Part I. ENGLISH PROFICIENCY TEST a.

calumny*
b. rebellion
Directions: Read the sentences carefully. c. treachery
Choose the letter of the correct answer. d. mutiny
Write the letter of your answer on the
space provided for. _____5. Ewan played the violin with such
_____, everyone was amazed.
A. Sentence Completion
a. anxiety
_____1. She is well loved by the people for b. inanity
being ______________. c. deity
d. virtuosity*
a. slanderous
b. virtuous* _____6. Today, Alfred Wegener’s theory is
c. ambiguous _______; however, he died an outsider
d. condescending treated with ___ by the scientific
establishments.
_____2. Davidlee is an ____________
diver. He always wins the gold medal. a. unsupported: approval
b. dismissed: contempt
a. inept c. accepted: approbation
b. efficient d. unchallenged: disdain*
c. adroit*
d. aggressive _____7. The revolution I art has not lost
its steam; it _________ on as fiercely as
_____3. The ____ student _____ going to ever.
school.
a. trudges
a. delinquent; abhors* b. meanders
b. awkward; abhors c. rages*
c. industrious; dislikes d. ambles
d. obedient; dislikes
_____8. Biological clocks are of such
_____4. The reporter was adjudged guilty _____ adaptive value to living organisms,
of _____ for spreading false accusations. that we would expect most organisms to
_____them.
a. obvious: possess* a. Place where birds are bred.
b. ambivalent: develop b. Place where apes are grown.
c. meager: evolve C. Place where bees are raised.*
d. significant: eschew D. Place where honey is stored.

_____9. The peasants were the least _____13. Eugenio Joshua admires his
______ of all people, bound by tradition teacher’s deportment during class.
and _____ by superstitions.
a. demeanor*
a. conventional: encumbered b. speech
b. pinioned: limited c. banishment
c. free: fettered* d. intelligence
d. enthralled: tied
_____14. His recommendation was
_____10. The conclusion of his argument, rejected because it might be inimical to the
while _____, is far from ______. company.

a. germane: relevant a. insubstantial

b. esoteric: obscure b. useful
c. stimulating: interesting c. costly
d. abstruse: incomprehensible* d. disadvantageous*

B. Synonyms _____15. Marvin Jay’s supervisor asked

him to elucidate his proposal during the
_____11. The virulent drug he had presentation.
mistakenly taken killed him in an instant.
a. clarify*
a. effective b. extend
b. expensive c. improve
c. sedative d. shorten
d. toxic*

C. Antonyms
_____12. Argentina is one of the world’s
leading honey-exporters. It maintains a _____16. The mother has been doleful
large apiary. every when she lost her son.
a. miserable a. temporary
b. cheerful* b. permanent*
c. prayerful c. extraordinary
d. anxious d. luminous

_____17. Juan Carlo acquiesced to his D. Analogy

friends’ plan of going to Baguio comes
February. _____21. ARTICULATE::SPEECH

a. agreed a. predictable: event

b. objected* b. coordinated: movement
c. rejoiced c. active: thought
d. abided d. erratic: path

_____18. John Dan’s house is full of a _____22. INCEPTION:: CONCLUSION

motley collection of furniture, including
antiques, woodcrafts and glasswares. a. departure: arrival*
b. culmination: upshot
a. diverse c. approach: return
b. attractive d. escapade: punishment
c. homogenous*
d. expensive _____23. SCINTILLATING: DULLNESS

_____19. Jeric Angel’s nervousness was a. erudite: wisdom

palpable despite the confident façade he b. desultory: error
was showing. c. boisterous: calm*
d. exalted: elevation
a. evident
b. increasing _____24. SHARD: POTTERY
c. decreasing
d. hidden* a. seed: flower
b. smoke: fire
_____20. He had learned that everything c. chair: furniture*
in life is evanescent. d. mystify: enlightenment

_____25. PROSAIC: MUNDANE

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
_____27. SALACIOUS:: WHOLESOME
a. religious: private
b. expensive: profligate
c. conservative: stoic
d. mendacious: truthful*
_____28. PENURY:: MONEY
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 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 officers and 53.
members of the PTA as well as the School
Governing Council and other stakeholders a. present
of education, it is 59)________________ b. presenting
that the goals vision and mission of the c. presents*
East 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* EWAN ETHAN LEE C. RIVERA
b. supporting Teacher
c. supports
d. supported 1st 67)___________
68)_______________________
59.
Respectfully forwarded 69)__________ the
a. expect Schools Division Superintendent,
b. expects Pangasinan Division II, Binalonan,
c. expecting Pangasinan, recommending approval of
d. expected* this basic communication.

60. 70)_____________________________
DAVIDLEE DV. ROMERO JR.
a. realize Public Schools District Supervisor
b. realized*
c. realizing 61.
d. realizes
a. ;
H. Cloze Test (Part 2) b. :
c. ,
Madam 61) _____ d. .

I have the honor to request permission 62.

62)_______ you good office to
63)__________ an action research in a. to
Science 64)_______, “Enhancing the b. for
Performance of the Grade VI Pupils in c. your
Science and Health through Counteractive d. from*
Lecture “for the Grade VI pupils of Greater
Heights Elementary School for this school 63.
year 2014 – 2015.
a. conduct*
Hoping for your 65)________ approval. b. conducts
c. conducted
66)________________ d. conducting
64. a.to*
b. from
a. entitle c. with
b. entitles d. for
c. entitled*
d. entitling 70.

65. a. Truly yours,

b. Very truly yours,
a. kind* c. Sincerely yours,
b. kinder d. No complementary Close*
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.