c.

accepted: approbation
A. Sentence Completion d. unchallenged: disdain*
_____1. She is well loved by the people for
being ______________. _____7. The revolution I art has not lost its
steam; it _________ on as fiercely as ever.
a. slanderous
b. virtuous* a. trudges
c. ambiguous b. meanders
d. condescending c. rages*
d. ambles
_____2. Davidlee is an ____________ diver.
He always wins the gold medal. _____8. Biological clocks are of such _____
adaptive value to living organisms, that we
a. inept would expect most organisms to _____them.
b. efficient
c. adroit* a. obvious: possess*
d. aggressive b. ambivalent: develop
c. meager: evolve
_____3. The ____ student _____ going to d. significant: eschew
school.
_____9. The peasants were the least ______
a. delinquent; abhors* of all people, bound by tradition and _____ by
b. awkward; abhors superstitions.
c. industrious; dislikes
d. obedient; dislikes a. conventional: encumbered
b. pinioned: limited
_____4. The reporter was adjudged guilty of c. free: fettered*
_____ for spreading false accusations. d. enthralled: tied

a. calumny* _____10. The conclusion of his argument,

b. rebellion while _____, is far from ______.
c. treachery
d. mutiny a. germane: relevant
b. esoteric: obscure
_____5. Ewan played the violin with such c. stimulating: interesting
_____, everyone was amazed. d. abstruse: incomprehensible*

a. anxiety
b. inanity B. Synonyms
c. deity
_____11. The virulent drug he had mistakenly
d. virtuosity*
taken killed him in an instant.

_____6. Today, Alfred Wegener’s theory is

a. effective
_______; however, he died an outsider treated
b. expensive
with ___ by the scientific establishments.
c. sedative
d. toxic*
a. unsupported: approval
b. dismissed: contempt
_____12. Argentina is one of the world’s c. rejoiced
leading honey-exporters. It maintains a large d. abided
apiary.
_____18. John Dan’s house is full of a motley
a. Place where birds are bred. collection of furniture, including antiques,
b. Place where apes are grown. woodcrafts and glasswares.
C. Place where bees are raised.*
D. Place where honey is stored.
a. diverse
b. attractive
_____13. Eugenio Joshua admires his c. homogenous*
teacher’s deportment during class. d. expensive

a. demeanor* _____19. Jeric Angel’s nervousness was

b. speech palpable despite the confident façade he was
c. banishment showing.
d. intelligence
a. evident
_____14. His recommendation was rejected b. increasing
because it might be inimical to the company. c. decreasing
d. hidden*
a. insubstantial
b. useful _____20. He had learned that everything in
c. costly life is evanescent.
d. disadvantageous*
a. temporary
_____15. Marvin Jay’s supervisor asked him b. permanent*
to elucidate his proposal during the c. extraordinary
presentation. d. luminous

a. clarify*
b. extend D. Analogy
c. improve
d. shorten _____21. ARTICULATE::SPEECH

a. predictable: event
C. Antonyms b. coordinated: movement
c. active: thought
_____16. The mother has been doleful every d. erratic: path
when she lost her son.
_____22. INCEPTION:: CONCLUSION
a. miserable
b. cheerful*
a. departure: arrival*
c. prayerful
b. culmination: upshot
d. anxious
c. approach: return
d. escapade: punishment
_____17. Juan Carlo acquiesced to his
friends’ plan of going to Baguio comes
_____23. SCINTILLATING: DULLNESS
February.

a. agreed
b. objected*
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 having the
power to avoid 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 doing so.
Man needs warmth, society, leisure, comfort
and security: he also needs solitude, creative
work and the sense of wonder. If he
recognized this he could 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, 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 are
demanding for better public infrastructure and
more public services, but at the same time
they are demanding 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 Through the 57)_________ of this School
teacher on my plans to study Linguistics or Improvement Plan, with the unwavering
Microbiology at the university. 58)___________ of the officers and members
of the PTA as well as the School Governing
Council and other stakeholders of education,
a. Sentimental meeting
it is 59)________________ that the goals
b. Superficial talk
vision and mission of the East Central
c. serious discussion*
Elementary School will be 60)___________.
d. successful arrangement

49.
_____47. Juan Carlo decide “to keep his
peace” until he finished examining the
situation. a. improving
b. improves
c. improved
a. Not to talk*
d. improvement*
b. To be forthright
c. to be relaxed
d. to be reserved 50.

_____48. The company needs a couple of a. conceptualized*

million pesos for its expansion. It is likely that b. conceptualizes
the Php 100 000.00 the partner has offered is c. conceptualizing
“a drop in the ocean”. d. conceptualize

a. Useful 51.
b. More than enough
c. a tiny fraction of what is needed*
a. evolving
d. useless until the amount is complete
b. evolves
c. evolved*
d. evolve
A. Cloze Test (Part 1)
Introduction: 52.

This is the School 49) _________ Plan of the a. staffs

East Central Elementary School, San Fabian b. staff*
District II, Pangasinan II Division, was c. staffed
50)________________ and d. staffing
51)_______________ through the concerted
efforts of the teaching 52)___________ with 53.
the other stakeholders of education headed by
the principal. It 53)_______________ the
vision or educational goals which a. present
54)________ to uplift or improve the school b. presenting
performance in terms of the following areas of c. presents*
development namely the pupil, staff, d. presented
curriculum and physical facilities
development which will 55)__________ as 54.
the 56)_________ for evaluating the
performance of the school. It presents the
school and community profile and the a. aims*
expected activities of the school. b. aim
c. aimed
d. aiming
55. 64)_______, “Enhancing the Performance of
the Grade VI Pupils in Science and Health
through Counteractive Lecture “for the Grade
a. serves
VI pupils of Greater Heights Elementary
b. serving
School for this school year 2014 – 2015.
c. servicing
d. served*
Hoping for your 65)________ approval.
56.
66)________________
a. basis
b. bases* EWAN ETHAN LEE C. RIVERA
c. basing Teacher
d. based
1st 67)___________
57. 68)_______________________

a. implement Respectfully forwarded 69)__________ the

b. implementing Schools Division Superintendent, Pangasinan
c. implementation* Division II, Binalonan, Pangasinan,
d. implements recommending approval of this basic
communication.
58.
70)_____________________________
DAVIDLEE DV. ROMERO JR.
a. support*
Public Schools District Supervisor
b. supporting
c. supports
d. supported 61.

59. a. ;
b. :
c. ,
a. expect
d. .
b. expects
c. expecting
d. expected* 62.

60. a. to
b. for
c. your
a. realize
d. from*
b. realized*
c. realizing
d. realizes 63.

a. conduct*
H. Cloze Test (Part 2) b. conducts
c. conducted
Madam 61) _____ d. conducting

I have the honor to request permission 64.

62)_______ you good office to
63)__________ an action research in Science
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*