Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region XII
Cotabato Division
KIARING HIGH SCHOOL
Kiaring, Banisilan, Cotabato
School ID: 316555
SECOND GRADING PERIODICAL EXAMINATION
ENGLISH-9

Name: _______________________________________________ Date: ________________

Grade & Section: _______________________ Score: _______________
I. ADVERB OF MANNER
Direction: Choose the best word to complete each sentence. Underline your answer.

1. The worker walked (careful, carefully) on the platform.

2. The man painted the room (skillful, skilfully).
3. Tomas does not really work (hard, hardly).
4. Sometimes, he arrives (late, lately) for work.
5. He is walking too (fast, fastly).
6. Mara works (hardly, the hardest) in the cannery.
7. The farmers have to finish their work (quick, quickly).
8. They have to speak (quiet, quietly) or else the other crew members would be disturbed.
9. It was raining too (hard, hardly) that work was cancelled.
10. It is important to work (seriously, serious) on tasks assigned to you.

II. ADVERBS OF PLACE and TIME

Direction: Determine whether or not the sentences below use the adverbs correctly. Place a
(check) √ or an × on the space provided before each sentence.
_____11. Martin Luther King Jr. received in 1948 from Morehouse College his B.A. degree.
_____12. He enrolled in graduate studies at Boston College.
_____13. In 1954 at Montgomery, Alabama, he became the pastor of the Dexter Avenue
Baptist Church.
_____14. He was chosen by Time Magazine as the Man of the Year in 1963.
_____15. He was on the evening of April 4, 1968 assassinated in Tennessee.

III. VOCABULARY
Direction: Choose the most appropriate word in Column B to be used in a consultative
communication style in replacement for each word in Column A. Write only the
letter of your answer on the space before the number.
Column A Column B
_____16. BEAM A. grin B. laugh C. smirk D. smile
_____17. CLING A. hug B. embrace C. grip D. clasp
_____18. BOISTEROUS A. loud B. rollicking C. rowdy D. uproarious
_____19. DAINTILY A. lightly B. softly C. deftly D. elegantly
_____20. PARAPHERNALIA A. gear B. machinery C. regalia D. equipment
IV. RHYME SCHEME
Direction: Determine the rhyme scheme of the poem. Write the letter on the corresponding
box.
Death, Be Not Proud By: John Donne
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee a
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; b
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow 21._____
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. 22._____

From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, a

Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow, 23._____
And soonest our best men with thee do go, 24._____
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery. 25._____

Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, c

And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, d
And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well 26,_____
And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then? 27._____

One short sleep past, we wake eternally b

And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die. 28._____

V. FILL IN THE GAP

Direction: Complete the sentences with the best adverb. Use the adverbs inside the box.
Write your answer on the blank after the number.
usually unequally often overly
closely equally interchangeably
more than two thousand year ago widely
Justice and fairness are (29 ____________________ related terms that are
(30) _____________________ used today (31 __________________________.
While justice (32) _____________________ has been used with reference to a standard of
rightness, fairness often has been used with regard to an ability to judge without reference
to one's feelings or interests; fairness has also been used to refer to the ability to make
judgments that are not (33) _____________________ general but that are concrete and
specific to a particular case. The most fundamental principle of justice—one that has been
(34) _____________________ accepted since it was first defined by Aristotle
(35) _____________________________________________ —is the principle that "equals should be
treated (36) _____________________ and unequals (37) _____________________."

VI. CONTEXT CLUES

Direction: Pick out the word which does not belong to the group in reference to the
highlighted word. Write the letter on the space before the number.
_____38. The man was shouting blasphemous ideas about different religions.
A. authentic B. nonsense C. distracting D. humiliating
_____39. The audience ignored the man’s clamor for change on social injustice
A. Yell B. Cry C. scream D. silence
_____40. They were spoken by a man who had false ideas as to what is convincing in
elocution.
A. delivery B. inarticulate C. expression D. utterance
_____41. The lawyers could not easily counterfeit his arguments.
A. simulate B. reverse C. imitate D. fabricate
_____42. The lady was wearing a bourgeois dress just like any other woman in their locale.
A. traditional B. common C. original D. conservative
_____43. He can never forget the entreaties made which was agreed upon for quite some
time.
A. answer B. petition C. request D. appeal
VII. GEOGRAPHY AND LITERATURE
Direction: Martin Luther King Jr. used geographical orientations as vehicles of idea. Match
Column A with Column B to complete King’s characterization of social injustice in
his time. Write only the letter of your answer on the blank.
Column A Column B
_____44. island A. (of poverty)
_____45. ocean B. (of racial justice);
_____46. valley C. (despair);
_____47. sunlit path D. (of prosperity);
_____48. quick sands E. (of racial injustice);
_____49. rock F. (justice);
_____50. waters G. (of brotherhood);
_____51. a mighty stream H. (of freedom and justice);
_____52. an oasis I. (righteousness);
_____53. mountain J. (of segregation and later, of despair);

V. ENUMERATION
Direction: Provide the blanks with the necessary information.

Three (3) Types of Periodicals:

54. _____________________________
55. _____________________________
56. _____________________________

Types of Prose:
57. ___________________________
58. ___________________________
59. ___________________________
60. ___________________________