Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Central Visayas, Region VII
Division of Cebu City
South District VII

INAYAWAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

F. Jaca Street, Inayawan, Cebu City, Cebu

2ND PERIODICAL TEST IN ENGLISH 10

Name: ____________________________ Grade & Section: ___________________ Score: ________

General Instruction: Read the directions in each test items carefully and choose the
letter of the best answer. Write your answer in a separate sheet of paper. AVOID
ERASURES!

Test I. Multiple Choice. Write the letter of the best answer.

1. It is an academic writing that show a systematic way of investigating.

A. assessment B. evaluation C. interrogation D. research
2. An organized course of action to achieve a goal. It can also be likened to promoting or
endorsing a certain belief or advocacy.
A. campaign B. advocacy C. theory D. variable
3. It is the use of plausible or scientifically acceptable general principle or body
of principles offered to explain phenomena.
A. campaign B. advocacy C. theory D. variable
4. A variable that is considered to be the influential or the predictor factor.
A. dependent B. independent C. invalid D. valid
5. It generally involves speaking and acting with the intention of affecting or changing specific
policies or ideas.
A. advertisement B. advocacy C. campaign D. research
6. A text that seeks to persuade a reader
A. Argumentative B. Declarative C. Persuasive D. Debate
7. The following are the elements of argumentative text except for one.
A. statement of position B. arguments
C. debate D. reinforcement of position statement
8. States the central argument of the text.
A. statement of position B. arguments
C. conclusion D. reinforcement of position statement
9. It is a series of points with supporting evidence.
A. statement of position B. arguments
C. conclusion D. reinforcement of position statement
10. A reminder of the central argument.
A. statement of position B. arguments
C. conclusion D. reinforcement of position statement
11. It is a kind of persuasive writing that explains a certain issue or problem.
A. argumentative B. expository C. narrative D. investigative
12. It is a kind of persuasive writing that states one‘s opinion to a certain issue.
A. argumentative B. expository C. narrative D. investigative
13. These are claims over the denotation or classification of what something is. This is
sometimes called the classification claims.
A. definition B. fact C. policy D. value
14. These claims set out to argue the truth and falsity of an assertion. Assertion refers to a
strong or firm declaration of something that you believe in.
A. definition B. fact C. policy D. value
15. Claims that state what should be implemented or not. The keyword to unlock this claim is the
use of ‗‘ SHOULD‘‘.
A. definition B. fact C. policy D. value
16. These are claims that suggest the worth of an idea or practice.
A. definition B. fact C. policy D. value
(Numbers 17 – 20). What type of claims of persuasive writing is presented in these
examples?
17. Social distancing is important during the coronavirus pandemic.
A. definition B. fact C. policy D. value
18. Pandemic level diseases all come from viruses found in wildlife.
 A. definition B. fact C. policy D. value
19. The Philippines should consider Academic Freeze for this school year.
A. definition B. fact C. policy D. value
20.Online Class is better than the Print Modular Distance Learning.
A. definition B. fact C. policy D. value

II. Grammar. Choose the letter of the correct modal verbs to complete the sentence.
21. She _______ bring the food very soon.
A. can B. may C. shall D. should
22. You ______ stop smoking because it is bad for you.
A. shall B. can C. will D. should
23. I ________ to tell the truth to the teacher.
A. may B. should C. ought D could
24. We _____ definitely win the championship game.
A. might B. should C. must D. can
25. It ______ be very cold on the east coast
A. must B. will C. can D. may

Modal Adverbs: Identify the modal adverbs in the following sentences.

26. Henry stressed that he really could not attend the party, but his friends continued to insist
vehemently.
A. stressed B. really C. vehemently D. party
27. His friend Maria went so far as to outline a list of reasons Henry definitely should be present.
A. friend B. definitely C. so D. should
28. He may reasonably have enough fun to last a lifetime.
A. you B. may C. reasonably D. last
29. He can probably meet new people.
A. can B. probably C. meet D. new
30. Henry could not be swayed–he would (ability) certainly not waver
A. could B. swayed C. would D. certainly

III. Read each sentence carefully. Decide whether each example is a fact or opinion.
Write the word fact or opinion on your answer sheet.
31. Some people keep dogs as pets.
32. One liter of water weighs 1 kilogram.
33. Some people have the opinion that life begins at birth and that abortion should be illegal or
restricted only to rare situations such as when the life of the mother is in danger.
34. I tell you all these because I personally experience this when I was young.
35. Water always comes from the sky.

IV. Identify what type of argumentative claim. (Claims of Fact, Claims of Policy, Claims
of Value)
36. Social distancing is important during the coronavirus pandemic.
Type of Claim: ________________________________________________________________
37. Pandemic level diseases all come from viruses found in wildlife.
Type of Claim: ________________________________________________________________
38. The Philippines should consider Academic Freeze for this school year.
Type of Claim: _______________________________________________________________

V. Identify what is being ask on the following sentence. Choose your answer from the
box.

Introduction Body Conclusion Expository

39. What is a writing that aims to explain, inform, and describes settings of events?
40. What is the part of an expository essay that lays the foundation of the essay and gives the
reader an overview of the thesis?
41. What is the part of an expository essay that supports the over – all thesis statement?
42. What is the part of an expository essay that gives the reader a concise overview of the
thesis?
43. What is the part of an expository essay that offers a solution?
VI. Argumentative Text. Read the two short arguments that come from letters to the
editor in the New York Times. Try to find a claim in each letter.
The argument below is about “retiring” monkeys from a primate research center at Harvard.

Choose the best answer to these questions.

44. An argument must begin with a claim; it must make a statement that will be supported by
evidence. Which of the choices below is true of the claim in the letter?
A. The main claim is “We drop premium cable before heat or electricity.”
B. The main claim is “Harvard [should] retire the monkeys [to a nature preserve].”
C. There is no claim in this letter.
45. Does the writer offer evidence to support the claim?
A. The evidence offered is “[the monkeys]deserve protection” and “Harvard has profited plenty.”
B. The evidence offered is “primate research isn’t a necessary expense or a justifiable cruelty.”
C. There is no evidence offered in this letter.

Here’s a second short argument about conserving water by collecting rain and snow. Read the
argument and then answer the questions about its claim and evidence.

46.Is there a claim?

A. There is a claim. The main claim in the letter is “[It is a good idea] to harvest precipitation
when it falls on . . . impervious surfaces.”
B. There is a claim. The main claim in the letter is “The building and development industries
crumbled in 2008.”
C. There is no claim in this letter.
D. All of the above
47. What is the evidence offered to support the claim?
A. The evidence offered is “Storage tanks are called cisterns.”
B. The evidence offered is “[Water harvesting] is common in other countries and would
create jobs.”
C. There is no evidence offered in this letter.
D. All of the above
VII. Directions: Read the excerpt, Values Promoted by TV by Harry J. Skornia.
Values Promoted by T.V.
by Harry J. Skornia
On television, the mediocre and the great appear side by side. Singing
commercials are heard more than great music. Pressed by television, the other media adopt
this same approach. Starving children and cigarette models face each other in color. The
coexistence of the cheap, the vulgar, the violent, and the sacred, gives the impression of
almost complete valuelessness. The danger in this is the listener or viewer himself who grows
indifferent. As broadcasting does not discriminate between options, the listener/ viewer also
becomes indiscriminating.
If television can be said to have any values at all, it is those of the salesmen, big
businessmen, manufacturers, and showmen who control it --- mostly materialistic values. And
like those who control it, television shuns everything which does not fit in
with these values.
Televisions extols the spender. He is portrayed by the stars. He buys everything.
He knows that it is a duty to free enterprise to spend, rather than to save. Unlike the networks,
which use the same films year after year, he is told to throw away the old and buy the new.
Whether he needs a product or not, if he is not to be a saboteur of our economic system, he
must buy. This value is used as a lever in various ways, affecting even the respect of son for
mother or vice versa. If children do not spend on mother on Mother’s Day, they obviously do
not love her. Affection or loyalty, like success, is measured in dollars.
The saboteur of our economy is the tightwad father who wants to use the old
car another year, or who objects to rapidity with which items are made obsolete. Since
it is believed that fathers most often exercise a restraining hand on spending,
television programs ridicule such fathers as much as possible and hero-worship the
woman, who spends more readily.
Based on the selection, match the words in column A with their synonyms in
column B.

Column A Column B
48. mediocre A. destroyer
49. extol B. gentle
50. vulgar C. laugh at
51. saboteur D. lousy
52. ridicule E. offensive
F. to praise

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
― Zig Ziglar