Part I.

ENGLISH PROFICIENCY TEST

_____10. The conclusion of his argument, while _____, is far from
A. Sentence Completion ______.
_____1. She is well loved by the people for being
______________. a. germane: relevant
b. esoteric: obscure
a. slanderous c. stimulating: interesting
b. virtuous* d. abstruse: incomprehensible*
c. ambiguous
d. condescending B. Synonyms

_____2. Davidlee is an ____________ diver. He always wins the _____11. The virulent drug he had mistakenly taken killed him in
gold medal. an instant.

a. inept a. effective
b. efficient b. expensive
c. adroit* c. sedative
d. aggressive d. toxic*

_____3. The ____ student _____ going to school. _____12. Argentina is one of the world’s leading honey-exporters.
It maintains a large apiary.
a. delinquent; abhors*
b. awkward; abhors a. Place where birds are bred.
c. industrious; dislikes b. Place where apes are grown.
d. obedient; dislikes C. Place where bees are raised.*
D. Place where honey is stored.
_____4. The reporter was adjudged guilty of _____ for spreading
false accusations. _____13. Eugenio Joshua admires his teacher’s deportment during
class.
a. calumny*
b. rebellion a. demeanor*
c. treachery b. speech
d. mutiny c. banishment
d. intelligence
_____5. Ewan played the violin with such _____, everyone was
amazed. _____14. His recommendation was rejected because it might be
inimical to the company.
a. anxiety
b. inanity a. insubstantial
c. deity b. useful
d. virtuosity* c. costly
d. disadvantageous*
_____6. Today, Alfred Wegener’s theory is _______; however, he
died an outsider treated with ___ by the scientific establishments. _____15. Marvin Jay’s supervisor asked him to elucidate his
proposal during the presentation.
a. unsupported: approval
b. dismissed: contempt a. clarify*
c. accepted: approbation b. extend
d. unchallenged: disdain* c. improve
d. shorten
_____7. The revolution I art has not lost its steam; it _________ on
as fiercely as ever. C. Antonyms

a. trudges _____16. The mother has been doleful every when she lost her
b. meanders son.
c. rages*
d. ambles a. miserable
b. cheerful*
_____8. Biological clocks are of such _____ adaptive value to c. prayerful
living organisms, that we would expect most organisms to d. anxious
_____them.
_____17. Juan Carlo acquiesced to his friends’ plan of going to
a. obvious: possess* Baguio comes February.
b. ambivalent: develop
c. meager: evolve a. agreed
d. significant: eschew b. objected*
c. rejoiced
_____9. The peasants were the least ______ of all people, bound d. abided
by tradition and _____ by superstitions.

a. conventional: encumbered
b. pinioned: limited
c. free: fettered*
d. enthralled: tied
_____18. John Dan’s house is full of a motley collection of c. conservative: stoic
furniture, including antiques, woodcrafts and glasswares. d. mendacious: truthful*

a. diverse _____28. PENURY:: MONEY

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

D. Analogy E. Reading Comprehension

Passage 1
_____21. ARTICULATE::SPEECH
Much of what goes by the name of pleasure is simply an effort to
a. predictable: event destroy consciousness. If one started by asking, what is man? What
b. coordinated: movement are his needs? How can he best express himself? One would
c. active: thought discover that merely having the power to avoid work and live
d. erratic: path 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,
_____22. INCEPTION:: CONCLUSION society, leisure, comfort and security: he also needs solitude,
creative work and the sense of wonder. If he recognized this he
a. departure: arrival* could use the products of science and industrialism eclectically,
b. culmination: upshot applying always the same test: does this make me more human or
c. approach: return less human? He would then learn that the highest happiness does
d. escapade: punishment not lie in relaxing, resting, playing poker, drinking and making
love simultaneously.
_____23. SCINTILLATING: DULLNESS
Adapted from an essay by George Orwell
a. erudite: wisdom
b. desultory: error _____31. The author implies that the answers to the questions in
c. boisterous: calm* sentence two would reveal that human beings ________.
d. exalted: elevation
a. are less human when they seek pleasure*
_____24. SHARD: POTTERY b. need to evaluate their purpose in life
c. are being alienated from their true nature by technology
a. seed: flower d. have needs beyond physical comforts
b. smoke: fire
c. chair: furniture* _____32. The author would apparently agree that playing poker is
d. mystify: enlightenment _____.

_____25. PROSAIC: MUNDANE a. often an effort to avoid thinking

b. something that gives true pleasure
a. obdurate: foolish* c. an example of man’s need for society *
b. ascetic: austere d. something that man must learn to avoid
c. loquacious: taciturn
d. peremptory: spontaneous Passage 2

_____26. ATTENUATE::SIGNAL Examine the recently laid egg of some common animal, such as a
salamander or newt. It is a minute spheroid – an apparently
a. exacerbate: problem structure less sac, enclosing a fluid, holding granules in
b. modify: accent suspension. But let a moderate supply of warmth reach its watery
c. dampen: enthusiasm* cradle, and the plastic matter undergoes changes so rapid, yet so
d. elongate: line 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,
_____27. SALACIOUS:: WHOLESOME 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;
a. religious: private pinching up the head at one end, the tail at the other, and
b. expensive: profligate 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 _____37. Both passages make the point that _____.
vision than a microscope, would show the hidden artist, with his
plan before him, striving with skillful manipulation to perfect his a. books read early in life can be revisited in the imagination
work. many years later *
b. imaginary travel is better than real journeys
Adapted from an essay by T H Huxley c. children’s books are largely fiction
d. the effects of childhood impressions are inescapable
_____33. The author makes his main point with the aid of
_______. _____38. Both passages list a series of places, but differ in that the
author of passage three ___.
a. logical paradox
b. complex rationalization* a. has been more influenced by his list of locations
c. scientific deductions b. never expects to visit any of them in real life, whereas the writer
d. observations on the connection between art and science of passage two thinks it at least possible that he might
c. is less specific in compiling his list*
_____34. In the context of the final sentence the word “subtle” d. wishes to preserve his locations in his mind forever, whereas the
most nearly means _____. author of passage two wishes to modify all his visions in the light
of reality.
a. not obvious
b. indirect F. Idiomatic Expressions
c. discriminating
d. surreptitious * _____39. We are affected as much as you are by the rising prices
of gasoline; we are all “in the same boat”.
Passage 3
a. Suffering the same predicament*
There are not many places that I find it more agreeable to revisit b. Hindering the success
when in an idle mood, than some places to which I have never c. Empathizing with everyone on his suffering
been. For, my acquaintance with those spots is of such long d. Acknowledging the suffering
standing, and has ripened into an intimacy of so affectionate a
nature, that I take a particular interesting assuring myself that they _____40. The members of the public are demanding for better
are unchanged. I never was in Robinson Crusoe’s Island, yet I public infrastructure and more public services, but at the same time
frequently return there. I was never in the robbers’ cave, where Gil they are demanding for lower taxes. It is becoming a “Catch-22
Blas lived, but I often go back there and find the trap-door just as situation”.
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 a. A challenging situation
at imaginary giants, yet you couldn’t move a book in it without my b. A dilemma from which it is impossible to escape*
knowledge. So with Damascus, and Lilliput, and the Nile, and c. A problem that involves government efficiency
Abyssinia, and the North Pole and many hundreds of places — I d. A condition of no great importance
was never at them, yet it is an affair of my life to keep them intact,
and I am always going back to them. _____41. That lady should not have become a war correspondent.
She is a “square peg in a round hole”.
Passage 4
a. A person who has been given an opportunity to change her
The books one reads in childhood create in one’s mind a sort of profession.
false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which b. A person who has no interest in her job.
one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and c. A person who takes part in every event.
which in some cases can even survive a visit to the real countries d. A person who is not suitable to her work or surroundings*
which they are supposed to represent. The pampas, the Amazon,
the coral islands of the Pacific, Russia, land of birch-tree and _____42. “It slipped my mind” that I will have with Davidlee
samovar, Transylvania with its boyars and vampires, the China of tonight.
Guy Boothby, the Paris of du Maurier—one could continue the list
for a long time. But one other imaginary country that I acquired a. I determined, in spite of my schedule.
early in life was called America. If I pause on the word “America”, b. I forgot as a result of carelessness*
and deliberately put aside the existing reality, I can call up my c. I wished.
childhood vision of it. d. I planned delicately.

Adapted from: The Uncommercial Traveller, C Dickens (1860) _____43. The idea of expansionism “has not taken root” in the
Philippines.
_____35. The first sentence of Passage 3 contains an element of
a. Has not become popular
a. paradox b. Has not been heard
b. legend c. has not established itself*
c. melancholy d. has not been monitored
d. self-deprecation*
_____44. Ewan Gregory does not mind how much resistance he
_____36. By calling America an “imaginary country” the author of causes; he like “sailing against the wind”.
passage two implies that ___.
a. Being popular
a. America has been the subject of numerous works for children b. Interfering
b. his current vision of that country is not related to reality c. overcoming the opposition
c. America has stimulated his imagination d. opposing the popular view*
d. his childhood vision of that country owed nothing to actual
conditions*
_____45. Although Marvin Jay had only a minor role in the play, c. evolved*
he “stole the thunder from” the lead actor. d. evolve

a. Borrowed the role from 52.

b. Diverted the attention to himself from*
c. succeeded in portraying a. staffs
d. transformed the character of b. staff*
c. staffed
_____46. I had a “heart to heart talk” with my teacher on my plans d. staffing
to study Linguistics or Microbiology at the university.
53.
a. Sentimental meeting
b. Superficial talk a. present
c. serious discussion* b. presenting
d. successful arrangement c. presents*
d. presented
_____47. Juan Carlo decide “to keep his peace” until he finished
examining the situation. 54.

a. Not to talk* a. aims*

b. To be forthright b. aim
c. to be relaxed c. aimed
d. to be reserved d. aiming

_____48. The company needs a couple of million pesos for its 55.
expansion. It is likely that the Php 100 000.00 the partner has
offered is “a drop in the ocean”. a. serves
b. serving
a. Useful c. servicing
b. More than enough d. served*
c. a tiny fraction of what is needed*
d. useless until the amount is complete 56.

A. Cloze Test (Part 1) a. basis

Introduction: b. bases*
c. basing
This is the School 49) _________ Plan of the East Central d. based
Elementary School, San Fabian District II, Pangasinan II Division,
was 50)________________ and 51)_______________ through the 57.
concerted efforts of the teaching 52)___________ with the other
stakeholders of education headed by the principal. It a. implement
53)_______________ the vision or educational goals which b. implementing
54)________ to uplift or improve the school performance in terms c. implementation*
of the following areas of development namely the pupil, staff, d. implements
curriculum and physical facilities development which will
55)__________ as the 56)_________ for evaluating the 58.
performance of the school. It presents the school and community
profile and the expected activities of the school. a. support*
b. supporting
Through the 57)_________ of this School Improvement Plan, with c. supports
the unwavering 58)___________ of the officers and members of d. supported
the PTA as well as the School Governing Council and other
stakeholders of education, it is 59)________________ that the 59.
goals vision and mission of the East Central Elementary School
will be 60)___________. a. expect
b. expects
49. c. expecting
d. expected*
a. improving
b. improves 60.
c. improved
d. improvement* a. realize
b. realized*
50. c. realizing
d. realizes
a. conceptualized*
b. conceptualizes H. Cloze Test (Part 2)
c. conceptualizing
d. conceptualize Madam 61) _____

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

Hoping for your 65)________ approval. 69.

66)________________ a.to*
b. from
EWAN ETHAN LEE C. RIVERA c. with
Teacher d. for

1st 67)___________ 70.

68)_______________________
a. Truly yours,
Respectfully forwarded 69)__________ the Schools Division b. Very truly yours,
Superintendent, Pangasinan Division II, Binalonan, Pangasinan, c. Sincerely yours,
recommending approval of this basic communication. d. No complementary Close*

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