PANPACIFIC UNIVERSITY NORTH PHILIPPINES

TAYUG CAMPUS
Lopez Jaena St. Tayug, Pangasinan
A.Y. 2018-2019

FIRST QUARTER EXAM

ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES

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I MULTIPLE CHOICE. Instructions: Read each item carefully and encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. What is a topic sentence?

A) A sentence with signal words that increase the effectiveness of organization.
B) A way to conclude the paragraph so the reader knows what the paragraph was about.
C) Reasons, examples and other details to support the main point of the paragraph.
D) The sentence that expresses the main point, or idea, of a paragraph.
2. What is an essay?
A) A series of paragraphs about one main idea or point
B) The final stage in the writing process
C) An excellent way to get a lot of information down on paper
D) The sentence that expresses the main point, or idea, of a paragraph.
3. Which of the following sentences is most formal in style?
A) We regret to inform you that .....
B) We are sorry to tell you that...
C) We are sorry to say that...
D) Sorry but..
4. Which of the following sentences is most formal in style?
A) I have a ton of experience in this area.
B) I have a considerable amount of experience in this area.
C) I have a lot of experience in this area.
D) I have many experiences in this area.
5. When thinking about annotation, you should consider all of the following EXCEPT:
A) Listing thorough notes on each page of text
B) Using system consistently/repeatedly
C) Creating a key of markings and notations
D) Keeping markings to a minimum

Questions 6-7. Read the question and chose the best thesis statement.
6. Should cigarettes be made illegal?
A) Although smoking has many negative health effects, making smoking illegal would not solve
the problem.
B) Teenagers should be allowed to smoke if they choose to.
C) Smoking is a leading cause of death in the United States.
D) Smoking is bad.
7. What is the best way to teach the public about healthy lifestyles?
A) People should be able to decide what kind of lifestyle they want to have even if it is unhealthy.
B) I disagree that laws can help people stay healthy.
C) Advertising is an effective medium for selling many things, and I believe it can sell good
health too.
D) People should be aware of healthy options.
8. Choose the BEST paraphrase of these sentences:

Rugby football is the most popular sport in New Zealand. Most villages, towns, and districts
have their own teams.
(World Book Atlas page 212)

A) Of all sports played in New Zealand, rugby football is the most popular. Most areas even have
their own teams.
B) Rugby and football are the most popular sports in the area of New Zealand. Every village,
town, and district has teams.
C) New Zealand sports include rugby football in most districts, villages, and towns.
D) Most villages, districts, and towns in New Zealand love rugby football and popular sports.

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9. Choose the BEST paraphrase of this text:

The giant rafflesia, also known as “the stinking corpse lily” has blossoms that can reach three
feet in diameter and weigh up to twenty five pounds. The flowers give off a smell similar to
rotting meat.

A) The stinking corpse lily, also known as the giant rafflesia has blossoms. They can get pretty
big and the blossoms stink.
B) A flower with the nickname "the stinking corpse lily" produces an odor like rotting meat. The
real name of this huge flower that can weigh as much as twenty five pounds is the giant
rafflesia.
C) The giant rafflesia, also known as "the stinking corpse lily" has blossoms that can reach three
feet in diameter and weigh up to twenty five pounds. The flowers give off a smell similar to
rotting meat.
D) There are flowers give off a smell similar to rotting meat. The giant rafflesia, also known as
"the stinking corpse lily" has blossoms that can reach three feet in diameter and weigh up to
twenty five pounds.
10. Which of the following statements about SUMMARIZING is true?
A) The Summary is a thought that is true but is not in the passage.
B) The Summary is what the passage is mostly about.
C) The Summary is specific, detailed information contained in the passage.
D) The Summary is always found in the first sentence of the passage.
11. It is a technique of reducing the length of a text but retaining the main points.
A. Outlining C. Summarizing
B. Paraphrasing D. Citing sources
12. It involves scrutinizing any information that you read or hear.
A. Annotating C. Critical reading
B. Outlining D. Summarizing
13. It involves underlining, highlighting words, phrases or sentences that contain important details.
A. Annotating C. Critical reading
B. Outlining D. Summarizing
14. It involves questioning the author’s purpose and intentions as well as his/her assumptions in the
claims.
A. Annotating C. Critical reading
B. Outlining D. Evaluation of the text
15. Which of the following statements is TRUE about a thesis statement?
A. It should contain elements of certainty, risk, or challenge.
B. It should merely announce something or state a fact.
C. It should introduce ideas.
D. It should offer a debatable claim.

Read the following passage and then answer the question.

When some people think about Texas, they think of cowboys on the open range-herding cattle
up a dusty trail. However, Texas has much more than open prairie with large herds of cows.
There are the mountains of West Texas, the piney hills of east Texas, and the emerald waters off
the coast of Padre Island. Texas also has large coastal harbors with numerous sailboats,
powerboats, inland lakes, rivers, swamps of southeast Texas with alligators and other exotic
wildlife.

16. What is the best summary of this passage?

A) There are a lot of cows in Texas.
B) There are many different, varied parts of Texas.
C) Texas is one of the biggest states in the United States.
D) There are alligators in the swampland of southeast Texas.

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Tomorrow is Jill's birthday. She is excited because she gets to pick where she will eat dinner. Will it be
Mexican food at the Big Enchilada House? Or will it be fried chicken at the Chicken Shack, or a big
cheeseburger at Al's Hamburger Palace. She just couldn't decide. Then there was always the Pizza Shop
with that great pepperoni pizza. How would she ever decide? Maybe she would just flip a coin.

17. What is the best summary of this passage?

A) Jill has many restaurants to choose from for her birthday.
B) Jill loves Mexican food.
C) The Pizza Shop has the best pizza in town.
D) Jill will choose a place by flipping a coin.
18. Which of the following statements about SUMMARIZING is false?
A) The Summary is what the passage is mostly about.
B) The Summary is what all or most of the sentences or paragraphs are about.
C) The Summary is usually found in more than just one sentence of the passage.
D) The Summary is one isolated thought in a passage.
19. Which of the following best describes an opinion?
A) A person who can prove something
B) Making a good choice
C) A person's thoughts or feelings about something
D) Something that can be proven
20. Which of the statements is true?
A) Facts are based on opinion.
B) Onion should be based on facts supported by evidence.
C) Evidence is based on opinion.
D) Facts are based on evidence supported by opinion.
21. What is the main goal of a Marxist critic?
A) To examine how economics affect a character's life
B) To examine how war affects a character's life
C) To examine how feminism affects a character's life
D) To examine how gender affects a character's life
22. Which of the following statements best defines Reader Response?
A) Its main concern regards an author's biographical information.
B) It depends on who is reading the text.
C) It takes a closed reading and ignores the author's background and politics.
D) Its main concern regards the author's political affiliation.
23. Which of the following statements implies the importance of academic writing?
A) Academic writing aims to communicate
B) Academic writing aims to influence other’s thought
C) Academic writing develops skills in evaluating, analyzing, criticizing, comparing and
synthesizing
D) All of the above
24. ________________ will improve communication skills and this will benefit college students after
graduation in their field of expertise or chosen profession.
A) Writing a Review C) writing a diary entry
B) Academic writing D)writing a reaction paper
25. It is a technique of reducing the length of a text but retaining the main points.
A) Outlining C) Summarizing
B) Paraphrasing D) Citing sources
26. It is a technique of rewriting a text so that the language is substantially different while the content
stays the same.
A) Outlining C) Summarizing
B) Paraphrasing D) Citing sources
27. It is an intellectual crime that is mostly committed by writers.
A) Intellectual property theft C) plagiarism
B) Counterfeit D) fraud
28. How is plagiarism committed?
A) By taking ideas or words from a source and acknowledging the source of information
B) By taking ideas or words of others without acknowledging its source
C) By summarizing, paraphrasing and outlining
D) By citing the source of information
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29. Which of the following is not a reason to avoid plagiarism?

A) Copying the work of others will not help you develop your own understanding
B) Plagiarism may lead to failing a course.
C) Plagiarism is not an intellectual crime.
D) Plagiarism is easily detected by teachers and computer software.
30. It is a specific detail that can be proven as true based on objective evidence.
A) Fact C) Opinion
B) Argument D) proposition

II. Instructions: Write Reaction if the statement states the purpose/form of a reaction paper and write
Diary if the statement states the purpose/form of a Diary Entry.
31. It reflects on one’s experiences ____________________
32. It helps readers process their own experiences ____________________
33. It identifies significant events in one’s own life ____________________
34. It informs and amuses readers ____________________
35. It is often used the rhetorical devices of description and
narration to prove a point ____________________

III. MATCHING TYPE. Instructions: Match Box A with Box B. Write the letter on the blanks provided.

BOX A

_______36. Emphasizes the economic, political, and cultural issues within literary texts.
_______37 Concerned with understanding the role of power, politics, and money in literary texts.
_______38. Both are typically concerned with fair representation and treatment of people.
_______39. A literary theory based on the idea that literature should be studied and interpreted within
the context of both the history of the author and the history of the critic.
_______40. Literary texts cannot possibly have a single meaning.

BOX B

a. Feminists Approach
b. Gender Approach
c. Marxist Approach
d. Sociological Approach
e. Historical Approach
f. Historical Approach
g. Deconstruction Approach
h. The New Historicist Approach

IV.READING COMPREHENSION. Read the academic texts below and answer the questions that follow.

An Ideal Citizen

1 A citizen is a person who lives in a state and is governed by its laws in all matters. An ideal
citizen is an asset to a nation. Countries are not good or bad but their citizens make them so.
Smugglers, lawbreakers and people of bad character are also citizens of a country but they cannot be
called ideal citizens.
2 An ideal citizen is every inch a patriot. Citizenship secures for the people a sense of security
for their life and property. In a democratic country like India, a citizen enjoys the right of voting in
elections to public bodies. He can himself stand as a candidate for election to the municipal committee
of his town and legislative bodies of his country. HE can even stand for the office of the president of the
country.
3 A citizen enjoys several other advantages. It is the duty of the state of provide him with
employment as far as possible. A citizen enjoys several facilities. The state provides him with essential
services such as transport, right of voting, electricity, hospitals and schools for the education of his

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children. Modern states are welfare states. They are supposed to look after the welfare of the citizens.
A citizen can stand up and fight for certain rights.
4 On the other hand, a citizen has to carry out certain duties and responsibilities. He is expected
to obey the laws of his country. He must be loyal to the state. He or she must gladly offer his or her
services to the state. In time of war or a national emergency, a citizen should serve the country in any
capacity he is called upon to serve. Every citizen must support the police and the administration in
general in the maintenance of peace. It is also the duty of all citizens to desist from creating disorder by
communal riots.
5 An ideal citizen tries to protect national property. He makes a right use of the facilities
provided to him. He tries to maintain communal harmony in the country. He has a secular outlook. He is
tolerant towards all faiths. He believes in the principle of peaceful co-existence. ‘Live and let live’ is the
guiding principle of his life. He is honest and fair in his dealings. He has a helpful attitude towards his
fellow human beings. He refuses to be tempted into corruption or dishonesty. His life is an open book
in honesty, diligence and amiability.
6 It is the duty of every citizen to be ready to offer his services for public duties. It is the
fundamental duty of a citizen to record his vote. A citizen is also expected to take an active part in
public affairs. Another duty of a citizen is to pay taxes honestly. If he evades these, the government has
the right to realize the taxes by force. An ideal citizen is ideal in his speech, conduct and writing. He is
always ready to lay down his life for the sake of his country. His country is a motherland to him and he
loves her from the core of his heart. The greatness of a country depends not on her material resources,
but on her men and women. A nation is great if her citizens are great. A poet has rightly said:

“Not gold, but only men,

Can make a nation strong and great;
Men who for truth and honour’s sake

Reference: http://evirtualguru.com

Multiple Choice. Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

41.What concept is discussed and clarified in this essay?

A) all citizens C) good citizens
B) bad citizens D) Filipino citizens
42.What type of definition is used to tell what an ideal citizen is?
A) Formal C) Extended
B) Informal D) None of the choices
43. What technique is used to define the term "ideal citizen" in this essay?
A) Contrast C) Synonym
B) Illustration D) Both b and c
44. The word "asset" in paragraph 1 means valuable...
A) property C) wealth
B) person D) price
45. The statement "The greatness of a country depends not on her material resources, but on her men
and women" uses the technique...
A) negation C) comparison
B) function D) analogy
46.Which main idea about an ideal citizen is NOT discussed in this essay?
A) his duties and responsibilities
B) the advantages of being an ideal citizen
C) definition of an ideal citizen
D) what is not an ideal citizen
47. Which among the supporting details goes with the main idea in paragraph 4 about an ideal citizen?
A) He maintains harmonious relationship with others.
B) He enjoys several facilities.
C) He obeys the law.
D) The goodness of the country depends on the type of citizen it has.
48. We can say that the author in this essay is...
A) sad C) God-fearing
B) certain D) over-acting
49. The author's purpose in this essay is...
A) to inform C) to describe
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B) to persuade D) to narrate
50. In general, how would a reader feel after reading this selection? Choose among the following.
A) hopeful C) melancholic
B) inspired D) dispirited

V. ESSAY. Give your explanation on the following questions.

1. Why do we need to write a reaction paper? (10 pts)

2. Explain briefly the definition of academic writing. (10pts)

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VI. REACTION PAPER. Give your stand/opinion on the issues that is on trend today in our country.

1. What is your opinion to SOGIE BILL? (15pts)

2. What is your opinion on the Rice Tariffication Law. (15pts)

(The Rice Tariffication Law titled “An Act liberalizing the importation, exportation, and trading of rice, lifting for the
purpose the quantitative import restriction on rice and for other purposes” was signed into law by President Rodrigo
Roa Duterte on February 14, 2019.)

I recommend you to avoid cheating. You can cheat to pass the exams, but your skills will remain
underdeveloped. Good luck and God bless!

Prepared by: Approved by:

MAY ANN DS. BRUAN JONATHAN M.MENSALVAS, M.Ed.

Subject Teacher, School of Basic Education Deputy Headmaster, School of Basic Education

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