Republic of the Philippines

SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES AGRI-BUSINESS AND MARINE AND

AQUATIC SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY (SPAMAST)
Malita, Davao Occidental, Philippines 8012

EDUC 7
School Year: 2019-2020
First Semester
Instructor: Fe T. Canoy
MIDTERM EXAMINATION

Name: ______________________________________________ Date: ________________________

Course and Year: ________________________ Score: _______________________

Part I. MULTIPLE CHOICE: THIS TEST MUST BE TAKEN FOR 60 MINUTES ONLY. Read each question/statement
carefully before answering. Shade the letter that corresponds to the best answer before the number. If the answer is not part
of the choices, shade letter E. Use black/blue pen in answering the test. Erasure in any form is prohibited.

1. It is the process of cultivating and improving the individual’s potentialities of understanding.

a. reading b. developmental reading c. reading comprehension d. silent reading
2. It is a process which connects man to the reservoir of all forms of information on any subject anywhere at any
time.
a. reading b. developmental reading c. reading comprehension d. silent reading
3. It is the process of constructing meaning from text
a. reading b. developmental reading c. reading comprehension d. silent reading
4. It involves learners reading in detail with specific learning aims and tasks.
a. silent reading b. oral reading c. intensive reading d. extensive reading
5. It is the type of oral reading where the reader is given the necessary time to prepare and practice.
a. rehearsed reading b. sight reading c. intensive reading d. extensive reading
For 6 to 10, identify what extent of reading does the situation belongs. Shade A if it is intensive reading and B if it is
extensive reading.
6. Teacher Ranny ask her students to read the story of Little Red Riding Hood and to make a summary after
reading.
7. The students were given a time to visit the school library for an hour.
8. Teacher Randy read a story in his class ad asked the students to listen.
9. A group of students went to the library to conduct research.
10. Luke Andrew is a doctor. He is used to waking up early to read his favorite newspaper.
For 11 to 20: Give the connotative or denotative meaning of the underlined word in the sentence.
11. Joseph is a Japanese.
a. Ethnic group that is native in Japanese archipelago.
b. Someone who is good with Nihongo.
c. A person who have a round or oval shape eye.
d. Someone who lives at Japan
12. Both Chinese and Japanese are Asians and if you are really in need to understand the difference between
their eyes, the truth is, there is just a little difference.
a. window to the soul c. organs of the visual system
b. favorite d. most attractive part of the face
13. The blueberry is very blue.
a. color b. sad c. flavor d. taste
14. He was born in Waterloo.
a. defeat b. plant c. meaning d. place
15. He met his waterloo after fighting with his mother.
a. defeat b. plant c. meaning d. place
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 16. John and Maris were not able to visit their grandmother yesterday because it was raining cats and dogs.
Instead they visited their grandmother today.
a. fight between siblings c. cats and dogs were everywhere
b. heavy rain d. sunny day
17. The test was a piece of cake.
a. dessert b. sweet c. easy d. interesting
18. “Break a leg!” Jose shouted before Mildred entered the museum.
a. congratulations b. good luck c. be injured c. break an object in the museum
19. Amy was feeling blue after taking the test.
a. color b. sad c. amazed d. happy
20. Aphrodite is the goddess of love and beauty in Greek mythology, while Minerva is for the Romans.
a. beautiful b. smart c. female god d. wife of a god
21. ______ is a type of read that would require the reader to not use of any vocal sound.
a. oral reading b. sight reading c. rehearsed reading d. silent reading
22. __________ is reading for pleasure purposes.
a. intensive reading b. extensive reading c. oral reading d. sight reading
23. In this level of comprehension, the reading is required the basic details of a story.
a. literal comprehension c. critical comprehension
b. interpretative comprehension d. application comprehension
24. This level of comprehension calls for the readers’ ability to make judgment.
a. literal comprehension c. critical comprehension
b. interpretative comprehension d. application comprehension
25. This reading comprehension level calls for “reading between lines”.
a. literal comprehension c. critical comprehension
b. interpretative comprehension d. application comprehension
26. This is the period when the child begins to acquire some forms of communication skills through the use of
concrete objects.
a. reading readiness stage c. rapid growth
c. reading beginning stage d. refinement stage
27. This period corresponds to that phase where the reader has already developed the essential reading skills for
developmental reading.
a. reading readiness stage c. rapid growth
c. reading beginning stage d. refinement stage
28. It is during this period when the reader starts to recognize words, phrases, and sentences.
a. reading readiness stage c. rapid growth
c. reading beginning stage d. refinement stage
29. It is reading in order to familarize and understand ideas.
a. extensive reading b. intensive reading c. oral reading d. sight reading
30. This type of reading calls for the re ader’s ability to analyze a problem in relation to other activities of life.
a. idea reading b. exploratory reading c. critical reading d. analytical reading

Part II. IDENTIFICATION: Shade the letter A if the activity belongs to Literal Level, B if Interpretative Level, C if Critical
Level, and D if it belongs to Application level. Erasure in any form is prohibited.

31. Write a short story about the story that was read.
32. Compose an action song that will help you understand the theory of multiple intellegences.
33. Enumerate the consonant letters of the English alphabet.
34. Analain made a list of all the task that she needs to accomplish everyday. Is Analain an organized person?
Why?
35. If your were the author of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Titan’s Curse”, would you entitle it the
same way? Why?
36. Who is the author of The Trials of Apollo?

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 37. Write a letter to Jenny Han about your reaction to her recently released book.
38. What is the name of the main character in the story of Rapunzel?
39. Was the ending of the story written by Jeniffer E. Smith appropriate? Why?
40. What moral lesson would we derive from the story “Juan Tamad”?

Part III. True or False: Shade letter A if the statement is False, and B if it is True. Erasure in any form is prohibited.

41. Skimming is an act of viewig something in advance.

42. Scanning is browsing a book for the sole purpose of nibbling the pages for some topics necessary for
understanding any preparation.
43. Scanning is an act of browsing a book in order to have a bird’s eye-view of what is to be read.
44. Reading can only be called reading if it involves comprehending.
45. Denotative meaning of a word may vary on how it is used in the sentence.
46. SQ3R stands for survey, question, read, recite, and re-tell.
47. Exploratory reading process gives premium to understanding of the main ideas with the use of the SQ3R
reading scheme.
48. One of the reading habit that a reader must avoid in oral reading is word blocking. It is a reading error where
the reader unnecessarily pauses at the sight of a difficult word for he tends to analyze its structure, origin or
meaning.
49. Comprehension is the process of discerning and understanding what the writer want to put across to his
readers by inference or by direct expression.
50. Extensive reading is also known as reading for recreation.

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