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1. Direction: Choose the answer for each item. On the Answer Sheet provided, shade the CHOICE,
which corresponds to your answer.
A Study made a number of years ago said the more education a man has, the less likely
he is to be an inventor. Now, the reason for that is quite simple. From the time the boy or girl starts
in school,he or she is examined three or four times a year, and of course, it is very, very disastrous
if he/she fails. An inventor fails all the time and it is triumph if he succeeds once. Consequently, if
education is an inhibition to invention, it is due entirely to the form by which we rate things and
not because of any intellectual differential.
I can take any group of young people any place, and teach them to be inventors, if I can
get them to throw off the hazard of being afraid to fail. You fail because your ideas are not right.
You should not be afraid to fail, but you should learn to fail intelligently. By that I mean, when you
fail, find out why you failed, and each time you fail it will bring you nearer to the goal.
-from 100 Stories You Can
Use by Frank Mihalic
1. What relationship is shown between education and invention?
A. The former is the cause of the latter
C. Education is not useful for the inventor
B. One’s education guarantees an invention
D. Education does not encourage a person to be an inventor
2. According to the selection, what is true about an inventor?
A. An inventor succeeds in all endeavors
B. An inventor always succeeds in the first attempt
C. An inventor gives up on the first failure of the experiment
D. An inventor experiences failures several times before he/she succeeds
3. How are the ideas mentioned in this statement connected, “If education is an inhibition to invention,
it is due entirely to the form by which we rate things”?
A. The sentence enumerates reasons for invention
B. The sentence conveys the result of being uneducated
C. The sentence compares education and invention
D. The sentence gives cause-effect relationship between education and invention
4. What is the writer’s view about failure?
A. I is disastrous
C. It is an inhibition to invention
B. It helps people learn and get near their goal
D. It hinders one’s desire to succeed
5. What could be the message of the selection?
A. Success comes to those who persevere

2. B. Success brings pride to one’s country
C. Failure reflect one’s limited intellect
D. Failure stops people form inventing thing
Music Can Heal Mental Wounds but Only in the Right Hands
By Eva DorotheeSchmid
1 Human beings have known about the healing properties of music since Biblical times
–according to the Old Testament for example David soother King Saul’s aching brow by reaching
for his harp.
2 There are also many references to the healing potential of music in texts left behind
by the ancient Greeks.
3 The same properties are not put to good use in the modern filed of music therapy. Music
therapy is psychotherapeutic procedure which does not compete with traditional medicine but
rather tries to complement it.
4 Music arouses emotion, soothes, comforts and can lead to changes in behavior. It
can also encourage the healing process,increasea person’s ability to tolerate pain and help them
overcome their fears.
5 All this can result in changes in the body’s chemistry
6 Studies show that the right sort of music cause the body to release an increased
amount of so-called endorphins with the results that the person becomes less sensitive to pain
and feels much better.
-from Manila
Bulletin, August 2007
6. The writer discusses
A. The causes of music therapy
B. The effects of music
C. the music in Biblical times
D. the music for life
7. The ideas are arranged using _____________ as a pattern of organization.
A. Enumeration
B. cause-effect
C. Problem-solution
D. chronological
8. The writer defines a concept/term in paragraph
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D.4
9. According to the selection. the following are the effects of music except:
A. Emotional healing
B. academic excellence

3. C. Pain tolerance
D. behavioral change
10. There are ___________ effects of music mentioned in paragraph 3.
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
11. The writer wants to explain
A. That music can replace medicine
B. When music can complement medicine
C. How music can useful for well-being
D. Why music is popular
The Cook’s Prayer
Lord of all the pots and pans and things, since I’ve no time to be
A saint by doing lovely things, or watching late with Thee,
Or dreaming in the dawnlight, Or storming heaven’s gates,
Make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates.
-from 1000 Stories You Can use by Frank Mihalic
12. Who is speaking in the poem?
A. A saint
B. The Lord
C. A cook
D. A wife
13. Which of the following tells what the speaker does?
A. Watches late at night
B. Storms heaven’s gate
C. Dreams in the downlight
D. Washes up the plates
14. How does the speaker in the poem regard the saints?
A. With admiration
B. With compassion
C. With understanding
D. With sympathy
15. What do the last two lines mean? The speaker is saying that he ______________

4. A. Be given patience so he can do his work
B. Wants to be a saint of pots and pans
C. Like his job and praying to his saints
D. Does not like to work at night
It is said:
That there is hardly a bar of music which Beethoven did not rewrite at least a dozen times.
That Bryant rewrote THANATOPSIS a hundred times
That Gibbon rewrote his AUTOBIOGRAPHY nine times
That Plato wrote the first sentence of his REPUBLIC nine times
That Virgil spent 12 years writing his AENEID
-from 1000 Stories You Can Use by Frank Mihalic
16. What does the word bar mean in the selection?
A. A vertical line drawn to show division of notes
B. A gate closing a road
C. A strip of wood used for obstruction
D. A railing in a court
17. What could be the reason for capitalizing some words in the selection?
A. They show the importance of greatness
B. They stand for concepts difficult to understand
C. They reflect insights on human nature
D. They represent great works of persistent people
18. What could be inferred about the people mentioned in the selection?
A. They are gifted with power
B. They are born to succeed in life
C. They are admired for who they are
D. They are recognized in their discipline
19. Which is the best statement that tells the main idea of the selection?
A. One’s greatness is the product of brilliance
B. Success is measured by one’s effortless creation
C. Perseverance makes one reach his or her goal
D. Success is for every person who waits for it patiently
20. Which is the best way to paraphrase the sentence?
Theresa was worried about passing the very difficult test.
A. Receiving a passing grade on the difficult exam concerned Theresa.
B. Theresa was worried about receiving good marks on the test, which was very hard.
C. he is worried about the results of the test.
D. The outcome of the test made Theresa so worried.

5. 21. Which among the following is not a type of thesis statement?
A. Analytical thesis statement
B. Expository thesis statement
C. Argumentative thesis statement
D. Literary thesis statement
22. Which two questions is essential in writing the supporting details of an argumentative paragraph?
A. Why and So Why?
B. How and Why?
C. Where and When?
D. When and Why?
23. For thousands of years, rice _________ a staple for many people.
A. Is
B. Had been
C. Was
D. Has been
24. Beth’s new digital camera is more user-friendly than ______I have seen.
A. Anyone else
B. Any other
C. Another
D. others
25. What makes the sentences below wrong?
Patrick bought a new car- a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII- last week.
A. The indefinite article “a” was overused
B. The verb “bought” should have been “has bought”
C. The verb “bought” should have been “ has been buying”
D. The writer should have used dash instead of hyphen
26. All of the following have misplaced modifiers except:
A. The pianist played a new composition sitting on the piano bench
B. We heard the bus crashed on the radio
C. Weboarded the train with three suitcases heading toward our ancestral home in Ilocos Sur
D. I arranged the flowers for my mother using the new vase
27. All of the following are parallel except:
A. She left me angry, frustrated and wearing a frown
B. We have things to do, people to see, and places that should be visited
C. I enjoyed the opportunities it offers, the fringe benefits I receive and I earn a good salary
D. My father prepared the main course and fixed the dessert
28. Which would be appropriate subordinator to be used to complete this sentence?

6. _________she finally grew accustomed to the dark; she noticed a small chest in the corner of the
room.
A. When
B. Where
C. While
D. Because
29. All of the following show faulty use of the coordinating conjunctions except:
A. Marian sings in the choir, for she is a soprano
B. The clock chimed nine times but JC knew he had overslept
C. I studied the children and they were watching in awe as the parade floats went by
D. I tried to sleep , yet the thought of tomorrow’s math exam kept me awake
30. Which illustrates the proper use of comma?
A. When you call, and need someone, Rommel will come
B. When, you call and need someone Rommel will come
C. When you call and need someone Rommel, will come
D. When you, call and need someone Rommel will come
31. Which is a sample of a proper use of (“ “ )?
A. Irene laughed nervously and began, “Ladies and gentlemen.”
B. “Irene laughed nervously” and began, ladies and gentlemen.
C. Irene laughed nervously and began, “Ladies and gentlemen.
D. “Irene laughed nervously and began, ladies and gentlemen.”
32. Which of the following expressions can help you involve other members of the group in the
discussion?
A. Do you agree with his opinion?
B. Let’s go on to another point,
C. What do you mean?
D. Personally, I believe that….
33. Mathematics_______________ to be one of the least popular subjects among students.
A. Appear
B. appears
C. appeared
D. has appears
34. Technology ______________classroom teaching and learning in the last decade.
A. Changed
B. changes
C. will change
D. has changed

7. 35. Dr. Day is one of the language teaching experts___________________.
A. Who advocates reading for pleasure
B. Who advocated reading for pleasure
C. Who advocate reading for pleasure
D. Who will have advocated reading for pleasure
36. Maria wishes to say no to a friend who is asking for help in their homework. What should she
say?
A. I’d be glad to help
B. I’m with you
C. Can you repeat what you said?
D. I’m sorry but I’m busy
37. What error is committed in the sentence below?
Having eaten their supper, the cook told the men to clear the table
A. Fragment
B. Dangling modifier
C. Faulty Coordination
D. Faulty Parallelism
38. The hyphen is correctly used in all of the sentences below, except for.
A. The Democrats won a landslide election, 24-0
B. I am looking for the editor-in-chief to submit my grade
C. My father witnessed the signing of the Filipino- American treaty
D. Vanessa acquired a second-hand refrigerator lately
39. Which among the following is a thesis statement?
A. Tarsiers are considered as the smallest species of primate, and they are also considered as one
of the tourist attractions in Bohol. However, they easily get stressed,making their lifespan shorter.
Thus they should be returned to the wild.
B. Tarsiers are considered as the smallest species of primate, and they are also considered as one
of the tourist attractions in Bohol. Because of this, they should be returned to the wild
C. Tarsiers, the smallest species of primate and one of the tourist attractions in Bohol, should be
returned to the wild because they easily get stressed , making their lifespan shorter
D. Tarsiers, the smallest species of primate and one of the tourist attractions in Bohol, should return
to the wild
40. All of the transitional/cohesive devices below may be used when writing / showing a process,
except____________.
A. Nevertheless
B. moreover
C. finally
D. next
41. Which word in this sentence needs to be capitalized?

8. Whatever you do, father, will please me very much.
A. You
B. much
C. will
D. father
42. Which sentence illustrates the proper use of ( : )?
A. There are three causes: poverty, indolence, and injustice
B. There are three causes: poverty, indolence, and injustice:
C. There are three causes: poverty, indolence: and injustice
D. There are: three causes poverty, indolence, and injustice
43. What intonation contour or pattern applies to the question “Who will join the parade?”
A. 232à
B. 223↑
C. 231↓
D. 233↑
44. Which sentence is marked as 233↑231↓?
A. Do you like to join torch parade?
B. We want peace, good health and a happy family life
C. Diane, as well as her friends ,are planning a trip to the north
D. Do you prefer to go swimming or jog in the park
45. Which of the following sounds in the Trager and Smith Transcription System would you consider
a critical sound for Filipino learners of English?
A. /a/
B. /iy/
C. /i/
D. /uw/
46. Every woman, man, child ____________the right to live.
A. Have
B. has
C. had
D. do have
47. The excellent speaker can ________ even the most complicated ideas.
A. Get across
B. get through
C. Get away
D. get along

9. 48. I drive my neighbors up a wall with the loud banging of my new set of drums. The underlined
phrase means__________
A. Bump into my neighbor’s fence
B. Make them envious
C. annoy
D. let them listen and enjoy
49. I was simply making a tongue-in-cheek remark. I didn’t mean to offend her. The underlined idiom
means____________
A. Impossible
B. joke
C.lie
D .sketch
50. How did the students react when the teacher __________________ the mistakes on their test
papers?
A. Provided for
B. picked out
C. Pointed out
D. gave away