KokoSTRUCTURES WITH ANSWER

1. The presence of CCTV cameras in the major thoroughfares road mishap and
violations.

Records

2. Despite a plea from management, employees a massive protest.

Have stage

3. Robert pleaded his teacher to ask and give him a chance.

To

4. Foods rich in folate, a form of vitamin B, reduce the risk of stroke and heart disease.

help

5. A website is unlimited you to other website where you can access for more
information and discoveries.

Because it is links

6. Filipinos are fortunate the country has natural resources.

because

7. Years, economic growth of greater concern than environmental preservation.

Has been

8. and rapid economic growth in recent years have put a large and increasing stress on the
water resources, and environmental in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Increased population

9. A history of depression, denial, injustice and abuse the greatest detriment to

people of color.

Has been

10. The legalization of divorce, until such time, has been in our society.

The hot contested issue

11. The child who caught cheating the teacher not to tell his parents about the incident.

Implored

12. Exercising can be done .

By doing activities
13. a book is her past time.

Browsing

14. Unlike humans, horses use 90% of their feet to sleep upright kneecap _____.

Is

15. Either of the twins going to the beach.

Is

16. Leni out against the President Duterte’s drug war, which saw the killing of suspected
drug dealers in the slum of Manila.

Has spoken

17. We became nervous doubtful we don’t see our good coming as quickly as we
think.

When

18. The happy children, paraded in the busy streets in celebration in their school
foundation.

Majestically costumed

19. Amateur basketball player.

6---foot

20. Tomato a good source of vitamin C.

Is

21. Should help you better inform about potential risks, but it should not be a
source of alarm.

Knowing your family history

22. People Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) damage were not necessarily those who
had smoked the longest but those who began smoking at a young age.

Of worst

23. To everybody’s surprise, the captain, looking, as they’re ahead of all the rest.

At his best

24.The child was advised to stay away_______bacuase of trauma.

 Completely from his father

Part 1: Structure

Direction: the subset measures your ability to recognize language that is

appropriate for standard written English.

Items 1-15 are incomplete sentences. Beneath each sentence, you will see words or
phrases marked A B C D.

1. Robert pleaded __ his teacher to ask and give him a chance.

a. with b. to c. from d. in

2. Food’s rich in folate, a form of vitamin B, and _______ reduce the risk of stroke and heart
disease.

a. help b. helps c. helped d. is helping

3. A website is unlimited _____ you to other website where you can access for more
information and discoveries.

a. until it is linking c. since it linked

b. because it links d. while it links stored

4. Filipinos are fortunate ______ the country has natural resources.

a. because b. hence c. when d. despite

5. Over the years, economic growth _____ of greater concern than environmental
preservation.

a. has been b. have been c. had been d. will have been

6. A history of depression, denial, injustice and abuse _______ the greatest detriment to
people of color.

a. has been b. had c. have d. having

7. ________ and rapid economic growth in recent years have put a large and increasing stress
on the water resources, and environment in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

a. Increase Population c. Increasing Population

b. Increased Population d. Having increased population

8. The child who caught cheating _______ the teacher not to tell his parents about the incident.

a. implored b. has implored c. has imploring d. had implored

9. The legalization of RH bill, until such time, has been _______ in our society.

a. a hotly - contesting issue c. A hot contested issue

b. A hotly contested issue d. the hot contested issue

10. Exercising can be done _______

a. by doing activities b. from doing activities

c. in doing activities d. doing activities

11, _______ a book is her past time.

a. To browse b. browse c. browsing d. To browsing

12. Unlike humans, horses use 90% of their feet to sleep upright kneecap _______....bla..bal...

a. is b. were c. are d. was

13. _______ amateur basketball player.

a. 6-foot b. 6 foot c. 6 feet d. 6-feet

14. Neither of the twins’ ______going to the south.

a. has spoken b. have spoken c. have been spoken d. had spoken

16. It is observed that some new aspiring politicians usually make a _____ before running in
congress with great hope of bringing changes in the system and progress in the country.

a. two-hour important decision

b. two-hour im1portant decision

c. two-hour important decisionns

d. two hours important decisions

17. I have arrhythmia and was told to have further check-up to the hospital____ shall I see to
get help?
 a. who b. whom c. which d. where

18. Our country take pride_____ the many beautiful beaches and resorts that attract numerous
visiting tourists

a. of b. in c. is d. over

19. If a person is loquacious, she is said to be ____ and oftentimes takes insensibly.

a. silent b. blatant c. talkative d. meticulous

20. The millenials department store sells many___ gift boxes available in different sizes for the
gift-givers this Yuletide season.

A. creatively-designed square cardboard

b. cardboard square creatively-designed
c. square cardboard creatively-designed
d. cardboard creatively-designed square

21. Karen is a high eater ___ she is not used eating a lot

a. although b. hence c. had d. was

22. History tell us that long before the Arabs arrived, a powerful civilization ___ already
flourished in Egypt.

a. is b. has c. had d. was

23. Theodore is drunk and drives recklessly. It seems he doesn’t care ____ his life at all.

a. about b. for c. in d. at

24. Resiliency is one trait that is worth emulating ___ it is often misunderstood by others as a
weak trait.

a. that b. and c. but d. yet

25. The enterprising daughter who ____a vast fortune from her super rich and powerful father
is going to Europe to venture into other business deals.

a. inherit b. inherited c. is inheriting d. was inherited

26. Helium, a new element in the sun, is the ash left ____atoms of hydrogen are fused in the
furnace of the sun

a. while b. unless c. when d. until

27. To everybody’s surprise, the captain, looking ___, as there ahead of all the rest.

a. his best b. at his best c. in his best d. for his best.

28. The primordial purpose ____ schooling is ultimately to learn how to learn.
 a. in b. for c. of d. at
29. Before the seeds germinated, I did not know what kind of plants they ____.

a. will be b. would be c. can be d. could be

30. Ballooning revenue collections, mushrooming infrastructures and expanding transportation

and communication facilities conspicuously manifest the _____ of the city.

a speedily growing economy b. speedy growing economic

c. speedy economic growing d. growing economic speed

31. The latest addition to the year-round regional cultural showcase is the new, state-of-the-art
light and sound museum which _____ the country’s past and its present.

a. exhibit b. exhibits c. exhibited d. is exhibiting

32. Oral rehydration ____ attempted to replace lost body fluids in the early stages of fever

a. is b. would be c. must d. might

33. It ____ be gleaned from the article that mass media have both positive and negative
influence to society.

a. would b. must c. could d. might

34. Tardigrades - also known as water bears-are microscopic animals that live _____ watery
environments and feed on juices from plant cells.

a. in b. on c. for d. over

35. The term medical reversal refers to a replacement ______ that was widely believed to be
beneficial.

a. of a medical practice b. to a medical practice

c. by a medical practice d. with a medical practice

36. Accounting practice ______ by distinct accounting standards, rules methods and
procedures.

a. guide b. guides c. is guided d. was guided

37. History, it is often said, _______ by the winners- a saying that suggests bias in historical
records.

a. is written b. was written c. has been written d. had been written

38. The opening ceremony _______ by the local and national officials of big private companies
last year.

a. is graced b. was graced c. has graced d. had graced

39. ________ and rapid economic growth in recent years have put a large and increasing stress
on the water resources and environment in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
 a. increase population b. increased population

c. increasing population d. having increased population

40. The child was advised to stay away ________ because of trauma

a. completed from his father b. completely from his father

c. completed with his father d. completely with his father

41. They ______ a few crises in the past, so they were able to handle this situation fairly well.

a. have managed b. had managed

c. had been managed d. have been managed

42. Our bodies expect a constant supply of sleep, ______ they function best when provided full
night's sleep every 24 hours.

a. and b. yet c. or d. but

42. ________should help you better informed about potential risks, but it should not be a
source of alarm.

a. know your family history b. knowing your family history

c. to have your family history known d. having your family history known

43. He _____ a beautiful poem for his mother.

a. write       b. writing       c. wrote   d. written 

44. Water is nature’s big gift to man _____ it quenches his thirst. 
a. although         b. hence           c. because     d. moreover

45. _________ the serene city of Italy is her lifelong dream. 

a. have visited     b. having visited      

c. shall have visit   d. to visit 

46. The fireman _____ the fire last night. 

a. tries to control   b. tried to controls    

c. tried to control     d. try to control 

47. Dorothy unnecessarily ______ a quarrel with Bryan and left the party immediately. 

a. picked on     b. picked out    c. picked     d. picked up 

48. Success in this examination depends _____ the hard work alone. 

a. at   b. in   c. on   d. from 

49. The child who caught cheating _____ the teacher not to tell his parents about the incident. 
 a. implored   b. has implored     c. has imploring      d. had implored 

50. You _____ to stop drinking alcohol now before it ____ you. 

a. must-kill     b. should-kills   c. have-kills    d. shall-kill 

51. The department store has ____ boxes gift to giver. 

a. square cardboard gift     b. square gift cardboard   c. gift cardboard square    

52. The debutant received ____ roses. 

a. several big red    b. several red big   c. red several big   d. big red several 

53. All men ____ his will but wait. 

a. on    b. in   c. upon   d. from 

54. The cost of a program being implemented is important ______ the feasibility prioritization
of the various concerns for it to be able to promote change. 

a. Hence it looks into   b. until it looks into

c. since it looks into d. because it looks into. 

55. Filipinos are fortunate ____ the country has natural resources. 

a. because   b. hence   c. when   d. despite 

56. The number of participants __ limited to a few practitioners.

a. nevertheless b. although c. are d. is

57. The famous chefs of the world know that taste, aroma, texture, color, appearance and
temperature of the food all contribute____ what we call the “flavor”

a. which b. from c. for d. to

58. Disaster preparedness and disaster reduction management are slowly being taught in
schools because of the _____ of floods, earthquakes and other natural calamities in the world. 

a. continual increasing incident    b. continually increase incidence  

c. continual increase incidents  d. continually increasing incidence 

Structures 3:
1. Neither of us ____ capable to go in the meeting.

a.is b,are c.nor d.am

2. Louise, together with her siblings, ____ the venue of Jane’s wedding.

a. arrive from b. arrives on c. arrive in d. arrives at

3. She walks he talk and ____ her principle.

 a. Lives in b. lives on c. lives at d. lives by

4. The maestro wants to sing them ____as a group.

a. All together b. altogether c. all-together d. al-together

Part 2: Written Expression/ Finding the error

Direction: In items 1-30, each sentence is divided into four-part mark A, B, C, and D.
Identify the one part that must be changed to make the sentence. Then choose the
letter corresponding to your answer.

1. A. Public opinion polls have consistently

B. demonstrated the public’s willingness

C. for” tradeoff” economic growth

D. for environmental protection

Answer: TO “tradeoff” economic growth

2. A. Public polls have consistently

B. demonstrate the public willingness

C. economic growth

D. for environmental protection

Answer: TO economic growth

3. A. Remembering a person’s name

B. required us to retrieve first

C. our useful memory of the person and then

D. our memory

4. A. Outside of written records,

B. evidence of Philistines’ existence

C. have survived
 D. in pottery relics.

Answer: had survived

5. A. Outside of written records,

B. evidence of Philistine’s

C. have survived

D. in pottery relics

Answer: HAD survived

6. A. In many cities around the world

B. the number of homeless people

C. have become

D. a big problem.

Answer: HAS become

7. A. The man

B. gives an antidote so powerful

C. that any poison was made harmless

D. after taking it.

Answer: gives a POWERFUL ANTIDOTE

8. A. I bought some

B. silver charming Victorian

C. ornaments

D. at the flea market

Answer: CHARMING SILVER VICTORIAN

9. A. Finance statement
 B. are the formal reports

C. prepared

D. by accountants.

Answer: FINANCIAL statement

10. A. The tale that was

B. told in a low and mystery voice

C. kept us on the

D. edge of seats

Answer: in a low and MYSTERIOUS voice

11. A. In 1964,

B. the African countries of Tanganyaki and Zanziban

C. has united to from

D. a single country, now called Tanzania.

Answer: HAVE united to form

12. A. As a model of expository writing,

B. the narrated writing offers writers

C. a chance to think and write

D. about themselves.

Answer: Narrative

13. A. To skip meal

B. maximizes

C. the caloric effect

 D. of the food we eat.

Answer: SKIPPING meals

14. A. The obligations of the accountant to the client

B. related upon the agreed scope

C. of the engagement which

D. in effect represents a contractual agreement.

Answer: in effect REPRESENT a contractual agreement

15. A. Many medications are safe and effective when taken alone

B. and ineffective or counterproductive

C. when taken in combination

D. when something else.

Answer: BUT ineffective or counterproductive

16. A. It is often said that

B. lightning never strike twice

C. at the same place,

D. but it isn’t true

Answer: lightning never STRIKES twice

17. A. Money is not natural reward of love,

B. that is why we called a man mercenary

C. if he marries a woman

D. for the sake of her money.

Answer: lack of articles A before natural

18. A. A mother and her new baby is encourage

B. to exchange smiles as often as they could

C. because it is important for bonding and attachment

D. as well as for the intellectual and social development.

19. A. A team led by the government agency concerned

B. say that chemicals from the factory ( says)

C. had contaminated sediments in the bay

D. and entered the food chain.

20. A. You are not always in control

B. of what goes in your mind

C. because only you can determine,

D. what stays there.

Answer: but only you can determine

21. A. Peace and prosperity

B. can be achieved

C. if we have respectable armed forces

D. and a sensible economic development

Answer: sensibles

22. A. Wallow in disappointment

B. over something
 C. you did

D. is not productive.

Answer: WALLOWING disappointment

23. A. The tale that was told

B. in a low and mystery voice

C. kept us on the

D. edge of our seats.

Answer: in a low and MYSTERIOUS voice

24. A. Keeping our problems unlocked within us

B. only serve to isolate us from people

C. who cares about us (care)

D. who want to comfort us-(want-WANTS)

25. A. Fruits are the healthier food items

B. their contains vitamins and minerals

C. oranges containing vitamin C. and guavas contain A.

D. hosting of vitamins, including vitamin C

Answer: It contains vitamins and meniral

26. A. Oncologists are doctors

B. who specialize

C. in treating

D. the cancer.

D. of the food we eat.

 Answer: A cancer

27. A. you should make sure

B. your body has get

C. the necessary vitamins and minerals

D. humans need.

Answer: your body GETS

28. A. Sit cramped

B. for a very long period of time

C. in dry conditions

D. can affect our circulatory system.

Answer: SITTING CRAMPLY

29. A. To skip meal

B. maximizes

C. the caloric effect

D. of the food we eat.

Answer: SKIPPING meal

30. A. The Philippines

B. has accommodations

C. to suit everyone

D. from five - star hotels to simple hotels.

Answer: have

31. A. The Philippines

 B. has accomodations

C. to suit everyone

D. from five - star hotels to simple hotels.

Answer: have ACCOMMODATIONS

32. A. There’s a little point in saving money

B. when you can loose it

C. through no fault of your own

D. and avoidable circumstances.

33. A. Carry a burden is our choice (carrying dapat) lumabas

34. A. Short-term (letter C is possible answer)it's dapat walang apostrophe

lumabas

35. Vitamins C. inhibit (inhibits) lumabas

36. A. Not currently marketed invention

B. Has yet been prove - (proven) lumabas

37 Whalt Whitman’s poems are… Emily Dickenson’s are.. (It should be

while) lumabas

38. while most fruits and vegetables have a lot more value (redundant) lumabas

39. A. Remembering a person’s name

B. Required us to retrieve first

C. our useful memory of the person

D. our memory (name)

40. health risks lumabas

41. A. The Gleaning Network

B. an organizer in the United Kingdom
C. is trying to reduce waste
 D. and solve farming problems.
Answer:and to solve farming problems

42. worse – it should be worst dapat. lumabas

43. A. Thinking like a winner means not always having to defeat someone else

B. but it means that one is being able to learn from a situation

C. which would be a great help

D. to rise above that failure and to be able to reach one’s goal.

44. A. Feeling in love is difficult

b. to tell specially
c. if you have missed feelings
d. to the person.

45. A.The expensive antiquity silver mirror

B. was formerly owned by my only surviving aunt
C. who in turn gave it to me during
D. my 18th birthday celebration

46. A. Researchers are learning to detect changes

B. beyond the huge population
C. of bacteria, viruses, yeast cells and other microbes
D. that thrive in the mouth.
Answer: THRIVES

47. A. Thrinh Xuan Thuan, an astrophysicist from

B. wrote the birth of the Universe: The Bang and after, in 1993,
C. a book on how it elucidates
D. for all that she needed
Answer: a book THAT it elucidates

Part 2: Written Expression/ Finding the error

Direction: In items 1-30, each sentence is divided into four-part mark A, B, C, and D.
Identify the one part that must be changed to make the sentence. Then choose the
letter corresponding to your answer.

1. A. Most important thing in the world

 B. has been accomplished by people
C. who have kept on when there
D. seemed to be no hope.

2. A. Unclean water and improper disposal of waste

B. can be carried highly communicable diseases
C. because of their injurious effects
D. to human life
Answer: can CARRY highly communicable diseases

3. A. Multiple Intelligence as introduced by Howard Gardner,

B. looks into the eight types of intelligences found in a man
C. which could be helping the teachers in
D. identifying the pupils capabilities in class.
4. A. Gender inequality exist when
B. anyone from the group of LGBT
C. are prevented from any privileges
D. which normal sexes enjoy

5. A. Thailand is another famous Asian tourist destination

B. which everyone enjoys going to
C. because of its street foods and
D. the majestic Grand Palace which the prime Minister holds office

6. A. The expensive antiquity, silver set of spoons and forks

B. was formerly owned by my grandmother
C. who in turns gave it to me as
D. gift my own wedding.

7. A. The students in the state college have prepared

B. a petition to remove a professor for bribery and immorality issues
C. the are now gathered more signatures
D. To make the petition stronger

8. A. The lady news anchor looked

B. so refreshing in her floral blouse and pleated skirt
C. in the television, delivered the news
D. lively and spontaneity

9. A. Aling Luz single-handedly raise her two children,

B. did two works at the same time while still on the top of guiding her
children
C. with their studies who eventually both graduated with honors
D. she is truly a role model and deserved an Uliran ina award

10. A. Inclusive education gives importance to all people,

 B. Regardless of cultural affinity and the physical limitations
C. They are the people who wishes to learn and
D. become useful towards achieving improvement if their lives

11. A. Hydration is important so that for someone to stay hydrated

B. he must be able to drink at least eight (8) glasses of water
C. and a fresh juice daily but not coffee and carbonated drinks
D. while tea with antioxidants can also hydrated body.

12. A. The Japanese have high regard for the beauty of the nature.
B. This reverence has led to the creation of one the world’s most
spectacular park systems
C. covering 5.4 percent of their total land area.
D. The park also boast of having the most beautiful nature preserves.

13. A. Swimming is a good forms of restoring wellness

B. and making you fit
C. therefore you are stretching
D. and oxygenating your internal system

14. A. Despite being a PWD,

B. Carina preserves in her studies
C. and ignores any hardships that come along in life
D. to pursued her dream of becoming a SPED teacher.

15. A. For years, aspirin was hailed as a hearth hero,

B. for patients with problems of the heart but experts recently discovered
C. that it has a link to stomach problems such as gastrointestinal bleeding
especially
D. if one takes it daily even if he has no known heart ailments.

16. A. If depression will not be given an attention, it predisposes to hibernate

and worse end his life.
B. So, therefore, we should all create a consciousness to spot
C. Friends of family members who seem to be undergoing something
D. A listening ear, a warm hug or handshake matter most.

17. A. The sudden demise of Ms. Gina Lopez created a large vacuum in the
hears of people
B. who admires her for being a staunch supporter of the anti-mining and
deforestation
C. she also had numerous foundations for the poor chicken
D. and programs that care for the environment

18. A. Before Richard Gomez became a popular actor in the local film
industry,
 B. he was a waiter at a certain pizza parlor,
C. with his good looks, excel, acting skills, diligence, and perseverance,
he rose to stardom for several years.
D. His life changes when got married, He is the incumbent mayor in
Ormoc City.
19. A. Quitting should never enter in the mind of us.
B. we should think forward and proactively. Remember no guts, no glory
C. so start fixing your mind-set do your best and preservere.
D. just keep on going through life. You do your best and God will do the
rest.

20. A. The language diversity in the Philippines is amazing.

B. with 7,100 islands, history of colonization from the Malays to Americans
C. bringing different cultures and traditions, one could imagine the
richness of the languages or dialects spoken around
D. thus, don’t be surprise at all when you hear someone saying a strange
word.

21. A. an education is said to be functional

B. when it is transforming the lives of the learners’
C. making meaningful contributions to the society
D. and accepting the existence of a Supreme being in their lives

22. A. Mathematics are fun to learn.

B. you should indulge yourself first into it by falling in love with the
numbers.
C.you will found out soon, you will have confidence and
D. Mathematics will just be easy for you.

23. A. I had a stream visitors

B. which kept me sane,
C. but I never realized that the whole effort
D. would be so tiring

24. A.The house furnishings of the

B. Ramon mansion by the lake
C. has impressed the guests
D. during the

25. A.To lessen monthly expense

B. the newlywed decided
C. to rent a small apartment
D. in the old building

26. A. Student and teachers alike

B. seem to felt that there is
 C. more virtue in admitting growth
D. than knowledge
27. A. The Journalism is always updated
B. with regards to certain trendy words than clinches
C. uttered by politicians and news casters such as
D. win-win situation, wake-up call and proactive roles.

28. A. The threat of deculturation

B. now hangs over many small ethnic minority
C. that are scattered
D. in the depths of many forests.
Answer: now hangs over many small ethnic MINORITIES

29. A. Despite being crippled arthritis

B. Grandma Ana Moses was a self – taught artist who started painting
C. everyday turning out more than 1000 works in 25 yesrs
D. exhibited her work in the US until her death.

30. A.The novel was so popular

B. among teenagers
C. to a point that a movie was made
D. based from the story

31. A. The majority of scientific evidence

B. showed that, a healthy adult
C. moderate quantities of caffeine
D. pose no significant in health risk.

32. A. The researchers from DepEd travelling

B. too many towns and cities all over the country
C. to monitor the implementation of
D. their programs.

33. A. The Secretary was calm in the explaining the advantages of

B. the k-12 Curriculum when
C. various protects from the parents
D. begun in the streets.

34. A. In the middle of confusion,

B. Joseph the man who seemed
C. to have lose hope, suddenly heard a voice
D. telling him to remain steadfast and keep the faith.

35. A. The most popular alumnae

 B. of a barangay high school
C. is now serving as president
D. of a well – known state university in Manila
Answer: the most popular ALUMNA

36. A. After participating the fertility rites,

B. the childless woman
C. who was blessed with a healthy baby
D. experienced s blissful and contented life.
Answer: A childless woman

READING COMPREHENSION

Passage: PASTA CRISIS

A world without pasta seems inconceivable. Macaroni and cheese loving children across
The US would howl in protest; Italy might suffer a heart attack; social unrest could
explode in China where noodles are the main staple.

But if humans want to keep eating pasta, we will have to take much more aggressive
action against global warming. Pasta is made from wheat, and a large growing body of
scientific studies and real-world observations suggest what wheat will be hit especially
hard as temperatures rise and storms and drought intensify in the years ahead.

Three grains- wheat, corn and rice account for most of the food that humans consume.
All these are already suffering from climate change, but wheat stands to fare the worst
in the years ahead, for it is the grain most vulnerable to high temperatures. That spells
trouble not only for pasta but also for bread, the most basic food of all.
International agricultural research centers and the private sector have woken up to the
fact that higher temperatures are almost inevitable, and ‘ have very little in their genetic
toolbox to deal with them.

1. The meaning of inconceivable in the first sentence of the passage must be

_________.
a. Not imaginable
b. Cannot happen
c. Unable to conceive
d. No possibility
2. The passage emphasizes an alarming future scenario because __________.
 a. Humans will take more aggressive action against global warming
b. China, where noodles are the main staple, could have social unrest
c. Macaroni and cheese loving children across the US would protest
d. Three significant grains, especially wheat may be lost to humans.

3. This passage entitled Pasta Crisis points out with urgency that ____________.
a. Higher temperatures are almost inevitable
b. Three grains are already suffering from climate change
c. More aggressive action against global warming is needed
d. Drought will intensify in the coming years

4. Another way of expressing the idea in the sentence” it is the grain most vulnerable to
High temperatures” is it is the grain ____________.
a. Most affected under intense heat
b. Likely to flourish when it gets warm
c. Strongly at risk in temperate areas
d. Inclined to wither if it gets very hot

5. The idea in the passage is develop using ___________.

a. Narration
b. Exposition
c. Description
d. Illustration

Passage: CAT

A cat is a precision instrument – a perfectly engineered machine, design for

stealth,
capture and self-defense. It has padded feet that make no sound and muscles of
enormous power and bulk for its size. Its bones are attached at energy efficient angles
that create a system of springs and levers perfect for bounding, leaping and climbing.
Its claws are sharper than those of any other mammal and can be withdrawn under
sheath-like pads where they escape injury and wear.

No teach are better suited for hunting than those of the cat – great canines for
tearing and scissor – like premolars for shearing off bits of flesh small enough to
swallow.
In the cat’s eye, the colored fiber of the iris respond immediately to light changes to
permit exactness of vision in all light conditions. In the darkness of night, the iris
contracts to widen the pupil and admit any trace of available light. In the blinding light
of midday, the iris expands and the pupil shuts down to a thin vertical slit.

Except in white cats with blue eyes, a cats hearing is extremely acute. Each ear
has twenty-seven muscles that allow the cat to rotate the ear in all directions, to collect
sound. The cat’s reaction to sudden movement or noise is so swift that it can usually
escape threatening danger – and the little quarry passes unharmed!

1. The word “quarry” are used in the last paragraph means _____
a. Hurried
b. Target
c. Hunter
d. Victim

2. Cats have acute hearing except the white cats with blue eyes which do not _____
a. Hear well
b. Hunt well
c. See well
d. Eat well

3. The sentence “The cat is a precision instrument” is a _________

a. hyperbole
b. metaphor
c. simile
d. irony

4. The selection is mainly about ________.

a. how cats differ from the dogs
b. how the cat is like a mammal
c. the cat as a hunting machine
d. the cat as a house b
5. We can conclude from the selection that the cat is an animal which can ________
a. do a lot of tricks
b. be domesticated
c. be very dangerous
d. survive on its own

Passage: YOUTH
Youth is not a time of life: It is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks,
red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor
of the deep springs of life.
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidly of the
appetite, for the adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more
than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old by deserting our ideals.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the souls. Worry,
fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirits back to dust.
 Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart to lure of wonder, the
unfailing childlike appetite of what’s next and the joy of your heart and my heart there
is a wireless station: so long as it receives message of beauty, hope, cheer, courage
and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snow of cynicism and
the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials
are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.

1. What kind of passage is this?

 Descriptive
2. What does Predominance in the second paragraph refer to?
 strongest element
3.Describes youth is
 state of mind

4. Value most exemplefied

 all about having courage

5.Theme/conclusion
 Young of hope

Passage: HOMER (Iliad and OdyssOdysseyy)

The views and beliefs of societies are often portrayed in the literature, art, and
cinema of a certain era. The Iliad and Odyssey give scholars and historians an idea how
the Ancient Greek lived their everyday lives. The Iliad and Odyssey are two classic
stories told by Homer. Within these stories the roles of the gods are very important to
the story line and how they affect the characters throughout.

In Iliad, more gods are involved with the characters whereas in the Odyssey
there are only two major gods that affect two major characters. The roles of the gods
in Iliad are through two different stances of immortal versus immortal and moral versus
immortal. The roles of the gods in the Odyssey are through two major gods and they
affect the plot as Poseidon versus Odysseus and Athena versus Telemachus.
Iliad was a tragedy illustrating the despair and useless suffering associated with war.

Homer’s Odyssey was an epic tale of long suffering resolving in triumph. Though
there were a great many differences between the two works, there was an underlying
theme of the love which ran through both. Not just the physical manifestation of
infatuation, but the kind of love that makes one willing to die for another.

1.What is the main idea of the selection?

 Its not difinate where and when Homers
2. The epic story
 Illiad and Odyssey still remains a famost story in Ancient Grace

3. Epic means
 Long verse story of great heroes/story of heroism

4. Iliad and Odyssey uses

 Both communicates artistry and intelligence

5. Works of early scholars

 Poems were created and transmitted orally tradition generation to
generation.

Passage: PALAWAN
Unique to Palawan is its mega diversity. For a long time, only the many ethnic
communities that thrive in these islands and a few other daring settlers who
wanted to live in unpolluted surroundings know. Palawan’s bountiful resources,
abundant wildlife and extraordinary natural beauty.

The island province first attracted foreign attention in the 1970’s when became a
United Nation Vietnamese Refugee Center. At this time, the disturbance in Kenya also
saw the transport of endangered animals from its savannas to the pains of Calauit
island. However, it was only a sea accident in 1979 that eventually led to the opening of
Palawan into major tourist attraction. According to a story, a tuna line disabled a dive
boats propeller in the middle of the night forcing it to drop anchor in an inlet. The
following morning, the divers woke up with amazing scenery of skyscraping dark cliff.

1. Which can be appropriate title of the selection?

 The discovery of El Nido

2. What does the word diversity means?

 Variety
3. Conclusion
 El Nido was descovered by a diver
5. Reason why foreigner’s attracts to the place
 It became a United Nation Vietnamese Regional Center or
 Vietnamese Refugee Center

Passage: Introduction of Poetry By: Billy Collins

I ask them to make a poem,
And hold it up to the light
Like a color slide.
Or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem,
And watch his probe his way out,
Or walk inside the poem’s room,
And feel the wall for a light switch.
E.CI want them to waterski
Across the surface of the poem
Waving at the author’s name on the shore.
But all they want to do is tie the poem
To the chair with rope
And torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose

1. What does the stanza 3, 4, and 5 shown?

 Image
2. Who are Them and They refer to?
 Students of poetry
3. Hold them up to light like a color slide?
Press an ear against its hive
 Senses
4. What does the author trying to convey out the passage?or what is theme of the story
 Enjoy and Experience

Passage: Poverty
Studies have consistently pointed to at least three major immediate factors that
push children to stay or live on the streets. These are the poverty of family, family
relationship (physical or sexual abuse) and peer influence. Poverty and peer influence
when compounded with problems and stresses in the family life such ass family break-
up, child abuses and neglect, domestic violence by step-parents, underemployed
parents, etc. altogether create under pressure on the child to leave home and find
solace, protection, and support from the peers on the street, eventually becoming
susceptible to their influence and lifestyle.
In Metro Manila, population growth, urbanize, and migration have increased
through the years. Children are often forced try circumstances to help their family eke
out of living or tend for themselves on the streets. Most of them are children of poor
parents who migrated from rural areas in the hope of finding better job opportunities in
the city, but whose lack of education rendered them ill-equipped to struggle for survival
in the urban jungle and are thus curtained to a life of object poverty. For the street
children, life on the street is constant struggle to overcome the various negative
comments that threaten to overtake them and destroy their hopes for survival. They
work under the heat of the sun or in the dark of the night from 6-10 hours, seven days
a week to survive.
1. To “EKE OF LIVING” means ______
a. To earn income
b. To live with other
c. To stay in the street
d. To work in the street
2. Based on the selection, what values seem to be missing in the families of street
children?
a. Loyalty
b. Honesty
c. Kindness
d. Solidarity
3. What is the most important factor that will equip rural people to survive in the city?
a. Money
b. Education
c. Kindness
d. Home
4. This selection is simple about _________
a. Providing homes for the poor
b. Helping street children get an education
c. Factors why children live in the streets
d. How to lessen pressure on the family

5. Based on the last, we can conclude that street children are _______
a. Independent
b. Malnourished
c. Helpless persons
d. Victims of poverty
Passage: The Imaginative Power of Drama/Theater
The art generally depends on ridiculous region, but the theater is most
ridiculous od all imagine, asking us to pretend that we are in Bangkok after the fall of
Saigon and that tea is a Vietnamese bar girl who kill herself because she believes that
suicide is the only solution her problems.
More than that engaged asking us to believe that all other characters in the play
talk to each other by singing. The theater is a lily that inexplicably asset from a single
weedy falsities, yet it is precisely from the tension produced by absurdity that theater is
able to create each poetry, power enhancement, and tru
1. What is the best title of the selection?
a. Marvelous Singing Voices
b. The Imaginative Power of Drama
c. The Absurdity of Fiction
d. The Production of musical Plays
2. Based from the excerpts, the author believes that all the statement are true, except?
a. Theater is based on absurdities.
b. The character in musical plays converse by singing.
c. Theater teaches us that suicide is the only solution to the problem.
d. Theater creates poetry, power enhancement, and truth.
3. The word ABSURDITY means?
a. Fiction
b. Falsehood
c. Predictability
d. Foolishness
4. Which of the following can be conducted about theater from the selection?
a. It has different themes
b. It is the most ridiculous of all the arts
c. It is able to create poetry, power enhancement, and truth
d. It is fictional representation of life
5. The author’s attitude towards unreal situations in the drama is one of ____________.
a. Appreciation
b. Anger
c. Disapproval
d. Worry

6. What do people from Asia usually do at dinner time?

a. Asian people usually say words at two different moments when they
are going to eat
b. They usually say words before meals when they go to a friend’s house
c. Japanese’s friends have to say words before meals
7. People from ONE of these countries have the habits to drive on the right
a. Japan
b. England
c. The United States
Passage: Drug Addiction
Drug addiction is a brain disorder involving a compulsive use of drugs in spite of its
detrimental consequences. It ruins the individual and the society in manifold way-
socially,
physically, culturally, emotionally and economically. Acting on the brain, the drug
spawns a wide range of disorder like fear, anxiety and sense of insecurity in the human
mind. There are certain drug like nicotine, cocaine and caffeine that stimulate the brain
and the nervous system resulting in increased alertness and response. Addiction to such
drugs causes a severe loss of appetite and weight, constipation, increased anxiety, and
withdrawal of hypnotic drugs might lead to epileptic seizures and delirium. When a man
starts drug addiction, he becomes addicted to it forever and goes on increasing its
dose.
In the first phase of drugs addiction his brain cells become irritated and his faculties of
rationally, judgement, observation and attention get blunted and he became the victim
of subclinical stage. In the second phase, the addict feels as if he is not aware of his
own self and such and psychic trauma leads him to the drug condition of situation. In
the third phase, as the victim increases the dosage and frequency, he loses his physical
balance and muscular coordination. The addict is now prisoner of confusion and is fast
digging his own grave.

Answer:
1. We can infer from the first sentence?
o Not all that has been written on the subject of addiction has added to
our understanding

2. The author of second passage implies that he thinks the term “DEPENDENCE” in
the
the context of drugs?
o Has not always been the preferred term

3.Effects of drugs
. Answer =can destroy life

4. The oassage drug addiction impact people

 To keep human aware about drug addiction

5. Conclusion
o The literature on drugs gives information about drugs addiction
Passage: LIGHT/SOCIAL CHANGES

In the light of social changes, we come to the question: What qualities should
distinguish the educated Filipino today? I venture to suggest that the educated Filipino should
first be distinguished by the power to do.

The oriental excels in reflective thinking he is a philosopher. The Occidental is a doer; he

manages things, men and affairs. The Filipino of today needs more of this power to translate
reflection into action.

I believe that we are coming more to this power to. We are coming more likely to the
conviction that no Filipino has the right to be considered educated unless he is prepared to take
an active and useful part in the work, life, and progress of our country as well as in the
progress of the world.

1. What is the best paraphrase of the last paragraph in the passage?

A. Participation in the work and progress of our country is sought by every Filipino].
B. The country’s progress and advancement depend primarily on educated Filipino.
C. A truly educated Filipino participates actively in the work and progress of
the country and the world as a whole.
D.To be considered educated, one has to be globally competitive and willing to take
risks.
2. As used in the selection, what does word “conviction” mean?
A. intellectual guess
B. strong belief
C. verdict
D. allegiance
3. What trait is found in most Orientals but needs to be deepened in Filipino?
A. action oriented
B. patience
C. good in managing
D. reflective thinker
4. What is meant by this line? “The oriental is a philosopher”
A. Oriental people are contemplative
B. Oriental people have the blood of great philosophers
C. They have a tendency to become philosophers
D. They think like Great Solomon.

5. What value is implied in the same passage above?

 A. Justice
B. Courage
C. Hyperactivity
D. active involvement
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Passage: INVENTION OF CAMERA

Invention enhance people’s lives. Inventions are improvements of previous discoveries.
With technology, inventions are easier to complete.

Are such invention is the camera. The invention of camera gave way to the first
underwater camera in 1965. It was placed in a tightly sealed container was underwater, the
container broke before many pictures were taken. It was in the 198’s that’s a camera was made
which is able to go deep underwater with ought being damaged. Less than twenty years later,
technology allowed underwater cameras to take photographs in color to go even deeper into
the water.

With better technology, an invention will never stay stagnant.

1. What can we infer from the selection?

 Man is constantly in search of new inventions

2. What is the main idea expressed in the selection?

 Peoples make effort to improve an invention

3. What can we conclude about inventions in the selection?

 Improves peoples live

4. What figure of speech in the last line in the selection?

“With better technology, an invention will never stay stagnant”

 Personification

5. What is the value presented in the selection?

 Ingenuity