Pambayang Kolehiyo ng Mauban

Mauban, Quezon

English Proficiency Test

Name: Shara Mae P. Custodio Section: 2C – BSEd FILIPINO Day: Monday/Tues/Wed

Date: _______________ Score: ________

A. Underline the correct word.

1. During the independence day celebrations, the directive is ___
a. hang your flags on June 12 b. hanged your flag on June 12
c. hanged the flags during June 12 d. hung your flags on June 12
2. The ball rested __ the wall.
a. beside b. beyond c. besides d. beyonce
3. Which word is actually used in the English language?
a. anywheres b. nowheres c. anywhose d. somewhere
4. Is this the correct usage of desert/dessert?
After the thanksgiving meal, I had no room for desert.
a. Yes b. No
5. Her hair really compliments her eyes.
Is this the correct usage of compliments/ compelments?
a. Yes b. No
6. This medicine is ____________ from a tropical plant.
a. deprived b. derived c. derisive
7. The new law will ____________ the entire community. Everyone will be affected.
a. impact b. impede c. impress
8. My co-worker was fired for accessing the manager's computer without his
a. consensus b. consent c. contempt
9. Your idea was good in theory; there were just a few problems with the..
a. implantation b. implementation c. implication
10. Your performance ___________ our expectations. Good job
our expectations. Good job
a. exceeded b. excelled c. except
11. Senator Jones is an ____________ for a higher minimum wage; she says everyone
deserves to make a fair living.
a. adversary b. advisor c. advocate
12. If you don't stop overspending, you'll ______________ run out of money.
a. inestimably b. inevitably c. inexhaustibly
13. Fortunately, the storm caused only _____________ damage to the building.
a. minimal b. minimize c. minimum
14. I wasn't feeling well, so I was _____________ to go to the party.
a. reliant b. relinquished c. reluctant
15. The coffee is sweet. I think you put too ___ sugar.
a.) many b.) much c.) more d.) excessive
16. The princess wanted to leave the palace, but the king wouldn’t let her go. So, she
escaped in ____ wearing a guard’s armor. 
a.) disgrace b. disguise c. disgust d. guise
17. It’s hard to ____ accurate information from a man who was trained to lie.
a. elicit b. illicit c. solicit d. associate
18.  After sensing the danger was ______, we went out of the house immediately.
a. imminent b. eminent c. immanent d. iminent
19. Kathy, together with her cousin, ___ going to Paris next month.
a. is b. are c. was d. were
20. I have read the ____ of our History textbook and it was really interesting. I think I am going to read
the book from cover to cover.
a. forword b. forward c. foreword d. foreward
21. People with _____ problems are likely to have a more positive outlook in life
a. less b. fewer c. more d. without
22. The group insisted on an investigation of ___ member’s dismissal and threatened to sue the
company.
a. its b. their c. there d. it’s
23.  People with _____ problems are likely to have a more positive outlook in life.
a. less b. fewer c. more d. without
24. This time next Tuesday, some people in this group _______ to Paris.
a. will travel b. will be traveling c. will traveling d. traveling
25. The panel has chosen Kyle to represent the company. He is the _____  _____ the two candidates.
a. better, between b. better, among c. best, between d. best, among
26. We just came from Mount Apo. That was an exciting _____.
a. trip b. journey c. voyage d. expedition
27. It is normal for some controversial things to ____ debates.
a. in sight b. incite c. insight d. in cite
28. Everyone of the students now ________a role to play in keeping the school compound clean.
a. has b. have c. had
29. Since the introduction of community policing in our estates ______of theft have reduced.
a. incidence b. incident c. incidents
30. A professor should give his students opportunities to ______ their skills.
a. develop b. develops c. developed
31. In my room, _____ three chairs and a table. My brother and I usually eat there in the morning.
a. there is b. there are c. there was d. there were
32. See you tomorrow. Remember, everybody must bring ___ own lunch.
a. them b. their c. there d. his
33. The __ingredients used in making beer are malted grains, water, hops, and yeast
a. principal b. principles c. principle
34. Grain is malted by first soaking it in water, then allowing it to sprout, and finally drying it__stop the
sprouting
a. in order to b. to order to c. into order to
35. One difference between lager and ale __ the kinds of yeast used in the fermentation process.
a. lies in b. lies at c. lies on
36. However, the rapid__ in the number of microbreweries in the past 20 years means that the United
States has a wider selection of beer syles than any other country.
a. increasing b. increases c. increase
37. Priscila ___rather not invest her savings in the stock market.
a. must b. has to c. could d. would
38. Did you have any problem ____our house?
a. search b. to search c. searching d. for searching
39. I hope you don’t mind ____joining you.
a. to be b. I have been c. that I may d. me
40. The company will upgrade __ computer system next week.
a. there b. their c. it’s d. its
41. You have too many____but few time to prove you’re right.
a. hypothesis b. hypotheses c. hyphothesises d. hypothesess
42. Counselors often ___students on what to do with their students.
a. advise b. advice c. avise d. avarice
43. It is essential that harmony prevails ___the department.
a. between b. with c. among d. with all
44. The measure on choosing well is whether or not man likes what he __
a. chose b. has chosen c. choose d. chosed
45. Please __ the book with the next time you come to my office.
a. bring b. take c. carry along d. bring along
Shara Mae P. Custodio

2C - Based Filipino

Activity#2

"GUISEPPA AND THE GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT"

All of us have a freedom to do whatever we want. We have a chance to be a good

mother for our children. After I read the story of Mateo Falcone, there have a big difference

between Guissepa (the mother of Fortunato) and the mother for these generation. Int he fasts few

years Guissepa has a fierce to do what they want and tell what is in their heart. Previously we all

know that the mother is in the house only and they can't have a capability to do work hard and

they can't have a freedom to do something just can also do is to care their family.

As always we need to think that all of us have a chance to be better and to do what is

good for us, mother is not only a mother that they can do they work from house. Even if there

have a time that they can think that their doing is enough to provide the need of their husband

and child. From the story Mateo Falcone s can also want to have a good reputation, even if their

child has doing wrong they can't give a second chance to be a good man. There's have no reason

to give them a second chance even if it their child. They can't think that someday it can help

them to have a good life.

We can always remember that the family is very important most of the time, because

we can't find another family to give your needs. And to feel that you are especial, family is

always there when if it sad or happy. We need to be thankful to our family that they can do

everything to provide our needs and to protect us.

Shara Mae P. Custodio

2C- BSEd FILIPINO

The Outrage
Everything’s that happened in the world is because of human cause not a God’s want.

The world that pull of sin, crimes, and injustice is because of us, we are doing whatever we want

even if we know that it is not right. No one can say that he/she is perfect but we can become at

the middle because we can control everything that we need to do. Everything that happened has a

purpose, maybe for us it is not good but for the man in the heaven, it is just a plan for us to be in

the safe place.

Everyone already did a sin that affects a lot of things especially on what kinds of living

they are. Not all crimes, and sins that already did is have a full of confidence to do because they

have a person who did a sin just for their own and their family sake but they have a person who

loves of doing a sin because they want to be different in everything, like the power that can

control a lot of people and the fresh of their name not only in their place but also in other

community. Sacrifices is one of the hurt part of taking the sin that others already did, not all

person in the jail is did a bad thing, maybe it is because of doing what others did and doing a

thing that need to be accomplish because it is the sake of their own family, friends and living.

We are not perfect but we can be a person who can control a lot of things because we

have our own sense that no one can control and we have our own life to do what we want.

Everyone have right thinking that guide in all things that we want to do, think all the possible

outcomes that may happened if we do some things but always trust God because He is the one

who knows if we did a right things or not.

Shara Mae P. Custodio

2C- BSEd FILIPINO

A Rose for Emily

 Emily Grierson - a woman who passionately love herself, a strong woman who face all

challenges that come of her life

 Mr. Grierson - the father of Emily, well respected and a man who give the full payment

for the taxes of his family.

 Homer Barron - a northerner who will marry Emily.

 Two cousins in Alabama - the cousins of Emily who accompanied her.

 Wife of the minister - who called to the two cousins of Emily.

 Colonel Sartoris - a mayor that takes the responsibility for the payment of the taxes of

Grierson family.

 Baptist minister - who talk with Emily but later on didn’t want to come back in the

house of Emily.

 Townspeople - the people in the town who always talk about the Grierson Family.

Emily is the one who have a strong personality, she has a beauty, and a lovable

daughter. A rose for Emily because Emily is like a rose, the beauty, thorn, their smell that can

attract a lot of people, their strong wood, and their leaves. They want to show the personality of

Emily by using the rose because we all know that if we see a rose the beauty is the first we can

saw but they have some parts that we cannot recognized because we are just focusing only in

their beauty buy they have a thorn that can hurt people who want to get it.
Shara Mae P. Custodio
2C- BSEd FILIPINO

The District Doctor

We are living today because of love, why they have family, friends and connection with
others is because we have love that build care for our self and others. Love can construct a very
especial thing but love can also destruct everything even our already construct. Trust is the
reason why we can prove that we feel love because trust is the partner of love, if you don’t have
trust then you don’t have love for that person too. But why love can construct if they can distract
also? Even we can improve and develop what we construct.

It is easy to trust to someone but if even only one broke the trust next time if they have a
person want to get your trust is hard to give because they have a person in your past that break
your trust and make you feel hurt. It is up for us if we want to distract what be built because it is
our decision if we want to do it. We all know that we can’t let our what we build be getting down
but because of our weaknesses it happened, we can be strong but in our heart we are weak
because we can’t control our feelings.

Not all the time we need to express our love and care for others, always think that they
have a love of person or thing that very important to us but don’t forget ourselves because if we
can love others then we must love ourselves first because it is the only thing if we want to being
or feel especial. Respect ourselves and don’t surprise if someday they have a lot of person who
respect you.
Shara Mae P. Custodio
2C- BSEd FILIPINO

How Much Land Does A Man Need

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.

We are born perfectly, no sins and knows nothing about the world is, but when we are
grow even our first word maybe become a sin, even without words coming outside in our mouth,
and when we are thinking we build a lot of sin. They have a person who knows the right and
wrong but they can’t avoid doing such bad things.

No one is born perfectly, they have a person who can’t see, hear, feel, touch, walk, and
can’t talk to others and also they have a person who born without special condition. We are not
born to do want we want, and we are not born perfect but we are living to not be a perfect, to less
what our sin, to less what we done wrong, and to less our bad doings. God’s not give our life to
be greed, because they what for us to feel the feeling of being a person in the place who they
build, to feel how to be a man’s in the earth. They have a person who has disability who live
equally, live without discrimination what having situation they are, live without a purpose to lead
others by his command. We are a person who born without disability, we can say we are perfect
in our physical condition that why we need to help others who feel down because of its
conditions not to lead our greed to make them feel that they are not belong in our life.

We are born without knowing what the world is, and without sins, but we can’t avoid to
having it but we can less it, don’t make greed because you we see that they have a person who
we can control because of their condition in their physical and their condition in their life besides
we can be a model to make them self-confidence be improve because nothing is impossible if all
person have a purpose to don’t let others feel down beside bring it in high position who treated
equally from others.
Shara Mae P. Custodio

2C – BSEd FILIPINO

The Gift of Magi

Precious gifts and the idea of wisdom alludes in the gifts to Jesus Christ at his

birth.

Everyone can choose to be happy for their self but the most important thing is to choose
a happinesses not only for yourself but also to the other people. Like Jesus Christ they can
choose to give a freedom for us they can face all the sacrifice to give us a freedom. We all know
that it is the most memorable thing for us because of Jesus were now have a freedom. They can
forgive the other people who do anything wrong that they can’t have a good for everyone. Now I
realized that we need to forgive also the person who do wrong for us because Jesus can do these
but of course we can do also. I know that to forgive some people is not easy to do this but it is
the way to have a good communication to other people it can help to build a relationship and to
trust them for now on money is not important to have a happy life because our presence is
enough to do a good thing for other.
Helping other people is the way to feel from them that it is important and it is one of
our achievements in life. We all know that other people have not a chance to do what they want
because they don’t have a confidence for their self. We all know that everyone has a different
goal in their life we can think that the problems that came for our life it is just like a trial that
how we can survive and to solve these problem. They have different way to solve it but always
remember that we need first to trust our self, because it can help how we can think positive and it
is the way to think a good thing to have a solution for the problems. We need also to trust GOD
that can always be there in our life even if did not see but always think that their presence is
always there in our life.

In the story of the The Gift of Magi they have a couple that can be choose to
sacrifice and their presence is enough to feel from them how they can love each other even if
they can’t have a money to give them a gift. They can think that their self is enough than to give
a material, because to give love from your partner is enough to be happy. It is better to choose a
life with have a heart than to choose a life with full of material thing that can always build to
your relationship.
Shara Mae P. Custodio
2C – BSEd FILIPINO

The Last Leaf

God of all comfort will wrap his loving arms around you and whisper in your ear: “We’re going to get
through this!

We all know that GOD is always there in our side even if they can’t see it but from
our heart it is always be there. They guide us always to whisper what they need to do and what is
do not to do, they want to be a good person because they don’t what to be feel from other that
there have a different. We all know that were not just a same status in our life but for their eyes
all of them is the same. Even if there have a lot of differences like a culture, tradition and
religion but for his all of has the same. There have a lot of challenges that we faced from our life
but it is not the reason to act as a superior than the other person because all of us is equal. We
don’t need to be a superior to the eyes of other people because it is the cause why other people
can threat as animal. We can do sometimes for our self just to make me happy but it they can’t
think other people on how they can affect from the thing that we can do.

All of us has to have a good life that they do what they what and they can get what
they want. but we all know that before we get the thing that we want there have a lot of
challenges in our life that we need to do first, because it is the step that to attain our goal in our
life. It is not easy to do this because there have a lot of struggles that can come from our life to
how we can survive this kind of problem. Sometimes problems can affect the personality of a
one person they choose to do something wrong to provide their everyday needs and to give a
good life for their family. But before we can do these just think it before because sometimes it is
the reason why there have a lot of a broken family that can choose to live their house, because it
can provide their needs but there have a people that can destroy their life.

Just always think that GOD is an always there in our life even if the hardest time in
our life there always been there to guide us and comfort us to give a peaceful mind. There have a
lot of reason why there still there even if they have a people that they can’t belief that there have
a GOD that always guide us they can also be there even if they have some people can’t to choose
a wrong thing that to choose a good thing not only for them but also to their family.
WORLD LITERATURE

Activity 9

FIGURATATIVE LANGUAGES
Name: Shara Mae P. Custodio
Section: 2C – BSEd FILIPINO
Directions: Read the following examples of figurative language. Identify the poetic device being
used.

1. Their thoughts were like golden birds.

a. simile b. metaphor c. hyperbole d. personification
2. Fear lurks, watching me, waiting for the moment to pounce.
a. hyperbole b. metaphor c. simile d. personification
3. The sound of your breath is a music of which I will not soon tire.
a. hyperbole b. personification c. metaphor d. simile
4. After she left, the sun never shine again.
a. hyperbole b. personification c. metaphor d. simile
5. Their trumpets crying, their white plumes flying, And their sabers flashing in the sun.
a. simile b. personification c. hyperbole d. alliteration
6. Wisdom gently whispers to us to part from evil.
a. hyperbole b. personification c. metaphor d. simile
7. My mind is like a clamorous market-place.
a. hyperbole b. personification c. metaphor d. simile
8. The night sky was a loom threaded with darkness.
a. hyperbole b. personification c. metaphor d. simile
9. The desert is a bed of burning coals
a. hyperbole b. personification c. metaphor d. simile
10. His eyes were sad as fishes that swim up And stare upon the land that is not theirs.
a. hyperbole b. personification c. metaphor d. simile
11. After all the fans left the stadium, the bleachers were a disaster area.
a. Trash and leftover food and drinks littered the ground.
b. Lots of caution tape was used to block off sections.
c. Reporters were everywhere trying to catch a story.
d. After the game, a tornado hit.
12. The camera loves me
a. Photography is one of my hobbies.
b. I own an expensive camera.
c. Photos of me are always really good.
d. I like to visit art museums.
13. Time flies
a. idiom b. simile c. metaphor d. onomatopoeia
14. My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time.
a. her hair is red
b. she talks really loudly
c. she gets really angry
d. she spits when she talks
15. The car is a dinosaur.
a. The car is very old.
b. The car was truly made in prehistoric times.
c. The car is very new.
d. The car carries heavy load
16. Polly Peters positively played ping-pong.
a. metaphor b. Personification c. Alliteration d. onomatopoeia
17. Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence
a. simile b. Personification c. Hyperbole d. oxymoron
18. "I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper, the closer you get to the end, the
faster it goes.
a. metaphor b. Simile c. Hyperbole d. personification

19. I’ve told you a million times to clean your room!

a. hyperbole b. Simile c. Personification d. metaphor
20.Definitely maybe
a. onomatopoeia b. Oxymoron c. Alliteration d. anaphora
21.Only choice
a. onomatopoeia b. Oxymoron c. Anaphora d. alliteration
22. A joke is actually an extremely really serious issue.
a. onomatopoeia b. Oxymoron c. Anaphora d. alliteration
23. Modern dancing is so old fashioned.
a. onomatopoeia b. Oxymoron c. Anaphora d. alliteration

24. No one goes to that restaurant anymore - It's always too crowded.
a. onomatopoeia b. Oxymoron c. Anaphora d. alliteration
25.  Exact estimate
a. onomatopoeia b. Oxymoron c. Anaphora d. alliteration
26. Looking at her son's messy room, Mom says, "Wow, you could win an award for cleanliness!"
a. anaphora b. Irony c. Chiasmus d. apostrophe
27. On the way to school, the school bus gets a flat tire and the bus driver says, "Excellent! This day couldn't
start off any better!"
a. anaphora b. Irony c. Chiasmus d. apostrophe
28. The student was given ‘excellent’ on getting zero in the exam.
a. anaphora b. Irony c. Chiasmus d. apostrophe
29. Exclaiming “oh great” after failing an exam.
a. anaphora b. Irony c. Chiasmus d. apostrophe
30. He took a much-needed vacation, backpacking in the mountains. Unfortunately, he
came back dead tired.
a. anaphora b. Irony c. Chiasmus d. apostrophe

Shara Mae P. Custodio

2C – BSEd FILIPINO

Les Miserable
 “LIFE ISN’T ABOUT WAITING FOR THE STORM TO PASS. IT’S ABOUT DANCING IN THE RAIN.”

We all know that our life is full of challenges and every people want to be an a

successful someday. But before we achieve a success we can faced a different trial and struggles

in our life. Because it is the only way how we can be a stronger and what is the way to survive it.

We all know that in our life there have an opposite side that make be a good person. We can feel

a success without the failure because I think that to Failed first from what are doing is the best

way that in the second time we can’t do failed and to have a confidence to yourself. Having a

confidence to your self is the best way to do what you what and to attain your goal is the best

way to have a good life in the future.

In the novel entitled Les Miserable, the protagonist Jean Valjean proves that running

away is an act of courage. He’s been living in a hell with almost have of his life and he has a

courage to continue his life and make it better. Being a former convict the people around him

until he meets the Bishope Myriel. This movie combination of romance,action, melodrama,

adventure, and musical. As a whole, this movie reflects the value, beliefs, laws and culture of the

French society beliefes, and old times.

Shara Mae P. Custodio

2C – BSEd FILIPINO
 "METAMORPHOSIS"

We all know that our family is very important from us and we can do anything for our

family to provide their needs. all the sacrifices that can doing, we can know that there no work

that can easy to do but for there there have no work that can really hard to do. No matter what

happened our family is always be there to us to protect and guide for the safeness of

everybody.

His transformation has been interpreted as the result of a subconscious desire to

escape the pressure of being the breadwinner in his family. It has a hidden meaning if you

analyze it. This is not literal that tells about Gregor who became a beetle. It also symbolizes the

metamorphosis of his family. From being stressful and having hardship to become better.

Likewise, it also depicts the hardship of Gregor as a breadwinner of their family that usually

support them in his whole life. Perhaps the beetle can be a metaphor of his depression or the

changes that Gregor did in his life that may be the reason why his family changes the way they

treat him too and disgrace him as their own family.

There has a time that we have an argue with the some of the member of our family,

sometimes others can argue because of having enough money to support their everyday life.

Even if there’s have a lot of problems in our family we need to still remember the memories

with them and think how much they can important.

 People Come and
go..They drift in and
out of our lives.. We
must learn on how to
accept to let go…

Shara Mae P. Custodio

2C- BSEd FILIPINO

How Much Land Does A Man Need and Richard Cory

Everyone can admire people who have a good likes and also people have a good heart,

it is because they can think that it is perfect and they can give all that you want. But from this

generation some people can what to admire who people who have a good look, they can’t see

what the personality of the person that they admired. In the The story entitled "How Much Land

Does A Man Need?" tells about the Pahom who place his happiness on material thigs that can

achieve while the poem "Richard Cory" convey the life of Richard Cory, a well-educated man a

wealthy person and praised by the townspeople for having a perfect life. And I know that

everyone has a dream that they want a happy life.

Pahom and Richard Cory want to feel a true happiness for their life and they also want

to do what they want because they want to have a happiness life. But before we doing anythings

always remember that there have many people beside us in our life. And put the GOD in the

center of every decision that we can do and still pray for the safeness of everyone not only for

your self

Also we can remember always that the money can’t buy the true happiness of our life it

is because to how we can socialize other people and how we can treat them as a human being.

Shara Mae P. Custodio

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGES

Reinforcement Activity: Encircle the correct answer.

1. Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, and splinters, and
boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor— Bare. (Langston Hughes, "Mother to Son")

a. synecdoche b. metaphor c. irony d. pun

2. Turn off your television sets. Turn them off now! Turn them off right now! Turn them off and leave
them off. Turn them off right in the middle of this sentence I'm speaking to your now

a. antithesis b. litotes c. anaphora d. understatement

3. Substituting the word “euthanasia” for “mercy killing" or "killing the terminally ill"

a. hyperbole b. euphemism c. assonance d. oxymoron

4. I had so much homework last night that I needed a pickup truck to carry all my books home!

a. synecdoche b. onomatopoeia c. pun d. hyperbole

5. Let's just say that Bozo the Clown is not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree.

a. paradox b. litotes c. apostrophe d. chiasmus

6. The chug-a, chug-a, chug-an of the train echoed down the hill, while a cloud of smoke rose up to the
blue western sky.

a. simile b. metonymy c. anaphora d. onomatopoeia

7. But the prisoner would not answer, he only lay with wide, dark, bright, eyes, like a bound animal. (D.
H. Lawrence, England, My England)

a. oxymoron b. metonymy c. anaphora d. personification

8. You have a lot of work to do, so I'll lend you a hand.

a. assonance b. apostrophe c. irony d. synecdoche

9. Pitching pennies with the Pittsburgh Pirates in a pitter-patter of rain outside the Pitti Palace.

a. chiasmus b. alliteration c. pun d. oxymoron

10. O Western wind, when wilt thou blow That the small rain down can rain? Christ, that my love were
in my arms, And I in my bed again!

a. litotes b. paradox c. apostrophe d. anaphora

11. The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

a. hyperbole b. chiasmus c. litotes d. anaphora

12. We talked with each other about each other Though neither of us spoke.

a. metonymy b. paradox c. synecdoche d. personification

13. The earth laughs beneath my heavy feet At the blasphemy in my old jangly walk

a. euphemism b. simile c. antithesis d. personification

14. I dig my toes into the sand. The ocean looks like A thousand diamonds strewn Across a blue blanket.

a. chiasmus b. simile c. onomatopoeia d. synecdoche

15. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread

a. simile b. irony c. metonymy d. assonance

16. Why do we wait until a pig is dead to cure it?

a. pun b. personification c. anaphora d. synecdoche

17. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of
foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity..."

a. antithesis b. litotes c. simile d. understatement

18. My wishes raced through the house high hay and nothing I cared, at my sky blue trades, . . .

a. simile b. irony c. metonymy d. assonance

19. "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room."

a. chiasmus b. litotes c. antithesis d. irony

20. Prospective buyers are advised not to rely heavily on the front brakes, which are not connected.

a. antithesis b. simile c. anaphora d. understatement