CABANCALAN NIGHT HIGHSCHOOL

Cabancalan, Mandaue City

Third Quarter Examination in Grade 8 English
SY 2018-2019

Directions: Read each item carefully. Choose the best answer from the given choices. Write the letter that corresponds to your answer on your
answer sheet.

I. Oral Language and Fluency.

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.

II. 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

10. Choose the sentence that uses parenthetical expression correctly.

a. The moral, of the story, is that people should always as a result treat one another with kindness.
b. The moral of the story, is that people should always, as a result treat one another with kindness.
c. The moral of the story is that people should always, as a result, treat one another with kindness.
d. The moral of the story is that people, should always, as a result treat one another with kindness.

KNOWLEDGE
III. Vocabulary Development.
11. Choose the appropriate collocation to complete the sentence.
You must hand in your essay on Friday. Can you ________________?
a. do the deadline c. keep the deadline
b. hold the deadline d. meet the deadline
12. You are reading a Korean story with two to three difficult words in every page. What should be the best immediate strategy to use in order
to deal with the difficult words?
a. Define words through context.
b. Get the dictionary and get the meanings of the difficult words.
c. Highlight the difficult words and get back to them later as soon as you finish reading the book
d. Just ignore the words. You better just finish reading the book.
13. Ch’unhyang’s defiance enraged the magistrate, and he ordered her to be taken to prison. The meaning of the underlined word is
________________.
a. compliance b. deception c. resistance d. subordination
14. Which of the following words will best complete the sentence, “If you decide to take the train instead of the jeepney you’ll _______________
some time.”?
a. avoid b. keep c. save d. stop
15. What idiom will best complete the sentence, “If you have any trouble with your homework, I’ll be glad to _______________.”?
a. get out of hand c. keep an eye on you
b. give you a hand d. wear your heart on your sleeve

IV. Literature/ Reading and Comprehension.

16. Terms that indicate opinions are called opinion signal words/expressions. The examples of these are below except
a. It seems to me that… c. Personally I think …
b. My personal view is that… d. This proves that…
17. In the literature of Myanmar, prose works during the 15th to 19th century were few and authors were monks, courtiers and poetesses. Which
one is an example of work under prose?
a. historical ballad b. panegyric ode c. story in verse d. scripture or chronicle
 18. Long before any written forms of literature, what was the principal form of literary entertainment of the Koreans?
a. describing persons c. reciting poems
b. narrating history orally d. telling legends orally

UNDERSTANDING
19. After reading a Korean legend, you notice one striking similarity between Korean and Filipino legends. What similarity is this?
a. Legends from both countries described the rich natural resources back then.
b. Legends from both countries narrated ethnic rituals practiced by the natives.
c. Legends from both countries were orally transmitted first before they were written.
d. Legends from both were written by ordinary people.
20. Read the excerpt below then answer this question ; (2 POINTS)
Which of the following does the excerpt imply about Africans?
a. They are careless. c. They are not afraid of animals.
b. They are caring people. d. They are wild people.
Ki, the Pygmy, has married a Pygmy girl from another village. The girl was called Luetsi and she became Ki’s wife. With them
lived Ntio, Ki’s brother. After a year, Luetsi wished to visit her mother, as was the custom. Ki agreed and gave Luetsi a big piece of meat
to take to her mother. As a big hunt was imminent, ki could not go with his wife, but he promised to fetch her from her mother’s house
in four weeks’ time. Now it happened that Ki was bitten in the foot by a snake and he could not walk. So he asked his brother to fetch his
wife. Ntio did not want to go and said, “In a few days’ time you will be able to walk again. It is better for you to fetch your wife yourself.”
No,” said Ki. “It is better not to leave Luetsi in uncertainty. She would not wait for me but would start the journey home alone.
Fetch her home for me, and I’ll give you my best bow.”
-An excerpt from The Leopard, folklore from Africa

For items 23-25. Identify the propaganda devise used in the following.
21. 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
22. Television Advertisement: “Rush to shop at Super Mart this weekend, everyone is doing it!”
a. Bandwagon b. glittering personalities c. name calling d. testimonial
23. 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
24. 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.
25. 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. (2 POINTS)
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 person’s body because it is weak. It is not fit to stay in that body.”
26. 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: (2 POINTS)

I am a Filipino, inheritor of a glorious past, hostage to the uncertain future. As such I must prove equal
to a twofold task – the task of meeting my responsibility to the past and the task of performing my obligation to
the future.

You cannot help but discuss pertinent characteristics about you, being a Filipino and your classmate, being a Korean and the
challenges of modernity that somehow affected you both as Asians. What would be the best lesson of the paragraph that you can present to
your teacher and classmates that somehow will be true to you both as Asians?

a. We have to acknowledge that as Asians we exist because of our past and because society is constantly evolving, we must keep up and
see the positive things brought about by these changes.
b. We have to respond to the challenges of so many tasks so that we will be more prepared in facing the future.
c. We need to recognize where we really came from and that we should also prepare ourselves for the uncertainty that the future will
bring.
d. We should accept that whatever we will become in the future, it will always be the product of what we decide for our present.

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.

27. Which of the following is NOT a fact as stated in the paragraph? (2 POINTS)
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.
28. Which of the following an opinion is 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.

29. What African quality do the lines in the poem generally express?
a. bravery b. courage c. kindness d. persistence
30. 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

31. Read the excerpt below and answer this question: (2 POINTS)
What characteristic of Africans is revealed in the excerpt?

And so Luetsi had to lie there for hours, beneath the dead leopard. In the distance, she could hear the roaring of the leopardess,
looking for its dead mate. The jungle was full of threatening voices. At last, she began to imagine that the leopard on top of her was
moving, as if it had come to life again. But still she did not budge from the spot, so keen was she to find out how her husband would
behave.
-An excerpt from The Leopard, folklore from Africa

a. They are courageous. c. They like to display their strength.

b. They are deceptive. d. They love animals.
32. Read the paragraph and answer the question. Why were the two young men the country’s good sons? (2 POINTS)

These young men were the country’s good sons who were protecting their country from its enemies. Their aims and intentions
were as different from those of the addicts as east from west, north from south. Although these young men had one leg missing, they still wanted to
serve their country. The two young soldiers told Lin Aung that they planned to work in the disabled soldiers’ cooperative shop.

a. Their aims and intentions were as different from those of drug addicts.
b. They are protecting their country from its enemies.
c. They have one leg missing.
d. They planned to work in the disabled soldier’s cooperative shop.
33. What is the best observation regarding this paragraph? (2 POINTS)

Modern Korean literature attained its maturity in the 1930s through the efforts of a group of talented writers. They drew freely upon
European examples to enrich their art. Translation of Western literature continued, and works by I.A. Richards, T.S. Eliot, and T.E.
Hulme were introduced. This artistic and critical activity was a protest against the reduction of literature to journalism and its use as
propaganda by leftist writers.

a. It has a topic sentence that gives the best practices of the Koreans.
b. It has an impact because it has a well-chosen topic.
c. It has coherence in its sentences and cohesion in its ideas.
d. It has one imperative sentence and three declarative sentences.

Prepared by:
MISS ADORNA

Kapag wala nang maisagot sa exam,

ilagay ninyo “red horse” dahil ito ang tama.
Pero kung gusto ninyo mas sigurado, isulat ninyo “magmahal”
Dahil kailanman, hindi mali ang magmahal
 Third Periodic Test in English Grade 8
SY 2014-2015
Key to Correction
17. D
1. C 18. D
2. C 19. C
3. C 20. B
4. D 21. B
5. A 22. A
6. B 23. C
7. B 24. C
8. C 25. A
9. D 26. C
10. C 27. D
11. D 28. D
12. A 29. B
13. C 30. A
14. C 31. A
15. B 32. B
16. D 33. C