Mahayag School of Arts and Trade
First Summative Examination
SHS – ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES
Name: _____________________________________ Grade&Section:__________________ Score: ____________
Multiple Choice: Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write your answers in the space provided.
_____1. What are the purposes of doing an academic
writing?
A. To settle, to negotiate and to inform
B. To defend, to challenge and to question
C. To inform, to persuade and to argue a specific point
D. To guess, to hypothesize and to make conclusions
_____2. What is 'academic writing'?
A. A technique to write balanced, accurate and
professional assignments
B. An old-fashioned way of writing.
C. How university professors write.
D. The writing you find in textbooks
_____3. What are the three main parts of an essay?
A. The hook, the main idea and the conclusion.
B. The introduction, the body and the conclusion.
C. The topic sentence, the body and the conclusion.
D. None of the above
_____4. Writing academic papers requires deliberate,
thorough and careful thought. Therefore, what
should one do to achieve a well-crafted academic
essay?
A. One must depend on his/her own opinions alone.
B. One must conduct a research on the topic at hand.
C. One must not consult the Internet for unsure sources.
D. One must depend highly on the Internet for easy
information access.
_____5. What is an academic language?
A. It is a set of vocabulary terms used in schools
B. It comes as second nature to native speakers, but is
difficult for ELLs to acquire.
C. It is the linguistic register that students are expected
to use in school subjects.
D. All of the above
_____6. When do you use formal language?
A. In an academic essay.
B. When you talk to a friend.
C. When you write a text message.
D. In sending emails.
_____7. The following are the different categories of
academic language, except –
A. Objective C. Ordinary
B. Formal D. Technical
_____8. Academic language includes language used in
textbooks, in classrooms, on tests, and in each
discipline.
A. True C. Maybe
B. False D. None of the above
_____9. Which of the following is not a purpose of
reading?
A. To relate new content to existing knowledge
B. To stalk the author of the text
C. To critique an argument
D. To scan for specific information
_____10. Reading strategies do not differ from reader
to reader.
A. True C. Maybe
B. False D. None of the above
_____11. Readers talk to someone about the author’s
ideas to check their comprehension.
A. Before Reading
B. During Reading
C. After Reading
D. During Summarizing
_____12. In this stage, reader tries to infer unfamiliar
words’ meanings by identifying their relationship to
the main idea.
A. Before Reading
B. During Reading
C. After Reading
D. During Summarizing
_____13. It is the most important information in a
text.
A. Summary C. Body
B. Highlight D. Main Idea
_____14. We use summarizing to:
A. Retell a story
B. Reduce information to essential ideas
C. Get through an article more quickly
D. Understand easily
_____15. Right now, Jason was playing right field. He
really wanted to play third base. Earlier this year,
coach had put him in left field and second base in a
game, but never at third base. Once in practice,
coach let him play third base, but he kept missing
ground balls. When he did stop one, he made a bad
throw to first base. Maybe if he kept practicing,
Jason would be good enough to play third base. That
was his dream. Choose the letter that presents the
best summary.
A. Jason really wanted to play third base.
B. Jason was the best player on his team.
C. Jason had trouble catching ground balls.
D. Jason was too lazy to practice.
For Items 16 – 19
Select only one more effective thesis in the
introductory paragraph of a short essay. Keep in
mind that an effective thesis statement should be
sharply focused and specific, not just a general
statement of fact.
_____16. A. There have been over 200 movies about
Count Dracula, most of them only very loosely based on
the novel published by Bram Stoker in 1897.
B. Despite its title, Bram Stoker's Dracula, a film
directed by Francis Ford Coppola, takes considerable
liberties with Stoker's novel.
_____17. A. When I was a child, I used to visit my
grandmother in Moline every Sunday.
B. Every Sunday we visited my grandmother, who
lived in a tiny house that was undeniably haunted.
_____18. A. For the past three decades, coconut oil has
been unjustly criticized as an artery-clogging saturated
fat.
B. Cooking oil is plant, animal, or synthetic fat that is
used in frying, baking, and other types of cooking.
_____19. A. The Hunger Games is a science fiction
adventure film based on the novel of the same name by
Suzanne Collins.
 B. The Hunger Games is a morality tale about the their obviously brutish plan, are portrayed in a
dangers of a political system that is dominated by the sympathetic light. She examines the author's life and
wealthy. times and discovers that there are obvious similarities
between the conspiracy in the play and the Popish
For Items 20 – 23 Plot. She is most likely a ________critic.
Refer to the following outline A. Structuralism C. Feminist
I. Types of measurementII. Types of money B. Historical D. Sociological
A. Volume A. United States _____28. It is a system of interpreting, judging, and
1. Quarts 1. Pesos assessing a person, thing, or any work of art not
2. Pints 2. Cents influenced by feelings or opinions in considering and
3. Gallons B. Other Countries presenting facts.
B. Length 1. Lira A. Painting Critique
1. Miles 2. Yen B. Sculpture Critique
2. Feet 3. Francs C. Photography Critique
3. Inches D. Balanced/Objective Review
_____29. What is the process of determining what the
_____20. In the above outline, which is the most features suggest and deciding why the artist or
important idea? writers used such features to convey specific ideas?
A. Types of money A. Description C. Analysis
B. Types of measurement B. Interpretation D. Judgment
C. United States ______30. It means giving it rank in relation to other
D. Types of money and Types of measurement works and of course considering a very important
_____21. In the above outline, which is the more aspect of the visual arts; its originality.
important idea? A. Description C. Analysis
A. Other countries B. Interpretation D. Judgment
B. Francs
C. Inches
D. They are all equal
_____22. In the above outline, which item is in the “If you cannot do great things,
wrong place? do small things in a great way.”- Napoleon Hill
A. Pesos
B. Yen
C. Types of measurement
D. Pints ANSWER KEY:
_____23. If you had to add the word “meters” to t he 1. C
outline, where would it go? 2. A
A. as number 4 under B – “Other Countries” 3. B
B. as number 4 under B – “Length” 4. B
C. as number 3 under A – “United States”
5. D
D. as C under II – “Types of Money”
6. A
7. C
_____24. It is a careful analysis of an argument to 8. A
determine what is said, how well the points are made, 9. B
what assumptions underlie the argument, what issues 10. B
are overlooked, and what implications are drawn 11. C
from such observations. 12. B
A. reaction C. critique 13. D
B. review D. analysis 14. B
______25. What approach to literary criticism 15. A
requires the critic to know about the author's life and 16. B
times? 17. B
A. Mimetic C. Formalist 18. A
B. Historical D. All of these 19. B
_____26. A critic examining John Milton's "Paradise 20. D
Lost" focuses on the physical description of the
21. A
Garden of Eden, on the symbols of hands, seed, and
22. A
flower, and on the characters of Adam, Eve, Satan,
and God. He pays special attention to the epic similes 23. B
and metaphors and the point of view from which the 24. C
tale is being told. He looks for meaning in the text 25. C
itself, and does not refer to any biography of Milton. 26. A
He is most likely a critic. 27. B
A. Formalist C. Reader Response 28. D
B. Mimetic D. Feminist 29. C
_____27. A critic of Thomas Otway's "Venice 30. D
Preserv'd" wishes to know why the play's
conspirators, despite the horrible, bloody details of