6.

Neither Emily Bronte nor her sister

ENGLISH 25 ITEMS ______ their real names in their writing
career.
1. It surely takes a lifetime for Edgar Allan A. use
Poe to forget his lost love, but he B. uses
____________ hard to move on amidst C. using
tremendous loneliness and despair. D. has use
A. has been trying
B. has tired 7. The man looks ________.
C. had tired A. strange
D. had been trying B. strangely
C. stranger
2. What can be the most appropriate follow- D. has strange
up sentence to the given statement below?
"I have been teaching for 34 years." 8. A number of whale species _________
A. So it is now time to quit now extinct because of illegal hunting and
B. And I can't imagine doing anything alarming change in sea water temperature.
else A. are
C. And I want this to be end right B. is
now C. were
D. And my children are now teachers, D. was
too
9. The problems that I encountered were
3. Emily Bronte __________ her last novel _________ for me to handle.
when she died. A. so much
A. has written B. too much
B. had been writing C. very much
C. had written D. too more
D. has been writing
10. In Benjamin Franklin’s “Poor Richard’s
4. Which among the sentences below Almanac” it was said that. “early to bed,
followed the correct order of adjectives? ______________ makes a man healthy”
A. She drives an expensive black A. early rising
Japanese sports car. B. rising early
B. She drives a black Japanese C. early to rise
expensive sports car. D. waking up early
C. She drives a black expensive
Japanese sports car. 11. Which among these words has the
D. She drives an expensive Japanese voiceless /th/ sound?
black sports car. A. These
B. Mother
5. Only 85% of the total number of C. Think
applicants ________ able to pass the D. There
entrance test last year. 12. Which word must have the primary stress
A. are in the sentence below if we want to
B. was emphasize possession? “That is my bag.”
C. is A. that
D. were B. is
C. my
D. bag
13. What pitch level must be used in starting 20. The death of Ninoy Aquino prompted
a sentence? conglomeration of the people from
A. 1 different walks of life. The words below
B. 2 are synonyms of the underlined word
C. 3 except:
D. 4 A. Gathering
14. Which among the words below has the B. Assembly
/sh/ sound? C. Accumulation
A. Vision D. Diffusion
B. Leisure 21. For a non-believer, the noise heard during
C. Sure the street procession would seem
D. Salient cacophonous. The underlined word means:
15. Your father isn’t working anymore, A. Loud and unpleasant
__________? B. Loud and yet pleasant
A. is he C. Soft and yet unpleasant
B. isn’t he D. Soft and pleasant
C. has he 22. Which among the sound below is a
D. hasn’t he voiceless sound?
16. This pertains to the pauses or rests in A. /dz/
speech. B. /g/
A. Pitch C. /z/
B. Juncture D. /sh/
C. Stress 23. Which among the words below does not
D. Intonation belong?
17. I would not leave you come hell or high A. Conceal
water. Based on the given sentence, we B. Screen
can surmise that: C. Reveal
A. the speaker won’t leave the person D. Obscure
no matter what
B. the speaker warns the person of a 24. A paragraph is believed to have coherence
forthcoming disaster if:
C. the speaker wants the person to A. the sentences are all about the
give up topic sentence
D. the speaker wants the person to B. the sentence are smoothly
continue fighting connected with each other
through transitional devices.
18. Her nervousness keeps her on her C. the sentence are correctly written
toes.The underlined phrase means: in terms of grammar rules
A. she is always alert and cautious D. the sentences are independent
B. she is always ready to firth
C. she is always confident 25. Aside from being a renowned writer, Carl
D. she is always on the go Sanburg is also believer to have the gift
of gab. The underlined word means:
19. Emily Dickinson was ostracized by her A. The ability to speak clearly
peers primarily because of her eccentric B. The ability to speak persuasively
principles. The underlined word means: C. The ability to speak honestly
A. Criticized D. The ability to speak accurately
B. Condemned
C. Excluded
D. Praised
Answer.
1. A
2. B
3. B
4. A
5. D
6. A
7. A
8. A
9. B
10. C
11. C
12. C
13. B
14. C
15. A
16. B
17. A
18. A
19. C
20. D
21. A
22. D
23. C
24. B
25. B