Part I. ENGLISH PROFICIENCY _____4.

The reporter was adjudged

TEST guilty of _____ for spreading false
accusations.

Directions: Read the sentences

carefully. Choose the letter of the a. calumny*
correct answer. Write the letter of b. rebellion
your answer on the space provided c. treachery
for. d. mutiny

A. SENTENCE _____5. Ewan played the violin with

such _____, everyone was amazed.
COMPLETION
_____1. She is well loved by the a. anxiety
people for being ______________. b. inanity
c. deity
d. virtuosity*
a. slanderous
b. virtuous*
c. ambiguous _____6. Today, Alfred Wegener’s
d. condescending theory is _______; however, he died
an outsider treated with ___ by the
scientific establishments.
_____2. Davidlee is an
____________ diver. He always wins
the gold medal. a. unsupported: approval
b. dismissed: contempt
c. accepted: approbation
a. inept d. unchallenged: disdain*
b. efficient
c. adroit*
d. aggressive _____7. The revolution I art has not
lost its steam; it _________ on as
fiercely as ever.
_____3. The ____ student _____
going to school.
a. trudges
b. meanders
a. delinquent; abhors* c. rages*
b. awkward; abhors d. ambles
c. industrious; dislikes
d. obedient; dislikes
_____8. Biological clocks are of such
_____ adaptive value to living
organisms, that we would expect _____12. Argentina is one of the
most organisms to _____them. world’s leading honey-exporters. It
maintains a large apiary.

a. obvious: possess*
b. ambivalent: develop
c. meager: evolve
d. significant: eschew
a. Place where birds are bred.
b. Place where apes are grown.
C. Place where bees are raised.*
D. Place where honey is stored.

_____9. The peasants were the least

______ of all people, bound by _____13. Eugenio Joshua admires
tradition and _____ by superstitions. his teacher’s deportment during
class.

a. conventional: encumbered
b. pinioned: limited a. demeanor*
c. free: fettered* b. speech
d. enthralled: tied c. banishment
d. intelligence

_____10. The conclusion of his

argument, while _____, is far from _____14. His recommendation was
______. rejected because it might be inimical
to the company.

a. germane: relevant
b. esoteric: obscure a. insubstantial
c. stimulating: interesting b. useful
d. abstruse: incomprehensible* c. costly
d. disadvantageous*

B. SYNONYMS
_____15. Marvin Jay’s supervisor
asked him to elucidate his proposal
_____11. The virulent drug he had
during the presentation.
mistakenly taken killed him in an
instant.
a. clarify*
b. extend
a. effective
c. improve
b. expensive
d. shorten
c. sedative
d. toxic*

C. ANTONYMS
_____16. The mother has been a. temporary
doleful every when she lost her son. b. permanent*
c. extraordinary
d. luminous
a. miserable
b. cheerful*
c. prayerful D. ANALOGY
d. anxious
_____21. ARTICULATE::SPEECH
_____17. Juan Carlo acquiesced to
his friends’ plan of going to Baguio
a. predictable: event
comes February.
b. coordinated: movement
c. active: thought
d. erratic: path
a. agreed
b. objected*
c. rejoiced
_____22. INCEPTION::
d. abided
CONCLUSION

_____18. John Dan’s house is full of

a. departure: arrival*
a motley collection of furniture,
b. culmination: upshot
including antiques, woodcrafts and
c. approach: return
glasswares.
d. escapade: punishment

a. diverse
_____23. SCINTILLATING:
b. attractive
DULLNESS
c. homogenous*
d. expensive
a. erudite: wisdom
b. desultory: error
_____19. Jeric Angel’s nervousness
c. boisterous: calm*
was palpable despite the confident
d. exalted: elevation
façade he was showing.

_____24. SHARD: POTTERY

a. evident
b. increasing
c. decreasing
a. seed: flower
d. hidden*
b. smoke: fire
c. chair: furniture*
d. mystify: enlightenment
_____20. He had learned that
everything in life is evanescent.
_____25. PROSAIC: MUNDANE _____30. REPEL:: LURE

a. obdurate: foolish* a. miscarry: succeed*

b. ascetic: austere b. dismount: devolve
c. loquacious: taciturn c. abrogate: deny
d. peremptory: spontaneous d. abridge: shorten

_____26. ATTENUATE::SIGNAL E. READING

COMPREHENSION
a. exacerbate: problem
b. modify: accent Passage 1
c. dampen: enthusiasm*
d. elongate: line
Much of what goes by the name of
pleasure is simply an effort to destroy
_____27. SALACIOUS:: consciousness. If one started by
WHOLESOME asking, what is man? What are his
needs? How can he best express
himself? One would discover that
a. religious: private merely having the power to avoid
b. expensive: profligate work and live one’s life from birth to
c. conservative: stoic death in electric light and to the tune
d. mendacious: truthful* of tinned music is not a reason for
doing so. Man needs warmth, society,
leisure, comfort and security: he also
_____28. PENURY:: MONEY needs solitude, creative work and the
sense of wonder. If he recognized
this he could use the products of
a. starvation: sustenance science and industrialism eclectically,
b. independence: freedom* applying always the same test: does
c. infirmity: illness this make me more human or less
d. spontaneity: care human? He would then learn that the
highest happiness does not lie in
relaxing, resting, playing poker,
_____29. MASON:: STONE drinking and making love
simultaneously.

a. soldier: weapon
b. lawyer: law Adapted from an essay by George
c. carpenter: wood* Orwell
d. teacher: pupil

_____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 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
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
A. CLOZE TEST
(PART 1)
Introduction:
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 53.
officers and members of the PTA as
well as the School Governing Council
and other stakeholders of education, a. present
it is 59)________________ that the b. presenting
goals vision and mission of the East c. presents*
Central Elementary School will be d. presented
60)___________.

54.
49.

a. aims*
a. improving b. aim
b. improves c. aimed
c. improved d. aiming
d. improvement*

55.
50.

a. serves
a. conceptualized* b. serving
b. conceptualizes c. servicing
c. conceptualizing d. served*
d. conceptualize

56.
51.

a. basis
a. evolving b. bases*
b. evolves c. basing
c. evolved* d. based
d. evolve

57.
52.

a. implement
a. staffs b. implementing
b. staff* c. implementation*
c. staffed d. implements
d. staffing

58.
a. support* 66)________________
b. supporting
c. supports
d. supported EWAN ETHAN LEE C. RIVERA
Teacher

59.
1st 67)___________
68)_______________________
a. expect
b. expects
c. expecting Respectfully forwarded
d. expected* 69)__________ the Schools Division
Superintendent, Pangasinan Division
II, Binalonan, Pangasinan,
60. recommending approval of this basic
communication.

a. realize
b. realized* 70)___________________________
c. realizing __
d. realizes DAVIDLEE DV. ROMERO JR.
Public Schools District Supervisor

H. CLOZE TEST
61.
(PART 2)
Madam 61) _____ a. ;
b. :
c. ,
I have the honor to request d. .
permission 62)_______ you good
office to 63)__________ an action
research in Science 64)_______, 62.
“Enhancing the Performance of the
Grade VI Pupils in Science and
Health through Counteractive Lecture a. to
“for the Grade VI pupils of Greater b. for
Heights Elementary School for this c. your
school year 2014 – 2015. d. from*

Hoping for your 65)________ 63.

approval.
a. conduct* a. With date*
b. conducts b. No date
c. conducted c. —–
d. conducting d. —–

64. 69.

a. entitle a.to*
b. entitles b. from
c. entitled* c. with
d. entitling d. for

65. 70.

a. kind* a. Truly yours,

b. kinder b. Very truly yours,
c. kindest c. Sincerely yours,
d. modest d. No complementary Close*

66.

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

67.

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

68.