ENGLISH SET A

FIELD OF SPECIALIZATION 150 ITEMS

(MAJOR IN ENGLISH)
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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

102.

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.

112.

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

117.

Coleridge wrote the poem Christabel from which the lines were

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.

122.

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.

Sorrows of the Young Worther

Faust

127.

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

132.

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

137.

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

142.

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.

147.

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

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156.

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

157.

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

162.

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

167.

Who among the following was an idealist who expressed his

hope in Prometheus Unbound?
168. Scott
169. Browning
170. Keats
171. Shelley

172.

173.

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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175.
176.

shoes
slippers
socks

177.

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

182.

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

187.

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

192.

Somerset Maugham produced a powerful document in human

ordeal entitled ___________.
193. The Years
194. Between the Acts
195. The Waves
196. Of Human Bondage

197.

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

202.

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

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.

207.

Which of the following films was Edward Albees play starring

Elizabeth Taylor?
208. Giant
209. Cleopatra
210. Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
211. Lassie

212.

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.

217.

Louis

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227.

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

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

The following are Elizabethan playwrights. Who does not belong

to this group?

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

237.

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

242.

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.

247.

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.

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257.

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

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

262.

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)

267.

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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270.
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To the Dandelion
A Fable for Critics
A Years Life
The Vision of Sir Launfal

272.

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

277.

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

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285.

Which language system is focused on vocabulary?

phonological
semantics
syntactic

286.

pragmatic

287.

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

292.

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

297.

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

302.

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

307.

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.

312.

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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317.

I and III
II

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I and II
III

320.

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

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329.

Which cueing system is pronouncing words?

semantic
syntactic
pragmatic
phonological

330.

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.

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Which reading and writing skill is choosing synonyms?

decoding-spelling
language
study
reference

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344.

Which cueing system is noticing rhyming words?

pragmatic
phonological
semantics
syntactic

345.

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,

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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354.

Which cueing system is detecting regional dialects?

phonological
syntactic
semantics
pragmatic

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360.

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

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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

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Which word contains C pronounced as /K/ - the hard C sound?

century
cold
city
censure

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Which word is accented on the first syllable?

fifteen
outspeak
understand
heaven

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381.
382.

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

390.

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

395.

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.

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404.

In grammar, the word neuter means __________.

both feminine and masculine
neither feminine nor masculine
neutral
asexual (genderless)

405.

What kind of homonyms are these words?

Right and Write
Son and Sun
homophones
homophonic homographs
homographs
homographic homophones

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410.

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

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414.

secretly
discreetly
legally

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419.

Amanuensis originally meant ___________.

a female warrior
a slave with secretarial duties
coarse herbs including pigweeds
deterioration of sight

420.

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

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425.

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

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431.

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.

435.

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

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442.

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

of the AVR.

445.

Which activity includes the cutting of a certain portion of

pictures that is not needed?
446. cropping
447. retouching
448. bleeding
449. line drawing

450.

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

455.

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.

460.

What error is made when the student reads scrap for

scratch?
461. graphophonic
462. semantics
463. syntactic
464. pragmatic

465.

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

470.

Which miscue is made when the student reads radio for

radiator?
471. pragmatic
472. graphophonic
473. semantics
474. syntactic

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479.

Which error is made when the student reads dad for father?
graphophonic
semantics
pragmatic
syntactic

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484.

Which word has a closed syllable?

halo
molar
dinner
hotel

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489.

Which word has an open syllable?

open
window
happen
forget

490.

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

495.

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.

500.

Which instructional procedure makes use of childrens language

and experiences?
501. Language Experience Approach
502. Mastery Learning
503. Individualized Method

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

534.
535.

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?

ddd.

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