Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Questions 191-200

Amusing in an unusual way:
  • droll
  • excessive
  • trifling
  • petty
Which guidance service suggests the importance of maintaining continuous effort of knowing the whereabouts of the graduates and drop outs?
  • evaluation
  • placement
  • counseling
  • follow-up
Percentage of salts dissolved in the sea:
  • salinity
  • saltiness
  • salt proportion
  • saline percentage

It is the oldest form of mass communication:

  • television
  • radio
  • book
  • newspaper

Social status which is earned or acquired by means of a talent and effort-making:

  • civil status
  • contractual status
  • ascribed status
  • achieved status

A and an are __________________.

  • indefinite articles
  • definite articles
  • indefinite pronouns
  • coordinating conjunctions

Rizal’s Noli Metangere was published in ____________________ in 1887.

  • Ghent, Belgium
  • Berlin, Germany
  • Vienna, Austria
  • London, England

Moving through space is called _______________________.

  • locomotion
  • ambulation
  • action
  • coordination

Tom is looking for his key. He can’t find it. He _____________________.

  • lost his key
  • has lost his key
  • had lost his key
  • was losing his key

To make instructional planning very effective, the teacher continually checks the students' capabilities to design the best and appropriated instructional materials and technique. Being a teacher, how can you ensure and maintain such effectiveness?

  • Make sure the instructional materials are of good quality.
  • Seek the help of the superiors for proper guidance and assistance.
  • Concentrate on the contents and objectives of the lesson to be taught.
  • Revise regularly the unit or lesson plan according to learning outcomes.

Questions 181-190

A _____________ remark, argument etc is too simple and shows a lack of careful thought or understanding:

  • dirty
  • weird
  • facile
  • groovy

The starting principles of teaching deal _______________.

  • with the nature of the child who is to be educated
  • with the teaching-learning process
  • with the intellectual competence of the teacher
  • with the materials used in learning

I work in a travel agency now. Before that I ____________________ in a department store.

  • was working
  • have worked
  • worked
  • had worked

The Father of Educational Measurement:

  • Cattell
  • Matthews
  • McCall
  • Thorndike

Substance that enters into a chemical reaction:

  • reactant
  • element
  • compound
  • molecule

What will surely take place whenever society adapts modernization abruptly?

  • There is peace.
  • There is harmony.
  • There is progress.
  • There is confusion.

Bacteria in the blood:

  • hemobacteria
  • bacterium
  • bacteremia
  • blood bacteria

Large, impressive, or expensive:

  • carnal
  • improper
  • grotesque
  • lavish

Newspapers are divided into three categories. Which is not one of these?

  • metropolitan dailies
  • spreadsheet
  • small dailies
  • community
In Western Philosophy, language has long been closely associated with __________________, which is also a uniquely human way of using symbols.
  • religion
  • reason
  • attitude
  • skill

Monday, January 26, 2009

Questions 171-180

Someone who works in an embassy, and deals with a particular subject:
  • envoy
  • attaché
  • minister
  • barrister
Dr. Lopez attends to emotionally disturbed student. Which guidance service is being provided by Dr. Lopez?
  • inventory service
  • information service
  • counseling service
  • placement service
A person who is physically fit possesses ___________________.
  • strength
  • power
  • endurance
  • all of these

It is the only country in Central America where English is an official language:

  • Belize
  • Honduras
  • Guatemala
  • Costa Rica

Pablo Picasso was a ____________________.

  • sculptor
  • painter
  • novelist
  • movie director

To ____________________ is to make a hole or passage in the ground.

  • renounce
  • abase
  • slacken
  • burrow

Refers to the ability of the person to change position or directions easily and quickly, while under control:

  • agility
  • balance
  • reaction time
  • speed

__________________ called the “Poet of the Piano”, was the only great composer who wrote exclusively for the piano. No composer has made the piano sound so beautiful as he. His unique melodic gifts creates illusions that the piano sings.

  • Johannes Brahms
  • Frederic Chopin
  • Giuseppe Verdi
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Who wrote the poem To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time?

  • Christopher Marlowe
  • Ben Jonson
  • Robert Herrick
  • Thomas Lodge

The primary objective of research is to _______________.

  • bring about change
  • present facts
  • provide intellectual exercise
  • satisfy human desires