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1. Before doing an interview, the interviewer should know a good deal of knowledge about the topic
of the interview. In order to formulate sensible questions, what skills can help the interviewer
gather or synthesize information?
a. comprehension b. linguistic c. locational d. psychomotor
2. You interviewed a Korean about the ways of coping with the challenges of modernity. The
Korean answered all of your questions with a degree of certainty. How do you somehow
preserve all the Korean’s answers so that you can use these answers in the making of a feature
article for your school paper?
a. Just remember everything so that you will not disturb or distract the interviewee.
b. Let the interviewee stop from time to time so that you can write down everything in a
notebook.
c. Record the entire interview through a video or voice recorder (with the interviewee’s
permission).
d. Take down important details and make sure that you can write very fast.
III. Grammar Awareness and Structure.
3. What kind of complement is the underlined part in the sentence, “Aung San Suu Kyi’s mother
was a prominent political figure in the newly formed Burmese government.”?
a. adjective complement c. subject complement
b. object complement d. verb complement
4. What is the object complement in the sentence, “The people of Namwon consider Ch’unhyang
virtuous.”? a. Ch’unhyang b. consider c. people d. virtuous
5. Which of these sentences contains a complex structure?
a. As she snoozes, I soundlessly leave the desk.
b. Maggie sleeps contentedly on my computer desk.
c. She’s weary from her dreams and my absence does not disturb her.
d. Sometimes she snores but she settles deeper into her fleece-lined pillow and purrs.
6. Which sentence has a compound-complex structure?
a. Although they were miles apart they kept in constant contact on the internet.
b. I would have purchased the book that you like, but it was too expensive.
c. The greedy Cassim marries a wealthy woman but Ali Baba marries a poor woman.
d. Yi Mong Yong had to go to the capitol while Ch’unhyang had to stay in Namwon.
7. Which of the following statements illustrates parallel structure?
a. I outlined the letters slowly and with care.
b. Physical and mental health rest on four pillars: regular exercise, healthy diet, social
interaction, and sufficient sleep.
c. She spent the day visiting all the tourist shops and watched the children on the beach.
d. Susan didn’t know how to rent an apartment and finding a job was a problem, too.
8. Choose the parallel word/phrase to complete the sentence below.
“My favorite pastimes include napping, snacking, and _____________ television.
a. to watch b. to watching c. watching d. watched
9. If the lady had not stopped the boy, he ________________ into the van.
a. could have ran b. could have run c. will have run d. would have run
For numbers 29-30. Read the following paragraph and answer the questions that follow.
The South African activist and former president Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) helped bring
an end to apartheid and has been a global advocate for human rights. A member of the African
National Congress party beginning in the 1940s, he was a leader of both peaceful protests and armed
resistance against the white minority’s oppressive regime in a racially divided South Africa. His
actions landed him in prison for nearly three decades and made him the face of the antiapartheid
movement both within his country and internationally. Released in 1990, he participated in the
eradication of apartheid and in 1994 became the first black president of South Africa, forming a
multiethnic government to oversee the country’s transition. after retiring from politics in 1999, he
remained a devoted champion for peace and social justice in his own nation and around the world
until his death in 2013 at the age of 95.
21. Which of the following is NOT a fact as stated in the paragraph?
a. Nelson Mandela remained a devoted champion for peace and social justice after retiring.
b. Nelson Mandela was a South African activist and a former president.
c. Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for nearly three decades.
d. Nelson Mandela was the best president the world has ever had.
22. Which of the following is an opinion as stated in the paragraph?
a. Nelson Mandela became the first black president of South Africa.
b. Nelson Mandela died at age 95.
c. Nelson Mandela died in 2013.
d. Nelson Mandela’s death shocked the whole world.
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For items 31-32. Read the poem carefullyand answer the questions that follow.
AFRICA’S PLEA
By Roland Tombekai Dempster
I am not you ---
but you will not
give me a chance,
will not let me be.
“If I were you”---
But you know,
I am not you,
yet you will not
let me be me.
You meddle, interfere
in my affairs
as if they were yours
and you were me.
You are unfair, unwise,
foolish to think
that I can be you,
talk, act
and think like you.
God made me
He made you, you
For God’s sake
Let me be.
23. What African quality do the lines in the poem generally express?
a. bravery b. courage c. kindness d. persistence
24. What values are asserted by the poet in the poem?
a. bravery and respect c. indecisiveness and courtesy
b. gentleness and resourcefulness d. love and respect
For items 23-25. Identify the propaganda devise used in the following.
25. Television Advertisement: “Get all your stains out by using new and improved Ultra suds and
wash you blues away!”
a. Bandwagon b. glittering personalities c. name calling d. testimonial
26. Television Advertisement: “Rush to shop at Super Mart this weekend, everyone is doing it!”
a. Bandwagon b. glittering personalities c. name calling d. testimonial
27. In an advertisement during a senatorial campaign, Loren Legarda talked with the Manobo
tribesmen and joined the farmers in Cagayan Valley in planting rice.
a. card stacking b. name calling c. plain folks d. soft soap
28. Why is literature a good source of knowing Koreans?
a. Literature gives all the updates about all the important events in a country.
b. Literature is a work of art that describes citizens with breeding and refinement.
c. Literature mirrors the psyche, temperament, culture and traditions of the people.
d. Literature provides a descriptive picture of how the people dress and speak like.27.
29. In this last two lines of the poem titled On A Rainy Autumn Night by Ch’oeCh’iwŏn, how do you
define the highlighted phrase? Choose the best analysis.
At third watch, it rains outside.
By the lamp my heart flies myriad miles away.
a. “Does the heart fly? Of course, not! But the heart is a symbol of love, and because love
flies, love is certainly gone.”
b. “If the heart flies, then it must have wings on its own; therefore, this heart must have
been borrowed by somebody else.”
c. “Perhaps, the heart is too weak to handle the situation so it finds a way to fly and just be in
any place that it wants, like miles away.”
d. “The heart literary flies. The heart must be taken away from the persona’s body because it
is weak. It is not fit to stay in that body.”
30. Your Korean classmate has been a student here in the Philippines for two years. In studying a
formal essay, you are given by your teacher to react on the first paragraph of Carlos Romulo’s
I Am a Filipino. The first paragraph goes like this: