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_____1. She is well loved by the people for being ______________.
a. slanderous
b. virtuous*
c. ambiguous
d. condescending
a. inept
b. efficient
c. adroit*
d. aggressive
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*
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. sedative
d. toxic*
a. demeanor*
b. speech
c. banishment
d. intelligence
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 comes
February.
a. agreed
b. objected*
c. rejoiced
d. abided
a. diverse
b. attractive
c. homogenous*
d. expensive
_____19. Jeric Angel’s nervousness was palpable despite the confident façade he
was showing.
a. evident
b. increasing
c. decreasing
d. hidden*
a. temporary
b. permanent*
c. extraordinary
d. luminous
D. AN ALOG Y
_____21. ARTICULATE::SPEECH
a. predictable: event
b. coordinated: movement
c. active: thought
d. erratic: path
a. departure: arrival*
b. culmination: upshot
c. approach: return
d. escapade: punishment
a. erudite: wisdom
b. desultory: error
c. boisterous: calm*
d. exalted: elevation
a. obdurate: foolish*
b. ascetic: austere
c. loquacious: taciturn
d. peremptory: spontaneous
_____26. ATTENUATE::SIGNAL
a. exacerbate: problem
b. modify: accent
c. dampen: enthusiasm*
d. elongate: line
a. religious: private
b. expensive: profligate
c. conservative: stoic
d. mendacious: truthful*
a. starvation: sustenance
b. independence: freedom*
c. infirmity: illness
d. spontaneity: care
a. miscarry: succeed*
b. dismount: devolve
c. abrogate: deny
d. abridge: shorten
_____31. The author implies that the answers to the questions in sentence two
would reveal that human beings ________.
_____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.
_____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.
a. paradox
b. legend
c. melancholy
d. self-deprecation*
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 ___.
_____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”.
_____42. “It slipped my mind” that I will have with Davidlee tonight.
_____43. The idea of expansionism “has not taken root” in the Philippines.
_____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
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
d. to be reserved
_____48. The company needs a couple of million pesos for its expansion. It is
likely that the Php 100 000.00 the partner has offered is “a drop in the ocean”.
a. Useful
b. More than enough
c. a tiny fraction of what is needed*
d. useless until the amount is complete
This is the School 49) _________ Plan of the East Central Elementary School,
San Fabian District II, Pangasinan II Division, was 50)________________ and
51)_______________ through the concerted efforts of the teaching
52)___________ with the other stakeholders of education headed by the
principal. It 53)_______________ the vision or educational goals which
54)________ to uplift or improve the school performance in terms of the following
areas of development namely the pupil, staff, curriculum and physical facilities
development which will 55)__________ as the 56)_________ for evaluating the
performance of the school. It presents the school and community profile and the
expected activities of the school.
Through the 57)_________ of this School Improvement Plan, with the unwavering
58)___________ of the officers and members of the PTA as well as the School
Governing Council and other stakeholders of education, it is
59)________________ that the goals vision and mission of the East Central
Elementary School will be 60)___________.
49.
a. improving
b. improves
c. improved
d. improvement*
50.
a. conceptualized*
b. conceptualizes
c. conceptualizing
d. conceptualize
51.
a. evolving
b. evolves
c. evolved*
d. evolve
52.
a. staffs
b. staff*
c. staffed
d. staffing
53.
a. present
b. presenting
c. presents*
d. presented
54.
a. aims*
b. aim
c. aimed
d. aiming
55.
a. serves
b. serving
c. servicing
d. served*
56.
a. basis
b. bases*
c. basing
d. based
57.
a. implement
b. implementing
c. implementation*
d. implements
58.
a. support*
b. supporting
c. supports
d. supported
59.
a. expect
b. expects
c. expecting
d. expected*
60.
a. realize
b. realized*
c. realizing
d. realizes
1st 67)___________
68)_______________________
70)_____________________________
DAVIDLEE DV. ROMERO JR.
Public Schools District Supervisor
61.
a. ;
b. :
c. ,
d. .
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,
c. Truly yours
d. Very truly yours,*
67.
a. indorsment
b. endorsment
c. indorsement*
d. endorsement
68.
a. With date*
b. 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*