ADDITIONAL ENGLISH PROFICIENCY TEST
(REVIEWER)
PART I. STRUCTURE
DIRECTIONS: This subset measure your ability to recognize language that is
appropriate for standard written English.
1. The enterprising daughter who ______ a vast fortune from her super rich and
powerful father is going to Europe to venture into other business deals.
a. inherit b. inherited c. is inheriting d. was inherited
2. Helium, a new element in the sun, is the ash left______atoms of hydrogen are
fused in the furnace of the sun.
a. while b. unless c. when d. until
3. To everybody’s surprise, the captain, looking ______, ease there ahead of all the
rest.
a. his best b. at his best c. in his best d. for his best
4. People_____Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) damage were not necessarily those who
had smoked the longest but those who began smoking at a young age.
a. of worst b. of worse c. within the worse d. within the worst
5. The primordial purpose _______schooling is ultimately to learn how to learn.
a. in b. for c. of d. at
6. Before the seeds germinated, I did not know what kind of plants they __________.
a. will be b. would be c. can be d. could be
7. In April 1906, an earthquake never before equalled in violence _______a part of the
United States, particularly San Francisco, California.
a. striked b. stroke c. strikes d. struck
8. Ballooning revenue collections, mushrooming infrastructures and expanding
transportation and communication facilities conspicuously manifest the _____of the
city.
a. speedily growing economy c. growing speed economic
b. speedy economic growing d. growing economic speed
9. The latest addition to the year – round regional cultural showcase is the new,
state-of-the-art light and sound museum which ______the country’s past and its
present.
a. exhibit b. exhibits c. exhibited d.
exhibiting
10. Oral rehydration________attempted to replace lost body fluids in the early
stages of fever.
a. is b. would be c. was d. has been
11. It _____be gleaned from the article that mass media have both positive and
negative influence to society.
a. would b. could c. must d. might
12. Of all the sports that ________strong bodies, swimming is the best.
a. develops b. developed c. develop d. is
developing
13. The legalization of divorce, until such time, has been _________in our society.
a. a hotly-contested issues b. hotly-contesting issue c. a hot contested
issue
d. a hot contesting issue
14. A website is limited_______you to other websites where you can access for
more information and discoveries.
a. until it is linking b. because it links c. since it linked d. while
it link
15. The happy children, _______ , paraded in the busy streets in celebration of
their school foundation.
a. majestic costumes b. majestic costumed c. majestically costumes
d. majestically costumed
WRITTEN EXPRESSION
Direction: Identify the one part that must be changed to make the sentence
correct.
1. a. Any government
b.should implement certain policies
c. which would cater to the economic, political, moral
d. and the social needs of the nation.
2. a. The threat of deculturation
b.now hangs over many small ethnic minority
c. that are scattered
d. in the depths of many forests
3. a. Human beings
b.have this natural inclination
c. for fending off lonely, exile, and death
d. by dressing up the passing moment as a miracle
4. a. Any nation
b.that aspires to elevate morality
c. will have difficulty
d. stamp out prostitution
5. a. Trinh Xuan Thuan, an astrophysicist from Vietnam
b. wrote The Birth of the Universe: The Big Bang and After, in 1993,
c. a book on how it elucidates
d. the information and evolution of galaxies
6. a. The navy contributes
b. to the protection of the environment and presentation of natural resources
c. by scuttle out cylindrical blocks
d. to serve as artificial reefs.
7. a. The failure of tree-planting project was due to the inconsistent reforestation
program
b. haphazard community tree-planting schemes, and meddling practices
of indifference individuals
c. who reduced the anti-erosion fences
d. just to benefit their pasture land businesses
8. a. Unclean water and improper disposal of waste
b. can be carried highly communicable diseases
c. because of their injurious effects
d. to human life
9. a. The indication
b. of social distinct
c. or the credibility of a piece of information
d. can lead to interesting state of perplexity
10. a. As of January 2003,
b. Okinawa has the highest proportion of centenarians in the world
c. but its ranking of male life expectancy
d. fell into first rank in 1985 to fourth rank in 1995.
11. a. The movie we have seen
b. is a precision-carved jigsaw puzzle
c. that it took us inside the head
d. of a deeply disturbed, isolated schizophrenic man
READING COMPREHENSION
C. It becomes a United Nation Vietnamese Regional Center
B. Palawan and its Extraordinary Natural Beauty
A. Variety
C. El Nido was discovered by a Diver
B. The Imaginative Power of Drama
C. Theater teaches us that suicide is the only solutions to the problem
D. Foolishness
C. It is able create power, faith and truth.
B. Drug Addiction
C. nicotine, cocaine and caffeine
D. The addict feels as if he is not aware of his own self and such
A. the drug spawns a wide range of disorders like fear, anxiety and a sense of
insecurity in the human mind.
D. Homer
A. Trojan War
C. Classic Stories
A. Mythical Gods
B. Illustrating the despair and useless suffering associated with war
C. Long suffering along resolving in triumph
C. Theme of Love
D. Camera Resembles Life
A. Simile
A. Human Eye
C. Capture the Good Times
A. Focus on what’s Important
C. The discovery of Rosette Stone lead to better understanding of the history of
Egypt
A. Egypt
C.Wise
C. Ancient Egyptian would not have known of their cultural heritage
C. The founder of the Rosetta Stone knew of its value and turned it over to the
proper authorities
C. Narrative chronological order of events
A. Egypt has a rich civilization dating back to the earliest times
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