The document is a pre-test for English consisting of reading passages and questions. The first passage is about a girl named Gamba who loves weaving. She gets angry at her mother and is turned into a spider as punishment. The second passage tells the legend of a lazy trainee of the Goddess of Weavers who is turned into a monkey for making her dress out of leather instead of cotton as instructed. The test contains multiple choice and short answer questions to assess comprehension of key details in the passages.

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PRE TEST (Quarter 1)
ENGLISH 4
Name: ________________________________ Date: _________________ Score: ___________
Test I. Listening
Listen as the teacher reads a story. Then, answer the questions that follow.
1. What does Gamba love to do most?
a. painting b. weaving c. dancing d. gardening
2. What happened first before Gamba turned into a spider?
a. She weaved threads into cloth.
b. She sewed dresses for other people.
c. She got angry at her mother.
d. She went to buy some threads.
3. Gamba never stopped working and weaving. This statement would give us an idea about Gamba. Which of this words
best describes her?
a. diligent b. lazy c. thrifty d. respectful
4. Which event could have happened if mother had not sewn the torn curtain?
a. Gamba would have sewn it herself.
b. Gamba could have changed the curtains into a new set of curtains.
c. Gamba could have bought a new curtain.
d. Gamba could have done the sewing better than her mother.
5-10. Draw the part of the story where Gamba turned into a spider.
Test II. Reading Comprehension
Read the following story. Answer the questions that follow.
The Legend of the Monkey
Once there was a young girl who lived in the forest and was a trainee of the Goddess of Weavers. One day,
the Goddess called the girl and asked her to make a dress made of cotton. The young girl had no idea how to
make it. So the Goddess explained that she has to clean the cotton, beat it, spin it, weave it into cloth, cut it and
finally sew it.
But the girl was lazy and thought that making a dress out of the cotton was a lot of hard work. So she thought of
an easier way. She took the leather cloth which is used to beat the cotton and wore it. She also thought that the
leather would last longer than the cotton.
When the Goddess asked the girl to show her the dress, she got furious to find out what the girl did. So she
punished her by making the leather stick to her skin and beat her with a wooden stick which became her tail. And
the girl became the first monkey.
11. The girl is a trainee. She is learning how to become a good weaver. Which word is similar to the word trainee?
a. skillful b. learner c. expert d. practiced
12. Which event happened before the girl thought of making the leather as her dress?
a. The girl sewed the leather into a dress.
b. The goddess asked the girl to make a dress.
c. The leather stuck to the girl’s skin.
d. The girl turned into a monkey.
13. All, except one, has a long e vowel sound. Which is the word?
a. beat b. weave c. find d. trainee

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14. Which compound word can be formed out of the words line and clothes?
a. lineclothes b. lines of clothes c. clothline d. clothesline
15. Read the sentence and choose the word read with silent letter.
The young girl had no idea how to make a dress out of cotton.
a. young b. girl c. make d. idea
16. In this series of words, which word should come after cotton: car, cotton, clean, cut, cry?
a. cry b. clean c. cut d. car
17. Which is the plural of monkey?
a. monkies b. monkey c . monkeys d. monkeyses
18. Which expression could tell plural of sugar?
a. a pocket of b. a teaspoon of c. a houseful of d. a bottle of
19. Which sentence shows the correct expression of possessive nouns?
a. The goddess’ stick turned into a tail.
b. The goddes’s stick turned into a tail.
c. The goddess stick turned into a tail.
d. The goddesse’s stick turned into a tail.
20. Find the pair of this word: forest
a. plain b. mountain c. woods d. barrio
21– 23 Show in a graphic organizer the steps in making a dress out of cotton.
24 – 27 Fill in the table below with the correct words:
boy, late, cow, shell, rite, chair, calm, weak, look, cute, kneel
28. Angry is to calm as lazy is to .
a. idle b. hard working c. slow d. fast
29. Which could be the reason why the goddess of Weavers wanted the girl to sew a dress?
a. She wanted the girl to learn how to sew a dress.
b. She wanted the girl to sell the dress.
c. She wanted the girl to make a dress for her.
d. She wanted the girl to do things for her.
30. You were asked to do something but you do not know how to do it. What should you do?
a. Ask the help of someone to do it for you.
b. Ask the help of someone to show you how to do it, then, try it yourself.
c. Ask the help of someone to show you how to do it then wait for other’s help.
d. Ask someone to work it out with you.
31. Read the sentences below. Which sentence has a word with a long vowel a?
a. The Goddess of Weaver asked the girl to make a dress.
b. The Goddess of Weaver said the girl has to clean, beat, spin, cut the cotton then sew the dress.
c. The Goddess of weaver thought the cotton dress is fine.
d. The Goddess of weaver got furious when the girl disobeyed her.
32. Which word does not belong to the group?
a. church b. choir c. chair d. champ
33. If you have to arrange the words in alphabetical order, which could be the correct order:
monkey, men, make, mud, mitten
a. monkey, mud, mitten, make, men
b. mud, monkey, mitten, men, make
c. make, men, mitten, monkey, mud
d. mitten, men, make, monkey, mud
34. If goddess is to goddesses, then trainee is to .
a. traineesses b. trainees c. trainers d. traineies
Words with Long
vowel sounds
Words with
diphthongs
Words with
digraphs
Words with
silent letters

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35. Which sentence is expressed correctly?
a. The girl wears the leather as her dress.
b. The girl wear the leather as her dress.
c. The girls wears the leather as their dress.
d. The girl wearing the leather as her dress.
Test III. Nos. 36-38
In 3 or more sentences, write a short paragraph that tell something about any of the character in the story you read
(the girl or the goddess). Be ready to share this to the class.
Nos. 39 - 40
Using the words first, next, then and lastly, use the following sentences to write a paragraph on how to make a cloth
out of cotton.
Clean the cotton. Beat and spin it. Weave it into cloth and cut it. Sew it.