Pre Test

English Iv First Sem.

Name__________________________________ date____________-

Test I; Listening; Listen as your teacher reads the selection “Where Love is There God is Also”
Then answer the questions that follow; Encircle the letter of your answer.
1. What made Martin stop going to church?
a. his wife’s death
b. his son’s death
c. his parent’s death
2. What is the best way to show love for God?
a. going to church
b. making friends
c. helping people in need
3. Who told Martin to study the testament?
a. priest
b. pastor
c. pilgrim
4. What does the testament refer to?
a. prayer book
b. Holy Bible
c. Holy Koran
5. What changed Martin’s life completely?
a. pilgrim
b. testament
c. friends
6. Who was the first person Martin helped?
a. old soldier
b. old woman
c. a young mother
7. What did Martin teach the old woman?
a. how to be humble
b. how understand others
c. how to forgive others
* Infer possible reasons or result from the selection
8. What could be the reason why the baby was crying?
a. he was cold
b. he was hungry
c. he was sick
9. What do you think will happen to the boy in the future?
a. He will learn to be good
b. H e will return to his bad behavior
c. He will continue to steal things from others
10. What if Martin haven’t encountered a pilgrim?
a. Martin haven’t change in life
b. Martin committed suicide
c. Martin would have married for the second time.

Test II; Reading Proficiency;

(A) Read the selection “ Bill Bixby” and answer the questions that comes after it. Write the letter
of the best answer.
11. What is the text about?
a. how Bill Bixby lost his family
b. how Bill Bixby suffered in life
c. how Bill Bixby faced life’s tragedies
12. What is Bill Bixby’s profession?
a. writer
b. actor
c. director
13. How many children did he have?
a. one
b. two
c. none
14. What did his son die of?
a. suicide
b. disease
c. cancer
15. How many year is one decade?
a. 10
b. 20
c. 30
16. What does Bill consider his blessing in life?
a. wife
b. son
c. friends
17. What could be the reason why his wife committed suicide ?
a. son’s death
b. Bixby’s sickness
c. Bixby’s unfaithfulness

(B); Draw possible scenario from the text.

18. What could be the next possible scenario in Bixby’s life?
a. marriage
b. miserable
c. better health
19. What natural step the divorced wife of Bill could have taken to show sympathy, having heard
that Bill was diagnosed with prostate cancer?
a. she would have visited Bill
b. she would have despised Bill
c. she would remarried Bill
20. What if Bixby haven’t encountered pain and sorrow?
a. he was unable to recognize that he is blessed with great friends
b. he was unable to recognize that he has many friends
c. he was unable to recognize that his life was enjoyable

TEST III Read the selection “ The Lion Makers “ then fill in the grid with details;
Fill up the blank slots to complete the story map.
21. title
22. setting
23. character
24. problem

25. solution

26. climax

27.ending
resolution

(d) Get the meaning of the underlined words through context clues. Encircle the letter of
your choice.
28. I’ll put the bones together. And that he did with zeal.
a. jump
b. enthusiasm
c. value
29…he sprang up and killed the three.
a. jump
b. climb
c. slept
30. Use sprang to construct your own sentence.
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Test iv; Vocabulary; Base your answer from the selection , “Where Love is There God is Also”
(A) The following words have synonyms found inside the paragraph. The numbers of the
paragraph is written after the word. Write the synonym of the given word on the blank
provided.
31. blamed p1 __________________________
32. old p2 __________________________
33. traveler p2___________________________
34. stop p2____________________________
35. far p5 ___________________________
36. dishes p6 _______________________
37. seller p6 __________________
(B) Analyze the sense of sentence to get the meaning of the underlined unfamiliar word. Encircle
the letter of your choice.
38. You can not easily change the stand of the obdurate person.
a. not in order
b. kill joy
c. not flexible
39. The strong wind will make your hair appear scraggly.
a. not combed
b. uncut
c. unkept
40. Organize the phrases to form a unified sentence; Write your answer on the blank provided.
a. before it was old
b. at the display center
c. It was displayed for a week.
Ans.
Test V; Grammar;
(A) The following sentences are not grammatically correct. Transform the underlined phrases into
shorter one or into a single word to correct the error. Write your answers on the blank provided.
41. His plan is to take up a medical course and practicing it in rural areas to help people in the
countryside._____________________
42. What the world needs now is love. They’re the only thing that we have just too little
of.______________
43. More and more Filipinos are encouraged to work abroad. His purpose is to earn
more.___________________
44. The song was played so they requested for it.______________
45. Celebrating the centennial of our independence and to mark the affair with significant activities
is a good idea.__________________

(B) Underline the parallel structure in the sentence.

46. I prefer singing to dancing.
47. They included alleviating poverty and increasing employment rate In their party platform.

(C) Change the active voice into passive and vice versa. Write your answers on the blank provided.
48. We see our country as a developing nation._____________________________________
49. Agriculture is given priority by some sectors.________________________________________
50. *Use appropriate coordinator to construct the given phrases into a sentence.
brought the car It was the car.
Ans.______________________________________

Test Vi ; Poem analysis;

(A) Carefully read the poem “ I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” then answer the questions that
follow; Encircle the letter of your answer.
51. To what does the speaker compare himself?
a. Floating cloud
b. Stars that shine
c. Golden daffodils
52. What is speaker’s reaction to seeing the daffodils?
a. Joy or happiness
b. Solitude
c. Pensive mood
53. Which lines prove your answer in number two?
a. Stanza 2 lines1-4
b. Stanza 3 lines 1-4
c. Stanza 4 line 1-4
54 “I Wandered lonely as a cloud” uses
a . simile
b. metaphor
c. personification
55. “ Ten thousand saw I at a glance”
a. simile
b. personification
c. hyperbole
56. What is the message of the poem?
a. nature is beautiful
b. Nature has a way of alleviating man’s pains.
c. Man loves nature
57. What does jocund company mean?
a. happy
b. good
c. lonely
*Infer meaning from the poem*
58. What is the unexpected effectof the experience on the speaker?
a. he forgets his loeliness
b.he forgets his company
c.he compares himself to a cloud
59. Where could the speaker be?
a.in bed
b.at a dance party
c. in a flower bed
60. Shorten this sentence into a phrase.
One of the greatest achievements we can have in life is the giving of ourselves in the form of service
to others and to be responsive to their needs. Ans.________________________________________-

Prepared;

ROSITA D. DAGANOS