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ENGLISH 7
THIRD QUARTERLY EXAMINATION SY 2019-2020
junior high school department

NAME: ________________________________ SECTION: _______________ DATE: _____________

PROCESS
I – Listening: Listen as your teacher reads the text twice. After second reading, answer test items 1 – 5.
1. What is the author’s purpose in writing the selection?
a. To convince b. To entertain c. To inform d. To offer services
2. Which sentence tells a fact?
a. Children like fiction books only.
b. Non-fictions are better than fictions.
c. Non-fiction books are harder to read than fiction
d. There are different kinds of books for your reading pleasure.
3. Which of the following is NOT true about legends?
a. Began many years ago c. Handed down through generations
b. Based on actual events d. May or may not be true
4. Which of the following statement is TRUE based on the story?
a. Fiction books are about things and events that really happened.
b. Most adults choose to read fairy tales, legends and romances.
c. Most children like personal adventure.
d. Non-fiction books are about things and events that really happened.
5. The stories of Lam-ang, Datu Sumakwel, and Maria Makiling are examples of…
a. fable b. fairy tale c. legend d. romance

KNOWLEDGE
II – Language Skills: Choose the letter of the correct answer.
A. Read the stanza below, then answer the questions that follow.
1
Not yet, Rizal not yet.
2
The glory hour will come.
3
Out of the silent dreaming,
4
From the seven thousand-fold silence,
5
We shall emerge, saying: WE ARE FILIPINOS
6. Identify which among the following words is NOT an adjective.
a. emerge b. glory c. silent d. seven thousand-fold
7. What word is described in the fourth line?
a. hour b. silent c. seven d. silence
8. Pick out the synonym of ‘silent’.
a. active b. deep c. lively d. still
9. Which arrangement has a proper order of adjectives?
a. She is a little nasty spoiled girl. c. She is a spoiled little nasty girl
b. She is a nasty spoiled little girl d. She is a spoiled nasty little girl
10. Which statement is grammatically correct?
a. Angelique is the most beautiful Kapampangan.
b. Bryan sits in a comfortable loveliest armchair in the corner.
c. She wears a green, beautiful emerald.
d. This is the most tallest mountain.

B. Complete the paragraph below by choosing the correct present tense of the verb.
Why (11) ________ (do) the sea (12) _______ (laugh), Mother,
As (13) ________ (glint) beneath the sun?
It is thinking of the joys, my child,
that it (14) ________ (wish) everyone. Why (15) ________ (do) the sea sobs so, Mother.
11. a. do b. does c. did d. that
12. a. laughed b. laughs c. laughes d. laugh
13. a. glints b. glinted c. punches d. punching
14. a. am b. are c. is d. was
15. a. start b. started c. starting d. starts
C. Write the Simple Past Tense Form of the verb in the parentheses.
We never (16. ask) David to play with us. He had to sit under the big acacia tree in the schoolyard and watch us
play. We (17. give) one another guava and other fruits at recess, but we never offered David any.
One day, however, David (18. bring) a great big package to school. We (19. be) all curious about what the package
(20. contain), but we tried hard not to show our curiosity.
16. a. ask b. asked c. asking d. asks
17. a. gave b. give c. gives d. giving
18. a. bring b. bringing c. brings d. brought
19. a. are b. is c. was d. were
20. a. contain b. contained c. containing d. contains

D. Choose the letter of the correct answer.

21. Which of the following is an example of collective noun?
a. chairs b. herd c. ideas d. kitchen
22. Which of the following is a concrete noun?
a. auditorium b. emotions c. happiness d. imaginations
23. All of the following are examples of compound nouns EXCEPT
a. blackboard b. haircut c. jurisdiction d. mother-in-law
24. What common noun basically classifies the following examples of proper nouns? – Guagua, Floridablanca, Lubao,
Mexico a. idea b. city c. place d. town
25. Which of the following is NOT an abstract noun?
a. anger b. idea c. joystick d. love
UNDERSTANDING
III. Reading/Literature: Read the following excerpts/stanzas, then answer the questions that follow.
I am a Filipino – inheritor of a glorious past, hostage to the uncertain future. As such, I must prove equal to a twofold
task – the task of meeting my responsibility to the past, and the task of performing my obligation to the future…
I am a Filipino, child of the marriage of the East and the West. The East, with its languor and mysticism, its passivity
and endurance, was my mother, and my sire was the West that came thundering across the seas with the Cross and Sword
and the Machine…
26. What characteristic of a Filipino is exemplified by the speaker in the text?
a. proud b. respectful c. responsible d. sentimental
27. Which of the following ideas best explains the meaning of the phrase ‘glorious past’?
a. adventurous b. joyful c. rich d. sorrowful
28. Whom does the speaker refer to in the ‘West’?
a. Americans b. Chinese c. Japanese d. Spaniards
29. To what does ‘Cross’ in the last sentence of paragraph 2 refer?
a. Christianity b. Industrialization c. Revolution d. Western Values
For items 30-35
1
Beloved Land, let me explain to thee
2
Why thought of nearing death provokes a pain;
3
‘Tis not that I again shall never see
4
These orient isles of kindly sun and rain;
5
Not that the visionary spirit must
6
Forego the wonders she fondly schemed;
7
Not that the flesh must soon succumb to dust,
8
With Love’s avowals only half redeemed.
9
O my beloved Land, whose air I breathe,
10
Whose bounty is my daily sustenance,
11
How sad to leave with nothing to bequeath,
12
Thy weal to serve, thy glory to enhance;
13
How shameful, finally, to dare to rest
14
My thankless dust upon thy noble breast.
30. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem in its first four lines?
a. aabb b. abab c. abcd d. abba
31. The phrase ‘beloved land’ in line 1 symbolizes…
a. country b. home c. province d. world
32. The language used in line 2 appeals to the reader’s sense of…
a. sight b. smell c. taste d. touch
33. Which of these pairs of words does NOT have rhyme?
a. breathe – bequeath c. schemed - redeemed
b. enhance – breast schemed – redeemed d. thee - see
34. The word ‘provokes’ means…
a. to antagonize b. to humiliate c. to stale d. to stir up purposely
35. The persona in the poem implies that he is… a. angry b. happy c. lonely d. sad

Prepared by:
MISS ROSE ANGELA M. ULIGAN