Third Quarter Exam in Reading and Writing Skills

January 13-14, 2020

Name______________ Grade and Section______________ Score______________

I-Multiple Choice. Read the following questions/statements critically and choose the
letter of your answer.
1.It is a large unit of written language.
a. speech b. text c. outline
2.A technique in organizing information which refers to the process of generating
creative ideas and solution through intensive and freewheeling group discussion.
a. brainstorming b. topic outline c. graphic organizer
3.In organizing information, visual maps and charts can be used. In which of the
following terms do they belong?
a. topic outline b. sentence outline c. graphic organizer
4.If you have chosen to write a sentence outline, all headings and sub-headings must
be in what form?
a. phrases b. paragraph c. sentence
5.In formal outlining,a division or subdivision can not be divided into one part; therefore,
if there is an “A” there must be a “B”and if there is a “1” there must be what?
a.2 b.3 c.4
6.Which term does not belong in writing an outline?
a. roman numerals b. diagram c. letters
7.Which group is not a strategy of brainstorming?
a. listing and mapping b. describing and drawing c. free writing and
researching
8.It is an analytical mode of paragraph development that attempts to show how events
are influenced by or caused by others.
a. comparison and contrast b. problem-solution c. cause and effect
9.Among the patterns of paragraph development,which of them intends to tell sequence
of events?
a. narration b. classification c. description
10.It is a pattern of paragraph development that gives information of what a person,an
object,a place or a situation is like.It appeals to a reader’s senses.
a. definition b. narration c. description
11. Which one is not a property of a well-written text?
a. mechanics b. parallelism c. organization
12.This property of a well-written text means that sentences are arranged in logical
manner and ideas are connected from one to the other.
a. coherence and cohesion b. language use c.mechanics
13.It is a pattern of organization where information in a passage is expressed as
dilemma or concerning issue and something that was,can be,or should be done to
remedy this issue.
a.problem and solution b. cause and effect c. comparison and
contrast
14.It is a set of conventions on how to spell,abbreviate,punctuate and capitalize.
a.coherence b. organization c. mechanics
15.This group of words does not express contrast.
a.but,despite,however b.and,or,so
c.although,yet,otherwise
16.Appropriateness of words or vocabulary storage refers to what property of a well-
written text?
a. cohesion b. language use c. organization
17.This refers to the arrangement of details in a paragraph according to geographical
location such as left to right, up to down,etc.
a. chronological b. spatial c. emphatic
18.These are words that give the readers an idea of how the points in your paragraph
are progressing.
a.signal devices b.context clue c. word
meaning
19.What arrangement of details is applied when you show the order on how it
happened?
a.emphatic b. spatial c.
chronological
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