General Education - English

1. The wounded soldiers were visited by the president who honored them with ____ for their ____

a.) medals — valor b.) gun salute — bravery

A

2. Which among the sounds below is voiceless?

a.) /b/ b.) /p/

B

3. Which is the BEST WAY to write the underlined portion of this sentence? Researchers also speculate that some teachers might have given boys more computer time because
parents and teachers expected boys to need computers for future careers.

a.) will expect
b.) will have expected

B

4. Robert Frost wrote the Poem Acquainted with the Night from which the stanza is taken: I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain-back in rain. I have out walked the farthest city light The poet in the stanza talks of?

a.) isolation and loneliness b.) joy getting out of the house

A

5. “Only the heart can see rightly.” This statement is lifted from what particular novel?

a.) The Prince and the Pauper b.) The Little Prince

B

6. He was the American President who said, “Ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”

a.) Henry Truman b.) John F. Kennedy

B

7. History is the witness that ____ passing of time.

a.) testifies for b.) testifies for the

B

8. An association wherein the name of something is substituted by something that represents it.

a.) Metonymy b.) Euphemism

A

9. In English verse, a poetic foot having 1 stressed syllable followed by 1 unstressed syllable is ____

a.) Trochaic b.) lambic

A

10. Senators were accused by activists of washing their hands with the perfumes of Arabia. This state is commonly known as:

a.) Guilt b.) Triumph

A

11. I suggest that he ____ in the room for one week.

a.) stay b.) stayed

A

12. When I met Liza yesterday, it was the first time I ____ her since Christmas.

a.) had seen b.) have seen

B

13. Be sure to fill ____ the forms correctly.

a.) in b.) on

A

14. Excuse me, can I borrow ____ dictionary?

a.) your b.) yours

A

15. Far ____ Terry's small plane lay the freezing waters of the North Sea, where his father's boat had disappeared many years before.

a.) Underneath b.) below

B

16. Excuse me, ____ the time?

a.) have you b.) have you got

B

17. Nowadays, ____ are much better behaved than their parents were at the same age, don't you think?

a.) teenagers b.) the teenagers

B

18. We're late. By the time we get to the cinema, the film ____

a.) will have started b.) has started

B

19. Which of the following is expressed clearly, effectively states the idea, and has no structural error?

a.) Albert himself told me it was true. b.) Albert, himself, told me it was true.

A

20. Did you have ____ on holiday?

a.) a good weather b.) good weather

A

21. “Of man’s first disobedience , and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree" is the opening to:

a.) Paradise Lost by John Milton b.) The Vision of Delight by Ben Jonson

A

22. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel by whose author?

a.) Oscar Wilde b.) John Steinbeck

A

23. What canon of religious literature was finally, firmly fixed at the end of 4th century AD?

a.) The Hebrew Bible b.) New Testament

B

24. Who wrote the novel "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?”

a.) William Golding b.) Robert Louis Stevenson

B

25. “No smoking during the cigarette break.” What kind of figure of speech was used?

a.) Irony b.) Oxymoron

A

26. The Greek dramatist authored “Alcestis” and “Andromache.”

a.) Homer b.) Euripides

B

27. This one is made from ersatz coloring. ERSATZ means:

a.) Genuine b.) Artificial

B

28. In the 23rd century BC, Sargon of Akkad conquered Mesopotamia, and became the subject legends. It is from a Sumerian legend that we learn how Sargon established himself as the cupbearer of the king of Kish in Sumer. What early form of writing did the invent?

a.) Cuneiform b.) Hieroglyphics

A

29. Which of the following is an incorrect representation of the Scarlet Letter throughout the course of the novel?

a.) Able b.) Avowal

B

30. Spot the correct word to complete the analogy. Donkey and Horse: Mule::Lion and Tiger:

a.) Thrag b.) Liger

B

31. Guest house rooms must be ____ by noon.

a.) Vacated b.) Abandoned

A

32. Which is NOT synonym for ‘gathering’?

a.) Contesseration b.) Collocation

A

33. Which word is defined by: A great fire, as of many buildings, a forest, or the like?

a.) Blizzard b.) Conflagration .

B

34. You eat like a horse when ____

a.) get used to something new b.) have a healthy appetite

B

35. I'll ____ their cat while they are away in holiday.

a.) be looking at b.) be looking after:

B

36. Madonna's agent ____ change her name at the start of her career.

a.) made her to b.) made

A

37. A light dramatic composition that uses highly improbable situations, stereotyped characters, extravagant exaggeration, and violent horseplay.

a.) Satire b.) Farce

B

38. Who was the author of the famous storybook 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland’?

a.) Rudyard Kipling b.) Lewis Caroll

B

39. Who was the 1st century BC poet and author of “The Aeneid” serves as a guide in Dante's “Inferno?”

a.) Homer b.) Virgil

B

40. Rizal gave the time of this quotation: “I die when the dawn breaks to herald the day.” What is the time of his death?

a.) Sometime sunset b.) Sometime at dawn

B

41. Which Russian novelist wrote “Anna Karenina” and “War and Peace?”

a.) Leo Tolstoy b.) Vladimir Nabokov

A

42. Read the following lines: Midnight, not a sound from the pavement. Has the moon lost its memory She is smiling alone In the lamp light the withered leaves Collect at my feet And the wind begins to moan.

This lines mean:

a.) Loneliness b.) Optimism

A

43. ____ is the study of the structure and form of words in language or a language, including inflection, derivation, and the formation of compounds.

a.) Phonology b.) Morphology

B

44. The English word “fig” is a:

a.) Phoneme b.) Morpheme

B

45. Because of the typhoon, a number of local businesses ____ closed yesterday

a.) were b.) are

A

46. The earliest recorded syllables are on tablets around 2800 BC in the Sumerian city of ____

a.) Mesopotamia b.) Ur

B

47. I could have joined the outreach project if I ____ in the country at that time.

a.) will be b.) were

B

48. When helping in the kitchen, I always careful not to hurt ____

a.) myself b.) ourselves

A

49. You ____ finished eating before we arrive.

a.) will have b.) have

A

50. I thought the work is heavy for Martha and ____

a.) myself b.) me

B

51. What is meant by AT SIXES AND SEVENS in this sentence? We moved into the house last week, but I'm afraid everything, is still at sixes and sevens.

a.) The things have not been shipped b.) In a state of confusion

B

52. For the synecdoche figurative expression "My mother has a green thumb. I can't wait to show her garden." What is the equivalent meaning?

a.) She grows a vegetable garden plants b.) She is good at gardening

B

53. She is ____ a jeepney.

a.) in b.) On

A

54. Which of the following words has an alternate correct spelling as shown in any good dictionary?

a.) Advertisement b.) Apologized

B

55. This is ____ typhoon in five years.

a.) a worse b.) the worst

B

56. Danny looked at the ____ to look meanings of words used by the book in its various chapters

a.) glossary b.) index

A

57. What type of language is normally used in ordinary conversation and other informal communication? e.g. “What a close shave?”

a.) Trite Expression b.) Colloquialism

B

58. What error is committed in the sentence: “The bus stopped suddenly, I spilled coffee all over my shirt.”

a.) Run-on b.) Dangling modifier

A

59. What type of error is shown in this sentence? “Faster than a speeding bullet, the citizens of Metropolis saw Superman flying overhead.”

a.) Faulty Coordination b.) Misplaced Modifier

B

60. To show phonological awareness skill in the student says the word, then say the syllable or sound

a.) Segmenting b.) Rhyming

A

61. Which following pair of words is prescriptively correct in the blanks within the sentence: “I enjoy ____ but I would not like ____ it all my life.”

a.) Painting: doing b.) To paint: to do

A

62. Which sentence is consistent in the use of indefinite pronoun?

a.) Everyone is required to do our share in the development of their community b.) Everyone is required to do his share in the development of his community

B

63. Jiemark was happy after he bought three ____

a.) pieces of antique furniture b.) piece of antique furnitures

A

64. The underlined word in the following sentence is "As a volunteer, he joined the VACC, an organization against corruption and crime"

a.) Objective complement
b.) Appositive

B

65. There aren't ____ for everybody attending the meetings.

a.) enough chairs b.) much chairs

A

66. Where are the human vocal cords located?

a.) Pharynx B . Larynx

B

67. Egyptian literature is identified as literature

a.) European b.) Mediterranean

B

68. What is the logical fallacy in: "You once sponsored a project of the governor, therefore you are the governor's crony?"

a.) Illogical conclusion b.) Association fallacy

A

69. In the speech process, Which is concerned with amplifying and enriching the voice, using human amplifiers such as the nose, windpipe and chest?

a.) Resonation b.) Phonation

A

70. What kind of word is AWOL?

a.) Borrowed b.) Acronym

B

71. He authored the popular short stories, "How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife," and "Midsummer," which both depict scenes in Barrio Nagrebcan, Bauang, La Union, where he was born.

a.) Manuel Arguilla b.) Bienvenido Santos

A

72. Which type of error is committed in the sentence below? “The President together with his department secretaries is in Central Luzon distributing relief good.”

a.) Dangling modifier b.) Misplaced modifier

B

73. Which is the BEST interpretation of this metaphorical line: “The car is a gluton for gasoline.”

a.) Speeding eats up a lot of gas b.) High expensive for fuels gas

A

74. Which of the Japanese poems consist of five lines 5-7-5-7-7 syllables including atleast one pause?

a.) Hokku b.) Tanka

B

75. When you teach students to use pleasant words instead of those with distasteful or offensive effect like the “grim-reaper” for death, or “crossing over’ for dying, you are teaching a lesson on ____

a.) Euphemism b.) Contextualization

A

76. On levels of reading comprehension, which involves the understanding of information stated directly in the text?

a.) Critical b.) Literal

B

77. Which of the following speech articulators does most of the work in sounds like d, t, s, z, l, n and th?

a.) teeth b.) tongue

B

78. In the phrase structure rules, a preposition consist of a preposition followed by a ____

a.) noun phrase b.) clause

A

79. This tense connotes actions that are happening at present time, meaning right now.

a.) Progressive Tense b.) Present Perfect

A

80. Who is Considered the goddess of Philippine poetry?

a.) Opelia Alcantara Dimalanta b.) Teresa Subido

A

81. Leo Tolstoy’s short Story about a man falsely judge and accused of murder is entitled ____

a.) Murder b.) God Sees The Truth but Waits

B

82. A sonnet has 14 iambic pentameter lines and that means:

a.) There are 10 syllables in a line b.) There are 5 syllables in a line

A

83. What do we call the last two lines of the sonnet?

a.) Heroic couplet b.) Couplet

B

84. Jose Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere is inspired by the novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe entitled ____

a.) Uncle Tom's Cabin b.) Les Miserables

A

85. What is considered the oldest epic in England?

a.) Beowulf b.) Song of Roland

A

86. What is the name of the very first library in the world?

a.) Beijing Imperial Library b.) Ashurbannipal Library

B

87. 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

A

88. He is the advocate of Art for Art’s sake in the Philippines.

a.) Jose Garcia Villa b.) Jose Salvador

A

89. Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing are collectively known as ____

a.) Macro Skills b.) Communicative Competence

A

90. DRTA in reading means:

a.) Directed Reading and Thinking Activity b.) Direct Reading and Teaching Activity

A

91. In developmental reading, this pertains to the familiarity of the students toward the sounds of the language.

a.) Phonemic Awareness b.) Phonology

B

92. Who is the Indian counterpart of William Shakespeare?

a.) Tagore b.) Kalidasa

B

93. Who wrote the novel “A Christmas Carol” which is about a man who hates Christmas?

a.) Charles Dickens b.) Oscar Wilde

A

94. This is considered the Golden Age of Literacy Production in England.

a.) The reign of Queen Elizabeth b.) The reign of Charles II

A

95. The pen name of Mary Ann Evans is ____

a.) George Eliot b.) Emily Watts

A

96. “She is a star in the heavens above." What figure of speech is used?

a.) Simile b.) Metaphor

B

97. What figure of speech is used in the sentenced below? “I can eat a whole cow!"

a.) Personification b.) Hyperbole

B

98. Mark Twain's novel Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are set in the ____ river.

a.) Nile b.) Mississippi

B

99. Who ‘wrote the Pride and Prejudice?

a.) Jane Austen b.) Charlotte Bronte

A

100. What is the first Filipino Social Novel by Pedro Paterno?

a.) Ninay b.) Kenkoy

A