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1. What is the meaning of the underline phrase in the excerpt?” As of press time, the senator is
abroad and has not issued a statement.”
A. As of yesterday
B. As of now
2. Why does the word “take” when pronounced is different from the words “fake”, “vase” and
“thank”?
3. The play “Oedipus the king” by Sophocles starts with a crisis: The bans are suffering from a plague
caused by the murder of the former king. Oedipus, the present and trusted leader, his search for truth
finally found out that he himself was the killer he is looking for. What approach to staring a drama is
illustrated here?
A. Enmedias res
B. Accretive plot
C. Unfolding plot
D. Linear plots
A. A noun in the phrase may have an adjective before it, or a determiner, or may be followed by a
prepositional phrase.
B. A noun phrase must constitute a determiner, a qualifier or a verb phrase before a head noun
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in
want of a wife.”
A. Mansfield Park
D. Northanger Abbey
A. Crush
B. Child Labor
C. Autism
D. Morning Sun
9. Which is the study of literature through the oral performance of a speaker creates and recreates
the meaning and mood of the selection?
A. Oral Interpretation
B. Declamation
C. Poetry Interpretation
D. Public Speaking
10. Literature is language in use; as such language becomes the medium or the tool of literature.
Therefore, language is _________________.
B. beyond literature
C. Tess of d’Urberville
A. Hinduism
B. Taoism
C. Confucianism
D. Buddhism
13. "Of man’s first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree " is the opening to ________.
14. The parent remarked, “__________ I come late, just lock the door.”
A. In the absence
B. In the process
C. In the event
D. In the case
15. Which type of error is evident in the sentence “I came, I saw, I conqueres”?
A. Spelling
B. Parallelism
C. Punctuation
D. Capitalization
16. Which among the following is the least important to mention in a summary lead for sports?
A. Winner
B. Score
C. Audience
D. Venue
A. Juan Luna
B. Jose Rizal
C. Resurrection Hidalgo
D. Emilio Aguinaldo
18. The instinct of a reporter to identify or sort out news form an array of facts is a skill that is called
the newsman’s sixth sense and referred to as _____________.
A. expertise
B. objective journalism
C. watchdog function
What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and moving, how
express and admirable!
B. Hamlet
D. King Henry IV
20. When I met Liza yesterday, it was the first time I _____ her since Christmas.
A. saw
B. had seen
We moved into the house last week, but I'm afraid everything, is still at sixes and sevens.
C. In a state of confusion
D. In an orderly manner
A. Stayed
B. Staying
C. Stays
D. Stay
23. During the Titanomachy, Zeus freed his brothers and sisters from their father, Cronus. As a result,
the brothers and sisters gave Zeus the honor of being their leader, thus, earning the right to rule over
the sky. What does this show about the Greeks?
24. The reading and teaching of literature must yield not only enjoyment but also ______________.
A. information
B. knowledge
C. understanding
D. pleasure
A. Manner
B. Relation
C. Quantity
D. Quality
27. Which of the following components are required by most translation perspectives?
29. He is known as the Ruler of the Olympians and is respected as the protector of the Greeks.
A. Zeus
B. Poseidon
C. Hades
D. Hephaestus
30. In the phrase structure rules, a preposition phrases consist of a preposition followed by a _______.
A. clause
B. noun
C. noun phrase
D. objective
31. When translating Derrida’s work writers need to observe abusive fidelity. Which of the following
may be added while maintaining Derrda’s syntax, lexicon and pun?
A. Adverbs
B. Adjectives
C. Coordinating Conjunctions
D. Prepositions
32. Which is an early 20th century movement in literature and the arts that broke with traditional
forms, conversion and expectations, challenging accepted notions of the relationship between art and
everybody life, and experimenting with new techniques and new modes of representing reality?
A. Realism
B. Scientific realism
C. Modernism
D. Postmodernism
33. In the following dialogue, what Filipino value is affirmed by Mario’s statement?
Gloria: So, for a measly apple, you lost a job you needed so much Mario: I wouldn't mind losing a
thousand jobs for an apple for my daughter!
34. In English verse, a poetic foot having 1 stressed syllable followed by 1 unstressed syllable is
______.
A. Anapaestic
B. Dactylic
C. Iambic
D. Trochaic
35. Which kind of journal did John Steinbeck jeep before publishing Grapes of Wrath?
A. All aspect
B. Working
C. Idea
D. Common Place
36. The South African novelist and short story writer whose major themes are on exile and alienation,
won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991.
A. Bessie Head
B. Barbara Kimenye
C. Ousmane Sembene
D. Nadine Gordimer
A. /b/
B. /z/
C. /p/
D. /g/
38. The pre-war writer of local color who excelled in presenting the simple life of the Ilocano peasants
is?
A. Amador Daguio
B. Manuel Arguilla
C. Francisco Icasiano
D. Arturo Rotor
39. This novel is based on the pilgrimage of the Bhuddist monk Xuangzang to India in search of sacred
texts.
C. On Learning to be an Indian
A. Leopold Senghor
B. Dennis Brutus
C. Wole Soyinka
D. David Diop
B. Afraid
C. Hopeful
D. Depressed
B. Sentence A presupposes B.
43. Which is an engaging task of recording experience ideas, insights or reflection on a regular basis
that basis that encourage students to articulate their minds than merely restating information about a
text?
A. Pantomime
B. Role play
C. Brainstorming
D. Journal Writing
A. Bhagavad Gita
B. The Ramayana
C. Gitanjali
D. Mahabharata
45. In second language acquisition, what is the route to pidginization and fossilization of errors?
46. The first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
A. Rabindranath Tagore
B. Po Chu-I
C. Wole Soyinka
D. Yasunari Kawabata
47. What is suggested in the opening line? June 13, 1986 - they came from all over America - 200,000
heroes strong, with their families.
A. Subhead
B. Space economy
C. Police Station
D. 30-word introduction
49. What correction should be made to this sentence? One of the theories is that the first child
receives more of the parents' attention than other children so first-borns tend to be more intellectual.
A. Change is to are
A. Pyramid
B. En medias res
C. Circular
D. Linear
51. An important step in ensuring the relevance of the instructional materials to the rest of the
curriculum is to keep a list of_________.
A. goals and objectives of the curriculum
52. Which is a sense property in which two words have the same sense, or same values for all of their
semantic features? Example “teacher” and “instruction”
A. Anaphora
B. Deixis
C. Hyponymy
D. Synonymy
A. kama
B. artha
C. maya
D. dharma
54. Which of the following can a translator add to translation to clarify through definition and
citations?
A. Interpretation
B. Annotation
C. Version
D. Comments
55. The vowels in the words ”pet”, “but”, “say” and “sew” are ___________.
A. [+low]
B. [+high]
D. [+tense]
56. The process of language learning characterized by repeated practice of sentence patterns until
they become habitual and automatic is __________.
A. overgeneralization
B. hypothesis testing
C. habit-formation
D. simplification
57. A couple accepted a wedding invitation. They showed pleasure in these remarks
58. Fine arts and literature flourished during this dynasty which is viewed as the Golden Age of
Chinese civilization.
A. Ch’in
B. T’ang
C. Shang
D. Han
59. The statement “Once upon a time in a distant land” exemplifies the _____________.
D. Aesop’s fables
61. Every June, Manila has its festival of outstanding Filipino films. This was a project initiated by
A. German Moreno
B. Antonio Villegas
C. Arsenio Lacson
D. Ramon Bagatsing
62. Let’s surveil the place. The morpheme surveil is a example of ___________.
A. back formation
B. clipping
C. derivation
D. root creation
63. This excerpt from Soyinka’s Telephone Conversation indicates the universal issue of _________.
“You mean- like plain or milk chocolate?” Her assent was clinical, crushing its light Impersonality.
Rapidly, wave length adjusted, I chose, “West African sepia.” – and as an afterthought, “Down in my
passport.
A. colonial mentality
C. racial discrimination
D. gender discrimination
65. Carl Sundburg wrote "Jazz Fantasia" which has for its first stanza: Drum on your drums, batter on
your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzmen.
A. To and it
66. The theory of language learning that emphasizes the child’s creativity in constructing his/her
knowledge of the language.
A. Cognitivist
B. functionalist
C. behaviorist
D. Interactionist
B. Stonehill Awards
A. The Spolarium
B. The Execution
C. Death in Rome
D. The Gladiator
C. Chinese legend
D. Latin Myth
A. Royalty
B. Readership
C. Self-Expression
D. Popularity
72. The writer acknowledged to have introduced modernism in Philippine poetry in English is
____________.
D. Cirilo Bautista
73. The goals of this language teaching approach are learn grammar, vocabulary and culture. Teacher
is the authority. He/She makes use of translation, deductive study of grammar, memorization of
vocabulary. Which approach of language teaching described?
B. Grammar-translation approach
C. Natural approach
D. Direct approach
B. John Steinbeck
C. Oscar Wilde
D. Rudyard Kipling
A. Lengths
B. Treatments
C. Events
D. Topic