Directions: Fill-in the blanks with the correct word to complete the sentence.

1. The sentence list of kesong puti __________ from one to two days from
purchase at room temperature to one week when refrigerated, to an indefinite
period when frozen, but its quality and texture _______ if it kept for a long period
of time.

A. Ranges – deteriorates

B. Range – deteriorate

C. Ranged – deteriorates

D. Range – deteriorates

ANS: B

2. The biologist ______ that the Kyoto grass also known as black grass, can
________ all kinds of weather conditions and ________ lush even in cold months.

A. Explains – tolerate – stay

B. Explained – tolerate – stay

C. Explains - -tolerate – stays

D. Explains – tolerate – stays

ANS: C

3. The walls in the room were ____ in a cool, light green, which is ________ to the
eyes.

A. Painted – soothing

B. Painted – soothe

C. Paints – soothing

D. Paint – soothing
ANS: A

4. Many natural born entrepreneurs are  _______ with a mind that is an

idea-________ machine.

A. Bless – generating

B. Bless – inventing

C. Blessed – making

D. Blessed – generating

ANS: D

5. Everyone has a need for some level of certainty, so if you can’t ____ it in your
business, ____ on finding it elsewhere.

A. Find – plan

B. Finds – plan

C. Found – plan

D. Find – plans

ANS: A

6. Many farms also ___ machines, which ______ down on the number of people
needed to farm the land.

A. Uses – cut

B. Use – cut

C. Used – cut
D. Use – cuts

ANS: B

7. The leaves of the tree _____ sunlight and  _____ water and food from the roots
to make the tree grow and to reproduce.

A. Take in – use

B. Take in – uses

C. Takes in – uses

D. Takes in – used

ANS: A

8. When Ondoy ___ Manila hard in 2009, a good Samarian ______ his land Rover
to help with relief operation in Marikina and Pasig, because it’s only vehicle that can
do the job during those critical hours.

A. Hits – uses

B. Hits – used

C. Hit – used

D. Hits – using

ANS: C

9. We ____ use fake ingredients or things that _____perfumes last long.

A. Don’t – makes

B. Don’t – make

C. Didn’t – make
D. Doesn’t – make

ANS: B

10. I feel that even if we are _______ to do a lot of things, not everybody ______
be happy with our performances.

A. Able – will

B. Able – shall

C. Able – would

D. Able – should

ANS:A

11. After several failures, Pablo ____ to go back to school and  _______ his MBA at
the number one university in Japan.

A. Decided – take up

B. Decide – takes up

C. Decides – took up

D. Decided – takes up

ANS: A

12. At times, a sibling ______ bad because of the perception that the other one
______ better treatment, like being given more material things.

A. Will feel – get

B. Will feel – gets

C. Would feel – gets

D. Will feel – got

ANS: B

13. Some father _____ that making their children tough will enable them to
________ in a hostile world.

A. Thought – survive

B. Thinks – survives

C. Think – survives

D. Think – Survive

ANS: D

14. It at all ____ with being conscious about depression and the willingness to
accept that you ___ help.

A. Begin – need

B. Begun – needs

C. Begins – neeD

D. Begins – need

ANS: D

15. If there is one hotel in the country that clearly _____ and _______ the history
of its host country, it would be the Manila Hotel.

A. Reflects – mirrors
B. Reflected – mirrored

C. Reflect – mirror

D. Reflects – mirror

ANS: A

16. Some foreign fruit and herb extracts _____ added because of their potency in
helping improve health and wellness as well as _______ the taste of the drink.

A. Were – enhanced

B. Was – enhance

C. Were – enhance

D. Was – enhances

ANS: C

17. Medical science _____ to look at the cause of illness purely from the physical
standpoint because it ______ man simply as a machine composed of electrical
circuits and chemical interactions.

A. Tend – regarded

B. Tends – regards

C. Tends – regarded

D. Tend – regards

ANS: B
18. A human being cannot be _______ from any of his various components or parts
without ______ injury or harm to his whole being.

A. Separated – causing

B. Separated – cause

C. Separate – causing

D. Separates  -  causing

ANS: A

20. He _____ one of those individuals  who ____ it a point to leave a sterling

record of hard work and conscientious behaviour in his trial.

A. Became – made

B. Became – make

C. Becomes – makes

D. Become – made

ANS: A

21. His popularity was so extensive it _______ one guest to ___ him to work for his
hotel in the Middle East.

A. Propel – invite

B. Propelled – invite

C. Propels – invite

D. Propelled – invites

ANS: B
22. Having _______ a name in the hotel industry in Dubai, he _________ of
bringing it to another level.

A. Built – thought

B. Builds – thinks

C. Build – thought

D. Built – think

ANS: A

23. She _____ everything in teaching, even her secretes in baking and chocolates
arts because she _______ that it’s a win-win situation for her and her students.

A. Gave – knows

B. Gave – know

C. Gives – knows

D. Give – knows

ANS: C

24. It is then that we _____- questioning whether the life we have ______ and the
goals we are pursuing are what we truly want.

A. Started – created

B. Start – created

C. Started – create

D. Start – create
ANS: B

25. The desire to ______ down is obviously something that  _____ at a certain

stage of life.

A. Slow – comes

B. Slow – come

C. Slows – comes

D. Slows – comes

ANS: A

26. The shells his at a staggering _____ .

A. Price – prize

B. Prize – prices

C. Prized – prizes

D. Prize – prized

ANS: D

27. He _________ that his ________ have a scientific basis.

A. Believes - believe

B. Believe – beliefs

C. Believes – beliefs

D. Beliefs – Believe
ANS: C

28. The teacher ______ something he ______ was right.

A. Thought – taught

B. Taught – thought

C. Taught – think

D. Thought – thought

ANS: B

29. He was _______ not to give when it is not sought

A. Adviced – advise

B. Advised – advice

C. Advised – adviced

D. Adviced – advised

ANS: C

30. He______ a new method of ______ to the changing weather.

A. Adapted – adopting

B. Adopted – adapting

C. Adopted – adopting

D. Adapted – adapting

ANS: B