Part I. ENGLISH PROFICIENCY TEST _____9.

The peasants were the least ______ of all people, bound

by tradition and _____ by superstitions.
A. Sentence Completion
_____1. She is well loved by the people for being a. conventional: encumbered
______________. b. pinioned: limited
c. free: fettered
a. slanderous d. enthralled: tied
b. virtuous
c. ambiguous _____10. The conclusion of his argument, while _____, is far from
d. condescending ______.

_____2. Davidlee is an ____________ diver. He always wins the a. germane: relevant

gold medal. b. esoteric: obscure
c. stimulating: interesting
a. inept d. abstruse: incomprehensible
b. efficient
c. adroit B. Synonyms
d. aggressive
_____11. The virulent drug he had mistakenly taken killed him in
_____3. The ____ student _____ going to school. an instant.

a. delinquent; abhors a. effective

b. awkward; abhors b. expensive
c. industrious; dislikes c. sedative
d. obedient; dislikes d. toxic

_____4. The reporter was adjudged guilty of _____ for spreading _____12. Argentina is one of the world’s leading honey-exporters.
false accusations. It maintains a large apiary.

a. calumny a. Place where birds are bred.

b. rebellion b. Place where apes are grown.
c. treachery C. Place where bees are raised.
d. mutiny D. Place where honey is stored.

_____5. Ewan played the violin with such _____, everyone was _____13. Eugenio Joshua admires his teacher’s deportment during
amazed. class.

a. anxiety a. demeanor
b. inanity b. speech
c. deity c. banishment
d. virtuosity d. intelligence

_____6. Today, Alfred Wegener’s theory is _______; however, he _____14. His recommendation was rejected because it might be
died an outsider treated with ___ by the scientific establishments. inimical to the company.

a. unsupported: approval a. insubstantial

b. dismissed: contempt b. useful
c. accepted: approbation c. costly
d. unchallenged: disdain d. disadvantageous

_____7. The revolution I art has not lost its steam; it _________ on _____15. Marvin Jay’s supervisor asked him to elucidate his
as fiercely as ever. proposal during the presentation.

a. trudges a. clarify
b. meanders b. extend
c. rages c. improve
d. ambles d. shorten

_____8. Biological clocks are of such _____ adaptive value to C. Antonyms

living organisms, that we would expect most organisms to
_____them. _____16. The mother has been doleful every when she lost her
son.
a. obvious: possess
b. ambivalent: develop a. miserable
c. meager: evolve b. cheerful
d. significant: eschew c. prayerful
d. anxious
_____17. Juan Carlo acquiesced to his friends’ plan of going to _____26. ATTENUATE::SIGNAL
Baguio comes February.
a. exacerbate: problem
a. agreed b. modify: accent
b. objected c. dampen: enthusiasm
c. rejoiced d. elongate: line
d. abided
_____27. SALACIOUS:: WHOLESOME
_____18. John Dan’s house is full of a motley collection of
furniture, including antiques, woodcrafts and glasswares. a. religious: private
b. expensive: profligate
a. diverse c. conservative: stoic
b. attractive d. mendacious: truthful
c. homogenous
d. expensive _____28. PENURY:: MONEY

_____19. Jeric Angel’s nervousness was palpable despite the a. starvation: sustenance
confident façade he was showing. b. independence: freedom
c. infirmity: illness
a. evident d. spontaneity: care
b. increasing
c. decreasing _____29. MASON:: STONE
d. hidden
a. soldier: weapon
_____20. He had learned that everything in life is evanescent. b. lawyer: law
c. carpenter: wood
a. temporary d. teacher: pupil
b. permanent
c. extraordinary _____30. REPEL:: LURE
d. luminous
a. miscarry: succeed
D. Analogy b. dismount: devolve
c. abrogate: deny
_____21. ARTICULATE::SPEECH d. abridge: shorten

a. predictable: event E. Reading Comprehension

b. coordinated: movement Passage 1
c. active: thought
d. erratic: path 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
_____22. INCEPTION:: CONCLUSION are his needs? How can he best express himself? One would
discover that merely having the power to avoid work and live
a. departure: arrival one’s life from birth to death in electric light and to the tune of
b. culmination: upshot tinned music is not a reason for doing so. Man needs warmth,
c. approach: return society, leisure, comfort and security: he also needs solitude,
d. escapade: punishment creative work and the sense of wonder. If he recognized this he
could use the products of science and industrialism eclectically,
_____23. SCINTILLATING: DULLNESS applying always the same test: does this make me more human or
less human? He would then learn that the highest happiness does
a. erudite: wisdom not lie in relaxing, resting, playing poker, drinking and making
b. desultory: error love simultaneously.
c. boisterous: calm
d. exalted: elevation Adapted from an essay by George Orwell

_____24. SHARD: POTTERY _____31. The author implies that the answers to the questions in
sentence two would reveal that human beings ________.
a. seed: flower
b. smoke: fire a. are less human when they seek pleasure
c. chair: furniture b. need to evaluate their purpose in life
d. mystify: enlightenment c. are being alienated from their true nature by technology
d. have needs beyond physical comforts
_____25. PROSAIC: MUNDANE
_____32. The author would apparently agree that playing poker is
a. obdurate: foolish _____.
b. ascetic: austere
c. loquacious: taciturn a. often an effort to avoid thinking
d. peremptory: spontaneous 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 performance of the school. It presents the school and community
tonight. profile and the expected activities of the school.

a. I determined, in spite of my schedule. Through the 57)_________ of this School Improvement Plan, with
b. I forgot as a result of carelessness the unwavering 58)___________ of the officers and members of
c. I wished. the PTA as well as the School Governing Council and other
d. I planned delicately. stakeholders of education, it is 59)________________ that the
goals vision and mission of the East Central Elementary School
_____43. The idea of expansionism “has not taken root” in the will be 60)___________.
Philippines.
49.
a. Has not become popular
b. Has not been heard a. improving
c. has not established itself b. improves
d. has not been monitored c. improved
d. improvement
_____44. Ewan Gregory does not mind how much resistance he
causes; he like “sailing against the wind”. 50.

a. Being popular a. conceptualized

b. Interfering b. conceptualizes
c. overcoming the opposition c. conceptualizing
d. opposing the popular view d. conceptualize

_____45. Although Marvin Jay had only a minor role in the play, 51.
he “stole the thunder from” the lead actor.
a. evolving
a. Borrowed the role from b. evolves
b. Diverted the attention to himself from c. evolved
c. succeeded in portraying d. evolve
d. transformed the character of
52.
_____46. I had a “heart to heart talk” with my teacher on my plans
to study Linguistics or Microbiology at the university. a. staffs
b. staff
a. Sentimental meeting c. staffed
b. Superficial talk d. staffing
c. serious discussion
d. successful arrangement 53.

_____47. Juan Carlo decide “to keep his peace” until he finished a. present
examining the situation. b. presenting
c. presents
a. Not to talk d. presented
b. To be forthright
c. to be relaxed 54.
d. to be reserved
a. aims
_____48. The company needs a couple of million pesos for its b. aim
expansion. It is likely that the Php 100 000.00 the partner has c. aimed
offered is “a drop in the ocean”. d. aiming

a. Useful 55.
b. More than enough
c. a tiny fraction of what is needed a. serves
d. useless until the amount is complete b. serving
c. servicing
A. Cloze Test (Part 1) d. served
Introduction:
56.
This is the School 49) _________ Plan of the East Central
Elementary School, San Fabian District II, Pangasinan II Division, a. basis
was 50)________________ and 51)_______________ through the b. bases
concerted efforts of the teaching 52)___________ with the other c. basing
stakeholders of education headed by the principal. It d. based
53)_______________ the vision or educational goals which
54)________ to uplift or improve the school performance in terms 57.
of the following areas of development namely the pupil, staff,
curriculum and physical facilities development which will a. implement
55)__________ as the 56)_________ for evaluating the b. implementing
c. implementation 63.
d. implements
a. conduct
58. b. conducts
c. conducted
a. support d. conducting
b. supporting
c. supports 64.
d. supported
a. entitle
59. b. entitles
c. entitled
a. expect d. entitling
b. expects
c. expecting 65.
d. expected
a. kind
60. b. kinder
c. kindest
a. realize d. modest
b. realized
c. realizing 66.
d. realizes
a. yours,
H. Cloze Test (Part 2) b. sincerely yours,
c. Truly yours
Madam 61) _____ d. Very truly yours,

I have the honor to request permission 62)_______ you good office 67.
to 63)__________ an action research in Science 64)_______,
“Enhancing the Performance of the Grade VI Pupils in Science and a. indorsment
Health through Counteractive Lecture “for the Grade VI pupils of b. endorsment
Greater Heights Elementary School for this school year 2014 – c. indorsement
2015. d. endorsement

Hoping for your 65)________ approval. 68.

66)________________ a. With date

b. No date
EWAN ETHAN LEE C. RIVERA c. —–
Teacher d. —–

1st 67)___________ 69.

68)_______________________
a.to
Respectfully forwarded 69)__________ the Schools Division b. from
Superintendent, Pangasinan Division II, Binalonan, Pangasinan, c. with
recommending approval of this basic communication. d. for

70)_____________________________ 70.
DAVIDLEE DV. ROMERO JR.
Public Schools District Supervisor a. Truly yours,
b. Very truly yours,
61. c. Sincerely yours,
d. No complementary Close
a. ;
b. :
c. ,
d. .

62.

a. to
b. for
c. your
d. from