Q1 Performance Task 1

Started on Wednesday, 2 November 2022, 2:24 PM

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Grade 100.00 out of 100.00
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Direction: Identify the correct term of the meaning provided in each sentence using
the affixes.

Certain amount can be taken away or Answer

from income tax returns.

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Marking key words and summarizing.

Select one:

a.
skimming

b.
drawing conclusion

c.
scanning

d.
critical reading
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Read each paragraph. Then select the answer that best describes the author’s purpose
and perspectives in writing.
To make a delicious New England pie, proceed as follows: take some water and flour; then
construct a bullet-proof dough. Make this into a disk-shaped object. Dry it for a couple of
days in a mild temperature. Pour on stewed dried apples and slabs of citron; leave it in a
safe place until it petrifies. Serve cold at breakfast and invite your mother-in-law.
Question:
What is the author's purpose?

Select one:

a.
inform about the best way to cook England pie.

b.
entertain of (satirize) New England cooking.

c.
show the process of cooking the best pie in the world.

d.
persuade the reader to buy New England pie.

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Choose the word showing the correct stress/accent. The syllable written in uppercase
letters is the accented syllable.
The students survey the island where they will conduct their case studies.
Select one:

a.
SURvey

b.
survey

c.
surVEY

d.
SURVEY

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Read each paragraph. Then select the answer that best describes the author’s purpose
and perspectives in writing.
The human sex chromosomes are of the XX-XY pattern. The Y chromosome is much smaller
than the X chromosome. Two types of sperm cells are formed during gametogenesis; half
of these have the X chromosome and the others have the Y chromosome. Every egg cell has
an X chromosome; therefore, fertilization determines the sex. If a Y sperm cell fertilizes the
egg, a male develops.
Question:
What is the author's purpose?

Select one:

a.
to inform about the new formula

b.
inform the steps in fertilization.

c.
entertain
d.
persuade readers

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Identify which category these words belong under.
Bataan Death March, Watergate Scandal, Bubonic Plague

Select one:

a.
geography

b.
health

c.
history

d.
academics

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Read each paragraph. Then select the answer that best describes the author’s purpose
and perspectives in writing.
The word is terracide. It is not committed with guns and knives, but with relentless
bulldozers, roaring dump trucks, and giant shovels like mythological beasts. Dynamite cuts
and rips apart mountains to reach the minerals inside, leaving nothing but empty, naked
hills. The land is left wasted and allowed to slide down upon houses and into streams,
making the land unlivable and the stream water undrinkable. This is terracide, or if you
prefer, strip mining.
Question:
What is the author's purpose?

Select one:

a.
entertain about terracide

b.
persuade you to do strip mining.

c.
inform you about the purposes of strip mining.

d.
inform you of the dangers of terracide.

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Direction: Identify the correct term of the meaning provided in each sentence using
the affixes.
If progress is 'stepping forward' and regress means 'stepping back' , the word which literally
means ' stepping together' is Answer
.

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Read each paragraph. Then select the answer that best describes the author’s purpose
and perspectives in writing.
Until the 1960s, people in the United States did not particularly pay attention to the natural
environment. Rather, Americans were more focused on the economy. However, with an
increase in oil spills, polluting factories and power plants, and the loss of wilderness,
suddenly people realizes they shared common values. They called for a
national organization to protect the environment. Accordingly, on April 22, 1970, the first
Earth DAY, 20 MILLION Americans took to the streets, parks and auditoriums to
demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable environment. Thousands of colleges and
universities organized protests against the deterioration of the environment.
The first Earth Day led to the creation of the United States Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) and the passage of the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species
Acts. President Richard Nixon and Congress worked together to established the EPA in
response to the growing public demand for cleaner water, air and land. Prior to the
establishment of the EPA, the national government was not structured to
make coordinated attack on the pollutants, which harm human health and degrade the
environment. The EPA was assigned the daunting task of repairing the damage already
done to the natural environment.
Question:
What is the author’s purpose in paragraph 2?

Select one:

a.
to discuss public demonstration that demanded a cleaner environment

b.
to propose the need for further actions by the government

c.
to suggest that the government needed to control polluting factories and power plants

d.
to describe how the government became more involved in cleaning the environment

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Direction: Identify the correct term of the meaning provided in each sentence using
the affixes.
Bat is a Latin word meaning 'fight'. 'To fight with' is the meaning of Answer
.