1.

What process of language learning

is characterized by repeated
practices of sentence patterns until
they become automatic?
a. Overgeneralization
b. Hypothesis Testing
c. Habit Formation
d. Language Performance
2. It is the use of an incorrect word in
place of a similar sounding word
that results in a nonsensical and
humorous expression.
a. Spoonerism
b. Malapropism
c. Chiasmus
d. Aphorism
3. English for Specific Purposes (ESP) is
centered on the language
appropriate to these activities in
terms of grammar, lexis, register,
study skills, discourse and
__________.
a. discipline
b. methodology
c. courses
d. genre
4. Upon learning that the past tense of
call is called and talk is talked, the
child writes singed for sing. What
kind of language error is this?
a. Overgeneralization
b. Nominalization
c. Monitoring
d. Habit Formation
5. The model in teaching literature
which aims to motivate the students
to read by selecting themes, to a
large extent, related to their own
personal experiences.
a. Cultural Model
b. Language Model
c. Sociolinguistic Model
d. Personal Growth Model
6. What is the real name of Mark
Twain?
a. Mary Anne Evans
b. Eric Arthur Blair
c. William Sydney Porter
d. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
7. It is the label given to a teacher’s
use of techniques and activities
from a range of language teaching
approaches and methodologies.
a. Audio-lingual Method
b. Total Physical Response (TPR)
c. Communicative Approach
d. Eclectic Approach
8. Which of the following sets of
words has allophones?
a. twigs and cats
b. pin and pit
c. scarce and pairs
d. pin and spin
9. How many allophones are in this
sentence?
The spinning top pins its way
across the floor.
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
10. How many allophones are in this
sentence?
I will let you rest.

a. 2
b. 3
c. 4
d. 5
11. This sentence structure contains a
‘ditransitive verb group’.

a. Max had replied to my letter.

b. Max has turned a subtle shade of
red.
c. Max hates huge spider.
d. Max is giving his boss a headache.
12. Which of the following is a set of
three periods ( . . . ) indicating an
omission?
a. Synthesis
b. Epenthesis
c. Prolepsis
d. Ellipsis
13. What kind of verb wherein there is a
presence of an object that relates to
the object?
a. Transitive verb
b. Intransitive verb
c. Ditransitive verb
d. Complex Transitive verb
14. Sheldon __________ the meal after
he __________ me up.

a. cooked, had called

b. cook, called
c. had cooked, called
d. had cooked, had called
15. All of the cake _________ eaten.

a. were
b. had
c. have
d. was
16. Henry gave Anne the crown. Which
among the words in the sentence
functions as an indirect object?
a. Henry
b. gave
c. Anne
d. crown
17. Daniel Padilla is a great teenage
actor, __________?

a. doesn’t he
b. wasn’t he
c. isn’t he
d. is he
18. We watch the softball game on the
front porch. Which question elicits
the direct object constituent?
a. Who watched the softball game?
b. What did we watch?
c. What did we do?
d. Where did we watch the game?
20. In which of these phrases is the
order of adjectives grammatical?

a. A yellow tall brick ugly chimney

b. A brick yellow ugly tall chimney
c. An ugly tall yellow brick chimney
d. A tall yellow ugly brick chimney
19. Which of the following is properly
sequenced?
a. an old ugly gray wooden statue
b. a wooden ugly gray statue
c. an ugly old gray wooden statue
d. a gray wooden old ugly statue
21. The indirect object in the sentence:
Carol gave Toni a beautiful shawl
from Baguio.
a. Toni
b. beautiful
c. shawl
d. Baguio
22. A language learner who is able to
paraphrase or coin a word when at
a loss for a vocabulary word has
__________.
a. strategic competence
b. grammatical competence
c. discourse competence
d. sociolinguistic competence
23. Which of the following is a voiced
bilabial stop?

a. /t/
b. /b/
c. /d/
d. /k/
24. Which verb will fit the sentence:
Carmelo __________ playing the
guitar as a hobby.
a. has enjoyed
b. enjoys
c. will enjoy
d. enjoy
25. What figure of speech is used in the
lines below?
His bright eyes rolled, they never
seemed to settle.
And glittered like the flowers beneath a
kettle. -Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
a. Simile
b. Hyperbole
c. Metaphor
d. Personification
26. Which poem by William Ernest
Henley answers the question:
Do humans control their own lives?
a. Remember
b. Invictus
c. Precious Stones
d. The Alderking
27. What kind of word is TELECAST?

a. Blend
b. Acronym
c. Borrowed
d. Clipped
28. What kind of word is AWOL?

a. Blend
b. Acronym
c. Borrowed
d. Clipped
29. It is based on the behaviourist belief
that language learning is the
acquisition of a set of correct language
habits and whose goal is to use the
target language communicatively,
overlearn it, so as to be able to use it
automatically.
a. Direct Method
b. Grammar-Translation Approach
c. Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)
d. Audio-lingual Method
30. It is the headline at the top of the
front page, next to the name of the
newspaper, that goes all the way
across the page. It has the most
important news of the day.
a. Banner
b. Nameplate
c. Running Head
d. Headline
31. What do you call the beginning of a
news story. It may be a word, a
group of words, a sentence, or even
a paragraph.
a. Slug line
b. Lead
c. Masthead
d. Byline
32. The editorial box containing the
logo, names and positions of the
staff members, subscription rate,
the publisher, and other pertinent
data about the newspaper is called?
a. Folio
b. Kicker
c. Masthead
d. Obituary
33. What is placed on the dateline?

a. the date the story was filed

b. the date the story happened
c. the place of publication
d. both a and b
34. When second language learners of
English pronounce violet as viloyet,
ask as aks, they exhibit a speech
behavior that exemplifies a
morphophonemic change known as
__________?
a. assimilation
b. epenthesis
c. dissimilation
d. metathesis
35. What figure of speech is used by
the following poetic line?
At dawn, the city slowly opened its
eyes, stretched and woke…
a. simile
b. metaphor
c. hyperbole
d. personification
36. What figure of speech is “O wild,
west wind!”?

a. simile
b. apostrophe
c. hyperbole
d. personification
37. What figure of speech is
exemplified below?
The wind stood up and gave a
shout. He whistled on his two
fingers.
a. apostrophe
b. metaphor
c. onomatopoeia
d. personification
38. Which figure of speech uses
exaggeration for special effect like
‘…where the corn grows so tall they
have to go up on a ladder to pick the
ears off”?
a. apostrophe
b. hyperbole
c. onomatopoeia
d. personification
39. Identify what figure of speech is
used in the following statement?
We are reading Ernest Hemingway.
a. Metonymy
b. Synecdoche
c. Allusion
d. Apostrophe
40. Identify what figure of speech is
used in the following statement.

To yield is to be preserved whole.

a. Metaphor
b. Paradox
c. Metonymy
d. Irony
41. Identify what figure of speech is
used in the following statement:

She cried her eyes out because

of loneliness.
a. Metaphor
b. Hyperbole
c. Metonymy
d. Litotes
42. As the deer pants for the water so
my soul longs after you. What figure
of speech is used here?
a. Metaphor
b. Hyperbole
c. Simile
d. Personification
43. ‘To be or not to be, that is the
question,’ this line is taken from
what particular Shakespearean
play?

a. Othello
b. Macbeth
c. Hamlet
d. Romeo and Juliet
44. Identify the play from which the lines
are taken:
.
All that glitters is not gold;
Often you have heard that told;
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do norms enfold
a. Merchant of Venice
b. Macbeth
c. As You Like It
d. Romeo and Juliet
45. Identify the play from which the
line is taken:
Good name in man and woman . . .
is the immediate jewel of souls.
a. Merchant of Venice
b. Macbeth
c. Othello
d. Romeo and Juliet
46. Which language system is focused
on vocabulary?

a. Semantics
b. Syntax
c. Pragmatics
d. Phonetics
47. What does evergreen mean in
journalism?
a. any kind of content that is continually
relevant, never goes out of date, and
stays fresh for readers
b. any kind of content which includes
news, statistical reports, seasonal
topics, and current trends
c. any content that talks about nature
d. any kind of content that is related to
current events
48. What figure of speech is used in the
sentence below?

I can eat a whole cow!

a. Hyperbole
b. Simile
c. Personification
d. Metaphor
49. Neither Elaine nor the other girls
sent __________ photograph
entries.

a. their
b. her
c. its
d. themselves
50. None of my siblings __________
here last week for the family
reunion.

a. is
b. are
c. was
d. were
51. Juan dela Cruz, the elected mayor,
made the speech __________.

a. herself
b. hisself
c. himself
d. itself
52. What term refers to the differences
in pronunciation of the ‘-ed’ ending
in the words “lived”, “worked”, and
“wedded”?
a. diagraphs
b. allomorphs
c. allophones
d. accents
53. To the preoccupied Rose and
_________, the lecture was simply
gibberish.
a. I
b. me
c. mine
d. myself
54. __________ Filipinos must learn to
look out for our country’s interests.

a. Them
b. They
c. Us
d. We
55. __________ beauty cannot be
measured.

a. Its
b. It’s
c. It has
d. It was
56. If I __________ a horse, I would be
running round and round this farm
stop.

a. were
b. was
c. is
d. am
57. Lila bought coffee for Isabella and
_________.

a. me
b. mine
c. both me and I are correct
d. I
58. This aspect of linguistics deals about
how we actually use speech in
communication, and how context
aids the transmission of meaning in
utterances.
a. Phonetics
b. Semantics
c. Syntax
d. Pragmatics
59. The rescue services are still trying to
__________ the fire.

a. put out
b. put off
c. turn out
d. turn off
60. The word with an inflectional
morpheme is _________.

a. clarify
b. clarity
c. clarifying
d. clarification
61. What is the smallest unit of sound
of any language that causes a
difference in meaning called?

a. Morpheme
b. Allophone
c. Phoneme
d. Allomorph
62. “One thousand hands made the
pyramids of Egypt.” What figure of
speech is used in the given
statement?

a. metaphor
b. metonymy
c. onomatopoeia
d. synecdoche
63. The laborers are so happy that
__________ now reaping the fruit
of __________ efforts.

a. they’re - there
b. there - their
c. their - their
d. they’re - their
64. “Her way of speaking is as
entertaining as a laundry list” is an
example of __________.

a. onomatopoeia
b. simile
c. hyperbole
d. metaphor
65. Which among the given sentences
contain a transitive verb?

a. She drank tea and then slept well.

b. She cried, laughed, and cried again.
c. The new movie was a hit.
d. She went to the market to buy a
new sofa.
66. Stephen looked to the future.
The verb in the sentence is a/an
__________.

a. prepositional verb
b. transitive verb
c. ditransitive verb
d. intransitive verb
67. Which sentence has a ditransitive
verb?

a. He looked at the mountain with

binoculars.
b. Mother made my doll dresses.
c. We were happily chatting under the
tree.
d. She put a rocking chair on the lawn.
68. Which refers to the softness or
loudness of sound?

a. Pitch
b. Stress
c. Volume
d. Juncture
69. Which refers to the highness or
lowness of sound?

a. Pitch
b. Stress
c. Volume
d. Juncture
70. Phonemic units are decoded and linked
together to form words, words are linked
together to form phrases, phrases are
linked together to form utterances,
and utterances are linked together to
form complete meaningful texts. This
view of listening as a linear fashion is
called?
a. Bottom-up
b. Top-down
c. Interactive
d. Osmotic
71. This reading perspective views reading as
not just extracting meaning from a text, but
a process of connecting information in the
text with the knowledge the reader brings
to the act of reading. Comprehension
begins in the mind of the reader who
already have some ideas about the meaning
of the text.
a. Bottom-up
b. Top-down
c. Interactive
d. Osmotic
72. “Suddenly, the room was filled with
a deafening silence.”

What figure of speech is used?

a. Irony
b. Oxymoron
c. Sarcasm
d. Hyperbole
74. What type of sonnet has a rhyme
scheme of abab – cdcd – efef – gg?

a. Petrarchan
b. Shakespearean
c. Spenserian
d. Miltonic
73. Which of the following is an
example of a palindrome?

a. wad
b. civic
c. picnic
d. civil
75. RAFT is a writing strategy that helps
students understand their role as a
writer. Which of the following questions
answers to A that stands in RAFT?
a. To whom are you writing?
b. What are you writing about?
c. In what format are you writing?
d. Who are you as the writer?
76. A language teaching approach which is
based on the assumption that people
learn a second language more
successfully when they use the language
as a means of acquiring information.
a. Direct Method
b. CLT
c. Grammar-Translation Method
d. CBI
77. “The wise fool took my taco.”

What figure of speech is used?

a. irony
b. oxymoron
c. paradox
d. sarcasm
78. “They said they enjoyed their light
lunch.”

The underlined words show _________.

a. pun
b. euphemism
c. irony
d. understatement
79. Which of the following is an example of
a satire?

a. The Makioka Sisters

b. Poor Christ of Bomba
c. The God of Small Things
d. A Wilderness of Sweets
80. Which among the following words is
different in terms of structure?

a. mother
b. leather
c. tether
d. brother
81. Who was considered the greatest
Elizabethan playwright?

a. William Shakespeare
b. Christopher Marlowe
c. Ben Johnson
d. Emily Dickinson
82. She answered her accusers calmly and
without rancor.
The word in bold means __________.

a. malice
b. envy
c. anger
d. bitterness
83. President Duterte delivered his speech
with great aplomb.

a. ability
b. composure
c. eloquence
d. applause
84. Who wrote the novel War and Peace?

a. Edmund Spenser
b. Ivan Turgenev
c. George Bernard Shaw
d. Leo Tolstoy
86. Lessons in vocabulary show effects of
homophones. Which word would fit
when answered, “Well, the Committee
on Ways and Means must __________
to set aside amount for rehabilitation.”
a. assent
b. ascent
c. accent
d. ascend
85. The politician refused to attend political
groups. He was retired. They say:

a. he is out of sight.
b. he is out of circulation.
c. he is indifferent.
d. he is isolated.
87. Controls of television and film show
to protect young minds is handled
by a government agency. Identify
that agency.

a. MTFRB
b. NHA
c. PAGIBIG
d. MMDA
88. 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. Because
b. For
c. In behalf
d. On behalf
89. What is the usual ending of a
Comedia?

a. victory of Muslim
b. death of the Queen
c. victory of Christians
d. death of the Prince
90. The type of novel which became
popular in the 18th century is _____.

a. epistolary
b. gothic
c. religious
d. fable
91. An approach to teaching grammar
where rules are given only after
students have done intensive
pattern practice in various contexts
is called __________.

a. functional
b. deductive
c. formal
d. inductive
92. A verse with fourteen (14) iambic
pentameter lines is called:

a. verse
b. epic
c. sonnet
d. ballad
93. Which among the sounds below is a
voiceless sound?

a. /dz/
b. /g/
c. /z/
d. /sh/
94. Which among the sounds below
does not belong?

a. /p/
b. /s/
c. /f/
d. /v/
95. Which among the sounds below
does not belong?

a. /m/
b. /b/
c. /w/
d. /n/
96. This period is considered as the
Golden Age of the Filipino language.

a. American regime
b. Japanese regime
c. Marcos regime
d. Spanish regime
97. The objective of this methodology is
to teach oral proficiency at the
beginning level through the use of
action-based drills in imperative
forms.

a. Communicative Language Teaching

b. Community Language Learning
c. Total Physical Response (TPR)
d. Audio-lingual
99. Who among the following is known
as the Indian Shakespeare?

a. Sadi
b. Kalidasa
c. Tagore
d. Khayyam
98. She enjoys plays, cultural exhibits and
to walk every morning.
a. She enjoys plays, cultural exhibits and
morning walks.
b. She goes to plays, cultural exhibits
every morning.
c. She goes to plays, watching exhibits
and walking every morning.
d. She enjoys going to plays, exhibitions,
and walking every morning.
100. The greatest lyric poet of ancient
Greece, the master of epinicia, a
choral order celebrating victories
achieved in the various official
tournaments held throughout
Greece, was _________.
a. Anacreon
b. Pindar
c. Sappho
d. Juvenal
101. In English verse, a poetic foot
having one stressed syllable
followed by one unstressed
syllable is called __________.
a. dactylic
b. trochaic
c. anapestic
d. iambic
102. If Dick’s father is John’s son, what
relation has Dick to John?
a. Nephew
b. Brother
c. Son
d. Grandson
103. What system do students use in
capitalization and punctuation
rules?
a. Pragmatics
b. Phonology
c. Semantics
d. Syntax
104. Which of the following is NOT
associated with Romanticism?
a. emphasis on the collective rather
than on the individual
b. belief in the child’s superior insight
c. celebration on nature
d. emphasis on the power of
imagination
105. Which poetic style is most
associated with Robert Browning?
a. sonnet
b. ode
c. lyric ballad
d. dramatic monologue
106. What do normal persons possess
that enable them to learn a
language spontaneously?
a. language device
b. habit formation
c. grammar rules
d. language competence
107. Which is a statement of fact?

a. Photography is difficult to learn.

b. Photography is an expensive hobby.
c. Photography is not a real art form.
d. Photography is a process based on
light.
108. The journalistic practice of using
sensational headlines and stunt
reporting is called __________.
a. yellow journalism
b. developmental journalism
c. environmental journalism
d. advocacy journalism
109. Which is an example of a learning
task having direct authenticity?
a. simulation
b. filling out a blank application form
c. small group discussion
d. role playing
110. Which should NOT be incorporated
in instructional materials?
a. encouraging learners to monitor
their own learning
b. engaging interaction
c. fostering competition between and
among learners
d. evaluating the effectiveness of
classroom task
111. In the communication process, any
observable response sent by the
receiver of the message to the
sender is called __________.
a. signal
b. reaction
c. gesture
d. feedback
112. What is emphasized in the
Communicative approach?
a. listening and speaking
b. correct pronunciation
c. students’ sharing of personal
experience
d. students’ interaction in real life
situations
113. Choose an answer below that
describes the carryover of
previous performance or
knowledge to subsequent
learning.
a. Generalization
b. Transfer
c. Overgeneralization
d. None of the above
114. “While a cold hand snatched you
away like a knife – I should have
come home.”

What is expressed in this line?

a. regret
b. loss
c. sadness
d. love
115. The initialization of incorrect
linguistic forms into a person’s
second language competence is
called __________.
a. cryogenation
b. error
c. fossilization
d. none of the above
117. Which can a teacher use to teach
the idea that there is a range of
meaning between opposite
words?
a. Cline
b. Matching
c. Context Clues
d. Pictures
118. In audio-lingual method, why are
mistakes in pronunciation and
grammar immediately corrected?
a. So that the behavior does not
become a habit.
b. So that learners become conscious
of their mistakes.
c. So that learners will practice more.
d. So that learners develop accuracy
and fluency.
118. In pronouncing the word
characterization, on which syllable
is the primary stress placed?
a. second
b. fourth
c. fifth
d. first
119. /t/, /p/, or /k/ is aspirated as an
initial sound when it is followed by

a. an unstressed syllable
b. two syllables
c. a stressed syllable
d. three syllables
120. Who wrote Mga Ibong
Mandaragat?
a. Virgilio Almario
b. Amado V. Hernandez
c. Lualhati Bautista
d. Edgardo Reyes
121. The Tale of Genji was written by

a. Kawabata Yasunari
b. Akutagawa Ryunosuki
c. Rabindranath Tagore
d. Lady Murasaki Shikibu
122. Which short narrative poem is
intended to be sung?

a. Romance
b. Lyric
c. Ballad
d. Epic
123. According to Krashen, what is the
function of knowledge of
grammatical rules in language
performance?

a. Output
b. Monitor
c. Input
d. Affect
124. Which of the verbs below would fit
the sentence:

It __________ unfair that she

should stay home to do all the
work.
a. needs
b. tends to
c. seems
d. has to
125. The official stand of the newspaper
on a particular issue is found in the

a. front page
b. feature section
c. inside page
d. editorial page
126. This is the first accepted
masterpiece in Philippine
Literature in English.
a. Desire
b. Small Key
c. Dead Stars
d. My Father Goes to Court
127. After ten depressing long years,
Elaina finally quit the job. She
__________ along with her
superior for a long time before she
finally decided to look for a new
position.
a. isn’t getting
b. hasn’t been getting
c. didn’t get
d. hadn’t been getting
128. Five years of intensive language
study are required for second
language learners. Charlie _______
English for three years, but he will
need more training to be more
proficient.
a. will have been studying
b. has studied
c. will be studying
d. has been studying
129. Who is considered as the goddess
of Philippine poetry?

a. Teresa Subido
b. Angela Manalang Gloria
c. Alda Rivera Ford
d. Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta
130. This pertains to the pauses or rests
in speech.

a. stress
b. pitch
c. juncture
d. intonation
131. He is known as the Father of Horror
Stories.

a. Mark Twain
b. William Faulkner
c. Edgar Allan Poe
d. Harriet Beecher Stowe
132. A verbal deadwood refers to:

a. verbalized grammar
b. expanded verbs in a sentence
c. unnecessary words or phrases
d. none of the above
133. The first campus paper in the
Philippines was:

a. El Liliputiense
b. El Diarista
c. El Filibusterismo
d. none of the above
134. What was the name of the inn in
which the pilgrims in The
Canterbury Tales rested?
a. Southwark Inn
b. Harry’s Inn
c. Baily Inn
d. Tabard Inn
135. Someone like Eagleton who says
that literature concerns not only
beauty but the social control of
the middle and working classes is
most likely to be what kind of
critic?
a. Structuralist
b. Marxist
c. Formalist
d. Psychological
136. Which word has an open syllable?

a. open
b. window
c. happen
d. forget
137. Which word does NOT rhyme with
the others?

a. sew
b. through
c. due
d. do
138. Which acronym is an alphabetism?

a. UN
b. NOW
c. scuba
d. NATO
139. The word formed with a
derivational morpheme is ______.

a. rests
b. restive
c. rested
d. resting
140. He __________ to Chicago just a
few months ago.

a. moved
b. would move
c. had moved
d. has moved
142. The number of students who
attended the seminar-workshop
__________ considerably large.

a. is
b. are
c. was
d. were
141. __________ in the hospital since
last Thursday.

a. He was
b. He’s
c. He’s been
d. He’d been
143. Which of the following plural
nouns is an unmarked form?

a. students
b. women
c. bacteria
d. sheep
144. Which is the correct form of verb of
LIE or LAY in the sentence?

Yesterday I (rested) in my room

worrying about today’s examination.

a. lay
b. have lain
c. laid
d. have laid
145. Rheina resides __________ #132
Molave Street, Teacher’s Village
__________ Davao City.

a. at - in
b. at - on
c. in - on
d. on - in
146. Each year, the House members
always __________ the budget for
education.

a. cut
b. cuts
c. has cut
d. have cut
147. The word indices __________ the
plural form for the singular index.

a. is
b. was
c. are
d. were
148. Procter and Gamble __________ a
lot of products. One of these
products __________ the famous
bath soap Safeguard.

a. produce - are
b. produce - is
c. produces - are
d. produces - is
149. Marianito picked ___________
apples yesterday.

a. fresh, six, dozen, big, red

b. red, big, fresh, six, dozen
c. big, red, fresh, six. dozen
d. six-dozen, big, fresh, red
150. Rules of adding suffixes and
prefixes are under the level of
__________.

a. morphology
b. pragmatics
c. syntax
d. phonetics