns
38. ‘Unhate’ ‘unlove’ ‘untroden’ are the
examples of 43. Painting, Smoking, Fishing are the examples
of
a. Syntactical Deviation
a. Infinitive
b. Morphological Deviation 
b. Gerund 
c. Graphical Deviation
c. Participle
d. Grammatical Deviation
d. Predicate
39. Which of the following links literary criticism
to linguistics 44. Class, Team, Committee are the examples of

A. Sociolinguistics a. Proper Noun

B. Stylistics  b. Material Noun

C. Psycholinguistics c. Collective Noun 

D. Historical linguistics d. Concrete Noun

40. Which one of the following accents is 45. Marilyn, sit down. ‘Marilyn’ in this sentence
considered a standard accent of British English is in
for nonnative speakers?
a. Accusative case
a. Irish Accent
b. Genitive case
b. Scottish Accent
c. Dative case
c. Received Pronunciation 
d. Vocative case 
d. Yorkshire Accent
46. If a noun is the indirect object of the verb it
41. The information given about the Subject in a will be in
sentence is called
A. Accusative case
B. Genitive case ***************************************

C. Dative case  1. The following are key definitions of ESP

EXCEPT ______.
D. Vocative case
A. Allows learner to either become academically
47. There are ____________ basic skills of a competent or be an efficient communicator in
language his or her work.
a. 2 B. Focuses on developing learner’s
communication skills in English useful in
b. 4 
different departments (may it be hospital,
c. 5 banking, finance or marketing)

d. 6 C. Emphasizes the importance of using the

language in the context of one’s field of work
48. The productive skills are rather than strict grammar and structures of
language
a. Listening and reading
D. Offers learning opportunities for students to
b. Speaking and writing  become fluent an accurate in the English
language
c. Listening and writing
2. Which of the following is/are not
d. Speaking and listening
characteristic/s of ESP?
49. The entity to which anaphora is referred is
I. Taught to young learners
called
II. Delivered in a work setting
a. Inference
III. Used intrinsic motivation to develop
b. Co-text
language learner users
c. Antecedent 
IV. Taught all learners fluency and accuracy in
d. Context English

50. The concept of LAD was given by  a. I and II

a. Chomsky  b. I and IV

b. Skinner c. II and III

c. De Saussure d. I only

d. G.B. Watson 3. It refers to a type of document containing

written communication on matters such as
policies, announcements, instructions, trip
reports and procedures significant to the
members of the same organization.

A. Business letter
B. Memorandum 7. Widely acclaimed as the father of free verse,
he disturbed many literary critics with his
C. Bulletin “frankness of expression.”
D. Periodic report  A. Washington Irving
4. These are any written communication which B. James Cooper
contain contents that are professional in
nature? C. Walt Whitman

A. Business letter D. John Milton

B. Memorandum 8. In his Inaugural Address, how does John F.

Kennedy set the tone of his speech?
C. Bulletin
A. by gloating in his victory over Nixon
D. Periodic report
B. by opening with comments on renewal and
5. The ESP guiding principle “Tell me what you change
need English for and I will tell you the English
you need” means what? C. by humorous remarks about the weather

A. English can be taught to anyone D. by threatening a show of force if attacked

regardless of age and needs
9. In the same speech, what expression does he
B. English is taught to students who have use with respect to dealing with the Soviet
specific needs as required in their jobs or future Union?
careers
A. “let both sides…”
C. English is taught to students at an early
age for them to become fluent in the said B. “the evil empire…”
language when they grow older
C. “ask not what we can do...”
D. English is taught to learners who do not
D. “the sleeping giant…”
have prior knowledge on basic English because
it focuses on developing communication and 10. How does John F. Kennedy end his Inaugural
specific vocabulary relation to their professions Address?
6. Some critics say that Arthur Miller’s Death of A. by threatening a show of force if attacked
a Salesman challenges the traditional definition
of tragedy because _____. B. with a call to work together for freedom 

A. it ends in tragic death of the protagonist C. by saluting the flag

B. its protagonist is human, not superhuman D. by leaving a message of thanks for the
electoral 
C. the struggle is against human, not
superhuman       support

     antagonists 11. Which of the following works provides a

Loyalist interpretation of the Revolution? 
D. it is a modern play
A. Increase Mather’s “Case of Conscience” 14. “We paused before a house that seemed A
swelling of the ground; The roof was scarcely
B. Thomas Jefferson’s “A Summary View of the visible, The cornice but a mound.”
Rights 
In the above passage from Emily Dickinson’s
     of British America” “Because I Could Not Stop for Death,” the word
“house” in the first line depicts which of the
C. Patrick Henry’s “Give Me Liberty or Give Me
following? 
Death”
A. The house the speaker grew up in
D. Joseph Galloway’s “Historical and Political 
B. A church
    Reflections on the Rise and Progress of the 
C. A school that burned down
    American Rebellion”
D. The speaker’s tomb
12.  Which of the following poems is one of the
earliest examples of debunking and 15. “The Philosophy of Composition” was Edgar
disillusionment, reflecting the author’s own Allan Poe’s follow-up essay detailing the
impressions of the barbarous colonial frontier?  creation of which of his works? 
A. Philip Freneau’s “On Mr. Paine’s Rights of A. “Annabel Lee”
Man”
B. “The Raven”
B. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Blind
Bartimeus” C. “The Fall of the House of Usher”

C. Ebenezer Cooke’s “The Sot-Weed Factor” D. “To Helen”

D. William Cullen Bryant’s “Thanatopsis” 16. The famous line “The mass of men leads
lives of quiet desperation” was written by
Ebenezer Cooke’s “The Sot-Weed Factor” _____.
describes the outlandish food and eating habits,
the excessive drinking and fighting, and the A. Ralph Waldo Emerson
admixture of law with violence, as well as the
intellectual poverty and lack of education, that B. Nathaniel Hawthorne
characterized this time.
C. Henry David Thoreau
13.  Which of the following is NOT a character in
D. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn”?  17. The novel “Catch 22” by Joseph Heller
examines _____.
A. Widow Douglas
A. ironic nature of the people’s attitude
B. Pap
B. insanity of war itself
C. Tom Canty
C. people’s hostilities 
D. Jim
D. women’s plight
18. F. Scott Fitzgerald explored the   D. The Tale of Peter Rabbit
consequences of trying to live the American
dream, and questioned society’s definition of 21. ‘The Good Earth’ was rejected fourteen
success and progress in his novel _____. times, before being published and going on to
win the Pulitzer Prize. Who was the author?
A. The Great Gatsby
A. Pearl S. Buck
B. The Grapes of Wrath
B. John Steinbeck
C. Watching God
C. Edith Wharton
D. The Portrait of a Lady
D. Henry Miller
Ships at a distance have every man’s
wish on board. For some they come in with the 22. Who is alluded to as Captain in the following
tide. For others, they sail forever on the lines from Whitman’s poem?
horizon, never out of sight, never landing until
O captain! My captain! Our fearful trip is done,
the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation,
his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we
the life of men. sought is won.
Now, women forget all those things
they don’t want to remember, and remember A. Abraham Lincoln
everything they don’t want to forget. The
dream is the truth. Then they act and do things B. George Washington
accordingly.
C. John F. Kennedy

19. In the passage above from Zora Neale D. Thomas Jefferson

Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, the
The action of _____ appears to stop
narrator implies that men and women are
short of World War II, but the narrator’s
different because of their _____.
meditation in his underground cellar must be
A. interest in pleasing others imagined to include this period, which served in
part to crystallize the search for significant
B. acceptance of social expectations advances in black civil rights and economic
opportunity.
C. ability to work together to attain their
dreams
23. The novel discussed above is _____.
D. readiness to influence the course of their
dreams A. Jazz

20. Which novel, eventually published in 1945, B. The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
was rejected by a New York publisher stating ‘it
is impossible to sell animal stories in the USA’? C. Cane

  A. Animal Farm D. Invisible Man  

  B. Black Beauty I saw the best minds of my generation

destroyed by madness, starving hysterical
  C. Watership Down naked, dragging themselves through the negro
streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angel- A. Penelope, queen of Ithaca
headed hipsters burning for the ancient
heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in B. Persephone, queen of the underworld
the machinery of night.
C. Helen of Troy

D. Hera, queen of Olympus

24. The lines above are from a poem by _____.
28. When Paris abducted Helen to Troy, all the
A. Theodore Roethke
Greek princes were bound by the oath to help
B. Gwendolyn Brooks Menelaus recover Helen. Athena and Hera who
were not chosen by Paris sided with the Greeks
C. Anne Sexton who sent one thousand ships to Troy. What
does this indicate?
D. Allen Ginsberg
A. Serious decisions have serious consequences.
25. Two versions of Robert A. Heinlein’s novel
“Stranger in a Strange Land” have been B. Paris was wrong in choosing Aphrodite as
published: the edited version first published in winner.
1961 and the original full-length (60,000 words
longer) published posthumously in 1991. From C. Hera and Athena harbored ill feelings.
what does the title derive?
D. Zeus ordered the goddesses to take side in
A. The play “Antony and Cleopatra” by William  the war.

    Shakespeare 29 He is called “the most Greek of all the gods.”

He is also called the lord of silver bow and the
B. The Old Testament Book of Exodus archer-god.

C. The novel “Gulliver’s Travels” by Jonathan A. Mars

Swift
C. Jupiter
D. The book “Utopia” by Sir Thomas More
B. Neptune
26. This is the attribution of a human form,
human characteristics, or human behavior to D. Apollo
nonhuman things, e.g. deities in mythology and
30. According to this theory of mythopoeic
animals in children’s stories. 
thought, the ancients tend to view things as
A. Anthropomorphism persons, not as mere objects; thus, they
describe natural events as acts of personal gods,
B. Ethereal and giving rise to myths.

C. God-like A. Allegory

D. Anthropocentrism B. Personification

27. In Greek mythology, she was the most C. Myth-ritual Theory

beautiful woman in the world. A daughter of
the god Zeus, she is best known for the part she D. Euhemerism
played in causing the Trojan War. 
31. In what mythology a cosmic truth that “all A. Baal
things are simply a part of a greater whole one”
is held? B. ElB

A. Hindu Mythology C. Dagan

B. Egyptian Mythology D. Mot

C. Celtic Mythology 36. He was a sculptor who fell in love, deeply,

passionately in love with the thing he had
D. Mesopotamian Myth made.

32.  In the study of Scandinavian mythology, this A. Pyramus

text composed in the 13th century by Snorri
Sturluson is a prose manual for producing B. Orpheus 
skaldic poetry which utilizes alliterative verse,
C. Ceyx
kennings, and various metrical forms.
D. Pygmalion
A. Prose Edda
37. He attempted to ride Pegasus up to
B. Attila the Hun
Olympus for he believed he could take his place
C. Gesta Danorum with the immortals.

D. Heimskringla A. Endymion

33.  She is often shown seated on a lotus. She is B. Bellerophon

worshipped by many modern Hindus, usually in
C. Peleus
the home every Friday and on the festival days
throughout the year. D. Orpheus
A. Lakshmi 38. He was the architect who had contrived the
labyrinth for the minotaur in Crete, and showed
B. Parvati
Ariadne how Theseus could escape from it.
C. Durga
A. Icarus
D. Kali
B. Cadmus
34. In Hindu tradition, Vishnu is regarded as the
C. Daedalus
preserver of the universe, while Shiva as_____.
D. Tantalus
A. The supreme eternal deity
39. Since Perseus had no gift to offer king
B. the conqueror
Polydectes, he told him he _____
C. The destroyer
A. would go off and kill his one thousand
D. the monkey god enemies

35. In Canaanite mythology, he is said to be in B. would kill the Sphinx and bring back his head
charge of rain and weather, and that man’s as a gift
survival is dependent upon his provision.
C. would behead Medusa and bring her head to     mother)
him.
C. Eteocles (Oedipus’ son)
D. would set a fighting contest to honor him
D. Polyneices (Oedipus’ son)
40. He wrote the book “The Hero with a
Thousand Faces” which discussed his theory of 44. He successfully get rid of the Sphinx by
the journey of the archetypal hero found in correctly solving its riddle “What creature goes
world mythologies.  on four feet in the morning, on two feet at
noonday, and on three feet in the evening?”
A. Carl Jung
A. Jason
B. Euhemerus
B. Orestes
C. Hesoid
C. Oedipus
D. Joseph Campbell
D. Minos
41. This is a collection of stories and fables from
Arabia, Egypt, India, and Persia that were 45. Greeks made their gods and goddesses
compiled from oral tales that had been passed _____.
down through these cultures for generations.
A. based on the characters of the ancient
A. The Pachantantra stories 

B. A Thousand and One Nights B. in their own images

C. One Night with the Arabians C. in their own ideas of best forms of divinities

D. Alibaba and His Magics D. based on the stories handed to them by their
ancestors
42. She was a Greek mythological character
who chose to bury her own brother, Polyneices, 46. As used by Joseph Campbell, this refers to
against the order of Creon who was in control the fundamental structure of all folklore of
of Thebes. This caused her death. olden days.

A. Ismene  A. monomyth

B. Antigone B. monomythical

C. Electra C. monomythic

D. Naiad D. monomythicizer

43. He believed his mother was vile for she 47. The “body” (line 3) is the body of _____.
killed his own father. Later, he was acquitted by
And on the slope above the sea
Athena because according to Apollo he killed at
his command. The hard-handed peasants go their round
A. Orestes Turning the soil, blind to the body
B. Agamemnon (his father who was killed by his  Ambitious and viable, whose pride
Will leave no trace in the quenching tide. 51. The Roman poet Horace said in order to
move the audience, first you must _____.

A. Ulysses A. show your emotions

B. Achilles B. play serious characters

C. Icarus C. be moved yourself

D. Priam D. by physically interesting

“The daughter of Minos, _____ 52. The Frenchman who said actors must play
provided the hero _____ with a ball of string from thought was _____.
that allowed him to trace his way back to the
light of day after slaying the Minotaur in the A. Moliere
labyrinth.”
B. Jean Paul Belmondo

C. Denis Diderot
48. Which of the following will correctly
complete the sentence? D. Beaumarchais
A. Helen…Paris 53. The acting teacher who said the actor must
seek to solve the “character’s problem” was
B. Andromeda…Perseus
_____.
C. Eurydice…Orpheus
A. Stanislavsky
D. Adriane…Theseus
B. Tchaikovsky
49.  Philosophical-religious belief in
C. Chekhov
reincarnation is based on which mythical
character? D. Meyerhold 
A. Orpheus 54. The Actor Studio was made famous by
_____.
B. Paris
A. Theodule Ribot
C. Achilles
B. Sanford Meisner
D. Agamemnon
C. Lee Strasberg
50. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, it was
commonly described as symbol of purity and D. Stella Adler
grace, which could only be captured by a virgin. 
55. The craft of acting includes these two
A. Troll fundamental features _____.
B. Dragon A. mind and body
C. Kappa B. speaking and singing
D. Unicorns C. an expressive voice and a supple
body
 D. good intellect and strong emotions B. discipline

56. The third acting ingredient is _____. C. stage fright

A. mind D. creates role uniquely

B. emotion 61. The actor’s zadacha means the character’s

_____.
C. presence
A. character
D. the ability to cry on demand
B. goal
57. Contemporary actor training has two
distinct phases which are _____. C. lines

A. studying the text and analyzing the context D. cues

B. feeling the emotions and expressing the 62. The actor’s professional routine consists of
actions _____.

C. the development of the actor’s instrument A. agents, contracts, and salaries

and the method 
B. auditions, rehearsals, and
    of approaching a role performances

D. conditioning the body and the mind C. lines, memorization, and performing

58. The basic elements of voice for the actor are D. blocking, mounting, and polishing
_____.
63. For an actor, the rehearsals of a play are
A. articulation, pronunciation, and _____.
phrasing
A. boring repetitions to be endured
B. speaking, singing, and shouting
B. a time to get everything right
C. mind, body, and spirit
C. a time for creative experimentation
D. breathing, phonation, and resonance
D. when the director controls
59. After vocal training, the second element of everything 
the actor’s physiological instrument is _____.
64. Fine acting demands _____.
A. movement
A. being in the union
B. singing
B. acting for its own sake
C. stage combat training
C. knowing nothing but acting
D. dance
D. an open mind
60. Which of the following is NOT part of actor’s
psychological instrument? 65. The first known comedies were written by
_____ who set the recipe for future comedies.
A. imagination and willingness to use it
 A. Sophocles 70. What is true of a rubric?

B. Aristophanes A. It provides specific criteria for describing

student 
C. Euminides
    performance.
D. Euripedes
B. It gives frustration, instructional,
66.  A technique that encourages students to independent, and capacity 
think deeply about words _____.
    levels.
A. writing the words ten times each
C. It is a norm-referenced test.
B. looking up dictionary definitions
D. It measures skill mastery.
C. filling out workbook exercises related to the
words 71. All of the following tests can be constructed
by the classroom teacher EXCEPT _____.
D. class discussion
A. oral reading checklist
67. Concepts can be learned through ______.
B. norm-referenced test
A. vicarious experiences
C. informal reading inventory
B. concrete experiences
D. sight vocabulary test
C. both and A and B
72. Methods for identifying the difficulty of
D. neither A nor B texts include ___.
68. Vocabulary instruction should take place A. cloze tests
_____.
B. text leveling
A. only in reading and language arts
classes C. readability tests

B. only once a week D. all of these

C. throughout the day in all classes 73. Alternative assessment includes all of the
following EXCEPT:
D. all of these
A. checklists
69. Classifying words into categories supplied by
the teacher is doing _____. B. standardized tests

A. closed-ended sorts C. rubrics

B. open-ended sorts D. informal reading inventories

C. both A and B 74. The most useful type of assessment for

classroom teachers is _____.
D. neither A nor B
A. day-to-day observation
 B. an informal reading inventory B. questions that arise from reading

C. a diagnostic test C. both A and B

D. a standardized achievement test D. neither A nor B

75. Written accounts of specific classroom 80. At the heart of a literature-based reading
incidents are called _____. program are __.

A. informal reading inventories A. language experience stories

B. portfolios B. workbooks

C. anecdotal records C. trade books

D. running records D. none of these

76. Portfolio assessment _____. 81. Students may respond to literature through
the following EXCEPT:
A. uses samples of student’s work
A. group discussions
B. is useful for assigning grades in percentages
B. sentence diagram
C. is based on standardized test scores 
C. creative dramatics
D. does all of these
D. literature logs
77. A type of test that gives percentile ranks is
a/an  _____. 82. The teacher can evaluate students’ progress
in literature-based programs _____.
A. running record
A. by listening to the children’s book talks
B. standardized test
B. through a portfolio approach
C. informal reading inventory
C. with checklists of important reading
D. criterion-referenced test behaviors
78. The characteristics of literature-based and D. all of these
language-integrated series include _____.
83. Which of the following are good types of
A. primarily short excerpts from well-written words to teach as sight words?
stories
A. extremely useful words
B. heavy focus on skill development
B. irregularly spelled words
C. high-quality literature selections 
C. Words which are meaningful to children.
D. all of these
D. all of these
79. In literature logs, students record _____.
84. To use a dictionary, a student must know
A. personal interpretations _____.
 A. alphabetic order D. rewrite a story into play form

B. how to use guide words 89. The first stage in a writing workshop is
_____.
C. how to interpret the pronunciation
A. a minilesson
D. all of these
B. the status-of-the-class conference
85. One recommended technique to encourage
students to read voluntarily is _____. C. group share

A. providing them array of reading materials D. writing

B. allowing them to read only when they like to 90. In the drafting stage of the writing process,
read writers _____.

C. showing them videos about the importance A. make revisions

of reading books
B. carefully observe the rules of grammar and
D. setting aside a time for them to read daily spelling
from freely 
C. confer with their peers
     selected material
D. search for the topic
86. Children’s Choices is a list of _____.
91. Which phrase describes a feature?
A. best-selling books for children
A. A hard news story
B. books liked by children, compiled by 10, 000
children B. Any story that informs the reader

C. children’s classics C. A soft news story

D. books recommended by librarians for D. Any short newspaper article

children
92. What is a lead?
87. Which of the following is true of journal
A. The main idea of a feature story
writing?
B. A piece of information that attracts and
A. Teachers correct spelling in journals.
keeps the 
B. Teachers grade journals.
    reader interested
C. Writers may choose their own topics.
C. A point in the story where the reader loses
D. None of theses interest

88. During readers’ theater, students _____. D. The angle of a story

A. read aloud dramatically from a script 93. A summary lead contains _____.

B. memorize a script and then play their parts A. A direct quote

C. improvise a scene from a familiar story B. Instructions on how to read the story
C. The most important facts of the story C. The source’s availability

D. A list of all the sources quoted in the story D. The source’s height and weight

94. What is soft news? 99. What does a direct quotation look like?

A. News that’s based on opinions, not facts A. The new President teased his wife saying that
she was an only good with kids when playing
B. News that’s entertaining or interesting poker with them.
C. News that’s circulated on the Internet, not on B. “He loves to buckle,” the TV host declared in
paper a July. “The new President is not going to give
us real change.”
D. Advice columns
C. The President has asserted the authority
95. What is hard news?
to assassinate Philippine terror suspects and has
A. News that covers hard to understand topics tried to block court challenges of that authority
by invoking “state secrets.”
B. News that’s based on opinions, not facts
D. The new President vowed change and roared
C. News that affects an everyone about “the fierce urgency of now”.

D. The only kind of news there is 100. What does a paraphrase look like?

96. What do profile stories focus on? A. The new President teased his wife saying that
she was an only good with kids when playing
A. A group’s behavior poker with them.
B. An individual B. “He loves to buckle,” the TV host declared in
a July. “The new President is not going to give
C. Celebrity interviews only
us real change.”
D. Current events
C. The President has asserted the authority
97. What is meant by balance in a news story? to assassinate Philippine terror suspects and has
tried to block court challenges of that authority
A. Having several authors write a story by invoking “state secrets.”

B. Getting a lawyer’s opinion before writing an D. The new President vowed change and roared
article about “the fierce urgency of now”.

C. Giving the same amount of space to every  101. What does a partial quotes look like?

     paragraph A. The new President teased his wife saying that

she was an only good with kids when playing
D. Covering all sides of an issue as fairly as poker with them.
possible
B. “He loves to buckle,” the TV host declared in
98. Your choice of a source should depend on a July. “The new President is not going to give
us real change.”
A. The source’s expertise
C. The President has asserted the authority
B. The source’s popularity
to assassinate Philippine terror suspects and has
tried to block court challenges of that authority B. An invasion of privacy
by invoking “state secrets.”
C. A clearly labeled personal opinion
D. The new President vowed change and roared
about “the fierce urgency of now”. D. An untruthful accusation that lowers
someone’s 
102. What does an orphan quote look like?
    reputation
A. The new President teased his wife saying that
she was an only good with kids when playing 106. At the prewriting stage, the reporters
poker with them. should

B. “He loves to buckle,” the TV host declared in a. identify a central point and have a good
a July. “The new President is not going to give kicker in mind. 
us real change.”
b. identify a central point and prepare a brief
C. The President has asserted the authority outline. 
to assassinate Philippine terror suspects and has
c. prepare a brief outline and select the
tried to block court challenges of that authority
quotations to use. 
by invoking “state secrets.”
d. have the story completely drafted in their
D. The new President vowed change and roared
head. 
about “the fierce urgency of now”.
107. The central point of a news story is
103. What is an editorial?
a. a justification for running the story on the
A. An opinion piece that uses the pronoun "I"
front page or the beginning of a news
B. The process when an editor works with broadcast. 
unfinished story
b. the identity of the most important figure of
C. A part of the writing process the story. 

D. The job that reporter's get when they are c. to get readers to read the rest of the
promoted newspaper or viewers to watch the rest of the
news broadcast. 
104. What is libel?
d. a one- or two-sentence summary of what the
A. Publishing a false statement that damages  story is about and why it is newsworthy. 

    someone’s reputation 108. The reason for constructing a brief outline

for a news story is to
B. A tendency to do something
a. help decide where the various pieces of
C. Publishing private information about a information the reporter has collected belong in
person the story. 
D. Use of outside editors b. enable the reporter to guess how long the
finished story will be. 
105. What is defamation?
c. enable the layout editor to guess how long
A. Publishing unflattering reports about
the finished story will be. 
someone
d. let the managing editor know that the a. remains completely emotionless about all
reporter has a story in progress.  aspects of the story. 

109. Research has shown that 75 percent of b. incorporates an equal number of quotations
readers are able to understand sentences that from Republicans and Democrats. 
average ___
c. makes clear his or her opinion about the
a. 20 words in length.  events covered. 

b. 40 words in length.  d. is not an advocate for a point of view or a

participant in the events covered. 
c. 60 words in length. 
114. Good reporters strive to
d. 80 words in length. 
a. let readers draw their own conclusions about
110. Reporters strive to the story. 
a. eliminate all long sentences from their b. let readers know what their opinions are
writing.  about the story. 
b. combine short and long sentences in a c. tell readers what they should think about the
manner that would be pleasing if read aloud.  story. 
c. keep all sentences to 10 words or fewer.  d. tell readers what public officials want them to
think about the story. 
d. keep all sentences to 15 words or more. 
115. “Ageism” is the practice of
111. The problem with phrases like “dead body”
and “unexpected surprise” is that they are ___ a. stereotyping the elderly as rich, greedy
and unconcerned about the problems of
a. short. 
younger people. 
b. clichés. 
b. portraying older people as more experienced
c. redundant.  and, therefore, more knowledgeable than
others. 
d. too descriptive. 
c. stereotyping the elderly as lonely,
112. Because newspapers use small type and inactive,  unproductive, poor, passive, weak and
narrow columns, reporters strive to write sick. 

a. without paragraph breaks.  d. portraying older people as being able to

perform any task younger people can perform. 
b. stories with no more than three paragraphs. 
116. The reporter was accused in court because
c. paragraphs that are no more than one of his news story. The story was ____.
sentence in  length. 
A. tainted with malice
d. short paragraphs. 
B. a narration of facts
113. For journalists, being objective means that
the reporter C. too personal to take
D. full of distorted facts  121. People who are too _________ are liable
to be deceived by unscrupulous individuals. 
117. “How much money did you bring for
shopping?” Which of the following answer this A. credulous
question?
B. wary
A. I have some change in my purse
C. cynical 
B. None, but I have a credit card
D. demanding 
C. I have P500.00 inside the envelope in
my desk 122. Choose the sentence that expresses the
thought clearly and that has no error in
D. All the cash I have was spent at the structure/spelling.
grocery store yesterday
A. The farmer did plow, plant, harvest his
118. Your father is paying for your plane ticket, corn in record time.
________? 
B. The farmer plowed, planted and
A. isn't it harvested his corn in record time.

B. is he C. The farmer has plowed, planted the

harvested his corn in record time.
C. isn't he
D. The farmer plowed, has planted and has
D. aren't you  harvested his corn in record   time.
119. A fire alarm was rung. How may classes 123. Teacher Mary always tries to help people,
exit properly? What is heard from the principal? but recently she has been ______ kind and
generous.
A. “Keep cool. Get down quietly.”
A. principally
B. “Get in touch with your parents, fast”
B. usually
C. “Leave your things. March down the
stair briskly.” C. especially 
D. “Dismiss your classes.” D. largely 
120. Which is the BEST way to write the
underlined portion of this sentence?
124. Susan ______ in bed too long and missed
     The studies revealing that, for various her classes.
reasons, girls spent less time working with
computers than boys. A. laid

A. Revealing studies  B. lays

B. Studies revealed  C. lied

C. Studies revelations D. lay 

D. Studies will reveal 

125. It’s now two hours past his schedule, the B. Is
facilitator may not come anymore, but we’ll still
be ready in case he _________. C. My

A. may  D. Bag

B. is coming  130. I would not leave you come hell or high

water. Based on the given sentence, we can
C. does  surmise that:

D. will come  A. The speaker won’t leave the person no

matter what.
126. The tribulations that I faced were _______
for me to overcome. B. The speaker warns the person of a
forthcoming disaster.
A. So much
C. The speaker wants the person to give up
B. Too much
D. The speaker wants the person to continue
C. Very much fighting.
D. So more 131. Which does not belong?
127. In Benjamin Fraklin’s “Poor Richard’s A. Assumption
Almanac” it was said that: “early to bed,
_______ makes a man healthy B. Summary

A. Early rising C. Synthesis

B. Rising early D. Generalization

C. Early to rise 132. Complete the statement: “Blessed are

_____ poor for _____ shall be welcomed in
D. Waking up early heaven.
128. Which among these words has the A. The-you
voiceless /th/ sound?
B. The-they
A. This
C. You-the
B. Gather
D. They-they
C. Think
133. Your brother isn’t supporting you, ______?
D. There
A. Isn’t she
129. Which word must have the primary stress
in the sentence below if we want to emphasize B. Is she
possessions?
C. Aren’t she
“That is my boyfriend”
D. Is he
A. That
134. The Rubaiyat has a theme:
A. Always looking forward a new day a. Nation 

B. Never giving in to death easily b. Rescue 

C. Grasping pleasure while you can c. Gate 

D. Creating your own world and beautify it d. Giant 

135. What is “True Learning” as exemplified in 139. Which word is accented on the second
this quotation: “Only one who burst with syllable? 
eagerness do I instruct. Only one who bubbles
with excitement do I enlighten”. a. Nation 

A. Learning makes human beings a follower of b. Rescue 

instructions
c. Himself 
B. Learning involves patience and tenacity
d. Garment 
C. Learning has the ability to make a man
140. An interior monologue is prepared when
D. Learning is a coupled with commitment and one is ____. 
passion.
a. Reviewing events 
136. Which question falls under the LITERAL
b. Making a decision 
COMPREHENSION LEVEL? 
c. Planning 
a. In the story, who is short? 
d. Arguing 
b. Why is it good to be short? 
141. Which is the appropriate way to read
c. Do you agree the horse when it said that it is
REFRAIN in a poem? 
to be what you are? 
a. Put force on the refrain 
d. What are the advantages and disadvantages
of being tall and short?  b. Use normal ton 
137. What method of paragraph development is c. Sing the refrain portion 
used in this main idea? 
d. Read in a softer voice than the verse 
THE EXODUS OF FILIPINO WORKERS TO THE
MIDDLE EAST IS A COMPLEX PSYCHO- 142. If someone SHRUGS his/her shoulders,
ECONOMIC PHENOMENON.  which of the following does he/she manifest? 

a. Classification  a. Impatience 

b. Process  b. Despair 

c. Analysis  c. Puzzlement 

d. Cause-effect  d. Indifference 

138. Which word contains G pronounced as /g/

the hard sound? 
143. Which of the following words does not 147. What kind of homonyms are these words? 
rhyme with the rest? CENT, RANG, TEMPS ,
LENTE  BARK, BAT, BILL, BOX, FAIR 

a. Lente  a. Homophones 

b. Temps  b. Homographic homophones 

c. Rang  c. Homographs 

d. Cent  d. Homophonic Homographs 

144. Which words should receive a mid-pitch 148. What are these line delivered by a TV
level /2/ in this sentence?  host? “NEXT , OIL PRICES GOING UP.” “COMING
UP: SANDRA CAM UPDATE.”
a. Is looking
a. Bumpers 
b. Looking for
b. Teasers 
c. For me 
c. Commercials 
d. Everybody is 
d. Station identification 
145. What correction should be made to this
sentence? Our office was moved about fifty 149. What kind of word is AWOL? 
blocks from the 7thstreet to 58th Street in New
a. Borrowed 
Manila. 
b. Clipped 
a. Change fifty to 50 and 7th to Seventh 
c. Acronym 
b. Change 7th to Seventh 
d. Blend 
c. Change 7th to seventh
150. Who comes between the station and the
d. Change fifty to 50 and 7th to seventh 
listeners? 
146. Which sentence is CORECTLY written? 
a. News reader 
a. The S.E.C. has three new members: Dr. Carla
b. Scriptwriter 
Chang. Professor Marcos Ruso, and Roberto
Principe. Esq.  c. Assignment editor 
b. The SEC has tree nes members: Dr. Carla d. Reporter
Chan, Professor Marcos Ruso, and Roberto
Principe, Ecs.

c. The SEC has three new members: Dr. Carla

Chang, Professor Marcos Ruso and Roberto
Principe Esq

d. The SEC has three new members: Dr. Carla

Chang, Professor Marcos Ruso and Roberto
Principe Esq.