ENGLISH SET A

FIELD OF SPECIALIZATION 150 ITEMS (MAJOR IN ENGLISH) INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Get your brown envelope from your Room Watchers. 2. Check if the name printed on the brown envelope and the contents inside are yours. 3. Detach the remaining answer sheet from the bottom of your Examinee ID/AS Set. 4. Write the subject title or field of specialization on the box provided. 5. Shade Set Box A on your answer sheet if your text booklet is Set A; Set B if your text booklet is Set B. 6. Avoid erasures.

7. Identify the poem from which the line is taken:

Quoth the raven nevermore 8. Ulalume-a Balad 9. The Sleeper 10. Lenore 11. The Raven

12. Identify the play from which the line is taken:

Good name in man and woman... is the immediate jewel of the souls. 13. Macbeth 14. Merchant of Venice 15. As You Like It 16. Othello

17. He is remembered for this line:

Either you are with us or against us. 18. Tony Blair 19. George W. Bush 20. Bill Clinton 21. Ronald Reagan

22. Identify the poem from which the following lines are taken:
A violet by a mossy stone Half-hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. 23. Ozymandias 24. She Walks in Beauty

25. She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways 26. Break, Break, Break 27. Identify the poem from which the lines are taken:
So live, that when thy summons come to join the innumerable caravan, which moves to that mysterious realm, where each shall take his chamber in the silent halls of death... 28. The Yellow Violet 29. The Prairies 30. Thanatopsis 31. A Forest Hymn

32. From the statement, To trifle with the most vocabulary is to tamper
with the currency of human intelligence, Samuel Johnson most likely means that... 33. if we did not have puns we would not be intelligent. 34. people who make puns are not intelligent. 35. punning is a frivolous and transgressive use of language. 36. people should be wary of making puns that are to playful.

37. Identify the poem from which the lines are taken:
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose with my lost saints I love three with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life! And, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. 38. Sonnet 53 39. Sonnet 43 40. Sonnet 15 41. Sonnet 14

42. Identify the poem from which the lines are taken:
What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both 43. Ode on a Grecian Urn 44. Ode of Melancholy 45. Ode to the Westwind 46. Ode to a Nightingale

47. Which of the following statements, if true, would most weaken the
authors contention that the world of the fiction writer is full of matter? 48. Books about theoretical principles are not usually popular. 49. Some writers are able to write abstractly in a way that engages the senses of the average reader. 50. Emotional writing tends to have more significance for the writer. 51. Most people are more comfortable expressing ideas than feelings.

52. Who said, Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can
do for your country? 53. Dwight D. Eisenhower 54. Lyndon B. Johnson 55. John F. Kennedy 56. Richard M. Nixon

57. Who said I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat? 58. Nelson Mandela 59. Mao Tse Tung 60. Winston Churchill 61. Karl Marx 62. Which means the structure of grammar of a sentence? 63. Syntax 64. Bound morpheme 65. Morpheme 66. Free Morpheme 67. Lao-Tzu once said
A journey of a thousand leagues begins in a single step. Which of these would follow from Lao-Tzus statement? 68. Finish ahead of schedule. 69. Act with a sense of urgency. 70. Make good of time. 71. Start on time.

72. Saint Thomas Aquinas once wrote

When you want to convert someone to your view, you go over to where he is standing, take him by the hand, and guide him. You dont stand across the room and shout at him; you dont call him a dummy; you dont order him to come over to where you are. You start where he is and work from that position. Thats the only way to get him to budge. What value was he trying to impart? 73. Forgiveness 74. Acceptance 75. Encouragement 76. Understanding

77. Which of the following best summarizes the content of this passage?
The world is too much for us.

78. Love for the philosophical ideas 79. Love for nature 80. Love for logic

81. Love for the material world 82. What virtue does the passage below want to bring out?
HISTORICAL While visiting with a friend over coffee one morning, a young woman complained, Every time my husband and I get into an argument he gets historical! The friend interrupted, Dont you mean hysterical? No, I mean historical, the lady replied. He always brings up the past. 83. Forgiving requires people not to keep score. 84. Never refuse to forgive; you will need to pass over. 85. Asking forgiveness has a far-reaching effect. 86. Forgiveness is on command. Judgement is not.

87. The stanza is taken from the poem, If You Think by Walter D. White:
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you dont! If you want to win, but think you cant, Its almost a cinch you wont. The authors attitude toward the power of the mind is ____________.

88. optimistic 89. serious 90. hopeful 91. sympathetic 92. Which are teacher-made scoring guides to assess writing growth of
students? 93. Cloze procedure 94. Checklist 95. Portfolios 96. Rubrics

97. Which learning theory views children as having the ability to organize
and integrate information in schemata? 98. Reader Response 99. Constructivist 100. Sociolinguistic 101. Interactive

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The following are characteristics of literature-based reading classrooms EXCEPT: 103. Desks are arranged formally. 104. Students have access to instructional materials. 105. The arrangement of facilities encourages group interaction. 106. Books are four times the number of students.

107.

Which of the following most nearly parallels the reasoning in these lines I am not a star because all my songs are hits; all my songs are hits because I am a star. by a recording industry celebrity? 108. A recording industry celebrity observed: I am not a star because my every song is enjoyed; I am a star because people pay to watch me. 109. A college professor noted: I am the final word in the classroom not because my judgement is always correct, but my judgement in the classroom is always correct because I am the instructor. 110. A dance instructor noted: I am not the instructor because I know all there is about dance; rather I am an instructor because of my ability to teach dancing. 111. A nurse observed: I am not competent in my duties because I am a nurse, but I am competent in my duties because of my training in nursing.

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Read the verse below. Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as a rock and as soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect. In the above lines, the poet Carl Sandburg mentions Abraham Lincolns ______________. 113. achieve 114. leadership 115. discipline 116. enthusiasm Coleridge wrote the poem Christabel from which the lines were

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taken:

The lady sank, belike through pain, And Christabel with might and main Lifted her up, a weary weight, Over the threshold of the gate: Then the lady rose again, And moved, as she were not in pain. What cultural belief about the threshold is cited? 118. Anybody could cross the threshold. 119. The threshold was sanctuary of persons in pain. 120. A clean heart could help one cross the threshold. 121. Evil spirits could not cross a Christian threshold.

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Which of the following is the story of a scholar who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge? 123. Lucinde 124. Candide

125. 126. 127.

Sorrows of the Young Worther Faust

George Bernard Shaw once said: You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and I say, Why not? The authors attitude toward dreaming is one that is ________________. 128. Humorous 129. Tongue-in-cheek 130. Straightforward 131. Serious The stanza is taken from the poem When I Was One-andTwenty When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away. Give pearl away and rubies But keep your fancy free. Which of the following ideas does the poet mention? 133. The worlds riches 134. Experience as the best teacher 135. The change in peoples lives 136. The wise mans advice Which novel written by Steven Javellana tells of a woman torn between love of her husband and obedience deeply engrained native customs and social conventions? 138. Watch in the Night 139. Without Seeing the Dawn 140. The Hand of the Enemy 141. The United Which of the following statements can be inferred from the excerpt of the address delivered by Pres. Dwight Eisenhower in 1961? The conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry... new in American experience, exercises a total influence... felt in every city, every state house, every office of the federal government... In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwanted influence by the military-industrial complex. 143. Civilian control of the military should never be allowed. 144. An overgrown military establishment could pose a threat to democracy. 145. Industrial influence on the military has made the government more democratic. 146. Only the military-industrial complex can protect liberties.

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Which play of Jose M. Hernandez tells of an artisan who forged cannons for the use of the Spaniards? 148. The Filipino Rebel 149. The Real Leader 150. The Cry of the Philippines 151. Panday Pira Which if the following is alluded to in this old English riddle? From heaven I fall, though from earth I begin; No lady alive can show such a skin. m bright as an angel, and like as a feather, But heavy and dark when you squeeze me together. snow storm rain star

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Consider these lines from the The Ideal Wife: Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain but a woman That feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Which word infers the moral of the verse? 158. favor 159. feareth 160. beauty 161. praised Which poem of Walter Scott has stirring narrative in verse, superb description of the wild and historic place and complete medievalism? 163. Boat Song 164. Lay of the Last Minstrel 165. Soldier, Rest! 166. Lochinvar Who among the following was an idealist who expressed his hope in Prometheus Unbound? 168. Scott 169. Browning 170. Keats 171. Shelley Which of the following is alluded to by these lines? Two brothers we are, great burdens we bear By which we are bitterly pressed; the truth is to say We are full all the day and empty when we go to rest stockings

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shoes slippers socks

Who wrote The Jungle Book for which he became a Nobel Prize Awardee? 178. Victor Hugo 179. Rudyard Kipling 180. William March 181. K.L. Mansfield

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Which piece by Rousseau is one of the most important works on political philosophy? 183. Candide 184. The Social Contract 185. Two Treatises of Government 186. Discourse on Method Who wrote In Hosp. L., a collection of poems? THIS IS IN HOSPITAL: RHYMES AND RHYTHMS 188. William Ernest Henley 189. Rudyard Kipling 190. Thomas Hardy 191. Robert Louis Stevenson Somerset Maugham produced a powerful document in human ordeal entitled ___________. 193. The Years 194. Between the Acts 195. The Waves 196. Of Human Bondage Who was the playwright who wrote realistic dramas capturing the feeling of everyday life like his characters in A Marriage Proposal? 198. Edmond Rostrand 199. Victor Hugo 200. Henrick Ibsen 201. Anton Checkov Below is an example of how John Updike looks at America, which makes him earn the title The Brilliant Young Writer as gleaned from the quote below? your nothing street corners your ugly eateries your dear barbarities

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and vacant lots Dont read your reviews A*M*E*R*1*C*A you are the only land. 203. His characters are searching for the true meaning of life 204. His work contains nostalgic thoughts of his early childhood. 205. It is an elegant prose, filled with balance, rhythmic sentences containing private feelings to portray an America in all its ugliness. 206. There is truthfulness and simplicity in his work.

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Which of the following films was Edward Albees play starring Elizabeth Taylor? 208. Giant 209. Cleopatra 210. Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 211. Lassie Few people understand poetry, and few prefer to read it. Although English professors speak in glowing terms about the greatness of Popes Rape of the Lock and Tennysons Ulysses it seems that only other professors share their enthusiasm. In the passage, the writer makes which of the following arguments? 213. To read poetry requires patience and tolerance. 214. Simple poetry may continue to be popular. 215. Even professors may not really understand poetry. 216. Few laypeople will spend the time to read poetry. Which of the following childrens verses is written by Robert Stevenson for his stepson Lloyd Osbourne? An Island Voyage Travels with a Donkey Treasure Island A Childs Garden of Verses

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Which word most accurately completes this sentence? The film stars sequined jumpsuit was somewhat ostentatious for the opening of a juice bar, thus the outfit was considered ___________. expensive showy revealing dated

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The following are Elizabethan playwrights. Who does not belong to this group?

228. 229. 230. 231. 232. 233. 234. 235. 236. 237.

Dante Shakespeare Marlowe Johnson The following are metaphysical poets except: George Herbert John Donne Andrew Marvelli Robert Burns

Which of the following best describes difficult and distorted human relationship? 238. To See a World 239. A Poison Tree 240. Never Seek to Tell My Love 241. To Hayley Which of these would follow from Daniel Websters statement Falsehoods not only disagree with truths but usually quarrel among themselves.? 243. Quarrelling is endemic to political life. 244. Truth and falsehood are emotional, rather than intellectual. 245. Liars often quarrel with each other. 246. Truth and falsehood can be distinguished from one another. Which of the following statements, if true, would most weaken the conclusion on the Renaissance? 248. The Wars of the Roses created strife and the people were left with no option but to join these struggles. 249. There was renewed interest in the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. 250. People questioned the authority of the Church and the government. 251. The influence of the Church and religion declined. Which folksong of Robert Burns is still sung today? My Love is Like a Red Red Rose Go Down, Moses Auld Lang Syne My Country, Tis of Thee

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Which is the literary ballad of Goethe that makes use of the belief that elves, fairies, and other semi-supernatural creatures do not possess souls and can obtain them only by wrestling them from human beings? 258. The Mountain Bard

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Fairy Tales The Elf King Faust

Which of the following quotations is contained in John Miltons Paradise Lost? 263. Truth is an impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam. (DOCTRINE & DISCIPLES OF DIVORCE-MILTON) 264. They also serve who only stand and wait. (ON HIS BLINDNESSMILTON) 265. Revenge, at first though sweet, bitter are long back on itself recoils. 266. Time, the subtle thief of youth... (SONNET VII-MILTON) Which is the best-known and most-quoted poem of James Russell Lowell that immortalizes the theme of a June day symbolizing the awakening of life?

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To the Dandelion A Fable for Critics A Years Life The Vision of Sir Launfal

Gandhi says: I do not want my house to be wailed on all sides and windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of other lands to be blown about my house as fully as possible. Which of the following character traits is exhibited by the author? 273. Social solidarity 274. Universal charity 275. Family solidarity 276. Personal integrity Raul S. Manglapus once said: I have done this against the advice of a friend. He felt that since I would speak on Filipino movies, I should begin by making you cry. Which of the following Filipino character traits is inferred in his speech? 278. Palakasan and Pataasan culture 279. Utang na loob 280. Hiya 281. Kanya-kanya syndrome Which language system is focused on vocabulary? phonological semantics syntactic

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Students whose language at home is not English are called students who are taught ___________. 288. Technical English 289. Bilingual English 290. Standard English 291. English as a Second Language What can be inferred from the statement Johnny, he play ball with his father.? The student speaks ___________ English. 293. non-standard 294. informal standard 295. formal 296. standard Which of the theories of learning, language and literacy views children as having the ability to organize and integrate information in schemata? 298. Interactive 299. Reader Response 300. Sociolinguistic 301. Constructivist What do you call one chair in the classroom which has been designated for students use during sharing period? 303. Readers Chair 304. Hot Seat 305. Authors Chair 306. Speakers Chair On which of the following would early and modern grammarians most likely disagree? 308. Grammar is associated with philosophy and literary criticism. 309. A school of linguistics rejected traditional grammar. 310. It is just as important to study gestures as to study punctuation. 311. Every known language first appeared in written form. The punctuation marks were developed, in part, because written communication offers no opportunity for: 313. Inflection 314. Tone 315. Face-to-face Engagement

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Rearrange the underlined portions of the sentence to correct dangling modifiers. Lawyers handle these adoptions when parents asked them to frequently. 1 2 3 4 321. 1-4-2-3 322. 1-4-3-2 323. 1-3-2-4 324. 1-2-3-4 Which cueing system is pronouncing words? semantic syntactic pragmatic phonological

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Wallace Stevens wrote A Postcard from the Volcano from which the lines are taken: Children picking up our bones Will never know that those were once As quick as foxes on the hill What is the meaning of the above lines? 331. The children dont realize the danger. 332. The children are quick as foxes. 333. The bones used to belong to living people. 334. The bones belonged to foxes on the hill. Which reading and writing skill is choosing synonyms? decoding-spelling language study reference Which cueing system is noticing rhyming words? pragmatic phonological semantics syntactic This stanza is taken from the Beaver Pool in Winter The brook is still open where the water falls, but over the deeper pools clear ice forms; over the dark shapes of stones, a rolling log,

335. 336. 337. 338. 339. 340. 341. 342. 343. 344. 345.

and amber leaves that clattered down after the first heavy frost. What is the speaker describing in the stanza? 346. The path she is walking on 347. Things in the pool under the ice 348. The winter home of the beavers 349. An icy waterfall

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Which cueing system is detecting regional dialects? phonological syntactic semantics pragmatic Which of the following signals is indicated by a comma? pause slight pause longer pause not so slight nor longer pause Which accurately describes the words below? Your entire department is entitled to overtime compensation. run-on sentence correctly punctuated sentence fragment comma splice In an interview, getting away from the pack means to wait patiently for other reporters to do their task adding sensationalism to the interview schedule using hard-nosed questioning striving hard to get a different story Which word contains C pronounced as /K/ - the hard C sound? century cold city censure Which word is accented on the first syllable? fifteen outspeak understand heaven Which word contains C pronounced as /S/ - the soft C sound? censure connote

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cycle collaborate Which is the correct verb form of lie or lay in the sentence? Yesterday I (rested) in my room worrying about todays examination. lay laid have lain have laid

A teachers concern towards a student with linguistic ability is to _____________. 391. interest him/her in debates 392. lead him/her to visualization activities 393. offer role-playing and acting opportunities 394. involve him/her in journal writing and other forms of reflection Which of the following statements on dictionaries would you most likely agree with? 396. Students and office workers would find an unabridged dictionary hard to carry. 397. Guide words help a dictionary user to pronounce a word. 398. All dictionaries show definitions in historical order. 399. Most dictionaries use centered data to indicate syllables. In grammar, the word neuter means __________. both feminine and masculine neither feminine nor masculine neutral asexual (genderless)

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What kind of homonyms are these words? Right and Write Son and Sun homophones homophonic homographs homographs homographic homophones

What is meant by the idiom under the counter in the sentence? There are laws against the copying of video tape for commercial use, but a lot of it still goes on under the counter. 411. openly

412. 413. 414. 415. 416. 417. 418. 419. 420. 421. 422. 423. 424. 425.

secretly discreetly legally Amanuensis originally meant ___________. a female warrior a slave with secretarial duties coarse herbs including pigweeds deterioration of sight Which is the synonym for prevail in this sentence? Zeus knew that the Trojans would prevail, because his scales had shown that they would succeed. swerve skid skew succeed

If a teacher wishes to develop the learners academic language skills, which approach should s/he use? 426. focusing inquiry 427. generic competency model 428. content-based instruction 429. thematic instruction Which of these statements must be true about metacognition? It is the skeleton of knowledge in the mind on a particular subject. 432. It is the power of prior knowledge. 433. It is knowing about knowing. 434. It uses appropriate computer chips for storage. The teacher discovered that majority of his/her students are sensitive to the natural world and see connections and patterns within the plant and animal kingdoms. Which one should the teacher most likely be concerned with? 436. adding music for motivation 437. conducting strategic games 438. leading visualization activities 439. using the outdoors as classroom Which phrase emphasized reinforcement and reward? Five points off for missing homework. If you have less than a C average on all your tests, youll have to take an extra test. 443. All homework completed means five extra points. 444. If you dont complete the exercise on time, there can be no used

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of the AVR.

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Which activity includes the cutting of a certain portion of pictures that is not needed? 446. cropping 447. retouching 448. bleeding 449. line drawing

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As element or factor in newspaper advertising, which of the following cannot be true? 451. usability 452. product cost 453. newspaper type 454. advertising audience Which of the following statements best identifies the approach in the teaching of word recognition? 456. Teaching begins by showing the relationship between individual sounds and letters. 457. The emphasis is on word identification. 458. It uses various cue systems to determine meaning. 459. It encourages readers to read activities that are real and important in their lives. What error is made when the student reads scrap for scratch? 461. graphophonic 462. semantics 463. syntactic 464. pragmatic The following are factors why students have reading failures except 466. reading approaches and strategies POSITIVE OPTION 467. phonological processing difficulties 468. biological and psychological learning deficits 469. language barriers Which miscue is made when the student reads radio for radiator? 471. pragmatic 472. graphophonic 473. semantics 474. syntactic

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Which error is made when the student reads dad for father? graphophonic semantics pragmatic syntactic Which word has a closed syllable? halo molar dinner hotel Which word has an open syllable? open window happen forget

Nita wants to examine words together with their meanings. What strategy will she use? 491. word walls 492. venn diagram 493. quilt 494. word sorts The passage is taken from America and Its People by James Martin et.al. In the history of religion, few stories are more dramatic than that of the Mormons. It is a story with the haunting Biblical overtones of divine revelations and visitations, of persecution and martyrdom, of an exodus of two-thirds of the way across a continent, and of ultimate success in establishing a religious society in an uninhabited desert. What prediction can you make for the rest of the section? 496. One educated guess is that other religious sects have suffered the same fate. 497. The Mormons conquered the uninhabited desert. 498. The rest of the section will probably be about what prompted the Mormons to move to new locations. 499. The Mormons were aptly compared with the experience of the apostles. Which instructional procedure makes use of childrens language and experiences? 501. Language Experience Approach 502. Mastery Learning 503. Individualized Method

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504. Directed-Reading-Thinking Activity 505. Which is the systematic and meaningful collection of artefacts
documenting students literacy development? 506. log 507. collection 508. cloze procedure 509. portfolio

510. Which is the correct ordering for the reading process? 511. Reading 512. Exploring 513. Preparing to Read 514. Extending 515. Responding
a. A-B-D-C-E b. B-E-A-C-D c. D-E-B-A-C d. C-A-E-B-D

516. Which diagnostic and instructional procedure is used to determine a

students prior knowledge? 517. mastery learning 518. directed reading-thinking activity 519. individualized method 520. pre-reading plan (PReP)

521. Which writing approach allows students to write topics that they
themselves chose and which they assume ownership of their writing and learning? 522. seminar workshop 523. reading workshop 524. writing workshop 525. in-service training

526. Which activity requires students to do a Quick Write or Quick Draw,

and then they crumple, throw, and read so that they can stay rooted in one place? 527. Carousel 528. Quaker reading 529. Snowball Toss 530. Hot Seat

531. Which instructional procedure should a teacher use to help students

focus on the conceptual and phonological features of words and identify the recurring patterns? 532. data charts 533. word sorts

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K-W-L charts word walls

536. Which assessment tool is used to measure students reading

comprehension? a. Reading Logs b. Running Record c. Grand Conversation d. Anecdotal Notes

537. In which stage of the reading process does a student set targets?
e. f. g. h. preparing to read reading exploring extending

538. In which stage of the reading process does the student preview the
text? i. reading j. preparing to read k. exploring l. extending ITEMS 109-110 William Shakespeare wrote these lines in his Merry Wives of Windsor: Why, then the worlds mine oyster which I with sword will open. 539. Reading at the first level, what does the speaker want to impart? m. The speaker shows ownership over the sword. n. The world is an oyster to be opened easily with a sword. o. He is belittling himself. p. The speaker thinks he owns the oyster. 540. Reading on the third level, what would determine the writers technique? q. simile r. alliteration s. metaphor t. personification ITEMS 111-112 Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow. I look down at the crowd of kids Half of them girls. This is new. During a game against the Minnesota Twins, I notice that the bat boy was a girl. 541. Marie Brewner from Girls of Summer

542. Which of the questions fall under literal comprehension level?

u. In the story, who was short? v. What are the advantage and disadvantage of being tall and short? w. Do you agree with the horse when it said that it is best to be what you are? x. Why is it good to be short?

543. When you read at the second level, you will know that/what
_____________. y. the team does not discriminate against females z. the bat boy is a girl aa.one of the teams is the Minnesota Twins bb.it takes for a girl to be a bat boy

544. If you were reading the sentence below at the literal level

Any listener could have asked me; if things were so grand in Tagaytay what had brought us back to a polluted University belt? then you would say _________________. cc. the young woman in the passage has just returned from living at the University Belt dd.the University Belt has more things to offer than Tagaytay ee.what kind of woman is Annie? ff. The University Belt is in the city of Manila, a dying city that is being face-lifted at present

545. What attitude is manifested if someone arches his/her eyebrow?

gg.skepticism hh.alarm ii. outrage jj. impatience

546. Read the passage. Then answer the quotation that follows.
The Monroe Doctrine demanded that Europe stay out of the affairs of the Americas. President Roosevelt used the doctrine to support a position on imperialism that he called the Roosevelt Corollary. It stated that the United States had a right to move into areas of the Americas needing our civilizing power. In which incident would Roosevelt have used the corollary to defend his actions? 547. His negotiation on an informal understanding between the United States and Japan to end unwanted immigration 548. The United Nations participation in a conference to end FrenchGerman rivalry in Morocco 549. The aiding of Panamanian rebels against the Colombian government 550. His approval of Englands colonization of India and Egypt

551. Which of the following signals is indicated by a comma?

kk. slight pause ll. pause mm. longer pause nn.not so slight nor longer pause

552. To throw in the towel means _____________.

oo. forget the whole thing pp.keep the issue hanging qq.admit defeat rr. hold in abeyance

553. To keep an eye on means _____________.

ss. feed tt. take care of uu.pick-up vv. support

554. Read this paragraph carefully. Then answer the question that follows.
I envision Asia and its immense territories and innumerable peoples as the true birthplace of a new world, just as throughout the past it has been in Asia that the greatest world movements have been born. Here, if we were determined to become the masters of our own destinies we may give shelter to the embryo of a new civilization, and when the rest of the world has destroyed itself with the Western investments of atomic hydrogen, and nitrogen explosion, we may hope, if we have managed to survive through wisdom and prudence, to rebuild for humanity a new home of peace, justice, and liberty. 555. Claro M. Recto, ASIA FOR THE ASIANS Which of the statements approximates the idea projected by the paragraph? 556. Recovery is but a vision, a dream! 557. Survival is far from reality due to the superiority of the West. 558. The author sees a new world, the New Asia which has rebuilt itself the Asian way. 559. The West will self-destruct itself.

560. Who is the most important person of the News Team because s/he is
the link between the station and the listener? ww. scriptwriter xx. assignment editor yy. reporter zz. newsreader

561. Which

is the medias task of safeguarding (SURVEILLANCE) aaa. abuse of the source-base stories bbb. shooting from the hip ccc. doubling-checking of facts

public

interest?

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misquotation

562. The following passage is from George Washingtons Farewell

Address: The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nation is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagement, let them be fulfilled with perfect engagements let them be fulfilled with perfect engagements let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of their policies or the ordinary combinations and collisions of their friendships or enmities. It is true to policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any position of the foreign world... Which one of the following statements reflects Washingtons attitude? The United States should eee. support politics that would increase the territory under its control fff. offer its assistance to whoever needs it ggg. become as politically connected with Europe as possible hhh. avoid becoming involved in world political affairs

563. Which one is an advantage of television over print media?

iii. motion jjj. proximity and immediacy kkk. visual lll. color

564. The two-year battle waged by Washington Post reporters Carl

Bernstein and Bob Woodward in the now celebrated Watergate scandal is the best example of ________________. mmm. precision journalism nnn. yellow journalism ooo. investigative journalism ppp. parajournalism

565. Which of the following best describes development journalism?

qqq. This is written in inverted pyramid form, with most important information in the lead. rrr. It interprets the facts to the reader. sss. The crowd is taken seriously during the reporting so as to add color. ttt. It aims to bring about the attainment of higher quality of life.

566. Which is defined as any form of paid non-personal presentation and

promotion of ideas, goods, or services? uuu. advertising vvv. promoting www. marketing xxx. publicity

567. Which gives meaning to bare facts by explaining them and relating
events to each other? yyy. interpretative reporting zzz. adversarial reporting aaaa. investigative reporting bbbb. parajournalism

568. The development reporters attitude toward todays journalism is

one of ______________. cccc. incitement to action dddd. commitment eeee. opinion-shaping ffff. clarification

569. Which of the following, if true, would most be a pressing problem of

radio and television? gggg. The lack of professionalism among newscasters hhhh. The competition between ABS-CBN and GMA-7 over exclusiveness of reporting iiii. The profanity, obscenity, and vulgarity of language used jjjj. The irritating voice-tone used by reporters

570. Which interview is conducted after prior appointment?

kkkk. informal llll. telephone mmmm. formal nnnn. on-the-spot

571. The greatest advantage of the radio over the newspaper is its
_______________. oooo. spoken words of everyday speech pppp. informal style qqqq. immediacy rrrr. use of concrete images

572. Which interview allows sources to be interviewed on condition that

they are not ssss. tttt. uuuu. vvvv. named for the purpose of floating an idea or policy? hard-nosed off-the-cuff - impromptu hypothetical on-the-spot

573. Which television action best supports governments effort to achieve

progress and stability? wwww. Entertains to ease political and economic tension xxxx. Disseminates government plans and projects yyyy. Establishes link between the government and the people zzzz. Motivates public interest to support government projects

574. Which of the following statements, if true, would most strengthen the

medias advocacy of ideas? aaaaa. The newspapers make their stand on certain issues openly in the editorials. bbbbb. Newspapers are careful in giving their stands on issues. ccccc. Issues can come out without managements interference. ddddd. It is difficult to suppress issues.

575. Which of the following is true?

eeeee. The Philippines has the world record of having the most number of journalists killed. fffff. The Military has been spared from the alleged harassment or intimidation of media practitioners. ggggg. The Filipino journalists killed belonged to the media in the urban areas. hhhhh. The Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontieres has classified the country as the safest for journalists to practice their profession.

576. Which defines the relationship of the test to the course program?
iiiii. jjjjj. kkkkk. lllll. instructional evaluation practical theoretical

577. Which assessment tool clearly demonstrates the most authentic

proof that student learns the skill of writing verses? mmmmm. portfolio nnnnn. process ooooo. traditional ppppp. performance

578. Which of the following is the last step of the SQ3R study strategy?
qqqqq. rrrrr. sssss. ttttt. review recite read reteach

579. Which of the following emphasized the formal properties of

language? uuuuu. adequacy

vvvvv. accuracy wwwww. appropriateness xxxxx. availability

580. Which of the following best describes the Readers Theater?

yyyyy. zzzzz. aaaaaa. bbbbbb. The theatres require elaborate props and costumes. Long hours are spent rehearsing. Readers do a lot of action. Students do not memorize their parts.

581. Which of the following combines the best features of various

approaches cccccc. dddddd. eeeeee. ffffff. in reading? linguistic eclectic basal textbook psycholinguistic

582. Which of the following software offers users tools to explore ideas by
linking word gggggg. hhhhhh. iiiiii. jjjjjj. across cultures and time? house information modernize MIC for users have books for the library put up a library

583. The following are some of the advantages of using textbooks except
kkkkkk. Global Vision llllll. Grolier Multimedia Encyclopaedia mmmmmm. Hyperstudio nnnnnn. Claris Works

584. The primary concern of test makers is to _______________.

oooooo. pppppp. qqqqqq. rrrrrr. upsetting potential audience providing a common resource for teachers and students summarizing pertinent information providing teachers with outline

585. Materials should fit the lessons ________________.

ssssss. prepare a test according to the level for which it is given tttttt. prepare a test according to the purpose for which it is given uuuuuu. see to it that the items are valid, reliable, and usable vvvvvv. plan the items in a manner to measure the testees skills and understanding

586. Which test item develops speaking skills in the communication level?
wwwwww. content xxxxxx. assignment yyyyyy. strategy zzzzzz. objective

587. Which test item develops knowledge and understanding of literature

in the analysis level? aaaaaaa. Watch a film clip of an incident and describe it from the points of view of those involved. bbbbbbb. Read aloud the following passage. ccccccc. Act out a situation in which you display a particular emotion. ddddddd. Present a skit in which you and a friend talk on the phone, make a date, discuss a party and so on.

588. Watching TV for more than five hours a day is associated with lower

achievement in eeeeeee. Name the work in which each of the following characters appears. fffffff. Describe how the author uses figures of speech to help him achieve his purpose. ggggggg. Underline the similes, metaphors, or symbols in this unfamiliar passage. hhhhhhh. Write whether each of the following texts is a ballad, ode, or sonnet.

589. Which instructional aid is this celebration of stories and other books,
usually performed at the end of the Literature Focus? iiiiiii. Quickwrite jjjjjjj. Read-arounds kkkkkkk. Reading log lllllll. Readers theatre

590. Watching TV for more than five hours a day is associated with lower
achievement in mmmmmmm. English language and Mathematics nnnnnnn. Reading and Mathematics ooooooo. Values Education and English ppppppp. Science and Mathematics