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Culture Documents
Direction: Read the sentences carefully. Find the error/errors in each sentence and rewrite them with the
correct answer/answers.
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1. Aren’t you going to use heavy make-up today?
2. That elementary student is quite brilliant.
3. In here, the point is you don’t have a point.
4. Are there any questions?
5. On behalf of the organization, we would like to express our gratitude to all who took part in this event.
6. The birthday celebrant surprised his guests with his remarkable speech.
7. The debator trained hard for the competition but he lost to a more experienced foe.
8. She is now a matured person as evidenced by how she handles life’s pressure.
9. The books might arrive next next week as promised by the teacher.
10. The jewelries that her mother bought are all fake.
11. Can I have the key of Room 103?
12. The boy was sidesweeped by a speeding car.
13. What kind of perfume did you use this morning?
14. She forgot her TIN number.
15. Form a queue and claim your identification card one by one.
16. To settle the matter, let us go to votation.
17. I prefer a glass of ice tea over milk.
18. After having passed the rigid training, he is now a full-pledged pilot.
19. The doctor’s advices came at an opportune time.
20. I will bring you to the airport.
21. I will sue you to court.
22. The concert will be held at the closed gymnasium.
23. The can goods that she gave me have expired for a long time.
24. Attached herewith are pertinent documents for your perusal.
25. The scavenger was assassinated by an unidentified assailant.
26. There are hundreds of terminologies that I don’t understand.
27. Weaving is her past time.
28. Even before the wedding, he already congratulated the groom and the bride.
29. Some vocabularies have evolved from foreign words.
30. She has to cope up with her lessons to get a high grade in Math.
31. The trainor failed to meet the expectations of the participants.
32. I am clueless why I am allergic to chalks.
33. I was asked to xerox the documents before handing them to the principal.
34. With regards to that defective item, the management is willing to replace it.
35. How many questionnaires did you float to the respondents?
36. I agree with your brilliant idea.
37. I agree to you when you said that nobody is perfect.
38. His plans are in conformity with his brother’s.
39. Upon reaching the gas station, the man got out of the bus then never came back.
40. The speaker emphasized three major causes of Climate Change. Firstly,…
41. Though he speaks fluent English, he was actually raised in the barrio.
42. I extended my condolence to the bereaved family.
43. We would like to thank those who in a way or another contributed to this event.
44. Is there something wrong with the word Acknowledgement?
45. Let us abide with the rules and regulations of the school.
46. I want to follow the footsteps of my sister.
47. The traffic policeman apprehended the driver who didn’t notice the sign, NO PARKING ON BOTH SIDES.
48. The next part of the program is the induction of newly elected officers.
49. He is the Chair of the Board of Judges.
50. We just celebrated our 15th year wedding anniversary at the Manila Hotel.
ANSWERS:
Direction: Read the sentences carefully. Find the error/errors in each sentence and rewrite them with the
correct answer/answers.
54. I came from Buguias, Benguet. Every summer, I help my parents work in the farm.
63. Based from the survey, NAIA is one of the five dirtiest airports in the world.
66. I was been the President of the Arts Guild when I was in high school.
67. Calcium is not only good for the bones but for the heart.
68. He revenged the killing of his father.
69. I was advised to cover my PIN when withdrawing money in an ATM machine.
72. Anyways, that has been the final report to the group.
75. When you go to Manila, better ask for directions so you won’t get lost.
76. Despite of the oil price increase, the drivers remained hopeful for a better 2012.
93. The garbages on the street have not been picked up.
ANSWERS:
54. I came from Buguias, Benguet. Every summer, I help my parents work in the farm.
63. Based from the survey, NAIA is one of the five dirtiest airports in the world.
66. I was been the President of the Arts Guild when I was in high school.
67. Calcium is not only good for the bones but for the heart.
69. I was advised to cover my PIN when withdrawing money in an ATM machine.
72. Anyways, that has been the final report to the group.
73. I went to the library to get as many information as I could.
75. When you go to Manila, better ask for directions so you won’t get lost.
76. Despite of the oil price increase, the drivers remained hopeful for a better 2012.
93. The garbages on the street have not been picked up.
Items 1-15 are incomplete sentences. Beneath each sentence, you will see four words or phrases marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the
word or phrase that best completes the sentence, then shade the letter corresponding to your answer in the Answer Sheet.
1.
1. The enterprising daughter who ____________ a vast fortune from her super rich and powerful father is going to Europe to venture
into other business deals.
2. Helium, a new element in the sun, is the ash left ______________ atoms of hydrogen are fused in the furnace of the sun.
3. To everybody’s surprise, the captain, looking _____________, eas there ahead of all the rest.
4. People _________ Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) damage were not necessarily those who had smoked the longest but those who
began smoking at a young age.
a. in b. for c. of d. at
6. Before the seeds germinated, I did not know what kind of plants the _________________.
7. In April 1906, an earthquake never before equaled in violence ___________ a part of the United States, particularly San Francisco,
California.
8. Ballooning revenue collections, mushrooming infrastructures and expanding transportation and communication facilities
conspicuously manifest the _________ of the city.
9. The latest addition to the year – round regional cultural showcase is the new, state-of-the-art light and sound museum which
_________ the country’s past and its present.
10. Oral rehydration ________________ attempted to replace lost body fluids in the early stages of fever.
11. It _______ be gleaned from the article that mass media have both positive and negative influence to society.
12. Of all the sports that _________________ strong bodies, swimming is the best.
14. A website is limited _____________ you to other websites where you can access for more information and discoveries.
15. The happy children, ________, paraded in the busy streets in celebration of their school foundation.
Directions: In this test you will read several passages. Answer all the questions that follow by encircling the
correct answer.
Passage A
1. One reason that so many people fail is that they lack confidence in themselves. If you think of yourself as being
unworthy of great achievement, you will never achieve greatness. If, on the other hand, you know yourself and
understand what your abilities are, and if then you are determined to accomplish and gain confidence in
yourself.
2. One of the surest ways to accomplish this is for you to associate with persons who have really achieved
greatness. It is impossible, however, for most people to come frequently into the actual presence of the great.
The next best thing, perhaps, is for you to spend part of your time in reading about great achievers. Biography is
a powerful stimulant to action.
3. But these processes will not work unless you rid yourself of a sense of inferiority and determined to do the best
that you possibly can. One of the great philosophers expressed the idea in a single sentence when he said that
each individual should hitch his wagon to a star.
QUESTIONS:
4. Successful people are different from those who are not because they
5. What does the saying “Each individual should hitch his wagon to a star” mean?
d. One should wish upon a star to make his dreams come true.
6. What literary technique was used by the writer in presenting his ideas?
7. According to the author, what is one of the surest ways to achieve self-confidence?
c. Reading the biographies of great people is essential for one to become successful
Answers
Passage B
1. Asia’s new generation of kids has more than just youth in common. Whether in Manila, Hongkong, Kuala
Lumpur, Singapore, Jakarta or Tokyo, whether rich or poor, urban or rural, delinquent or not, Asia’s youngsters
share many things. They go to schools, sing-along bars, fast food outlets, rock concert and rallies. They are
dressed in wild costumes of screaming colors or black, leather jackets, outsize t-shirts and candy-colored
sneakers.
2. In Manila, they are particularly called “bagets”. Their pursuits, though seemingly inane are innocent – singing-
along with the gang at the malls, sharing cheeseburgers and sodas or cruising the commercial center of Cubao
and Makati.
3. In Bangkok, they will wander about the Siam Shopping Center, in Singapore, in the shopping complexes of
Orchard Road. They are kids of Asia’s great cities, avant-garde, rebellious, modernized. They are exposed to
imported television that usher in international values.
4. In Hongkong, the kids have been described as precocious, world-wise, and materialistic, governed less by
teachers and parents than by the omnipresent television. Peer group influence is great. Their trademarks are
smoking, foul language, bizarre and attention-getting appearance, and rude mannerisms.
5. In Japan, they look like different race to the old generation. There is rising drug abuse, sexual freedom, crime
and homosexuality among the youth. There’s less respect given to parents and to the aged.
QUESTIONS:
11. What is worth observing and good about the youth beneath the modern image and westernized lifestyle?
12. When the author said that Asian youth are avant-garde, it means that they
c. Discipline at home has nothing to do with the character of the youth today.
d. Character is hereditary, the environment has nothing to do with what was become of the youth today.
14. If the youth are exposed to too much western television they will likely
15. What literary technique was used by the author in writing the selection?
Directions: In this test you will read several passages. Answer all the questions that follow by encircling the
correct answer.
Answers
Passage C
1.
1. In the year 1799, an officer of the French Army was stationed in a small fortress on the Rosetta River, a mouth
of the Nile, near Alexander, Egypt. He was interested in the ruins of the ancient Egyptian civilization, and had
seen the sphinx and the pyramids, those mysterious structures that were erected by men of another era.
2. One day, as a trench was being dug, he found a piece of black slate on which letters had been carved. He had
studied Greek in school, and knew this was an inscription written in that language. There were two more lines
carved into the stone: one on the Egyptian characters he had seen on the ruins , the other in completely
unfamiliar characters.
3. The officer realized the importance of such a find, and relinquished it to scholars who had been puzzling over
Egyptian inscriptions.
4. In 1802, a french professor by the name of Champollion began studying the stone in an attempt to decipher the
two unknown sets of characters using the Greek letters as a key. He worked with the stone for over twenty
years, and in 1823, announced that he had discovered the meaning of the fourteen signs, and in doing so, had
unlocked the secret of ancient Egyptian writing.
5. Some 5000 years after an unknown person had made those three inscriptions, the Rosetta Stone became a key,
unlocking the written records of Egypt and sharing the history of that civilization with the rest of the world.
QUESTIONS:
c. The discovery of the Rosetta Stone led to a better understanding of the history of Egypt.
d. A French Army officer studied the Rosetta Stone and the inscriptions carved into it.
1. What word would best describe ancient Egyptians based on the selection?
1. What might have happened if the Rosetta Stone were not found?
b. Ancient Egypt would have not reached the peak of its glory.
d. Egyptian civilization would have not been fully understood by the modern world.
b. The Egyptians scholars were puzzled by the inscriptions found in the Rosetta Stone.
c. The founder of the Rosetta Stone knew of its value and turned it over to the proper authorities.
d. The officer did not think the Rosetta Stone had much value and therefore gave it away.
1. What literary technique was used by the writer in developing the passage?
Directions: In this test you will read several passages. Answer all the questions that follow by encircling the
correct answer.
Answers
Passage D
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1. The complacent Filipino majority may not have been awakened yet to the reality of a ravaged environment;
nonetheless, the evidence must be overemphasized. Automotive vehicles for one, reportedly contribute 94.6
million tons of waste released into the air each year, a commuter can only imagine how polluted the air that gets
into his respiratory system is.
2. Pollution experts are inclined to single out man as the culprit of his own destruction. Man, rightly referred to as
a “messy animal,” has helped being about untold environmental decay.
3. Imperiled by the pollution of air, water and land are not only human lives. The marine species as well as the
flora and fauna are just adversely affected. Mass suicides of fishes and whales have been witnessed along
Australian and American shorelines.
4. The mushrooming of factories and plants along river banks have been largely responsible for the pollution of
the different bodies of water, indiscriminate disposal of industrial waste makes festering sinks of the rivers. Too
much dumping of industrial waste renders to water stagnant. Many of the rivers that used to flow along
industrial banks can use some dredging. And yet what good will dredging of a river do if in no time at all it will
serve again as dumping basin? The initiative has to come from the factory owners.
5. A great number of scientists like or think that new technology can be called upon to check the impending
pollution disaster, others are of the opinion that fewer births and less gadgetry may yet provide the answer to the
devastating dilemma. It cannot be denied, however, that man’s wasteful ways call for some measure of
discipline.
6. Man’s brutality toward his environment will only lead to his unmarking. It is ironical, indeed, that he who was
created to have dominion over every living creature on earth should one day be overpowered by an environment
he has helped to pollute. The catastrophe can hopefully still be averted.
QUESTIONS:
24. The phrase “mushrooming of factories” are used in the fourth paragraph of the selection refers to factories
which are
25. In what part of the passage can you read of the ways we can prevent pollution?
a. First paragraph b. Fourth paragraph c. Fifth paragraph d. Last paragraph
26. Who is referred to in the phrase “a messy animal” in the second paragraph of the passage?
28. What would be the likely outcome if we continue polluting our environment?
b. Less births and less gadgetry will save the world from catastrophe .
d. Man’s wasteful ways will contribute more to the pollution of the environment.
29. Which of the following statements show a cause and effect relationship?
c. The marine species and the flora and fauna are adversely affected.
d. Mass suicide of fishes and whales have been seen along coastlines.