1. You should be ashamed of yourself for having such CARNAL desires.
A. Spiritual
B. Bold
C. Worldly
D. Guilty
Answer: C
Rationale:
Carnal - Relating to bodily
pleasures and appetites
Spiritual - Relating to
religion or religious belief
Bold - Not afraid of
difficult situations
Worldly - Relating to the
human world rather than spiritual matters
Guilty - Responsible for doing something bad or
wrong
2. "We listened to a LOQUACIOUS
speaker." The capitalized word means____________.
A. Quiet
B. Simple
C. Verbose
D. Lousy
Answer: C
Rationale:
Loquacious - Full of
excessive talk
Quiet - The quality of
being calm
Simple - Not special or
unusual
Verbose - Using more
words than needed
Lousy - Not happy or
pleased
3. The apocalyptic lecture on the
"west valley fault line" warns of serious natural disaster in case of
a "big earthquake." The underline word means ___________.
A. Careless
B. Prophetic
C. Attractive
D. Encouraging
Answer: B
Rationale:
Prophetic
- Accurately describing or predicting what will happen in the future
Careless - Not giving
sufficient attention or thought to avoiding
harm or errors
Attractive - Pleasing or
appealing to the senses
Encouraging - Giving someone
support or confidence; supportive
4. Because of PROFANITY the program was suspended
from television. The capitalized word means:
A. Obscenity
B. History
C. Decency
D. Falsehood
Answer: A
Rationale:
Profanity - Offensive
language
Obscenity - An offensive
word
History - Study of past
events
Decency - Polite, moral
and honest behavior
Falsehood - An untrue
statement
5. lah would read any book or magazine she
could lay her hands on and read from cover to cover in one sitting. She is such
a ___________ reader.
A. Tedious
B. Serious
C. Leisurely
D. Voracious
Answer D
Rationale:
Tedious - Boring and too slow or long
Serious - Having an
important or dangerous possible result
Leisurely - Without haste
Excessively eager
Voracious - Without haste
Excessively eager
6. Even when her friends betray her,
Vanessa bears no rancor in her heart because she is not ______.
A. Embarrassed
B. Consoled
C. Bitter
D. Insulted
Answer C
Rationale:
Rancor - Bitter
deep-seated ill will
Embarrassed - To place in difficulty
Consoled - To lessen sadness
or disappointment
Bitter - Expressive of
severe pain, grief, or regret
Insulted - To behave with
pride or arrogance
7. The _________ lesson of the story is that
honesty is the best policy.
A. Morality
B. Morale
C. Moralism
D. Moral
Answer D
Rationale:
Morality - Conformity to
ideals of right conduct
Morale - Feeling of
enthusiasm that a person has about a task
Moralism - The habit or
practice of moralizing
Moral - Based on what you think is right and good
8. "The figures must be TRANSMUTED in order to understand the grade." The
capitalized word means
A. Estimated
B. Changed
C. Surpassed
D. Summed
Answer: B
Rationale:
Transmuted - Change or alter
in form
Estimated - To judge
tentatively
Changed - To become
something else
Surpassed - To be greater
or better than something than something
Summed - Act of getting
the summary of the chief thoughts
9. Some preachers suggest the ___________ that
the end of the world is near.
A. Proposal
B. Prophetic
C. Prophecy
D. Prophet
Answer: C
Rationale:
Proposal - The act of presenting
a plan
Prophetic - Correctly
stating what will happen in the future
Prophecy - A statement that
something will happen in the future
Prophet - One who utters
divinely inspired revelations
10. The expression of “baduy” connotes:
A. Uneducated
B. Low profile
C. Awkward looking
D. Smart
Answer: C
Rationale: Baduy means
being off- fashion
or of bad taste therefore it also connotes awkward looking.
11. Several factors must be assessed to arrive at a sound __________.
A. Query
B. Decision
C. Change
D. Problem
Answer: B
Rationale: A sound decision
is a smart, logical, reasonable decision which could be achieved by assessing
several factors.
12. The words "inappropriate,
illegal, irresponsible, unaware" have prefixes which are classified as:
A. Positive
B. Common
C. Negative
D. Neutral
Answer: C
Rationale: Negative prefixes
are added to nouns, adjectives, and verbs to make it negative. Examples are a-,
dis-, im-, in-, it-, non-, and un-.
13. Which does NOT belong?
A. Foot
B. Kilometer
C. Centigrade
D. Mile
Answer: C
Rationale: Foot, kilometer,
and mile are units for distance while centrigrade is a unit for temperature.
14. I can't find _______ calculator; may I
use ________, Richard?
A. My, yours
B. My, his
C. His, yours
D. Yours, mine
Answer: A
Rationale: The pronoun My
refers to I. The pronoun Yours refers to Richard.
15. If you learn to swim, you ____________on
this trip. The appropriate verb phrase to complete the sentence is _________.
A. Would go
B. Will go
C. Will be going
D. Would have gone
Answer: B
Rationale: First conditional
sentences are used to express situations in which the outcome is likely (but
not guaranteed) to happen in the future. Look at the example: If you learn to
swim, you will go on this trip. Note that we use the simple present tense in
the it-clause and simple future tense in the main clause—that is, the clause
that expresses the likely outcome. This is how we indicate that under a certain
condition (as expressed in the if-clause), a specific result will likely
happen in the future. Examine some of the common mistakes people make using the
first conditional structure:
16. If you forgot you can use ___________ textbook,_______,
Kevin.
A. Yours, ours
B. Myself
C. Your, mine
D. Our, hers
Answer: C
Rationale:
Pronouns: possessive (my, mine, your, yours, etc.) We use pronouns to refer to possession and 'belonging'. There are two types: possessive pronouns and possessive determiners. We use possessive determiners before a noun. We use possessive pronouns in place of a noun: personal pronoun possessive determiner possessive pronoun
|
personal |
possessive |
possessive |
|
I |
My |
mine |
|
you (singular |
your |
yours |
|
He |
His |
his |
|
She |
Her |
hers |
|
It |
Its |
its |
|
We |
Our |
ours |
|
They |
Their |
theirs |
|
One |
one's |
one's |
17. If I ___________ known you before, we
could have arranged a joint project.
A. Have
B. Had
C. Could
D. Will
Answer: B
Rationale: Third conditional
sentences are used to explain that present circumstances would be different if
something different had happened in the past. Look at the following example: If
I had known you before, we could have arranged a joint project. These sentences
express a condition that was likely enough, but did not actually happen in the
past. Note that when using the third conditional, we use the past
perfect (i.e., had + past participle) in
the if-clause. The modal auxiliary (would, could, should, etc.) + have + past
participle in the main clause expresses the theoretical situation that could
have happened.
18. Every teacher, parent and student in
the audience ________ every intention of exploring this issue.
A. Have
B. Has
C. Does have
D. Do have
Answer: B
Rationale:
Have is the root VERB
and is generally used alongside the PRONOUNS i / You / We / Ye and They and
PLURAL NOUNS. Generally, have is a PRESENT TENSE word. Has is used
alongside the PRONOUNS He / She / It and Who and SINGULAR NOUNS.
19. If you had come with us last night, you
________ the dance.
A. Would enjoy
B. Will enjoy
C. Will have enjoyed
D. Would have enjoyed
Answer: D
Rationale: It is possible
for the two parts of a conditional sentence to refer to different times, and
the resulting sentence is a "mixed conditional" sentence.
FORM: In this type of
mixed conditional sentence, the tense in the 'if) clause is the past perfect,
and the tense in the main clause is the present conditional. This type of mixed
conditional refers to an unreal past condition and its probable result in the
present. These sentences express a situation which is contrary to reality both
in the past and in the present. In these mixed, conditional sentences, the time
is the past in the "if" clause and in the present in the main clause.
Example: If you had come
with us last night, you would have enjoyed the dance.
20. When I met Pilar yesterday, it was the
first time I __________ her since Christmas
A. Have
seen
B. Saw
C. Have
been seen
D. Had
seen
Answer: A
Rationale: The simple past
tense, sometimes called the preterite, is used to talk about a completed action
in a time before now: The simple past is the basic form of past tense in
English. The time of the action can be in the recent past or the distant past
and action duration is not important.
21. If you want to be recognized, have a finger
in the pie, The underlined phrase means
A. Dip finger in the pie
B. Take a share of the pie
C. Join a group
D. Take an active part in something
Answer: D
Rationale: Have a finger in
the pie is an idiom meaning to have an interest in or be involved in
everything.
22. He was excused because all he said
were white lies. The underlined idiomatic expression means:
A, Lies are really harmless
B. Lies are written on white page
C. Lies recited are 'excusable
D. She recited the lies in public
Answer: C
Rationale: 'White lies'
are those untruths which we tell in order to minimize harm, embarrassment or
distress.
23. Your father is paying for your plane
ticket,
A. Isn't it
B. Is he
C. Isn't he
D. Aren't you
Answer: C
Rationale: A tag question is
a grammatical structure in which a declarative statement or imperative is
turned into a question by an adding an interrogative fragment.
24. Wise people can _________ with frustrations.
A. Cope up
B. Cope on
C. Cope in
D. Cope
Answer: D
Rationale: "Cope"
is an intransitive verb meaning to deal with something well, despite or in the
face of some difficulty. Synonyms are "contend with," "get
by," "grapple with," "make do," and "manage."
"Cope up" is an interpretation that is sometimes used incorrectly
in place of "keep up."
25. Is this the spot ______ you had the accident?
A. Why
B. Where
C. Wherein
D. Which
Answer: B
Rationale: Where can be used
in the following ways: (1) as a question adverb (introducing a direct or
indirect question): Where are you going? I wonder where she lives. (2) as a
relative adverb (referring back to a noun and introducing a relative clause): I
know a place where you can hide, (3) introducing a clause that is subject,
object, or complement of another clause: Stratford is where Shakespeare was
born. (4) as a conjunction (connecting two clauses): I've hidden the money
where no one will find it.
26. When helping in the kitchen, I am always careful
not to hurt _________.
A.
Ourselves
B.
Myself
C.
Himself
D.
Herself
Answer: B
Rationale: We use a reflexive pronoun when we want to refer back to the subject of the sentence or clause. Reflexive pronouns end in "-self" (singular) or "-selves" (plural). There are eight reflexive pronouns
|
|
reflexive pronoun |
|
singular |
myself yourself himself, herself, itself |
|
plural |
ourselves
yourselves themselves |
27. Neither the teacher nor the students
________ present in the affairs.
A. Am
B. Is
C. Was
D. Were
Answer: D
Rationale: If one subject is
singular and one plural and the words are connected by the words or; nor,
neither/nor, either/ or, and not only/but also, you use the verb form of the
subject that is nearest the verb.
The subject is students so we use the
plural form of the verb.
28. My sister and I met an acquaintance of
___________ on the shopping mall.
A. Ours
B. Us
C. Mine
D. Ourselves
Answer: A
Rationale: A possessive pronoun tells you who owns something. The possessive pronouns are hers, his, its, mine, ours, theirs, and yours.
Example: My sister and I met an
acquaintance of ours on the shopping mall.
29. We admire _________ when Cynthia--speaks
English fluently with ____________.
A. Him, them
B. Him, we
C. Her, us
D. Him, me
Answer: C
Rationale: An objective
pronoun acts as the object of a sentence—it receives the action of the
verb. The objective pronouns are her, him, it, me, them, us, and you. We admire
her when Cynthia speaks English fluently with us. Her refers to Cynthia. Us
refers to we.
30. On your trip to Tagaytay, if you hada
chance to meet with upon Arsenio, please give _________ my warm regards.
A. Himself
B. Myself
C. Him
D. Me
Answer: C
Rationale: We use HIM
because the receiver of the verb is ARSENIO.