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Department of Education
CARAGA ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
ALTERNATIVE DELIVERY BUREAU-STUDENT INCLUSION DIVISION
Division of Butuan City
CENTRAL BUTUAN DISTRICT 1
Butuan Central Elementary School
Butuan City
Periodical Test in
LEARNING STRAND I- ENGLISH
Name: _____________________________ Date: ____________________ SCORE
Course/Program: ___________________ Teacher: __________________
c. It makes a contrast.
d. It restates the idea found in the first.
22. Which of the following is implied by the passage?
a. Regular exercise will help counteract the negative effects of being sedentary.
b. Physical activity alone may not be enough to reduce the risk disease.
c. Sitting still causes some types of heart disease and cancer.
d. Watching television while on a treadmill is considered sedentary time.
Sea turtles migrate across thousands of miles of ocean before returning to nest on the same stretch of coastline
where they hatched, but how they do this has mystified scientists for more than fifty years. Sea turtles likely go to great
lengths to find the places where they began life because successful nesting requires a combination of environmental
features that are rare: soft sand, the right temperature, few predators, and an easily accessible beach.
23. From this passage it is safe to conclude that sea turtles
a. Are not easily observed by scientists.
b. Cannot lay their eggs on any beach other than the one on which they hatchd.
c. Will not lay their eggs on beaches with pebbly sand.
d. Must have the ability to precisely detect their location.
For item 24-26: Read the paragraph below and answer the questions.
The long reign of Elizabeth, who became known as the "Virgin Queen" for her reluctance to endanger her
authority through marriage, coincided with the flowering of the English Renaissance, associated with such renowned
authors as William Shakespeare. By her death in 1603, England had become a major world power in every respect, and
Queen Elizabeth 1 passed into history as one of England's greatest monarchs.
24. The writer believes Queen Elizabeth I did not marry because
a. she did not want to diminish her power.
b. she did not fall in love.
c. there were no suitable matches.
d. she was preoccupied with the English Renaissance.
25. The word "reluctance" can be replaced by ____________.
a. acceptance b. denial c. unwillingness d. eagerness
26. Renowned artists are not said to be ____________.
a. popular b. distinguished c. acclaimed d. common
The selection below pertains to Item 27 – 28.
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has discovered a star with three planets only slightly larger than Earth. Its
outermost planet orbits in the 'Goldilocks' zone—a region where surface temperatures could be moderate enough for
liquid water, and perhaps life, to exist. The star ranks among the top 10 nearest stars known to have transiting planets.
27. The purpose of the passage is to
a. explore the possibility of life in outer space.
b. fundraise for further research.
c. announce the discovery of a new planet.
d. describe the conditions required for the 'Goldilocks' zone.
28. The tone of the selection is __________.
a. Investigative b. informative c. comparative d. descriptive
For item 29 - 31: Read the poem below and answer the questions.
Flying at Night
Ted Kooser, 1939
Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations
Five billion miles away, a galaxy dies
like a snowflake falling on water. Below us,
some farmer, feeling the chill of that distant death,
snaps on his yard light, drawing his sheds and barn
back into the little system of his care.
All night, the cities, like shimmering novas,
tug with bright streets at lonely lights like
his.
Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
CARAGA ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
ALTERNATIVE DELIVERY BUREAU-STUDENT INCLUSION DIVISION
Division of Butuan City
CENTRAL BUTUAN DISTRICT 1
Butuan Central Elementary School
Butuan City
For item 37 - 39: Study the histogram above and answer the questions below.
37. More than 50 persons answered M&M as their favorite candy. What age group do they belong?
a. 11-15 b. 21-15 c. 16-20 d. None
38. Which age group has the least response?
a. 0-5 b. 6-10 c. 26-30 d. 16-20
39. Based on the histogram, which is not true in the following?
a. Age group 0-5 did not like M&M so much.
b. It shows the number of people whose favorite candy is M&M.
c. Less than 40 persons prefer M&M over other candies.
d. More than 25 persons in the 6-10 age answered M&M as their favorite candy.
For item 40 - 44 : Read the announcement below and answer the questions.
Interested students should speak with Ms. Braxton, the music teacher. Students who would like to help at the festival must
have written permission from a parent or guardian.
40. What time will the festival begin?
a. 10 A.M. b. 11 A.M. c. 1 P.M. d. 2 P.M.
41. In line 3, the word feature is closest in meaning to __________.
a. look b. keep c. include d. entertain
42. What job will be done the day before the festival begins?
a. Making posters
b. Setting up the gym
c. Cleaning up the gym
d. Helping the performers
At the time Paine wrote "Common Sense," most colonists considered themselves to be aggrieved
Britons. Paine fundamentally changed the tenor of colonists' argument with the crown when he wrote the
following: "Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America. This new world hath been the
asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither they have
fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster, and it is so far true
of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants
still."
45. The main idea of the paragraph suggests that Paine
a. influenced people to migrate from England to the colonies.
b. contributed to the colonists' growing sense of group identity.
c. refuted the notion that most colonists emigrated from Britain.
d. had come from a country other than England.
For item 46 - 48: Read the selection below and answer the questions.
Victor Hugo, the son of one of Napoleon's officers, decided while still a teenager to become a
writer. Although he studied law, he also founded a literary review to which he and other emerging
writers published their work. In 1822, Hugo married his childhood sweetheart, Adele Foucher, and
published his first volume of poetry, which won him a pension from Louis XVIII. In 1823, Hugo published
his first novel, Han d'Islande. His 1827 play, Cromwell, embraced the tenets of Romanticism, which he
laid out in the play's preface. The following year, despite a contract to begin work on a novel called
Notre Dame de Paris, he set to work on two plays. The first, Marion de Lorme (1829), was censored for
its candid portrayal of a courtesan. The second, Hernani, became the subject for a bitter and protracted
debate between French Classicists and Romantics.
In 1831, he finally finished Notre Dame de Paris. In addition to promoting a Romantic aesthetic
that would tolerate the imperfect and the grotesque, the book also had a simpler agenda: to increase
appreciation of old Gothic structures, which had become the object of vandalism and neglect. Hugo's
writing spanned more than six decades, and he was given a national funeral and buried in the Pantheon
after his death in 1885.
A new study suggests that thick crustal plugs and weakened mineral grains may explain a range
of relatively speedy moves among tectonic plates around the world, from Hawaii to East Timor.
Traditionally, scientists believed that all tectonic plates were pulled by subducting slabs—which resulted
from the colder, top boundary layer of the Earth's rocky surface becoming heavy and sinking slowly into
the deeper mantle. Yet that process does not account for sudden plate shifts. Such abrupt movement
requires that slabs detach from their plates, but doing this quickly is difficult since the slabs should be too
cold and stiff to detach.
According to the study, there are additional factors at work. Thick crust from continents or
oceanic plateau is swept into the subduction zone, plugging it up and prompting the slab to break off. The
detachment process is then accelerated when mineral grains in the necking slab start to shrink, causing
the slab to weaken rapidly. The result is tectonic plates that abruptly shift horizontally, or continents
suddenly bobbing up.