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WorksheetsCBRC Yellowbook 3.0 / GenEd / English / 50 Items / Part 2
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 38mins
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.
The things have not been shipped
In a state of confusion
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?
She grows a vegetable graden plants
She is good at gardening
She is ______ a jeepney
in
on
Which of the following words has an alternate correct spelling as shown in any good dictionary?
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Apologized
This is ______ typhoon in five years.
a worse
the worst
Danny looked at the ______ to look meanings of words used by the book in its various chapters.
glossary
index
What type of language is normally used in ordinary conversation and other informal communication? e.g. "What a close shave?"
Trite expression
Colloquialism
What error is committed in the sentence: "the bus stopped suddenly, I spilled coffee all over my shirt."
Run-on
Dangling modifier
What type of error is shown in this sentence? "Faster than a speeding bullet, the citizens of Metropolis saw Superman flying overhead."
Faulty Coordination
Misplaced Modifier
To show phonological awareness skill, the student says the word, then say the syllable or sound.
Segmenting
Rhyming
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."
painting : doing
to paint : to do
Which sentence is consistent in the use of indefinite pronoun?
Everyone is required to do our share in the development of their community.
Everyone is required to do his share in the development of his community
Jiemark was happy after he bought three _________.
pieces of antique furniture.
piece of antique furnitures.
The underlined word in the following sentence is. :As a volunteer he joined the VACC, an organization against corruption and crime."
Objective complement
Appositive
There aren't _________ for everybody attending the meetings.
enough chairs
much chairs
Where are the human vocal cords is located?
Pharynx
Larynx
Egyptian literature is identified as _________ literature.
European
Mediterranean
What is the logical fallacy in: "You once sponsored a project of the governor, therefore you are the governor's crony?"
illogical conclusion
association fallacy
In the speech process, which is concerned with the amplifying and enriching the voice using human amplifiers such as nose, windpipe, and chest?
Resonation
Phonation
What kind of word is AWOL?
Borrowed
Acronym
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.
Manuel Arguilla
Bienvenido Santos
Which type of error is committed in the sentence below:
"The President together with his department secretaries is in Central Luzon distributing relief good."
Dangling modifier
Misplaced Modifier
Which is the BEST Interpretation of this metaphorical line: "The car is a glutton for gasoline."
Speeding eats ups a lot of gas
High expensive for fuels gas
Which of the Japanese poems consist of five lines 5-7-5-7-7 syllables including at least one pause?
Hokku
Tanka
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 _________.
Euphemism
Contextualization
On levels of reading comprehension, which involves the understanding of information stated directly in the text?
Critical
Literal
Which of the following speech articulators does most of the work in sounds like d, t, s, z, l, n, and th?
Teeth
Tongue
In the phrase structure rules, a preposition phrase consist of a preposition followed by a ___________.
noun phrase
clause
This tense connotes actions that are happening at present time, meaning right now.
Progressive Tense
Present Tense
Who is considered the Goddess of Philippine poetry?
Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta
Teresa Subido
Leo Tolstoy's short story about a man falsely judge and accused of murder is entitled
Murder
God Sees The Truth but Waits
A sonnet has 14 iambic pentameter lines and that means:
There are 10 syllables in a line
There are 5 syllables in a line
What do we call the last two lines of the sonnet?
Heroic couplet
Couplet
Jose Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere is inspired by the novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe entitled __________.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Les Miserables
What is considered the oldest epic in England?
Beowulf
Song of Roland
What is the name of the very first library in the world?
Beijing Imperial library
Ashurbanipal Library
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."
On behalf
in behalf
He is the advocate of Art for Art's sake in the Philippines.
Jose Garcia Villa
Jose Salvador
Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing are collectively known as ___________.
Macro Skills
Communicative Competence
DRTA in reading means:
Directed Reading and Thinking Activity
Direct Reading and Teaching Activity
In developmental reading, this pertains to the familiarity of the students toward the sounds of the language.
Phonemic Awareness
Phonology
Who is the Indian counterpart of William Shakespeare?
Tagore
Kalidasa
Who wrote the novel "A Christmas Carol" which is about a man who hates Christmas?
Charles Dickens
Oscar Wilde
This is considered the Golden Age of Literacy Production in England.
The reign of Queen Elizabeth
The reign of Charles II
The pen name of Mary Ann Evans is __________.
George Eliot
Emily Watts
"She is a star in the heavens above." What figure of speech is used?
Simile
Metaphor
What figure of speech is used in the sentence below:
"I can eat a whole cow!"
Personification
Hyperbole
Mark Twain's novel Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are set in the ______ river
Nile
Mississippi
Who wrote the novel Pride and Prejudice?
Jane Austen
Charlotte Bronte
What is the First Filipino Social Novel by Pedro Paterno?
Ninay
Kenkoy
