DRILL for

English Proficiency Test (EPT)

Batch May 2022

Written Structure
(15 items in actual EPT)
1. Robert pleaded ___ his teacher to ask and give him a chance.
a. with
b. to
c. both
d. in

2. Foods rich in folate, a form of vitamin B __________ reduce the risk of stroke and heart disease.
a. help
b. helps
c. helped
d. is helping

3. A website is unlimited ___________ you to other website where you can access for more information and
discoveries.
a. because it is links
b. because it linked
c. can link
d. can linked

4. Filipinos are fortunate _____ the country has natural resources.

a. because
b. hence
c. when
d. despite

5. Over the years, economic growth __________of greater concern than environmental preservation.
a. have been
b. has been
c. had been
d. have become

6. _____ and rapid economic growth in recent years have put a large and increasing stress on the water
resources and environment in Ho Chi Mint City of Vietnam.
a. Increase population
b. Increased population
c. Increasing population
d. Having increased population

7. A history of depression, denial, injustice and abuse _______ the greatest detriment to people of color.
a. has been
b. have been
c. have been
d. having been

8. The legalization of RH bill, until such time, has been ________ in our society.
a. a hot contesting issue
b. a hot contesting issued
c. a hot contested issue
d. a hot contesting issue

9. Exercising can be done ____ doing activities.

a. to
b. by
c. in
d. into
10. ________ a book is her past time.
a. Browse
b. Browsing
c. Browse of
d. Browsing into

11. Either of the twins_____ going to the beach.

a. has
b. are
c. is
d. were

12. Leni _________out against the President Duterte’s drug war, which saw the killings of suspected drug
dealers in the slums of Manila.
a. have spoke
b. have spoken
c. has spoke
d. has spoken

13. _______ amateur basketball player…..

a. 6 - feet
b. 6 feet
c. 6 foot
d. 6 - foot

14. _______ should help you be better informed about potential risks, but it should not be a source of alarm.
a. Know your family history
b. Knowing your family history
c. To have your family history known
d. Having your family history known

15. You _____ to stop drinking alcohol now before it ______ you.
a. must - kill
b. should - kills
c. have - kills
d. shall kill

16. The child who caught cheating ______ the teacher not to tell his parents about the incidents.
a. implored
b. implore
c. implores
d. Have implored

17. The fireman _______ the fire last night.

a. tries to control
b. tried to controls
c. tried to control
d. to visit

Written Expression
(25 items in actual EPT)
1. A. Public polls have consistently
B. demonstrated the public willingness
C. economic growth
D. for environment protection.

2. A. Remembering a person's name

B. required us to retrieve first
C. our useful memory of the person and then
D. our memory.
3. A. Outside of written records
B. evidences of Philistines existence
C. have survived
D. in pottery relics.

4. A. In many cities around the world

B. the number of homeless people
C. have become
D. a big problem.

5. A. The man
B. gives antidote so powerful
C. that any poison was made harmless
D. after taking it.

6. A. Finance statement
B. are formal reports
C. prepared
D. by accountants.

7. A. The tale that was

B. told in a low and mystery voice
C. kept us on the
D. edge of seats.

8. A. The Gleaning Network,

B. an organizer in the United Kingdom
C. is trying to reduce waste
D. and solve farming problem.

9. A. In 1964,
B. the African countries of Tanganyaki and Zanziban
C. has united to from
D. a single country, now called Tanzania.

10. A. As a mode of expository writing

B. the narrated writing offers writers
C. a chance to think and write
D. about themselves.

11. A. The obligation of the accountant to the client

B. rested upon the agreed scope
C. of the engagement which
D. in effect represents a contractual agreement.

12. A. Many medications are safe and effective when taken alone
B. and ineffective or counterproductive
C. when taken in combination
D. when something else.

13. A. Money is not natural reward of love

B. That is why we called man mercenary
C. if he marries a woman
D. for the sake of her money.

14. A. A team led by the government agency concerned

B. say that chemicals from the factory
C. had contaminated sediments in the bay
D. and entered the food chain.
15. A. You are not always in control
B. of what goes in your mind,
C. because only you can determine
D. what stays there.

16. A. Peace and prosperity

B. can be achieved
C. if we have respectable armed forces
D. and a sensible economic development.

17. A. The tale was

B. told in a low and mystery voice
C. kept us on the
D. edge of our seats.

18. A. Keeping our problems unlocked within us

B. Only serve to isolate us from people
C. who cares about us
D. who want to comfort us.

19. A. You should make sure

B. your body has get
C. the necessary vitamins and minerals
D. human need.

20. A. It is often said that

B. lightning never strike twice
C. in the same place
D. but this isn’t true.

21. A. I bought some

B. silver charming Victorian
C. ornaments
D. at the flea market.

22. A. Researchers are learning to detect changes

B. beyond the huge population
C. bacteria, viruses, yeast cells and other microbes
D. that thrive in the mouth.

23. A. Sit cramped

B. for a very long period of time
C. in dry conditions
D. can affect our circulatory system.

24. A. The Philippines

B. has accommodations
C. to suit everyone
D. from five-star hotels to simple hotels.

25. A. To skip meal

B. maximizes
C. the caloric effect
D. of the food we eat.

26. A. The navy contributes

B. to the protection of the environment and preservation of natural resources
C. by scuttle out cylindrical blocks
D. to serve as artificial reefs.
27. A. Unclean water and improper disposal of waste
B. can be carried highly communicate diseases
C. because of their injurious effects
D. to human life.

28. A. Since the time the World Wide Fund for nature reported
B. that more than 22 species of wild felines have declining
C. different non-government agencies have given their support
D. to the program that would protect the species.

29. A. Almost everything

B. …………………
C. ………………… ( letter c possible answer )
D. …………………

30. A. Carrying a burden is our choice (carrying dapat)

B. …………………
C. …………………
D. …………………

31. A. Short-term
B. …………………
C. ………………… ( letter c possible answer )
D. …………………

32. Vitamin C inhibit (inhibits dapat kaya ito yung pipiliin na may error po)

Reading Comprehension
(50 items in actual EPT)

Passage: Cat
A cat is a precision instrument - a perfectly engineered machine, design for stealth, capture and self-
defense. It has padded feet that make no sound and muscles of enormous power and bulk for its size. Its
bones are attached at energy efficient angles that create a system of springs and levers perfect for bounding,
leaping and climbing.

Its claws are sharper than those of any other mammal and can be withdrawn under sheath-like pads
where they escape injury and wear. No teach are better suited for hunting than those of the cat great canines
for tearing and scissor - like premolars for shearing off bits of flesh small enough to swallow.

In the cat's eye, the colored fiber of the iris respond immediately to light changes to permit
exactness of vision in all light conditions. In the darkness of night, the iris contracts to widen the pupil and
admit any trace of available light. In the blinding light of midday, the iris expands and the pupil shuts down
to a thin vertical slit. Except in white cats with blue eyes, a cats hearing is extremely acute. Each ear has
twenty-seven muscles that allow the cat to rotate the ear in all directions, to collect sound. The cat's
reaction to sudden movement or noise is so swift that it can usually escape threatening danger and the little
quarry passes unharmed!

Questions:
1. The word "quarry "are use in the last paragraph means _______ .
a. Hurried
b. Target
c. hunter
d. Victim

2. Cats have acute hearing except the white cats with blue eyes which do not _______.
a. hear well
b. hunt well
c. see well
d. eat well

3. The sentence "The cat is a precision instrument" is a_______.

a. hyperbole
b. metaphor
C. simile
d. irony

4. The selection is mainly about _______________.

a. how cats differ from the dogs
b. how the cat is like a mammal
c. the cat as a hunting machine
d. the cat as a house bet

5. We can conclude from the selection that the cat is an animal which can
a. do a lot of tricks
b. be domesticated
c. be very dangerous
d. survive on its own

Passage: Poverty
Studies have consistently pointed to at least three major immediate factors that push children to stay
or live on the streets. These are the poverty of family, family relationship (physical or sexual abuse) and
peer influence. Poverty and peer influence when compounded with problems and stresses in the family life
such ass family break-up, child abuses and neglect, domestic violence by step-parents, under employed
parents, etc. altogether create under pressure on the child to leave home and find solace, protection, and
support from the peers on the street, eventually becoming susceptible to their influence and lifestyle.

In Metro Manila, population growth, urbanize, and migration have increased through the years.
Children are often forced try circumstances to help their family eke out of living or tend for themselves on
the streets. Most of them are children of poor parents who migrated from rural areas in the hope of finding
better job opportunities in the city, but whose lack of education rendered them ill-equipped to struggle for
survival in the urban jungle and are thus curtained to a life of object poverty. For the street children, life on
the street is constant struggle to overcome the various negative comments that threaten to overtake them
and destroy their hopes for survival. They work under the heat of the sun or in the dark of the night from 6-
10 hours, seven days a week to survive.

Questions:

1. To "eke of living" means ______.

a. To earn income
b. To live with other
c. To stay in the street
d. To work in the street
2. Based on the selection, what values seem to be missing in the families of street children?
a. Loyalty
b. Honesty
c. Kindness
d. Solidarity

3. What is the most important factor that will equip rural people to survive in the city?
a. Money
b. Education
c. Kindness
d. home

4. This selection is simple about ____________.

a. Providing homes for the poor
b. Helping street children get an education
c. Factors why children live in the streets
d. How to lessen pressure on the family

5. Based on the last, we can conclude that street children are.

a. Independent
b. Malnourished
c. Helpless persons
d. Victims of poverty

Passage: Light/Social Changes

In the light of social changes, we come to the question: What qualities should distinguish the
educated Filipino today? I venture to suggest that the educated Filipino should first be distinguished by the
power to do.
The oriental excels in reflective thinking he is a philosopher. The Occidental is a doer; he manages
things, men and affairs. The Filipino of today needs more of this power to translate reflection into action.
I believe that we are coming more to this power to. We are coming more likely to the conviction
that no Filipino has the right to be considered educated unless he is prepared to take an active and useful
part in the work, life, and progress of our country as well as in the
progress of the world.

Questions:

1. What is the best paraphrase of the last paragraph in the passage?

a. Participation in the work and progress of our country is sought by every Filipino.
b. The country's progress and advancement depend primarily on educated Filipino.
c. A truly educated Filipino participates actively in the work and progress of the country and the world as a whole.
d. To be considered educated, one has to be globally competitive and willing to take risks.

2. As used in the selection, what does word "conviction" mean?

a. intellectual guess
b. strong belief
c. verdict
d. allegiance
3. What trait is found in most Orientals but needs to be deepened in Filipino?
a. action oriented
b. patience
C. good in managing
d. reflective thinker

4. What is meant by this line? "The oriental is a philosopher"

a. Oriental people are contemplative.
b. Oriental people have the blood of great philosophers.
c. They have a tendency to become philosophers.
d. They think like Great Solomon.

5. What value is implied in the same passage above?

a. Justice
b. Courage
c. Hyperactivity
d. active involvement

Passage: Invention of Camera

Invention enhance people's lives. Inventions are improvements of previous discoveries. With
technology, inventions are easier to complete. Are such invention is the camera. The invention of camera
gave way to the first underwater camera in 1965. It was placed in a tightly sealed container was
underwater, the container broke before many pictures were taken. It was in the 1980's that's a camera was
made which is able to go deep underwater with ought being damaged. Less than twenty years later,
technology allowed underwater cameras to take photographs in color to go even deeper into the water.
“With better technology, an invention will never stay stagnant”.

Questions:

1. What can we infer from the selection?

a. Someone had the idea to invent something useful.
b. The invention of the technology has completely changed our world.
c. Many people are grateful for the invention of new technology.
d. Man is constantly in search of new inventions.

2. What is the main idea expressed in the selection?

a. To seek comfort is man’s goal in life.
b. To replaced old things by new ones.
c. To made a big difference in man's life.
d. To changed the world.

3. What we can conclude about inventions in the selection?

a. Inventions made people’s live easier.
b. Inventions changed how people see.
c. Inventions improve people’s live.
d. Inventions were invented in the twentieth century.

4. What figure of speech in the last line in the selection?

“With better technology, an invention will never stay stagnant”.
a. Irony
b. Personification
c. Metaphor
d. Oxymoron

5. What is the value presented in the selection?

a. Ingenuity
b. Creativity
c. Adventurous
d. Ineptness

5. Which of the following invention in the passage that were invented in 1980?
a. Computer
b. Bicycle
c. Camera
d. Light bulb

Passage: Pasta Crisis

A world without pasta seems inconceivable. Macaroni and cheese loving children across The US
would howl in protest; Italy might suffer a heart attack; social unrest could explode in China where noodles
are the main staple. But if humans want to keep eating pasta, we will have to take much more aggressive
action against global warming. Pasta is made from wheat, and a large growing body of scientific studies
and real-world observations suggest what wheat will be hit especially hard as temperatures rise and storms
and drought intensify in the years ahead.
Three grains- wheat, corn and rice account for most of the food that humans consume. All these are
already suffering from climate change, but wheat stands to fare the worst in the years ahead, for it is the
grain most vulnerable to high temperatures. That spells trouble not only for pasta but also for bread, the
most basic food of all.
International agricultural research centers and the private sector have woken up to the fact that
higher temperatures are almost inevitable, and they have very little in their genetic toolbox to deal with
them.

Questions:

1. The meaning of inconceivable in the first sentence of the passage must be_______.
a. Not imaginable
b. Cannot happen
c. Unable to conceive
d. No possibility
2. The passage emphasizes an alarming future scenario because __.
a. Humans will take more aggressive action against global warming.
b. China, where noodles are the main staple, could have social unrest.
c. Macaroni and cheese loving children across the US would protest.
d. Three significant grains, especially wheat may be lost to humans.

3. This passage entitled Pasta Crisis points out with urgency that
a. Higher temperatures are almost inevitable.
b. Three grains are already suffering from climate change.
c. More aggressive action against global warming is needed.
d. Drought will intensify in the coming years.

4. Another way of expressing the idea in the sentence" it is the grain most vulnerable to high temperatures" is it
is the grain ____________.
a. Most affected under intense heat
b. Likely to flourish when it gets warm
c. Strongly at risk in temperate areas
d. Inclined to wither if it gets very hot

5. The idea in the passage is develop using a ____.

a. Narration
b. Exposition
c. Description
d. Illustration

Passage: The Imaginative Power of Drama/Theater

The art generally depends on ridiculous region, but the theater is most ridiculous od all imagine,
asking us to pretend that we are in Bangkok after the fall of Saigon and that tea is a Vietnamese bar girl
who kill herself because she believes that suicide is the only solution her problems.

More than that engaged asking us to believe that all other characters in the play talk to each other by
singing. The theater is a lily that inexplicably asset from a single weedy falsities, yet it is precisely from the
tension produced by absurdity that theater is able to create each poetry, power enhancement, and truth.

Questions:

1. What is the best title of the selection?

a. Marvelous Singing Voices
b. The Imaginative Power of Drama
c. The Absurdity of Fiction
d. The Production of musical Plays

2. Based from the excerpts, the author believes that all the statement are true, except?
a. Theater is based on absurdities.
b. The character in musical plays converse by singing.
c. Theater teaches us that suicide is the only solution to the problem.
d. Theater creates poetry, power enhancement, and truth.

3. The word ABSURDITY means?

a. Fiction
b. Falsehood
c. Predictability
d. Foolishness

4. Which of the following can be conducted about theater from the selection?
a. It has different themes
b. It is the most ridiculous of all the arts
c. It is able to create poetry, power enhancement, and truth
d. It is fictional representation of life

5. The author's attitude towards unreal situations in the drama is one of

a. Appreciation
b. Anger
c. Disapproval
d. Worry

6. The word INEXPLICABLY means

a. Cannot be expected
b. Cannot be predicted
c. Cannot be explained
d. Cannot be anticipated

7. The phrase "jungle of weedy falsities" contains

a. Personification
b. A simile
c. A metaphor
d. A hyperbole

Passage: Drug Addiction

Drug addiction is a brain disorder involving a compulsive use of drugs in spite of its detrimental
consequences. It ruins the individual and the safety in manifold way- socially, physically, culturally,
emotionally and economically. Acting on the brain, the drug spawns a wide range of disorder like fear,
anxiety and sense of insecurity in the human mind. There are certain drug like nicotine, cocaine and
caffeine that stimulate the brain and the nervous system resulting in increased alertness and response.
Addiction to such drugs causes a severe loss of appetite and weight, constipation, increased anxiety, and
withdrawal of hypnotic drugs might lead to epileptic seizures and delirium. When a man starts drug
addiction, he becomes addicted to it forever and goes on increasing its dose.

In the first phase of drugs addiction his brain cells become irritated and his faculties of rationally,
judgement, observation and attention get blunted, and he became the victim of subclinical stage. In the
second phase, the addict feels as if he is not aware of his own self and such and psychic trauma leads him to
the drug condition of situation. In the third phase, as the victim increases the dosage and frequency, he
loses his physical balance and muscular coordination. The addict is now prisoner of confusion and is fast
digging his own grave.

Questions:

1. We can infer from the first sentence?

Answer: Not all has been written on the subject of addiction has added to our understanding.

2. The author of second passage implies that he thinks the term “dependence” in the context of drugs ?
 Answer: Has not always been the preferred term.

3. What is the effect of drugs?

Answer: Can destroy life.

4. Key answer: It’s all about awareness

5. Key answer: last paragraph doesn’t talk about health effect of benefits

6. Key answer: on the subject on the addiction has added to our understanding

Passage: Youth

Youth is not a time of life: It is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple
knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the deep springs of life. Youth
means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidly of the appetite, for the adventure over the
love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old by deserting our
ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the souls. Worry, fear, self-distrust
bows the heart and turns the spirits back to dust. Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart to
lure of wonder, the unfailing childlike appetite of what's next and the joy of your heart and my heart there
is a wireless station: so long as it receives message of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men
and from the infinite, so long are you young.
When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snow of cynicism and the ice of
pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of
optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.

Questions:

1. What kind of passage is this?

a. Narrative
b. Descriptive
c. Informative
d. Editorial

2. The most appropriate title for this selection is __________.

a. On growing old
b. On being young
c. Young and old
d. You can be young

3. How would you describe the author as the describes the young generation?
a. Assertive
b. Inquisitive
c. Informative
d. Provocative

4. According to the selection, which of the following is not a characteristic of youth?

a. Rosy cheek
b. Imaginative
c. Adventurous
 d. Timidity

5. According to the author, one has grown old if _______________.

a. He has lost the desire to improve himself.
b. He indulges in hazardous himself.
c. He has reached the age of 70.
d. His child have set up their own families.

6. The selection tells us that youth is based on one’s _____________.

a. Physical appearance
b. Status in life
c. Charm and glamour
d. View about life

8. According to the selection, we can infer that it is a ____________.

a. Narration
b. Description
c. Essay
d. Argument

10. We can infer that the message of the passage is about ___________.
a. courage
b. enthusiasm
c. kindness
d. goodness

11. Conclusion on the passage ____________________.

a. Young of hope
b. Young and Age
c. Young of time
d. Young and old

12. “Predominance” means ________________.

a. Lack of action
b. Creative active action
c. Strongest element
d. Not strong enough

13. According to the selection, we can infer that “youth” is ______________.

a. Youth is a state of mind
b. Youth is not the time
 Passage: Introduction of Poetry

I ask them to make a poem,

And hold it up to the light
Like a color slide.
Or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem,
And watch his probe his way out,
Or walk inside the poem's room,
And feel the wall for a light switch.
I want them to waterski
Across the surface of the poem
Waving at the author's name on the shore.
But all they want to do is tie the poem
To the chair with rope
And torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose.

Questions:

1. What does the stanza 3, 4, and 5 shown?

Answer: Image

2. Who are Them and They refer to?

Answer: Students of poetry

3. Hold them up to light like a color slide

Press an ear against its hive
Answer: Senses

4. What does the author trying to convey out the passage?

Answer: Enjoy and Realized

Passage: Palawan

Unique to Palawan is its mega diversity. For a long time, only the many ethnic communities that
thrive in these islands and a few other daring settlers who wanted to live in unpolluted surroundings know.
Palawan's bountiful resources, abundant wildlife and extraordinary natural beauty.
The island province first attracted foreign attention in the 1970's when became a United Nation
Vietnamese Refugee Center. At this time, the disturbance in Kenya also saw the transport of endangered
animals from its savannas to the pains of Calauit island.
However, it was only a sea accident in 1979 that eventually led to the opening of Palawan into
major tourist attraction. According to a story, a tuna line disabled a dive boats propeller in the middle of the
night forcing it to drop anchor in an inlet. The following morning, the divers woke up with amazing
scenery of skyscraping dark cliff.

Questions:

1. When did Palawan attracted foreign attention?

a. A disturbance in Kenya also saw the transport of endangered animals.
b. Divers woke up with amazing scenery of sky craping dark cliff.
c. It became a United Nation Vietnamese Regional Center.
d. A tuna line disabled a dive boat’s propeller in the middle of the night.
2. What does the word “diversity” means?
a. Variety
b. Equality
c. Similarity
d. Distinction

3. Which could be an appropriate title of the selection?

a. Palawan
b. Palawan and its extraordinary natural beauty
c. El Nido in 1970’s
d. The discovery of El Nido

4. It can be concluded from the selection that _________.

a. El Nido is a tourist spot
b. El Nido is a popular place
c. El Nido was discovered by a diver
d. El Nido has its amazing natural beauty

Passage: Homer (Iliad and Odyssey)

The views and beliefs of societies are often portrayed in the literature, art, and cinema of a certain
era. The Iliad and Odyssey give scholars and historians an idea how the Ancient Greek lived their everyday
lives. The Iliad and Odyssey are two classic stories told by Homer. Within these stories the roles of the
gods are very important to the story line and how they affect the characters throughout.
In Iliad, more gods are involved with the characters whereas in the Odyssey there are only two
major gods that affect two major characters. The roles of the gods in Iliad are through two different stances
of immortal versus immortal and moral versus immortal. The roles of the gods in the Odyssey are through
two major gods and they affect the plot as Poseidon versus Odysseus and Athena versus Telemachus. Iliad
was a tragedy illustrating the despair and useless suffering associated with war.
Homer's Odyssey was an epic tale of long suffering resolving in triumph. Though there were a great
many differences between the two works, there was an underlying theme of the love which ran through
both. Not just the physical manifestation of infatuation, but the kind of love that makes one willing to die
for another.

Questions:

1.We can infer the selection that birth of Homer is

Answer: Birth of homer is inconsistent
Other possible answer: (It’s not definite when and where Homer was born)

2. The epic story still remains

Answer: a great piece in ancient Greece

3. Iliad and Odyssey is a story of all about

Answer: About long epic struggles of heroes

4. Epic means __________.

Answer: Story of heroism

5. Iliad and Odyssey uses ___.

Answer: Artistry and intelligence

6. The Odyssey _________

Answer: explain the voyage of a sailor

7. The works of Homer ____ .

Answer: Have been thought to have different writer