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General Directions: Read the items carefully OF EDUCATION
you decide on your answer. Choose the best
answer and write the letter of the correct answers. VISAYAS
REGION VI- WESTERN
DIVISION OF NEGROS OCCIDENTAL
Cottage Road, Bacolod City
DIAGNOSTIC TEST
ENGLISH GRADE 8
S.Y. 2019- 2020
General Directions: Read each item very For item nos. 14-18: Complete the analogies
carefully and write the letters of the correct 14. rook: chess::___: badminton: ____
answer. A. grass C. shuttlecock
B. tennis D. cord
1. It is a traditional story sometimes regarded as
historical but unauthenticated. 15. clock:time::thermometer: _____
A. epic C. legend A. child C. pitcher
B. folktale D. idioms B. temperature D. weather
1|P a g e ( D i v i s i o n o f N e g r o s O c c S Y 2 0 1 9 - 2 0 2 0 D I A G N O S T I C T E S T E n g l i s h G 8 )
Always believe in yourself even when it’s not easy.
22. The house was completely dark, except for the 33. He has a humorous and poetic side that
few candles that had been lit and the flashlights people would long after his company. What word is
that were being carried by Chris and I. A terrible synonymous to humorous?
A. happy C. amusing
storm was raging outside and we wondered when
B. intelligent D. unpleasant
we get power again. What has happened to the two
boys? 34. Ashley blacks out whenever she sees blood.
A. There was a black out in their house. A. She faints.
B. They took cover in an abandoned house. B. She screams
C. They were playing flashlight tag. C. She covers her face with something black so
D. They were playing in the storm. she can’t see the blood.
D. She paints whatever she was working on black.
For item nos. 23-25: Which of the following
words will complete the cline below?
35. Alex was upset because he was cut from the
team.
23. boiling
A. Alex got kicked off the team.
B. Alex cut everybody on the team.
warm C. Alex upset the members of the team.
D. Alex got a cut while playing for his team.
A. burning C. mild
B. hot D. sizzling
For item nos. 36-40: Use appropriate
imperatives and prepositions to complete the
following statements.
24. tiny
36. _____ the food inside the refrigerator.
microscopic A. Keep C. Fold
B. Clean D. Discuss
A. small C. gigantic
B. huge D. big
37. Students are asked to ____ pieces of paper
after the flag ceremony.
A. pick out C. pick up
25. brilliant
B. look out D. keep off
3|P a g e ( D i v i s i o n o f N e g r o s O c c S Y 2 0 1 9 - 2 0 2 0 D I A G N O S T I C T E S T E n g l i s h G 8 )
Always believe in yourself even when it’s not easy.