Commission on Higher Education
LIGAO COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Ligao City
General Education: ENGLISH
Week 1
Name: ___________________________________ Year/ Course/ Block: ________________
Direction: Answer the following questions correctly.
I.
MAKING INFERENCES
1. Hybrid cars are good for the environment, but they may not perform as well as cars that
run only on gasoline. The Toyota Prius gets great gas mileage and has low emissions
making it a good “green” option. However, many people think that it is unattractive. The
Prius also cannot accelerate as quickly as other models, and cannot hold as many
passengers as larger gas-fueled SUVs and vans. Compared to similar gas-fueled options,
hybrid cars also cost more money up front. A new hybrid car costs almost $3,500 more
than the same car configured to run just on gasoline.
Which of the following can you infer from the passage?
a. Hybrid cars are more dangerous than other options
b. Toyota is making a lot of money from the Prius
c. Cars that use gasoline are going to destroy the environment
d. Hybrid cars may not be the best choice for everyone
2. People are always less happy to accept scientific data they feel contradicts their
preconceived beliefs. No surprise here; no human likes to be wrong. But science isn't
supposed to care about preconceived notions. Science, at least good science, tells us
about the world as it is, and not as some wish it to be. Sometimes what science finds is
consistent with a particular religion's wishes. But usually it is not.
What can be inferred about good science?
a. A good science is well received by the educated people.
b. A good science is based on concrete results obtained through testing the hypothesis.
c. A good science and religion are same.
d. A good science will always prove the general populace wrong.
3. Help Wanted: Young person to work at Cardinal's ballpark. Some sales experience helpful,
but not necessary. Uniform provided. Apply at the concession stand at the corner of
Broadway and 2nd Ave. The person who takes this job will probably be:
a. A major league baseball player
c. A ticket salesman
b. An usher
d. A hot dog vendor.
4. Thanks to television and movies; many people believe that if you want access to
someone's hidden or unconscious thoughts, hypnosis will provide it. Put people into a
hypnotic trance and presto; you can unlock their deepest secrets. While this view of
hypnosis might make for good televised or cinematic drama, it doesn't have much factual
support. For one thing, not everyone can be hypnotized. People who are not suggestible
and who aren't highly imaginative are all but impossible to hypnotize. Then, too, hypnosis,
instead of unlocking the truth, is likely to distort it. That's because people under hypnosis,
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who are highly suggestible, to begin with, become even more suggestible. Tell them that
they have been kidnapped as children and they will end up thinking that they have
experienced a kidnapping. In other words, there's a good reason why the courts look with
suspicion on testimony given while a person is hypnotized. Such testimony is likely to be
based on memories created by the hypnotist rather than the subject.
Which of the following can you infer from the passage?
a. People who are suspicious by nature are not good candidates for hypnosis.
b. People who watch a lot of television are among the easiest to hypnotize because
they are used to living in a fantasy world and are ready to believe almost anything,
even if the events described are highly unusual, even unbelievable.
c. In movies, crime solvers successfully use hypnosis to make people talk about
experiences they want to forget or hide; people who watch these movies then think
the same thing can happen in reality.
d. In movies, crime solvers successfully use hypnosis to make people talk about
experiences they want to forget or hide; people who watch these movies then think
the same thing can happen in reality.
II.
VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT
5. Our guest of honor was a loquacious speaker. Loquacious means:
a. reserved
b. reticent
c. spiritless
d. verbose
6. The army’s retreat was ignominicusful. This means _____.
a. honorable
b. mysterious
c. reputable
d. shameful
7. The bank was swarmed with depositors. The bank ______.
a. declared an open house
c. declared a holiday
b. declared dividends
d. declared bankruptcy
8. The Rizal Day celebration reminds us about heroes worth _____.
a. appreciating
b. emulating
c. reading about
d. studying
9. People who are too _____ are liable to be deceived by unscrupulous individuals.
a. credulous
b. cynical
c. demanding
d.wary
10. “Your statements are IMPERTINENT to the case.” The capitalized word means _______.
a. important
b. irrelevant
c. malicious
d. violent
11. When USA decided to drop the atomic bomb to Nagasaki in order to stop the land
invasion of Japan, what degree of moral certitude can describe this decision of USA?
a. callous
b. certain
c. doubtful
d. perflexed
12. Imprisoned for 27 years, Nelson Mandela realized his dream of a free and non-racial
South Africa by forgiving his oppressors and negotiating in good faith for the peaceful
transition to democracy. Nelson Mandela demonstrated his trait of ________________.
a. determination
b. forgiving
c. friendliness
d. loyalty
13. “The figures must be TRANSMUTED in order to understand the grade.” The capitalized
word means:
a. changed
b. estimated
c. summed
d. surpassed
14. “How could she ABASE herself further by confessing she was incapable of handling
her ownlife?” The capitalized word means:
a. add
b. accept
c. arrive
d. humiliate
15. “What did I do to make you so BRUSQUE with me?” The capitalized word means:
a. bad
b. confident
c. honest
d. rude
III. PARTS OF SPEECH
16. _____ it never recycled any waste materials; the company’s environmental record was
not perfect.
a. due to
b. for
c. in that
d. with
17. Be sure to fill _____ the forms correctly.
a. In
b. on
c. over
d. with
18. _____ tell her professor next time.
a. She does
b. She
c. She'll
d. She's
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19. Wise people can _____ with frustrations.
a. cope in
b. cope up
c. cope
d. cope on
20. I really object _____ in rooms where other people have to eat.
a. people smoking
c. people to smoke
b. to people smoke
d. to people smoking
21. Far _____ Terry’s small plane lay the freezing waters of the North Sea, where his father’s
boat had disappeared many years before.
a. below
b. down
c. under
d. underneath
22. Nowadays, _____ are much better behaved than their parents were at the same age,
don’t you think?
a. teenagers
b. the teenagers
c. a teenager
d. teen an ager
23. Yes, the script was excellent, but the performances were _____ weak.
a. absolutely
b. completely
c. extremely
d. utterly
24. We’re late. By the time we get to the cinema, the film _____ .
a. has started
b. will have been starting
c. will have started
d. will start
25. He_____ his leg while he _____ rugby.
a. was breaking – played
c. is breaking – plays
b. broke - was playing
d. breaks - is playing
IV. SENTENCE STRUCTURE
26. New students at the shop should bring _____.
a. hammers wrenches and screwdrivers c. hammers, wrenches, and screwdrivers
b. hammers, wrenches and screwdrivers d. hammers wrenches, and screwdrivers
27. Which of the following is expressed clearly, effectively states the idea, and has no
structural error?
a. Albert himself told me it was true.
c. Albert, himself, told me it was true.
b. Albert told me it was true himself.
d. Albert told me himself it was true.
28. Did you have _____ on holiday?
a. a good weather b. good weathers
c. good weather
d. the good weather
29. Which of the following is expressed clearly, effectively states the idea, and has no
structural error?
a. Good teachers possess a capacity for connectedness; not in the method but in their
hearts - a place where intellect, emotion, spirit, and will converge in the human self.
b. Good teachers possess a capacity for cooperation; not in the method but in their
hearts where they knowledge, spirit and emotion converge.
c. Good teachers are capable to promote nterrelationship among learners, parents,
school heads, and community.
d. Good teachers have the capacity to develop interpersonal relationship among the
factors in the learning environment.
30. Which of the following is expressed clearly, effectively states the idea, and has no
structural error?
a. A strange car kept blinking the lights at us as he followed closely.
b. A strange car followed closely, and he kept blinking his lights at us.
c. A strange car followed us closely, and its driver kept blinking his lights at us.
d. A strange car, blinking the lights at us, followed closely.
31. Which of the following is expressed clearly, effectively states the idea, and has no
structural error?
a. I would not want to be he.
c. I would not want to be themselves.
b. I would not want to be himself.
d. I would not want to theirselves.
32. 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.
a. Change is to are
b. Insert a comma after children
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c. Change parents' to parent's
d. Change theories to theory's
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33. Which of the following sentences is punctuated correctly?
a. He worked all night; therefore, he was able to finish the report in time.
b. He worked all night, therefore, he was able to finish the report in time.
c. He worked all night therefore he was able to finish the report in time.
d. He worked all night, therefore he was able to finish the report in time.
34. Select the sentence with the most appropriate order of adverbs and adverbial phrases.
a. Ramonita prays at St. Matthew’s Church fervently for her grandmother’s recovery.
b. Ramonita prays fervently at St. Matthew’s Church for her grandmother’s recovery.
c. Ramonita prays fervently for her grandmother’s recovery at St. Matthew’s Church.
d. Any of the choices is fine.
35. What can be the most appropriate follow-up sentence to the given statement: "I have
been searching for love."
a. So it is now time to quit.
b. And I can't imagine doing anything else.
c. And I want this to end right now.
d. And I learned to love myself too.
V. IDIOMS AND FIGURES OF SPEECH
36. In one of his poems, the Filipino author Zulueta da Costa said that the Filipinos are like
the Molave. What figure of speech was used?
a. hyperbole
b. metaphor
c. personification
d. simile
37. Helen of Troy is the face who launched a thousand ships. What figure of speech is used
in the given sentence?
a. alliteration
b. ellipsis
c. irony
d. synecdoche
38. An association wherein the name of something is substituted by something that
represents it.
a. Comparison
b. Euphemism
c. Metonymy
d. Personification
39. 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 at sixes and
sevens.
a. In a state of confusion
c. The boxes are still intact
b. In an orderly manner
d. The things have not been shipped.
40. "He was like a snake in the night." What figure of speech is present?
a. Apostrophe
b. Metaphor
c. Personification
d. Simile
41. "To err is human, to forgive is divine". (Alexander Pope). This shows ______.
a. Antithesis
b. Litotes
c. Simile
d. Synechdoche
42. Of the following quotations, which is the best example of an aphorism?
a. "That is no country for old men."
b. "Out of the frying pan and into the fire."
c. "I fear thee, ancient mariner."
d. "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
43. Dona was tired to death after a long day of cooking.
a. hyperbole
b. metaphor
c. personification
d. simile
44. As the rain falls, the leaves dance merrily while the cool breeze touches my lips gently.
a. hyperbole
b. litotes
c. metaphor
d. personification
45. Chris was a limb in the group during the disco party.
a. hyperbole
b. litotes
c. metaphor
d. simile
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IV. READING COMPREHENSION
For 46-50
How do I Love Thee?
(Sonnet 43)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1806-1861
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
46. Which of the following statements best describes a central theme of the poem?
a. Love is unconditional and eternal.
b. Coming of age is when one is willing to give up everything for another person.
c. True freedom comes from freedom of the soul.
d. Love requires sacrifice and is not always constant.
47. The narrator describes her soul...
a. stretching and becoming thinner and weaker.
b. searching for her loved one's soul.
c. searching for a divine presence and a greater meaning to life.
d. stretching to its greatest capacity to show how much she loves "thee".
48. Which of the following is NOT a statement the narrator would likely agree with.
a. Her love is limitless and impossible to measure.
b. Her love is pure, strong, and unconditional.
c. Her love stems from childhood grief and is thus flawed.
d. She will never stop loving them, even in the afterlife.
49. Which of the following best summarizes how the speakers quantifies her love?
a. The speaker quantifies her love in specific numbers and instances.
b. The speaker refuses to quantify her love, which is uncountable.
c. The speaker compares her love to great distances, grand ideas, strong emotions, etc.
d. The speaker talks about her love only in terms of religious ideas, like the soul.
50. What do the lines 13-14 "if God choose,/ I shall but love thee better after death" reveal
about the narrator's perspective or beliefs?
a. The narrator believes she and her loved one shall be together in the afterlife.
b. The narrator fears she will be separated from her loved one after death.
c. The narrator believes her love is so strong that it will not fade even in death but grow
stronger.
d. The narrator has faith in a grand design, that God will "choose" what is best for her
and her lover.
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