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Mid-Term EXAMINATION
English for Academics and Professional Purposes (EAPP)
SY 2019-2020
Name:___________________________________________ Score: ___________
Year &Section:__________________________ Date: ____________

Test I. Direction: Read and Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. What is the title of the academic text that starts teaching a child to talk using none-verbal cues or any other
means of pointing or gesturing?
a. From Mouth to Hand
b. From Eyes to Mouth
c. From Hand to Mouth
d. None of the above
2. Necessary for autonomous speech developed quite recently in hominid evolution?
a. Verbal machinery
b. Vocal machinery
c. Verbal communication
d. None-Verbal Communication
3. While talking to your respondent for an interview you need to _____________________?
a. Look at him/her aggressively.
b. You just don’t care what he/she is talking about.
c. Eye to eye contact.
d. Interrupt while your respondent is talking.
4. The evolution of language starts with __________________?
a. Sign language.
b. Grammatical language.
c. Spoken language
d. Picture interpretation
5. Signed Language has all the lexical and grammatical complexity of ______________?
a. Written stories
b. Spoken language
c. Self expression
d. Public speaking
6. An advantage of speech over gesture?
a. It can be heard from far away.
b. It encodes and decodes information.
c. Enables us to communicate at night.
d. It relays message without barriers.
7. Also known as the universal language?
a. Spanish
b. English
c. Tagalog
d. British English
8. “We might have used our fingers as efficient instruments, for a person with practice can report to a deaf man
every word of a speech rapidly delivered at a public meeting, but the loss of our hands, while thus employed,
would have been a serious inconvenience,” said who?
a. David McNeil
b. Charles Darwin
c. Susan Golden-Meadow
d. John F. Kennedy
9. In writing an academic text, the writer should consider?
 a. The overlapping of ideas from the beginning to end.
b. Proper use of formal words.
c. Include unsolicited accounts.
d. Unquoted statements.
10. Before writing a reflection or reaction paper of a given academic text, the writer should first ___________?
a. State judgement.
b. Read the story thoroughly.
c. Object
d. Think for the cause and effect of the text.
11. This background information is essential in writing an academic text or research taken from?
a. Interview
b. Unreliable sources of information
c. Review of Related Literature
d. The experts
12. Newspapers (tabloids), Legal indictments and Philippine Constitution have?
a. Factual and fair rules and guidelines in terms of legalities.
b. Subjective information.
c. False statements or testimonies.
d. All of the above
13. In reading an academic text from online or print, the reader or researcher must _________?
a. Give bias statements to give fair argument.
b. Think critically.
c. Give conclusion right away.
d. Anticipate unsolicited information beforehand.
14. He labelled his self that he is the appointed son of God?
a. Fr. Pedro Calungsod
b. Pope Francis II
c. Pastor Apollo Quiboloy
d. Pastor Eduardo Manalo
15. She is a climate change activist who has fearlessly addressed politicians and world leaders in an international
forum?
a. Gina Lopez
b. Jennifer Duggan
c. Jasmine Aguilera
d. Greta Thunberg
16. Which statement is true on the text “Understanding Calories”?
a. Calories evaporate during exercise and help develop human body once released.
b. Calories help protect our body from fatty acids and boost immune system.
c. Calories describe the potential energy in food to maintain bodily functions, grow or repair tissue, and
perform mechanical work such as exercise.
d. Calories burned during eating, watching TV and texting.
17. The history of language begins a little after ___________?
a. 600 C.E. b. 700 E.C. c. 400 E.C. d. 800 E.C.
18. It is customary to divide the history of the English Language into three periods?
a. Contemporary English, Ancient English and Modern English.
b. British English, American English and Indo-European English.
c. Early English, Academic English and Oxford English.
d. Old English, Middle English and Modern English.
19. Anger and resentment yields to both American and Iranian people over the death of Iranian Major General
named?
a. Qesam Abdul Kalif c. Al Baghdadi
b. Qasem Soleimani d. Ali Khaminie
20. In writing an academic text, the structure of the body of the text must have coherence and one paragraph,
____________?
a. Variety of ideas.
b. One idea.
c. Thesis Statement
d. Inconsistent ideas.
Test II. Write X if the answer is NOT an academic text, write Y if the text is an Academic text on the given
space before the number. (2 Points each)

____Y____1. There are 10 persons died in the accident last June 10, 2017 at Brgy Malayantok, Science City of Muñoz
Nueva Ecija.

____X____2. The warrior saved to a princess and they live happily ever after.

____Y____3. The increase in the number of schools, in literacy production, and in travel and explorations brought
change to the language from the time of the Renaissance in the 1500’s.

____X____4. Cinderella left her shoes in the party and the princes kept looking for her .

____Y____5. Germanic tribes are regarded as “the founders of the English nation” according to Albert Baugh and
Thomas Cable.

Test III. True or False (2 points each)

______True____1. Authors of academic texts usually present facts to support their main argument.

______False____2. Authors do not usually state critical questions and ideas.

______True_____3. Academic writers list references.

______False____4. Academic writers take a subjective point of view.

______Bonus____5. Writers also consider opinions and non fact basis in their writings.

Test III. Essay

1. What is your take on the recent conflict between Iran and United States? Give at least 3 solutions.

2. Give at least 5 guidelines in writing a reaction paper?

Good Luck!