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WorksheetsDilaw na Libro 2019: Hsilgne
Total questions: 96
Worksheet time: 1hrs 5mins
What best describes vowel sound?
All vowel sounds are voiceless
Out mouth is always open in pronouncing vowel sounds
Which sound is a voiceless affricate?
Izh
Idz
What makes the difference between "ice cream and I scream"
Pitch
Juncture
You wouldn't want to be late for the interview, ____________?
Won't you
Would you
After __________ all day, she finally saw the lake.
Walking
Having walked
He is the _________________ of the two brothers.
Very tall
Taller
None of the students _________ present in the event yesterday.
Were
Are
The family were __________ in the beach.
Altogether
All together
A good writer supports his generalization with _____________ examples
Concrete
Convenient
On your trip to Tagaytay, if you chance upon Arsenio, please give __________ my warm regards.
Himself
Him
The cost of the new family house is quite expensive for _________, besides we have more urgent family needs.
Us
Them
I should have returned the books to the library last Monday. They are now three days ___________.
Delayed
Overdue
Choose the word directly opposite the underline word "an abuse motive"
Exalted
Demoted
There was hiatus of two years before I went back to college. Hiatus means ________________.
Lapse
Uninterruption
Which is the BEST synonym for the word ADVOCATE?
Determine
Support
The wounded soldiers were visited by the president who honored them with ___________ for their __________.
medals - valor
money - sacrifice
What is the correct meaning for the word imminent?
Learned
Near
What is meant by the statement: Values are absolute.
Unchanging
Changing
Which of the following words are misspelled?
i. Transgression
ii. Transcent
iii. Inmunity
iv. Percieve
ii, iii, iv
iii, iv
What is the vocal variable that dictates the highness and lowness of your voice?
Volume
Pitch
The driver of the speeding bus is CULPABLE. This means:
Guilty
Innocent
She wrote a "first-rate" report. What does it say about the report?
Excellent
Mediocre
She was a "Phantom of Delight" connotes that the woman is:
Lovely
Real
What does the prefix epi- means in the word "epidermis"
With
Upon
Mario's father is an alcoholic, a chain smoker, and a gambler. But Mario is his contrast because he does not drink, smoke nor gamble. What does this case prove?
One's value system is inherited
One's value system is acquired
The politician is a witty speaker but he beats around the bush too much
Keeps on talking
Avoid the main topic
The copy reader found the news story boring. He found it full of ______________
Verbs
Pronouns
Which of the following sentences contains dangling modifier?
I slipped on the cement running through the parking lot
Many undesirable side effects are experienced using this drug.
An association wherein the name of something is substituted by something that represents it.
Metonymy
Personification
A bread and butter sandwich _____________ my favorite morning snack.
Is
Are
What sound is produced when the letter or sound D is followed by a word that starts with Y? Did you see it?
j
ch
I love playing __________ my cat.
To
With
Many child ________ experiencing hunger and poverty
Is
Are
The _____________ of the story is that friendship is sacred.
Morale
Moral
Which verb will fit the sentence: Carmilo _____________ playing the guitar as hobby.
Has enjoyed
Enjoys
Almost two-thirds of the population today _________ poor
Is
Are
Because the moon rotates on its axis at the time as it ______ around the earth, we see the same side.
Revolves
Has been revolving
The copy reader found the news story boring. He hound it full of _________.
Pronouns
Verbs
I suggest that he ____________ in the room for one week
Stay
Stays
The parent remarked, "__________ I come late, just lock the door."
In the event
In the cause
Adults acquire new words and experience primarily through ____________.
Formal education
Exposure to their use
People who are too ______________ are liable to be deceived by unscrupulous individuals.
Cynical
Credulous
"Did you get the instructions?" What is the appropriate answer?
"Certainly, I did"
"Very well, indeed"
Stop shilly shallying and make up your mind. This serves as a warning not to:
Hesitate
Go ahead
I don't like SONOROUS sounds, I prefer music that is pleasing to the ears.
Loud
Soft
According to the oxford dictionary, what does "yaya" mean?
Nursemaid
Housekeeper
"How much money did you bring for shopping?" which of the following answers this question?
None, but I have a credit card
I have P500.00 inside the envelope in my desk.
The manager told his workers, "We have to reduce our workforce." What did he mean?
Workers are warned for possible lay off
Workers are free to leave
What is the theme of quote "have a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion."
Security
Responsibility
From the following, choose the two words that lack correlation.
Prodigy: offspring
Recipe: formula
From the following, choose the two words that lack correlation.
Species: variety
Troupe: company of actors
Senators were accused by activist of washing their hands with the perfumes of Arabia. This state is commonly known as:
Guilt
Aggression
There were three guests on the stage. They were made up of a parent, the governor and the principal. Who should be acknowledged first by the valedictorian?
The governor
The principal
What is suggested in the opening line? June 13, 1986 - they came from all over America - 200,000 heroes strong, with their families.
The writer holds great admiration for the veterans
The writer is opposed to the Vietnam war
Which of the following words is misspelled?
Accomodate
Accuracy
A readability mismatch happens when the reading levels of books exceed the reading levels of students. In this situation, the students experience frustration and they fall short of the expected or desired output. A student who finds himself/ herself in such a mismatch will likely do which of the following?
Present an argument that the selection or story read was not properly written
Give an intelligent critique of the selection or story read.
What does this mean: Excuses are for losers.... those who take responsibility for their actions are real winners in life. This tells of?
Accountability of one's action tells of bravery
Excuses are needed to justify any failure.
A couple accepted a wedding invitation. They showed pleasure in these remarks:
The ceremonies were very impressive
All guests congratulated the organizers and the couple
What correction should be made to this sentence?
One of the theories is that the first child receives more of the parents' attention than other children so first-borns tend to be more intellectual.
Insert a comma after children
Change parents' to parent's
Which of the following lines is a simile?
Holding a wonder like a cup
Life has loneliness to sell
The statement, "She is a rose" is an example of
Hyperbole
Metaphor
"The sun was gone, he had left his footprints in the sky." The description of the sun in the sentence contains which of the following literary devices?
Personification
Synecdoche
"And it seems to me you lived your life like a candle in the wind."
Simile
Metaphor
Carl Sundburg wrote "Jazz Fantasia" which has for its first stanza:
Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, O jazzzmen.
Which words illustrate alliteration
Batter and bajos
Sob and winding
What is the mood of these lines?
Daylight, I must wait for the sunrise
I must think of a new life
And I mustn't give in.
When the dawn comes
tonight will be a memory too
And a new day will begin
Hopeful
Afraid
To what literary genre does the story of Maria Makiling belong?
Legend
Myth
A distinctive type of literary composition such as epic, tragedy, comedy and novel.
Genre
Form
Epistolary is a novel told through the medium of:
Letters
Messages
In English verse, a poetic foot having 1 stresses syllable followed by 1 unstressed syllable is _____________.
Trochaic
Iambic
What book is written by Boris Paternak that talks about totalitarianism rule over Russia?
War and Peace
Doctor Zhivago
Who won the nobel prize collection "Gitanjali," which express faith, hope and beauty of the world.
Mashou Basho
Rabindranath Tagore
Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1919. What was the title of the poem that he was most know for?
The Stranger
Olympian Spring
A novel by Leo Tolstoy about the Napoleonic Invasion of Russia. Also termed as the greatest novel ever written:
War and Peace
God Sees the Truth but Waits
Which is Chaucer's collection of stories in verse showing his skill as a story teller in giving a vivid picture of English society in the 1300's?
The Canterbury Tales
The Song of Roland
A collection of fables which was used to educate Indian princes into becoming wise kings:
The Great Epics of the World
The Panchatantra
George Eliot is the pen name of whose English writer?
Jane Austen
Mary Evans
Who delivers the Gettysburg address to give tribute to the union soldiers of civil war?
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Which of the following is a work of Samuel Langhorne Clemens?
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Which among the following narrative uses talking animals to teach moral lessons?
Grimm's Brother
Aesop's Fables
Victor Hugo's masterpiece about the adventures of an ex-convict named Jean Val Jean, a prostitute named Frantine and her daughter Cosette:
Les Miserables
Age of Inocence
Who among the following is known as the Indian Shakespeare?
Tagore
Kalidasa
Known for his fables and other stories that are set in the jungles of British India. His most famous collection is The Jungle Book which is about Mowgli and the wolves.
Rudyard Kipling
Oscar Wilde
It is Edgar Allan Poe's short story about revenge and murder between friends namely Fortunato and Montessor:
Fall of the House of Usher
The Cask of Amontillado
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.
Franklin Roosevelt
John F. Kenedy
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.
Franklin Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
He is the first mythical geographer who was recognized due to his vivid descriptions of lands and people encountered by his/her Odyesseus:
Swift
Homer
Political idealists advocate ideas in politics such as justice and fairness. Political realist have a more realist viewpoint of politics, aptly stated by "Might is right". Who among the following is more of a political realist rather than political idealist?
Julius Caesar
Martin Luther King
"Only the heart can see rightly." This statement is lifted from what particular novel?
The Little Prince
The Prince and the Pauper
It is a medieval German Epic:
Nibelungenlied
Beowulf
The Greek Goddess of Wisdom and War
Athena
Frige
Every June, Manila has its festival of outstanding Filipino films. This was a project initiated by:
Antonio Villegas
Ramon Bagatsing
She is known for the love sonnets she wrote:
Ophelia Dimalanta
Paz Marquez Benitez
Jose Garcia Villa's story that tackles the problems and disadvantages of marrying at an early age is known as:
How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife
Footnote to Youth
What reading technique is being utilized when a teacher asks his students to read a particular passage, and he marks mispronounced words?
IRI
DRTA
In reading, DRTA means
Directed Reading and Thinking Activity
Directional Reading and Thinking Assessment
This is a reading technique when a student certifies and notes certain details from a given paragraph
Skimming
Scanning
