Kristeline Manalo

English for Academic and Professional Purposes (FINAL EXAM) I. Vocabulary Part 1: Find the meaning of the underlined words. 1. Climate has fluctuated drastically from ice ages to epochs of steamy heat. a. Big disaster b. Prediction c. Phase in History 2. The hunter was relentless in pursuit of his prey. a. Harsh, merciless and non-stop b. Temporary and mild c. Difficult to understand 3. Rumors about the incident proliferated on the internet. a. To increase in number or amount quickly b. Improvement c. Decrease in quantity 4. There are stringent rules for unathorized persons in the building. a. Unimportant b. Severe or strict c. Easy to achieve 5. His adversary are tough and invincible too. a. Allies b. Enemy c. Benefactors 6. In the olden days, people were always suffering from some unknown maladies. a. Accidents b. Misfortune c. Diseases 7. The virulent look on her face warned me that she was about to say something unkind. a. Contagious b. Easy to cure c. Full of hate and anger 8. They were faced with several insurmountable obstacles. a. Cannot be solved b. Hard to find c. Easily bearable 9. The company’s advertisements are ubiquitous. a. Found everywhere b. A big help c. A big industry 10. They live in dire poverty. a. Difficult b. Easily resolved c. Causing greaat fear; terrible 11. This candidate toppled the longest serving president of their country. a. Expelled by a legal process b. Overthrown from a position of authority c. Cause to fall forward on one’s face 12. The windows give the church an ethereal glow. a. Improbable b. Heavenly or celestial c. Beyond imagination 13. A radio with a diminutive set of speakers. a. Small or short b. Reduced in importance c. Short duration 14. A couple of hoodlums held up the convenience store. a. Gangster or a racketeer b. School dropout c. Drug user 15. The team has enjoyed unprecedented success this year. a. Seldom noted b. Not done or experienced before c. Unpredictable II. Vocabulary Part 2: Match the meaning of the words below and give atleast one sentence example. (You can use your dictionary on this part) -. Invariably (Adv.) Allegedly (Adv.) Lore (Noun) Ingenuity (Noun) Domain (Noun) Adage (Noun) Prodigious (Adj.) 8. Epitome (Noun) 9. Lush (Adj.) 10. Epidemology (Noun) III. a. Cleverness; inventive talent b. Extraordinary in size and amount c. Field of action, knowledge or influence d. Uniformly; Constantly e. Characterized by luxuriant vegetation f. Supposedly g. The branch of medicine dealing with epidemic diseases h. The traditional or anecdotal body of knowledge on a particular subject. i. Saying or proverb j. A person that possesses the features of a whole class. Tenses of the verb: Identify what tense of the verb are the sentences below. The italized word/s are your clues-. Present Continuous Simple Past Future Tense Past Perfect - Simple Present - Past Continuous - Present Perfect Living things need water to survive. Prices of commodities have increased many times this year. Environmentalists are looking for solutions to these problems. He was sleeping soundly when the blast wake him up. Mr. Santos is distributing the agenda tomorrow. They had tried to help him by taking him to the hospital. He left without a word. Our teacher was talking over the phone. I will get married soon. -. IV. Our class is going to discuss the issues. Environement problems concern us. Our group created a website for pollution awareness. Engineers had created a plan for an efficient use of energy. Mr. Reyes promised to give incentives because of our successful project. The nation celebrates World Environment Month this coming June. Kris was rehearsing for her next concert. My family is going to have a trip abroad. Mining companies have tried to minimize the negative effects of mining. She will join the art contest tomorrow. Princess has done a remarkable job at work. Change the given sentences into the form that is asked. You don’t need to create your own sentences. Just stick with the sentences given below. Given sentences:      We are looking for a nice gift for her. Scientists are trying to find a medicine against AIDS. My mother is preparing to bake a cake for us. At school, my classmates are very noisy. Elena is learning a new language now. 1. For numbers 1 to 5 – Change the sentences above from simple sentences to simple questions. 2. For numbers 6 to 10 – Change the sentences above from simple sentences to negative sentences. 3. For numbers 11 to 15 – Change the sentences above from simple questions to information questions or WH-questions. (TIP: You can make 1 or 2 possible questions for each sentence) Given sentences:      Anna loves to eat sweets. Pesticides poison our lakes and rivers. Human survival depends on the environment. Glaciers melt rapidly these past few years. They do projects to help the survivors of Typhoon Yolanda. 4. For numbers 16 to 20, change the sentences given above into question starting from “Do” or “Does”. V. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. VI. Pronunciation: Write if the ending sound is /t/, /d/ or /id/. Developed Cleaned Wounded Extended Drooped Collected -. Hollered Recognized Packed Studied Polluted Sounded 13. Marked 14. Covered 15. Walked Change “BECAUSE” to “BECAUSE OF” in the following sentences. The sentences that starts with “because” are already underlined for reference. Make whatever changes necessary. (This exercise is based on Fr. Aedan McGrath’s article “In a Dark Cell in China” which appears in Kerygma.) Many stories have been told about the persecution of Christians during the Communist Revolution in China and throughout the reign of its leader, Mao Tse Tung (now spelled Mao Zedong). Many of this Christians are unsung heroes as is Fr. Aedan McGrath, who has his own story to tell. Fr. Aedan and his two older brothers are Irish priests who all joined the Columban order. 1. In 1930, Fr. Aedan was sent to China with a batch of Columban priests because the Catholic communities there urgently needed priests. Although he was supposed to go home every 10 years, he stayed in China for 16 straight years. 2. He had to stay because World War II broke out. 3. He couldn’t go home because the Japanese occcupied the mainland and refused to allow foreigners to leave. After the war, Fr. Aedan went home to Ireland for a while. 4. Then he went back to China in 1947 because the Pope’s representative in China, Archbishop Anthony Riberia, requested him to. 5. The Archbishop asked him to establish the Legion of Mary in China because Mao Tse Tung’s Communist philosophies were attracting many adherents. 6. It was a dark time for religion there because Mao imposed an atheistic edict throughout the land. Foreign Catholic priests and nuns were unceremoniously expelled, Chinese priests and sisters were imprisoned, Buddhists were driven out of their temples. 7. Mao’s followers set up cell groups because they needed to spread his revolutionary doctrines. At the same time, the missionary priests were forming “praesidia” or small prayer groups composing the Legion of Mary, teaching Christian doctrine, urging the people to pray the Rosary in their homes and baptizing their babies. 8. Chairman Mao ordered the arrest of missionaries because he had declared them Public Enemy No. 1. Communist troops then mounted an attack on all the councils of the Legion of Mary. 9. Approximately 3,000 Legionaries were killed because this wave of violence spread to many places. 10. The rest of the world remained unaware of the persecution throughout Mao’s rule because China isolated itself and closed its Bamboo Curtain. VII. Identify the result and the reason to each sentence. Then combine them by reducing one sentence to an adverbial clause or phrase beginning with “because”. Example: Members of the Red Guard inspired fear. They locked up thousand of “enemies” of the government in concentration camps. Answer: 1. Members of the Red Guard inspired fear BECAUSE they locked up thousand of “enemies” of the government in concenntraion camps. 2. Members of the Red Guard inspired fear BECAUSE OF their locking up of “enemies” of the government in concentration camps. 3. Members of the Red Guard inspired fear BECAUSE OF the thousands of “enemies” of the government that they locked up in concentration camps. _____ Communist troops picked Fr. Aedan up in 1951. He was one of the clerics to be locked up in the Shanghai Stockade. Prisoners were kept in individual cells just long and wide enough to fit a medium-built man. The only opening in each cell was the door with an iron bar. The cell had no windows, no table, no chair, no bed. Fr. Aedan survived by praying. 1. He was not allowed to kneel or go through the motions of the mass. Everyday he said the mass, going through the rituals in his mind. 2. Neither was he allowed to move his lips nor his fingers to count the Our Father and Hail Marys in the rosary. He prayed the rosary also in his mind. 3. He preoccupied himself with his calling and firmly held on to his faith. This was the only way he knew to survive. 4. He never broke down under interrogation. Jesus remained his Light of Hope. One day in 1954, the guards brought him out of the cell and brought him to a judge who read to him his alleged crimes. The judged hissed: 5. “You disturbed the youth of China and upset them. You are therefore exiled from China for life.” 6. In 1977, Fr. Aedan began a new assignment for the Legion of Mary in Asia. He went to Japan. In 1980, Frank Duff, the founder of the Legion of Mary asked him, “Why don’t you go to the Philippines and spread your teaching there?” 7. Fr. Aedan was reluctant to go to the Phillippines. He believed that the Filipinos were all Cathollics and didn’t need him. Frank Duff pointed out, “Look, Father, if Asia is ever to become Christian – Asia, meaning China, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and all these other countries – it must be through the Filipino lay people. 8. The Filipino Catholic people number more than 60 million and know their doctrines. They can help to spread the faith.” 9. Fr. Aedan saw the wisdom in Duff’s words. He came to the Philippines in 1980. Within 5 years, he witnessed how God went about accomplishing his work through the Filipinos, particularly the migrant workers who began leaving the Philippines in droves. All over the world, even in countries you wouldn’t expect them to be, Filipinos have thrived. 10. They have connverted many of their employers and associates. They brought with them the religious customs and traditions they have grown up with.