READING COMPREHENSION

POVERTY

1. To “eke of living” means_____

a. to earn income
b. to live with other
c. to stay in the street
d. to work in the street

2. Based on the selection, what values seem to be missing in the families of street children?
a. loyalty
b. honesty
c. kindness
d. solidarity

3. What is the most important factor that will equip rural people to survive in the city?
a. money
b. education
c. kindness
d. home

4. This selection is simple about____

a. providing homes for the poor
b. helping street children get an education
c. factors why children live in the street
d. how to lessen pressure on the family

5. Based on the last, we can conclude that street children are _____
a. independent
b. malnourished
c. helping persons
d. victims of poverty

CAT

6. The word “quarry” are used in the last paragraph means _____
a. hurried
b. target
c. hunter
d. victim

7. Cats have acute hearing except the white cats with blue eyes which do not ___
a. hears well
b. hunt well
c. sees well
d. eats well

8. The sentence “The cat is a precision instrument” is a ______

a. hyperbole
b. metaphor
c. simile
d. irony

9. The selection is mainly about _______

a. how cats differ from the dogs
b. how the cat is like a mammal
c. the cat as a hunting machine
d. the cat as a house pet
10. We can conclude from the selection that the cat is an animal which can _____
a. do a lot of tricks
b. be domesticated
c. be very dangerous
d. survive on its own

INTRODUCTION TO POETRY

11. What does the stanza 3, 4, and 5 shows?

a. image
b. symbol
c. irony

12. Who are Them and They refer to?

a. students of poetry
b. literary critics
c. poet

13. Hold them up to light like a color slide

Press an ear against its hive
a. senses
b. irony

14. What does author trying to convey out of the passage?

a. Read and analyze
b. Analyze and paraphrase
c. Enjoy and realized

PALAWAN

15. Which can be an appropriate title of the selection?

a. Palawan and it’s settler
b. Palawan and its extraordinary natural beauty
c. El Nido 1970’s
d. The discovery of El Nido.

16. It can be concluded from the selection that ____

a. El Nido is a tourist spot
b. El Nido is a popular place
c. El Nido was discovered by a diver
d. El Nido has its amazing natural beauty

17. What does the word “diversity” in the first sentence mean?
a. variety
b. equality
c. similarity
d. distinction

18. How can attract the place for foreign?

IMAGINATIVE POWER OF DRAMA

19. What is the best title of the selection?
a. Marvelous singing voices
b. The absurdity of musical plays
c. The imaginative of fiction/power of drama
d. The production of musical plays

20. Based from the except, the author believes that all the statement are true, except?
a. Theater is based on absurdities
b. The character in musical plays converse by singing
c. Theater teaches us that suicide is the only solution to the problem
d. Theater creates poetry, power enhancement and truth.

21. The word ‘absurdity” means?

a. fiction
b. falsehood
c. predictability
d. foolishness

22. Which of the following can be conducted about theater from the selection?
a. It has different themes
b. It is the most ridiculous of all the arts
c. It is able to create poetry, power, enhancement, truth
d. It is fiction representing of life

INVENTION OF CAMERA

23. What can we infer from the selection?

a. man’s nature is easily influenced.
b. man’s nature easily adapts to his environment.
c. man is constantly in search of new inventions.
d. man easily gives up when confronted with a challenge.

24. What is the main idea expressed in the selection?

a. man by nature is contented being.
b. people make efforts to improve an invention.
c. to seek comport is man’s goal in life.
d. inventions have a tendency to be copied.

25. What can we conclude about inventions in the selection?

a. improves people’s lives
b. is easy to accomplish
c. is hard to improve
d. is costly

26. What figure of speech is used in the last line of the selection?
a. Simile
b. Metaphor
c. Hyperbole
d. Personification

27. What is the value presented in the selection?

a. passivity
b. ingenuity
c. contentment
d. independence

PASTA CRISIS

28. The meaning of inconceivable in the first sentence of the passage must be _______
a. not imaginable
b. cannot happen
c. unable to conceive
d. no possibility

29. The passage emphasizes an alarming future scenario because ________

a. Humans will take more aggressive action against global warming
b. China, where noodles are the main staple, could have social unrest
c. Macaroni and cheese loving children across the US would protest
d. Three significant grains, especially wheat may be lost to humans

30. This passage entitled Pasta Crisis out with urgency that ______
a. Higher temperature are most inevitable
b. Three grains are already suffering from climate change
c. More aggressive action against global warming is needed
d. Drought will intensify in the coming years

31. Another way of expressing the idea in the sentence “it is the grain most vulnerable to high
temperature” is it is the grain ________
a. Most affected under intense heat
b. Likely to flourish when it gets warm
c. Strongly at risk in temperate areas
d. Inclined to wither if it gets very hot

32. The idea in the passage is develop using ______

a. Narration
b. Exposition
c. Description
d. Illustration

LIGHT OF THE SOCIAL CHANGES

33. What is the most paraphrase of the last in the passage?

a. Participation in the work and progress of our country is sought by every Filipino.
b. The country’s progress and advancement depend primarily on educated Filipino.
c. A truly educated Filipino participate actively in the work and progress of the country and the
world as a whole.
d. To be considered educated, one has to be globally competitive and willing to take risks.

34. As used in the selection, what does word, “conviction” mean?

a. intellectual guess
b. strong belief
c. verdict
d. allegiance

35. What traits is found in most Orientals but needs to be deepened in Filipino?
a. action oriented
b. patience
c. good in managing
d. reflective thinker
36. What is meant by this line? “The oriental is a philosopher”
a. Oriental people are contemplative
b. Oriental people have the blood of great philosophers
c. They have a tendency to become philosophers
d. They think like Great Solomon.

37. What value is implied in the same passage above?

a. Justice
b. Courage
c. Hyperactivity
d. Active involvement

YOUTH

38. What is the theme of the passage?

a. Youth and numbers
b. Youth and what it means
c. Youth and growing old
d. Youth is about hope

39. What kind of passage is youth?

a. Argumentative
b. Descriptive
c. Informative
d. Inquisitive

40. Youth is______

State of mind

41. Predominance means______

Strongest Element

DRUG ADDICTION

42. We can infer from the first sentence that ______

a. not all that has been written on the subject of addiction has added to our understanding
b. no one can have read all the literature on any drug
c. the more that is publish the more we are likely to understand
d. The rate of growth should be higher if we are to understand the subject

43. The author implies that he thinks the term “dependence” in the context of drugs.
a. is more accurate the older term “addiction”
b. has not always been the preferred term
c. is a currently under-used term
d. is an avant-garde aberration

HOMER
44. We can infer from the passage that ____________
a. it’s not definite when and where Homer was born
b. Homer only deals with poetry
c. Recent research shows that impossibility of finding Homer’s birth date
d. Some suggest that he was born in 800 B.C
45. The Odyssey ________
a. belongs to another poet rather than Homer
b. explains the voyage of sailor
c. has no connection with the Iliad
d. doesn’t have a specific protagonist

46. The works of Homer ______

a. has no potential readers
b. deal with the siege of Troy by the Greeks
c. has been thought to have different writers
d. are collection of traditional ballads

47. Homer revised and refined works of earlier poets-About his work
-NO CERTAINTY THAT HOMER LIVED-ABOUT
-STILL REMAINS GREAT STORY IN GREECE
-SRORY OF HEROISM
-TWO GREAT EPICS WORK AS ONE