English Proficiency Test (EPT)

A. Structure
DIRECTIONS: This subset measures your ability to recognize language that is appropriate for standard
written English.
Items 1 – 15 are incomplete sentences. Beneath each sentence, you will see four words or phrases marked A,
B, C, and D. choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence, then shade the letter corresponding
to your answer in the Answer Sheet.

1. The enterprising daughter who __________ a vast fortune from her super rich and powerful father is going to
Europe to venture into other business deals.
A. Inherit
B. inherited
C. is inheriting
D. was inherited

2. Helium, a new element in the sun, is the ash left __________ atoms of hydrogen are fused in the furnace of
the sun.
A. While
B. unless
C. when
D. Until

3. To everybody’s surprise, the captain, looking __________, arrived there ahead of all the rest.
A. His best
B. at his best
C. in his best
D. for his best

4. People __________ Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) damage were not necessarily those who had smoked the
longest but those who began smoking at a young age.
A. Of worst
B. of worse
C. within the worse
D. within the worst

5. The primordial purpose __________ schooling is ultimately to learn how to learn.

A. In
B. for
C. of
D. At

6. Before the seeds germinated, I did not know what kind of plants they __________.
A. Will be
B. would be
C. can be
D. could be
7. In April 1906, an earthquake never before equalled in violence __________ a part of the United States,
particularly San Francisco, California.
A. Striked
B. stroke
C. strikes
D. Struck

8. Ballooning revenue collections, mushrooming infrastructures and expanding transportation and

communication facilities conspicuously manifest the __________ of the city.
A. Speedily growing economy
B. Speedy economic growing
C. speedy growing economic
D. growing economic speed

9. The latest addition to the year – round regional cultural showcase is the new, state-of-the-art light and
sound museum which __________ the country’s past and its present.
A. Exhibit
B. exhibits
C. exhibited
D. is exhibiting

10. Oral rehydration __________ attempted to replace lost body fluids in the early stages of fever.
A. Is
B. would be
C. was
D. has been

11. It __________ be gleaned from the article that mass media have both positive and negative influence to
society.
A. Would
B. could
C. must
D. Might

12. Of all the sports that __________ strong bodies, swimming is the best.
A. Develops
B. developed
C. develop
D. is developing

13. The legalization of divorce, until such time, has been __________ in our society.
A. A hotly-contested issues
B. A hotly-contesting issue
C. the hot contested issue
D. the hot contesting issue

14. A website is limited __________ you to other websites where you can access for more information and
discoveries.
A. until it is linking
B. because it links
C. since it linked
D. while it link

15. The happy children, __________, paraded in the busy streets in celebration of their school foundation.
A. Majestic costumes
B. majestic costumed
C. majestically costumes
D. majestically costumed