Part 1: Structure

Direction: the subset measures your ability to recognize language that is

appropriate for a standard written English.

Items 1-15 are incomplete sentence. Beneath each sentence, you will see for words
or phrases marked A B C D.

1. The presence of CCTV cameras in the major thoroughfares road mishap and
violations.

Records

2. Despite a plea from management, employees a massive protest.

Have stage

3. Robert pleaded to his teacher to ask and give him a chance.

To

4. Foods rich in folate, a form of vitamin B, reduce the risk of stroke and heart disease.

help

5. A website is unlimited you to other website where you can access for more
information and discoveries.

Because it is links

6. Filipinos are fortunate the country has natural resources.

because

7. Years, economic growth of greater concern than environmental preservation.

Has been

8. and rapid economic growth in recent years have put a large and increasing stress on the
water resources, and environmental in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Increasing population

9. A history of depression, denial, injustice and abuse the greatest detriment to

people of color.

Has been

10. The legalization of RH bill, until such time, has been in our society.

A hotly- contesting issue

11. The child who caught cheating the teacher not to tell his parents about the incident.

Implored

12. Exercising can be done .

By doing activities

13. a book is her past time.

Browsing

14. Unlike humans, horses use 90%.

Is

15. Either of the twinsgoing to the beach.

Is

16. Leni out against the President Duterte’s drug war, which saw the killing of suspected
drug dealers in the slum of Manila.

Has spoken

17. We became nervous doubtful we don’t see our good coming as quickly as we
think.

When

18. The happy children, paraded in the busy streets in celebration in their school
foundation.

Majestically costumed

19. Amateur basketball player.

6---foot

20. Tomato a good source of vitamin C.

Is

21. Should help you better inform about potential risks, but it should not be a
source of alarm.

Knowing your family history

22. People Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) damage were not necessarily those who
had smoked the longest but those who began smoking at a young age.

Of worst
23. To everybody’s surprise, the captain, looking , as there a head of all the rest.

At his best

Part 1: Structure

Direction: the subset measures your ability to recognize language that is

appropriate for a standard written English.

Items 1-15 are incomplete sentence. Beneath each sentence, you will see for words
or phrases marked A B C D.

1. Robert pleaded to__ his teacher to ask and give him a chance.

a. with b. to c. from d. in

2. Food’s rich in foliate, a form of vitamin B, and _______ reduce the risk of stroke and heart
disease.

a. help b. helps c. helped d. is helping

3. A website is limited _____ you to other website where you can access for more information
and discoveries.

a. until it is linking c. since it linked

b. because it links d. while it links stored

4. Filipinos are fortunate ______ the country has natural resources.

a. because b. hence c. when

d. despite

5. Over years, economic growth _____ of greater concern than environmental preservation.

a. has been b. have been c. has been d. will have been

6. A history of depression, denial, injustice and abuse _______ the greatest detriment to
people of color.

a. has been b. had c. have d. having

7. ________ and rapid economic growth in recent years have put a large and increasing stress
on the water resources, and environment in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

a. Increase Population c. Increasing Population

b. Increased Population d. Having increased population

8. The child who caught cheating _______ the teacher not to tell his parents about the incident.

a. implored b. has implored c. has imploring d. had

implored

9. The legalization of RH bill, until such time, has been _______ in our society.

a. a hotly contested issue c. a hotly contesting issue

b. the hot contested issue d. the hot contesting issue

10. Exercising can be done _______

a. by doing activities b. from doing activities c. in doing activities d. doing

activities

11, _______ a book is her past time.

a. To browse b. Browse c. Browsing d. To

browsing

12. Unlike humans, horses use 90% of their feet to sleep upright kneecap _______....bla..bal..

a. is b. were c. are d. was

13. _______basketball player.

a. 6-foot b. 6 foot c. 6 feet d. 6-feet

14. Either of the twins’ ______going the beach.

a. is b. are c. was d. were

15. Leni ________ out against the president Duterte’s drug war, which saw the killing of
suspected drug dealers in the slum of manila.

a. has spoken b. have spoken c. have spoken d. had spoken

Part 2: Written Expression/ Finding the error

Direction: In items 1-30, each sentence is divided into four-part mark A, B, C, and D.
Identify the one part that must be changed to make the sentence. Then choose the
letter corresponding to your answer.

1. A. Public pools have consistently

B. demonstrated the public willingness

C. economic growth

D. for environment protection

2. A. Remembering a person’s name

B. required us to retrieve first

C. our useful memory of the person and then

D. our memory

4. A. Outside of written records

B. evidences of Philistines existence ( Philistines’-tama)

C. have survived

D. in pottery relics

5. A. In many cities around the world

B. the number of homeless people

C. have become

D. a big problem
6. A. The man

B. gives antidote so powerful

C. that any poison was made harmless

D. after taking it

7. A. Finance statement

B. are formal reports

C. prepared

D. by accountants

8. A. The tale that was

B. told in a low and mystery voice

C. kept us on the

D. edge of seats

9. A. The Gleaning Network,

B. an organizer in the United Kingdom

C. is trying to reduce waste

D. and solve farming problem (s) -B tamang sagot)

 10. A. In 1964,

B. the African countries of Tanganyaki and Zanziban

C. has united to from

D. a single country, now called Tanzania

11. A. As a mode of expository writing

B. the narrated writing offers writers

C. a chance to think and write

D. about themselves

12. A. The obligation of the accountant to the client

B. rested upon the agreed scope

C. of the engagement which

D. in effect represents a contractual agreement

13. A. Many medications are safe and effective when taken alone

B. and ineffective or counterproductive

C. when taken in combination

D. when something else

14. A. It is often said that

B. lightning never strike twice

C. at the same time

D. but it is not true

15. A. Money is not natural reward of love

B. That is why we called man mercenary

C. if he marries a woman

D. for the sake of her money

16. A. A mother and her new baby is encourage

B. to exchange smiles as often as they could

C. because it is important for bonding and attachment

D. as well as for the intellectual and social development.

17. A. A team led by the government agency concerned

B. say that chemicals from the factory

C. had contaminated sediments in the bay

D. and entered the food chain.

18. A. You are not always in control

B. of what goes in your mind,

C. because only you can determine

D. what stays there

19. A. Peace and prosperity

B. can be achieved

C. if we have respectable armed forces

D. and a sensible economic development

20. A. Wallow in disappointment

B. over something

C. you did

D. is not productive

21. A. The tale was

B. told in a low and mystery voice

C. kept us on the

D. edge of our seats

22. A. Keeping our problems unlocked within us

B. Only serve to isolate us from people

C. Who cares about us

D. who want to comfort us

23. A. Fruits are the healthier foods items

B. their contains vitamins and minerals

C. oranges containing vitamin C. and guavas contain A.

24. A. Oncologists are doctors

B. who specialize

C. in treating

D. the cancer
25. A. you should make sure

B. your body has get

C. the necessary and minerals

D. human needs

26 A. Sit cramped

B. for a very long period of time

C. in dry conditions

D. can affect our circulatory systems

27. A. Peace and prosperity

B. can be achieved

C. if we have respectable armed forces

D. economic development plan

28. A. The Philippines

B. has accommodations

C. to suit everyone

D. from five star hotel to simple hotels

30. A. there’s a little point in saving money

B. When you can loose it

C. through no fault of your own

D. and avoidable circumstances

31. A. Almost everything (letter c possible answer)

32. A. Carry a burden is our choice (carrying dapat)

33. A. Short-term (letter C is possible answer)

34. Vitamins C. inhibit (inhibits)

35 A. Not…..marketed invention

B. Has yet been prove (proven)

C. worse….. (Worst dapat)

D. and best

36. Whalt Whitman’s poems are… Emily Dickenson’s are.. (It should be while)

37. while most fruits and vegetables have a lot more value (redundant)

38. A. Remembering a person’s name

B. Required us to retrieve first

C. our useful memory of the person

D. our memory (name)

39. A. Thinking like a winner means not always having to defeat someone else

B. but it means that one is is being able to learn from a situation

C. which would be a great help

D. to above that failure and to be able to reach one’s goal

READING COMPREHENSION

Passage: Pasta Crisis

A world without pasta seems inconceivable. Macaroni and cheese loving children across
The US would howl in protest; Italy might suffer a heart attack; social unrest could
explode in China where noodles are the main staple.
 But if humans want to keep eating pasta, we will have to take much more aggressive
action against global warming. Pasta is made from wheat, and a large growing body of
scientific studies and real-world observations suggest what wheat will be hit especially
hard as temperatures rise and storms and drought intensify in the years ahead.

Three grains- wheat, corn and rice account for most of the food that humans consume.
All these are already suffering from climate change, but wheat stands to fare the worst
in the years ahead, for it is the grain most vulnerable to high temperatures. That spells
trouble not only for pasta but also for bread, the most basic food of all.
International agricultural research centers and the private sector have woken up to the
fact that higher temperatures are almost inevitable, and they have very little in their
genetic toolbox to deal with them.

1. The meaning of inconceivable in the first sentence of the passage must be

_________.
a. Not imaginable
b. Cannot happen
c. Unable to conceive
d. No possibility

2. The passage emphasizes an alarming future scenario because __________.

a. Humans will take more aggressive action against global warming
b. China, where noodles are the main staple, could have social unrest
c. Macaroni and cheese loving children across the US would protest
d. Three significant grains, especially wheat may be lost to humans.

3. This passage entitled Pasta Crisis points out with urgency that ____________.
a. Higher temperatures are almost inevitable
b. Three grains are already suffering from climate change
c. More aggressive action against global warming is needed
d. Drought will intensify in the coming years

4. Another way of expressing the idea in the sentence” it is the grain most vulnerable to
High temperatures” is it is the grain ____________.
a. Most affected under intense heat
b. Likely to flourish when it gets warm
c. Strongly at risk in temperate areas
d. Inclined to wither if it gets very hot

5. The idea in the passage is develop using ___________.

a. Narration
b. Exposition
c. Description
d. Illustration
Passage: Cat

A cat is a precision instrument – a perfectly engineered machine, design for

stealth,
capture and self-defense. It has padded feet that make no sound and muscles of
enormous power and bulk for its size. Its bones are attached at energy efficient angles
that create a system of springs and levers perfect for bounding, leaping and climbing.
Its claws are sharper than those of any other mammal and can be withdrawn under
sheath-like pads where they escape injury and wear.

No teach are better suited for hunting than those of the cat – great canines for
tearing and scissor – like premolars for shearing off bits of flesh small enough to
swallow.
In the cat’s eye, the colored fiber of the iris respond immediately to light changes to
permit exactness of vision in all light conditions. In the darkness of night, the iris
contracts to widen the pupil and admit any trace of available light. In the blinding light
of midday, the iris expands and the pupil shuts down to a thin vertical slit.

Except in white cats with blue eyes, a cats hearing is extremely acute. Each ear
has twenty-seven muscles that allow the cat to rotate the ear in all directions, to collect
sound. The cat’s reaction to sudden movement or noise is so swift that it can usually
escape threatening danger – and the little quarry passes unharmed!

1. The word “quarry” are used in the last paragraph means _____
a. Hurried
b. Target
c. Hunter
d. Victim

2. Cats have acute hearing except the white cats with blue eyes which do not _____
a. Hear well
b. Hunt well
c. See well
d. Eat well

3. The sentence “The cat is a precision instrument” is a _________

a. hyperbole
b. metaphor
c. simile
d. irony
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4. The selection is mainly about ________.

a. how cats differ from the dogs
b. how the cat is like a mammal
c. the cat as a hunting machine
d. the cat as a house bet

5. We can conclude from the selection that the cat is an animal which can ________
a. do a lot of tricks
b. be domesticated
c. be very dangerous
d. survive on its own

Passage: Youth
Youth is not a time of life: It is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks,
red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor
of the deep springs of life.
Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidly of the
appetite, for the adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more
than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old by deserting our ideals.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the souls. Worry,
fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirits back to dust.

Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being’s heart to lure of wonder, the
unfailing childlike appetite of what’s next and the joy of your heart and my heart there
is a wireless station: so long as it receives message of beauty, hope, cheer, courage
and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snow of cynicism and
the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at 20, but as long as your aerials
are up, to catch waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at 80.

1. What kind of passage is this?

 Descriptive

2. What does Predominance in the second paragraph refer to?

 Superiority

3. Which is not a characteristic of the youth?

 Timid

4. What did the author use in the passage?

 Simile
5. Where did the author focused?
 Sensory details

Passage: Homer (Iliad and Odyssey)

The views and beliefs of societies are often portrayed in the literature, art, and
cinema of a certain era. The Iliad and Odyssey give scholars and historians an idea how
the Ancient Greek lived their everyday lives. The Iliad and Odyssey are two classic
stories told by Homer. Within these stories the roles of the gods are very important to
the story line and how they affect the characters throughout.

In Iliad, more gods are involved with the characters whereas in the Odyssey
there are only two major gods that affect two major characters. The roles of the gods
in Iliad are through two different stances of immortal versus immortal and moral versus
immortal. The roles of the gods in the Odyssey are through two major gods and they
affect the plot as Poseidon versus Odysseus and Athena versus Telemachus.
Iliad was a tragedy illustrating the despair and useless suffering associated with war.

Homer’s Odyssey was an epic tale of long suffering resolving in triumph. Though
there were a great many differences between the two works, there was an underlying
theme of the love which ran through both. Not just the physical manifestation of
infatuation, but the kind of love that makes one willing to die for another.

1we infer from the passage that

 It’s not definite when and where Homers was born
2. The odyssey
 Explain the voyage of sailor
3. The works of homer
 Has been thought to have different writers
4. Homer revised and refined works of earlier poets about his work
 No certainty that Homer lived about

5. We can infer the selection that birth of Homer is

 Birth of homer is inconsistent
6. The place and date of birth is
 Not definite
7. The story of Iliad and odyssey
 No specific author
8. The epic story
 Still remains a great piece in ancient Greece
9. Iliad and Odyssey is a story of all about
 About long epic struggles of heroes
10. Epic means
  Story of heroism
11. Iliad and Odyssey uses
 Artistry and intelligence

Passage: Palawan
Unique to Palawan is its mega diversity. For a long time, only the many ethnic
communities that thrive in these islands and a few other daring settlers who wanted to
live in unpolluted surroundings know. Palawan’s bountiful resources, abundant wildlife
and extraordinary natural beauty.

The island province first attracted foreign attention in the 1970’s when became a
United Nation Vietnamese Refugee Center. At this time, the disturbance in Kenya also
saw the transport of endangered animals from its savannas to the pains of Calauit
island. However, it was only a sea accident in 1979 that eventually led to the opening of
Palawan into major tourist attraction. According to a story, a tuna line disabled a dive
boats propeller in the middle of the night forcing it to drop anchor in an inlet. The
following morning, the divers woke up with amazing scenery of skyscraping dark cliff.

1. Which can be appropriate title of the selection?

 The discovery of El Nido by a diver
2. What does the word diversity means?
 Variety
3. It can be concluded from the selection that
 El Nido has its amazing natural beauty
4. Palawan
 Has a tourist attraction
5. It became a United Nation Vietnamese Regional Center

Passage: Introduction of Poetry

I ask them to make a poem,
And hold it up to the light
Like a color slide.
Or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem,
And watch his probe his way out,
Or walk inside the poem’s room,
And feel the wall for a light switch.
E.CI want them to waterski
Across the surface of the poem
Waving at the author’s name on the shore.
 But all they want to do is tie the poem
To the chair with rope
And torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose

1. What does the stanza 3, 4, and 5 shown?

 Image
2. Who are Them and They refer to?
 Students of poetry
3. Hold them up to light like a color slide?
Press an ear against its hive
 Senses
4. What does the author trying to convey out the passage?
 Enjoy and Realized

ADDITIONAL
1. To find out what it really means.1. Which line from the poem provides the context that
supports the meaning of the word slide in line 3?
a. Line 2
b. Line 5
c. Line 9
d. Line 16
2. Which of the lines contains a poetic language that conveys a sense of danger?
a. And hold it up to the light
b. Or press an ear against its hive
c. I say drop a mouse into a poem
d. I want them to waterski
3. What tones are conveys with these lines?
I want them to waterski
Across this surface of the poem
Waving at the author’s name on the shore
a. Uncertain and confused
b. Cordial and pleasant
c. Melancholic and resourceful
d. Neutral and subjective
4. The poet users the pronounce they and them most likely to refer to
a. His parents
b. His past
c. His troubles
d. His readers
5. Line 12 – 14 suggest that they want the poem.
a. To provide clues to help determine its meaning
b. To convey a transparent meaning
c. To conceal its true meaning
d. To make its meaning inconspicuous
E.C6. In the line 15, the act of beating the poem with a hose suggest that they are
a. Copacetic
b. Frustrated
c. Serene
d. Tranquil
7. In stanza 4, the poet refers to the poem as a/an
a. Jets Ki
b. Car
c. Ocean
d. Boat
8. The tone of the poem shifts in
a. Stanza 1
b. Stanza 3
c. Stanza 4
d. Stanza 6
9. The overall message conveyed in the poem is ___________.
a. The contrast of hopes versus reality
b. The guidance provided by authority
c. The missed opportunities of rebels
d. A life unfulfilled and unchallenged

Passage: Poverty
Studies have consistently pointed to at least three major immediate factors that
push children to stay or live on the streets. These are the poverty of family, family
relationship (physical or sexual abuse) and peer influence. Poverty and peer influence
when compounded with problems and stresses in the family life such ass family break-
up, child abuses and neglect, domestic violence by step-parents, underemployed
parents, etc. altogether create under pressure on the child to leave home and find
solace, protection, and support from the peers on the street, eventually becoming
susceptible to their influence and lifestyle.
In Metro Manila, population growth, urbanize, and migration have increased
through the years. Children are often forced try circumstances to help their family eke
out of living or tend for themselves on the streets. Most of them are children of poor
parents who migrated from rural areas in the hope of finding better job opportunities in
the city, but whose lack of education rendered them ill-equipped to struggle for survival
in the urban jungle and are thus curtained to a life of object poverty. For the street
children, life on the street is constant struggle to overcome the various negative
comments that threaten to overtake them and destroy their hopes for survival. They
work under the heat of the sun or in the dark of the night from 6-10 hours, seven days
a week to survive.

1. To “eke of living” means ______

a. To earn income
b. To live with other
c. To stay in the street
d. To work in the street

2. Based on the selection, what values seem to be missing in the families of street
children?
a. Loyalty
b. Honesty
c. Kindness
d. Solidarity
3. What is the most important factor that will equip rural people to survive in the city?
a. Money
b. Education
c. Kindness
d. Home

4. This selection is simple about _________

a. Providing homes for the poor
b. Helping street children get an education
c. Factors why children live in the streets
d. How to lessen pressure on the family

5. Based on the last, we can conclude that street children are _______
a. Independent
b. Malnourished
c. Helpless persons
d. Victims of poverty

Passage: The Imaginative Power of Drama/Theater

The art generally depends on ridiculous region, but the theater is most ridiculous
od all imagine, asking us to pretend that we are in Bangkok after the fall of Saigon and
that tea is a Vietnamese bar girl who kill herself because she believes that suicide is the
only solution her problems.
More than that engaged asking us to believe that all other characters in the play
talk to each other by singing. The theater is a lily that inexplicably asset from a single
weedy falsities, yet it is precisely from the tension produced by absurdity that theater is
able to create each poetry, power enhancement, and truth.
1. What is the best title of the selection?
a. Marvelous Singing Voices
b. The Imaginative Power of Drama
c. The Absurdity of Fiction
d. The Production of musical Plays
E.C2. Based from the excerpts, the author believes that all the statement are true,
except?
a. Theater is based on absurdities.
b. The character in musical plays converse by singing.
c. Theater teaches us that suicide is the only solution to the problem.
d. Theater creates poetry, power enhancement, and truth.
3. The word ABSURDITY means?
a. Fiction
b. Falsehood
c. Predictability
d. Foolishness
4. Which of the following can be conducted about theater from the selection? a. It has
different themes
b. It is the most ridiculous of all the arts
c. It is able to create poetry, power enhancement, and truth
d. It is fictional representation of life
5. The author’s attitude towards unreal situations in the drama is one of ____________.
a. Appreciation
b. Anger
c. Disapproval
d. Worry

6. The word INEXPLICABLY means

a. Cannot be expected
b. Cannot be predicted
c. Cannot be explained
d. Cannot be anticipated
7. The phrase “jungle of weedy falsities” contains _________
a. Personification
b. A simile
c. A metaphor
d. A hyperbole

Passage: Diversity
The culture of a place is an integral part of its society whether that place is a
remote village in Brazil or highly industrialized city in Europe. The cultures around the
world fascinate us, at first glance, because they seem very dissimilar. Japanese people,
for example, bow. They do not shake hands because they consider it inappropriate .
Arabian men kiss each other on the cheek when they meet. On the other hand,
teenagers in the USA leave home when they finish high school. They think that to live
with their parents is unconventional.

You might think that a driving system in which people left on the right is
impossible; but the citizens of fifty-nine places all over the world do it. This custom is
from countries like Hongkong, Jamaica, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, United Kingdom,
and others. If you are an immigrant in Indonesia and wanted to marry a woman, don’t
be impolite! Tradition prohibited newly married couple from clearing their bowels or
urinating for three days and nights, or from leaving the house during this time.

Finally, Asian people have the habit of saying words just before they start to eat
meals and finish their meals. If they come over to a friend’s house for dinner, they do
the same thing.
If they do not say these words, the other people would think that they are
discourteous. In conclusion, we can easily see from these few examples how different
the world we live in is.

1. What’s the writer trying to do in this text?

a. Describe the customs of America and Asian culture
b. Explain the different customs that some countries have
c. Criticize the customs of different cultures

2. What can the reader find out from the text?

a. Cultures around the world have some aspect in common
b. People from Asia are well educated and respectful
c. It’s interesting to know the diversity of cultures around the world

3. The underlined word dissimilar means;

a. Compatible
b. Different
c. Related
4. The underlined word they refers to
a. Habits
b. Words
c. Asian people

5. What do people from Asia usually do at dinner time?

a. Asian people usually say words at two different moments when they are
going to eat
b. They usually say words before meals when they go to a friend’s house
c. Japanese’s friends have to say words before meals

6. People from ONE of these countries have the habits to drive on the right
a. Japan
b. England
c. The United States

Passage: Camera
 A camera works like a human eye. Like the eye, the camera takes in rays of light
reflected from a subject. A camera resembles life because you have many settings
within the camera that you can use, just the versatility of life. You could also choose
the use the zoom and focus to criticize and magnify the attributes of their personality.
Singling out a certain aspect, sometimes pleasantly, other times with great dislike.
Taking an action shot is like slowing down a busy week with a rainy day. You are forced
to stay inside and spend quality time with the most important people in your life. The
bad weather or deciding to stay off social media for a week, helps you break out of
routine and create new experiences. Moments like these create stronger bonds with
your family and friends and will never forgotten. The quick speed of camera shutters
opening and closing creates a life story. Every moment is captured and shows a real
person. We try and hide our flaws, but this part of the camera reveals it with great
beauty. Just focus on what’s important. Capture the good times. Develop from
negatives and if things don’t turn out just take another shot.

Answer:
1. Theme of Love
2. Camera Resembles Life
3. Simile
4. Human eye
5. Capture the good times
6. Focus on what’s important

Passage: Drug Addiction

Drug addiction is a brain disorder involving a compulsive use of drugs in spite of its
detrimental consequences. It ruins the individual and the society in manifold way-
socially,
physically, culturally, emotionally and economically. Acting on the brain, the drug
spawns a wide range of disorder like fear, anxiety and sense of insecurity in the human
mind. There are certain drug like nicotine, cocaine and caffeine that stimulate the brain
and the nervous system resulting in increased alertness and response. Addiction to such
drugs causes a severe loss of appetite and weight, constipation, increased anxiety, and
withdrawal of hypnotic drugs might lead to epileptic seizures and delirium. When a man
starts drug addiction, he becomes addicted to it forever and goes on increasing its
dose.
In the first phase of drugs addiction his brain cells become irritated and his faculties of
rationally, judgement, observation and attention get blunted and he became the victim
of subclinical stage. In the second phase, the addict feels as if he is not aware of his
own self and such and psychic trauma leads him to the drug condition of situation. In
the third phase, as the victim increases the dosage and frequency, he loses his physical
balance and muscular coordination. The addict is now prisoner of confusion and is fast
digging his own grave.
Answer:
1. We can infer from the first sentence?
o Not all that has been written on the subject of addiction has added to our
understanding
2. The author of second passage implies that he thinks the term “ dependence” in the
the context of drugs?
o Has not always been the preferred term
3. What is the effect of drugs?
o Can destroy life
4. Answer =it’s all about awareness

5. Answer=last paragraph doesn’t talk about health effect of benefits

6. Answer= on the subject on the addiction has added to our understanding

Passage: Light/Social Changes

In the light of social changes, we come to the question: What qualities should
distinguish the educated Filipino today? I venture to suggest that the educated Filipino should
first be distinguished by the power to do.

The oriental excels in reflective thinking he is a philosopher. The Occidental is a doer; he

manages things, men and affairs. The Filipino of today needs more of this power to translate
reflection into action.

I believe that we are coming more to this power to. We are coming more likely to the
conviction that no Filipino has the right to be considered educated unless he is prepared to take
an active and useful part in the work, life, and progress of our country as well as in the
progress of the world.

1. What is the best paraphrase of the last paragraph in the passage?

a. Participation in the work and progress of our country is sought by every Filipino].
b. The country’s progress and advancement depend primarily on educated Filipino.
c. A truly educated Filipino participates actively in the work and progress of the
Country and the world as a whole.
d. To be considered educated, one has to be globally competitive and willing to take risks.
2. As used in the selection, what does word “conviction” mean?
a. intellectual guess
b. strong belief
c. verdict
d. allegiance
3. What trait is found in most Orientals but needs to be deepened in Filipino?
a. action oriented
b. patience
c. good in managing
d. reflective thinker4. What is meant by this line? “The oriental is a philosopher”
a. Oriental people are contemplative
b. Oriental people have the blood of great philosophers
c. They have a tendency to become philosophers
d. They think like Great Solomon.
5. What value is implied in the same passage above?
a. Justice
b. Courage
c. Hyperactivity
d. active involvement

Passage: Pollution

The complacent of the Filipino majority may not have be awakened yet to the reality of
a ravaged environment: nonetheless the evidence must be overemphasized.
Automotive vehicle for one reportedly contributes 94.6 million tons of a waste released
into their air each year, a commuter can only imagine how polluted that air that gets
into the respiratory system is.
Pollution experts are inclined to single out man as the culprit of his own
destruction. Man, rights referred to as “messy animal” has helped being about until
environment decay. Imperiled by the pollution of air, water and land are not only
human lives. The marine species as well as the flora and fauna are just adversely
affected. Mass suicides of fishes and whales have been witnessed along Australian and
American shorelines.
The mushrooming of factories and plants along the riverbanks have been already
largely responsible for the pollution of the different bodies of water, indiscriminate
disposal of industrial waste makes festering sinks of the rivers. Too much dumping of
industrial waste renders to water stagnant. Many of the rivers that used to flow along
industrial banks can use some dredging and yet what good will dredging of a river do if
in no time at all it will serve again as dumping basin?
The initiative has to come from the factory owners.
A great number of scientists like or think that the new technology can be called
upon to check the impending pollution disaster, other are of the opinion that few births
and less gadgetry may provide the answers to the devastating dilemma. It cannot be
denied, however that man’s waste ways call for some measure of discipline.
Man’s brutality toward his environment will only lead to his unmarking. It is
ironical
indeed that who was created to have dominion over every living creature on earth
should one day be overpowered by an environment he has helped to pollute. The
catastrophe can hopefully still be covered.
1. What does the selection generally urge man to realize?
a. The threat of environmental pollution to each country.
b. The necessity of taking immediate steps to solve the pollution problem.
c. The scope of the problem of environmental pollution
d. The steps to take in checking the impending pollution disaster.

2. The phrase “mushrooming of factories” are used in fourth paragraph of the selection
related to factories which are.
a. built
b. destroyed
c. maintained
d. abandoned
3. In what part of passage can you read of the ways we can prevent pollution?
a. First
b. Fourth
c. Fifth
d. Last

4. Who is referred to in the phrase “a messy animal” in the second passage?

a. Fishes and whales
b. Flora and fauna
c. Scientist
d. Man

5. What is implied in the last paragraph of the passage?

a. Man failed to realize the seriousness of the pollution problem.
b. Pollution if unchecked can bring about the destruction of man.
c. Man does not deserve to be the master of HIS creation.
d. There is no need to be alarmed of the pollution problem.

6. What would be the likely outcome if we continue polluting our environment?

a. Man will be destroyed by an environment he had polluted.
b. Less births and less gadgetry will save the world from catastrophe.
c. Technology can help check the problem on environment pollution.
d. Man’s wasteful ways will contribute more to the pollution of the environment.

7. Which of the following statements show a cause-and-effect relationship?

 Man’s wasteful ways are a perennial problem.

Passage: Bill of Rights

The first amendments to the United States Constitution are known as the Bill Of
Rights. They were created on September 25 th, 1789 and put into effect on December 15 th,
1971. They were made to help ease Anti – federalist, people who were opposed to large
government in the United States. The bill of Rights guarantees certain freedoms and rights to
every Americans citizen, as well as sitting limits to the government’s power judicially (court).
Also establishes that any power not stated in the Bill of Rights is left to the States to decide

The bill of rights were based heavily on earlier documents, such as the Virginia
declaration of Rights and the English Bill of Rights (1689). They were introduced on July 8 th,
1789 by Representative James Madison. He proposed 9 amendments to the constitution, one of
the major ones being the limitation of the power of congress.

Before the United States were based Constitution was made, the original 13 states were
under the jurisdiction of the Articles of Confederation. These were created by the Second
Continental Congress, and were put I to place in 1781.

The only issue with this was the government at the time was too weak to enforce things
between

1. When there was the Bill of Rights final version officially finished?

 September 25th , 1789

2. Which of the following was the Bill of Rights NOT based on?

 Articles of Confederation

3. Which of the following conventions was the the constitution proposed?

 Philadelphian Convention

4. What is the name of someone who was against the proposed constitution?

 Anti – Federalist
 5. When would the new government under the constitution come to the
constitution come to existence?
 March 4th, 1789

6. What is NOT guaranteed by the first amendment?

 Right to bear arms

Passage: Drug Addiction

The literature on drug addiction has grown at a rate that defies anyone to keep
abreast of the literature, and apparently in inverse proportion to our understanding of
the subject. Addiction, or dependence, as it is more fashionable to call it, excites
controversy and speculation yet true understanding of the phenomenon remains
elusive.
In fact area is fraught with speculation and acrimonious debate. Definition of
terms such as “drug addiction” and “abuse” is obviously less controversial the attempts
to explain the nature of drug dependence, even the terminology is imprecise and
overlain with subjective connotations. At is most basic, a drug, as defined by the World
Health Organization, is simply’ any substance which when taken into the living organism
may modify one or more of its functions. This kind of definition is too wide to be any
use in a discussion of dependence: it covers everything from insulin to aspirin, penicillin
to alcohol.
1. We can infer from the first sentence?
o Not all that has been written on the subject of addiction has added to our
understanding
2. The author of second passage implies that he thinks the term “ dependence” in the
the context of drugs?
o Has not always been the preferred term
Passage: Invention of Camera
Invention enhance people’s lives. Inventions are improvements of previous discoveries.
With technology, inventions are easier to complete.

Are such invention is the camera. The invention of camera gave way to the first
underwater camera in 1965. It was placed in a tightly sealed container was underwater, the
container broke before many pictures were taken. It was in the 198’s that’s a camera was made
which is able to go deep underwater with ought being damaged. Less than twenty years later,
technology allowed underwater cameras to take photographs in color to go even deeper into
the water.

With better technology, an invention will never stay stagnant.

1. What can we infer from the selection?

 Man is constantly in search of new inventions

2. What is the main idea expressed in the selection?

 Peoples makes efforts to improve of new inventions

3. What can we conclude about inventions in the selection?

 Improves peoples live

4. What figure of speech in the last line in the selection?

“With better technology, an invention will never stay stagnant”

 Personification

5. What is the value presented in the selection?

 Ingenuity