Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region V (Bicol)
BOGÑABONG HIGH SCHOOL
Bogñabong, Tabaco City

Mid-term Examination in
ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES (EAPP)

I. Read each item carefully and write only the letter of your answer on your answer sheet.
1. What do you call the type of academic text which is published in scholarly journals and offers results of
research and development?
A. articles B. newspapers C. reviews D. conference papers
2. Which of the following is not part of the structure of academic texts?
A. it is typically formal
B. it has a clearly structured introduction, body and conclusion
C. it uses precise and accurate words while avoiding colloquial expressions
D. it may or may not include a list of references
3. What type of academic texts are presented in scholastic conferences?
A. dissertations B. reaction papers C. conference papers D. lab reports
4. What is the main difference between dissertations and theses?
A. Dissertations are longer than theses.
B. Theses take a longer a period to be completed compared to dissertations.
C. Theses are for college students while dissertations are written by students aiming for a doctor’s degree.
D. Dissertation is a long essay while a thesis is a kind of research paper.
5. Which part of an academic text contains supporting details?
A. bibliography B. rationale C. conclusion D. body
6. What type of academic text is also referred to as a proposal?
A. review B. concept paper C. conference paper D. lab reports
7. These are words and syntactic structures that students are likely to encounter in textbooks and tests, but not
in everyday, spoken English.
A. formal English B. colloquial language C. academic language D. linguistics.
8. To achieve conciseness, the sentence “Thomas Jefferson invented the telephone” can be embedded in the
following phrase, “Thomas Jefferson’s invention of the telephone revolutionized interpersonal communication.”
What grammatical process is indicated by this example?
A. nominalization B. syntax C. synchronization D. rhetoric
9. Why is it that Social Sciences tend to use more hedges and boosters than those in the Hard Sciences?
A. social sciences need hedges to soften criticisms and boosters to strengthen their claims
B. social sciences need hedges and boosters to support their claims
C. social sciences need hedges and boosters to make their statements more creative
D. social sciences are more objective
10. Which of the following is true about academic language?
A. academic language can be encountered in everyday conversations
B. academic language cannot be defined dichotomously, but exists in a continuum
C. academic language is the language used only in professional context
D. academic language uses simple syntactical structures for conciseness

11-13. Identify what type of expression is/ are the underlined word/s in each of the sentences.
11. It appears that teachers who fumble with technology will struggle to persuade students that the information
they are presenting is worthwhile (Rudi, 2009).
A. hedging expression B. booster C. jargon D. cognitive verb
12. The experiment clearly demonstrated a change in the substance.
A. hedging expression B. booster C. modal verb D. cognitive verb
13. The deviations at high frequencies may have been caused by the noise measurements.
A. modal verb B. booster C. jargon D. cognitive verb
14-18. Refer to the paragraph inside the box.
(1) Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a randomized and population-based optimization method that was inspired
by the flocking behaviour of birds and human social interactions. (2) In this work, multi-objective PSO is modified in
two stages. (3) In the first stage, PSO is combined with convergence and divergence operators. (4) Here, this method
is named CDPSO. (5) In the second stage, to produce a set of Pareto optimal solutions which has good convergence,
diversity and distribution, two mechanisms are used. (6) In the first mechanism, a new leader selection method is
defined, which uses the periodic iteration and the concept of the particle's neighbour number. (7) This method is
named periodic multi-objective algorithm. (8) In the second mechanism, an adaptive elimination method is employed
to limit the number of non-dominated solutions in the archive, which has influences on computational time,
convergence and diversity of solution.
14. Which sentence in the box tells about the main idea of the paragraph?
A.1 B. 3 C. 5 D. none of the above
15. Which sentence serves as a conclusion to the paragraph?
A.7 B. 8 C. 6 D. none of the above
16. Which sentences provide supporting information to the main idea of the paragraph?
A. 2 to 7 B. 2 to 8 C. 1 to 8 D. 1 to 7
17. What stage is the adaptive elimination method used base on the text?
A. second stage B. first stage C. third stage D. second mechanism
18. What stimulated the conduct of this experiment?
A. to produce a set of Pareto optimal solutions
B. Particle swarm optimization
C. flocking behaviour of birds and human social interactions
D. limit the number of non-dominated solutions
19. Which of the following is not done during the reading stage?
A. Reflect on what you have learned
B. Write key words or phrases
C. Write the limitations of the author’s arguments
D. Determine the main idea of the text
20. What do you mean by annotating the text?
A. making a synthesis about the text B. writing comments and marks while reading the text
C. underlining important points in the text D. making inferences about the text
21. Getting a feel of the text belong to which stage of the SQ3R Method?
A. recite B. review C. read D. survey
22. The THEIVES Method is especially helpful when you _____?
A. feel lazy to read the text B. do not have the copy of the whole text
C. do not have enough time to read the whole text D. cannot clearly understand the text
23. Forming a summary or synthesis about a text belongs to which stage in the SQ3R Method?
A. recite B. review C. read D. survey
24. Which of the following describes good summarizing?
A. Alexa added her analysis and comments to the ideas of the author.
B. Mark copied everything from the text.
C. Johann included all the supporting details from the passage.
D. Tomas extracted the key ideas and simplified them.
25. Two of the three reviewed studies focusing on communication in non-internet and internet relationships
mediated by FtF, phone or email modalities found that the frequency of each modality’s use of was significantly
linked to the particular relationship (Cummings et al., 2002). What format in summarizing was used in this
example?
A. date heading B. idea heading C. author heading D. discussion heading
26. In 2005, Scheliz suggested a list of the causes of poverty in the Philippines. What format in summarizing
was used in this example?
A. date heading B. idea heading C. author heading D. discussion heading
27. Blackstone and Hardwood (2012) suggest the facilitative strength of FB as it elicits greater engagement on
collaboration among students. What format in summarizing was used in this example?
A. date heading B. idea heading C. author heading D. discussion heading
28. As Noam Chomsky pointed out, a sentence can be perfect in terms of syntax and still not make sense.
What do you call the underlined words in the sentence?
A. modal verb B. hedging expression C.reporting verb D. booster
 29-31. Find the thesis statement in each of the paragraphs in the box.
(1) Our position is not that the aforementioned critical approaches to Robinson Crusoe are mistaken, for it is clear to us
that those foundational economic and postcolonial readings are as important as they are convincing. (2) However, we do
find curious the general lack of attentiveness to and sustained engagement with the religious elements in the text despite
the apparent critical consensus that religion is a crucial concept for any meaningfully comprehensive explication of
Robinson Crusoe. (3) In this essay, we attempt to rectify that critical neglect by providing attentive analysis to the way
religion functions in the novel: (4) How does religion function in the vis-à-vis other discourses such as capitalism,
colonialism, and Crusoe’s supposed “wandering inclination”? (5) What is the specific ideological utility of religion for
Crusoe? (6) We suggest that the best way to explore these questions would be to think of religion as an ideologeme, in
Frederic Jameson’s sense of term.

29. A. 1 B. 6 C. 3 D. 2

(1) Filipinos are frequent moviegoers. (2) Perhaps because of the comic relief that comedy films promise, or the fairytale
ending we all want to have that the rom-coms provide, we indulge in the cinematography of moving pictures. (3) In the 1984
Guinness Book of World Records, the Philippines was listed as the nation with the world’s most avid film-going public,
averaging 19 trips to the cinema per year, per person (Yeatter, 2007). (4) More often than not, movie theaters all over the
Metro are filled with people who want to break out from their usual working routine to catch a two-hour movie with friends.
(5) Oddly enough, however, we as constant consumers of these motion pictures tend to patronize those that are made
particularly international.
30. A. 4 B. 5 C. 3 D. 2

(1) This paper considers the nature of professional learning arising through the processes of carrying out action
research in professional organizations. (2) It suggests that communicative space opened up outside of the professional
context can lead to unanticipated professional learning. (3) Such learning could be considered transformative in the
way that it leads professionals to reframe their understanding of the dilemma arising from doing action research. (4) To
illustrate this, two cases are presented to show the pivotal role university tutors can play not only in the way they create
and maintain communicative space but also in the way they purposefully employ strategies.

31. A. 1 B. 4 C. 3 D. 2
32. What style guide requires you to write all the names of the authors in the first citation and then use only et
al. for subsequent citations?
A. APA B. MLA C. AMA D. CHICAGO
33. What style guide is recommended in the field of medicine, health sciences and other natural sciences?
A. APA B. MLA C. AMA D. CHICAGO
34. It appears that teachers who fumble with technology will struggle to persuade students that the information
they are presenting is worthwhile (Rudi, 2009). This sentence is an example of what form of citation?
A. APA B. direct quotation C. reference citation D. in-text citation
35. Which of the following is an acceptable source for an essay on English Language tourism in the
Philippines?
A. Crystal, D. (2003). English as a global language. NY: Cambridge University Press
B. Llorito, D. (2007). Philippines should master the English language or perish. Retrieved from
http://davidllorito.blogspot.com/2007/06/philippines-should -master-english.html
C. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0895769X.2016.1234924?scroll=top&needAccess=true
D. Tiersma, P. (n.d.) What is forensic linguistics? Retrieved from
http://www.languageandlaw.org/FORENSIC.HTM
36. Which of the following is true about choosing your sources?
A. Sources found on television or magazine should be trusted.
B. Sources published online should be used as references.
C. Sources which have in-text and reference citations are credible.
D. Sources written by experts should not be easily trusted.
37. What type of style guide uses the author-page method?
A. APA B. MLA C. Chicago D. IEEE
38. If you’re writing a reaction paper about a literary piece involving poverty, which approach should you use?
A. formalism B. feminist criticism C. reader response criticism D. marxism
39. This approach is concerned with reviewer’s reaction as an audience of the work. It claims that the reader’s
role cannot be separated from the understanding of the work.
A. formalism B. feminist criticism C. reader response criticism D. marxism
40. If you’re going to write a reaction paper about the Indie Film “Ma’ Rosa”, which approach should you use”
A. marxism B. feminist criticism C. psychoanalytic D. historicism
41. Which part of a reaction paper has the largest part?
A. conclusion B. review/critique C. summary D. introduction
42. The introduction part of a reaction paper basically contains the following except?
A. writer’s name B. title of the book/article
C. thesis statement D. overall impression of the work
43. When critiquing artworks or posters, make sure to _______.
A. use modal verbs
B. presume that the reader has not yet seen the material
C. describe the material using complex sentence structures
D. use abstract terms in your description
44. Which of the following does not describe a reaction paper/ review?
A. Provide evaluation or reviews of works published in scholarly journals
B. provides description, analysis and interpretation that allow readers to assess the article's value.
C. reports new facts, rather than summarizing previously published articles
D. summarizes the current state of understanding on a topic.
45. When writing a reaction paper, which should you not include?
A. your major findings and claims
B. other perspectives and new information
C. the methods you used in analyzing and writing the paper
D. benefits for the intended audience or field

46-60. Write a paraphrase and summary of the paragraphs below. Your answers to each paragraph will
be equivalent to 5 points.
46-50.
“Academic writing is best thought of as a circular process. When you begin your writing, you need first to plan
what you are going to write. Your planning will involve reading sources such as journal articles, books as well
as attending lectures and conferences. While reading and attending lectures, you may want to take notes,
begin to organize all you information and to write a first draft.”
(Source: Institute of Education, 2008, p. 10).
51-55.
By studying the answers from children of different ages to these questions Kohlberg hoped to discover the ways
in which moral reasoning changed as people grew older. The sample comprised 72 Chicago boys aged 10–16
years, 58 of whom were followed up at three-yearly intervals for 20 years (Kohlberg, 1984).
Each boy was given a 2-hour interview based on the ten dilemmas. What Kohlberg was mainly interested in was
not whether the boys judged the action right or wrong, but the reasons given for the decision. He found that
these reasons tended to change as the children got older.
He identified three distinct levels of moral reasoning each with two sub stages. People can only pass through
these levels in the order listed. Each new stage replaces the reasoning typical of the earlier stage. Not everyone
achieves all the stages.
(Source: http://www.simplypsychology.org/kohlberg.html)
56-60.
For Freud, dreams were the royal road to the unconscious. He began to analyze dreams in order to understand
aspects of personality as they relate to pathology. He believed that behavior was not a chance occurrence; every
action and thought is motivated by the unconscious at some level. In order to live in a civilized society, people
have a tendency to hold back their urges and repress their impulses. However, these urges and impulses must
be released in some way; they have a way of coming to the surface in disguised form: one way they are released
is through dreams. Freud discovered that the elements in a subject's dream tend to be particularly close to
repressed unconscious content and that free associations starting from those dream elements quickly encounter
topics causing emotional arousal as the unconscious is stimulated, followed by resistance to those feelings. He
revolutionized the study of dreams with his work The Interpretation Of Dreams.
(Source: Sigmund Freud and Freudian Analysis by Gregor Mitchell, Retrieved from: http://www.mind-
development.eu/ego-autonomy.html)

Prepared by:

KRYSTLE FRANCESS B. BARRIOS

Noted by:

RAMIR V. BOLA
School Head