Masbate National Comprehensive High School

Summative Test in English 7

Name:____________________________________ Section:________________ Date:_________________

I. Reading Comprehension : Read the short passage below and answer the questions that follow.
Blacken / Shade the circle that corresponds your answer.
Speech is great blessings but it can also be great curse, for while it helps us to make our intentions and desires known to our
fellows, it can also if we use it carelessly, make our attitude completely misunderstood. A slip of the tongue, the use of unusual
word, or of an ambiguous word, and so on, may create an enemy where we had hoped to win a friend. Again, different classes of
people use different vocabularies, and the ordinary speech of an educated may strike an uneducated listener as pompous.
Unwittingly, we may use a word which bears a different meaning to our listener from what it does to men of our own class. Thus
speech is not a gift to use lightly without thought, but one which demands careful handling. Only a fool will express himself alike
to all kinds and conditions to men.
Source: http://www.indiabix.com/verbal-ability/comprehension/096001

II. Literature

1. The best way to win a friend is to avoid

A. irony in speech C. verbosity in speech
B. pomposity in speech D. ambiguity in speech

2. While talking to an uneducated person, we should use

A. ordinary speech C. simple words
B. his vocabulary D. polite language

3. If one used the same style of language with everyone, one would sound
A. flat C. foolish
B. boring D. democratic

4. A ‘slip of the tongue’ means something said

A. wrongly by choice C. without proper thought
B. unintentionally D. to hurt another person

5. Speech can be curse, because it can

A. hurt others C. create misunderstanding
B. lead to carelessness D. reveal our intentions

II. Literature
III. Vocabulary
Directions: Encircle your answer. Choose a word in the parentheses that best describes the highlighted word.
11. offspring of my feeble brain (weak, mighty,rugged strong, )
12. I washed thy face, but more defects I saw (struggle, stunt,flaw)
13-14. The visage (journey, dirt, beauty, appearance,) was so irksome in my sight (refreshing, annoying, ugly, )
15-16. Thy blemishes (imperfection, blush, love, hope) amend, (worsen, abandon, correct, threaten)if so I could

IV. Grammar
Directions: Read the underlined phrases and ask correct WH questions for the given sentences.

17. Dora goes to the bank on Monday afternoons.

18. The film lasts for two hours, from 21.00 to 23.00 ………………………………………………………..?
19. They are all about the same age. ……………………………………………………….?
20. There were nearly a thousand people in the concert last night. ……………………………………………………….?
21. It did not cost much, just 20 pounds. ……………………………………………………….?
22. I slept all night because of my illness. …………………………………………… ……….?
23. Janet is sitting in front of André. ………………………………………………………..?
24. I have been in London for six years. ……………………………………………………….?
V. Writing
Direction. Ask questions about the picture below. Use WH Questions.
25-27. 28.-30.

https://www.pinterest.ph/search/pins/?q=black%20and%20white%20pictures&rs=typed&term_meta[]=black%20and%20white%20pictures%7Ctyped

25. ________________________________________________________________
26. ________________________________________________________________
27. ________________________________________________________________
28. ________________________________________________________________
29. ________________________________________________________________
30. ________________________________________________________________

Prepared by:
Desiree M. Dejucos
Student Teacher,DEBESMSCAT

Key to correction (Summative Test)

I. Reading Comprehension

1. D
2. B
3. C
4. C
5. C

II. Literature
o 6. famine
o 7. Feeble
o 8. by going out in the sun and bathed in the cool water of the river that flowed from the mountains
o 9. Humorous
o 10. Wealth is not a license to overpower others.

III. Vocabulary
11. weak
12. flaw
13. appearance
14. annoying
15. imperfection
16. correct
IV Grammar

18. What do you eat for lunch?

19. Where do you often go to on your bike?

20.

21.

22. blew, had left

23. corrected, written

24. laughed, had taken

25. told, what happened

Choose from the following what WH Question is correct.

WH Questions for intermediate learners