Practice test 1

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
IDENTIFICATION OF ERRORS. In each of the following sentences, there are four underlined words or
phrases. Encircle the letter of the word or phrase that is incorrect.

1. At the moment, the paleontologist studies the fossils discovered in Mount Kenya.
A B C D
2. The representative from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources was very disappointed
A B
upon learning that there were only little trees left in what was supposed to be a rich tropical rainforest.
C D
3. So far, I saw three movies, About Time, Thor, and The Book Thief this week.
A B C D
4. When on vacation, the Siamese cat is sent to Ms. Johnson’s kennel.
A B C D
5. I will definitely pass the UPCAT, if I had enough time to review all the lessons in my Math, Science,
A B C
English, and Filipino subjects.
D
6. For her declamation piece yesterday, Candice discussed the effects of warfare on the economy and
A B
stresses the importance of foreign aid in boosting the country’s economic performance.
C D
7. If I had all the powers of the President of the Philippines, I will focus on developing agriculture to give
A B C
more farmers better livelihood.
D
8. Jose’s hypothesis about the special problem for their science project is incorrect.
A B C D

9. The old mansion of the Perez family which had long been abandoned was destroyed by
A B C
Typhoon Haiyan.
D
10. By the time I finished making the script, the director will be having other plans for the movie plot.
A B C D

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SCIENCE
Read each item carefully. Encircle the letter of the best answer.

1. Which of the following rocks originated from 7. Eukaryotes often need to synthesize proteins
solidified magma? that are secreted from the cell. The beginning
A. Igneous of the growing protein chain binds to the
B. Magnetic endoplasmic reticulum to start the process of
C. Metamorphic secretion. The newly synthesized protein is
D. Sedimentary released into the lumen of the endoplasmic
reticulum, where it is modified by enzymes. The
2. Which mineral is most abundant on the Earth’s protein eventually travels through the Golgi
surface? complex where it is modified further. If you start
A. Coal with an amino acid sequence of –His-Ser-His-
B. Feldspar Val-Leu-Met-Leu-, which of the following might
C. Olivine not be the amino acid sequence after the
D. Quartz protein has travelled through the Golgi
complex?
3. Which term best describes the type of A. –His-Ser-His-Val-Leu-Met-Leu-
weathering that occurs when oxygen reacts B. –His-Ser-His-Leu-Val-Met-Leu-
with iron in rocks, changing their chemical C. –Met-Ser-Tryp-Val-Leu-Gly-Leu-
composition? D. –His-Met-His-Pro-Leu-Met-Tryp-
A. Frost wedging
B. Hydrolysis
C. Mechanical weathering 8. John discovered some maggots when he
D. Oxidation passed by a dead bird. What type of organism
is the maggot?
4. Which of the following is a possible explanation A. Autotroph
for the formation of caves in Palawan? B. Heterotroph
A. Oxygen reacted with the iron in rocks, C. Carnivore
changing their chemical composition. D. Herbivore
B. Water froze and expanded in rock cracks,
causing the rocks to split. 9. Which of the following levels of taxonomic
C. Acid precipitation reacted with and classification has the least degree of similarity
dissolved the limestone. among its members?
D. Animal burrows enlarged over time and A. Family
solidified into rocks. B. Genus
C. Order
D. Phylum
5. In some tropical areas, soil becomes red. What
is the compound in soil that makes it red? 10. Which of the following is exhibited in a mitotic
A. Carbon dioxide cell division?
B. Iron oxide A. Occurrence of two cell divisions
C. Diatomic nitrogen B. Production of haploid cells
D. Sulfur hydroxide C. Occurrence of one cell division
D. Overlapping of paired chromatids
6. Given the following nucleotide sequence of a
DNA strand:
-A-C-T-G-T-T-A-C-G-G-
Which is the complementary strand?
A. -C-T-A-G-A-A-T-T-C-G-
B. -A-C-T-G-T-T-A-C-G-G-
C. -G-G-C-A-T-T-G-T-C-A-
D. -T-G-A-C-A-A-T-G-C-C-

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MATHEMATICS
Read each question carefully and encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. Which of the following shows the 7. Which of the following is NOT equal to
Commutative Property of Addition? the others?
A. 6 + p + q = p + q + 6 A. 42
B. 6(p + q) = 6p + 6q B. 24
C. 6 + (p + q) = (6 + p) + q
C. 128
D. |-6| = 6 8
D. log 16
2. Which variable must be negative so
that the expression rp2|q| is negative? 2
A. p 8. Rationalize: a
B. q 2– 3
C. r A. 2 2 + 6
D. p and q
B. 2 2 – 6
3. What is the unit digit of 123412345? C. -(2 2 + 6)
A. 4 D. -(2 2 – 6)
B. 5
C. 6
D. 7 9. Find the sum of the first 12 terms of the
series 2, 5, 8, 11, …
4. Arrange the following numbers from A. 185
least to greatest: B. 192
C. 210
3 1
, 0.28, (0.6)3, D. 222
8 4
1 3 10. A brick walkway measuring 3 meters
A. , (0.6)3, 0.28, by 5 meters is to be built. Each brick
4 8
measures 20 cm x 10 cm. How many
1 3 bricks will it take to build the walkway?
B. , 0.28, (0.6)3,
4 8 A. 7.5
1 3 B. 75
C. (0.6)3, , 0.28 C. 750
4 8
1 3
D. 7,500
D. (0.6)3, , , 0.28
4 8

5. How many positive integers of three

digits can be formed using the digits 2,
4, 6, and 8 if repetitions are not
permitted?
A. 16
B. 18
C. 24
D. 30

6. Which of the following is NOT equal to

the others?
A. 64
B. log2128
C. 71
D. 2 + 5

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READING COMPREHENSION
Read each selection carefully. Encircle the letter of the best answer to each question that follows.

Selection 1
1
One night - it was on the twentieth of March, 1888 - I was returning from a journey to a patient (for I
had now returned to civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I passed the well-
remembered door, which must always be associated in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark
incidents of the Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes again, and to know how
he was employing his extraordinary powers. His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw
his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly,
eagerly, with his head sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who knew his
every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their own story. He was at work again. He had risen
out of his drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new problem. I rang the bell and was
shown up to the chamber which had formerly been in part my own.
2
His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I think, to see me. With hardly a word
spoken, but with a kindly eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated
a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he stood before the fire and looked me over in his
singular introspective fashion.
3
“Wedlock suits you,” he remarked. “I think, Watson, that you have put on seven and a half pounds
since I saw you.”
4
“Seven!” I answered.
5
“Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, I fancy, Watson. And in practice again,
I observe. You did not tell me that you intended to go into harness.”
6
“Then, how do you know?”
7
“I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting yourself very wet lately, and that you
have a most clumsy and careless servant girl?”
8
“My dear Holmes,” said I, “this is too much. You would certainly have been burned, had you lived a
few centuries ago. It is true that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful mess, but
as I have changed my clothes I can’t imagine how you deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and
my wife has given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it out.”
9
He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands together.
10
“It is simplicity itself,” said he; “my eyes tell me that on the inside of your left shoe, just where the
firelight strikes it, the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they have been caused by
someone who has very carelessly scraped round the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud
from it. Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile weather, and that you had a
particularly malignant boot-slitting specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a gentleman
walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger,
and a bulge on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted his stethoscope, I must be
dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce him to be an active member of the medical profession.”
11
I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his process of deduction. “When I
hear you give your reasons,” I remarked, “the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously simple that
I could easily do it myself, though at each successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you
explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good as yours.”
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

1. What does the word effusive in paragraph 2 2. What does the word incorrigible in paragraph 8
mean? mean?
A. Cautious A. Incapable of being corrected
B. Effective B. Incomprehensive understanding
C. Emotional C. Inconsistent performance
D. Unreserved D. Intolerable work attitude

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3. Why is Watson familiar with the mannerisms 6. What does the word baffled in paragraph 11
and routine of Holmes? mean?
A. He runs a business with Holmes. A. Amused
B. He used to be the doctor of Holmes. B. Composed
C. He is the biography writer of Holmes. C. Enlightened
D. He used to live and work together with D. Puzzled
Holmes.
7. How does Watson compare his observation
4. How did Holmes know that Watson’s back in skills with Holmes’?
his medical practice? A. His eyes are just as good as Holmes’.
A. Watson told him about it. B. His reasoning is more logical than Holmes’.
B. Holmes used deductive reasoning. C. His use of logic is more believable than
C. Watson was wearing his doctor’s uniform. Holmes’.
D. Holmes visited him in the hospital one time. D. His investigative skills are as accurate as
Holmes’.
5. According to the selection above, which of the
following is the reason that Watson left Holmes
in the past?
A. Watson got married.
B. Watson had to work out of the country.
C. Watson decided to put up his own
business.
D. Watson had a terrible argument with
Holmes.

Selection 2

It was many and many a year ago,

In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
5
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love,
10
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
15
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
20
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me;
Yes! that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
25
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we,
Of many far wiser than we;

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And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee:
For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
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Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,
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In her sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

8. According to the poem, the author calls Annabel 10. In Line 7, the author's statement that "I was a
Lee the following names EXCEPT: child and she was a child" best suggests that:
A. Angel A. The author and Annabel Lee were children.
B. Darling B. The author and Annabel Lee fell in love at a
C. Maiden young age.
D. Bride C. Being in love made the author and Annabel
feel young.
9. According to the poem, the love between the D. Youth was an important part of the
author and Annabel Lee is stronger than those relationship of the author and Annabel Lee.
of which group/s of people?
A. The highborn kinsmen
B. The demons down under the sea
C. The angels who were not so happy in
heaven
D. Those who were older and wiser than the
author and Annabel Lee

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