101. When one company controls the supply of softwares, what term applies?

A. Inflation
B. Laissez Faire
C. Monopoly
D. Law of Supply

102. Apples are off-season and so its price is up. Which principle in economics
explains it?

A. Law of supply and law of demand

B. Marginal utility
C. Substitution effect
D. Production possibility frontier

103. What results when the government spends more than what it solicits in the
form of taxes?

A. Fiscal overspending
B. Unfunded mandates
C. Excessive allotment
D. Fiscal deficit

104. Which among the following best describes a recession?

A. No change in real GNP from one period to the next

B. Nominal GNP declines from one period to the next
C. An increase in real GNP from one period to the next
D. A fall in real GDP over two consecutive time periods

105. Determinants of demand other than price include all of the following except
one. Which
one?

A. The tastes and preferences of households.

B. Wealth or net worth
C. The prices of other goods and services
D. Technological innovation

106. Which of the following graphs is useful in displaying data or information

that changes
continuously over time?

A. Bar chart
B. Line Graph
C. Pie chart
D. Histogram

107. A tax whose burden, expressed as a percentage of income, increases as

income
increases is called:

A. A progressive tax.
B. A regressive tax.
C. A proportional tax.
D. None of the above.

108. Which of the following paintings earned Juan Luna a silver medal at the
Exposition
Nacional de Bellas Artes?

A. Spolarium
B. Christian de Aqueronte
C. La Barca de Aqueronte
D. La Muerte de Cleopatra

109. Who is the Father of Zarsuela in the Philippines?

A. Severino Reyes
B. Lucio San Pedro
C. Ryan Cayabyab
D. Alejandro Cuvero

110. Who was the famous Austrian opera composer during the Classical Period
known as “Child Prodigy”?

A. Mozart
B. Verdi
C. Haydos
D. Beethoven

111. Two of his best-known works are Pieta and David.

A. Michelangelo
B. Donatello
C. Raphael
D. Da Vinci

112. Who among the following is given the distinction as the National Artist for
Sculpture?

A. Jose Alcantara
B. Juan Luna
C. Napoleon Abueva
D. Jose Blanco

113. The following are National Artists for Theater, except:

A. Rolando Tinio
B. Severino Montano
C. Ramon Valera
D. Wilfredo Ma. Guerrero

114. In what part of the female reproductive anatomy does a fetus develop?

A. the vagina
B. the ovary
C. the cervix
D. the uterus

115. Which hypothesis would you test by the scientific technique of

experimentation?

A. Mitosis is the universal means of cell reproduction.

B. The cell is the structural unit in living things.
C. The rate of photosynthesis is independent of temperature.
D. All proteins are composed of amino acids.

116. What does the Pascal (pa) measure?

A. velocity
B. mass
C. pressure
D. temperature

117. A form of matter that can be further simplified may either be _______

A. an element or a compound
B. a mixture or an atom
C. an element or a mixture
D. a mixture or a compound

118. When the moon is between the sun and the earth, the moon blocks the light
from the sun,
therefore casting a shadow on the earth. This phenomenon is called ____

A. lunar eclipse
B. Halley’s comet
C. solar eclipse
D. umbra

119. Materials made of _______ are good conductors of heat and electricity

A. Glass
B. Cloth
C. Plastic
D. Metal

120. All acids contain the element.

A. Neon
B. Nitrogen
C. Oxygen
D. Hydrogen

121. In which layer of the atmosphere can you find the Ozone layer?

A. Troposphere
B. Mesosphere
C. Stratosphere
D. Exosphere

122. What is the unit for mass?

A. Kilogram
B. Mole
C. Ampere
D. Liter

123. A body at rest will remain at rest and a body in motion will remain in
uniform motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an external force. This
is stated by ______.

A. Law of Acceleration
B. Law of Amalgamation
C. Law of Interaction
D. Law of Inertia

124. Meteorology can predict which of the following natural phenomena?

A. Volcanic eruptions
B Solar flares
C. Typhoons
D. Earthquakes

125. Because these rocks are formed from molten or partly molten magma, they
will most likely
be found around Mt. Pinatubo and Mayon Volcano.

A. Metamorphic
B. Organic
C. Sedimentary
D. Igneous

126. These statements about planets are true, EXCEPT:

A. The denser a planet is, the closer it is to the sun.

B. Planets closer to the sun have shorter years.
C. The farther a planet is from the sun, the cooler it is.
D. The larger the planet, the stronger is its gravitational pull on the sun.

127. Which of the following is an application of the thermodynamic property of

change in volume
of matter in response to a change in temperature?
A. Putting steel utensils in a pot cooking food
B. Inflating of a rubber balloon
C. Placing small gaps in concrete or steel in railroad tracks and bridges
D. Handling hot kitchenware with thick cloth

128. What will happen to blue litmus paper when soaked in soda drinks? It will:

A. remain blue because soda is a base.

B. remain blue because soda is an acid.
C. turn red because soda is a base.
D. turn red because soda is an acid.

129. Which of the following organelles is not present in all cells?

A.cell membrane
B.Membrane bound nucleus
C.Mitochondrion
D.Ribosome

130. Which statement best describes veins?

A. they have smaller diameters than arteries

B. they have thick walls
C. they carry oxygenated blood
D. they carry blood towards the heart

131. A man with type A blood marries a woman with type B blood. Which of the
following is
IMPOSSIBLE?

A. They have a type A child

B. They have a type O child
C. They have a type AB child
D. None of the above

132. Which phase change is correctly defined?

A. Condensation is the change from gas to liquid.

B. Melting involves a change from liquid to gas.
C. Evaporation is a change from solid to gas without passing the liquid state.
D. Sublimation is a change from solid to liquid.
133. Which of the following pairs demonstrates symbiosis?

A. Man and lice

B. Chick and corn plant
C. Monkey and banana
D. Butterfly and bean flower

134. The zigzag road to Baguio represents which kind of simple machine?

A. Lever
B. Wedge
C. Wheel and axle
D. Inclined Plane

135. Why is a dam built wider at the bottom than at the top?

A. To withstand the greater pressure at the bottom.

B. To balance the pressure at the top
C. It holds up the dam better than at the center.
D. It anchors the dam better.

136. Two pots of the same size are filled with boiling water. One pot is colored
white and the
other is black. In which pot will water cool faster?

A. Will cool at the same rate

B. In black pot
C. In white pot
D. In both pots

137. Which is/are (an) advantage/s of the coming oif Genetically Modified
Organism (GMO)?

I. Improved resistance of plants to diseases, pests and herbicides

II. Increased maturation time of fruits
III. Enhanced taste and quality

A. II and III
B. I and II
C. I and III
D. I only

138. Nuclear power relies on which of the following chemical reactions?

A. Nuclear fusion
B. Chemiosomosis
C. Binary fission
D. Nuclear fission

139. You inherited tallness from your father. Physical traits are transmitted from
parents to
offspring through ________.

A. gametes
B. alleles
C. chromosomes
D. genes

140. If no more solute can be dissolved in a solvent at a given temperature, then

that solution is
called _________.

A. saturated
B. saturable
C. unstable
D. dispersed

141. A horizontal row of elements on the Periodic Tabel is known as a(n)

_________.

A. group or family
B. size
C. atomic number
D. period or series

142. Geothermal energy, an energy resource in the country, is based on which

phenomenon?

A. Earth’s internal energy heats its surface more than the sun does.
B. There are concentrations of heat in some places of earth’s crust.
C. Heat energy from the sun penetrates deep into the earth.
D. Human activity is the largest source of heat energy on earth.

143. A virus has a protective shell that encloses its nucleic acid which is called
_______.

A. Capsid
B. Plasmid
C. Nuclear membrane
D. Nucleoid

144. Which one links the computers to base computer making it possible to share
software materials?

A. Local Area Network

B. Interface
C. Modem
D. Internet

145. Which desktop icon can be used to access the files and programs in the
computer?

A. My Briefcase
B. My Computer
C. My Documents
D. Taskbar

146. Which statement/s on ICT is/are TRUE?

I. The use of ICT has negative effects

II. The use of ICT has a lot of benefits
III. The use of ICT is effective only in industrialized countries

A. I and II
B. III only
C. II only
D. I and III

147. Which of the following shows file size from largest to smallest?

A. Gigabyte, Megabyte, Kilobyte, Byte

B. Byte, Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte
C. Megabyte, Gigabyte, Kilobyte, byte
D Kilobyte, Megabyte, Byte, Gigabyte

148. In line with the green use of ICT, which should be done when device breaks
down?

I. Refurbish it
II. Break it apart and use its components and parts
III. Use parts a spares

A. I only
B. I and II
C. II only
D. I, II and Ill

149. What does digital divide refer to?

I. The gap between people with effective access to digital and information technology
and those
with very limited or no access at all
II. The imbalance both in physical access to technology and the resources and skills
needed for
effective participation
III. The gap in the ages of ICT users

A. I and II
B. II only
C. III only
D. I, II, and III

150. To reduce electronic wastes, implement a recycling system. Which activities

belong to an
e-waste recycling system?

I. Repair
II. Reuse
III. Upgrading of existing equipment

A. I, II, and III

B. I and II
C. I only
D. II only