GENERAL EDUCATION key for March 2024 Part 1

1. My nephew and met a good friend of ___ in front of the boarding date.

A. Us

B. Mine

C. Ourselves

D. Ours

 

2. If ever you forgot ______ raincoat, you can always use ____ Paul

A. Hour, hers

B. His, hers

C. Yours, ours

D. your, mine

 

3. When hammering a nail through a wood. I am very careful not to wound _________.

A. himself

B. myself

C. herself

D. ourselves

 

4. The phrase "Red letter day" is considered as a/an _______.

A. idiom

B. metaphor

C. hyperbole

D. simile

 

5. Medina was chopping the vegetables when she cut __________

A. myself

B. ourselves

C. himself

D. herself

 

6. You ________ finished washing the dishes before they arrive.

A. should

B. will have

C. have been

D. have

 

7. We adore ______ when Agatha speaks German fluently with ________.

A. Him, them

B. Her, me

C. him, we

D. him, me

 

8. She always watches the ____ news on television

A. later

B. lately

C. late

D. latest

 

9. I think the subject is heavy for Roberta and___________.

A. me

B. her

C. myself

D. us

 

10. "The comedian is known for his CANDIDNESS." The CAPITALIZED words mean___________.

A. tactfulness

B. rudeness

C. attention

D. frankness

 

11. There is a nation-wide spread of malaria and I believe health authorities ________ warned us.

A. Should be

B. should

C. shall be

D. should have

 

12. I could have participated in the research project if I _________ in the Philippine at that time

A. Will be

B. were

C. are

D. was

 

13. What figure of speech is exemplified by the statement below?

"If you ask for the stars, I'll get them for you"

A. metaphor

B. simile

C. hyperbole

D. onomatopoeia

 

14. The Filipina writer is known for her love sonnets.

A. Ophelia Dimalanta

B. Edith Tiempo

C. Paz Marquez Benitez

D. Glicia Condero-Fernando

 

15. What figure of speech is being exemplified by the statement below?

"The foreign delegates were the center of attention"

A. personification

B. simile

C. metaphor

D. hyperbole

 

16. Which of the following books of Leo Tolstoy is considered as the "greatest novel" ever written?

A. War and peace

B. Death of Ivan Turgenev

C. Ana Karenina

D. Crime and Punishment

 

17. The suprasegmental pertains to the highness and lowness of sounds.

A. pitch

B. Juncture

C. intonation

D. Stress

 

18. This suprasegmental pertains to the rising and falling of sounds

A. pitch

B. juncture

C. intonation

D. stress

 

19. "The statements of the witnesses are IMPERTINENT to the case on trial." The CAPITALIZED word means _______.

A. irrelevant

B. malicious

C. violent

D. important

 

20. What figure of speech is being exemplified in the statement below?

"She is the apple of my eyes"

A. simile

B. alliteration

C. metaphor

D. hyperbole

 

21. The Filipino writer in English who focuses on Hispanic Filipino culture and traditions in most of his works.

A. Edilberto Tempo

B. Jose Garcia

C. F. Sionil Jose

D. Nick Joaquin

 

22. The DENR mandated the total ban _____ of dynamite fishing.

A. With use

B. To use

C. of use

D. on the use

 

23. Which of the following sounds is a voiced bilabial stop?

A. /B/

B. /Z/

C. /P/

D. /V/

 

24. What is the English translation of Rabindranath Tagore's "Gitanjali"?

A. Song of Devotion

B. Song of Offerings

C. Hindu Poem

D. Hindu Offering

 

25. This school of thought believes that language is learned through imitation, repetition and reinforcement.

A. Behaviorism

B. Cognitivist

C. Functionalist

D. Psycholinguistic

 

26. This is Carlos Bulosan's masterpiece about a father who  was accused ofc stealing the "spirit"/ "smell" of food.

A. My father Goes to Court

B. The Smell Stealer

C. The Innocent Father

D. Will have studied

 

27. Three years is required for a specific language specialization, Roger ___________ for one year and he still needs to study more.

A. Has studied

B. Studied

C. has been studying

D. will have studied

 

28. Which made the sentence wrong? "She has taken the exam."

A. Had

B. Exam

C. Taken

D. No Error

 

29. A great amount of water _________ needed for the drought to end.

A. is

B. is being

C. was

D. were

 

30. This Shakespearean play deals with a prince whose father wad murdered by his uncle

A. Hamlet

B. Julius Ceasar

C. Merchant of Venice

D. Macbeth

 

31. The fraction between 2/3 and 11/12 is __________.

A. 5/12

B. 7/12

C. 3/4

D. 15/16

32. A wooden plank has dimensions 2 feet by 1 foot by 6 inches. What is its surface area?

A. 5.5 sq. in.

B. 7 sq. in.

C. 7.5 sq. in.

D. 8 sq. in.

 

33. Haile is reading a book. She can finish reading 3 pages in 1.5 minutes. How long will it takes her finish reading the book if it has 612 pages?

A. 5 hours and 6 minutes

B. 8 hours and 12 minutes

C. 14 hours and 41 minutes

D. 20 hours and 24 minutes

 

34. What is the GCF of 85, 153 and 357?

A. 15

B. 17

C. 19

D. 23

 

35. Solve for the LCM of 8, 12 and 20.

A. 60

B. 80

C. 120

D. 240

 

36. The approximate shape of a tennis ball is _________?

A. circle

B. cone

C. cylinder

D. sphere

 

37. Brakes 10 artists 6 days to finish graffiti. How long will it take 4 artists?

A. 4 days

B. 12 days

C. 16 days

D. 18 days

 

38. Which of the following is divisible by 3?

A. 987 646

B. 864 191

C. 493 843

D. 370 368

 

39. Simplify the expression 2-[3+(4-2x3)÷2.22+5°].3-4÷2

A. -4

B. -2

C. 0

D. 4

 

40. Divide (-20x2 + 43x - 21) by (-5x + 7)

A. -x + 3

B. -4x - 3

C. x + 3

D. 4x - 3

 

41. How many 25-cm ribbons can be cut from a 50-dam

ribbon?

A. 200

B. 1,000

C. 2,000

D. 10,000

 

42. A card will be randomly picked from a standard deck. What is the probability of drawing a red queen?

A. 1/13

B. 1/26

C. 1/56

D. 0

 

43. Two dice are rolled. What is the probability that the results are the same?

A. 1/12

B. 1/7

C. 2/7

D. 1/6

 

44. Jim has 5 shirts, 3 shorts and 2 shoes. How many outfits

can he make?

A. 60 outfits

B. 30 outfits

C. 5 outfits

D. 10 outfits

 

45. Which inequality has as solution p<-5?

A. 3x + 60 < -5x + 20

C. 3x - 60 < -5x + 20

B. -3x + 60 < 5x + 20

D. 3x - 60 < 5x + 20

 

46. Which best describes a 45-45-90 triangle?

A. Acute & scalene

B. Right & scalene

C. Acute & isosceles

D. Right & isosceles

 

47. Find the length of each side of an isosceles trapezoid with lower base of 12 meters and upper base of 6 meters and height of 4 meters.

A. 10 meters

B. 6 meters

C. 7 meters

D. 5 meters

 

48. Given triangle ABC where C is right. How will you describe sides a and b in terms of angle A?

A. Adjacent; hypotenuse

B. Adjacent; opposite

C. opposite; adjacent

D. Opposite; hypotenuse

 

49. What is the final amount after adding the annual interest of 12% for 4 months on Php 10,0000.00?

A. Php 300

B. Php 400

C. Php 10,300

D. Php 10,400

 

50. Mr. Bustos ordered a merchandise listed at Php 32,000.00. the invoice showed the net price of Php 20,800.00. Find the discount rate.

A. 65%

B. 55%

C. 45%

D. 35%

 

51. What system of measurement includes the use of pounds, inches, yards and miles?

A. Primitive

B. English

C. Metric

D. Scientific

 

52. The first angle of a quadrilateral is 60, the second is 10 less that the first and the third is equal to the second. What is the fourth angle of the quadrilateral?

A. 200

B. 35

C. 50

D. 70

 

53. What are the prime factors of 140?

A. 3x4x5

B. 3x22 x5

C. 4x5x7

D. 22x5x7

 

54. The slope of the line in the equation x + 2y = 6 is ________.

A. -3

B. -1/2

C. 1/2

D. 3

 

55. Which mathematical statement best describes the situation the average age of 2 friends is 26, one of them is 29 years old, how old is the other?

A. x = (26 + 29)/2

B. x = 29(2) /26

C. x = 29(2) - 26

D. x = 26(2) -29

 

 

56. What is the largest prime number less than 190?

A. 189

B. 187

C. 183

D. 181

 

57. Chester obtained the following results from his Mathematics examinations 87, 92, 85 and 90. What score must he get on the next examination so that his average score is 89?

A. 88

B. 89

C. 90

D. 91

 

58. What is the area of a circle inscribed in a square having a side of 8 inches?

A. 50 in2

B. 48 in2

C. 32 in2

D. 16 in2

 

59. What is the final amount of a principal Php 35,000 invested at 3% compounded quarterly for 5 years?

A. Php 53 251

B. 36 792

C. Php 40 250

D. Php 40 641

 

60. Sa salitang sinukuan, ang salitang ugat ay _______

A. suko

B. sinuko

C. sikuan

D. sukuan

 

61. Ang pagpapalitan ng mga opinion, ideya at ng salysay na gumagamit ng mga sagisag ay tinatawag na _______.

A. paglalahad

B. pakikinig

C. pagtuklas

D. talastasan

 

62. Alin sa mga disenyo ng pananaliksik ang ginagamit ng malapitang pag-aaral ng lugar at mga taong kabilang sa pananaliksik?

A. etnograpiya

B. eksperimento

C. panayam

D. case study

 

63. Ang pariralang nalaglag, nahulog ay mga pahayag na ___________.

A. magkahawig

B. magkapares

C. magkasalungat

D. idyoma

 

64. Aling panghalip ang ginagamit ng panturo sa mga bagay?

A. palayon

B. palagyo

C. pamaklaw

D. pamatlig

 

65. Ito ay istratehiya sa pananaliksik na naglalarawan sa isang phenomenon sa kanyang natural na kapaligiran na pinangyayarihan nito.

A. Follow-up study

B. Case study

C. Field study

D. Trend study

 

66. Ito ang ipinagpapalagay na pinakaunang Sistema ng pagsulat sa Pilipinas.

A. alibata

B. abakada

C. kalantiao

D. balitaw

 

67. Ito ang pangatnig na ginagamit kung may nais na bigyang linaw.

A. namumukod

B. bukod-tangi

C. humugit-kumulang

D. samakatuwid

 

68. Anong uri ng pagsasalin ang naganap sa pahayag? Orihina: Mommy cooked spaghetti fot Ate. Salin: Si Nanay ay nagluto ng spaghetti para kay Ate.

A. idyomatiko

B. adapsyon

C. literal

D. Malaya

 

69. Ang modernisasyon sa wikang Pambansa ay nagsimula noong________.

A. 1959

B. 1997

C. 1987

D. 1974

 

70. Sa kabila ng karukhaan, nagsumikap sya na makapagtapos ng kolehiyo. Ang simuno sa pangungusap ay _________.

A. karukhaan

B. nagsumikap

C. sya

D. kolehiyo

 

71. Alin sa mga salita ang nagsaad na ang wika ay pauunawaan at napagkasunduan ng isang lahi o pangkat?

A. likas

B. arbitraryo

C. dinamiko

D. masistema

 

72. "Malakas ang boses ng guro." Anong bahagi ng pananalita ang salitang malakas?

A. pandiwa

B. panghalip

C. pang-abay

D. pang-uri

 

73. "Mukhang matinong tao siya subalit siya ay buwaya sa katihan." Ang idyoma ay nangangahulugang ___.

A. maliksi

B. mabagal

C. traydor

D. matapang

 

74. "Kakain ko pa lamang." Anong aspekto ang pandiwa?

A. Perpektibo

B. Kontemplatibo

C. Imperpektibo

D. Pangkasalukuyan

 

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