GET ONE-HALF SHEET LENGTHWISE AND WRITE THE LETTER OF THE CORRECT ANSWER TO EACH ITEM.

I. Vocabulary

A. Sentence Completion. Read the sentence below and complete the sentence by choosing the letter of the correct word/s that should
be used in the sentence.

1. Today Wegener's theory is ____ ; however, he died an outsider treated with ____ by the scientific establishment.
a. unsupported – approval b. dismissed – contempt
c. accepted – approbation d. unchallenged – disdain e. unrivalled - reverence
2. The revolution in art has not lost its steam; it ____ on as fiercely as ever.
a. trudges b. meanders c. edges d. ambles e. rages
3. Each occupation has its own ____ ; bankers, lawyers and computer professionals, for example, all use among themselves language
which outsiders have difficulty following.
a. merits b. disadvantages c. rewards d. jargone. problems
4. ____ by nature, Jones spoke very little even to his own family members.
a. garrulous b. equivocal c. taciturn d. arrogant e. gregarious
5. Biological clocks are of such ____ adaptive value to living organisms, that we would expect most organisms to ____ them.
a. clear – void b. meager – evolve c. significant – eschew d. obvious –
possess e. ambivalent - develop
6. The peasants were the least ____ of all people, bound by tradition and ____ by superstitions.
a. free – fettered b. enfranchised - rejected c. enthralled – tied
d. pinioned – limited e. conventional - encumbered
7. Many people at that time believed that spices help preserve food; however, Hall found that many marketed spices were ____
bacteria, moulds and yeasts.
a. devoid of b. teeming with c. improved by d. destroyed by d. active against
8. If there is nothing to absorb the energy of sound waves, they travel on ____ , but their intensity ____ as they travel further from
their source.
a. erratically – mitigates b. eternally – alleviates c. forever – increases
d. steadily – stabilizes e. indefinitely - diminishes
9. The two artists differed markedly in their temperaments; Palmer was reserved and courteous, Frazer ____ and boastful.
a. phlegmatic b. choleric c. tractable d. constrained e. stoic
10. The intellectual flexibility inherent in a multicultural nation has been ____ in classrooms where emphasis on British-American
literature has not reflected the cultural ____ of our country.
a. eradicated – unanimity b. encouraged – aspirations c. stifled – diversity
d. thwarted – uniformity e. inculcated – divide
11. The conclusion of his argument, while ____ , is far from ____ .
a. stimulating – interesting b. worthwhile – valueless c. esoteric – obscure
d. germane – relevant e. abstruse - incomprehensible
12. In the Middle Ages, the ____ of the great cathedrals did not enter into the architects' plans; almost invariably a cathedral was
positioned haphazardly in ____ surroundings.
a. situation – incongruous b. location – apt c. ambience – salubrious
d. durability – convenient e. majesty – grandiose

B. Sentence Completion
1. Unwilling to admit that they had been in error, the researchers tried to ____ their case with more data obtained from dubious
sources.
a. ascertain b. buttress c. refute d. absolve e. dispute
2. Archaeology is a poor profession; only ____ sums are available for excavating sites and even more ____ amounts for preserving the
excavations.
a. paltry – meager b. miniscule – substantial c. average – augmented
d. judicious – penurious e. modest - generous
3. The student was extremely foolhardy; he had the ____ to question the senior professor's judgment.
a. wisdom b. temerity c. interest d. trepidation e. condescension
4. The formerly ____ waters of the lake have been polluted so that the fish are no longer visible from the surface.
a. muddy b. tranquil c. stagnant d. pellucid e. rancid
5. After the accident, the nerves to her arm were damaged and so the muscles ____ through disuse.
a. atrophied b. contracted c. elongated d. invigorated e. dwindled
6. Some critics maintain that Tennyson's poetry is uneven, ranging from the ____ to the ____.
a. sublime – elevated b. trite – inspired c. vacuous – inane
d. succinct – laconic e. sonorous - voluble
7. After grafting there is a ____ of lymphocytes in the lymph glands; the newly produced lymphocytes then move in to attack the
foreign tissue.
a. diminution b. proliferation c. obliteration d. paucity e. attraction
8. One ____ the new scheme is that it might actually ____ just those applicants that it was intended to encourage.
a. highlight of – stimulate b. feature of – attract c. problem with – induce
d. attraction of – intimidate e. drawback of – daunt

9. Corruption is ____ in our society; the integrity of even senior officials is ____ .
a. growing – unquestioned b. endangered – disputed c. pervasive – intact
d. rare – corrupted e. rifle – suspect
10. In their day to day decision making, many senior managers do not follow the rational model favored by orthodox management
experts, but rather rely on intuitive processes that often appear ____ and ____.
a. cerebral – considered b. heretical – judgmental c. conscientious – logical
d. irrational – iconoclastic e. capricious - deliberate
11. His characteristically ____ views on examination methods at university level have aroused ____ in those who want to introduce
innovative and flexible patterns of assessment.
a. hidebound – antagonismb. moderate – anger c. reactionary – admiration
d. rigid – support e. accommodating - annoyance
12. Our grandfather was an entertaining ____; he used to ____ us with marvelous anecdotes that we, in our childlike simplicity,
accepted unquestioningly.
a. rascal – bore b. orator – intimidate c. raconteur - regale
d. curmudgeon – surprise e. tyrant – stupefy

II. Reading Comprehension. Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.

A. The extract is taken from a book written sixty years ago by a British scientist in which he considers the relationship between science
and society.
The pioneers of the teaching of science imagined that its
    introduction into education would remove the conventionality,
    artificiality, and backward-lookingness which were characteristic;
    of classical studies, but they were gravely disappointed. So, too, in
5   their time had the humanists thought that the study of the classical
    authors in the original would banish at once the dull pedantry and
    superstition of mediaeval scholasticism. The professional
    schoolmaster was a match for both of them, and has almost
    managed to make the understanding of chemical reactions as dull
10  and as dogmatic an affair as the reading of Virgil's Aeneid.
The chief claim for the use of science in education is that it
    teaches a child something about the actual universe in which he is
    living, in making him acquainted with the results of scientific
15  discovery, and at the same time teaches him how to think logically
    and inductively by studying scientific method. A certain limited
    success has been reached in the first of these aims, but practically
    none at all in the second. Those privileged members of the
    community who have been through a secondary or public school
20  education may be expected to know something about the
    elementary physics and chemistry of a hundred years ago, but they
    probably know hardly more than any bright boy can pick up from
    an interest in wireless or scientific hobbies out of school hours.
    As to the learning of scientific method, the whole thing is palpably
25  a farce. Actually, for the convenience of teachers and the
    requirements of the examination system, it is necessary that the
    pupils not only do not learn scientific method but learn precisely
    the reverse, that is, to believe exactly what they are told and to
    reproduce it when asked, whether it seems nonsense to them or
30  not. The way in which educated people respond to such quackeries
    as spiritualism or astrology, not to say more dangerous ones such
    as racial theories or currency myths, shows that fifty years of
    education in the method of science in Britain or Germany has
    produced no visible effect whatever. The only way of learning the
35  method of science is the long and bitter way of personal
    experience, and, until the educational or social systems are altered
    to make this possible, the best we can expect is the production of a
    minority of people who are able to acquire some of the techniques
    of science and a still smaller minority who are able to use and
40  develop them.
Adapted from: The Social Function of Science, John D Bernal (1939)

1. The author implies that the 'professional schoolmaster' (line 7) has

a. no interest in teaching science
b. thwarted attempts to enliven education
c. aided true learning
d. supported the humanists
e. been a pioneer in both science and humanities
2. The author’s attitude to secondary and public school education in the sciences is
a. ambivalent b. neutral c. supportive d. satirical d. contemptuous
3. The word “palpably” (line 24) most nearly means
a. empirically b. obviously c. tentatively d. markedly d. ridiculously
4. The author blames all of the following for the failure to impart scientific method through the education system except
a. poor teaching b. examination methods c. lack of direct experience
d. the social and education systems e. lack of interest on the part of students
5. If the author were to study current education in science to see how things have changed since he wrote the piece, he
would probably be most interested in the answer to which of the following questions?
a. Do students know more about the world about them?
b. Do students spend more time in laboratories?
c. Can students apply their knowledge logically?
d. Have textbooks improved?
e. Do they respect their teachers?
6. Astrology (line 31) is mentioned as an example of
a. a science that needs to be better understood
b. a belief which no educated people hold
c. something unsupportable to those who have absorbed the methods of science
d. the gravest danger to society
e. an acknowledged failure of science
7. All of the following can be inferred from the text except
a. at the time of writing, not all children received secondary school education
b. the author finds chemical reactions interesting
c. science teaching has imparted some knowledge of facts to some children
d. the author finds chemical reactions interesting
e. it is relatively easy to learn scientific method

B. The passage is taken from a description of the life of certain Pacific Islanders written by a pioneering sociologist.
By the time a child is six or seven she has all the essential 
    avoidances well enough by heart to be trusted with the care of a 
    younger child. And she also develops a number of simple 
    techniques. She learns to weave firm square balls from palm 
5   leaves, to make pinwheels of palm leaves or frangipani blossoms, 
    to climb a coconut tree by walking up the trunk on flexible little 
    feet, to break open a coconut with one firm well-directed blow of 
    a knife as long as she is tall, to play a number of group games 
    and sing the songs which go with them, to tidy the house by 
10  picking up the litter on the stony floor, to bring water from the 
    sea, to spread out the copra to dry and to help gather it in when 
    rain threatens, to go to a neighboring house and bring back a 
    lighted faggot for the chief's pipe or the cook-house fire.

    But in the case of the little girls all these tasks are merely 
15  supplementary to the main business of baby-tending. Very small 
    boys also have some care of the younger children, but at eight or 
    nine years of age they are usually relieved of it. Whatever rough 
    edges have not been smoothed off by this responsibility for 
    younger children are worn off by their contact with older boys. 
20  For little boys are admitted to interesting and important activities 
    only so long as their behavior is circumspect and helpful. Where 
    small girls are brusquely pushed aside, small boys will be 
    patiently tolerated and they become adept at making themselves 
    useful. The four or five little boys who all wish to assist at the 
25  important, business of helping a grown youth lasso reef eels, 
    organize themselves into a highly efficient working team; one boy 
    holds the bait, another holds an extra lasso, others poke 
    eagerly about in holes in the reef looking for prey, while still 
    another tucks the captured eels into his lavalava. The small girls, 
30  burdened with heavy babies or the care of little staggerers who are 
    too small to adventure on the reef, discouraged by the hostility 
    of the small boys and the scorn of the older ones, have 
    little opportunity for learning the more adventurous forms of work 
    and play. So while the little boys first undergo the 
35  chastening effects of baby-tending and then have many 
    opportunities to learn effective cooperation under the supervision 
    of older boys, the girls' education is less comprehensive. They 
    have a high standard of individual responsibility, but the 
    community provides them with no lessons in cooperation with one 
40  another. This is particularly apparent in the activities of young 
    people: the boys organize quickly; the girls waste hours in 
    bickering, innocent of any technique for quick and efficient 
    cooperation.
Adapted from: Coming of Age in Samoa, Margaret Mead (1928)

B. Reading Comprehension.
1. The primary purpose of the passage with reference to the society under discussion is to
a. explain some differences in the upbringing of girls and boys
b. criticizes the deficiencies in the education of girls
c. give a comprehensive account of a day in the life of an average young girl
d. delineate the role of young girls
e. show that young girls are trained to be useful to adults
2. The word 'brusquely' (line 22) most nearly means
a. quickly b. gently c. nonchalantly d. abruptly e. callously
3. The list of techniques in paragraph one could best be described as
a. household chores b. rudimentary physical skills c. important responsibilities
d. useful social skills e. monotonous tasks
4. It can be inferred that the 'high standard of individual responsibility' (line 38) is
a. developed mainly through child-care duties
b. only present in girls
c. taught to the girl before she is entrusted with babies
d. actually counterproductive
e. weakened as the girl grows older.
5. The expression 'innocent of' (line 42) is best taken to mean
a. not guilty of b. unskilled in c. unsuited for
d. uninvolved in e. uninterested in
6. It can be inferred that in the community under discussion all of the following are important except
a. domestic handicrafts b. well-defined social structure
c. fishing skills d. formal education e. division of labor
7. Which of the following if true would weaken the author's contention about 'lessons in cooperation' (line 39) ?
I Group games played by younger girls involve cooperation
II Girls can learn from watching boys cooperating
III Individual girls cooperate with their mothers in looking after babies
a. I only b. II only c. III only d. I and II only e. I, II and III
8. Which of the following is the best description of the author's technique in handling her material?
a. Both description and interpretation of observations
b. Presentation of facts without comment.
c. Description of evidence to support a theory.
d. Generalization from a particular viewpoint.
e. Close examination of preconceptions.

III. General Information

Read and answer the statements/questions below.

1. Who is the American Psychologist, together with a team of educational psychologists, who published the Bloom’s
Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain?
a. Benjamin Bloom b. Lorin Anderson c. Sigmund Freud d. Francis Bacon
2. List the revised Taxonomy which was a revision of Lorin Anderson to the work of Benjamin Bloom? (Write in order)
1. 4.
2. 5.
3. 6.
3. This involves restating ideas from the original text.
a. paraphrasing b. summarizing c. reading d. writing
4. It is a skill wherein a reader looks over a material and focuses on the information he/she finds relevant.
a. Previewing b. Scanning c. Skimming d. Literal Reading
5. It involves the understanding of ideas and facts that are directly stated in the printed material.
a. Previewing b. Scanning c. Skimming d. Literal Reading
6. A quick reading strategy which aims to get specific information from a given text.
a. Previewing b. Scanning c. Skimming d. Literal Reading
7. This is a process that starts with posing a question, problematizing a concept, evaluating an opinion, and ends with
answering the question/s posed, clarifying a problem, and/or arguing for a stand.
a. Academic writing b. Script writing c. Free Writing d. Feature writing
8. It involves scrutinizing any information that you read or hear. It means not easily believing any information offered to
you by a text.
a. Stating a fallacy b. Critical Reading c. Phonology d. Syntax
9. A paper which is devoted to a discussion of one side of an issue.
a. Concept Paper b. Position Paper c. Literature Review d. Project Proposal
10. It is the connection of ideas at the sentence level.
a. coherence b. cohesion c. unity d. conciseness
11. This is achieved when a composition contains one focused idea.
a. unity b. style c. audience d. peace
12. It is the process in which you list as many ideas as you can think of without censoring them.
a. modelling b. free writing c. brainstorming d. clustering
13. It is a technique that uses visual representations to show connections between ideas.
a. modelling b. free writing c. brainstorming d. clustering
14. You let the ideas flow freely by writing them down in sentences.
a. modelling b. free writing c. brainstorming d. clustering
15. This is a highly persuasive and informative document that aims to address a particular problem or issue.
a. position paper b. project proposal c. concept paper d. research report

Prepared by:

Alhaida H. Sarahan Checked by:

Reading and Writing Teacher
JUDITH C. MUSTAHAM, Ph. D.
HUMSS Coordinator