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When I was growing up, one of the places I enjoyed most was the cherry tree in
the back yard. Every summer when the cherries began to ripen, I used to spend hours
high in the tree, picking and eating the sweet, sun-warmed cherries. My mother always
worried about my falling out of the tree, but I never did. But I had some competition for
the cherries — flocks of birds that enjoyed them as much as I did and would perch all
over the tree, devouring the fruit whenever I wasn't there. I used to wonder why the
grown-ups never ate any of the cherries; but actually when the birds and I had finished,
there weren't many left.
A. Competing with birds
B. Enjoying summer
C. Falling from the cherry tree
D. Picking and eating cherries
18. What conclusion can be derived from the following paragraph?
Work and school are very much alike in at least three ways. First, both require an
early start. Going to work requires getting up early to avoid the traffic rush, and going to
school requires getting up early to be assured of a parking space. Second, promptness is
important in both places. Being at work on time pleases the employer; being in class on
time pleases the instructor. Third, both involve quotas. A job imposes various quotas on
a worker to ensure maximum production--for example, a certain amount of boxes must
be filled on an assembly line, or a designated number of calls must be made by a
telephone solicitor. Likewise, school imposes quotas on a student to ensure maximum
effort--for instance, a certain number of essays must be written in an English
composition class or a specific number of books must be read in an American Novel
course.
By the end of the seventeenth century, our punctuation system was in place for
the most part, though sometimes details varied. Just think, though: after only a few
lessons in school – and with lots of practice reading and writing – you can boast that
you’ve mastered a system that took westerners many centuries to develop.
Those that have tenacity will not quit when confronted by obstacles or when failing.
In a game or in life, tenacity wants to win, and tenacity lives by the credo, “Failure is
not an option.”
A. informative
B. journalistic
C. literary
D. technical
VI. LITERATURE
23. What is meant by the author in the following lines of a poem?
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
––A Psalm of Life
A. Become great by emulating great men.
B. Leave footprints on the sands.
C. Make our lives inspiring.
D. Remember the lives of great men.
24. What is the main message of this stanza, from Rudyard Kipling’s “If?”
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
A. Always do what is right and just.
B. Be true to oneself.
C. Don’t give up.
D. Know the value of self-worth.
25. Which of the following is NOT characteristic of the “sixth-aged man?”
A. Big manly voice turning again toward childish treble
B. Lean and slippered pantaloons
C. Satchel and shining morning face
D. Spectacles on nose and pouch on side
26. What is the tone of the Mother as she spoke to her Son? (from “Mother To Son” by
Langston Hughes)
Well, son, I’ll tell you:
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
It’s had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor—
Bare.
A. angry
B. inspiring
C. mysterious
D. triumphant
27. What is the real characteristic of Beowulf that Grendel discovered based on these lines
from the poem?
Then he (Grendel) stepped to another
Still body, clutched at Beowulf with his claws,
Grasped at a strong-hearted wakeful sleeper
—And was instantly seized himself, claws
Bent back as Beowulf leaned up on one arm.
That shepherd of evil, guardian of crime,
Knew at once that nowhere on earth
Had he met a man whose hands were harder;
His mind was flooded with fear—but nothing
Could take his talons and himself from that tight
Hard grip.
A. Guardian of crime
B. Hard-handed
C. Of great strength
D. Shepherd of evil
28. Imagery paints words that appeal to our senses of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.
The underlined words in the following passage appeal to what sense?
Right so came an adder out of a little heath bush, and it stung a knight in the foot.
And so when the knight felt him so stung, he looked down and saw the adder. And
anon he drew his sword to slay the adder, and thought none other harm. And when
the host on both parties saw that sword drawn, then they blew beams, horns, and
shouted grimly.
A. sight
B. smell
C. sound
D. touch
29. Poetic contractions are used in a poem to suggest a different culture, language use, etc.
In which line/s of the poem below is poetic contraction most evident?
A. But all the time
I'se been a-climbin' on,
B. And reachin' landin's,
And turnin' corners,
C. And sometimes goin' in the dark
30. Where there ain't been no light.
To what sense does the following image appeal?
“When the others went swimming my son said he was going in, too. He
pulled his dripping trunks from the line where they had hung all through the shower
and wrung them out. Languidly, and with no thought of going in, I watched him, his
hard little body, skinny and bare, saw him wince slightly as he pulled up around his
vitals the small, soggy, icy garment. As he buckled the swollen belt, suddenly my
groin felt the chill of death.”–from E.B.White’s, ‘One More To The Lake.’
A. sight
B. smell
C. sound
D. touch