1.The wounded soldiers were visited by the president who honored them with _____ for their_____________.
A.
medals-valor
B. gun salute - bravery
2. Which among the sounds below is voiceless?
A. /b/
B. /p/
3. Which is the BEST WAY to write the underlined portion of
this sentence? Researchers also speculate that some teachers might have given
boys more computer time because parents and teachers expected boys to need
computers for future careers. C`
A. will expect
B. will
have expected
4. Robert Frost wrote the poem Acquainted with the Night
from which the stanza is taken:
I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain-back in rain.
I have out walked the farthest city light
The poet in the stanza talks of?
A.
isolation and loneliness
B. joy getting out of the house
5. "Only the heart can see rightly.' This statement is
lifted from what particular novel?
A. The Prince and the Pauper
B. The
Little Prince
6. He was the American President who said, "Ask not
what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of
man."
A. Henry Truman
B. John
F. Kennedy
7. History is the witness that _____________ passing of
time.
A. testifies for
B.
testifies for the
8. An association wherein the name of something is
substituted by something that represents it.
A.
Metonymy
B. Euphemism
9. In English verse, a poetic foot having 1 stressed
syllable followed by 1 unstressed
syllable is ______________.
A.
Trochaic
B. Iambic
10. Senators were accused by activists of washing their
hands with the perfumes of Arabia. This state is commonly known as:
A. Guilt
B. Triumph
11. I suggest that he ___________ in the room for one week.
A. Stay
B. stayed
12. When I met Liza
yesterday, it was the first time I ________ her since Christmas.
A. had seen
B. have
seen
13. Be sure to fill _________ the forms correctly.
A. In
B. on
14. Excuse me, can I borrow ____________ dictionary?
A. Your
B. yours
15. Far __________ Terry's small plane lay the freezing
waters of the North Sea, where his father's boat had disappeared many years
before.
A. Underneath
B. below
16. Excuse me, ________the time?
A. have you
B. have
you got
17. Nowadays,
___________ are much better behaved than their parents were at same age.
don't you think?
A. teenagers
B. the
teenagers
18. We're late. By the time we get to the cinema, the film
____________ .
A. will have started
B. has
started
19. Which of the following is expressed clearly, effectively
states the idea, and has no structural error?
A. Albert
himself told me it was true.
B. Albert, himself, told me it was true.
20. Did you have ____________ on holiday?
A. a
good weather
B. good weather
21. “Of mans first disobedience , and the fruit/Of that
forbidden tree" is the opening to:
A. Paradise
Lost by John Milton
B. The Vision of Delight by Ben Jonson
22. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel by author?
A. Oscar
Wilde
B. John Steinbeck
23. What canon of religious literature was finally, firmly
fixed at the end of 4th century AD?
A. The Hebrew Bible
B. The
New Testament
24. Who wrote the
novel "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?"
A. William Golding
B.
Robert Louis Stevenson
25. "No smoking during the cigarette break." What
kind of figure of speech was used?
A. Irony
B. Oxymoron
26. The Greek dramatist authored "Alcestis" and
"Andromache."
A. Homer
B.
Euripides
27. This one made from ersatz coloring. ERZATS means:
A. Genuine
B.
Artificial
28. In the 23rd century BC, Sargon of Akkad conquered
Mesopotamia, and became the subject of legends. It is from a Sumerian legend
that we learn how Sargon established himself as the cupbearer of the king of
Kish in Sumer. What early form of writing did the Sumerians invent?
A. Cuneiform
B. Hieroglyphics
29. Which of the following is an incorrect representation of
the Scarlet Letter throughout the course of the novel?
A. Able
B.
Avowal
30. Spot the correct word to complete the analogy. Donkey
and Horse: Mule::Lion and Tiger:
A. Thrag
B. Liger
31. Guest house rooms must be ________ by noon.
A.
Vacated
B. Abandoned
32. Which is NOT synonym for 'gathering'?
A.
Contesseration
B. Collocation
33. Which word is defined by: A great fire, as of many
buildings, a forest, or the like
A. Blizzard
B.
Conflagration
34. You eat like a horse when __________________.
A. get used to something new
B. have
a healthy appetite
35. I'll
______________ their cat while they are away in holiday.
A. be looking at
B. be
looking after
36. Madonna's agent
_______________ change her name at the start of her career.
A. made
her to
B. made her
37. A light dramatic composition that uses highly improbable
situations, stereotyped characters, extravagant exaggeration, and violent
horseplay.
A. Satire
B. Farce
38. Who was the author of the famous story book 'Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland'?
A. Rudyard Kipling
B. Lewis
Caroll
39. Who was the 1st century BC poet an author of "The
Aeneid" serves as a guide in Dante's "Inferno?"
A. Homer
B.
Virgil
40. Rizal gave the time of his death in this quotation:
"I die when the dawn breaks to herald the day." What is the time of
his death?
A. Sometime sunset
B.
Sometime at dawn
41. Which Russian novelist wrote "Anna Karenina"
and "War and Peace?"
A. Leo Tolstoy
B. Vladimir
Nabokov
42. Read the following lines:
Midnight, not a sound from the pavement.
Has the moon lost its memory
She is smiling alone
In the lamp light the withered leaves
Collect at my feet
And the wind begins to moan.
A.
Loneliness
B. Optimism
43. ___________is the study of the structure and form of
words in language or a language, including inflection, derivation, and the
formation of compounds.
A. Phonology
B.
Morphology
44. The English word "fig" is a:
A. Phoneme
B.
Morpheme
45. Because of the typhoon, a number of local businesses
___________closed yesterday.
A. were
B. are
46. The earliest recorded syllables are on tablets around
2800 BC in the Sumerian city of _______________.
A. Mesopotamia
B. Ur
47. I could have joined the outreach project if I
___________ in the country at that time.
A. will be
B. were
48. When helping in the kitchen, I always careful not to
hurt ______________.
A.
myself
B. ourselves
49. You ___________ finished eating before we arrive.
A. will
have
B. have
50. I thought the work is heavy for Martha and
______________.
A. myself
B. me
51. What is meant by AT SIXES AND SEVENS in this sentence?
We moved into the house last week, but I'm afraid everything, is still at sixes
and sevens.
A. The things have not been shipped.
B. In a
state of confusion
52. For the synecdoche figurative expression "My mother
has a green thumb. I can't wait to show you her garden." What is the
equivalent meaning?
A. She grows a vegetable garden plats
B. She
is good at gardening
53. She is __________ a jeepney.
A. in
B. On
54. Which of the following words has an alternate correct
spelling as shown in any good dictionary?
A. Advertisement
B.
Apologized
55. This is _____________ typhoon in five years.
A. a worse
B. he
worst
56. Danny look at the _________to look meanings of words
used by the book in its
various chapters.
A. glossary
B. index
57. What type of language is normally used in ordinary
conversation and other informal communication? e.g. "What a close
shave?"
A. Trite Expression
B.
Colloquialism
58. What error is committed in the sentence: "The bus
stopped suddenly, I spilled coffee all over my shirt."
A.
Run-on
B. Dangling modifier
59. What type of error is shown in this sentence?
"Faster than a speeding bullet, the citizens of Metropolis saw Superman
flying overhead."
A. Faulty Coordination
B.
Misplaced Modifier
60. To show phonological awareness skill in the student says
the word, then syllable
or sound.
A.
Segmenting
B. Rhyming
61. Which following pair of words is prescriptively correct
in the blanks within the sentence: "I enjoy __________ but I would not
like ___________ it all my life."
A.
Painting: doing
B. To paint: to do
62. Which sentence is consistent in the use of indefinite
pronoun?
A. Everyone is required to do our share in the development
of their community.
B. Everyone
is required to do his share in the development of his community.
63. Jiemark was happy after he bought three ______________.
A. pieces
of antique furniture
B. piece of antique furnitures
64. The underlined word in the following sentence is .
"As a volunteer, he joined the VACC, an organization against corruption
and crime"
A. Objective complement
B.
Appositive
65. There aren't ___________ for everybody attending the
meetings.
A. enough
chairs
B. much chairs
66. Where are the human vocal cords located?
A. Pharynx
B.
Larynx
67. Egyptian literature is identified as literature.
A. European
B.
Mediterranean
68. What is the logical fallacy in: "You once sponsored
a project of the governor, therefore you are the governor's crony?"
A. Illogical conclusion
B. Association fallacy
69. In the speech process, which is concerned with
amplifying and enriching the voice, using human amplifiers such as the nose,
windpipe and chest?
A.
Resonation
B. Phonation
70. What kind of word is AWOL?
A. Borrowed
B.
Acronym
71. He authored the popular short stories, "How My
Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife," and "Midsummer," which both
depict scenes in Barrio Nagrebcan, Bauang, La Union, where he was born.
A. Manuel Arguilla
B. Bienvenido
Santos
72. Which type of error is committed in the sentence below?
"The President together with his department secretaries
is in Central Luzon distributing relief good."
A. Dangling modifier
B.
Misplaced modifier
73. Which is the BEST interpretation of this metaphorical
line: "The car is a gluton for gasoline."
A.
Speeding eats up a lot of gas
B. High expensive for fuels gas
74. Which of the
Japanese poems consist of five lines 5-7-5-7-7 syllables including
one pause?
A. Hokku
B. Tanka
75. When you teach students to use pleasant words instead of
those offensive effect like the "grim-reaper" for death, or
"crossing over" for dying you are teaching a lesson on_________.
A.
Euphemism
B. Contextualization
76. On levels of reading comprehension, which involves the
understanding of information stated directly in the text?
A. Critical
B.
Literal
77. Which of the following speech articulators does most of
the work in sounds like d, t, s, z, l, n, and th?
A. Teeth
B.
Tongue
78. In the phrase structure rules, a preposition phrases
consist of a preposition followed by a ________.
A. noun
phrase
B. clause
79. This tense connotes actions that are happening at
present time, meaning right now.
A.
Progressive Tense
B. Present Perfect
80. Who is Considered the goddess of Philippine poetry?
A. Opelia Alcantara Dimalanta
B. Teresa Subido
81. Leo Tolstoy's short Story about a man falsely judge and
accused of murder is entitled __________.
A. Murder 411%
B. God
Sees The Truth but Waits
82. A sonnet has 14 iambic pentameter lines and that means:
A. There
are 10 syllables in a line
B. There are 5 syllables in a line
83. What do we call last two lines of the sonnet?
A. Heroic couplet
B.
Couplet
84. Jose Rizal novel Noli Me Tangere is inspired by the
novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe entitled _____________.
A. Uncle
Tom's Cabin
B. Les Miserables
85. What is considered the oldest epic in England?
A.
Beowulf
B. Song of Roland
86. What is the name of the very first library in the world?
A. Beijing Imperial Library
B.
Ashurbannipal Library
87. The teacher was asked to speak for her students when
they won the speech choir competition, and so she says "___________ of my
student, I want to thank you."
A. On
behalf
B. In behalf
88. He is the advocate of Art for Art's sake in the
Philippines.
A. Jose Garcia Villa
B. Jose Salvador
89. Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing are
collectively known as_________.
A. Macro
Skills
B. Communicative Competence
90. DRTA in reading means:
A. Directed
Reading and Thinking Activity
B. Direct Reading and Teaching Activity
91. In developmental reading, this pertains to the
familiarity of the student toward the sounds of the language.
A. Phonemic Awareness
B.
Phonology
92. Who is the Indian counterpart of William Shakespeare
A. Tagore
B.
Kalidasa
93. Who wrote the novel "A Christmas Carol" which
is about a man who hates Christmas?
A.
Charles Dickens
B. scar Wilde
94. This is considered the Golden Age of Literacy Production
in England.
A. The reign of Queen Elizabeth
B. The reign of Charles II
95. The pen name of Mary Ann Evans is ____________,
A.
George Eliot
B. Emily Watts
96. "She is a star in the heavens above what figure of
speech is used?
A. Simile
B.
Metaphor
97. What figure of speech is used in the sentenced below?
"I can eat a whole cow!"
A. Personification
B.
Hyperbole
98. Mark Twain's novel Torn Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are
set in the _________ river.
A. Nile
B.
Mississippi
99. Who wrote the novel Pride and Prejudice?
A. Jane
Austen
B. Charlotte Bronte
100. What is the first Filipino Social Novel by Pedro
Paterno?
A. Ninay
B. Kenkoy