WorksheetsCBRC Yellowbook 3.0 / GenEd / English / 50 Items / Part 1
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 38mins
The wounded soldiers were visited by the president who honored them with __________ for their _________.
medals - valor
gun salute - bravery
Which among the sounds below is voiceless?
/b/
/p/
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 more computers for future careers.
will expect
will have expect
Robert Frost wrote the poem Acquainted with the Night from which the stanza is taken:
I have been one acquainted with the night.
Have walked out in rain-back rain.
I have out walked the farthest city light
The poet in the stanza talks of?
isolation and loneliness
joy getting out of the house
"Only heart can see rightly." This statement is lifted from what particular novel?
The Prince and the Pauper
The Little Prince
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."
Henry Truman
John F. Kennedy
History is the witness that _________passing of time.
testifies for
testifies for the
An association wherein the name of something is substituted by something that represents it.
Metonomy
Euphemism
In English verse, a poetic foot having 1 stressed syllable followed by 1 unstressed syllable is _________.
Trochaic
lambic
Activists accused senators of washing their hands with the perfumes of Arabia. This state is commonly known as:
Guilt
Triumph
I suggest that he _____ in the room for one week.
stay
stayed
When I met Liza yesterday, it was the first time I _______ her since Christmas.
had seen
have seen
Be sure to fill _______ the forms correctly.
in
on
Excuse me, can I borrow ______ dictionary?
your
yours
Far ______ Terry's small plane lay the freezing waters of the North Sea, where his father's boat had disappeared many years before
underneath
below
Excuse me, _____ this time
have you
have you got
Nowadays, _________ are much better behaved that their parents were at the same age, don't you think?
teenagers
the teenagers
We're late. by the time we get to the cinema, the film _________.
will have started
has started
Which of the following is expressed clearly, effectively states the idea, and has no structural error?
Albert himself told me it was true.
Albert, himself, told me it was true.
Did you have _____________ on holiday?
a good weather
good weather
"Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit of the forbidden tree" is the opening to:
Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Vision of Delight by Ben Jonson
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel by whose author?
Oscar Wilde
John Steinbeck
What canon of religious literature was finally, firmly fixed at the end of the 4th century AD?
The Hebrew Bible
The New Testament
Who wrote the novel "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?"
William Golding
Robert Louis Stevenson
"No smoking during the cigarette break." What kind of figure of speech was used?
Irony
Oxymoron
The Greek dramatist authored "Alcestis" and "Andromache"
Homer
Euripides
This one is made from ersatz coloring. ERSATZ means:
Genuine
Artificial
In the 23rd century BC, Sargon of Akkad conquered Mesopotamia, and became the subject of legends. It is from a Sumerian legend that we learn how Sargon established himself as the cup bearer of the king of Kish in Sumer. What early form of writing did the Sumerians invent?
Cuneiform
Hieroglyphics
Which of the following is an incorrect representation of the Scarlet Letter throughout the course of the novel?
Able
Avowal
Spot the correct word to complete the analogy. Donkey and Horse: Mule: Lion and Tiger:
Thrag
Liger
Guest house rooms must be ________ by noon.
vacated
abandoned
Which is NOT a synonym for 'gathering'
contesseration
collocation
Which word is defined by: A great fire, as of many buildings, a forest, or the like?
Blizzard
Conflagration
You eat like a horse when ______________.
get used to something new
have a healthy appetite
I'll ______ their cat while they are away in holiday.
be looking at
be looking after
Madonna's agent _____ change her name at the start of her career.
made her to
made her
A light dramatic composition that uses highly improbable situations, stereotyped characters, extravagant exaggeration, and violent horseplay.
Satire
Farce
Who was the author of the famous story book "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?
Rudyard Kipling
Lewis Caroll
Who was the 1st century BC poet and author of the "The Aenid" served as a guiide in Dante's Inferno?
Homer
Virgil
Rizal gave the time of his death in this quotation: "I die when the dawn breaks to herald the day." What is the time of death?
Sometime sunset
Sometime at dawn
Which Russian novelist wrote. "Anna Karenina: and "War and Peace"
Leo Toistoy
Vladimir Nabokov
Read the following line:
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:
Loneliness
Optimism
______________ is the study of the structure and form of words in a language or a language including inflection, derivation, and the formation of compounds.
Phonology
Morphology
The Englisg word "fig" is a:
Phoneme
Morpheme
Because of the typhoon, a number of local businesses _____ closed yesterday
were
are
The earliest recorded syllables are on the tablets around 2800 BC in the Sumerian city of ____________.
Mesopotamia
Ur
I could gave joined the outreach project if I _______ in the country at that time.
will be
were
When helping in the kitchen, I always careful not to hurt _______
myself
ourselves
You ________ finished eating before we arrive.
will have
have
I thought the work is heavy for Martha and _______.
myself
me
