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“TRUE WISDOM LEADS TO GOD”
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2 Preliminary Examination in ELECTIVE ENGLISH 10
Prepared by: Sunshine H. Bidhong
November 15 & 18, 2019

Name: ________________________________Grade & Section: ___________Score: 50

Context clues are hints that an author gives to help define a difficult or unusual word within a book. The clue may appear within the same sentence
as the word to which it refers or it may follow in the next sentence. Context clues may also help in enriching one’s vocabulary because they will be
able to know the meaning of the unfamiliar words they encountered.
TEST I. UNDERSTANDING
Directions: Using the context clues, choose the appropriate word from the choices to complete the idea of the sentence.
a. feasible b. intercedes c. concierge d. eerie e. feeble f. deceives g. maiden
h. envious i. strange j . shrieked k. abundance l. perfect m. astonished n. happy
1. The king was __________of his young brother Prince Bantugan because he is better than him.
2. To his _____________, no one met him and praised him after his victorious battle.
3. No one knew who the__________ young man was.
4. The parrot saw its master’s dead body and ___________in grief.
5. Around the bed where the prince lays was an __________of fragrant flowers and jewelry.
6. We are still looking for ___________ solutions in new areas of the design space.
7. All who reach old age must lose their strength and become like him, ____________ and gray.
8.It was still ____________ walking around the place alone, knowing his ghost had been there.
9. Ask your Chinese colleagues or the hotel ______________ which is the best place to visit.
10. Agamemnon is furious at Clytemnestra because she ____________ with his affairs.
Gesture is one of the Kinesics or movements used to express oneself when having a conversation with others or when engaging into public speaking
situations. Moreover, these gestures are sometimes voluntary and involuntary, and known to be part of the creative nature of a person. However,
some gestures appear to be destructing when not done appropriately.
TEST II. APPLYING
Directions: Enumerate the 3 types of gestures and explain how these work in expressing oneself during
speaking situations.
11-15. ________________: ___________________________________________________________________
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16-20. ________________: ___________________________________________________________________

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21-25. ________________: ___________________________________________________________________

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4 pts 3pt 1 pt
The explanation gives adequate and relevant Ideas are not well adequately presented. The idea given is not related to any of the
information regarding the certain gesture. gestures mentioned.

Synonyms and Antonyms: In order to be a good speaker and writer, your vocabulary must be rich and advanced. In order to attain these, one must
be familiar with the synonymous and varrying words. Another essence of this, is to avoid parallelism and attain coherence.
TEST III. ANALYZING
A.Directions: Read the set of words then encircle the word that does not mean the same as the three other
words.
26. Joyful jingle jubilant jovial
27. jest jerk jolt jab
28. jubilee junket jester jamboree
29. gentle genteel genuine gentlemanly
30. jittery edgy jumpy jolly
B. Directions: Try to observe the relationship of the set of words in each item, and distinguish the word that
best corresponds to the word with the missing pair. Choose your answers in the parenthesis.
31. Eagle:bird, Rose : __________ (beautiful, creature, flower, red)
32. speed:fast, temperature: __________________ ( Degrees Fahrenheit, thermometer, ice, warm)
33. car:transport, game: ________________ (football, entertainment, information, manipulation)
34. cloth:fabric, sound: ________________ (wave, speakers, movement, music)
35. fish: water, bird: _________________ (trees, land, room, bed)
36. brain: neurologist, dog: ______________ (surgeon, dermatologist, veterinarian, dentist)
37. grammar: English, experiment: _______________ (Science, biology, chemistry, physics)
38. teacher: student, parent: _________________ (daughter, child, siblings, elders)
39. fish: school, soldier: _________________ (team, group, alpha, battalion)
40. human: child, horse: __________________ (kid, horsy, cub, pony)
TEST IV. EVALUATING
Directions: Read and comprehend the poem by Charles Baudalaire titled Song of Autumn, and relate the
message to the death of nature. Create an environmental advocacy on saving the earth and come-up with a
hashtag encouraging humans to save nature.

Advocacy:

Hashtag:

10 pts 7 pts 4 pts

The advocacy created is very much evident in The advocacy introduced is somehow good The advocacy has the least chance to be
the current environmental issues, and contains enough for the current environmental issues implemented and the hashtag is not
an encouraging hashtag. and the hashtag is a little bit encouraging. encouraging..

“Whatever you do, think not of yourself, but of God”- Saint Vincent Ferrer

Prepared by: SUNSHINE H. BIDHONG Checked by: ANNABELLE G. TACADENA

Subject Teacher School Principal