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Paul Vincent J. Gerano
 Bachelor in Secondary Education – English, West Visayas State University
 Master in Education – English as a Second Language – University of the Philippines
 Bachelor of Laws, 3rd Year, University of San Agustin-College of Law

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United States federal budget goes on it.
Yet there are still very large numbers of
1. When someone successfully tricks or
Americans who are not covered even by
deceives you, you __________ the trick or
this service. The government tries to keep
deception.
A. give back expenditure down and so sets limits to the
B. fall for income of people using the system.
C. break out Millions of the unemployed are another
D. put up with important group that is excluded.

2. Please do not make so much noise. I

_______________ to work.
A. try
B. am trying
C. tried
D. have tried What is the state of the health system in
America?
3. The standard of medicine in the United It is ______________.
States is generally agreed to be very high.
There is no shortage of well qualified A. unsatisfactory
specialists, and there is a lot of individual B. satisfactory
attention. Treatment is backed up by the C. too risky
latest in the way of medical technology. D. too mechanized
Doctors and hospitals do their utmost not
to make mistakes, because if they do they 4. Sarah is her in car. She is on her way to
risk being made to pay out enormous work. She _______________ to work.
sums in compensation. A. drove
B. is driving
But the American health care system has C. drives
what look like insoluble problems. There D. had driven
are in fact two systems side by side. One
5. When someone pressures or forces you to
is the private system run on the basis of
do something or allow something even
free competition. The other is the public though you do not want to, you
system which had to be created because _______________.
such a large part of the population, A. put on
including many of the elderly, could not B. come off
afford to pay for the absurdly expensive C. give in
private treatment. D. figure out

The public system is vast. A huge 6. That time of year thou mayst in me behold
proportion - more than 10 per cent - of the (Sonnet 73) By William Shakespeare
 C. come out
That time of year thou mayst in me behold D. come forth
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do
hang
Upon those boughs which shake against 11. Paragraph organization:
the cold,
Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet
I. Then, I came to realize that by
birds sang.
quitting it would seem like starting
In me thou see’st the twilight of such day
something and not finishing it.
As after sunset fadeth in the west;
II. When I quit my job, I had mixed
Which by and by black night doth take
emotions.
away,
III. It is not that easy just to give up
Death’s second self, that seals up all in
something.
rest.
IV. But I came to realize that some
In me thou see’st the glowing of such fire,
things are more important than
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
pride.
As the deathbed whereon it must expire,
V. At first, I’m glad that all those
Consumed with that which it was
hardships connected with my work
nourished by.
were finally over.
This thou perceiv’st, which makes thy love
more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave Which should be the last sentence?
ere long.
A. I
The progression of ‘ruined’ (line 4) to B. II
‘fadeth’ (line 6) to ‘expire’ (line 11) can be C. III
seen as ____________. D. IV
A. a resistance to death E. V
B. a progression of life to death
C. love transcending death 12. When you ___________ something, such as
D. the instability of life the answer to a question, the solution to a
E. fear of death problem, or why a person is a certain way
or acts a certain way, you think about and
7. When you fall into a light sleep, you succeed in understanding it.
__________. A. figure out
A. doze of B. put on
B. give in C. run into
C. sleep over D. show up
D. close out

8. Many people at that time believed that

spices help preserve food; however, Hall
found that many marketed spices were
____ bacteria, moulds and yeasts. 13. Today Wegener's theory is ____ ; however,
A. devoid of he died an outsider treated with ____ by
B. teeming with the scientific establishment.
C. improved by A. unsupported - approval
D. destroyed by B. dismissed – contempt
E. active against C. accepted - approbation
D. unchallenged - disdain
9. John: Where is Mark? Joseph: He ____ a E. unrivalled - reverence
shower.
A. had 14. When you recover from a serious illness or
B. has had injury, you _______________.
C. has A. fall for
D. is having B. throw up
C. doze off
10. When you _____________ a place, you were
born there or lived there previously. D. pull through
A. come in
B. come from
15. When something _________, it becomes
detached from what it was attached or
fastened to.
A. goes off
B. comes of
C. eases off
D. holds off
16. You see this gentle stream that glides,
Shov'd on, by quick succeeding tides ;
Try if this sober stream you can
Follow to th' wilder ocean,
And see if there it keeps unspent
In that congesting element.
Next, from that world of waters, then
By pores and caverns back again
Induct that inadult'rate same
Stream to the spring from whence it came.
This with a wonder when ye do,
As easy, and else easier too,
Then may ye recollect the grains
Of my particular remains,
After a thousand lusters hurl'd,
By ruffling winds about the world.
The central denotative theme of the poem
addresses the subject of ___________.
A. water cycles
B. how oceans are formed
C. seasons and weather of the world
D. life cycles
E. the instabilities of life
17. The two artists differed markedly in their
temperaments; Palmer was reserved and
courteous, Frazer ____ and boastful.
A. phlegmatic
B. choleric
C. constrained
D. tractable
E. stoic
18. When you return something to someone,
you ___________.
A. wrap it up
B. find it out
C. give it back
D. plan it for
19. Manuel was on the baseball team that was
playing the first place team. It was the
first game that his grandparents and Uncle
Thomas attended. Manuel swung his bat
while looking for his family in the large
crowd. Just as he spotted his grandmother,
his greatest fear came true. He lost his
grip on the bat, and it started to fall. Even
though he caught it quickly, Manuel's face
became red. He felt as if he had made a
horrible mistake and everyone was staring
at him.
The passage suggests that Manuel almost
dropped his bat partly because he
____________.
A. was thinking about the baseball
game
B. was not strong enough
C. was looking for his family
D. was frightened by a loud noise
20. Let us go out now. It _______________
anymore.
A. did not rain
B. does not rain
C. is not raining
D. has not rained
21. When you remove something from your
body, you __________.
A. take it
B. take it out
C. take it away
D. take it of
22. Pretend you are at the grocery store. As
you are walking down the cookie aisle, you
notice a little girl crying and pulling on her
mom's coat as she pushes the cart
towards the front of the store. The closer
she gets to the front of the store, the
louder the little girl screams. Lots of things
could be wrong with the little girl, BUT we
can probably conclude that __________.
A. the little girl is very tired
B. the little girl is hungry
C. the little girl wants cookies, and her
mom said no
D. the little girl wants her father
23. One of the rarest animals in the world is
the okapi. They live in the rain forest in
Central Africa. Few people have seen one
alive. Every few years someone claims to
see one, but they never have proof. A few
years ago, some scientists who were
studying plants found a skeleton, teeth
and some skin in a remote area of the rain
forest. They were excited, as they believed
they had found the remains of a rare
okapi. They drew a picture of what they
thought the animal might have looked like
when it was alive. The scientists then sent
the picture along with the skeleton, teeth
and skin to a scientific institution in Dallas,
Texas.
 What did the scientists probably do with
the skeleton, teeth and bones?
A. sent them to a place with more
experienced scientists
B. kept them for souvenirs
C. studied them carefully and
compared them to other animals
D. sold them to museums that
displayed them
24. Either my mother or my father
____________ coming to the meeting.
A. is
B. has
C. am
D. are
25. When you ______________ doing something,
you have the confidence or energy to do
it.
A. feel up to
The quotation implies that ___________.
A. one should face the
consequences of his actions
B. a person should prepare the bed he
will lie on
C. beds are made for resting
D. all of these
E. none of these
30. Education is a life-long process which
requires studying and learning from
previous experiences. It is not enough to
be educated as it is to be cultured.
The paragraph best supports the idea that
___________.

B. go along with
C. get over with
A. education means more than being
D. look forward to
a cultured person
B. to be called a cultured person
26. “My grace is all you need, for my power is
requires a continuing
greatest when you are weak. I am content
education
with weaknesses, insults, hardships,
C. a cultured person learns and profits
persecutions and difficulties for Christ’s
from previous educational
sake.”
experiences
D. all of these
The above prayer indicates ___________.
E. none of these
A. double effect principle
B. reliance on God’s strength 31. When something mechanical
C. always do what is correct _______________, it does not function.
D. prayerful mood all the time A. calls in
B. burns down
27. “Unless the grain of wheat dies, it remains C. hands back
alone, but if it does, it bears fruits. He who D. breaks down
loves life loses it…”
32. If there is nothing to absorb the energy of
The mood expressed by the above quote sound waves, they travel on ____ , but
is ____________. their intensity ____ as they travel further
from their source.
A. sadness A. erratically - mitigates
B. uselessness B. eternally - alleviates
C. usefulness of life C. forever - increases
D. sinfulness D. steadily - stabilizes
E. indefinitely – diminishes
28. When you appear somewhere, you
__________. 33. Paragraph organization:
A. show
B. show in
C. show off I. By trying, man learns to solve his
D. show up problems thru satisfying acts and
eliminates actions which are
annoying.
29. ‘As he makes his bed, so he must lie on it.’
 II. He used a hungry cat in a puzzled
box where it tried ways to get out
in order to get the food.
III. Eduard C. Thorndike’s
connectionism theory of learning
establishes the trial and error way
to learn.
IV. He established the fact that like the
cat, man too, learned by trial and
error.
V. Thorndike’s animal studies came
up with the law of exercise and the
law of effect.
C. edges
D. ambles
E. rages
38. No, Honey, I do not want you to spend a
lot of money on my birthday present. Just
having you for a husband is the only gift I
need. In fact, I will drive my old rusty
bucket of bolts down to the mall and buy
myself a little present. And if the poor old
car does not break down, I will be back
soon.
What is the message?

A. I, III, II, IV, V

B. II, I, II, IV, V A. I do not want a gift.
C. V, I, III, IV, II B. Buy me a new car.
D. I, II, III, IV, V C. The mall is fun.
D. I will carry a bucket for you.
34. When you are driving, and hit another
vehicle or something near the road, such
as a tree or a telephone pole, you 39. When you place something on or apply
__________. something to your body, you __________.
A. run over it A. put it
B. run it B. put it on
C. run it off C. put it off
D. run into it D. put it about

35. Bill and Jessica were almost done taking
turns choosing the players for their teams.
It was Jessica’s turn to choose, and only
Kurt was left. Jessica said, “Kurt.”
40. The intellectual flexibility inherent in a
multicultural nation has been ____ in
classrooms where emphasis on British-
American literature has not reflected the
cultural ____ of our country.
A. eradicated - unanimity
B. encouraged - aspirations
C. stifled - diversity
D. thwarted – uniformity
E. inculcated - divide

We can infer that ____________. 41. __________ by nature, Jones spoke very
little even to his own family members.
A. Kurt is not a very good player A. Garrulous
B. Jessica was pleased to have Kurt on B. Equivocal
her team C. Taciturn
C. Kurt was the best player on either D. Arrogant
team E. Gregarious
D. Jessica was inconsiderate of Kurt’s
feelings

36. (at a party) Hello, Jane. _______________ the 42. When you get money or something
party? valuable from people in a dishonest way,
A. Do you enjoy you ______________.
B. Are you enjoying A. cheat on them
C. Did you enjoy
D. Have you enjoyed B. go after them
C. wrap them up
37. The revolution in art has not lost its D. screw them out of it
steam; it ____ on as fiercely as ever.
A. trudges 43. The man with all the birds ________________
B. meanders on my street.
 A. live B. is going
C. goes
B. are living D. has gone
C. lives
49. When you ___________ things or people,
D. have lived
you try to find them.
44. Turner almost wished that he had not A. look for
listened to the radio. He went to the closet B. boil down
and grabbed his umbrella. He would feel C. hold up
silly carrying it to the bus stop on such a D. put to
sunny morning.
50. The peasants were the least ____ of all
Which probably happened? people, bound by tradition and ____ by
superstitions.
A. Turner realized that he had an
A. free - fettered
unnatural fear of falling radio
B. enfranchised - rejected
parts.
C. enthralled - tied
B. Turner had promised himself to do
D. pinioned - limited
something silly that morning.
E. conventional - encumbered
C. Turner had heard a weather
forecast that predicted rain.
D. Turner planned to trade his
umbrella for a bus ride.

45. Biological clocks are of such ____ adaptive

value to living organisms, that we would
expect most organisms to ____ them.
A. clear - avoid
B. meager – evolve
C. significant - eschew
D. obvious - possess
E. ambivalent – develop

46. “Larry, as your boss, I must say it has

been very interesting working with you,”
Miss Valdez said. “However, it seems that
our company’s needs and your
performance style are not well matched.
Therefore, it makes me very sad to have
to ask you to resign your position effective
today.”
What was Miss Valdez telling Larry?
A. She would feel very bad if he
decided to quit.
B. He was being fired.
C. He was getting a raise in pay.
D. She really enjoyed having him in
the office.

47. The movie, including all the previews,

_______________ about two hours to watch.
A. take
B. are taking
C. takes
D. have taken

48. What is all that noise? What

_______________ on?
A. went