M. B. Asistio Sr.

High School Unit I

Pla-Pla Street Kaunlaran Village Caloocan City

Midterm Exam in Reading and Writing

January 15 and 16, 2020

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I. MULTIPLE CHOICE Directions: Read the following items carefully. Write the CAPITAL
LETTER of the correct answer on the space provided.
a. Antonym b. Substitute
_____ 1. It is a cognitive process of c. Replacement d. Synonym
decoding symbols to derive meaning.
a. Reading b. Writing _____ 9. “To end the war, we must start
c. Speaking d. Encoding building relationships again.” What context
clue is used in this statement?
_____ 2. Reading can be improved through a. Explanation b. Example
consistent _____________. c. Antonym d. Synonym
a. exposure b. observation
c. training d. practice _____ 10. These are specific details in a
text that are used to clarify the meaning of a
_____ 3. What skills do we simultaneously word.
apply when we read? a. Definitions b. Explanations
i. Identifying the author’s purpose c. Examples d. Substitute
ii. Grasping the main idea of the text
iii. Critiquing the text _____ 11. Which is another type of context
a. I and ii b. I, ii and iii clue?
c. ii only d. ii and iii a. Connotation b. Denotation
c. Situation d. Replacement
_____ 4. These are overviewing strategies
to help you understand a text EXCEPT: _____ 12. What is denotation?
a. reading b. scanning a. It Is the precise and literal
c. contextualizing d. previewing meaning of a word.
b. It is the positive or negative
_____ 5. What are we looking into when we feeling, attitude or association with a word
employ previewing as an overviewing c. It is the meaning you give to the
strategy? word regardless whether it is correct or not.
a. Titles, author’s name, visuals d. It is the meaning of a word derived
b. Subtitles, author’s address, from how it is used.
graphs
c. Author’s background only 13. – 15. Identify the context clues used in
d. Titles, author’s background, the sentences. Use the following choices
pictures, first lines for your answer
a. antonym
_____ 6. It is looking for the main point of b. examples
the reading material and identifying the c. explanation and definitions
ideas that develop it. d. situations
a. Scanning b. Skimming
c. Previewing d. Translating _____ 13. “Grey Literature” or unpublished
reading materials or of non-peer reviewed
_____ 7. It is looking for specific information online publications, appear to be
in the text. questionable.
a. Skimming b. Investigating
c. Previewing d. Scanning _____ 14. The data matrix is of two types:
the profile matrix and proximity matrix.
_____ 8. It is a context clue which gives
you an idea what the word means by giving _____ 15. “Trees” is the title of a poem
another word that has similar meaning to it. where its central theme is “love and take
care of trees for they are beneficial to c. I, ii, iii, iv d. I, ii, iii
mankind.”
_____ 22. It is making notes on your copy
_____ 16. Whenever you read a text, you of the reading.
do the following, EXCEPT: a. Outlining the text
a. question assumptions b. Annotating the text
b. seek definition c. Note-taking
c. test information d. Highlighting the text
d. record data
_____ 23. It consists of getting the main
_____ 17. It is the type of reading where points of the text and important supporting
you go beyond passively understanding a details.
text. a. Summary of the text
a. Fast reading b. Gist of the text
b. Extensive reading c. Essence of the text
c. Critical reading d. Text critique
d. Intensive reading
_____ 24. This is a valid question you can
_____ 18. What is the meaning of the pose if you are questioning the text.
statement, “When you read critically, you a. What is the reader’s reaction?
think critically.”? b. What are the writer’s intentions?
a. You are both critical in your c. What are the reader’s
reading and thinking. recommendations?
b. You bring your own experience d. How do I feel about this question?
and perspective into your reading.
c. You accept any information you _____ 25. This is the information that is
read. clearly stated.
d. You judge for yourself if the text is a. implicit b. explicit
logical, important and right. c. plain d. hidden

_____ 19. Why is the interaction between _____ 26. What is a claim?
the text and the reader necessary? a. It is the topic sentence.
Because reading ______. b. It is the central argument of the text.
a. results from a negotiation of c. It is the main idea of the text.
meaning between text and the reader d. It is a supporting idea.
b. results a common understanding
of the meaning of the text and the reader. _____ 27. How does a writer try to prove
c. makes the reader informed. his claim? It is by providing ____ .
d. results to a cohesive interpretation a. details, explanations, and other
of the text is done by the reader. types of evidence
b. persuasive words to entice the
_____ 20. If reading critically allows you to reader
enter into a dialogue with the author, what c. visual representations to entertain
is its result? the reader
a. This deepens your understanding d. feelings
of the issue or topic discussed.
b. This makes you appreciate what _____ 28. It is a characteristic of a good
the writer has written about. claim.
c. The perspective you accept is just a. general b. logical
one sided. c. undebatable d. emotional
d. This opens doors for you to reflect
on others’ perspective about issues. _____ 29. It is a type of claim that states a
quantifiable assertion.
_____ 21. These are techniques to help a. Claim of Value
you develop critical reading skills. b. Claim of Fact
i. Keeping a diary c. Claim of Policy
ii. Questioning the text d. Claim of Arguments
iii. Annotating the text
iv. Summarizing the text _____ 30. It is a type of claim that asserts
something that can be qualifiable.
a. I only b. ii, iii, iv a. Claim of Value
b. Claim of Fact
 c. Claim of Policy
d. Claim of Emotions
_____ 31. These are declarative sentences
that claim something to be true about
something else.
a. Statements
b. Declarations
c. Assertions
d. Arguments
_____ 32. It is a statement that can be
proven objectively by direct experience,
testimonies of witnesses, verified
observations, or the results of research.
a. Preference
b. Opinion
c. Fact
d. Empirical Evidence
_____ 33. It is a way in which something is
done, similar to traditions and norms.
a. Convention b. Agreement
c. Resolution d. Innovation
_____ 34. These are claims that rebut a
previous claim. It provides a contrasting
perspective to the main argument.
a. Anti-claim
b. Opposing claim
c. Counterclaim
d. Cross claim
_____ 35. It is defined as the details given
by the author to support his/her claim.
A. Proof b. Evidence
c. Testimony d. Claims
_____ 36. It is during this stage of writing
that one knows what kind of paper one is
required to write.
a. Writing b. Pre-writing
c. Revising d. Rewriting
_____ 37. What is the purpose of one’s
writing?
a. It is the reason why one is writing.
b. It is goal of the writing.
c. It is the motive of the writing.
d. It is the objective of the writing.
_____ 38. What is a topic? It is the ___ .
a. general issue of the paper.
b. specific issue of the paper.
c. over-all issue of the paper.
d. supporting idea to the issue.
_____ 39. It is a prewriting activity that
allows the writer to list down everything that
comes to his mind about the topic.
a. Clustering or mapping
b. Free-writing
c. Brainstorming
d. Planning
_____ 40. It is a prewriting activity of
branching off a subtopic from the main
topic.
a. Free-writing
b. Brainstorming
c. Clustering or mapping
d. Networking
_____ 41. It is a prewriting activity which is
the writing down of thoughts in the exact
order, language, and form.
a. Brainstorming
b. Freewriting
c. Clustering or Mapping
d. Lettering
Read the passage below then answer the
questions that follow.
In the sixteenth century, an age of
great marine and terrestrial exploration,
Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition
to sail around the world. As a young
Portuguese noble, he served the king of
Portugal, but he became involved in the
quagmire of political intrigue at court and
lost the king's favor. After he was dismissed
from service to the king of Portugal, he
offered to serve the future Emperor Charles
V of Spain.
A papal decree of 1493 had
assigned all land in the New World west of
50 degrees W longitude to Spain and all the
land east of that line to Portugal. Magellan
offered to prove that the East Indies fell
under Spanish authority. On September 20,
1519, Magellan set sail from Spain with five
ships. More than a year later, one of these
ships was exploring the topography of
South America in search of a water route
across the continent. This ship sank, but
the remaining four ships searched along the
southern peninsula of South America.
Finally they found the passage they sought
near latitude of 50 degrees S. Magellan
named this passage the Strait of All Saints,
but today we know it as the Strait of
Magellan.
One ship deserted while in this
passage and returned to Spain, so fewer
sailors were privileged to gaze at that first
panorama of the Pacific Ocean. Those who
remained crossed the meridian we now call
the International Date Line in the early
spring of 1521 after ninety-eight days on
the Pacific Ocean. During those long days
at sea, many of Magellan's men died of
starvation and disease.
 a. imaginary circle passing through
Later Magellan became involved in the poles
an insular conflict in the Philippines and b. imaginary line parallel to the
was killed in a tribal battle. Only one ship equator
and seventeen sailors under the command c. area
of the Basque navigator d. land mass

Elcano survived to complete the Marie Curie was one of the most
westward journey to Spain and thus prove accomplished scientists in history. Together
once and for all that the world is round, with with her husband, Pierre, she discovered
no precipice at the edge. radium, an element widely used for treating
cancer, and studied uranium and other
_____ 42. The sixteenth century was an radioactive substances. Pierre and Marie's
age of great ___exploration. amicable collaboration later helped to
a. cosmic b. land unlock the secrets of the atom.
c. mental d. common man
Marie was born in 1867 in Warsaw,
_____ 43. Magellan lost the favor of the Poland, where her father was a professor of
king of Portugal when he became involved physics. At the early age, she displayed a
in a political ___. brilliant mind and a blithe personality. Her
a. entanglement b. discussion great exuberance for learning prompted her
c. negotiation d. problems to continue with her studies after high
school. She became disgruntled, however,
_____ 44. The Pope divided New World when she learned that the university in
lands between Spain and Portugal Warsaw was closed to women. Determined
according to their location on one side or to receive a higher education, she defiantly
the other of an imaginary geographical line left Poland and in 1891 entered the
50 degrees west of Greenwich that extends Sorbonne, a French university, where she
in a ___ direction. earned her master's degree and doctorate
a. north and south in physics. Marie was fortunate to have
b. north and west studied at the Sorbonne with some of the
c. easterly greatest scientists of her day, one of whom
d. south east was Pierre Curie. Marie and Pierre were
married in 1895 and spent many productive
_____ 45. One of Magellan's ships explored years working together in the physics
the ___ of South America for a passage laboratory. A short time after they
across the continent. discovered radium, Pierre was killed by a
a. coastline horse-drawn wagon in 1906. Marie was
b. mountain range stunned by this horrible misfortune and
c. physical features endured heartbreaking anguish.
d. islands
Curie's feeling of desolation finally
_____ 46. Four of the ships sought a began to fade when she was asked to
passage along a southern ___. succeed her husband as a physics
a. coast professor at the Sorbonne. She was the
b. inland first woman to be given a professorship at
c. body of land with water on three the world-famous university. In 1911 she
sides received the Nobel Prize in chemistry for
d. border isolating radium.

_____ 47. The passage was found near 50 _____ 49. The Curies' ____ collaboration
degrees S of ___. helped to unlock the secrets of the atom.
a. Greenwich b. the equator a. friendly b. competitive
c. Spain d. Portugal c. courteous d. industrious

_____ 48. In the spring of 1521, the ships _____ 50. Marie had a bright mind and a
crossed the ___ now called the _____ personality.
International Date Line. a. strong b. lighthearted
c.humorous d. strange

-Honesty is the best policy-

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