PC mas Practice Exercises

1. PC mas Practice Exercises Prof. Miguel A. Arce Ramos PUCPR

2. 1. Select the correct answer: The secretary often types the minutes correctly. The secretary types the minutes correctly often. The secretary types the minutes often correctly. The secretary often correctly types the minutes. The secretary correctly often types the minutes.

3. 2. The students can’t go on the excursion __________________ it is authorized by District Office. after unless while whether which

4. 3. The sentence that can be generated by the phrase structure S-----NP VP Adv is: Students study from morning to evening. Smart students know how to do well on tests. Students knew the material on the exam well. All students prefer multiple choice test. The student doesn’t always know the answer.

5. 4. The underlined portion in the following sentence, “I like books with colorful covers”, is a: Noun phrase in subjectposition Noun phrase in direct object position Prepositional phrase in direct object position Prepositional phrase in indirect object position Noun clause in direct object position

6. 5. Select the alternative that is closest in meaning to the underlined word in the following sentence: The lecture on dieting was interesting and educational lectern text reading talk course

7. 6. The initial sounds of the words boy, dean, an gut belong to a class called: bilabials velars stops palatals vowels

8. 7. Select the correct phonemic transcription for the past tense of the verb flip. [flipt] [flip] [flɪpt] [flɪp] [flɪpɪd]

9. Read the following paragraph. • 1. Why do people buy Ben & Jerry’s ice cream? 2. First of all, it is very, very good ice cream. 3. It is made with good Vermont milk, and it does not have any chemicals in it. 4. People buy Ben and jerry’s ice cream because they like the company. 5. It is now a very big company, but Ben and Jerry are not just big businessmen. 6. They also want to help people in many different ways. 7. They give work to lots of poor people. 8. It had lots of young people, and it did not have any good ice cream shops. 9. And every year, the company donates 7.5 percent of their money.

10. 8. Choose the alternative that will logically follow sentence #9: They started to learn about business, and they learned about expenses, marketing, and sales. Their first ice cream shop was a very small shop and it was not beautiful. People in other cities in the US learned about Ben and Jerry. By 1988, they were selling ice cream all over the United States. They give money to help children and sick people in the United States and in other countries.

11. 9. Which transitional device would you use at the beginning of sentence #4? But Also Still Because Unless

12. 10. Which sentence is irrelevant for the above paragraph? 3 5 6 8 9

13. Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in a blue back cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fire blaze. No one ever thanked him. I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking, When the rooms were warm, he’d call, and slowly I would rise and dress, Fearing the chronic angers of that house. Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold And polished my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices?

14. 11. The speaker is a: father mother child wife husband

15. 12. The main idea of the poem is that the family had a comfortable and happy home. mother was cold and distant. father was particularly sad on a Sundays. child did not have a mother. Speaker was unaware of his father’s love for him.

16. 13. In the poem, the word “offices” (line 14) means: Places where people work Daily morning prayers Sunday religious services Work or menial task Any unusual behavior

17. 14. The poem: Justifies a feeling Describes a setting Offers a reminiscence Explains an idea Prescribes an attitude

18. 15. The poem is written in: Free verse Blank verse Iambi pentameter Trochaic trimeter Spondaic trimeter

19. Read and answer the following questions. • In class discussion of this poem, one student, who knew the author was African American, said that the poem revealed the exploitation of the black people by then white majority; another read it as an expression of sadness for an unhappy childhood; a third student said that it showed how sexual stereotyping affected the family. The teacher accepted these interpretations as valid as long as the students could justify them through the text.

20. 16. Which theory of literature did the teacher follow? deconstructive affective reader-response structurist expressive

21. 17. Children’s literature is used to develop literacy because it conforms to grade-level standards provides models of nature language establishes guidelines to control difficulty focuses on discrete skills emphasizes the role of phonics

22. 18. Which of the following alternatives best represents current trends in young literature? Introduction of foul language and themes of parent/child relationship. Treatment of taboo problems such as homosexuality, rape, incest, child abuse, and sex resulting in pregnancy. Treatment of drug abuse problems, use of profanity and peer pressure. Introduction of sex-related problems, family relationships, and peer pressure. Treatment of themes such as group identification, peer pressure, developing independence, and identification with self.

23. 19. In his Variable Competence Model, Rod Ellis stipulates that the rate of acquisition in the second language depends on: inhibitions, motivation, and personality factors quality and quantity of the learner’s interactions opportunities to monitor output ways the human brain processes language conscious knowledge of the rules

24. 20. Which of the following is a Cooperative Language Learning activity? Total Physical Response Language Drills Lectures Jazz chants Jigsaw