CATMON NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Panalipan, Catmon, Cebu

SECOND PERIODICAL TEST IN ENGLISH III
Name ______________________ Yr./Sec.________________ Date __________ Score _______
A. CHOOSE THE WORD THAT MEANS THE SAME AS THE UNDERLINED WORD.ENCIRCLE
THE LETTER OF YOUR ANSWER.
1. There is a disparity between rich and poor.
a. difference b. openness c. sameness d. oneness
2. I am subordinate to the president and must follow his orders.
a. above b. beneath c. on par with d. equal
3. Be a wary consumer. Check your purchases carefully.
a. buyer b. seller c. hater d. lover
4. Will you please talk to my mother and corroborate my story. I don’t think she believes me
a. lie about b. confirm c. buy d. sell
5. Following the fire, there was a great confusion. Everyone walked around in a chaotic state.
a. calm b. confused c. loving d. rational
6. Even though I felt I was doing a good job, I was fired and someone else was hired in my place. Apparently it
was easy to supplant me.
a. threatening b. replace c. sane d. normal
7. Police officers often have to subdue criminals so no one gets hurt.
a. put them in the police car b. let go c. bring under control d. read them their rights
8. I hope the judges in the beauty contest are impartial and not biased.
a. fair b. low scoring c. bought off d. high scoring
9. His speech went on and on. It seemed interminable.
a. too long b. hateful c. short d. loving
10. I think the idea of UFOs landing on earth is implausible.
a. instant b. lucrative c. unbelievable d. different
11. Kyle was saved by the bell when his sister walked in and asked him to take her to ballet practice.
a. rescued from an unwanted situation c. obligated to comply
b. detained from his duty d. obligated to cooperate
12. Everybody thought Jane and Elliot were a happy couple, but it was all just make believe.
a. modesty b. pretending c. reality d. denial
13. Yes, tell me about it. I’m all ears.
a. listening carefully b. listening quietly c. listening quickly d. listening completely
14. If I had a chance to go to Paris, I would make the most of it.
a. be satisfied with c. go there as soon as possible
b. take great advantage of d. drawback from
15. We are having a pot-luck dinner at Tim’s house tomorrow. Everybody is invited.
a. dinner where everybody brings something to eat c. dinner where only soup is served
c. dinner where everybody chips in d. dinner where people eat and play
at the same time
16. Just keep your wig on. Everything is going to be alright.
a. hold your wig so it won’t fall off c. calm down
b. get another haircut d. throw a fit
B. CHOOSE THE WORD, PHRASEOR SENTENCE WHICH WILL CORRECTLY COMPLETE THE
SENTENCE OR ANSWER THE QUESTION. ENCIRCLE THE LETTER OF YOUR ANSWER.
17. __________, Amaury lost his keys when they fell from his pocket.
a. Slip on the wet sidewalk c. Slipping on the wet sidewalk
b. Slips on the wet sidewalk d. Slipps on the wet sidewalk
18. __________by the news Maris ran to her room and cried.
a. Shocking b. Shocks c. Shock d. Shocked
19. She quits _____ about being unemployed and creating her own job.
a. complaining b. complained c. complains d. complain
20. Rover, my dog, always tries _______ over the fence.
a. jumped b. to jump c. to jumped d. jump
21. ______makes me cry sometimes.
a. Laughing b. Laughed c. Laughs d. Laugh

C. IDENTIFY THE ERROR IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES. ENCIRCLE THE LETTER OF

YOUR ANSWER.
22. Stand on the roof of my apartment building at dawn, I watched the sun rise through the
A B C
crimson cloud.
D
23. Lakesha hopes to won the approval of her mother by switching her major from fine arts to
A B C D
pre-med.
24.After learned the arts of speech, the class began studying punctuation.
A B C D
D. GO OVER THE SENTENCES BELOW AND ARRANGE THEM LOGICALLY. ENCIRCLE THE
LETTER OF YOUR ANSWER.
1. He goes to a shopping mall and looks for a perfect gift.
2. He buys the brooch and takes it home.
3. Suddenly he sees a beautiful brooch in a shape of his favorite pet.
4. David wants to buy a Christmas present for his mother.
25. Which sentence should be the first?
a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4
26. Which sentence should be the third?
a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4
27. Which sentence should be the last?
a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4
28. Which should be the second sentence?
a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4
29. What is the correct order of the sentences?
a. 4312 b. 4132 c. 3412 d. 3142
E. READ THE SELECTIONS BELOW THEN ANSWER THE QUESTIONS THAT FOLLOW.
A.)In the sixteenth century, an age of great marine and terrestrial exploration, Ferdinand Magellan led
the first expedition to sail around the world. As a young Portuguese noble, he served the king of Portugal, but
he became involved in the quagmire of political intrigue at court and lost the king's favor. After he was
dismissed from service to the king of Portugal, he offered to serve the future Emperor Charles V of Spain.
A papal decree of 1493 had assigned all land in the New World west of 50 degrees W longitude to Spain
and all the land east of that line to Portugal. Magellan offered to prove that the East Indies fell under Spanish
authority. On September 20, 1519, Magellan set sail from Spain with five ships. More than a year later, one of
these ships was exploring the topography of South America in search of a water route across the continent. This
ship sank, but the remaining four ships searched along the southern peninsula of South America. Finally they
found the passage they sought near a latitude of 50 degrees S. Magellan named this passage the Strait of All
Saints, but today we know it as the Strait of Magellan.
One ship deserted while in this passage and returned to Spain, so fewer sailors were privileged to gaze at
that first panorama of the Pacific Ocean. Those who remained crossed the meridian we now call the
International Date Line in the early spring of 1521 after ninety-eight days on the Pacific Ocean. During those
long days at sea, many of Magellan's men died of starvation and disease.
Later Magellan became involved in an insular conflict in the Philippines and was killed in a tribal battle.
Only one ship and seventeen sailors under the command of the Basque navigator Elcano survived to complete
the westward journey to Spain and thus prove once and for all that the world is round, with no precipice at the
edge.
30. The sixteenth century was an age of great ___exploration.
 a. cosmic b. land c. mental d. common man
31. Magellan lost the favor of the king of Portugal when he became involved in a political ___.
a. entanglement b. discussion c. negotiation d. problems
32. The Pope divided New World lands between Spain and Portugal according to their location on one side or
the other of an imaginary geographical line 50 degrees west of Greenwich that extends in a ___ direction.
a. north and south b. crosswise c. easterly d. south east

33. One of Magellan's ships explored the ___ of South America for a passage across the continent.
a. coastline b. mountain range c. physical features d. islands
34. Four of the ships sought a passage along a southern ___.
a. coast b. inland c. body of land with water on three sides d. border
35. The passage was found near 50 degrees S of ___.
a. Greenwich b. The equator c. Spain d. Portugal
36. In the spring of 1521, the ships crossed the ___ now called the International Date Line.
a. imaginary circle passing through the poles b. Imaginary line parallel to the equator
c. area d. land mass
B.) Marie Curie was one of the most accomplished scientists in history. Together with her husband,
Pierre, she discovered radium, an element widely used for treating cancer, and studied uranium and other
radioactive substances. Pierre and Marie's amicable collaboration later helped to unlock the secrets of the atom.
Marie was born in 1867 in Warsaw, Poland, where her father was a professor of physics. At the early
age, she displayed a brilliant mind and a blithe personality. Her great exuberance for learning prompted her to
continue with her studies after high school. She became disgruntled, however, when she learned that the
university in Warsaw was closed to women. Determined to receive a higher education, she defiantly left Poland
and in 1891 entered the Sorbonne, a French university, where she earned her master's degree and doctorate in
physics.
Marie was fortunate to have studied at the Sorbonne with some of the greatest scientists of her day, one
of whom was Pierre Curie. Marie and Pierre were married in 1895 and spent many productive years working
together in the physics laboratory. A short time after they discovered radium, Pierre was killed by a horse-
drawn wagon in 1906. Marie was stunned by this horrible misfortune and endured heartbreaking anguish.
Despondently she recalled their close relationship and the joy that they had shared in scientific research. The
fact that she had two young daughters to raise by herself greatly increased her distress.
Curie's feeling of desolation finally began to fade when she was asked to succeed her husband as a
physics professor at the Sorbonne. She was the first woman to be given a professorship at the world-famous
university. In 1911 she received the Nobel Prize in chemistry for isolating radium. Although Marie Curie
eventually suffered a fatal illness from her long exposure to radium, she never became disillusioned about her
work. Regardless of the consequences, she had dedicated herself to science and to revealing the mysteries of the
physical world.
37. The Curies' ____ collaboration helped to unlock the secrets of the atom.
a. friendly b. competitive c. courteous d. industrious
38. Marie had a bright mind and a __personality.
a. strong b. lighthearted c. humorous d. strange
39. When she learned that she could not attend the university in Warsaw, she felt___.
a. hopeless b. annoyed c. depressed d. worried
40. Marie ___ by leaving Poland and traveling to France to enter the Sorbonne.
a. challenged authority b. showed intelligence c. behaved d. was distressed
41. _____she remembered their joy together.
a. Dejectedly b. Worried c. Tearfully d. Happily
42. Her ____ began to fade when she returned to the Sorbonne to succeed her husband.
a. misfortune b. anger c. wretchedness d. disappointment
43. Even though she became fatally ill from working with radium, Marie Curie was never ____.
a. troubled b. worried c. disappointed d. sorrowful
C.) Do you know that the ants are the most intelligent of all insects? Large groups or colonies of them
are founded by the females. These colonies live in network of passageways which are several feet below the
earth’s surface. They often cover an area of fifty to one hundred square yards. The nests or anthills are the only
paths above ground and are sometimes as much as six feet in diameter. The only species in America that builds
above the ground is found in Wisconsin. These ants build a mound about twenty inches in height. Another
European species builds a nest of clay or mud in hollow trees, housing thousands of ants in a single nest.
Probably the most universal of all nests is found in Australia. In these nests the part above the ground is shaped
like the branches of a tree.
44. Where is the only North American species which builds entirely above ground found?
a. Australia b. Wisconsin c. Europe d. California
45. From the articles, the ants proved to be _____________.
a. social b. unsocial c. peaceful d. lazy

46. Which of the following can be compared to circumference of the largest anthill.
a. saucer b. dining room table c. dinner plate d. man’s head
47. How large is the area that a single colony covers?
a. as large as a room c. as large as an open newspaper
b. as large as a book d. as large as ten square yards
D.)When Isabel got home from school, she saw a letter addressed to her. “Who can it be from?” she
asked herself as she opened the letter. After reading it, she ran to her mother.
“Mother,” she shouted for she was very happy. “Rosa wrote to me. She said she would like to come and
stay with us for a week.”
“I’m glad to hear that,” said her mother. Are you glad too?”
“Oh, Mother, I shall be very happy if she comes. I haven’t seen her for some time,” said Isabel. “We
shall be happy together.”
“Where shall she sleep?”asked her mother.
“Mother, if you don’t mind, she can sleep in my bed and I’ll sleep on the floor. We’ll stay together in
my room.”
“If you want to do that, I’ll let you,” said her mother. And Isabel was very happy. That night she wrote
Rosa to come.
After a week Rosa came. Isabel took Rosa’s bundle and led her to her room.
“You and I are going to stay in this room,” said Isabel to Rosa. “You will sleep in my bed.”
“No,” said Rosa. “You are going to sleep in your bed and I’m going to sleep on the floor. I do it at
home.”
Isabel and Rosa had a good time. They went walking, saw their friends, and went to parties together.
Rosa was so happy that when it was time for her to go home, she did not want to leave.
48. What would be a good title for the selection?
a. Friends b. Rosa’s Visit c. Working together d. Happy Together
49. Why did Rosa not want to sleep in Isabel’s bed?
a. She was used to sleeping on the floor. c. She could not sleep with a soft bed.
b. She was embarrassed to sleep in Isabel’s bed d. She was afraid to sleep on a soft bed.
50. If you were Isabel, how would you have prepared for Rosa’s visit?
a. I would have scheduled activities for the whole week.
b. I would have invited other friends to join us during the week.
c. I would have cleaned the house and thought the food to prepare.
d. I would have rented a house for her .