Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region X- Northern Mindanao
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF CAMIGUIN
District of Sagay
ALANGILAN INTEGRATED SCHOOL
Alangilan, Sagay, Camiguin
School ID: 500683

MIDTERM
EXAMINATION
English for Academic & Professional Purposes

Name: __________________________________ Date: ______________

Grade & Section: _______________________ Score: _____________

 I. Multiple Choice. Encircle the letter of your choice.

1. It helps the reader understand the topic by looking at the organization

of the details in the passage.
a. Outline c. Summary
b. Paraphrasing d. Supporting Details
2. The ideas or events are presented in a sequential manner.
a. Context Clues c. Chronological Order
b. Concept Map d. Graphic organizer
3. When should et al. be used in APA style reference list?
a. It should be used when the work has more than 3 authors.
b. It should be used when the work has more than 6 authors.
c. If the work has more than two authors, both authors' names should
be used.
d. Both B and C

For numbers 4-5, read the given sentences and choose which is the best
paraphrase version of the given sentence.

4. Julia worries about receiving a failing marks on the difficult test.

a. Receiving a failing grade on the difficult exam concerned
Julia.
b. Julia is worried about failing the very difficult test.
c. The difficult test worries Julia if she could pass it.
d. Julia felt anxious on her mark from the test.
5. The slain girl vanished last evening at approximately 12 o’clock from a
dinner party given at her parent’s home.
a. The girl disappeared at the dinner party on their home.
b. The girl is murdered at their own home.
c. The girl is killed attending a dinner party.
d. The girl died at their home after attending the dinner party.

6. Which of the following best describes the main idea of the above
passage?

a. A penny saved is a penny earned.

b. Old people have the most money.
c. Our ages and stage of life determines the investments.
d. Young people should concentrate on collecting pennies.
 7. Which of the following text structure best suit to the above selection?
a. Cause and Effect c. Compare and Contrast
b. Spatial/ Descriptive Writing d. Order of Importance

For items 8-10, refer to the selection below:

Boondocks (1944), a remote rural area, back country, an isolated or wild region filled with dense brush,
comes from Tagalog bundok, “mountain.” An “s” was added, since English has the tendency to affix that
letter to locations, as in the sticks (a synonym for the boondocks), the damps, and the woods. While the word
means “mountain” to the people of the Philippines, American soldiers extended the meaning to any kind of
rough country or out-of-the-way locale. Used by servicemen during World War II, the word boondocks first
came to the attention of the American public during an investigation into the brutal methods of training used
by the Marines at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. According to the official records, young recruits were
regularly subjected to forced night marches “into the boondocks” (of places like Paris Island), which included
some low-lying swampy areas where at least one Marine recruit died. The investigation ended, but the word
remained. Its infamous history all but forgotten, the word boondocks is now synonymous with any rural area
distant from the excitement of big cities or large towns. By the 1950s, shoes suitable for rough outdoor use
were regularly called boondockers, as can be seen from Leon Uris’s adventure-packed novel of World War II
Marines, Battle Cry: “Andy Hookans was dumping a can of footpowder into his boondockers.” About the
same time, boonies had become the slang equivalent of the boondocks.

8. It is a remote rural area, back country, an isolated or wild region filled

with dense brush.
a. valley b. village c. boondocks d. tribe
9. Who/What are boondockers?
a. These are shoes suitable for rough outdoor used.
b. They are the people living in the mountain
c. These are love potion used during courtship
d. They are the soldiers who go to the mountain
10. In the selection, boondockers is ______________________
a. the etymology of the word.
b. the plural form of the term.
c. a derivative from the term.
d. a slang version of the term
11. Which of the following best describes an opinion?
a. Something that ca be proven
b. Making a good choice
c. A person’s thoughts or feelings about something
d. A person who can prove something
12. Which of the following is an opinion?
a. Jose won the race at field day.
b. Sheila woke up at 7:30 in the morning.
c. Gary was unhappy that his team lost.
d. Todd is wearing a blue tie.
13. Which of the following is a fact?
a. I received a 98% on a reading test.
b. I’m the smartest student in the 11th Grade.
c. Edgar Allan Poe is the best author for fiction.
d. Reading is very easy.
14. Andrew's mother and father unloaded the van after the family
returned from the soccer tournament. Andrew was exhausted from
playing in all eight games over the weekend. Andrew wasn't helping,
because he ran inside the house to call his grandparents to tell them
about the games. He had won a trophy for being the most valuable
player, and his team had won all of their games. He scored at least two
goals in each of the games. He was extremely excited.
Which of these sentences is NOT a fact stated in the paragraph?
a. Andrew won a trophy at the soccer tournament.
b. Andrew was exhausted, but excited about the tournament.
c. Andrew scored at least 2 goals in every game.
d. Andrew’s team won all of their games in the tournament.
15. Which of the following is a characteristic of a fact?
a. Verifiable b. objective c. subjective d. both a and b
16. Which of the following statement describes good summarizing?
a. Rosemarie copied everything from the book
b. Dav added some of his related research to the information
presented in the text.
c. Marilyn included some of her interpretations on the message of the
text.
d. John wrote down the general and specific ideas of the text.
17. Which one of the following is NOT a part of a summary?
a. using your own words
b. summary being shorter than the text
c. exact words from the text
d. including main ideas only
18. 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.
19. John is writing an essay on the features of the ocean floor,
which idea doesn’t belong in his essay?
a. The ocean floor is a very interesting part of the Earth
b. Volcanoes can spew hot lava everywhere.
c. There are many parts of the ocean floor.
d. All of the above
 I. Types of measurement
A. Volume
1. Quartz
2. Pints
3. Gallons
B. Length
1. Miles
2. Feet
3. Inches
II. Types of money
A. Philippines
1. Pesos
2. Cents
B. Other Countries
1. Yen
2. Dollar
3. Francs

20. In the above outline, which is the most important idea?

a. Types of money
b. Types of measurement
c. Volume & Philippines
d. Types of money and Types of measurement are equal
21. If you have to add the word “meters” to the outline, where
would it go?
a. As number 4 under B – “Other Countries”
b. As number 4 under B – “Length”
c. As number 3 under A – “Philippines
d. As new section III.
22. A ____________________ text structure organizes ideas based on
how events, places, people, things and concepts are similar to or
different from one another.
a. Narration c. comparison-contrast
b. Cause-effect d. description
23. What is the structure of a descriptive text?
a. It provides meaning and clarification to a term or a subject.
b. It describes the subject using the five senses.
c. It arranges ideas by location or physical space.
d. Both b and c
24. Which is NOT a good technique in paraphrasing?
a. Do not change special terms or proper names.
b. Change passive voice to active voice.
c. Change word form or part of speech.
d. Use antonyms of phrases and words.
25. It is an approach which concerns the difference between the
economic classes and implications of capitalist system.
a. Feminist c. Marxist
b. Formalism d. Reader-Response Criticism
 26. It focuses on how literature presents women as subjects of
socio-political, psychological, and economic oppression.
a. Marxist criticism c. Formalism
b. Reader-response criticism d. Feminist criticism
27. Which of the following aspects you will looked into when writing
a reaction paper using feminism?
a. Author’s techniques in resolving contradictions within work
b. Social class of the characters
c. Relationship of the form and the content
d. How gender equality is presented in the text
28. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
a. When writing a review, reaction paper, or critique, only one
perspective should be used.
b. Marxist criticism involves the analysis of the intrinsic features of a
text.
c. A review or reaction paper involves higher order thinking skills.
d. More than half of a review or critique should be devoted to the
summary.
In their book, Wilbert McKeachie and Marilla Svinicki described four types of
challenging students. The first type is the attention-seeking, discussion-
dominating students. The aim of these students is just to be heard. The
second type is the inattentive students. These are the students who doodle
and drift off into their own thoughts during class discussion. They often stare
at their cell phones and chat with their classmates during lecture. We also
have the unprepared students. They are the ones who skip doing their
assignments prior to the class. They do not come to class equipped, even
when they are aware of scheduled quizzes and exams. The last type of
challenging students is the uncivil and disrespectful ones. They are the
students who display rude behavior.
29. In the above passage, how many types of challenging students
are there?
a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4
30. It started when they got to the bears. Cris felt tired and his
stomach hurt. He dragged himself over to see the elephants, which
were eating from a stack of hay. Normally, the elephants were his
favorite. Without much interest, Cris followed his classmates to the
camels, which were busy swatting flies with their tails. Cris knew he
should be having fun at the zoo, but he just felt terrible and all he
wanted to do was lie down and rest. Even the lions and tigers did not
interest him now.
The summary of the passage is?
a. Cris’s favorite animals were the elephants
b. The camels were swatting flies with their tails.
c. It was really hot at the zoo.
d. Cris didn’t enjoy the zoo because he felt really bad.
31. It is a shortened passage, which retains the essential
information of the original text.
a. Graphic Organizer c. Transitional devices
b. Inference d. Summary
 32. What should be done in order to avoid plagiarism?
a. Give proper attribution to all sources, and know how to quote
correctly.
b. When paraphrasing, rewrite statements completely in your own
words.
c. Proofread carefully.
d. All of the above.
33. When should you use in-text citations within your paper?
a. at the end of each page
b. at the end of every paragraph
c. whenever information has come from another source
d. all of the above
34. Which of the following examples includes a properly formatted
in-text citation for a summary of paraphrase?
a. Jones (2006) stated the results of the study directly correlate with
the challenges…
b. Smith implied the assumptions of the research indicated a problem
… (Smith, 2004).
c. ABC Corporation (Jones, 2001) was operating on significantly
reduced budget..
d. Both b & c
35. In the outline format, this is the first big idea and represented
by a Roman Numeral I.
a. sub point c. topic
b. thesis d. main point

II. Tell whether each sentence is a fact or opinion. Write your answer
on the space provided.

1. _______________ War is always wrong.

2. _______________ Wild animals should not be kept in zoos.
3. _______________ Cigarettes cause lung cancer.
4. _______________ The professor argues that the effect of carbon emissions
on the surrounding environment will only get worse.
5. _______________ Governments must invest more in the environment.

III. Read the words and phrases below. Make an outline by identifying
the main topic, sub-topic, and sub-subtopic. (8 points)
Note: Some words are only distractors. Write your answer on the
box.

foods birds robin meats hawk

vegetables pork chops animals
corn on the cob hamburger insects
mosquito broccoli beetle
IV. Explain briefly the lines of Ninoy Aquino: “We must criticize in
order to be free, because we are free only when we criticized.”
Write your answer on the box, (2 points)
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b. Verifiable b. objective c. subjective d.
both a and b
a. _____________ is a process that starts with posing a question,
problematizing a concept, evaluating an opinion, and ends in
answering the question, clarifying the problem, and/or arguing for
a stand.
a. Concept paper c. personal essay
b. position paper d. academic writing
b. It defines an idea or a concept and explains its essence in order to
clarify the “whatness” of that idea or concept.
a. Concept paper c. personal essay
b. position paper d. academic writing
For items 21-25, identify what technique of defining is used in each item.
Choose your answer on the choices given below. Write only the letter on the
space provided.
a. formal d. by likeness
b. by semantic history e. by function
c. by contrast

_______ 21. A thermometer measures temperature change.

_______ 22. Unlike those of gas, the particles of plasma are electrically
charged.
_______ 23. A robot is a machine that looks like a human being and
performs complex acts of a human being (Webster)
_______ 24. Brighter than 100million suns, quasars stand like beacons on
the shore of the universe
_______ 25. Yoga comes from the Sanskrit language which means “to join”

V. True or False. Write T if the statement is true and write F if false.

Write your answer on the space provided.

_______ 1. A concept paper can be subjective.

_______ 2. A concept paper starts and ends with a definition only, either
formal or informal, of the term or the concept.
_______ 3. A concept paper gives a fair and balance social commentary.
_______ 4. Academic writing requires the use of long sentences and
complicated vocabulary.
_______ 5. Academic writing uses appropriate language and tenses, and is
clear, concise and balanced.

VI. Tell whether each sentence is a fact or opinion. Write your answer
on the space provided.

1. _______________ War is always wrong.

2. _______________ Wild animals should not be kept in zoos.
3. _______________ Cigarettes cause lung cancer.
4. _______________ The professor argues that the effect of carbon emissions
on the surrounding environment will
only get worse.
5. _______________ Governments must invest more in the environment.
 VII. Essay. Answer the questions below. You will be scored based on
the rubric below. You may write your answer on the vacant
space below or in another sheet of paper.

Criteria Allocated Points Gained Points

Content 5
Organization 3
Neatness 2
TOTAL 10

Questions:
1. Explain the lines of Ninoy Aquino: “We must criticize in order to be
free, because we are free only when we criticized.”

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