RIZAL INTEGRATED SCHOOL

Rizal, San Guillermo, Isabela

4th QUARTER EXAMINATION
S.Y. 2016-2017
English for Academic & Professional Purposes

Name:_______________________________________ Score:____________
Grade/Year Level:______________________________ Date:_____________

I. Multiple Choice
A. Directions: Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write your answer on the space provided
before the number.

1. Which of the following words means nanny?

a. informal settlers c. governess
b. Sanitary engineer d. vertically challenged
2. Sanitary Engineers are referred to as?
a. informal settlers c. nanny
b. janitors d. vertically challenged
3. Unconventional beauty means as?
a. opposite of beauty c. opposite of artistic
b. opposite of intelligent d. none of the above
4. Which of the following statements describes the term Informal Settlers?
a. wealthy people c. Senior Citizens
b. squatters d. nannies
5. It is a language which pretends to communicate but doesn’t, it is a language which makes
the bad seem good.
a. Jargon c. gobbledygook
b. doublespeak d. euphemism
6. The specialized language of a trade profession or similar group, such as doctors, lawyers, or
car mechanic.
a. Jargon c. gobbledygook
b. inflated language d. euphemism
7. A kind of doublespeak which makes the ordinary seems extraordinary.
a. Jargon c. gobbledygook
b. inflated language d. euphemism
8. The matter of overwhelming the audience with words – the more the better.
a. Jargon c. gobbledygook
b. inflated language d. euphemism
9. Which of the following doublespeak is the worst kind?
a. doublespeak of death c. gobbledygook
b. inflated language d. euphemism
10. From the names given, who among them is the bureaucratese practitioner?
a. Alan Greenspan c. Karl Marx
b. George Orwell d. William Lutz

II. True or False

A. Direction: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if it’s not. Write your answer on
the space provide before the number.

1. It’s easy to laugh off doublespeak.

2. Bad economic times gives rise to lots of new doublespeak designed to avoid some very
unpleasant economic realities.
3. In Japan, the doublespeak for baldness is hair disadvantaged.
4. New doublespeak is created every day.
5. Doublespeak is not a product of careless language.
6. Doublespeak is all around us.
7. In Moscow the intimacy salon means sex shops.
8. The Environmental Protection Agency once called acid rain “poorly-buffered precipitation”
than dropped the term in favor of atmospheric deposition of anthropogenically – derived
acidic substances, but decided that the acid rain should be called “wet deposition”
9. Jargon is a word or phrase designed to avoid a distasteful reality.
 10. Jargon allows members of a group to communicate with each other clearly, efficiently and
quickly.

III. Identification
A. Directions: Spell out the following abbreviations of some common IM lingo.

1. AFK -
2. BBL -
3. BRB -
4. IMHO -
5. JK -
6. LOL -
7. LYLAS -
8. NP -
9. OMG -
10. OTP -
11. ROFL -
12. TTFN -
13. TGIF -
14. YW -
15. TTYL -

IV. Enumeration
A. Directions: Give what is being asked in each item.

1. Enumerate the guidelines for writing a position paper.

A. Values Communicated
1.
2.
3.

B. Modes of Reasoning (explain each)

1.

2.

C. Qualities of a convincing position paper

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.