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CBRC Yellowbook 3.0 / GenEd / English / 50 Items / Part 2

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 38mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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 sixes and sevens.

a)

The things have not been shipped

b)

In a state of confusion

2.

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

a)

She grows a vegetable graden plants

b)

She is good at gardening

3.

She is ______ a jeepney

a)

in

b)

on

4.

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

a)

Advertisement

b)

Apologized

5.

This is ______ typhoon in five years.

a)

a worse

b)

the worst

6.

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

a)

glossary

b)

index

7.

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

8.

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

a)

Run-on

b)

Dangling modifier

9.

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

10.

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

a)

Segmenting

b)

Rhyming

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Jiemark was happy after he bought three _________.

a)

pieces of antique furniture.

b)

piece of antique furnitures.

14.

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

15.

There aren't _________ for everybody attending the meetings.

a)

enough chairs

b)

much chairs

16.

Where are the human vocal cords is located?

a)

Pharynx

b)

Larynx

17.

Egyptian literature is identified as _________ literature.

a)

European

b)

Mediterranean

18.

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

19.

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

a)

Resonation

b)

Phonation

20.

What kind of word is AWOL?

a)

Borrowed

b)

Acronym

21.

He authored popular short stories. "How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife." and "Midsummer." which both depict in Barrio Nagrebacan, Buang La union, where he was born.

a)

Manuel Arguilla

b)

Bienvenido Santos

22.

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

23.

Which is the BEST Interpretation of this metaphorical line: "The car is a glutton for gasoline."

a)

Speeding eats ups a lot of gas

b)

High expensive for fuels gas

24.

Which of the Japanese poems consist of five lines 5-7-5-7-7 syllables including at least one pause?

a)

Hokku

b)

Tanka

25.

When you teach students to use pleasant words instead of those with distasteful or offensive effects like the "grim-reaper for death, or "crossing over" for dying, you are teaching a lesson on _________.

a)

Euphemism

b)

Contextualization

26.

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

a)

Critical

b)

Literal

27.

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

28.

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

a)

noun phrase

b)

clause

29.

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

a)

Progressive Tense

b)

Present Tense

30.

Who is considered the Goddess of Philippine poetry?

a)

Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta

b)

Teresa Subido

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

a)

Heroic couplet

b)

Couplet

34.

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

35.

What is considered the oldest epic in England?

a)

Beowulf

b)

Song of Roland

36.

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

a)

Beijing Imperial library

b)

Ashurbanipal Library

37.

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

38.

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

a)

Jose Garcia Villa

b)

Jose Salvador

39.

Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing are collectively known as ___________.

a)

Macro Skills

b)

Communicative Competence

40.

DRTA in reading means:

a)

Directed Reading and Thinking Activity

b)

Direct Reading and Teaching Activity

41.

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

a)

Phonemic Awareness

b)

Phonology

42.

Who is the Indian counterpart of William Shakespeare?

a)

Tagore

b)

Kalidasa

43.

Who wrote the novel "A Christmas Carol" which is about a man who hates Christmas?

a)

Charles Dickens

b)

Oscar Wilde

44.

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

a)

The reign of Queen Elizabeth

b)

The reign of Charles II

45.

The pen name of Mary Ann Evans is __________.

a)

George Eliot

b)

Emily Watts

46.

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

a)

Simile

b)

Metaphor

47.

What figure of speech is used in the sentence below:

"I can eat a whole cow!"

a)

Personification

b)

Hyperbole

48.

Mark Twain's novel Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are set in the ______ river

a)

Nile

b)

Mississippi

49.

Who wrote the novel Pride and Prejudice?

a)

Jane Austen

b)

Charlotte Bronte

50.

What is the First Filipino Social Novel by Pedro Paterno?

a)

Ninay

b)

Kenkoy