IBAJAY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

School for the Arts

Colongcolong, Ibajay, Aklan

3rd Quarter Examination in English 9

Name: ______________________________________ Date: ____________ Score: _________

I. Identify the root words in the following list of words. Write your answer adjacent to the word.
1. Affordable 11. empower
2. Sensible 12. midfield
3. Facial 13. nonviolent
4. Golden 14. devalue
5. comparative 15. impartiality
6. courageous 16. perseverance
7. underestimate 17. stewardship
8. relation 18. theatrical
9. foreshadow 19. melodramatic
10. poetic 20. consideration

II. Underline the topic sentence in the following paragraph.

1. The best trip my family ever took was to New Orleans, Louisiana. We drove there in two days. I
didn’t think it would be very interesting, but I was wrong. We saw the Mississippi River, rode a
horse carriage in the French Quarter, and visited a cemetery where everyone was buried above
the ground. I liked the food best, especially the New Orleans doughnuts called beignets.
2. No one likes to eat with a dirty knife, fork, or spoon. It is important to completely wash all utensils
before using them. Clean utensils won’t transmit germs and bacteria. They also are more pleasant
to eat with.
3. Many people think poetry is old-fashioned and uninteresting. They don’t realize that every time
they hear a song sung, they are hearing poetry in the form of song lyrics. Just like many written
poems, many song lyrics use rhythm, rhyme, and literary imagery. It turns out that poetry isn’t
oldfashioned; it’s as modern as the latest hit song!
4. Growing a garden can be fun, good exercise, and will provide fresh fruits and vegetables for the
gardener. It is interesting to watch the seeds pop their heads above the soil for the first time. It is
sometimes hard to believe that a little seed can become a large vine or plant in just a few weeks.
Planting the seeds and pulling weeds are good exercise for anyone. Then, after watching the plant
grow and produce, the gardener ends up with delicious tomatoes, beans, or other yummy produce
from the garden.
5. Sometimes it is hard to fall asleep. Maybe you are not sleepy, or maybe you are thinking about
what happened during the day. You can also lie awake if a big event, like a test or a party, is
happening the next day. There are several things you can do to try and fall asleep. You can try
counting sheep, or just counting, which will keep your mind busy with a repetitious activity.
Sometimes listening to soft music or gentle sounds, like rain, helps. You can even try telling
yourself a story, which may distract your mind enough that you will be asleep in no time.
6. The United States has a severe fire problem that if not addressed, will continue to worsen
drastically. Fire statistics show that our nation, one of the richest and most technologically
sophisticated countries in the world, lags behind its peer nations in fire security. Nationally, there
are millions of fires, thousands of deaths, tens of thousands of injuries, and billions of dollars lost
each year—figures which far exceed comparable statistics for other industrialized countries. In
2001, for example, the direct value of property destroyed in fires was $11 billion ($44 billion if the
World Trade Center loss is included). More recently in 2004, direct property losses from fires were
estimated at over $9.8 billion
7. The star system has been the backbone of the American film industry since the mid 1910s. Stars
are the creation of the public, its reigning favorites. Their influence in the fields of fashion, values,
 and public behavior has been enormous. “The social history of a nation can be written in terms of
its film stars,” Raymond Durgnat has observed. Stars confer instant consequence to any film they
appear in. Their fees have staggered the public. In the 1920s, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin
were the two highest paid employees in the world. Contemporary stars such as Julia Roberts and
Tom Cruise command salaries of many millions per film, so popular are these box-office giants.
Some stars had careers that spanned five decades: Bette Davis and John Wayne, to name just
two.
8. For decades, we have looked at our steadily increasing life expectancy rates and proudly
proclaimed that Americans’ health has never been better. Recently, however, health organizations
and international groups have attempted to quantify the number of years a person lives with a
disability or illness, compared with the number of healthy years. The World Health Organization
summarizes this concept as healthy life expectancy. Simply stated, healthy life expectancy refers
to the number of years a newborn can expect to live in full health, based on current rates of illness
and mortality and also on the quality of their lives. For example, if we could delay the onset of
diabetes so that a person didn’t develop the disease until he or she was 60 years old, rather than
developing it at 30, there would be a dramatic increase in this individual’s healthy life expectancy.
9. Are you “twittered out”? Is all that texting causing your thumbs to seize up in protest? If so, you’re
not alone. Like millions of others, you may find that all of the pressure for contact is more than
enough stress for you! Known as technostress, the bombardment is defined as stress created by
a dependence on technology and the constant state of being plugged in or wirelessly connected,
which can include a perceived obligation to respond, chat, or tweet.
10. In the past, exposure to liability made many doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals
reluctant to stop and render aid to victims in emergency situations, such as highway accidents.
Almost all states have enacted a Good Samaritan law that relieves medical professionals from
liability for injury caused by their ordinary negligence in such circumstances. Good Samaritan laws
protect medical professionals only from liability for their ordinary negligence, not for injuries caused
by their gross negligence or reckless or intentional conduct. Most Good Samaritan laws protect
licensed doctors and nurses and laypersons who have been certified in CPR. Good Samaritan
statutes generally do not protect laypersons who are not trained in CPR—that is, they are liable
for injuries caused by their ordinary negligence in rendering aid.

III. Identify whether the words below has voiced or voiceless /th/. Write T if it is voiced and H if it is
voiceless adjacent to the word.
1. Soothe 11. Throughout
2. Thanksgiving 12. Farther
3. Weather 13. Thrifty
4. Withdraw 14. Overthrow
5. Stealth 15. Tithes
6. Loathe 16. Arthritis
7. Thunder 17. Writhes
8. Locksmith 18. Another
9. Rhythm 19. Ruthless
10. Leather 20. Warmth

Bonus Question (2 points each):

What is the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) symbol for voiced /th/? For voiceless /th/?

Good luck and God bless!