3rd PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION IN ENGLISH 7

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I. MULTIPLE CHOICE: Encircle the letter of your answer.

1. Which of the following is an opinion?
a. The 65th Miss Universe happened in the Philippines.
b. The US President, Trump banned 7 countries to enter the United States of America.
c. Filipinos are the most hospitable people in the world.
d. President Rodrigo Duterte is the 16th president of the Republic of the Philippines.
2. A narrative answers the question .
a. Who did it?
b. What happened?
c. What went wrong?
d. How did you do this?
3. Which of the following is a distinguishing theme of the literature during the Period of Emergence in the
Philippines?
a. Fighting for freedom and rights
b. Breaking boundaries
c. Time for self-discovery and of rapid growth
d. Adapting to change
4. Read the excerpt of Jose Garcia Villa’s “Footnote to Youth” and decide which of the following influenced
the author in writing this story.
“Teang did not complain, but the bearing of children tolled on her. She was shapeless and thin even
if she was young. There was interminable work that kept her tied up. Cooking, laundering. The house. The
children. She cried sometimes, wishing she had no married. She did not tell Dodong this, not wishing him to
dislike her. Yet, she wished she had not married.
Not even Dodong whom she loved. There had neen another suitor, Lucio older than Dodong by nine
years and that wasw why she had chosen Dodong. Young Dodong who was only seventeen. Lucio had
married another. Lucio, she wondered, would she have born him children? Maybe not, either. That was a
better lot. But she loved Dodong… in the moonlight, tired and querulous. He wanted to ask questions and
somebody to answer him. He wanted to be wise about many things.”
a. Environment
b. History
c. Culture
d. Family/Community background
5. Read carefully the poem that follows:
The tree exploded in a riot of pink.
Every bee in the neighborhood came by for a drink.
The breeze was abuzz with the sound of their work
Not a flower was missed not a bumbler did shirk.

Which of these sentences best explains the meaning of the first line of the poem?
a. The flowers stayed on the tree until the first hard rain.
b. The tree blooms and is covered with pink flowers.
c. The pink flowers attract many bees that come to collect pollen.
d. The tree breaks and its pink branches and twigs are exposed to bees

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6. Read another excerpt of a poem.

LIKE THE MOLAVE

by Rafael Zulueta da Costa

Not yet, Rizal, not yet. Sleep not in peace: There

are a thousand waters to be spanned; There are a
thousand mountains to be crossed; There are a
thousand crosses to be borne.
Our shoulders are not strong; our sinews are Grown
flaccid with dependence, smug with ease Under
another’s wing. Rest not in peace;
Not yet, Rizal, not yet. The land has need
Of young blood-and, what younger than your own,
Forever spilled in the great name of freedom, Forever
oblate on the altar of
The free? Not you alone, Rizal. O souls And
spirits of the martyred brave, arise!

What does the poem speak about the time and culture of the Filipinos during the writing this
piece?

a. The Filipinos hated Rizal that is why he could not sleep in peace.
b. The Filipinos loved Rizal so much that they would not like him to die yet.
c. The Filipinos express their love of country and desire for freedom.
d. The Filipinos were very willing to sacrifice to take a thousand mountains and bear a
thousand crosses.

7. In the poem “Like the Molave”, what message, as the title suggests, does the poet Da Costa want to
convey to us?
a. Rizal realized that we have not yet achieved what he wanted us to accomplish for this country.
b. Through this poem, few of our Filipino citizen had opened their mind foreign people
c. Filipinos need to be like a molave, strong, brave and resilient to commit good and achieve clean
surroundings.
d. The poem is an expression of a strong desire to achieve a better and improved Philippines.

8. You were tasked to submit a narrative of your high school experience. But you have difficulty choosing
which experiences you think are worthy to be included in your story. Which of the following would best help
you with your problem?

a. use as few details as possible

b. include as many details as you can
c. choose only the most important details relevant to the theme
d. write the details in the order in which you think of them

9. Read the summary of Alejandro R. Roces’, “We Filipinos are Mild Drinkers”.

We Filipinos are mild drinkers. We drink for only three good reasons. We drink when we are very happy. We
drink when we are very sad. And we drink for any other reason. When the Americans recaptured the
Philippines, they built an air base a few miles from our barrio. Yankee soldiers became a very common
sight. I met a lot of GIs and made many friends. I could not pronounce their names. I could not tell them
apart. All Americans looked alike to me. They all looked white.

What does this story tell us about?

a. Interpersonal relations
b. Cultural orientation
c. Family background
d. Self-esteem

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10. Below is a direct speech. Decide which of the following best transforms this into an indirect speech.
The little girl said to her mother, “Did the sun rise in the East?”

a. The little girl said to her mother that the sun rose in the East.
b. The little girl asked her mother if the sun is in the East.
c. The little girl asked her mother if the sun rose in the East.
d. The little girl said to her mother if the sun rises in the East.

II. READING COMPREHENSION: Read the excerpt then answer the questions that follow. Write the
letter of your answer.

Consider the Pinoy abroad. He has discarded the barong tagalog or "polo" for a
dark, sleek Western suit. He takes to the hailiments from Hongkong, Brooks
Brothers or Savile Row with the greatest of ease. He has also shed the casual
informality of manner that is characteristically Filipino. He gives himself the airs of
a cosmopolite to the credit-card born. He is extravagantly courteous (especially in a
borrowed language) and has taken to hand-kissing and to planty of American
"D'you mind's?"

He hardly misses the heat, the native accents of Tagalog or Ilongo or the
company of his brown- skinned cheerful compatriots. He takes, like duck to water,
to the skyscrapers, the temperate climate, the strange landscape and the fabled
refinements of another world. How nice, after all, to be away from good old R.P.
for a change!

But as he sits down to meal, no matter how sumptuous, his heart sinks. His
stomach juices, he discovers, are much less neither as apahap nor lapu- lapu.
Tournedos is meat done in barbarian way, thick and barely cooked with red juices
still oozing out. The safest choice is a steak. If the Pinoy can get it well done
enough and sliced thinly enough, it might remind him of tapa

______ 11. What message does the author want to convey in the narrative?

A. That Filipinos are ungrateful because they easily forget their own country once they are in other
countries.
B. That other countries have greatly influenced the Filipinos abroad.
C. That the Philippine culture is superior compared to other countries’.
D. That Filipinos never forget their identities wherever they are.

______ 12. If you were to write a narrative, which of the following should you do first, next, and last?

I. Spend a good deal of time drafting your recollections about the details of the experience.
II. Identify the experience that you want to write about.
III. Create an outline of the basic parts of your narrative.
IV. Think about why the experience is significant.

A. I, II, III, IV
B. II, IV, I, III
C. II, III, IV, I
D. IV, II, I, III

______ 13. When choosing details for your story, you should

A. use as few details as possible

B. include as many details as you can
C. choose only the most important details
D. write the details in the order in which you think of them

______ 14. Read the short narrative below and answer the question that follows.
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Standing backstage, I could feel my heart thumping in my chest. “Just relax,” my friend Jenny whispered.
“You’re ready for this.” I nodded. Jenny was right. I’d been practicing my song for the school talent show for
six weeks. Still, picturing an audience packed with kids, parents and teachers made me want to run out the
door.

“Too late for that,” I thought, as Mr. Peterson announced my song. Jenny gave me a nudge, and suddenly I
was on the stage. Standing in the spotlight, I grasped the microphone and belted out the lyrics. I heard my
voice pour through the speakers and in the room. “It’s going well,” I thought to myself. “Don’t mess up.”

What strategy did the author use in the aforementioned narrative?

A. Figuratiive language
B. Plot/Sequence of events
C. Narrative perspective
D. Style

_____ 15. Based on the narrative, how do you think the story has ended?
A. She stopped in the middle and ran towards the backstage.
B. She looked tense as she saw a sea of faces with different reactions.
C. She apologized for her actions at the end of her song.
D. The audience applauded her and was impressed by her presentation.

III. MATCHING TYPE: Match the multimedia resources that is appropriate for each scenario. Write
the letter of your answer.
A. B.
a. images Exploring historical events and artifacts in a museum
16. ______
exhibit
17. ______ b. audio recording Following a recipe to cook a new dish for dinner
c. video demonstration Planning a vacation and looking for tourist attractions
18. ______
in a new city
d. text description Learning a new language and practicing
19. ______
pronunciation
e. blog Learning about different species of animals in a
20. ______
wildlife documentary.
f. video footage

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