“Ang Sasabitan ng Ating Bandera”

ni Roberto Anonuevo

Mahal na Senador na kagalang-galang,

kung ang salitaan nati’y pataasan,

kung itong medida ay sa patangkaran,

. . . . . . puede ka pong tagdan

. . . . . . sais talampatakan,

isasasabit namin sa tenga mong mahal,

ang aming bandilang karangal-rangalan,

at ikaw ang siyang puno ng kawayan.

Kung ang taas naman nitong isip natin,

ang pagtatangkaan na iyong sukatin,

mga malaking kahoy, nguni’t walang lilim,

. . . . . . dapat mong basahin

. . . . . . iyang good manner,

maliit mang bayan, ang amin ay amin,

at imbesilidad na iyong nasain,

ang di ninyo lupa’y piliting sakupin.

At naiinis ka tuwing makikita

dalawang bandera ay nagkakasama

ang sa pilipino’t sa amerikana?

 . . . . . . alisin ang isa

. . . . . . isa ang itira. . .

Lupang hindi iyo’y huwag kang manguha,

tanggalin sa amin ang p’ranha’t estrelya,

bayaang ang aming bandila’y mag-isa.

Ang bandila namin kahi’t na nga ganyan,

iyan ay dakila, iyan ay marangal,

dito kailan man ay hindi sumilang,

. . . . . . iyang mangangamkam,

. . . . . . iyang salanggapang,

at kung mayro’n dapat alisi’t ilagay,

ilagay sa amin ang sa aming bayan,

1. Ang ipinahihiwatig ng pamagat ay ukol sa

A. uri ng material para sa tagdan.

B. kadakilaan ng tagdan ng bandila ng Pilipinas.

C. pananakop ng bansang Amerika.

D. paghingi ng kalayaan para sa bansa.

2. Ano ang tinutukoy ng may-akda sa mga salitang “tanggalin sa amin ang p’ranha’t
estrelya”?

A. Pagkokondena sa banyagang pamamahala

B. pagpapakita ng pagsuporta sa mga banyaga

C. pagbibigay pag-asa sa mga mananakop

D. pagpapakita ng poot sa mga Pilipinong sumasang-ayon sa banyaga

3. Sino sa mga sumusunod ang nalalapit sa tinutukoy na kinamumuhian sa ula?

A. Pilipinong walang kredibilidad

B. mga negosyanteng dayuhan

C. mapagbalatkayong pinuno ng pamahalaan

D. mga Amerikanong pilit na nanghihimasok sa buhay ng mga Pilipino

4. Ano ang ibig sabihin ng may-akda sa mga salitang “Ang bandila namin kahi’t na nga
ganyan, iyan ay dakila, iyan ay marangal,

dito kailan man ay hindi sumilang,

. . . . . . iyang mangangamkam,

. . . . . . iyang salanggapang”?

A. Ang bandila ng Pilipinas ay perpekto.

B. Ang bandila ng Pilipinas ay masining.

C. Ang bandila ng Pilipinas ay walang bahid ng pagkakamali.

D. Ang bandila ng Pilipinas ay makasaysayan at makatarungan.

5. Alin sa mga sumusunod na damdamin ang hindi ipinahihiwatig sa tula?

A. Galit

B. Pagkasuklam

C. pighati

D. pagkamuhi

6. Anong mga araw may byahe ng gabi ang Princess of the Ocean patungong Cagayan
de Oro?
A. Martes, Miyerkules, Biyernes

B. Linggo, Lunes, Martes

C. Miyerkules, Biyernes, Sabado

D. Lunes, Martes, Miyerkules

7. Ilang barko ng Sulpicio Lines ang bumabyahe tuwing Linggo?

A. 2

B. 5

C. 6

D. 8

8. Anong barko ng Sulpicio Lines ang bumabyahe ng Huwebes 10 n.g.?

A. Filipina Princess

B. Princess of the Stars

C. Cebu Princess

D. Princess of the South

9. Saang lugar may pinakamaraming byahe ang Sulpicio Lines?

A. Cebu

B. Tacloban

C. Davao

D. Butuan
10. Anong barko ang may higit sa dalawang ruta?

A. Princess of the Universe

B. Princess of the Earth

C. Filipina Princess

D. Princess of the South

11. Which of the following could be another title for this pie chart?

A. Percent Distribution of Employees in Business Industries in 2010

B. Distribution of Philippine Industries in 2010

C. The Composition of Employment in All Business Industry Sub-class in the Philippines

for the Year 2010

D. The Composition of Employment in Manufacturing Industry Establishments in 2010

12. Which among the following statements is true?

A. The industry on semiconductor devices and other electronic components employed

the highest number of workers with 22,495 employees.

B. Manufacturing establishments of women’s and girls’ and babies’ garments rank third
among the industries employing the most number of workers.

C. Industries on electric ignition or starting equipment for internal combustion engines

rank last on the industries with the most number of workers.

D. The percentage of employment of manufacturing industries on women’s, girls’, and

babies’ exceed that of industries in men’s and boys’ garments by 2.7%

13. Where would this chart most likely be found?

A. Finance magazine

B. Newspaper editorial
C. Business section of the newspaper

D. On a government website

14. It can be inferred from the chart that:

A. Industries comprising the top slots in terms of employment generation accounted for
306,122 workers of the total workforce in all manufacturing establishments.

B. Industries comprising the top slots in terms of employment generation accounted for
41.3% of the total workforce in all manufacturing establishments.

C. Total employment increased greatly in 2010 as compared with the past five years.

D. The manufacturing industry is a continually advancing business sector in the country

due to the increase in its workforce annually.

15. Upon seeing the results of this survey, what would one’s response most likely be?

A. Refrain from buying semiconductor devices and other electronic components.

B. Invest more on the garments industry to promote growth in this business field.

C. Do a further study on user consumption of semiconductor devices and the trends on

national demands for these products.

D. Explore other manufacturing industries and plan on starting a business with those not
comprising the top slots to boost market participation.

For me, as for the others, The Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most
of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind. The
advantages of having immediate access to such an incredibly rich store of information
are many, and they’ve been widely described and dully applauded. As the media
theorist Marshall McLuhab pointed out in the 1960s, media are not just passive
channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the
process of thought. And what the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity
for concentration and contemplation. My mind now expects to take in information the
way the Net distributes it: in a swifty moving stream of particles. Once I was a suba
diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on jetski.
Reading, explains Wolf, is not an instinctive skill for human beings. It’s not etched into
our genes the way speech is. We have to teach our minds how to translate the symbolic
characters we see into the language we understand. And the media or other
technologies we use in learning and practicing the craft of reading play an important
part in shaping the neural circuits inside our brains. Experiments demostrate the
readers of ideograms, such as Chinese, develop a mental circuitry for reading that is
very different from the circuitry found in those of us whose written language employs an
alphabet. The variations extend across many regions of the brain, including those trhat
govern such essential cognitive functions as memory and the interpretation of visual
and auditory stimuli. We can expect as well that circuits woven by our use of the Net will
be different from those woven by our reading of books and other printed works.

16. Which of the following cannot be inferred from the passage?

A. The human brain is almost infinitely malleable.

B. Traditional media have to adapt to the audience’s new expectations.

C. Internet use affects cognition.

D. People are in the midst of a sea change in the way they read and think.

17. What does the last sentence of the first paragraph most likely suggest?

A. The author is practicing a new form of reading, which is skimming.

B. The author is not reading online in the traditional sense.

C. The author developed a reading technique through constant internet browsing.

D. The author lost the ability to read and absorb long articles both online and print.

18. Which of the following best summarizes the passage?

A. The internet promises to have particularly far-reaching effects on cognition.

B. Internet promotes a new style of reading, a style that puts “efficiency” and
“immediacy above all else.

C. The process of adapting to new intellectual technologies is reflected in an individual’s

mental habits.
D. Internet weakens an individual’s capacity to for the kind of deep reading.

19. In the passage the word “conduit” means

A. source

B. instrument

C. channel

D. device

20. Which organizational schemes are used in the first and second paragraph of the
passage?

A. assertion followed by supporting evidence

B. prediction followed by analysis

C. specific instace followed by generalizations

D. personal reminiscenes followed by objective reporting

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

1. Terrie kept fumbling the materials, gathering a few and shuffling them as if they were
cards.

A. playing with

B. juggling

C. groping for

D. moving clumsily

2. Two police officers sprawled over a couch in Johanna’s living room, as if they were in
their own homes.
A. creep awkwardly

B. lay down

C. jumped into

D. sit with arms and legs spread out

3. The interviewer, dark, young and serious, turned his attention to us with
a cramped sort of face.

A. paralyzed

B. cheerful

C. bothered

D. expressionless

4. The dog ambled to the door, which was slightly ajar, and slowly squeezed out into the
passage.

A. crept

B. ran

C. walked

D. jumped

5. Harold lumbered at him and clouted him across the head.

A. cover with a clout

B. hit forcefully

C. stroke gently

D. kissed
6. I thought they were likely to bundle him into a car but the policeman simply led him back to
the road and pointed him towards the town center.

A. wrap

B. hustle

C. a lot of things

D. grouped together

Questions 7 – 12: Choose the correct sequence of sentences that will make the
paragraph more organized and logical.

7.

(1) Dapat din makita ninuman ang ganda ng buhay para masilayan ang ganda ng
daigdig at saka sabihin kung karapat-dapat ba ito sa ating pag-ibig at pagpapakasakit.

(2) Sa taong punong-puno ng hinanakit at pagdurusa, masasabing hindi maganda ang

daigdig para sa kanya.

(3) Laging pakaisiping may mga nilikha na itinalaga na handang mabuhay at marunong
mabuhay nang di lamang dahil sa kanilang sarili.

(4) Subalit hindi dapat doon matatapos ang lahat.

(5) Dapat bigyang puwang at pagkakataon ang pag-asa para makita ang kahiwagaan
ng buhay.

A. 2-4-5-1-3

B. 2-5-1-3-4

C. 2-3-1-4-5

D. 2-4-5-3-1

8.

(1) Magaan din ang pag-angat at pagbagsak ng mga paa nito.

(2) Mula sa kinatatayuan ni Aling Rosa sa tabi ng bintana ay nakita niyang papasok na
sa tarangkahan si Amelita.

(3) Hindi naikubli ng nag-aagaw na dilim at liwanag ang hapung-hapong anyo ni Amelita
at ang hapis na mukhang pinalamlam ng pagod.

(4) Ngunit hindi rin nakubli sa paningin ng matanda na wari ay walang naramdamang
pagod o hirap ang anak.

(5) Tila may kasiyahang walang kahulilip ang imbay ng kanang braso, at ang kaliwa ay
may kipkip na aklat at makapal na kwaderno.

A. 2-3-4-1-5

B. 2-4-1-3-5

C. 2-3-1-4-5

D. 2-5-3-4-1

9.

(1) An example of job sharing would be for one person to work mornings, and the other
to work afternoons.

(2) The people sharing the job might be two friends, a husband, and wife, or two
employees who did not know each other before sharing a job.

(3) If the job were complex, the two sharers would have to spend some overlap time
discussing the job.

(4) Job sharing is a modified work schedule in which two people share the same job,
both usually working half-time.

A. 1-2-3-4

B. 4-2-1-3

C. 4-1-2-3

D. 1-4-2-3
10.

(1) To alleviate the struggle of keeping children from attending school, the government,
together with the parents, must work hand-in-hand to achieve sustained learning.

(2) Next, the government will have to devise schemes, apart from the cash transfer, to
assist parents in keeping children in school, possibly with the assistance of the private
sector and multilateral institutions.

(3) Adult literacy programs can also be promoted to inculcate the value of continuing
education among parents with limited formal schooling.

(4) Parents will also have to set aside their own funds for their children’s kindergarten
expenses, in addition to saving up for expenditures in higher grades.

(5) Micro-lending schemes for education and entrepreneurship can be developed.

(6) First, providing free kindergarten is laudable but is an additional strain on the limited
national appropriation for education.

A. 2-1-4-3-5-6

B. 1-6-2-4-3-5

C. 5-6-4-3-2-1

D. 1-6-4-2-5-3

11.

(1) The interior space has been modeled to echo the Thai characteristics of warmth and
hospitality, especially more evident nowadays in quaint resorts and provincial
guesthouses.

(2) There are several decorations and framed images that reflect the culture of local hill
tribes.

(3) Starbucks on Langsuan is the first ever community store in Asia and outside of the
United States.

(4) It is difficult to miss this Starbucks from the outside. Amid imposing office buildings
and business hotels lies this almost humble looking structure designed in the traditional
style of a Thai home.
(5) It is easy to notice its unmistakably Thai roof and gable which might give one the first
impression that it was an antique Thai house (if not for that signature Starbucks logo
prominently placed on the facade).

A. 4-5-1-2-3

B. 3-4-5-1-2

C. 3-5-1-2-4

D. 4-3-5-2-1

12.

(1) Ang ilan sa mga ito ay sina Jose Rizal, Marcelo H. del Pilar at Graciano Lopez-
Jaena.

(2) Mababanggit dito si Francisco Baltazar na higit na kilala sa pangalang Francisco

Balagtas, si Jose Dela Cruz o Huseng Sisiw na nakilala sa larangan ng panitikan.

(3) Noong ika-19 na dantaon, ang Kilusang Propaganda ay nakilala.

(4) Kakaunti lamang sa mga Pilipino ang namumukadkad ang galing sa sining sa
panahon ng mga Espanyol.

(5) Ang kilusang ito ay namayagpag sa larangan ng literatura at pamamahayag.

A. 4-5-2-3-1

B. 4-2-3-5-1

C. 4-1-3-2-5

D. 4-2-1-3-5

13. It is bizarre how often public figures who loudly espouse traditional family values are
later caught in some scandal concerning their own private lives.

A. remember
B. reject

C. recognize

D. argue for

14. Marc is far too sensible to have done a fatuous thing like that.

A. dangerous

B. risky

C. inate

D. foolish

15. Our workplace wore a macabre look on Monday after the company downsized its
staff strength.

A. gameface

B. serious

C. tropical

D. lugubrious

Questions 16 – 18: Choose the best word/s that will complete the sentence.

16. The children ( ) the ill effects of war

A. have borne

B. have born

C. has borne
D. had born

17. My sister ( ) to Zamboanga seven years ago.

A. migrated

B. migrating

C. immigrated

D. immigrating

18. The drug pushers tried to ( ) the arresting cops.

A. buy in

B. buy off

C. buy out

D. buy up

Questions 19 – 20: Choose the sentence that best combines the underlined
sentences.

19. The old brain is called the reptilian brain. It does not know passion, but only stolid
obedience to its own genetic dictates.

A. After the old brain is called the reptilian brain, it does not know passion, but only
stolid obedience to its own genetic dictates.

B. The old brain, called the reptilian brain, does not know passion, but only stolid
obedience to its own genetic dictates.

C. The old brain is called the reptilian brain, whereupon it does not know passion, but
only stolid obedience to its own genetic dictates.
D. Unless the old brain, called the reptilian brain, does not know passion, only stolid
obedience to its own genetic dictates.

20. There have been great strides in the practical application of quantum physics in the
last decade. We are no closer to actually understanding it than were the physicists of
the 1920s.

A. Unless there have been great strides in the practical application of quantum physics
in the last few decades, we are no closer to actually understanding it than were the
physicists of the 1920s.

B. In the last few decades, we are no closer to actually understanding it than were the
physicists of the 1920s, until there have been great strides in the practical application of
quantum physics.

C. Although there have been great strides in the practical application of quantum
physics in the last few decades, we are no closer to actually understanding it than were
the physicists of the 1920s.

D. In the last few decades, if there have been great strides in the practical application of
quantum physics we are no closer to actually understanding it than were the physicists
of the 1920s.