UNIT 1

COLLEGE PREPARATORY QUESTIONS TEMPLATE

Multiple Choice Test

Choose the letter of the correct answer and write it in the blank before each number.

1. One of the major roles of language is . . .

a. to communicate with people to understand them.

b. to communicate for better writing.
c. to learn the rules in communication.
d. to become a good communicator.

2. The author of the Origin of Language is . . .

a. Charles Darwin.
b. Daniel Goleman.
c. Michael Corballis.
d. Carl Rogers.

3. According to the author, language originated from . . .

a. facial and body gestures.

b. animal cries.
c. primates’ sign language.
d. cultural invention.

4. The main idea or the central idea of the selection can be found . . .

a. in the beginning.
b. in the middle.
c. in the end.
d. in any of the above.

5. In the third paragraph of “The Role of Language,” how was the new student able to acquire
a new friend so easily?

a. He was a good-looking boy.

b. He looks like an intelligent and smart boy.
c. He exhibited good language communication skills.
d. He speaks English fluently.

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 6. Paraphrasing technique works well because . . .

a. it makes the text shorter.

b. it reduces tension in reading the text.
c. it increases accuracy and clarity in communication.
d. it makes reading the text easier.

7. Which of the following is the best way to paraphrase the following statement?
“I don’t think I can finish. I have too many problems.”

a. “Are you saying that because of your problems, you can’t finish?”
b. “You have problems, so you can’t finish?
c. “Because you have problems, you can’t finish?”
d. “Do your problems affect you that you can’t finish?”

8. Which of the following choices can best summarize the paragraph that follows?

When a cigarette smoker inhales about 35% of the nicotine, the smoke reaches the
brain within six seconds, more than twice as much as mainlining heroin. A pack-a-day
smoker gets between 50,000 to 70,000 of such nicotine jolts a year.

a. Every smoker who finishes a pack a day gets 50,000 to 70,000 jolts of nicotine intake.
b. Cigarette nicotine is dangerous because it reaches the smoker’s brain within six
seconds.
c. Smoking is more dangerous than injecting heroin.
d. When a cigarette smoker inhales, about 35% of the nicotine in smoke reaches the
brain.

9. Which of the choices best gives the idea of the paragraph that follows?

Though people will not be talking too much, their gestures will indicate that it will be a
good chance to start a friendly relationship.

a. Being talkative is being friendly.

b. We can best win friends by being talkative.
c. Without exhibiting gestures, we can never win friends.
d. “Gesture speaks louder than words.”

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 10. Which of the choices best explains the opinion of the writer in the following paragraph?

It is often said that speech is what distinguishes us from other animals. But do we all
talk? What if language was bequeathed to us not by word of mouth, but as a hand-me-
down?

a. The author believes that speech makes us different from animals.

b. The author firmly believes that speech does not distinguish us from animals because
not everybody knows how to talk.
c. Language is brought to us by word of mouth.
d. Language is handed down from generation to generation.

ANSWER KEY

Unit 1

1. a 6. c

2. c 7. d

3. d 8. b

4. d 9. d

5. c 10. b