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Midterm Exam Review

Summer Class, AY 2021

LP1 July 7-8, 2021

Language Proficiency
Robert-Glenn A. Miguel

GENERAL INSTRUCTION: This is a LP 1 review consisting of 80 item questions and is good for 1
hour. Read each item carefully. Select the best answer to the following multiple-choice questions.
Post your answers on Google Classroom. Highlight the information and the letter of your choice.
Good luck and God bless.

1. The term “library” came from the Greek word, ______, meaning a place for the custody or
administration of a collection of reading materials.
a. Library
b. Libraruim
c. Librarian
d. Laboratory
2. It is the source of knowledge to young minds in schools. It is also known as the heart of the
school.
a. School
b. Room
c. Library
d. Libraruim
3. These are novels, short stories, and drama that are arranged in alphabetical order according to
the surname of the author. It also describes imaginary events and people.
a. General references
b. Fiction
c. Periodicals
d. Non-fiction
4. These books are about real things, people, places, and the like.
a. Fiction
b. Special references
c. General periodicals
d. Nonfiction
5. It refers to dictionaries, encyclopedias, indexes, yearbooks, almanacs, atlases, gazetteers,
bibliographies, directories, and biographical dictionaries.
a. Gazette
b. Fiction
c. General references
d. Encyclopedia
6. It includes newspapers, magazines, journals that can be found in the library.
a. General references
b. Fiction
c. Dictionary
d. Periodicals
7. It contains articles on different interest and subjects which are: Time, Newsweek, Panorama,
Women’s Magazine and etc.
a. Periodical
b. General periodical
c. Professional periodical
d. Journal
8. These periodicals contain articles on a particular field of knowledge and are written by
members of the profession.
a. Periodical
b. General references
c. Professional periodical
d. General periodical
9. An optional section of the library where a variety of machines for listening or viewing are
installed.
a. Audio visual room
b. Software
c. Audio visual classroom
d. Hardware
10. It is also called Multimedia Center. It is where the non-book materials indicating breakthroughs
in technology and electronics, like computers and other modern communication devices are
found.
a. Hardware
b. Special references
c. Educational technology center
d. Software
11. It refers to motion pictures, filmstrips, transparencies, records, microfilms, slides, and pictures
found in the library.
a. Software
b. Hardware
c. Television
d. Machine
12. It refers to television, videotape, projectors and etc. found in the library.
a. Hardware
b. Video
c. Tape
d. Machine
13. These are pamphlets, government publications, clippings, audio-materials (pictures, postcards,
slides, filmstrips, manuscripts, maps, globe, phonographs, records, tapes, wire recording,
micro-cards, micro-films, micro-text.)
a. Dictionary
b. Encyclopedia
c. Special references
d. General references
14. A system of coding and organizing library materials (books, serials, audio-visual materials,
computer files, maps, manuscripts, realia) according to their subject and allocating a call
number to that information resource.
a. Library selection
b. Library classification
c. Library decision
d. Library machine
15. It has several sliding drawers and situated at the most visible part of the library which contains
the records of all books inside the library.
a. Card paper
b. Card catalogue
c. Card board
d. Cartoon
16. It is the process of deciding which materials should be added to a library collection.
a. Illustration
b. Classification
c. Selection
d. Decision
17. This section contains the general collection of books, fiction, and non-fiction which students
can borrow for home use.
a. Periodical section
b. Circular section
c. Reference section
d. Reserve section
18. This section contains books that may be requested by some teachers to be made available for
their students but for a shorter period of time, because of the limited number of copies per
book.
a. Periodical section
b. Circular section
c. Reference section
d. Reserve section
19. This section contains the specific facts and information about anything in this world.
a. Periodical section
b. Circular section
c. Reference section
d. Reserve section
20. A book that contains a list of words arranged alphabetically with their spelling, meaning,
pronunciation, parts of speech, etymology, examples of usage, synonyms or antonyms,
alternate constructions (past participle, common prefixes or suffixes), other versions, and
sample sentences.
a. Encyclopedia
b. Dictionary
c. Yearbook
d. Almanac
21. A set of books that contains information on various subject matters arranged in alphabetical
order. It may be in one volume or in multiple volumes that covers a wide range of topics.
a. Dictionary
b. Directory
c. Encyclopedia
d. Handbook
22. An annual publication containing a variety of facts and statistical information.
a. Almanac
b. Atlas
c. Handbook
d. Gazette
23. A book that is published annually which contains information organized in a descriptive and
statistical manner, pictures accompany the information.
a. Almanac
b. Atlas
c. Yearbook
d. Gazette
24. A book that contains concise information primarily meant to serve practitioners. It is intended to
provide ready and quick references widely used in science and technology.
a. Cartoon
b. Directory
c. Atlas
d. Handbook
25. It includes the government or institutional directories that contain a list of agencies, schools,
and foundations. For example, for school directories, primary information such as the school
address, the religious order that runs it, the names of key officials and administrators, and
contact details are indicated.
a. Directory
b. Microfiche
c. Microfilm
d. Government documents
26. These materials provide information on the persons included in the edition arranged in
alphabetical order.
a. Dictionary
b. Bibliographical sources
c. Geographical sources
d. Yearbook
27. It includes maps, atlases, gazette, geographical dictionaries, guidebooks and globes.
a. Dictionary
b. Bibliographical sources
c. Geographical sources
d. Yearbook
28. A bound collection of maps often including illustrations, informative tablets, or textual matters.
a. Book of etiquette
b. Gazette
c. Vertical index
d. Atlas
29. An official government journal containing lists of government appointments and promotions,
bankruptcies, and other pertinent information.
a. Book of etiquette
b. Gazette
c. Vertical index
d. Atlas
30. It published government materials such as executive orders, treaties, memoranda, and
presidential decrees in book, pamphlet, magazine, microfilm forms.
a. Directory
b. Microfiche
c. Microfilm
d. Government documents
31. These are handbooks containing popular lines known to have been said by famous people,
taken as excerpts from speeches, play, novels and sources.
a. Book of etiquette
b. Book of quotations
c. Book of famous persons
d. Book of good moral
32. It refers to the material that records when a particular article in a magazine or a journal is
listed.
a. Book of etiquette
b. Gazette
c. Vertical index
d. Atlas
33. A handbook containing tips, guides, or rules on socially acceptable behavior and the forms
prescribed by custom to be observed in social, official, or professional life.
a. Book of etiquette
b. Gazette
c. Vertical index
d. Atlas
34. A strip of film on which miniaturized copies of documents are printed. These documents are
photographed in black and white film using a special kind of camera.
a. Directory
b. Microfiche
c. Microfilm
d. Government documents
35. A sheet of microfilm containing rows of images of printed pages. It stores exact, miniature
copies of documents.
a. Directory
b. Microfiche
c. Microfilm
 d. Government documents

36. It contains the record of all books inside the library.

a. Journal
b. Manual
c. Card catalogue
d. Periodicals
37. These are serial pictures or drawings that carry dialog or a story.
a. Caricature
b. Comics
c. Carton
d. Cartoons
38. It is a printed publication (usually issued daily or weekly) consisting of folded unstapled sheets
and containing news, feature articles, advertisements, and correspondence.
a. Newspaper
b. News story
c. Feature
d. Editorial
39. A form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language such as
phonesthetic and sound symbolism.
a. Prose
b. Poetry
c. Poem
d. Play
40. It contains the name of the publisher of the book and the date of publication.
a. Copyright page
b. Dedication page
c. Acknowledgement page
d. Title page
41. It expresses the author’s gratitude to the people who helped him in writing the book.
a. Copyright page
b. Dedication page
c. Acknowledgement page
d. Title page
42. It presents the editor’s or the publisher’s opinions on current issues, situations, or news items.
a. Editorial
b. Signed column
c. News story
d. Special interest
43. It talks about the latest news in town with banner or main headline, which aims to arouse the
interest of the reader and to give the main idea of the article.
a. Editorial
b. Signed column
c. News story
d. Special interest
44. It features interviews with well-known people or those who are mentioned in the 5Ws and one
H questions.
a. Editorial
b. Signed column
c. Feature story
d. Special interest
45. Presented in this part of the paper are the columnist’s opinions, about business, politics
economics and sports.
a. Editorial
b. Signed column
c. News story
d. Special interest
46. It is usually accompanied by pictures, graphs, or chart which deals with subject matters that
cater to the readers’ varied special interests.
a. Editorial
b. Signed column
c. News story
d. Special interest
47. It helps in searching for a job, probable buyers, and products to buy.
a. Comic strip
b. Cartoons
c. Note taking
d. Advertisements
48. These are pictorial exaggerations or drawings that express the opinions of a newspaper on
some current issues or news.
a. Comic strip
b. Cartoons
c. Note taking
d. Advertisements
49. In this type of reading model your purpose is to get thesis, central theme, or main idea of the
selection.
a. Idea reading
b. Developmental reading
c. Note taking
d. Advertisements
50. It is the practice of writing down pieces of information in a systematic way needed to record
inputs during a lecture, discussion, reading session, interview or research.
a. Comic strip
b. Cartoons
c. Note taking
d. Advertisements
51. A reading strategy wherein you look quickly at the text to get a general view or idea of the
entire reading material.
a. Outlining
b. Summarizing
c. Scanning
d. Paraphrasing
52. A reading strategy that takes place quickly because the purpose is not to get a general understanding
of the text, but to look for specific information in the selection.
a. Outlining
b. Summarizing
c. Scanning
d. Paraphrasing
53. A reading strategy wherein you shorten the original material by taking note of the main ideas
or the major topics.
a. Outlining
b. Summarizing
c. Scanning
d. Paraphrasing
54. It is an act of making any printed or written words meaningful.
a. Lower level of reading process
b. Decoding
c. High level of reading process
d. Reading
55. It focuses merely on lexical access or the calling up of the meaning of the word as it is
recognized.
a. Lower level of reading process
b. Decoding
c. High level of reading process
 d. Reading
56. It happens when you merge your own schemata or experiences of the printed words with the
author’s ideas symbolized by the words in the book.
a. Lower level of reading process
b. Decoding
c. High level of reading process
d. Reading
57. An act of translating the language symbols (letters, words, sentences, pictures, other written
marks) into ordinary language; meaning, language structures that are meaningful to you
because of the schemata, experiences, previous or old knowledge you have had about these
language structures representing the author’s ideas.
a. Lower level of reading process
b. Decoding
c. High level of reading process
d. Reading
58. It refers to the reading acts of combining prior knowledge with the authors knowledge to be
able to produce, create, or build something new or different.
a. Reading comprehension
b. Skill
c. Strategies
d. Constructing
59. An act of understanding or getting meaning from the reading text and adjusting, changing
modifying such meanings as well as creating, building or constructing something new about
them through your schemata, prior or background knowledge.
a. Reading comprehension
b. Skill
c. Strategies
d. Constructing
60. It pertains to your abilities, capabilities, or power to know and relate letters, words, sentences,
and discourse/rhetorical modes of patterns.
a. Reading comprehension
b. Skill
c. Strategies
d. Constructing
61. It involves the use of HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills) for interpreting, criticizing, creating,
applying and appreciating the knowledge you have learned.
a. Reading comprehension
b. Skill
c. Strategies
d. Constructing
62. It serves as the central aspect, the bottom line, or the ultimate result of any reading act, so
much as that it is principled to conclude: no comprehension, no reading.
a. Perception
b. Sensation
c. Comprehension
d. Imagination
63. The ability to recognize language structures by the eyes.
a. Perception
b. Sensation
c. Comprehension
d. Imagination
64. It is how you interpret the text or reading selection.
a. Perception
b. Sensation
c. Comprehension
d. Imagination
65. Doing serious reading of books, periodicals, and other library materials for research work or a
report in content-area subjects is the main concern of this kind of reading. This is also called
word-for-word reading requiring full concentration and seriousness.
a. Developmental reading
b. Intensive or functional reading
c. Extensive or recreational reading
d. Bottom-up model
66. It is also called the light type of reading; extensive reading makes you read a wide variety of
reading materials for the sake of enjoying your leisure time.
a. Developmental reading
b. Intensive or functional reading
c. Extensive or recreational reading
d. Bottom-up model
67. This involves reading activities under a comprehensive reading program consisting of several
stages starting from pre-school to college level.
a. Developmental reading
b. Intensive or functional reading
c. Extensive or recreational reading
d. Bottom-up model
68. This reading model shows a reader how to process the meanings of a text by closely
examining its language structure.
a. Developmental reading
b. Intensive or functional reading
c. Extensive or recreational reading
d. Bottom-up model
69. Through this model, the understanding of the text begins with what the reader already knows
about the material.
a. Interactive or schema model
b. Top-down model
c. Dual-coding
d. Psycholinguistic guessing game model of reading
70. The processing of meanings does not follow a linear or sequential pattern wherein the reader
starts from text-structures analysis to the use of his schemata or vice versa.
a. Interactive or schema model
b. Top-down model
c. Dual-coding
d. Psycholinguistic guessing game model of reading
71. The verbal and visual information capable of speeding up reading comprehension due to the
strong connection of these two kinds of information are given stress in this reading model.
a. Interactive or schema model
b. Top-down model
c. Dual-coding
d. Psycholinguistic guessing game model of reading
72. Central to this model is the interactive process of reading wherein the reader, in his attempt to
get meanings from the text, makes his hypothesis or intelligent guesses about the selection.
a. Interactive or schema model
b. Top-down model
c. Dual-coding
d. Psycholinguistic guessing game model of reading
73. The reading comprehension takes place through the fusion of the reader’s abilities in
identifying the word and of his general or holistic understanding of the text.
a. Simple view of reading model
b. Word-recognition model
c. Psycholinguistic guessing game model of reading
d. Interactive or schema model
74. This model focuses on the development of fluent reading through the strong connection
between writing and reading.
a. Simple view of reading model
b. Word-recognition model
c. Psycholinguistic guessing game model of reading
d. Interactive or schema model
75. This requires the production, invention, or construction of something new, novel or unique
based on your understanding of the reading selection. It involves the use of HOTS.
a. Strategic reading
b. Idea reading
c. Literal thinking
d. Creative thinking
76. This kind of thinking is indirectly stated in the reading text. It involves reading between the
lines. The questions why and how elicit an inferential comprehension of the reading material.
a. Strategic reading
b. Idea reading
c. Literal thinking
d. Creative thinking
77. Your purpose in doing this type of reading is to get thesis, central theme, or main idea of the
selection.
a. Strategic reading
b. Idea reading
c. Literal thinking
d. Creative thinking
78. Having your own purpose in reading, you take time to evaluate your thinking methods, styles
and techniques.
a. Strategic reading
b. Idea reading
c. Literal thinking
d. Creative thinking
79. It involves enjoying and appreciating well-written literary works and to obtain familiarity with the
different literary genres and text types as you learn about human values, cultural traits,
organizational techniques, language structures, and so on.
a. Strategic reading
b. Idea reading
c. Literal thinking
d. Literature reading
80. This is reading beyond the lines because this kind of thinking makes you apply the things you
learned from a selection in real life situations.
a. Strategic reading
b. Interactive thinking
c. Intensive thinking
d. Integrative thinking