Directions: Choose the letter of the correct answer and shade it on your answer sheet. If you think there is no correct answer, shade E.
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1. The comedian pulled silly faces to make the audience laugh.
The word silly in this sentence means:
The word silly in this sentence means:
A. funny
B. stupid
C. scary
D. sensible
2. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (the only president who served three terms) instituted the New Deal reforms.
What correction should be made to this sentence?
A. Place commas before and after the parentheses.
B. Capitalize the word “president.”
C. Make the initial letters of “New Deal” lowercase.
D. Capitalize the word “reforms.”
3. Josie has three ducks and four chickens. They are all hens, but one of the ducks seems infertile. Her name is Dalmy.
Which of the following is true?
A: Josie has seven chickens in total.
B: Josie has less chickens than ducks.
C: One of Josie’s ducks is a male.
D: All of Josie’s animals are female.
4. Lota could no longer take her boyfriend’s incorrigible behavior.
The underlined word means:
A. reformed
B. incurable
C. repentant
D. frustrated
5. Once Karlo lifted his pen and made a start, writing the essay became easy.
If we change the start of the sentence to:
Writing the essay became easy........
What will the ending be?
A. after Karlo starts writing.
B. after lifting his pen.
C. once Karlo lifted his pen and made a start.
D. once he lifted his pen and made a start.
6. Read the paragraph below and answer the question that follows.
(Source: https://www.education.vic.gov.au)
Genealogy is fun. Just as a piece of furniture or a picture takes on much more interest if you know its history, so does an individual become more real once the ancestral elements that shaped him are known. An in-depth family history is a tapestry of all those to whom we owe our existence.
Which statement best conveys the theme of this paragraph?
A: Finding out about our ancestors is more interesting than researching the history of objects.
B: Genealogy is a study of people and their belongings in the past.
C: Genealogy is a study of family history.
D: Genealogical research can bring meaning and life to a family’s history.
7. Which statement has the correct punctuation mark and/or capitalization?
A. Bongbong likes pizza, spaghetti, and lasagna.
B. All the dog’s dishes were full.
C. Moana s listening to Hot and Cold by Katie Perry.
D. Please bring the following items to class:
pencil, paper, eraser and folder.
8. What does this proverb suggest?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
A. It takes good eyes to see beauty.
B. You are beautiful if you have blue eyes.
C. Beauty is subjective.
D. Beauty is universal.
9. Which of the following sentences contains no spelling error?
A. Curiosity killed the cat.
B. Pad and pencil are examples of stationaries.
C. After 20 years, the couple has decided to legally seperate.
D. To avoid bad breathe, brush your teeth at least twice a day.
10. We all love to win. However, we also have to know how to accept defeat.
If we change the above into a single sentence and begin:
We have to know how to accept defeat........
What will the best ending be?
A: however, we all love to win.
B: but winning is better.
C: so we can also love to win.
D: even though we all love to win.
For Items 11 - 15: Read the following paragraphs to answer the next five questions.
(Source: https://www.education.vic.gov.au)
One of the modern world’s intriguing sources of mystery has been airplanes vanishing in mid-flight. One of the more famous of these was the disappearance in 1937 of a pioneer woman aviator, Amelia Earhart. On the second last stage of an attempted round the world flight, she had radioed her position as she and her navigator searched desperately for their destination, a tiny island in the Pacific.
The plane never arrived at Howland Island. Did it crash and sink after running out of fuel? It had been a long haul from New Guinea, a twenty-hour flight covering some four thousand kilometers. Did Earhart have enough fuel to set down on some other island on her radioed course? Or did she end up somewhere else altogether? One fanciful theory had her being captured by the Japanese in the Marshall Islands and later executed as an American spy; another had her living out her days under an assumed name as a housewife in New Jersey.
Seventy years after Earhart’s disappearance, ‘myth busters’ continue to search for her. She was the best-known American woman pilot in the world. People were tracking her flight with great interest when, suddenly, she vanished into thin air. Aircraft had developed rapidly in sophistication after World War One, with the 1920s and 1930s marked by an aeronautical record-setting frenzy. Conquest of the air had become a global obsession. While Earhart was making headlines with her solo flights, other aviators like high-altitude pioneer Wiley Post and industrialist Howard Hughes were grabbing some glory of their own. But only Earhart, the reserved tomboy from Kansas who disappeared three weeks shy of her 40th birthday, still grips the public imagination. Her disappearance has been the subject of at least fifty books, countless magazine and newspaper articles, and TV documentaries. It is seen by journalists as the last great American mystery.
There are currently two main theories about Amelia Earhart’s fate.
There were reports of distress calls from the Phoenix Islands made on Earhart’s radio frequency for days after she vanished. Some say the plane could have broadcast only if it were on land, not in the water. The Coast Guard and later the Navy, believing the distress calls were real, adjusted their searches, and newspapers at the time reported Earhart and her navigator were marooned on an island. No one was able to trace the calls at the time, so whether Earhart was on land in the Phoenix Islands or there was a hoaxer in the Phoenix Islands using her radio remains a mystery.
Others dismiss the radio calls as bogus and insist Earhart and her navigator ditched in the water. An Earhart researcher, Elgen Long, claims that Earhart’s airplane ran out of gas within fifty-two miles of the island and is sitting somewhere in a 6,000-square-mile area, at a depth of 17,000 feet. At that depth, the fuselage would still be in shiny, pristine condition if ever anyone were able to locate it. It would not even be covered in a layer of silt. Those who subscribe to this explanation claim that fuel calculations, radio calls, and other considerations all show that the plane plunged into the sea somewhere off Howland Island.
Whatever the explanation, the prospect of finding the remains is unsettling to many. To recover skeletal remains or personal effects would be a grisly experience and an intrusion. They want to know where Amelia Earhart is, but that’s as far as they would like to go. As one investigator has put it, “I’m convinced that the mystery is part of what keeps us interested. In part, we remember her because she’s our favorite missing person.”
11. Amelia Earhart’s nationality was:
A. Australian
B. American
C. English
D. South African
12. All the following are theories about Amelia’s fate EXCEPT:
A. her plane ran out of fuel and crashed into the sea.
B. she crashed somewhere on Howland Island
C. she was captured by the Japanese and executed as a spy.
D. she escaped incognito and lived under an assumed name.
13. The most convincing evidence that Amelia crashed somewhere on land was:
A: the finding of aircraft remains.
B: sightings by islanders.
C: radio contact with the coastguard from the Phoenix Islands.
D: distress signals from the Phoenix Islands on her particular radio frequency
14. If the aircraft were ever recovered from its probable sea grave:
A. it would be hardly recognizable.
B. it would be in pristine condition and considered highly valuable.
C. it may reveal some grisly evidence.
D. B and C together.
15. The fate of Amelia Earhart still fascinates investigators for all the following reasons EXCEPT:
A. she was a famous female aviator and adventurer.
B. there are such conflicting theories about her disappearance.
C. she may have staged her own disappearance.
D: she presents one of the twentieth century’s great unsolved mysteries.
Read the passage below from © The Economist Newspaper Limited, London, 1999 about older people in the workforce and answer Items 16 – 19.
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The general assumption is that older workers are paid more in spite of, rather than because of, their productivity. That might partly explain why, when employers are under pressure to cut costs, they persuade a 55-year old to take early retirement. Take away seniority-based pay scales, and older workers may become a much more attractive employment proposition. But most employers and many workers are uncomfortable with the idea of reducing someone’s pay in later life – although manual workers on piece-rates often earn less as they get older. So retaining the services of older workers may mean employing them in different ways.
One innovation was devised by IBM Belgium. Faced with the need to cut staff costs, and having decided to concentrate cuts on 55 to 60-year olds, IBM set up a separate company called Skill Team, which re-employed any of the early retired who wanted to go on working up to the age of 60. An employee who joined Skill Team at the age of 55 on a five-year contract would work for 58% of his time, over the full period, for 88% of his last IBM salary. The company offered services to IBM, thus allowing it to retain access to some of the intellectual capital it would otherwise have lost.
The best way to tempt the old to go on working may be to build on such ‘bridge’ jobs: part-time or temporary employment that creates a more gradual transition from full-time work to retirement. Studies have found that, in the United States, nearly half of all men and women who had been in full-time jobs in middle age moved into such ‘bridge’ jobs at the end of their working lives. In general, it is the best-paid and worst-paid who carry on working. There seem to be two very different types of bridge job-holder – those who continue working because they have to and those who continue working because they want to, even though they could afford to retire.
If the job market grows more flexible, the old may find more jobs that suit them. Often, they will be self-employed. Sometimes, they may start their own businesses: a study by David Storey of Warwick University found that in Britain 70% of businesses started by people over 55 survived, compared with an overall national average of only 19%. But whatever pattern of employment they choose, in the coming years the skills of these ‘grey workers’ will have to be increasingly acknowledged and rewarded.
16. In paragraph one, the writer suggests that companies could consider
A. abolishing pay schemes that are based on age.
B. avoiding pay that is based on piece-rates.
C. increasing pay for older workers.
D. equipping older workers with new skills
17. Skill Team is an example of a company which
A. offers older workers increases in salary.
B. allows people to continue working for as long as they want.
C. allows the expertise of older workers to be put to use.
D. treats older and younger workers equally
18. According to the writer, ‘bridge’ jobs
A. tend to attract people in middle-salary ranges.
B. are better paid than some full-time jobs.
C. originated in the United States.
D. appeal to distinct groups of older workers.
19. David Storey’s study found that
A. people demand more from their work as they get older.
B. older people are good at running their own businesses.
C. an increasing number of old people are self-employed.
D. few young people have their own businesses.
20. Which of the following is a metaphor?
A. I'm drowning in paperwork.
B. You are as light as a feather.
C. Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
D. I came, I saw, I conquered.
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