Part I. ENGLISH PROFICIENCY a.

anxiety
TEST b. inanity
c. deity
d. virtuosity*
Directions: Read the sentences
carefully. Choose the letter of the
correct answer. Write the letter of _____6. Today, Alfred Wegener’s
your answer on the space provided theory is _______; however, he died
for. an outsider treated with ___ by the
scientific establishments.

A. SENTENCE a. unsupported: approval

COMPLETION b. dismissed: contempt
c. accepted: approbation
_____1. She is well loved by the d. unchallenged: disdain*
people for being ______________.

_____7. The revolution I art has not

a. slanderous lost its steam; it _________ on as
b. virtuous* fiercely as ever.
c. ambiguous
d. condescending
a. trudges
b. meanders
_____2. Davidlee is an c. rages*
____________ diver. He always wins d. ambles
the gold medal.

_____8. Biological clocks are of such

a. inept _____ adaptive value to living
b. efficient organisms, that we would expect
c. adroit* most organisms to _____them.
d. aggressive

a. obvious: possess*
_____3. The ____ student _____ b. ambivalent: develop
going to school. c. meager: evolve
d. significant: eschew

a. delinquent; abhors*
b. awkward; abhors _____9. The peasants were the least
c. industrious; dislikes ______ of all people, bound by
d. obedient; dislikes tradition and _____ by superstitions.

_____4. The reporter was adjudged a. conventional: encumbered

guilty of _____ for spreading false b. pinioned: limited
accusations. c. free: fettered*
d. enthralled: tied

a. calumny*
b. rebellion _____10. The conclusion of his
c. treachery argument, while _____, is far from
d. mutiny ______.

_____5. Ewan played the violin with a. germane: relevant

such _____, everyone was amazed. b. esoteric: obscure
c. stimulating: interesting C. ANTONYMS
d. abstruse: incomprehensible*
_____16. The mother has been
doleful every when she lost her son.
B. SYNONYMS
_____11. The virulent drug he had a. miserable
mistakenly taken killed him in an b. cheerful*
instant. c. prayerful
d. anxious

a. effective
b. expensive _____17. Juan Carlo acquiesced to
c. sedative his friends’ plan of going to Baguio
d. toxic* comes February.

_____12. Argentina is one of the a. agreed

world’s leading honey-exporters. It b. objected*
maintains a large apiary. c. rejoiced
d. abided

a. Place where birds are bred.

b. Place where apes are grown. _____18. John Dan’s house is full of
C. Place where bees are raised.* a motley collection of furniture,
D. Place where honey is stored. including antiques, woodcrafts and
glasswares.

_____13. Eugenio Joshua admires

his teacher’s deportment during a. diverse
class. b. attractive
c. homogenous*
d. expensive
a. demeanor*
b. speech
c. banishment _____19. Jeric Angel’s nervousness
d. intelligence was palpable despite the confident
façade he was showing.

_____14. His recommendation was

rejected because it might be inimical a. evident
to the company. b. increasing
c. decreasing
d. hidden*
a. insubstantial
b. useful
c. costly _____20. He had learned that
d. disadvantageous* everything in life is evanescent.

_____15. Marvin Jay’s supervisor a. temporary

asked him to elucidate his proposal b. permanent*
during the presentation. c. extraordinary
d. luminous

a. clarify*
b. extend D. ANALOGY
c. improve
d. shorten
_____21. ARTICULATE::SPEECH a. religious: private
b. expensive: profligate
c. conservative: stoic
a. predictable: event d. mendacious: truthful*
b. coordinated: movement
c. active: thought
d. erratic: path _____28. PENURY:: MONEY

_____22. INCEPTION:: a. starvation: sustenance

CONCLUSION b. independence: freedom*
c. infirmity: illness
d. spontaneity: care
a. departure: arrival*
b. culmination: upshot
c. approach: return _____29. MASON:: STONE
d. escapade: punishment

a. soldier: weapon
_____23. SCINTILLATING: b. lawyer: law
DULLNESS c. carpenter: wood*
d. teacher: pupil

a. erudite: wisdom
b. desultory: error _____30. REPEL:: LURE
c. boisterous: calm*
d. exalted: elevation
a. miscarry: succeed*
b. dismount: devolve
_____24. SHARD: POTTERY c. abrogate: deny
d. abridge: shorten

a. seed: flower
b. smoke: fire E. READING
c. chair: furniture*
d. mystify: enlightenment COMPREHENSION
Passage 1
_____25. PROSAIC: MUNDANE

Much of what goes by the name of

a. obdurate: foolish* pleasure is simply an effort to destroy
b. ascetic: austere consciousness. If one started by
c. loquacious: taciturn asking, what is man? What are his
d. peremptory: spontaneous needs? How can he best express
himself? One would discover that
merely having the power to avoid
_____26. ATTENUATE::SIGNAL work and live one’s life from birth to
death in electric light and to the tune
of tinned music is not a reason for
a. exacerbate: problem doing so. Man needs warmth, society,
b. modify: accent leisure, comfort and security: he also
c. dampen: enthusiasm* needs solitude, creative work and the
d. elongate: line sense of wonder. If he recognized
this he could use the products of
science and industrialism eclectically,
_____27. SALACIOUS:: applying always the same test: does
WHOLESOME this make me more human or less
human? He would then learn that the
highest happiness does not lie in
relaxing, resting, playing poker,
drinking and making love
simultaneously.
Adapted from an essay by George
Orwell
_____31. The author implies that the
answers to the questions in sentence
two would reveal that human beings
________.
a. are less human when they seek
pleasure*
b. need to evaluate their purpose in
life
c. are being alienated from their true
nature by technology
d. have needs beyond physical
comforts
_____32. The author would
apparently agree that playing poker is
_____.
a. often an effort to avoid thinking
b. something that gives true pleasure
c. an example of man’s need for
society *
d. something that man must learn to
avoid
Passage 2
Examine the recently laid egg of
some common animal, such as a
salamander or newt. It is a minute
spheroid – an apparently structure
less sac, enclosing a fluid, holding
granules in suspension. But let a
moderate supply of warmth reach its
watery cradle, and the plastic matter
undergoes changes so rapid, yet so
steady and purposeful in their
succession, that one can only
compare them to those operated by a
skilled modeler upon a formless lump
of clay. As with an invisible trowel,
the mass is divided and subdivided
into smaller and smaller portions.
And, then, it is as if a delicate finger
traced out the line to be occupied by
the spinal column, and molded the
contour of the body; pinching up the
head at one end, the tail at the other,
and fashioning flank and limb into
due proportions, in so artistic a way,
that, after watching the process hour
by hour, one is almost involuntarily
possessed by the notion, that some
more subtle aid to vision than a
microscope, would show the hidden
artist, with his plan before him,
striving with skillful manipulation to
perfect his work.
Adapted from an essay by T H Huxley
_____33. The author makes his main
point with the aid of _______.
a. logical paradox
b. complex rationalization*
c. scientific deductions
d. observations on the connection
between art and science
_____34. In the context of the final
sentence the word “subtle” most
nearly means _____.
a. not obvious
b. indirect
c. discriminating
d. surreptitious *
Passage 3
There are not many places that I find
it more agreeable to revisit when in
an idle mood, than some places to
which I have never been. For, my
acquaintance with those spots is of
such long standing, and has ripened
into an intimacy of so affectionate a
nature, that I take a particular
interesting assuring myself that they
are unchanged. I never was in
Robinson Crusoe’s Island, yet I
frequently return there. I was never in
the robbers’ cave, where Gil Blas
lived, but I often go back there and
find the trap-door just as heaven to
raise as it used to be. I was never in
Don Quixote’s study, where he read
his books of chivalry until he rose and
hacked at imaginary giants, yet you
couldn’t move a book in it without my
knowledge. So with Damascus, and
Lilliput, and the Nile, and Abyssinia,
and the North Pole and many
hundreds of places — I was never at
them, yet it is an affair of my life to
keep them intact, and I am always
going back to them.
Passage 4
The books one reads in childhood
create in one’s mind a sort of false
map of the world, a series of fabulous
countries into which one can retreat
at odd moments throughout the rest
of life, and which in some cases can
even survive a visit to the real
countries which they are supposed to
represent. The pampas, the Amazon,
the coral islands of the Pacific,
Russia, land of birch-tree and
samovar, Transylvania with its boyars
and vampires, the China of Guy
Boothby, the Paris of du Maurier—
one could continue the list for a long
time. But one other imaginary country
that I acquired early in life was called
America. If I pause on the word
“America”, and deliberately put aside
the existing reality, I can call up my
childhood vision of it.
Adapted from: The Uncommercial
Traveller, C Dickens (1860)
_____35. The first sentence of
Passage 3 contains an element of
a. paradox
b. legend
c. melancholy
d. self-deprecation*
_____36. By calling America an
“imaginary country” the author of
passage two implies that ___.
a. America has been the subject of
numerous works for children
b. his current vision of that country is
not related to reality
c. America has stimulated his
imagination
d. his childhood vision of that country
owed nothing to actual conditions*
_____37. Both passages make the
point that _____.
a. books read early in life can be
revisited in the imagination many
years later *
b. imaginary travel is better than real
journeys
c. children’s books are largely fiction
d. the effects of childhood
impressions are inescapable
_____38. Both passages list a series
of places, but differ in that the author
of passage three ___.
a. has been more influenced by his
list of locations
b. never expects to visit any of them
in real life, whereas the writer of
passage two thinks it at least
possible that he might
c. is less specific in compiling his list*
d. wishes to preserve his locations in
his mind forever, whereas the author
of passage two wishes to modify all
his visions in the light of reality.
F. IDIOMATIC
EXPRESSIONS
_____39. We are affected as much
as you are by the rising prices of
gasoline; we are all “in the same
boat”.
a. Suffering the same predicament*
b. Hindering the success
c. Empathizing with everyone on his
suffering
d. Acknowledging the suffering
_____40. The members of the public a. Being popular
are demanding for better public b. Interfering
infrastructure and more public c. overcoming the opposition
services, but at the same time they d. opposing the popular view*
are demanding for lower taxes. It is
becoming a “Catch-22 situation”.
_____45. Although Marvin Jay had
only a minor role in the play, he “stole
a. A challenging situation the thunder from” the lead actor.
b. A dilemma from which it is
impossible to escape*
c. A problem that involves a. Borrowed the role from
government efficiency b. Diverted the attention to himself
d. A condition of no great importance from*
c. succeeded in portraying
d. transformed the character of
_____41. That lady should not have
become a war correspondent. She is
a “square peg in a round hole”. _____46. I had a “heart to heart talk”
with my teacher on my plans to study
Linguistics or Microbiology at the
a. A person who has been given an university.
opportunity to change her profession.
b. A person who has no interest in
her job. a. Sentimental meeting
c. A person who takes part in every b. Superficial talk
event. c. serious discussion*
d. A person who is not suitable to her d. successful arrangement
work or surroundings*

_____47. Juan Carlo decide “to keep

_____42. “It slipped my mind” that I his peace” until he finished examining
will have with Davidlee tonight. the situation.

a. I determined, in spite of my a. Not to talk*

schedule. b. To be forthright
b. I forgot as a result of c. to be relaxed
carelessness* d. to be reserved
c. I wished.
d. I planned delicately.
_____48. The company needs a
couple of million pesos for its
_____43. The idea of expansionism expansion. It is likely that the Php
“has not taken root” in the 100 000.00 the partner has offered is
Philippines. “a drop in the ocean”.

a. Has not become popular a. Useful

b. Has not been heard b. More than enough
c. has not established itself* c. a tiny fraction of what is needed*
d. has not been monitored d. useless until the amount is
complete

_____44. Ewan Gregory does not

mind how much resistance he A. CLOZE TEST
causes; he like “sailing against the
wind”. (PART 1)
Introduction:
This is the School 49) _________ c. evolved*
Plan of the East Central Elementary d. evolve
School, San Fabian District II,
Pangasinan II Division, was
50)________________ and 52.
51)_______________ through the
concerted efforts of the teaching
52)___________ with the other a. staffs
stakeholders of education headed by b. staff*
the principal. It 53)_______________ c. staffed
the vision or educational goals which d. staffing
54)________ to uplift or improve the
school performance in terms of the
following areas of development 53.
namely the pupil, staff, curriculum
and physical facilities development
which will 55)__________ as the a. present
56)_________ for evaluating the b. presenting
performance of the school. It c. presents*
presents the school and community d. presented
profile and the expected activities of
the school.
54.

Through the 57)_________ of this

School Improvement Plan, with the a. aims*
unwavering 58)___________ of the b. aim
officers and members of the PTA as c. aimed
well as the School Governing Council d. aiming
and other stakeholders of education,
it is 59)________________ that the
goals vision and mission of the East 55.
Central Elementary School will be
60)___________.
a. serves
b. serving
49. c. servicing
d. served*

a. improving
b. improves 56.
c. improved
d. improvement*
a. basis
b. bases*
50. c. basing
d. based

a. conceptualized*
b. conceptualizes 57.
c. conceptualizing
d. conceptualize
a. implement
b. implementing
51. c. implementation*
d. implements

a. evolving
b. evolves 58.
a. support* Superintendent, Pangasinan Division
b. supporting II, Binalonan, Pangasinan,
c. supports recommending approval of this basic
d. supported communication.

59. 70)___________________________
__
DAVIDLEE DV. ROMERO JR.
a. expect Public Schools District Supervisor
b. expects
c. expecting
d. expected* 61.

60. a. ;
b. :
c. ,
a. realize d. .
b. realized*
c. realizing
d. realizes 62.

H. CLOZE TEST a. to
b. for
(PART 2) c. your
d. from*
Madam 61) _____

63.
I have the honor to request
permission 62)_______ you good
office to 63)__________ an action a. conduct*
research in Science 64)_______, b. conducts
“Enhancing the Performance of the c. conducted
Grade VI Pupils in Science and d. conducting
Health through Counteractive Lecture
“for the Grade VI pupils of Greater
Heights Elementary School for this 64.
school year 2014 – 2015.

a. entitle
Hoping for your 65)________ b. entitles
approval. c. entitled*
d. entitling

66)________________
65.

EWAN ETHAN LEE C. RIVERA

Teacher a. kind*
b. kinder
c. kindest
1st 67)___________ d. modest
68)_______________________

66.
Respectfully forwarded
69)__________ the Schools Division
a. yours,
b. sincerely yours,
c. Truly yours
d. Very truly yours,*

67.

a. indorsment
b. endorsment
c. indorsement*
d. endorsement

68.

a. With date*
b. No date
c. —–
d. —–

69.

a.to*
b. from
c. with
d. for

70.

a. Truly yours,
b. Very truly yours,
c. Sincerely yours,
d. No complementary Close*