Republic of the Philippines 12.

To acquire more information, the school system should require all school personnel—
Department of Education teachers, administrators, nurses and advisors--to report any signs of obvious or even
Region IV-A CALABARZON suspected abuse.
SAN CELESTINO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL 13. It is shameful for Congress to intrude in women's private medical tragedies.
San Celestino, Lipa City 14. Telecommunication firms should provide discounted internet connections for schools
and libraries and also training programs for inner-city students.
SECOND QUARTERLY EXAMINATION 15. Caring adults should take every reasonable precaution to insure the welfare of our
READING AND WRITING schoolchildren not only in school but also at home.
FIRST SEMESTER, A.Y. 2018-2019 16. Boracay is a better place to go on summer vacation than Caramoan.
17. Schools should implement cooperative sports programs rather than competitive sports
programs.
Test I. Read and analyze the following sentences. Then, identify what is being asked. 18. Obesity causes health problems.
Write the letter of your answer on the space provided. 19. Gay marriage is immoral.
20. Death is inevitable.
______ 1. It refers to the way sentences are ordered and structured to create a unified
and cohesive body of text. Test IV.
a. coherence c. organization A. Make an assertion for the following question below.
b. cohesion d. language use 21-25. Would the Philippines have been better if it is a state of the United States of
______ 2. It. affects the tone of the text and the readers’ interpretation of it. America?
a. coherence c. organization
b. cohesion d. language use
______ 3. It refers to the overall sense of unity in a passage, including both the main point
of sentences and the main point of each paragraph. B. Make a counterclaim for the following statement below.
a. coherence c. organization 26-30. President Rodrigo Duterte known for his all-consuming hatred of drugs, said he is
b. cohesion d. language use open to the legalization of medical marijuana if deemed beneficial by the proper
______ 4. It is a connection of ideas to the central concept of a text. authorities.
a. coherence c. organization
b. cohesion d. language use

Test II. Write the word WRITE if the statement is true. If it is false, write READ.
Prepared by:
__________ 5. A paragraph is a series of sentences that are organized and coherent, and
are all related to a single topic. JENETH K. REYES
__________ 6. A text with proper language use has ideas that are logically sequenced in a Teacher
way that is easy to follow for the reader.
__________ 7. The use of formal and informal language is free of racial bias, free of religious Checked by:
bias, and free of gender bias.
LEO ATIENZA CECILIA M. HERNANDEZ
__________ 8. A text with both cohesion and coherence has a central concept linking all
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the ideas in the text.
__________ 9. Organization is important because it allows us to make multiple references to
people, things, and events without reintroducing them at each turn.
Approved by:
Test III. Identify the whether the statement is a claim of fact, a claim of value, or a claim
or policy.
MARIBEL T. LESCANO
11. Therapeutic use of marijuana lessens painful side effects of chemotherapy. Principal