LET Mock Boards

1) Please read the chapter ________.

a) Filing your Income Tax Returns. b) Filing Your Income Tax Returns. c) "Filing your Income Tax Returns." d) "Filing Your Income Tax Returns."

2) Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing are collectively known as ______________

a) Macro Skills b) Cueing Skills c) Communicative Competence d) Micro Skills

3) Jeremy responded to his mother's demands ________ throwing a tantrum.

a) with b) by c) from d) through

4) One spends ________ of his/her waking hours on listening.

a) 60% b) 30% c) 10% d) 20%

5) The Thomasites are ______________________

a) teachers from UST b) teachers from America c) American soldiers d) Followers of St. Thomas

6) Three of these books are written by the same person. Which one is NOT?

a) “The Fountainhead” b) “We the Living” c) “Animal Farm” d) “Atlas Shrugged”

7) The reality TV show Big Brother is based on the novel by George Orwell titled ______________

a) Big Brother b) 1984 c) Brother d) Brother and Sons

8) "I have one life to give and I give it all to my country.” This pictures a:

a) a soldier at war b) worker in a cement factory c) a policeman on the street d) a doctor in the operating room

9) ______ the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad.

a) Whoever b) Whoever c) Whomever d) Whosoever

10) Which is a clipped word?

a) Eggs b) Smog c) Prof d) Scissor

11) What makes the sentence below erroneous?

a) “I have written a letter yesterday.” b) Yesterday c) Have d) A e) Letter

12) What is NOT true about the present perfect tense?

a) The action started somewhere in the past and continued up until the present b) It must bear with it that the auxiliary verb has/have plus the past participle form of the verb c) The action is still happening at present or just recently ended d) The action is happening at present and may still happen in the future.

13) We arranged the flowers and placed ________ in the center of the table.

a) them b) it c) this d) that

14) Both Randy and ________ plan to go.

a) my b) me c) myself d) I

15) This is Victor Hugo’s masterpiece that talks about the French revolution.

a) Les Miserables b) Hunchback of Notre Dame c) Anna Karenina d) Fathers and Sons

16) Which among these words has the [id] end sound?

a) Praised b) Mailed c) Judged d) Needed

17) Which word is accented on the first syllable?

a) Fifteen b) Outspeak c) Understand d) Heaven

18) Anna Karenina is a novel by ________.

a) Mark Twain b) Leo Tolstoy c) Walt Whitman d) T.S. Eliot

19) Filial piety is a basic tenet of this school of thought.

a) Taoism b) Confucianism c) Hinduism d) Buddhism

20) Every June, Manila has its festival of outstanding Filipino films. This was a project initiated by

a) Arsenio Lacson b) German Moreno c) Antonio Villegas d) Ramon Bagatsing

21) Audiolingualism is a new language teaching approach that mainly focuses on _________

a) Syntax b) Structure c) Reading d) Pronunciation

22) “ The whale has no famous author and whaling no famous chronicles.” Based on this line from the novel, Moby Dick is treated as:

a) Whaling is not truly structured. b) Whales are ordinary creatures c) Whale is a wild mammal that haunts mariners. d) Whaling is an Old hobby.

23) Neither parent ________ fond of playing cards.

a) is b) are c) am d) were

24) In the cueing system, this pertains to the formation of sounds of the language.

a) Phonology b) Semantics c) Morphology d) Syntax

25) “No smoking during the cigarette break.” What kind of figure of speech was used?

a) Irony b) Oxymoron c) asyndeton d) synecdoche

26) Madonna’s agent __________ change her name at the start of her career.

a) made her to b) made c) made her d) have made her to

27) “Only the heart can see rightly.” This statement is lifted from what particular novel?

a) The Prince and the Pauper b) The Little Prince c) The Right One d) The Pearl

28) Who is considered the goddess of Philippine poetry?

a) Ophelia AlcantaraDimalanta b) Teresa Subido c) Aida Rivera Ford d) Angela Manalang Gloria

29) Which of the following sentences is punctuated correctly?

a) He worked all night; therefore, he was able to finish the report in time. b) He worked all night, therefore he was able to finish the report in time. c) He worked all night therefore he was able to finish the report in time. d) He worked all night, therefore he was able to finish the report in time.

30) In teaching pronunciation, showing the contrast between /i/ and /I/ is best accomplished by using

a) analogous pairs b) dyadic pairs c) minimal pairs d) complementary pairs

31) A couple accepted a wedding invitation. They showed pleasure in these remarks:

a) All guests congratulated the organizers and couple. b) Guests came in and out of the ceremonies c) The ceremonies were very impressive d) I felt uneasy with the priest

32) He is considered the father of the essay.

a) Michel de Montaigne b) Francis Bacon c) William Shakespeare d) George Eliot

33) What is the mood of these lines?

a) Afraid b) Sarcastic c) Depressed d) Hopeful e) tonight will be a memory, too

34) Which passage is expressed effectively and has no structural error?

a) You make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give. b) You make a living by working, but you make a life by what you do. c) You make a living by earning, but you make a life by doing the best. d) You make a living by getting your wage, but you make a life by giving.

35) What does the expression "love begets love" mean?

a) Love is offered, not waiting for love in return b) If you offer love, you will be loved in return. c) Don't expect love, though you love others. d) Love is not freely expected from everyone.

36) What correction should be made to this sentence?

a) Change is to are b) Insert a comma after children c) Change parents' to parent's d) Change theories to theories

37) Which word contains a bound root?

a) Rewrite b) Rest c) Remit d) Redo

38) The Mustang used to be ________ sportscar.

a) a fine German b) a German, fine c) a fine, German d) fine German

39) Who is the Indian counterpart of William Shakespeare?

a) Tagore b) Kalidasa c) Valmiki d) Vyasa

40) This narrative poem is about the adventures of great heroes.

a) Romance b) Ballad c) Epic d) Lyric

41) The novel Crime Punishment was Written by ____________

a) Fyodor Dostoyevsky b) Leo Tolstoy c) Anton Checkov d) Ivan Turgenev

42) "Divine Comedy" is a trilogy; which among the three is the most widely read?

a) Purgatory b) Heaven c) Paradise d) Inferno

43) The price of these sneakers ________ reasonable.

a) is b) are c) seem d) aren't

44) The Rizal Day celebration reminds us about heroes worth ________.

a) appreciating b) emulating c) reading about d) studying

45) (Refer to no. 91) In the passage a child in darkness is likened to _______________.

a) A deaf child unaffected by the environment b) A sea creature with no seeing or hearing ability c) A perfect sleeper, for there is no sound around to hear d) Someone who lives where there are no reasons

46) Open: Secretive::Forthright: __________

a) Spiteful b) Mask c) Outspoken d) Honest

47) In the cueing system, this is about vocabulary and coming up with meanings in context.