Directions: Read the
sedative
sentences carefully.
Choose the letter of the
correct answer. Write the
letter of your answer on the
space provided for.
A. SENTENCE
COMPLETION
_____1. She is well loved
by the people for being
______________.
a. slanderous
b. virtuous*
c. ambiguous
d. condescending
_____2. Davidlee is an
____________ diver. He
always wins the gold medal.
a. inept
b. efficient
c. adroit*
d. aggressive
_____3. The ____ student
_____ going to school.
a. delinquent; abhors*
b. awkward; abhors
c. industrious; dislikes
d. obedient; dislikes
_____4. The reporter was
adjudged guilty of _____ for
spreading false
accusations.
a. calumny*
b. rebellion
c. treachery
d. mutiny
_____5. Ewan played the
violin with such _____,
everyone was amazed.
a. anxiety
b. inanity
c. deity
d. virtuosity*
_____6. Today, Alfred
Wegener’s theory is
_______; however, he died
an outsider treated with ___
by the scientific
establishments.
a. unsupported: approval
b. dismissed: contempt
c. accepted: approbation
d. unchallenged: disdain*
_____7. The revolution I art
has not lost its steam; it
_________ on as fiercely
as ever.
a. trudges
b. meanders
c. rages*
d. ambles
_____8. Biological clocks
are of such _____ adaptive
value to living organisms,
that we would expect most
organisms to _____them.
a. obvious: possess*
b. ambivalent: develop
c. meager: evolve
d. significant: eschew
_____9. The peasants were
the least ______ of all
people, bound by tradition
and _____ by superstitions.
a. conventional:
encumbered
b. pinioned: limited
c. free: fettered*
d. enthralled: tied
_____10. The conclusion of
his argument, while _____,
is far from ______.
a. germane: relevant
b. esoteric: obscure
c. stimulating: interesting
d. abstruse:
incomprehensible*
B. SYNONYMS
_____11. The virulent drug
he had mistakenly taken
killed him in an instant.
a. effective
b. expensive
c.
d. toxic*
_____12. Argentina is one
of the world’s leading
honey-exporters. It
maintains a large apiary.
a. Place where birds are
bred.
b. Place where apes are
grown.
C. Place where bees are
raised.*
D. Place where honey is
stored.
_____13. Eugenio Joshua
admires his teacher’s
deportment during class.
a. demeanor*
b. speech
c. banishment
d. intelligence
_____14. His
recommendation was
rejected because it might
be inimical to the company.
a. insubstantial
b. useful
c. costly
d. disadvantageous*
_____15. Marvin Jay’s
supervisor asked him to
elucidate his proposal
during the presentation.
a. clarify*
b. extend
c. improve
d. shorten
C. ANTONYMS
_____16. The mother has
been doleful every when
she lost her son.
a. miserable
b. cheerful*
c. prayerful
d. anxious
_____17. Juan Carlo
acquiesced to his friends’
plan of going to Baguio a. erudite: wisdom E. RE ADING
comes February. b. desultory: error
a. agreed c. boisterous: calm* COMPREHENSI
b. objected* d. exalted: elevation ON
c. rejoiced _____24. SHARD: Passage 1
d. abided POTTERY Much of what goes by the
_____18. John Dan’s house a. seed: flower name of pleasure is simply
is full of a motley collection b. smoke: fire an effort to destroy
of furniture, including c. chair: furniture* consciousness. If one
antiques, woodcrafts and d. mystify: enlightenment started by asking, what is
glasswares. _____25. PROSAIC: man? What are his needs?
a. diverse MUNDANE How can he best express
b. attractive a. obdurate: foolish* himself? One would
c. homogenous* b. ascetic: austere discover that merely having
d. expensive c. loquacious: taciturn the power to avoid work and
_____19. Jeric Angel’s d. peremptory: spontaneous live one’s life from birth to
nervousness was palpable death in electric light and to
_____26. the tune of tinned music is
despite the confident ATTENUATE::SIGNAL
façade he was showing. not a reason for doing so.
a. exacerbate: problem Man needs warmth, society,
a. evident b. modify: accent leisure, comfort and
b. increasing c. dampen: enthusiasm* security: he also needs
c. decreasing d. elongate: line solitude, creative work and
d. hidden* the sense of wonder. If he
_____27. SALACIOUS::
_____20. He had learned WHOLESOME recognized this he could
that everything in life is use the products of science
a. religious: private
evanescent. and industrialism
b. expensive: profligate
a. temporary eclectically, applying
c. conservative: stoic
b. permanent* always the same test: does
d. mendacious: truthful*
c. extraordinary this make me more human
_____28. PENURY:: or less human? He would
d. luminous
MONEY then learn that the highest
a. starvation: sustenance happiness does not lie in
b. independence: freedom* relaxing, resting, playing
D. AN ALOGY c. infirmity: illness poker, drinking and making
_____21. d. spontaneity: care love simultaneously.
ARTICULATE::SPEECH Adapted from an essay by
_____29. MASON:: STONE
a. predictable: event a. soldier: weapon George Orwell
b. coordinated: movement _____31. The author
b. lawyer: law
c. active: thought implies that the answers to
c. carpenter: wood*
d. erratic: path the questions in sentence
d. teacher: pupil
_____22. INCEPTION:: two would reveal that
_____30. REPEL:: LURE
CONCLUSION human beings ________.
a. miscarry: succeed*
a. departure: arrival* b. dismount: devolve a. are less human when
b. culmination: upshot c. abrogate: deny they seek pleasure*
c. approach: return d. abridge: shorten b. need to evaluate their
d. escapade: punishment purpose in life
_____23. SCINTILLATING: c. are being alienated from
DULLNESS 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. IDIOM ATIC
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
Davidlee tonight.
a. I determined, in spite of
my schedule.
b. I forgot as a result of
carelessness*
c. I wished.
d. I planned delicately.
_____43. The idea of
expansionism “has not
taken root” in the
Philippines.
a. Has not become popular
b. Has not been heard
c. has not established itself*
d. has not been monitored
_____44. Ewan Gregory
does not mind how much
resistance he causes; he
like “sailing against the
wind”.
a. Being popular
b. Interfering
c. overcoming the
opposition
d. opposing the popular
view*
_____45. Although Marvin
Jay had only a minor role in
the play, he “stole the
thunder from” the lead
actor.
a. Borrowed the role from
b. Diverted the attention to
himself from*
c. succeeded in portraying
d. transformed the
character of
_____46. I had a “heart to
heart talk” with my teacher
on my plans to study
Linguistics or Microbiology
at the university.
a. Sentimental meeting
b. Superficial talk
c. serious discussion*
d. successful arrangement
_____47. Juan Carlo decide
“to keep his peace” until he
finished examining the
situation.
a. Not to talk*
b. To be forthright
c. to be relaxed Through the 57)_________ 56.
d. to be reserved of this School Improvement a. basis
_____48. The company Plan, with the unwavering b. bases*
needs a couple of million 58)___________ of the c. basing
pesos for its expansion. It is officers and members of the d. based
likely that the Php 100 PTA as well as the School
57.
000.00 the partner has Governing Council and
other stakeholders of a. implement
offered is “a drop in the
education, it is b. implementing
ocean”.
59)________________ that c. implementation*
a. Useful d. implements
the goals vision and
b. More than enough
mission of the East Central 58.
c. a tiny fraction of what is
Elementary School will be a. support*
needed*
60)___________. b. supporting
d. useless until the amount
is complete 49. c. supports
a. improving d. supported
b. improves 59.
A. CLOZE TEST c. improved a. expect
d. improvement* b. expects
(P ART 1) 50. c. expecting
Introduction: d. expected*
a. conceptualized*
This is the School 49) b. conceptualizes 60.
_________ Plan of the East c. conceptualizing
Central Elementary School, a. realize
d. conceptualize b. realized*
San Fabian District II,
51. c. realizing
Pangasinan II Division, was
50)________________ and a. evolving d. realizes
51)_______________ b. evolves
through the concerted c. evolved*
efforts of the teaching d. evolve H. CLOZE TEST
52)___________ with the 52. (P ART 2)
other stakeholders of a. staffs
education headed by the Madam 61) _____
b. staff*
principal. It c. staffed I have the honor to request
53)_______________ the d. staffing permission 62)_______ you
vision or educational goals good office to
which 54)________ to uplift 53. 63)__________ an action
or improve the school a. present research in Science
performance in terms of the b. presenting 64)_______, “Enhancing
following areas of c. presents* the Performance of the
development namely the d. presented Grade VI Pupils in Science
pupil, staff, curriculum and 54. and Health through
physical facilities Counteractive Lecture “for
a. aims*
development which will the Grade VI pupils of
b. aim
55)__________ as the Greater Heights Elementary
c. aimed
56)_________ for School for this school year
d. aiming
evaluating the performance 2014 – 2015.
of the school. It presents 55.
Hoping for your
the school and community a. serves 65)________ approval.
profile and the expected b. serving
66)________________
activities of the school. c. servicing
d. served*
EWAN ETHAN LEE C. c. Truly yours
RIVERA d. Very truly yours,*
Teacher 67.
1st 67)___________ a. indorsment
68)____________________ b. endorsment
___ c. indorsement*
Respectfully forwarded d. endorsement
69)__________ the Schools 68.
Division Superintendent,
a. With date*
Pangasinan Division II,
b. No date
Binalonan, Pangasinan,
c. —–
recommending approval of
d. —–
this basic communication.
69.
70)____________________
_________ a.to*
DAVIDLEE DV. ROMERO b. from
JR. c. with
Public Schools District d. for
Supervisor 70.
61. a. Truly yours,
a. ; b. Very truly yours,
b. : c. Sincerely yours,
c. , d. No complementary
d. . Close*
62.
a. to
b. for
c. your
d. from*
63.
a. conduct*
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,