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Hoping to be a part of DepEd? Then you will have to undergo screenings,

interviews and of course a test! THE ENGLISH PROFICIENCY TEST (EPT).

An English Proficiency Test (EPT) shall be administered to teacher applicant

s by the Bureau of Education Assessment (BEA). The respective Division Te
sting Coordinators shall coordinate with BEA regarding the conduct and sc
hedule of the exam in their division, which should be within February to
march.

DEPED ORDER NO. 7, S. 2015 (HIRING G

UIDELINES FOR TEACHER I POSITIONS)

The total percentage score obtained by an applicant shall be multiplie d by

the weight of fifteen (15) points, as follows:
Percentage Score = 98% or .098
Weighted Points = 15
Rating – .98 x 15 = 14.7 points

The Schools Division Office will set the date for the 2019 English Proficienc
y Test (EPT) to be taken by all Teacher applicants as one of the compone
nts measured.

Part I. ENGLISH PROFICIENCY TEST

Directions: Read the sentences carefully. Choose the letter of the correct a
nswer. Write the letter of your answer on the space provided for.

A. SENTENCE COMPLETION

_____1. She is well loved by the people for being ______________.

a. slanderous
b. virtuous*
c. ambiguous
d. condescending

_____2. Davidlee is an ____________ diver. He always wins the gold medal.

a. inept
b. efficient
c. adroit*
d. aggressive
_____3. The ____ student _____ going to school.

a. delinquent; abhors*
b. awkward; abhors
c. industrious; dislikes
d. obedient; dislikes

_____4. The reporter was adjudged guilty of _____ for spreading false accus
ations.

a. calumny*
b. rebellion
c. treachery
d. mutiny

_____5. Ewan played the violin with such _____, everyone was amazed.

a. anxiety
b. inanity
c. deity
d. virtuosity*

_____6. Today, Alfred Wegener’s theory is _______; however, he died an out

sider treated with ___ by the scientific establishments.

a. unsupported: approval
b. dismissed: contempt
c. accepted: approbation
d. unchallenged: disdain*

_____7. The revolution I art has not lost its steam; it _________ on as fiercel
y as ever.

a. trudges
b. meanders
c. rages*
d. ambles

_____8. Biological clocks are of such _____ adaptive value to living organism
s, that we would expect most organisms to _____them.

a. obvious: possess*
b. ambivalent: develop
c. meager: evolve
d. significant: eschew

_____9. The peasants were the least ______ of all people, bound by traditio
n and _____ by superstitions.

a. conventional: encumbered
b. pinioned: limited
c. free: fettered*
d. enthralled: tied

_____10. The conclusion of his argument, while _____, is far from ______.
a. germane: relevant
b. esoteric: obscure
c. stimulating: interesting
d. abstruse: incomprehensible*

B. SYNONYMS

_____11. The virulent drug he had mistakenly taken killed him in an instant.

a. effective
b. expensive
c. sedative
d. toxic*

_____12. Argentina is one of the world’s leading honey-exporters. It maintai

ns a large apiary.

a. Place where birds are bred.

b. Place where apes are grown.
C. Place where bees are raised.*
D. Place where honey is stored.

_____13. Eugenio Joshua admires his teacher’s deportment during class.

a. demeanor*
b. speech
c. banishment
d. intelligence
_____14. His recommendation was rejected because it might be inimical to t
he company.

a. insubstantial
b. useful
c. costly
d. disadvantageous*

_____15. Marvin Jay’s supervisor asked him to elucidate his proposal during
the presentation.

a. clarify*
b. extend
c. improve
d. shorten

C. ANTONYMS

_____16. The mother has been doleful every when she lost her son.

a. miserable
b. cheerful*
c. prayerful
d. anxious

_____17. Juan Carlo acquiesced to his friends’ plan of going to Baguio com
es February.
a. agreed
b. objected*
c. rejoiced
d. abided

_____18. John Dan’s house is full of a motley collection of furniture, includi

ng antiques, woodcrafts and glasswares.

a. diverse
b. attractive
c. homogenous*
d. expensive

_____19. Jeric Angel’s nervousness was palpable despite the confident façad
e he was showing.

a. evident
b. increasing
c. decreasing
d. hidden*

_____20. He had learned that everything in life is evanescent.

a. temporary
b. permanent*
c. extraordinary
d. luminous
D. ANALOGY

_____21. ARTICULATE::SPEECH

a. predictable: event
b. coordinated: movement
c. active: thought
d. erratic: path

_____22. INCEPTION:: CONCLUSION

a. departure: arrival*
b. culmination: upshot
c. approach: return
d. escapade: punishment

_____23. SCINTILLATING: DULLNESS

a. erudite: wisdom
b. desultory: error
c. boisterous: calm*
d. exalted: elevation

_____24. SHARD: POTTERY

a. seed: flower
b. smoke: fire
c. chair: furniture*
d. mystify: enlightenment
_____25. PROSAIC: MUNDANE

a. obdurate: foolish*
b. ascetic: austere
c. loquacious: taciturn
d. peremptory: spontaneous

_____26. ATTENUATE::SIGNAL

a. exacerbate: problem
b. modify: accent
c. dampen: enthusiasm*
d. elongate: line

_____27. SALACIOUS:: WHOLESOME

a. religious: private
b. expensive: profligate
c. conservative: stoic
d. mendacious: truthful*

_____28. PENURY:: MONEY

a. starvation: sustenance
b. independence: freedom*
c. infirmity: illness
d. spontaneity: care
_____29. MASON:: STONE

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

_____30. REPEL:: LURE

a. miscarry: succeed*
b. dismount: devolve
c. abrogate: deny
d. abridge: shorten

E. READING COMPREHENSION

Passage 1

Much of what goes by the name of pleasure is simply an effort to destroy

consciousness. If one started by asking, what is man? What are his needs
? How can he best express himself? One would discover that merely havin
g the power to avoid work and live one’s life from birth to death in elect
ric light and to the tune of tinned music is not a reason for doing so. M
an needs warmth, society, leisure, comfort and security: he also needs solit
ude, creative work and the sense of wonder. If he recognized this he coul
d use the products of science and industrialism eclectically, applying always
the same test: does this make me more human or less human? He would
then learn that the highest happiness does not lie in relaxing, resting, pla
ying 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 t
wo 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 salaman
der or newt. It is a minute spheroid – an apparently structure less sac, en
closing a fluid, holding granules in suspension. But let a moderate supply
of warmth reach its watery cradle, and the plastic matter undergoes chang
es 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 forml
ess lump of clay. As with an invisible trowel, the mass is divided and subd
ivided into smaller and smaller portions. And, then, it is as if a delicate fin
ger 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 th e
 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 involunt
arily possessed by the notion, that some more subtle aid to vision than a
microscope, would show the hidden artist, with his plan before him, strivin
g 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 ac
quaintance 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, wh
ere 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, wh
ere he read his books of chivalry until he rose and hacked at imaginary gi
ants, 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 an
d 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 ma
p of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat a
t 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 repre
sent. The pampas, the Amazon, the coral islands of the Pacific, Russia, lan
d of birch-tree and samovar, Transylvania with its boyars and vampires, th
e 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 deliberat
ely 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 t

wo 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 pa
ssage 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 gasoli
ne; 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 are demanding for better public infras
tructure and more public services, but at the same time they are demandi
ng for lower taxes. It is becoming a “Catch-22 situation”.

a. A challenging situation
b. A dilemma from which it is impossible to escape*
c. A problem that involves government efficiency
d. A condition of no great importance

_____41. That lady should not have become a war correspondent. She is a
“square peg in a round hole”.

a. A person who has been given an opportunity to change her profession.

b. A person who has no interest in her job.
c. A person who takes part in every event.
d. A person who is not suitable to her work or surroundings*
_____42. “It slipped my mind” that I will have with Davidlee tonight.

a. I determined, in spite of my schedule.

b. I forgot as a result of carelessness*
c. I wished.
d. I planned delicately.

_____43. The idea of expansionism “has not taken root” in the Philippines.

a. Has not become popular

b. Has not been heard
c. has not established itself*
d. has not been monitored

_____44. Ewan Gregory does not mind how much resistance he causes; he
like “sailing against the wind”.

a. Being popular
b. Interfering
c. overcoming the opposition
d. opposing the popular view*

_____45. Although Marvin Jay had only a minor role in the play, he “stole
the thunder from” the lead actor.

a. Borrowed the role from

b. Diverted the attention to himself from*
c. succeeded in portraying
d. transformed the character of

_____46. I had a “heart to heart talk” with my teacher on my plans to stu

dy Linguistics or Microbiology at the university.

a. Sentimental meeting
b. Superficial talk
c. serious discussion*
d. successful arrangement

_____47. Juan Carlo decide “to keep his peace” until he finished examining
the situation.

a. Not to talk*
b. To be forthright
c. to be relaxed
d. to be reserved

_____48. The company needs a couple of million pesos for its expansion. It
is likely that the Php 100 000.00 the partner has offered is “a drop in th
e ocean”.

a. Useful
b. More than enough
c. a tiny fraction of what is needed*
d. useless until the amount is complete
A. CLOZE TEST (PART 1)

Introduction:

This is the School 49) _________ Plan of the East Central Elementary School,
San Fabian District II, Pangasinan II Division, was 50)________________ and 5
1)_______________ through the concerted efforts of the teaching 52)__________
_ with the other stakeholders of education headed by the principal. It 53)_
______________ the vision or educational goals which 54)________ to uplift or
improve the school performance in terms of the following areas of develop
ment namely the pupil, staff, curriculum and physical facilities development
which will 55)__________ as the 56)_________ for evaluating the performance
of the school. It presents the school and community profile and th e expec
ted activities of the school.

Through the 57)_________ of this School Improvement Plan, with the unwav
ering 58)___________ of the officers and members of the PTA as well as the
School Governing Council and other stakeholders of education, it is 59)_ __
_____________ that the goals vision and mission of the East Central Element
ary School will be 60)___________.

49.

a. improving
b. improves
c. improved
d. improvement*

50.
a. conceptualized*
b. conceptualizes
c. conceptualizing
d. conceptualize

51.

a. evolving
b. evolves
c. evolved*
d. evolve

52.

a. staffs
b. staff*
c. staffed
d. staffing

53.

a. present
b. presenting
c. presents*
d. presented

54.
a. aims*
b. aim
c. aimed
d. aiming

55.

a. serves
b. serving
c. servicing
d. served*

56.

a. basis
b. bases*
c. basing
d. based

57.

a. implement
b. implementing
c. implementation*
d. implements

58.
a. support*
b. supporting
c. supports
d. supported

59.

a. expect
b. expects
c. expecting
d. expected*

60.

a. realize
b. realized*
c. realizing
d. realizes

H. CLOZE TEST (PART 2)

Madam 61) _____

I have the honor to request permission 62)_______ you good office to 63)_
_________ an action research in Science 64)_______, “Enhancing the Performa
nce of the Grade VI Pupils in Science and Health through Counteractive Le
cture “for the Grade VI pupils of Greater Heights Elementary School for thi
s school year 2014 – 2015.
Hoping for your 65)________ approval.

66)________________

EWAN ETHAN LEE C. RIVERA

Teacher

1st 67)___________
68)_______________________

Respectfully forwarded 69)__________ the Schools Division Superintendent, Pa

ngasinan Division II, Binalonan, Pangasinan, recommending approval of this
basic communication.

70)_____________________________
DAVIDLEE DV. ROMERO JR.
Public Schools District Supervisor

61.

a. ;
b. :
c. ,
d. .

62.
a. to
b. for
c. your
d. from*

63.

a. conduct*
b. conducts
c. conducted
d. conducting

64.

a. entitle
b. entitles
c. entitled*
d. entitling

65.

a. kind*
b. kinder
c. kindest
d. modest

66.
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*