Sample Diagnostic Test in English 7.....
- 1. Republic of the Philippines Schools Division of Ilocos Sur Region I Cabugao District LIPIT NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Lipit, Cabugao, Ilocos Sur Diagnostic Test English 7 Name: __________________________________ Score: ________________ Grade & Section: __________________________ Date: _________________ GENERAL INSTRUCTION: Read carefully and understand the directions of each test items. Use BLACK or BLUE ink pen. ERASURE IS NOT ALLOWED. Write your answer BEFORE the number. TEST I. Directions: Analyze and identify the sound devices for each sentence. Choose the letter of the correct answer. _____1. It was cold I saw polar bears wearing jackets. a. assonance b. hyperbole c. personification d. simile _____2. The team leader moves as brave as a lion. a. context clues b. simile c. personification d. onomatopoeia _____3. The snow is a white blanket. a. assonance b. alliteration c. hyperbole d. metaphor TEST II. Directions: Pluralized the underlined regular nouns in each sentences. Choose the letter of the correct answer. _____4. My mother sent me two sets of chocolate box. a. boxx b. boxs c. boxes d. boxses _____5. The pupils find the three line of the art paper. a. linese b. lines c. liness d. linseed _____6. Saint Peter holds the key of heaven’s door. a. keys b. keyss c. keyz d. keyses TEST III. Directions: Read the following sentences and find the correct agreement between the subject of the sentence and its verb. Choose the letter of the correct answer. _____7. Ma’am Aida Ramos (teach)_______ us how to solve mathematical equations. a. teachs b. teaches c. teech d. teach _____8. Santa Rosa City (lead) _________ the STCAA competition. a. leds b. leeds c. leadsd. leadses _____9. Richard (bake) _______ some cakes for us. a. bake b. beka c. bakeses d. bakes TEST IV. Directions: Recall the concept of simile for you to be able to identify the word being compared to the underlined word. Choose the letter of the correct answer. _____10. The music changes like prismatic glass, giving the world a glimpse of all the colors it forgets. a. changes b. colors c. prismatic glass d. world _____11. The lowered lamps glow in the midnight air like mammoth orange-moths that flit and flare through the dark tapestry of night. a. air b. dark c. mammoth d. tapestry _____12. I dream of silent verses where the rhyme glides noiseless as an oar. a. dream b. glides c. silent d. oar TEST V. Directions: Infer the meaning of the underlined idiomatic expressions in each sentence. Choose the letter of the correct answer. _____13. Jose Zavalla basketball team made a game plan at the drop of a hat. a. badly b. earlier today c. for the win d. without hesitation _____14. The policemen barked up the wrong tree in our village. a. arrested the right person c. accusing the wrong person
- 2. b. accusing the right person d. arrested no one _____15. The BMW car is truly costed an arm and leg. a. very low price b. very intimidating c. very huge d. very expensive Directions: Read the selection then answer the questions that follow. Why Does a Cow Chewing When She isn’t Eating? A cow has a special stomach with four parts. When she eats grass, she chews it just enough to make it wet. Then it goes into the first part of its stomach, where it becomes softer. From there it goes into the second part, where it is made into little balls called “cuds”. Later, while the cow is resting, she brings up each cud one at a time and chews it well. When she swallows it, the food goes into the third part of her stomach. There the water squeezed out of it. Finally, the food goes to the fourth part of the cow’s stomach and is broken down into very tiny pieces. Then the cow’s body can take what it needs from the food to live and grow. ______16. What happens to the grass when it goes to the first part? A. The grass becomes harder. C. The grass becomes softer. B. The grass liquify. D. The grass goes to the intestine ______17. In what part is the water squeezed out? A. first C. second B. fourth D. third Directions: Choose the letter of the correct answer. ______18. Wetlands are synonymous to________. A. rivers C. ponds B. swamps D. seas ______19. What is the root word of the word rarity? A. rar C. rarity b. rare D. –ity ______20. Which of these does not belong to land vegetation? A. farms C. orchards B. gardens D. reefs Direction: Circle (copy) the correct verb in each of the sentences below. Check your answers on the following page. 21. Your friend (talk-talks) too much. 22. The man with the roses (look-looks) like your brother. 23. The women in the pool (swim-swims) well. 24. Bill (drive-drives) a cab. 25. The football players (run-runs) five miles every day. 26. That red-haired lady in the fur hat (live-lives) across the street. 27. He (cook-cooks) dinner for his family. Directions: Identify the kind of sentences (Declarative, Imperative, Interrogative and Exclamatory) ________________________28. How well she sings! ________________________29. What is your name?
- 3. ________________________30. Did I say anything to make you angry? ________________________31. What is your name? ________________________32. Who told you this? ________________________33. She is a successful writer. ________________________34. It is raining cats and dogs. ________________________35. I want to become a writer. ________________________36. She does not eat meat or fish. ________________________37. Go at once. Directions: Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words. Encircle the letter of the correct answer. 38. A telephone is a machine that can carry the sound of someone's voice somewhere far away. The root tele means far away. What does the root phon mean? A. sound C. light B. life D. heat 39. Psychology is the study of human behavior and the mind. The root logy means the study of something. What does the root psych mean? A. life C. light B. mind D. heat 40. The root astro means star. What does the word astronomy mean? A. the branch of science that studies the physics of light B. the branch of science that studies sound and hearing C. the branch of science that studies stars and other objects in space D. the branch of science that studies moon and comets Write the letter of the most logical effect or cause of each situation on the space provided. ______41. It was a very hot day. Everyone wanted __________. A. some cold drinks C. a piece of sandwich B. two bottles of hot water D. a cup of coffee ______42. After some days Paulo was absent because of sickness, Paulo was well again. He regained his health. A. He continued his vacation. C. He helped his mother at home. B. He started attending his classes. D. He woke up early. ______43. Paulo had missed many lessons so he had to double his efforts. A. He stayed awake till morning, studying his lessons. B. He asked his mother to do his homework for him. C. He requested his teacher to promote him to the next grade level. D. He copied notes from his classmates and studied them at home. ______44. Paulo was very happy to see his classmates. He was so touched by their thoughtfulness. He said ____. A. “Oh, thank you so much”, but why did you come? B. “Oh thank you very much for coming”, you’ve made me very happy. C. “Oh, thank you very much. Did you bring something for me?” D. “Oh, thank you”, what gifts did you bring?” ______45. In spite of his absences, Paulo got high grades. A. That made his classmates believe he had super powers. B. That led to his being elected president of the class. C. That made his mother happy and proud of him. D. That made his friends believed that they must get absent too, in class. ______46. Why did Kyoto frog and Osaka frog wanted to travel? A. They want to go to different places B. They want to live on different places C. They want to see the differences of the other place
- 4. D. They want to look for beautiful places ______47. What made the frogs decide to go home? A. They think that the other place was a copy of their place. B. They were tired of traveling. C. They have seen what they wanted to see. D. None of the above ______48. Which of the following is the effect of water pollution? A. People discharged waste into water bodies. B. Fourteen billion pounds of garbage is dumped into the ocean. C. Aquatic animals face an extinction rate of five times than terrestrial animals. D. Lack of proper sanitation in water. ______49. What causes water pollution? A. Billion pounds of garbage is dumped into the ocean. B. People have no concern on keeping the cleanliness of water sources. C. Oil spill cannot be prevented if accidents happen in the bodies of water. D. All of the above ______50. According to UNICEF, more than 3,000 children die every day all over the world due to consumption of contaminated drinking water. In this sentence, which is the effect? A. according to UNICEF B. more than 3,000 children die every day all over the world C. due to consumption of contaminated drinking water D. All of the above Prepared by: RUSSEL M. PAGANAO Teacher I
- 5. Republic of the Philippines Schools Division of Ilocos Sur Region I Cabugao District LIPIT NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Lipit, Cabugao, Ilocos Sur DIAGNOSTIC TEST IN ENGLISH 7 TABLE OF SPECIFICATION OBJECTIVES NO. OF ITEMS PLACEMENT PERCENTAGE EN6RC-Ia-2.3.1 EN6RC-Ia-2.3.3 EN6RC-Ia-2.3.2 EN6RC-Ia-2.3.9 Analyze sound devices (onomatopoeia, alliteration, assonance, consonance) W1 3 1-3 6% EN6G-Ia-2.3.1 Compose clear and coherent sentences using appropriate grammatical structures: -Pluralization of regular nouns W1 3 4-6 6% EN6G-Ih-3.9 Compose clear and coherent sentences using appropriate grammatical structures: -Subject-verb agreement W8 3 7-9 6% EN6LC-Ic-2.3.8 EN6LC-Ic-2.3.7 Analyze sound devices (irony and hyperbole) in a text heard W3 3 10-12 6% EN6V-Ia-12.3.1 Infer meaning of idiomatic expressions using -context clues 3 13-15 6% Note down relevant information from text heard (EN6LC-II-d-e 2.2) 2 16-17 4% Infer meaning of borrowed words and context specific terms using -context clues -affixes and roots -other strategies (EN6V-II-a-f-12.3.3, 12.4.1.3, 12. 4.2.3) 3 18-20 6% Organize information from primary sources in preparation for writing, reporting, and similar academic tasks in collaboration with others (EN6SS-II-e-f-3.4) 7 21-27 14% Identify the kind of sentences. 10 28-37 20% Infer meaning of borrowed words using; - Context clues - Affixes and roots - Other strategies 3 38-40 6%
- 6. - Prefix - Suffix (EN6V-IVa-j-12.3.3, 12.4.1.3 – 12.4.2.3) Distinguish text-types according to purpose and language features; - Cause and effect - Problem and solution (EN6RC-IVa-d-3.2.5, 3.2.6) 10 41-50 20% TOTAL 50 ITEMS 1-50 100% KEY TO CORRECT: 1.C 2.B 3.D 4.C 5.B 6.A 7.B 8.C 9.D 10.C 11.C 12.D 13.D 14.C 15.D 16.C 17.D 18.B 19.B 20.D 21.TALKS 22.LOOKS 23.SWIMS 24.DRIVES 25.RUN 26.LIVES 27.COOKS 28.EXCLAMATORY 29.INTERROGATIVE 30.INTERROGATIVE 31.INTERROGATIVE 32. NTERROGATIVE 33.DECLARATIVE 34.DECLARATIVE 35.DECLARATIVE 36.DECLARATIVE 37.IMPERATIVE 38.A 39.B 40.C 41.A 42.B 43.D 44.B 45.C 46.C 47.A 48.C 49.D 50.B Prepared by: RUSSEL M. PAGANAO Teacher I