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ROSETTA STONE

In the year 1799, an officer of the French Army was

stationed in a small fortress on the Rosetta River, a
mouth of the Nile, near Alexander, Egypt. He was
interested in the ruins of the ancient Egyptian
civilization, and had seen the sphinx and the pyramids,
those mysterious structures that were erected by men
of another era.
One day, as a trench was being dug, he found a piece
of black slate on which letters had been carved. He had
studied Greek in school, and knew this was an
inscription written in that language. There were two
more lines carved into the stone: one on the Egyptian
characters he had seen on the ruins , the other in
completely unfamiliar characters. The officer realized
the importance of such a find, and relinquished it to
scholars who had been puzzling over Egyptian
inscriptions.

In 1802, a french professor by the name of
Champollion began studying the stone in
anattempt to decipher the two unknown sets of
characters using the Greek letters as a key. He
worked with the stone for over twenty years, and
in 1823, announced that he had discovered the
meaning of the fourteen signs, and in doing so, had
unlocked the secret of ancient Egyptianwriting.
Some 5000 years after an unknown person had
made those three inscriptions, the Rosetta Stone
became a key, unlocking the written records of
Egypt and sharing the history of that civilization
with the rest of the world.
1. What is the main idea of theselection?
a. French scholars worked hard in studying
ancient history.
b. Ancient Egyptians wrote and preserved their
history instones.
c. The discovery of the Rosetta Stone led to a
better understanding of the history of Egypt.
d. A French Army officer studied the Rosetta Stone
and the inscriptions carved intoit.
In which country was the Rosetta Stone found?
a.Egypt b.Greece
c.France d.Alexandra
2. What word would best describe
ancient Egyptians based on
theselection?
a.dedicated b.resourceful
c.wise d.gifted
3.What might have happened if the Rosetta
Stone were notfound?
a. Egyptian civilization would haveflourished.
b. Ancient Egypt would have not reached the
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peak of itsglory.
c. Ancient Egyptians would have not known of their
culturalheritage.
d. Egyptian civilization would have not been fully
understood by the modernworld.
4. What does the lone sentence in thethird
paragraphmean?
a. The owner of the Rosetta Stone tried to sell it to
scholars.
b. The Egyptians scholars were puzzled by the
inscriptions found in the RosettaStone.
c. The founder of the Rosetta Stone knew of its value
and turned it over to the properauthorities.
d. TheofficerdidnotthinktheRosettaStonehad much
value and therefore gave itaway.
4. Whatliterarytechniquewasusedbythewriterin
developing thepassage?
a. Detailed analysis
c. Narrative chronological order of events
b. Comparison and contrast of ideas
d. Repetition of important points for emphasis
5. Whatconclusionmaybedrawnfromthe
passage?
a. Egypt has a rich civilization dating back to the
earliesttimes.
b. Egypthasamysteriousculturewhichremained
unknown.
c. Egypt was an ancient country with no significant
history.
d. Egypt‘s civilization benefited only those in
ancient times.
4. What is the sensory image of the following texts in
the poem?
He was a gentleman from sole to crown Clean
flavoured and imperially slim
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Happiness is a combination of how satisfied

Richard Cory you are with your life. And how good you feel on the
By: Edwin Arl ington Robinson day to day basis. Both of these are relatively stable.
That is our life changes, and our mood changes. But
Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people our overall happiness is determined than anything else.
on the pavement looked at him: The good news is, with consistent effort, this can be
a. Sight balanced. Think of it like you think about mass (sic): If
b. Smell you eat how you want to. And are as active as you
c. Hearing want to be. Your body will settle at a certain mass. But
d. Touch if you eat less than you‘d like or exercise more. Your
body will adjust accordingly. If that new diet or
exercise regimen. Becomes part of your everyday life.
Then you‘ll stay at this new mass. Your body will
adjust accordingly. If you go backto eating and
BALANCED LIFE
exercisingthewayyouusedto.Yourmasswillreturn
towhereitstarted.So itgoes,too,withhappiness.

HAPPINESS
He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean
favored, and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed,

And he was always human when he talked; 1. What can be inferred from the selectionabout
But still he fluttered pulses when he said, happiness?
"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.
a. Happiness includes being satisfied and feeling
And he was rich—yes, richer than a king—
goodeveryday.
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he waseverything b. Our mood changes, as well as our source of
Tomakeuswishthatwewereinhisplace. happiness.
c. Exercise should be lifelongprocess.
So on we worked, and waited for thelight, d. Losing mass makes onehappy.
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, 2. What happens when happiness is
Went home and put a bullet through his head. accompanied bydiscipline?

QUESTIONS: a. Successful life

b. HealthyLiving
1. What lesson can be best derived from the poem?
c. Balancedlife
d. ConstantLiving
a. Happiness is always achoice.
b. Life offers us manyopportunities
c. Death is like a thief that comes in most 3. What can be concluded fromthe selection?
unexpectedtime.
d. One can be wealthy but still feel unfulfilled with a. One has the ability to control how s/he
his/herlife. feels and what to do to be satisfied with
his/herlife.
2. What is the mood of theselection? b. One needs motivation to be trulyhappy.
c. The changes in one mood reflect how s/he is
a. Ironic happy with his/herlife
b. Inspiring d. Exercise and happiness have something in
c. Surprising
common
d. Confusing
ALTIPLANO
HAPPINESS
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The Altiplano, that high plainwhich balances
at 14, 000 feet. Like slate between thetwo
spectacular black ridges of the Andes, has formed
and influenced the life of the Incas more than
anythingelse.
Its thin stern air has even affected the
bodies of Indians. Giving them larger lungs to bear
the strain and more red corpuscles to stand the
cold. It is stunning part of the world, with broad
barren valleys and purple mountains dotted by
floating clouds that can suddenly erupts in
convulsiveshowers.
Historians say that very barrenness of the
land and prohibitiveness are what prodded Incas
into their astonishing accomplishments. They had to
use every piece of the land, to terrace and burrow,
organize and work together, to be able tolive there.
1. What is the purpose of thetext?
a. Toentertain
b. Toinform
c. To share lifelesson
d. To state cause andeffect
2. Based on the selection, it can be concluded
that .
care sales for GM, Chrysler, Ford, and American
motors have suffered. Because of pressure from
American government and business leaders. Japan
has voluntarily reduced the number of cars
exported to the United States. This self-imposed
quota has allowed U.S auto makers to improve
quality, increased automation and reduced
manufacturing costs.
Unfortunately, American Car buyers have
not significantly increased their purchased of
domestic cars. They choose, instead, to pay more
of the Japanese imports, and they have responded
to the limited exports of Japanese cars by buying
more European imports.
1. Whatthemecanbedrawnfromthe
passage?
a. Weakened competition among
industries
b. Demand of Cars all over theworld
c. Increasing the production of
automobiles
d. Improving quality and reducingits costs
2. Which of the following is a paraphraseof
theline―…theyhaverespondedtothe
limited export of Japanese Cars by buying
more European imports?

a. Travelling requires an intimate knowledgeof

thenatives
b. Humans adapt to the conditions of the
environment a. Buyers prefer imported than locally
manufacturedcars
c. The strength of effort put into building
communitymatters b. European cars are better than Japanese
d. Through hard work, a community cars
can overcome harshenvironment. c. Japanese and European cars are no
match
3. What image did the author create when to AmericanCars
she said, ―floating clouds suddenly erupt in d. American cars are limited that‘s why
convulsiveshowers?‖ buyers had no choice but to settle for
importedones.
a. Frothy rain
b. Cold drizzles 3. According to the passage, which is an effect
c. Cloudexplosions of the reduced numbers of Japanese cars
d. Sudden burst ofrain exported to theUS?

CAR INDUSTRY a. A decreased in the demand for

American market has been open Japanese imports by Americans
toJapanese car manufacturers. Because of this,
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b. An increased in the number of European b. Downloading posts from Facebookfriends

imports sold in theUS c. Sending bad messages through cellular
c. A reduced in the manufacturing cost of phones orinternet
Japanesecars d. BlockingsomepeoplefromFacebook
d. An improved quality by American car account
makers
2. A person who is cyber bullied will likely
CYBERBULLYING become .

Cyberbullying is defined as the use of the a. Easy-going

internet or cellphones to send hurtful and harassing b. Depressed
messages. Most victims are teenagers. They are c. Gregarious
likely to develop symptoms of depression, d. Aggressive
substance abuse, and internet addiction, as
reported in a new study in the Journal ofAdolescent 3. A victim of cyberbullying would most likely
Health. Conversely, teens who are depressed or sufferfrom .
who abuse drugs are alsooften targets of
cyberbullies. a. SocialAwareness
b. PhysicalExhaustion
―Understanding the link between cyberbullying and c. Emotional Trauma
health behaviors in adolescence is critical,‖ said the d. SocialIneptitude
study‘s lead author, Manuel Gamez.
4. Themainthemeofthearticleis:
―A number of adolescents are both victims of
cyberbullying and perpetrators of cyber bullying. a. How to cope withcyberbullying
But victims are at higher risk for psychological and b. Doctors who are against cyberbullying
behavior health problems. Like substance abuse, c. Psychological risks ofcyberbullying
after six months of bullying.‖ d. Treatment of Cyberbullyingvictims
NATIVE BORN
Robert D. Siege, a professor of pediatrics at Boston
University noted, ―This is important because it
It is significant that ―Native Born‖ is still
contributes to what we already know about
considered by numerous Americans as a complimentary
cyberbullying.‖
adjective sayimmigrants from eastern or
southernEurope.
It is pretty clear if you are cyber bullied, you are more
apt to be vulnerable to a cluster ofnon- adaptive
In the Philippines, in the other hand,the word
behaviors. I found it particularly interesting that if
―Native‖ has an unfavorable connotation; it keeps a
teens are cyberbullied, ―They more aptto
disagreeable flavorof inferiority. Reminiscent of the
become depressed and conversely, if they are Spanish ―Indio‖ or of early Americans who were
depressed, they are more apt to be bullied.‖ ostracized for marrying filipino women and
―goingnative.‖
Gamez added, ―It is important to include strategies The minor difference indicates the greater
to prevent cyberbullying within the one.Duringthefourthcenturiesofcolonialisminthe
interventionsfor behavior problems during Philippines. The government was ―foreign.‖ The
adolescence. Mental Health professionals should exclusive prerogative of a superior class, and the
pay special attention to this problem. In the special privilege of an alienrace.
treatment of victims of cyberbullying.‖
Obviously, the filipinos could not consider
such a government their own. They could not
1. One of the ways cyberbullying is doneby identify themselves with it: It was a thing part, and
. more than that, a thing to be regarded with
suspicion, hostility, even hatred.
a. Threatening people who aredepressed
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another. Because he didn‘t have his own landwhere

he could train horses. So, the education of the boy
1. Which of the following is correct based on was constantlyinterrupted.
thetext?
In one of his English classes, his teacher
a. Privilege Filipinos married early Americans asked him to write a paper about what he wantedto
during theirtime be and do when he grew up. Putting a great deal
b. The Filipinos have too much admiration for of his heart in a seven-page paper. He then
theAmericans submitted to his teacher. He clearly described the
c. The form of our government today is goal of owning a 4, 000 square-foot house that
patterned from theAmericans would sit on a 200-acre dream ranch. But only to
d. Our Filipino ancestors consider themselves receive a failing remark. She then reprimanded the
Indio boy and asked him to write his paper with a more
realistic goal for her to reconsider hisgrade.
2. Which could be an appropriate title of the
selection? But the young man turned in the same
paper, making no changes. He believed that his
a. Foreign Government in thePhilippines teacher will keep her remark. Yet he keeps his
b. The American settlers in thePhilippines dreams.
c. The different meaning of the “NativeBorn”
d. Why Americans do not understand Today, that young man is Monty Roberts
colonialism? who now owns a 4,000 square-foot house. In the
middle of a 200-acre horse ranch.
3. The word ―colonialism‖ means the country
controls 1. Howbigwastheyoungman‘shouse?
a. People of anothercountry
b. An island in anothercountry a. 200-acre
c. The leaders in othercountry b. 4, 000-acre
4,000 squarefoot
d. The culture in anothercountry
c.

d. 4, 200 squarefoot
4. What conclusion can be drawn from 2. Why did the teacher tell Monty tohave
the last paragraph? unrealisticdream?

a. The Filipinos welcomes Americans to rule a. He was a child of a poorman

abovethem b. He wasn‘t always absent inclass
b. The Philippine government c. He couldn‘t even ride ahorse
patternedafter the American d. He couldn‘t even write a goodessay
c. The word ―Native Born‖ tells the inferiority
of theFilipinos 2. The word reprimanded on the textmeans
d. ThePhilippineswaslikenedtobepartof .
America because ofcolonialism
a. Praise
b. Honor
c. Approved
d. Rebuke

3. Based on the text, how wouldyou

describe theteacher?

MONTY
a. Objective
b. Subjective
There were young men whose father was a
c. Supporter
traveling horse trainer. Moving from one ranch to
d. Well-wisher

4. Based on the text, how wouldyou
describe Monty as youngman?
a. Persistent
b. Hardworking
c. Humble
d. Respectful
CULTURE AND FUTURE SHOCK
Anthropologists have coined the term
―Culture Shock‖ to describe the effect that
immersions in a strange culture have on the
unprepared visitors. It is what happens when the
familiar psychological clues that help individuals to
function in society are sudden withdrawn. And
replaced by new ideas that are alien and
incomprehensible.
But most travelers have the comforting
knowledge that the culture they have left
behindwillbetheretoreturnto.Thevictimsoffuturesho
ck do not.
FutureShock,astoldinAlvinToffler‘sbook,is a
time phenomenon; A product of the greatly
accelerated rate of change within the society. It
arises from the ―superimposition‖ of a new culture
on an old one. It is culture shock in one‘s own
society. But its impact is farworse.
1. What is the main idea of theselection?
a. Culture shock and future shock are
modern-dayphenomena.
b. Culture shock is a well-accepted
ideology in thisgeneration.
c. Future Shock happens when people are
familiarwiththepatternsintheirgroup
d. Future shock is a natural phenomenon
in all socialinstitution
2. Cultureshockshappenswhen . 2. How often tweet or updatestatuses
a. People enjoy what theydo
b. Old members are replaced by the new
ones
c. People in a new setting meet unfamiliar
faces
d. People from a certain culture move to a
place with a very differentculture
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3. As used in the selection ―superimposition‖
means .
a. Coercing those who arepowerless
b. Subjecting to harsh rules new people in
one‘s socialgroup
c. Placing new thinking, beliefs, attitudes
not previously in thatculture
d. Placing a heavy burden on those who
cannot follow the new rules of the
society
4. What is the best paraphrase for thelines
―Future shock is a time phenomenon, a
product of greatly accelerated rate of
change within asociety?‖
a. Future shock happens so fast that the
members of the same culture cannot
adjust to the rapidchanges
b. Future shock is common phenomenon
acceptable to all members ofthe society
c. The effect of future shock is common
among the
members of thesociety
d Future shocks influence the living of the
members of
thesociety
SOCIAL MEDIA AND NARCISSISM
In today‘s modern life, uploading
countless selfies, updating statuses, and checking
notifications have been part of man‘s daily routine.
A recent study at the University of Georgia
on social media use suggests that there are
unmistakable correlations between socialmedia use
and what is known as ―grandiose narcissism.‖ The
study found four common factors associated with
severe egotism:
1. Howlongpeoplespendonsocialmedia
3. How many friends or followers they have
4. How many selfies they tend topose
These likely send signals about your personality.
All these online actions areways in which one tries to
promote oneself online. The more often one does this,
the stronger their ego is likely to be.
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Epidemiology, found out that cats living with

When one posts his/her pictures or
constantly update their status, how time spent
online is too much? That is to say, if you constantly
engaged with social media on daily basis, sit could
be a sign that one has a negative relationship with
it.
Social media is not actually the problem. It is
merely a symptom. If you already have a narcissistic
personality, chances are you will display some of
the characteristics mentioned in thestudy.
smokers are twice as likely to develop lymphoma.
The most common cancer in cats, as are those in
smoke fromhome.
Cats may be particularly affected by
household smoke because they spendso much time
indoors, and because when grooming, they ingest
particles that fallen or their fur.
Smokers can minimize risks to the cats by
keeping them out of the rooms when people light
up. Brushing or bathing the cats may also help.

1. Which is appropriate title for theselection? 1. What is the main idea of theselection?

a. Narcissism a. Smokers must not live withpets

b. GrandioseNarcissism b. Household smoking affectscats
c. Social Media andNarcissism c. Smokers living with cats suffer from
d. NarcissisticPersonality asthma
d. Smoking should be done outside
2. A person withnarcissisticpersonality . where cats are notpresent
a. Never log out his/her fbaccount
b. Spends most of his/her time posting selfies, 2. Intheline―…theyingestparticlesthathave
tweeting, and updatingstatus fallen on their fur,ingestmeans ?
c. DoesnotturnofftheirCPsandcomputers
d. Has many friendsonline a. Clean
b. Drink
3. The word Narcissism as used in the selection c. Swallow
means . d. Eliminate

a. Addiction to socialmedia 3. “Smokers can minimize risk to their cats by keeping

them out of the rooms where people light up” is the
b. Excessive interest inone-self same as sayingthat
c. Awareness of the use of thetechnology .
d. Being proud of what youhave
a. Catsshouldbekeptinawell-lighted
4. Thelastparagraphtellsthereadersthat room
. b. Catsshouldhaveaseparateroomto
stayin
a. Person with narcissisticpersonality c. Smokers should smoke outside the
b. Social media is not aproblem household
c. Social media affects one‘spersonality d. Cat owners should put their pets away
d. Social media develops a from rooms where people smoke.
narcissistic personality

SMOKING
Smokers and non-smokers alike have their
consciousness raised about the effects on passive
smoking on humans. But until now, one had
consideredkittens.
A recent study in the American Journal
RULES
Posted here, recited here. It seems that rules are
everywhere. Rules at home and rules at school.
They‘reatthepark,they‘reatthepool.Icanhardly
breathe or lie in bed, without their chores in my
head. Close your mouth to chew your food. Don‘t
across your eyes and don‘t be rude. Wipe your feet,
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turn out the lights. Look both ways, take smaller

bites. Don‘t cut in line, do shut the gate. Lick and
stick the stamp on straight. Dad and me or Dad
and I? Whaty‘s this about on field fly? Sit down,
clean up, keep off the grass. Raise your hand to talk
in class. Rules tell me what to do and say. They
cramp my style, control my day. But without rules,
without the din, I couldn‘t play, I couldn‘t win! Life
would be a dreary plight, without a wrong there‘d
be no right.

Questions:

1. From the line ―I can hardly breathe or lie in bed,

without their chores in my head‖ we can infer that
thewriter
A. Often thinks aboutrules
B. Wants to disobeyrules
C. Get sick withrules
D. Like havingrules

2. The line ―But without rules… I couldn‘t play… is an

example of a/an .
A. Irony
B. Metaphor
C. Simile
D. Hyperbole

3. The line ―dreary‖ as used in the sentence

―Life would be a dreary plight‖ mostlikelymeans .
A. Valuable
B. Invisible
C. Boring
D. Entertaining

4. The author includes examples of rules to signify

thevalueof .
A. Respect
B. Obedient
C. Loyalty
D. Entertainment