Republic of the Philippines

JOSE PROVINCIAL HIGH SCHOOL

Poblacion, San Jose, Negros Oriental

FIRST QUARTER EXAMINATION

ENGLISH 7

Name:_________________________________Section:_________________Score:___________

I. Listening: Listen carefully to the selection to be read by the teacher. Then, answer the questions below. Write
only the letter of your choice.

_____1. Who caught the three star maidens?

A. Farmer B. God C. Star D. Son

_____2. What happened when the star maiden found her missing wings?
A. She hang them into the sky.
B. She got them and tore them.
C. She took them and threw them away.
D. She wore them and took her son to her sky world.

_____3. What did the gods do to help the farmer visit his wife and his son in the sky world?
A. The gods built bridges.
B. The gods built a skyway.
C. The gods built stairways.
D. The gods built the rainbow.

_____4. Which is true according to the selection?

A. The gods pitied the farmer.
B. All the star maidens escaped away.
C. The star maiden did not leave the farmer.
D. The farmer and one star maiden had two sons.
E.
_____5. The selection explained the _______ of the rainbow.
A. Story B. Legend C. Epic D. Novel.

II. Reading and Literature: Read the story below then answer the questions that follow.
How the Moon and the Stars Came to Be Bukidnon (Mindanao)

One day in the times when the sky was close to the ground a spinster went out to pound rice. Before she
began her work, she took off the beads from around her neck and the comb from her hair, and hung them on
the sky, which at that time looked like coral rock.

Then she began working, and each time that she raised her pestle into the air it struck the sky. For some
time she pounded the rice, and then she raised the pestle so high that it struck the sky very hard.

Immediately the sky began to rise, and it went up so far that she lost her ornaments. Never did they
come down, for the comb became the moon and the beads are the stars that are scattered about.
_____6. Who is the main character in the story?
A. A spinster B. A villager C. A farmer D. A pitcher
B.
_____7. “One day in the times when the sky was close to the ground…” is the _____ of the story.
A. Setting B. Plot C. Character D. Conflict

_____8. What is the turning point of the story?

A. When she pounded on the rice.
B. When she did not see her comb anymore.
C. When she raised the pestle so high that it struck the sky very hard.
D. When she took off the beads from around her neck and hang them in the sky.

_____9. Which literary genre the excerpt is taken from?

A. Epic B. Legend C. Myth D. Proverb
_____10. What kind of a narrative text is a story that explains a natural phenomenon or an early history of
people?
A. Proverb B. Legend C. Fable D. Myth

III. Speaking
A. Stress
Identify the stress syllable.
_____11. education
_____12. Project (verb)
_____13. beautiful
B. Intonation Pattern
Tell whether the following sentences follow (A) Rising-falling intonation or (B) rising intonation pattern. Write
the letter of your answer.
_____14. Do you like to be a hero?
_____15. I’m a scholar. How about you?
_____16. I love to go to the garden.
IV. A. Grammar: Subject-Verb Agreement
Choose the correct form of the verb that agrees with the subject. Encircle your answer.
_____17. Laziness (is,are) the sibling of starvation.
_____18. A stitch in time (save,saves) nine.
_____19. The mother and the daughter (help,helps) one another in doing house chores.
_____20. A number of monsters (is,are) marching towards the castle of the enemy.
_____21. The number of people who died in the battle (was,were) unmeasurable.
_____22. Everybody (is,are) REQUIRES TO OBEY THE LAWS OF THE LAND.
_____23. Many (believe,believes) that elders are a source of wisdom.
_____24. Each (has,have) a role to perform.
_____25. The news about the three kings (is,are) sadly received by the people.
_____26. Twenty gallons of fuel (is,are) not enough for the ship of the Kings.
B. Vocabulary Development
Affixes
_____25. Maria __-plored the gods to give her the soul of her beloved. Which of the following prefixes best
completes the highlighted word? Read the sentences for other clues.
A. de- B. ex- C.im- D. in-
_____26. Mabaning, husband of Lawanen, entered a particular section in heaven for the ______ of Bantugan’s
soul. (Retrieve)
Using the highlighted word inside the parenthesis, which suffix appropriately forms a new word to fill in the
blank?
A.-ance B.-ity C.-ment D.-val
Proverbs and Idioms
_____27. When he needs to act, he never delays and says, “Let‘s hit the road.” The highlighted sentence is an
example of _____.
A. Proverb B. Familiar C. Idiom D. Slang
_____28. “What are you up to later?” Which form of language is the highlighted word in the sentence? Be
specific with your answer.
A. Colloquial B. Familiar C. Idiom D. Slang
_____29. My mother said, “Half a loaf is better than no bread”. This is an example of a ______.
A. Idiom B. Proverb C. Slang D. Colloquial
_____30. Which meaning best explains this line, “the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.”
A. Don’t become very upset by trivialities.
B. There is always better opportunity to choose from.
C. If you don’t see someone for a long time you like them better.
D. When a bad thing happens there is always a positive aspect to it.
_____31. Her son usually misbehaves with the relatives, but she doesn’t find anything wrong in him. There are
none so blind as those who will not see. This means that_____.
A. It is best to explain to those who never listen.
B. It is better to talk to those who refuse explanation.
C. It is useless explaining to those who want to be corrected.
D. It is useless explaining to those who do not want to understand.
Tone
The passages below suggest a/an _____ tone as a whole.
_____32. One day, after one of their secret meetings, Luna went back to the heavens and told her secret to one
of her cousins.
A. Cheerful B. Sorrowful C. Surprised D. Angry
_____33. “Alas. My brother Sulayman is dead!”
A. Angry B. Happy C. Sad D. Surprised
Identify the signs and symbols.

_____34.
A. airplane B. arrival C. airport D. departure

_____35.
A. gender B. female C. male D. boy

_____36.
A. food B. restaurant C. food D. dinner

_____37.

A. no left turn B. left turn C. right turn D. no right turn

_____38.
A. littering B. do not liter C. no throwing D. throwing

_____39.
A. arrival B. airport C. departure D. airplane

_____40.
A. Warning B. poison C. do not touch D. Do not enter

_____41.
A. no left turn B. no right turn C. no U-turn D. u turn

_____42.
A. no U-turn B. U-turn C. left turn D. right turn

_____43.
A. disabled B. chair C. seat D. wheel chair
_____44.
A. airplane B. airport C. departure D. arrival

_____45.
A. no way B. one way C. two way D. on the way

Identifying parts of a paragraph

Using the organizer, rewrite the following sentences. (46-50)
A. A hawker is a person who moves from one place to another and sell their goods, by shouting on the streets.
B. They work hard throughout the day.
C. They move on the street on their bicycle and sometimes on foot and sell their products.
D. We can see hawkers everywhere.
E. They move everywhere selling their goods without caring about the weather.

46.

47. 48. 49.

50.

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Prepared by: Krizza Veronica R. Cuevas