Mabini College of Batangas, Inc.

Mabini, Batangas

FIRST QUARTERLY EXAMINATION IN

ENGLISH 7
Name: _____________________________ Score:
Grade & Section: ____________________ Date: ______________

I. Directions: Match the meanings of the underlined words on the left column, with the letters from the right
column. Write the letter of your answer on the space provided.

______1. fetching water a. very angry

______2. crooned the children
______3. they shriveled up before his eyes
______4. crumbled to ashes
______5. his anguish was great
______6. her screams and lamentations
______7. with one defiant sweep of her arm
______8. horrified and enraged
______9. pinpoints of glimmering light
______10. chasing in the moon
b. attractive
c. showing defiance
d. hum or sing in a soft
e. cause to wrinkle and contract
f. severe mental of physical pain
g. to pursue in order to catch or catch up with
h. the passionate expression of grief and sorrow
i. a slight sign of something good or positive
j. to break or fall apart into small fragments

II. Directions: Identify the genres of viewing being described in each number. Choose your answers from the
box. Write the answers on the lines.
Animated Drama Horror
Children Educational News
Comedy Fantasy Variety Show

________________11. Informs the public about the latest updates in the world, country, and community.
________________12. Best viewed at night, nearing Halloween and All Saints’ Day.
________________13. Aims to make you learn different information.
________________14. Has games, song-and-dance performances, and other segments.
________________15. Entertains viewers through the use of jokes and pranks.
________________16. Tells you about the things that happened today.
________________17. Features the tourist spots in the Philippines.
________________18. Uses unrealistic characters and plots, usually including magic and supernatural creatures
________________19. Highly emotional, and always has sad parts, like conflict in families, betrayals, etc.
________________20. Intended for children and are almost always educational.

III. Directions: Identify which reading techniques should be used in each situation. Choose your answers from
the parenthesis (Scanning, Skimming, Close Reading).
________________21. You are taking an entrance exam. You need to read a story and answer the questions
that follow. You only have 20 minutes left.
________________22. While reading “The Prowess of Aliguyon”, you encountered the word “austerity”. You
want to look up its meaning from a dictionary.
________________23. Your task is to identify the main idea of an article.
________________24. Your Math teacher gave a word problem to be solved at home.
________________25. You are looking for your Class Adviser’s number from your phonebook.

IV. Directions: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and FALSE if it is not. Write your answer on the lines.
________________26. Our ancestors shared the love of storytelling so we have a rich treasury of folklore.
________________27. The main characters in mythical stories are human beings.
________________28. Legends are about creation and tribal beginnings.
________________29. Fables are types of animal tales that teach a moral.
________________30. Most of the time, the situations presented in Philippine oral lore are real.

V. Directions: Identify the figure of speech used in each sentence. Write S for simile, M for metaphor, or P for
personification.
________________31. “Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars?” (B.o.B)
________________32. “Missing him was dark grey all alone” (Taylor Swift)
________________33. “It feels like a perfect night to dress up like hipsters.” (Taylor Swift)
________________34. “You are my golden star.” (Bruno Mars)
________________35. The leaves are chattering.
________________36. My heart is like an open highway.
________________37. It’s late night but still I've been working like a dog.
________________38. The hungry chainsaw growled loudly.
________________39. My cat is a bolt of lightning.
________________40. The lonely train whistle cried out in the night.

VI. Directions: Read the following words. Underline the syllable of each word that indicates where the stress
falls.

41. ruler 46. colors 51. sixteen

42. second 47. receive 52. primary
43. surely 48. distribution 53. lady
44. joyful 49. country 54. army
45. twenty 50. submit 55. mistakes

VII. Directions: Enumerate at least (5) five common purposes for writing. Write it on the numbers below.
56.
57.
58.
59.
60.

DO YOUR BEST!
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
-Lessons on Living by GeorgeCarlin
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Prepared by: Noted by:

EDISON M. ANSAY MAY M. MARAMOT

English Teacher Principal