SACRED HEART DIOCESAN SCHOOL INC.

“Where peacemaking is life-giving”

Molave, Zamboanga del Sur
 1st Quarter Exam (November 10-11, 2020)
ENGLISH 9 (All Sections)
 
Name: _____________________________________ Date: __________ Score: _______________
Grade and Section: _________________ Learner’s Contact No.: _________________________

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS: Prepare a clean long bond paper as your answer sheet. Write your answers only.
Submit the answer sheets on WEDNESDAY (November 11, 2020) at designated Drop boxes in the school.

I. Multiple Choice: Encircle the letter of your answer. (10pts)

1. This is an emotional atmosphere the writer creates in a literary writing.

a. colloquial expression b. mood c. mode d. jazz chant

2. This writing uses more compact and straightforward style.

a. Essay Writing b. Formal Writing c. News Writing d. Journalistic Writing

3. It is a serious didactic speech that promotes moral religious values.

a. Monologue b.Sermon c. Exemplum d. Speech

4. This is a prosodic feature of speech where the rise and fall of the voice in speech depends on the meaning a
speaker intends to make.
a. Intonation b. Stress c. Pitch d.Juncture

5. These are the figures that used to help clarify a written idea.
a. Punctuation Marks b. Eponyms c. Capitalization d. Written Output

6. This tells what paragraph is all about.

a. Supporting details b. Supporting ideas c. Topic d. Topic Sentence

7. It elaborates the subject in the paragraph.

a. Supporting details b. Supporting ideas c. Topic d. Topic Sentence

8. This punctuation mark is used on certain standard situations like writing the date, address, and items in a
series.
a. Period b. Comma c. Colon d.Semi-colon

9. This is a title of the news article. This is the first thing that you see in the article.
a. Lead b.Headline c. Byline d. Body

10. This shows comparison between two concrete things by establishing their parallel features.
a. Analogy b. Sermon c.Colloquial Expression d. Monologue

II. WORD FORMATION: Form a word with the following terms: (15pts)

COMPOUNDING;

1. work + room = _______workroom______________

2. break + up = ___________breakup_______

3. breast + feed = ______breastfeed_____________

4. note + book = ____notebook_________________

5. stir + fry = _________stir-fry_____________

CLIPPING;
1. flu = __________influenza__________________

2. memo = ________memorandum_________________

3. ad = _________advertisement___________________

4. lab = __________laboratory__________________

5. photo = ________photograph____________________

BLENDING WORDS

1. breakfast + lunch=__________brunch__________________

2. motor + hotel = _____motel__________________________

3. smoke + fog = _________smog______________________

4. web + seminar = __________webinar_________________

5. simultaneous + broadcast = _______simulcast_______________

III. GRAMMAR. Rewrite the following sentences using appropriate punctuation marks and capital letters. (10pts)

1. my best friend and his family are moving to Chennai – My best friend and his family are moving to Chennai.

2. rohan is a smart boy – Rohan is a smart boy.

3. eiffel tower is the most famous monument in france - Eiffel Tower is the most famous monument in France.

4. there is a large rain forest in south America - There is a large rain forest in South America

5. you shouldnt have done this to john - You shouldn’t have done this to John.

6. india is the seventh largest country in the world - India is the seventh largest country in the world.

7. you look hot are you ill - You look hot. Are you ill?

8. you dont look happy to see me do you - You don’t look happy to see me, do you?

9. are you happy – Are you happy?

10. stop stay away from me – Stop! Stay away from me!

IV. TYPE OF TEXT. Identify the type of text used in the following articles such as: informative, journalistic or
literary. (5pts)

1. They walked downtown in the light of mother-of-pearl, to the Majestic, and their way to seats by the light of the
screen, in the exhilarating smell of stale tobacco, rank sweat, and dirty drawers, while the piano played fast music and
galloping horses raised a grandiose lag of dust.

Answer: LITERARY TEXT

2. A fire of undetermined origin razed to the ground a three-story apartment of Juana de la Cruz 456 Lapulapu St.,
Valencia City last night. Five fire companies subdued it within an hour. The damage, estimated at P5 million, was covered
by insurance.

Answer: journalistic

3. Toledo, Spain (Reuters) - Scientists believe they could discover life outside the Solar System within the next 25
years covered by insurance. “Yes, definitely, there’s life out there, “Mike Kaplan, director of US space agency NASA’s
origins program, told Reuters during a meeting of Astronomers in Toledo. The Philippine Star, 15 March 1996

Answer: journalistic
4. It was dark and stormy. In her attic bedroom Margaret Murry, wrapped in an old patchwork quilt, sat on the foot of
her bed and watched the trees tossing in the frenzied lashing of the wind.

Answer: literary

5. Scientific theories are not guesses or random ideas. A Scientific theory is a collection of well-supported hypotheses
based on repeated testing that explains some aspect about the natural world.

Answer: informative

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