2019 DepEd English Proficiency Test (EPT) d.

unchallenged: disdain*
Reviewer with Answers
_____7. The revolution I art has not lost its steam; it
Part I. ENGLISH PROFICIENCY TEST _________ on as fiercely as ever.
a. trudges
Directions: Read the sentences carefully. Choose the b. meanders
letter of the correct answer. Write the letter of your c. rages*
answer on the space provided for. d. ambles

A. Sentence Completion _____8. Biological clocks are of such _____ adaptive

_____1. She is well loved by the people for being value to living organisms, that we would expect most
______________. organisms to _____them.
a. slanderous
b. virtuous* a. obvious: possess*
c. ambiguous b. ambivalent: develop
d. condescending c. meager: evolve
d. significant: eschew
_____2. Davidlee is an ____________ diver. He
always wins the gold medal. a. conventional: encumbered
a. inept b. pinioned: limited
b. efficient c. free: fettered*
c. adroit* d. enthralled: tied
d. aggressive
_____10. The conclusion of his argument, while
_____3. The ____ student _____ going to school. _____, is far from ______.
a. delinquent; abhors* a. germane: relevant
b. awkward; abhors b. esoteric: obscure
c. industrious; dislikes c. stimulating: interesting
d. obedient; dislikes d. abstruse: incomprehensible*

_____4. The reporter was adjudged guilty of _____ B. Synonyms

for spreading false accusations. _____11. The virulent drug he had mistakenly taken
a. calumny* killed him in an instant.
b. rebellion a. effective
c. treachery b. expensive
d. mutiny c. sedative
d. toxic*
_____5. Ewan played the violin with such _____,
everyone was amazed. _____12. Argentina is one of the world’s leading
a. anxiety honey-exporters. It maintains a large apiary.
b. inanity a. Place where birds are bred.
c. deity b. Place where apes are grown.
d. virtuosity* C. Place where bees are raised.*
D. Place where honey is stored.
_____6. Today, Alfred Wegener’s theory is _______;
however, he died an outsider treated with ___ by the _____13. Eugenio Joshua admires his teacher’s
scientific establishments. deportment during class.
a. unsupported: approval a. demeanor*
b. dismissed: contempt b. speech
c. accepted: approbation c. banishment
d. intelligence b. permanent*
c. extraordinary
_____14. His recommendation was rejected because d. luminous
it might be inimical to the company.
a. insubstantial D. Analogy
b. useful _____21. ARTICULATE::SPEECH
c. costly
d. disadvantageous* a. predictable: event
b. coordinated: movement
_____15. Marvin Jay’s supervisor asked him to c. active: thought
elucidate his proposal during the presentation. d. erratic: path

a. clarify* _____22. INCEPTION:: CONCLUSION

b. extend a. departure: arrival*
c. improve b. culmination: upshot
d. shorten c. approach: return
d. escapade: punishment
C. Antonyms
_____16. The mother has been doleful every when _____23. SCINTILLATING: DULLNESS
she lost her son. a. erudite: wisdom
a. miserable b. desultory: error
b. cheerful* c. boisterous: calm*
c. prayerful d. exalted: elevation
d. anxious
_____24. SHARD: POTTERY
_____17. Juan Carlo acquiesced to his friends’ plan a. seed: flower
of going to Baguio comes February. b. smoke: fire
a. agreed c. chair: furniture*
b. objected* d. mystify: enlightenment
c. rejoiced
d. abided _____25. PROSAIC: MUNDANE
a. obdurate: foolish*
_____18. John Dan’s house is full of a motley b. ascetic: austere
collection of furniture, including antiques, woodcrafts c. loquacious: taciturn
and glasswares. d. peremptory: spontaneous
a. diverse
b. attractive _____26. ATTENUATE::SIGNAL
c. homogenous* a. exacerbate: problem
d. expensive b. modify: accent
c. dampen: enthusiasm*
_____19. Jeric Angel’s nervousness was palpable d. elongate: line
despite the confident façade he was showing.
a. evident _____27. SALACIOUS:: WHOLESOME
b. increasing a. religious: private
c. decreasing b. expensive: profligate
d. hidden* c. conservative: stoic
d. mendacious: truthful*
_____20. He had learned that everything in life is
evanescent. _____28. PENURY:: MONEY
a. temporary a. starvation: sustenance
b. independence: freedom*
c. infirmity: illness
d. spontaneity: care
_____29. MASON:: STONE
a. soldier: weapon
b. lawyer: law
c. carpenter: wood*
d. teacher: pupil
_____30. REPEL:: LURE
a. miscarry: succeed*
b. dismount: devolve
c. abrogate: deny
d. abridge: shorten
E. Reading Comprehension
Passage 1
Much of what goes by the name of pleasure is simply
an effort to destroy consciousness. If one started by
asking, what is man? What are his needs? How can
he best express himself? One would discover that
merely having the power to avoid work and live
one’s life from birth to death in electric light and to
the tune of tinned music is not a reason for doing so.
Man needs warmth, society, leisure, comfort and
security: he also needs solitude, creative work and the
sense of wonder. If he recognized this he could use
the products of science and industrialism eclectically,
applying always the same test: does this make me
more human or less human? He would then learn that
the highest happiness does not lie in relaxing, resting,
playing poker, drinking and making love
simultaneously.
Adapted from an essay by George Orwell
_____31. The author implies that the answers to the
questions in sentence two would reveal that human
beings ________.
a. are less human when they seek pleasure*
b. need to evaluate their purpose in life
c. are being alienated from their true nature by
technology
d. have needs beyond physical comforts
_____32. The author would apparently agree that
playing poker is _____.
a. often an effort to avoid thinking
b. something that gives true pleasure
c. an example of man’s need for society *
d. something that man must learn to avoid
Passage 2
Examine the recently laid egg of some common
animal, such as a salamander or newt. It is a minute
spheroid – an apparently structure less sac, enclosing
a fluid, holding granules in suspension. But let a
moderate supply of warmth reach its watery cradle,
and the plastic matter undergoes changes so rapid, yet
so steady and purposeful in their succession, that one
can only compare them to those operated by a skilled
modeler upon a formless lump of clay. As with an
invisible trowel, the mass is divided and subdivided
into smaller and smaller portions. And, then, it is as if
a delicate finger traced out the line to be occupied by
the spinal column, and molded the contour of the
body; pinching up the head at one end, the tail at the
other, and fashioning flank and limb into due
proportions, in so artistic a way, that, after watching
the process hour by hour, one is almost involuntarily
possessed by the notion, that some more subtle aid to
vision than a microscope, would show the hidden
artist, with his plan before him, striving with skillful
manipulation to perfect his work.
Adapted from an essay by T H Huxley
_____33. The author makes his main point with the
aid of _______.
a. logical paradox
b. complex rationalization*
c. scientific deductions
d. observations on the connection between art and
science
_____34. In the context of the final sentence the word
“subtle” most nearly means _____.
a. not obvious
b. indirect
c. discriminating
d. surreptitious *
Passage 3
There are not many places that I find it more
agreeable to revisit when in an idle mood, than some
places to which I have never been. For, my
acquaintance with those spots is of such long
standing, and has ripened into an intimacy of so
affectionate a nature, that I take a particular
interesting assuring myself that they are unchanged. I
never was in Robinson Crusoe’s Island, yet I
frequently return there. I was never in the robbers’
cave, where Gil Blas lived, but I often go back there
and find the trap-door just as heaven to raise as it
used to be. I was never in Don Quixote’s study,
where he read his books of chivalry until he rose and
hacked at imaginary giants, yet you couldn’t move a
book in it without my knowledge. So with Damascus,
and Lilliput, and the Nile, and Abyssinia, and the
North Pole and many hundreds of places — I was
never at them, yet it is an affair of my life to keep
them intact, and I am always going back to them.
Passage 4
The books one reads in childhood create in one’s
mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of
fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd
moments throughout the rest of life, and which in
some cases can even survive a visit to the real
countries which they are supposed to represent. The
pampas, the Amazon, the coral islands of the Pacific,
Russia, land of birch-tree and samovar, Transylvania
with its boyars and vampires, the China of Guy
Boothby, the Paris of du Maurier—one could
continue the list for a long time. But one other
imaginary country that I acquired early in life was
called America. If I pause on the word “America”,
and deliberately put aside the existing reality, I can
call up my childhood vision of it.
Adapted from: The Uncommercial Traveller, C
Dickens (1860)
_____35. The first sentence of Passage 3 contains an
element of
a. paradox
b. legend
c. melancholy
d. self-deprecation*
_____36. By calling America an “imaginary country”
the author of passage two implies that ___.
a. America has been the subject of numerous works
for children
b. his current vision of that country is not related to
reality
c. America has stimulated his imagination
d. his childhood vision of that country owed nothing
to actual conditions*
_____37. Both passages make the point that _____.
a. books read early in life can be revisited in the
imagination many years later *
b. imaginary travel is better than real journeys
c. children’s books are largely fiction
d. the effects of childhood impressions are
inescapable
_____38. Both passages list a series of places, but
differ in that the author of passage three ___.
a. has been more influenced by his list of locations
b. never expects to visit any of them in real life,
whereas the writer of passage two thinks it at least
possible that he might
c. is less specific in compiling his list*
d. wishes to preserve his locations in his mind
forever, whereas the author of passage two wishes to
modify all his visions in the light of reality.
F. Idiomatic Expressions
_____39. We are affected as much as you are by the
rising prices of gasoline; we are all “in the same
boat”.
a. Suffering the same predicament*
b. Hindering the success
c. Empathizing with everyone on his suffering
d. Acknowledging the suffering
_____40. The members of the public are demanding
for better public infrastructure and more public
services, but at the same time they are demanding for
lower taxes. It is becoming a “Catch-22 situation”.
a. A challenging situation
b. A dilemma from which it is impossible to escape*
c. A problem that involves government efficiency
d. A condition of no great importance
_____41. That lady should not have become a war
correspondent. She is a “square peg in a round hole”.
a. A person who has been given an opportunity to
change her profession.
b. A person who has no interest in her job.
c. A person who takes part in every event.
d. A person who is not suitable to her work or
surroundings*
_____42. “It slipped my mind” that I will have with b. More than enough
Davidlee tonight. c. a tiny fraction of what is needed*
a. I determined, in spite of my schedule. d. useless until the amount is complete
b. I forgot as a result of carelessness*
c. I wished. A. Cloze Test (Part 1)
d. I planned delicately. Introduction:

_____43. The idea of expansionism “has not taken This is the School 49) improvement Plan of the East
root” in the Philippines. Central Elementary School, San Fabian District II,
a. Has not become popular Pangasinan II Division, was 50) conceptualized and
b. Has not been heard 51) evolved through the concerted efforts of the
c. has not established itself* teaching 52) staff with the other stakeholders of
d. has not been monitored education headed by the principal. It 53) presents the
vision or educational goals which 54) aims to uplift
_____44. Ewan Gregory does not mind how much or improve the school performance in terms of the
resistance he causes; he like “sailing against the following areas of development namely the pupil,
wind”. staff, curriculum and physical facilities development
a. Being popular which will 55) served as the 56) bases for evaluating
b. Interfering the performance of the school. It presents the school
c. overcoming the opposition and community profile and the expected activities of
d. opposing the popular view* the school.

_____45. Although Marvin Jay had only a minor role Through the 57) implementation of this School
in the play, he “stole the thunder from” the lead actor. Improvement Plan, with the unwavering 58) support
a. Borrowed the role from of the officers and members of the PTA as well as the
b. Diverted the attention to himself from* School Governing Council and other stakeholders of
c. succeeded in portraying education, it is 59) expected that the goals vision and
d. transformed the character of mission of the East Central Elementary School will
be 60) realized.
_____46. I had a “heart to heart talk” with my teacher
on my plans to study Linguistics or Microbiology at 49.
the university. a. improving
a. Sentimental meeting b. improves
b. Superficial talk c. improved
c. serious discussion* d. improvement*
d. successful arrangement
50.
_____47. Juan Carlo decide “to keep his peace” until a. conceptualized*
he finished examining the situation. b. conceptualizes
a. Not to talk* c. conceptualizing
b. To be forthright d. conceptualize
c. to be relaxed
d. to be reserved 51.
a. evolving
_____48. The company needs a couple of million b. evolves
pesos for its expansion. It is likely that the Php 100 c. evolved*
000.00 the partner has offered is “a drop in the d. evolve
ocean”.
52.
a. Useful a. staffs
b. staff* d. realizes
c. staffed
d. staffing

53.
a. present
b. presenting
c. presents*
d. presented H. Cloze Test (Part 2)
Madam 61) _____
54.
a. aims* I have the honor to request permission 62)_______
b. aim you good office to 63)__________ an action research
c. aimed in Science 64)_______, “Enhancing the Performance
d. aiming of the Grade VI Pupils in Science and Health through
Counteractive Lecture “for the Grade VI pupils of
55. Greater Heights Elementary School for this school
a. serves year 2014 – 2015.
b. serving
c. servicing Hoping for your 65)________ approval.
d. served*
66)________________
56.
a. basis EWAN ETHAN LEE C. RIVERA
b. bases* Teacher
c. basing
d. based 1st 67)___________
68)_______________________
57.
a. implement Respectfully forwarded 69)__________ the Schools
b. implementing Division Superintendent, Pangasinan Division II,
c. implementation* Binalonan, Pangasinan, recommending approval of
d. implements this basic communication.

58. 70)_____________________________
a. support* DAVIDLEE DV. ROMERO JR.
b. supporting Public Schools District Supervisor
c. supports
d. supported 61.
a. ;+
59. b. :
a. expect c. ,
b. expects d. .
c. expecting
d. expected* 62.
a. to
60. b. for
a. realize c. your
b. realized* d. from*
c. realizing
63.
a. conduct* Good luck Teachers!
b. conducts
c. conducted
d. conducting

64.
a. entitle
b. entitles
c. entitled*
d. entitling

65.
a. kind*
b. kinder
c. kindest
d. modest

66.
a. yours,
b. sincerely yours,
c. Truly yours
d. Very truly yours,*

67.
a. indorsment
b. endorsment
c. indorsement*
d. endorsement

68.
a. With date*
hb. No date
c. —–
d. —–

69.
a.to*
b. from
c. with
d. for

70.
a. Truly yours,
b. Very truly yours,
c. Sincerely yours,
d. No complementary Close*