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2023-English REVIEWE-WPS Office
2023-English REVIEWE-WPS Office
2023-English REVIEWE-WPS Office
1-50 QUESTIONS
A. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
B. Leo Tolstoy
C. Anton Checkov
D. IvanTurgenev
Ans: A
2. This tense connotes actions that are happening at present time, meaning right now.
A. Present Tense
B. Past Tense
C. Progressive Tense
D. Present Perfect
Rationalization: The answer is letter C. If the Action is happening right now, it must be in the progressive
tense. Example: She is singing right now.
A. Japanese
B. American
C. Spanish
D. Commonwealth
Rationalization: The answer is A because during the Japanese occupation, they prohibit the use of
English and Spanish and required everyone to use the vernacular language.
C. American Soldiers
Rationalization: The answer is B. They are called Thomasites because they arrived in the Philippine
shores in board the ship USS Thomas.
B. Teresa Subido
Ans: A
6. Leo Tolstoy’s short Story about a man falsely judge and accused of murder is titled _______.
A. Murder
D. The misjudged
Ans: B
A. Adjective
B. Adverb
C. Apostrophe
D. Appositive
Rationalization: The answer is A. The underlined word is an adjective because it modifies the word
“train” which is a noun.
8. Who wrote the short story “ Magnificence” Which is about the girl abused by an older man.
A. Estrella Alfon
B. KerimaTuvera
C. Nick Joaquin
D. Appositive
Ans: A
SONNET 29
By William Shakespeare
B. ABBCDDEFFGGHHI
C. AAABBBCCCDDDDEE
D. ABBCDDEFFGGHIJ
Rationalization: A Shakespearean sonnet has 14 lines with ten syllables per line, the answer is A.
Rationalization: A Shakespearean sonnet has 14 lines with ten syllables per line, the answer is A.
A. Heroic couplet
B. Couplet
C. Coupled
D. Couply
Rationalization: The last two lines is called the Heroic Couplet and it serves as the synthesis of the entire
sonnet. The answer is A.
12. Jose Rizal’s novel Noli Me Tangere is inspired by the novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe titled
__________
B. Les Miserables
C. Tom Sawyer
Rationalization: The answer is A. It is about the liberation of the African American Slaves.
13. The film “ Gone with the Wind” is about the American _________________
A. Civil War
B. Revolution
C. Cold War
Rationalization: The answer is A, Civil War is pioneered by Abraham Lincoln in an attempt to liberates
the slaves.
14. The reality TV show Big Brother is based on the novel by George Orwell titled ____________
A. Big Brother
B. 1984
C. Brother
D. Brother and Sons
Rationalization: The answer is B. George Orwell wrote this novel on the year 1948 but he change it to
1984 to make it seem futuristic.
A. prays – stays
B. pray – stay
C. prayed – stayed
D. praying – staying
Rationalization: The answer is A. most collective nouns if taken as a single entity must take a singular
verb.
A. is
B. are
C. was
D. were
Rationalization: The answer is B. In fractions, if the subject is a count noun then it takes a plural noun. If
it is a non count noun, then it takes a singular noun.
17. Neither Jordan nor his brothers ___________ leaving the company
A. is
B. are
C. was
D. were
Rationalization: The answer is B. In sentences with Neither… nor the verb agrees with the noun closest
to it.
A. Beowulf
B. Neibulgid
C. Song of Roland
D. El Cid
Ans: A
19. What is the name of the very first library in the world?
B. Ashurbannipal Library
C. UST Libray
D. Alexandria Library
A. Niccolo Machiavelli
D. Rober Frost
Ans: B
A. /b/
B. /p/
C. /k/
D. /t/
Rationalization: All of the sounds are stops/plosives, but only /b/ and /p/ are bilabial, and only /b/ is
voiced, and so the answer is A.
22. The teacher was asked to speak for her students when they won the speech choir competition, and
so she says “ _________of my student, I want to thank you.”
A. On behalf
B. In behalf
C. Because
D. For
Rationalization: The answer is A because “ in behalf” must only be used if the speaker is part of the
group he/she is representing.
Rationalization: The answer is A. Rizal’s Family is closely attached to the Filipino priest, that is why the
death of Gomez, Burgos and Zamora inspired Rizal to write his Novels.
24. What is the First American School in the Philippines that is aims in teaching the Filipinos how to use
the English Language.
Rationalization: The answer is A . PNU (PNS) is the first school stablished by the Thomasites in the
Philippines.
B. Jose Salvador
C. Manuel Arguilla
D. Arturo Rotor
Ans: A
26. Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing are collectively known as ____________
A. Marco Skills
B. Cueing Skills
C. Communicative Competence
D. Micro Skills
Rationalization: The answer is A. In English language teaching, the words listed above are called the
MACRO skills.
27. In the epic lliad, who is the most trusted friend of Archilles?
A. Hector
B. Patroclus
C. Agamemnon
D. Paris
Rationalization: The answer is B. In the epic, the death of Patroclus caused the greatest heart ache of
Achilles.
28. Who wrote the epic lliad and Odyssey?
A. Vigil
B. Homer
C. Chaucer
D. Valmiki
Ans: B
A. Athena
B. Minerva
C. Hera
D. Venus
Rationalization: Minerva is the Roman goddess of wisdom because Athena belongs to Greek Mythology.
The answer is B.
31. In developmental reading, this pertains to the familiarity of the students toward the sounds of the
language.
A. Phonemic Awareness
B. Phonology
C. Syntax
D. Semantics
Rationalization: The answer is A. This skill attained if the learner can distinguish a feature of a particular
language upon hearing it.
32. In development reading, this pertains to the ability of the learner to relate the written symbols to its
corresponding sound.
A. Phonemic Awareness
B. Phonics
C. Syntax
D. Semantics
Rationalization: The answer is B. Phonics pertain to the sound and symbols correspondence
graphophonemic.
B. Emily Dickinson
C. Virginia Woolf
D. Mary Shelley
Ans. A
A. Tagore
B. Kalidasa
C. Valmiki
D. Vyasa
Rationalization: The answer is letter B. Kalidasa, like Shakespeare is a writer of dramas. His famous work
is Shakuntala.
A. Alighieri
B. Petrarch
C. Boccaccio
D. Dante
C. Walt Whiteman
D. Gertrude Stein
Rationalization: The answer is B. Emerson, Whiteman, and Thoreau are friends and they all agree on the
power of the individual. Emerson wrote Self Reliance, Thoreau wrote Walden, And Whiteman wrote
Leaves of Grass.
Rationalization: The answer is B. IRI is a system that labels a reader based on his/her capacity to voice
out written symbols in a given text.
A. Phonology
B. Semantics
C. Morphology
D. Syntax
Ans: D
A. Phonology
B. Semantics
C. Morphology
D. Syntax
Ans: C
40. In the cueing system, this is about vocabulary and coming up with the meanings in a context.
A. Phonology
B. Semantics
C. Morphology
D. Syntax
Ans: B
41. In the cueing system, this pertains to the formation of sounds of the language.
A. Phonology
B. Semantics
C. Morphology
D. Syntax
Ans: A
Rationalization: for number 88 – 91: Phonology concerns sound; syntax concern structure/grammar,
morphology concerns word formation; and semantics concerns meanings.
42. The poem “The Road Not Taken” which road did not traveler take?
A. Clear road
C. High way
D. Streets
Rationalization: The traveler chose the road less travelled and for the persona his/her choice made all
the difference.
43. Who wrote the novel “A Christmas Carol” which is about a man who hates Christmas?
A. Charles Dickens
B. Oscar Wilde
C. H.G Wells
D. D.H Lawrence
Ans: A
Rationalization: The answer is A. During the rime of Queen Elizabeth, writer of different genres surfaced.
We have Shakespeare, Jonson, and Marlowe to mention a few.
A. Jane Austen
B. Charlotte Bronte
C. Ann Bradsheet
D. Edith Wharton
Ans: A
A. Mark Twain
B. George Orwell
C. D.H Lawrence
D. T.S Eliot
Ans: A
A. George Eliot
B. Emily Watts
C. Jane Seymour
D. Anne Bradsheet
Rationalization: The answer is A. She used a male pen name because Queen Victoria prohibits women to
write.
48. “ She is a star in the heavens above. “What figure of speech is used?
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
D. Hyperbole
Rationalization: The answer is B because “she” is directly compared to the stars. Direct comparison is
called metaphor.
A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
D. Hyperbole
50. Mark Twain’s novel Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are set in the _________ river.
A. Nile
B. Mississippi
C. Amazon
D. Rio Grande
Rationalization: The answer is B. Mark Twain’s novels are set on the Mississippi river which is the longest
river in America.