Part 1: Structure 6.

Mathematics ______ the most difficult subject in the

exam.
DIRECTIONS: This subset measures your ability to A. remain
recognize language that is appropriate for standard B. remains
written English. C. remaining
D. has remains
Items 1 – 20 are incomplete sentences. Beneath each
sentence, you will see four words or phrases marked A, 7. The cost of a program being implemented is
B, C, and D. choose the word or phrase that best important ______ the feasibility prioritization of the
completes the sentence, then choose the letter various concerns for it to be able to promote change.
corresponding to your answer. A. Hence it looks into
B. until it looks into
1. Robert pleaded ____ his teacher to ask and give him C. since it looks into
a chance. D. because it looks into.
A. with
B. to 8. Filipinos are fortunate ____ the country has natural
C. from resources.
D. in A. because
B. hence
2. Dorothy unnecessarily ______ a quarrel with Bryan C. when
and left the party immediately. D. despite
A. picked on
B. picked out 9. The term medical reversal refers to a replacement
C. picked ______ that was widely believed to be beneficial.
D. picked up A. of a medical practice
B. to a medical practice
3. Foods rich in foliate, a form of vitamin B, _________ C. by a medical practice
reduce the risk of stroke and heart disease. D. with a medical practice
A. help
B. helps 10. Over years, economic growth _______ of greater
C. helped concern than environmental preservation.
D. is helping A. has been.
B. have been
4. The primordial purpose __________ schooling is C. had been
ultimately to learn how to learn. D. will have been
A. In
B. for 11. A history of depression, denial, injustice and abuse
C. of ________ the greatest detriment to people of color.
D. at A. has been
B. had
5. A website is unlimited __________ you to other C. have
websites where you can access for more information D. having
and discoveries.
A. until it is linking
B. because it links
C. since it linked
D. while it link
12. Theodore is drunk and drives recklessly, it seems he 18. The happy children, __________, paraded in the
doesn’t care ______ his life at all. busy streets in celebration of their school foundation.
A. about A. Majestic costumes
B. for B. majestic costumed
C. in C. majestically costumes
D. at D. majestically costumed

13. _______ wiring is the cause of the sudden blackout. 19. Disaster preparedness and disaster reduction
A. lose management are slowly being taught in schools because
B. losing of the _____ of floods, earthquakes and other natural
C. loose calamities in the world.
D. lost A. continual increasing incident
B. continually increase incidence
14. ________ and rapid economic growth in recent C. continual increase incidents
years have put a large and increasing stress on the D. continually increasing incidence
water resources and environment in Ho Chi Minh City,
Vietnam. 20. The legalization of divorce, until such time, has been
A. Increase population __________ in our society.
B. Increased population A. A hotly-contested issue
C. increasing population B. the hot contested issue
D. Having increased population C. A hotly-contesting issue
D. the hot contesting issue
15. ________should help you better informed about
potential risks, but it should not be a source of alarm.
A. Know your family history
B. Knowing your family history
C. To have your family history known
D. Having your family history known
Part 2 : WRITTEN EXPRESSION / FINDING ERRORS
16. The child was advised to stay away ________
because of trauma DIRECTIONS: in items 1 – 30, each sentence is divided
A. Completed from his father into four parts mark A, B, C, and D. Identify the one part
B. Completely from his father that must be changed to make the sentence correct.
C. Completed with his father Then choose the letter corresponding to your answer.
D. Completely with his father
1.
17. It is observed that some new aspiring politicians A. Outside of written records
usually make a ______ before running in Congress with B. evidence of Philippines existence
great hope of bringing changes in the system and C. have survived
progress in the country. D. in pottery relics.
A. two – hour important decision
B. two – hours important decision 2.
C. two hour important decisions A. In many cities around the world
D. two hours important decisions B. the number of homeless people
C. have become
D. a big problem.
3. 11.
A. The man A. The obligations of the accountant to the client
B. gives antidote so powerful B. related upon the agreed scope
C. that any poison was made harmless C. of the engagement which
D. after taking it. D. in effect represents a contractual agreement

4. 12.
A. Finance statements A. Many medications are safe and effective when taken
B. are formal reports alone
C. prepared B. and ineffective or counter productive
D. by accountants C. when taken in combination
D. with something else
5.
A. The tale that was 13.
B. told in a low and mystery voice A. You should make sure
C. kept us on the B. your body has get
D. edge of seats C. the necessary vitamins and minerals
D. humans need
6.
A. A team led by the government agency concerned 14.
B. say that chemicals from the factory A. It is often said that
C. had contaminated sediment in the bay B. lightning never strike twice
D. and entered the food chain C. at the same place
D. but it is not true.
7.
A. The Gleaning Network, 15.
B. an organizer in the United Kingdom A. Money is not a natural reward of love
C. is trying to reduce waste B. That is why we called a man mercenary
D. and solve farming problem C. If he marries a woman
D. For the sake of her money
8.
A. In 1964, 16.
B. the African countries of Tanganyaki and Zanziban A. Overcrowding of and within houses
C. has united to form B. is an unhealthful factor
D. a single country, now called Tanzania C. which favor
D. the spread of many diseases
9.
A. As a mode of expository writing 17.
B. the narrated writing offers writers A. Sit cramped
C. a chance to think and write B. for a very long period of time
D. about themselves C. in dry conditions
D. can affect our circulatory system.
10.
A. The Philippines
B. has accommodations
C. to suit everyone
D. from five-star hotels to simple hotels.
18. 24.
A. The novel was so popular A. The sudden demise of Ms. Gina Lopez created a large
B. among teenagers vacuum in the hearts of people
C. to a point that a movie was made B. who admires her being a staunch supporter of the
D. base from the story anti-mining and deforestation
C. she also had numerous foundations for the poor
19. chickens
A. If depression will not be given attention, it D. and programs that care for the environment
predisposes to hibernate and worse end his life.
B. So, therefore, we should all create a consciousness to 25.
spot A. Before Richard Gomez became a popular actor in the
C. Friends or family members who seem to be local film industry,
undergoing something B. he was a waiter at a certain pizza parlor
D. A listening ear, a warm hug or handshake matters C. with his good looks, excel acting skills, diligence and
most. perseverance, he rose to stardom for several
Years
20. D. His life changed when he got married. He is the
A. Mathematics are fun to learn incumbent mayor in Ormoc City.
B. You should indulge yourself first into it by falling in
love with the numbers 26.
C. You will found out soon, you will have confidence and A. The navy contributes
D. Mathematics will just be easy for you. B. to the protection of the environment and
preservation of natural resources
21. C. by scuttle out cylindrical blocks
A. I bought some D. to serve as artificial reefs.
B. silver charming victorian
C. ornaments 27.
D. at the flea market. A. Costing more than $40 million and grossing $20
million in the first two weeks,
22. B. Pinocchio is one of the most expensive film
A. The most popular alumnae C. Made in Italy
B. of a barangay high school D. To help put Rome back to the filmmakers’ maps
C. is now serving as president
D. of a well-known state university in manila 28.
A. Unclean water and improper disposal of waste
23. B. can be carried highly communicable diseases
A. Education is said to be functional C. because of their injurious effects
B. when it is transforming lives of the learners’ D. to human life
C. making meaningful contributions to the society
D. and accepting the existence of s Supreme being in 29.
their lives 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
30. “occupations” each consolidating a legitimate way to
A. Any nation survive.
B. that aspires to elevate morality
C. will have difficulty 1. To “eke of living” means _____________.
D. stamp out prostitution A. To earn income.
B. To live with others
C. To sell in the streets
Part 3: READING COMPREHENSION D. To work in the streets

DIRECTIONS: In this subtest you will read several 2. Based on the selection, what values seems to be
passages. Each one is followed by several questions missing in the families of the street children?
about it. For items 1 - 65, you are to choose the one A. Loyalty
best answer, A, B, C, and D, to each question. Then B. Honesty
blacken the circle that corresponds to the letter of your C. Kindness
choice in the Answer Sheet. Answer all questions D. Solidarity
following a passage on the basis of what is started or
implied in that passage. 3. What is the most important factor that will equip
rural people to survive in the city?
Selection A (Items 1 – 5) A. money
B. education
Studies have consistently pointed to at least three C. food
major immediate factors that push children to stay or D. home
live on the streets. These are the poverty of the family,
family relationship factors (physical or sexual abuse) 4. The selection is simply about _____________.
and peer influence. Poverty and peer influence when A. providing homes for the poor
compounded with problems and stresses in the family B. helping street children get an education
life such as family break-up, child abuses and neglect, C. factors why children live in the streets
domestic violence by step-parents, underemployed D. how to lessen pressure on the family
parents, etc., altogether create under pressure on the 5. Based on the text, we can conclude that street
child to leave home and find solace, protection and children are _________.
support from the peers on the street, eventually A. Independent
becoming susceptible to their influence and lifestyle. In B. Malnourished
Metro Manila, population growth, urbanization and C. Helpless persons
migration have increased through the years. Children D. Victims of poverty
are often forced try circumstances to help their family
eke out of living or tend for themselves on the streets. Selection B (Items 6 – 10)
Most of them are children of poor parents who A cat is a precision instrument – a perfectly engineered
migrated from rural areas in the hope of finding better hunting machine, designed for stealth, capture and self-
job opportunities in the city, but whose lack of defense. It has padded feet that make no sound and
education rendered them ill-equipped to struggle for muscles of enormous power and bulk for the size. Its
survival in the urban jungle and are thus curtained to a bones are attached at energy-efficient angles that
life of object poverty.For the street children, life on the create a system of springs and levers perfect for
streets are a constant struggle to overcome the various bounding, leaping and climbing. Its claws are sharper
negative comments that threaten to overtake them and than those of any other mammal and can be withdrawn
destroy their hopes for survival. They work under the under sheathlike pads where they escape injury and
heat of the sun or in the dark of the night from six to 10 wear. No teeth are better suited for hunting than those
hours, seven days a week, often in a combination of of the cat – great canines for tearing and scissor-like
premolars for shearing off bits of flesh small enough to Selection C (Items 11 – 15)
swallow. In the cat’s eye, the colored fibers of the iris In the light of social changes, we come to the question:
respond immediately to light changed to permit What qualities should distinguish the educated Filipino
exactness of vision in all light conditions. In the darkness today? I venture to suggest that the educated Filipino
of night the iris contracts to widen the pupil and admit should first be distinguished by the power to do. The
any trace of available light. In the binding light of oriental excels in reflective thinking he is a philosopher.
midday, the iris expands and the pupil shuts down to a The Occidental is a doer; he manages things, men and
thin vertical slit. Except in white cats with blue eyes, a affairs. The Filipino of today needs more of this power
cat’s hearing is extremely acute. Each ear has twenty- to translate reflection into action. I believe that we are
seven muscles that allow the cat to rotate the ear in all coming more to this power to translate reflection into
directions to collect sound. The cat’s reaction to sudden action. We are coming more likely to the conviction that
movement or noise is so swift that it can usually escape no Filipino has the right to be considered educated
threatening danger – and the little quarry passes unless he is prepared to take an active and useful part
unharmed. in the work, life, and progress of our country as well as
6. The word “quarry” as used in the last paragraph in the progress of the world.
means ___________. 11. What is the best paraphrase of the last paragraph in
A. target the passage?
B. hunted A. A truly educated Filipino participates actively in the
C. hunter work and progress of the country and the world as a
D. victim whole.
B. Participation in the work and progress of our country
7. Cats have acute hearing except the white cat with is sought by every Filipino
blue eyes which do not ________. C. The country’s progress and advancement depend
A. hear well primarily on educated Filipino
B. hunt well D. To be considered educated, one has to be globally
C. see well competitive and willing to take risks.
D. eat well
12. As used in the selection, what does word
8. The sentence “The cat is a precision instrument” is a “conviction” mean?
_______________. A. intellectual guess
A. hyperbole B. verdict
B. simile C. strong belief
C. metaphor D. allegiance
D. irony
13. What trait is found in most Orientals but needs to
9. The selection is mainly about _________________. be deepened in Filipino?
A. how the cat differs from a dog A. action oriented
B. the cat as a hunting machine B. patience
C. how the cat is like a mammal C. reflective thinker
D. the cat as a house pet D. good in managing

10. We can conclude from the selection that the cat is 14. What is meant by this line?
an animal which can ________________. “ The oriental is a philosopher”
A. do a lot of tricks A. Oriental people have the blood of great philosophers
B. be domesticated B. Oriental people are contemplative
C. be very dangerous C. They have a tendency to become philosophers
D. survive on its own D. They think like Great Solomon.
15. What value is implied in the same passage above? 19. When did Palawan attracted foreign attention?
A. justice a. A disturbance in Kenya also saw the transport of
B. courage endangered animals
C. active involvement b. Divers woke up with amazing scenery of skyscraping
D. hyperactivity dark cliff
c. It became a United Nations Vietnamese Refugee
Selection D (Items 16 – 19) Center
Unique to Palawan is its mega diversity. For a long time, d. A tuna line disabled a dive boat’s propeller in the
only the many ethnic communities that thrive in these middle of the night
islands and a few other daring settlers who wanted to
live in unpolluted surroundings know Palawan’s Selection E (Items 20 – 24)
bountiful resources, abundant wildlife and A world without pasta seems inconceivable. Macaroni
extraordinary natural beauty. The island province first and cheese loving children across the US would howl in
attracted foreign attention in the 1970’s when it protest; Italy might suffer a heart attack; social unrest
became a United Nations Vietnamese Refugee Center. could explode in china where noodles are the main
At this time, a disturbance in Kenya also saw the staple. But if humans want to keep eating pasta, we will
transport of endangered animals from its savannas to have to take much more aggressive action against
the plains of Calauit island. However, it was only a sea global warming. Pasta is made from wheat and a large
accident in 1979 that eventually led to the opening of growing body of scientific studies and real world
Palawan into major tourist attraction. According to a observations suggest what wheat will be hit especially
story, a tuna line disabled a dive boat’s propeller in the hard as temperatures rise and storms and drought
middle of the night forcing it to drop anchor in an inlet. intensify in the years ahead. Three grains- wheat, corn
The following morning, the divers woke up with and rice account for most of the food that humans
amazing scenery of skyscraping dark cliff. consume. All these are already suffering from climate
change, but wheat stands to fare the worst in the years
16. Which could be an appropriate title of the selection? ahead, for it is the grain most vulnerable to high
a. Palawan and it’s settlers temperatures. That spells trouble not only for pasta but
b. Palawan and it’s extraordinary natural beauty also for bread, the most basic food of all. International
c. El Nido in 1970’s agricultural research centers and the private sector
d. The discovery of El Nido have woken up to the fact that higher temperatures are
almost inevitable and they have very little in their
17. What does the word “diversity” in the first sentence genetic toolbox to deal with them.
mean?
a. Variety 20. The meaning of inconceivable in the first sentence
b. Equality of the passage must be _________.
c. Similarity a. Not imaginable
d. Distinction b. Cannot happen
c. Unable to conceive
18. It can be concluded from the selection that d. No possibility
_______.
a. El Nido is a tourist spot
b. El Nido is a popular place
c. El Nido was discovered by a diver
d. El Nido has its amazing natural beauty
21. The passage emphasizes an alarming future scenario absurdity that theater is able to create each poetry,
because __________. power, enhancement and truth.
a. Humans will take more aggressive action against
global warming 25. What is the best title for the selection?
b. China, where noodles are the main staple, could have a. Marvelous singing voices
social unrest b. The imaginative power of drama
c. Macaroni and cheese loving children across the US c. The absurdity of fiction
would protest d. The production of musical plays
d. Three significant grains, especially wheat may be lost
to humans. 26. Based from the excerpt, the author believes that all
the statements are true EXCEPT
22. This passage entitled Pasta Crisis points out with a. Theater is based on absurdities
urgency that ____________. b. The character in musical plays converse by singing
a. Higher temperatures are almost inevitable c. Theater teaches us that suicide is the only solution to
b. Three grains are already suffering from climate the problem
change d. Theater creates poetry, power, enhancement and
c. More aggressive action against global warming is truth
needed
d. Drought will intensify in the coming years 27. The word “absurdity” in the last sentence means
a. Fiction
23. Another way of expressing the idea in the sentence” b. Falsehood
it is the grain most vulnerable to high temperatures” is c. Predictability
it is the grain ____________. d. Foolishness
a. Most affected under intense heat
b. Likely to flourish when it gets warm 28. Which of the following can be about the theater
c. Strongly at risk in temperate areas from the selection?
d. Inclined to wither if it gets very hot a. It has different themes
b. It is the most ridiculous of all arts
24. The idea in the passage is develop using c. It is able to create poetry, power and truth
___________. d. It is a functional representation of life
a. Narration
b. Exposition Selection G (Items 29 – 33)
c. Description Inventions enhance people’s lives. Inventions are
d. Illustration improvements of previous discoveries. With technology,
inventions are easier to complete. One such invention is
Selection F (Items 25 – 28) the camera. The invention of the camera gave way to
The arts generally depend on ridiculous Region, but the the first underwater camera in 1856. It was placed in a
theater is most ridiculous of all. Imagine asking us to tightly sealed container. However, when the
pretend that we are in Bangkok after the fall of Saigon contraption was underwater, the container broke
and that Lea is a Vietnamese bar girl who kills herself before many pictures were taken. It was only in the
because she believes that suicide is the only solution to 1980’s that a camera was made which is able to go deep
her problem. More than that, imagine asking us to underwater without being damaged. Less than twenty
believe that and all other characters in the play talk to years later, technology allowed underwater cameras to
each other by singing. The theater is a lily that take photographs in color and to go even deeper into
inexplicably arise from a jungle of weedy falsities yet, it the water. With better technology, an invention will
is precisely from the tension produced by all this never stay stagnant.
29. What can we infer in the selection? I want them to waterski
a. Man’s nature is easily influenced across the surface of a poem
b. Man’s nature easily adapts to his environment waving at the author’s name on the shore.
c. Man is constantly in search of new inventions But all they want to do
d. Man easily gives up when confronted with a is tie the poem to a chair with rope
challenge and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose
30. What is the main idea expressed in the selection? to find out what it really means.
a. man by nature is a contented being
b. people make efforts to improve an invention 34. The poet uses the pronouns “they” and “them”
c. to seek comfort is man’s goal in life most likely to refer to
d. inventions have a tendency to be copied a. Student Poetry
b. His part
31. What can we conclude about inventions in the c. His troubles
selection? d. Literary critic
a. improve people’s lives
b. are easy to accomplish 35. Which line from the poem provides the context that
c. are hard to improve supports the meaning of the word “slide” in line 3?
d. are costly a. Line 2
b. line 5
32. What figure of speech is used in the last line of the c. line 9
selection? d. line 16
a. Simile
b. Metaphor 36. Which of these lines contains a poetic language that
c. Hyperbole conveys a sense of danger?
d. Personification a. And hold it up to the light
b. or press an ear against its hive.
33. What is the value presented in the selection? c. I say drop a mouse into a poem
a. passivity d. I want them to waterski
b. ingenuity
c. contentment 37. What tones are conveyed by these lines?
d. independence I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
Selection H (Items 34 – 43) waving at the author’s name on the shore.
Introduction to Poetry a. Uncertain and confused
By Billy Collins b. Cordial and pleasure
c. Melancholic and resourceful
I ask them to take a poem d. Neutral and subjective
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide 38. Line 12 -14 suggest that “they” want the poem
or press an ear against its hive. a. To provide clues to help determine its meaning
b. To convey a transparent meaning
I say drop a mouse into a poem c. To conceal its true meaning
and watch him probe his way out, d. To make its meaning inconspicuous
or walk inside the poem’s room
and feel the walls for a light switch.
39. In line 15, the act of beating the poem with a hose functions. This kind of definition is too wide to be of any
suggest that they are use in discussion of dependence: it covers everything
a. Copasthnic from insulin to aspirin, penicillin to alcohol.
b. Frustrates
c. Serene 44. The author implies that he thinks the term
d. Tranquil “dependence” in the context of drugs
a. is more accurate than the older term “addiction”
40. In stanza 4, the poet refers to the poem as a/an b. has not always been the preferred term
a. Jetski c. is a currently under-used term
b. car d. is an avant-garde aberration
c. ocean
d. boat 45. We can infer from the first sentence that
a. Not all that has been written on the subject of
41. The tone of the poem shift in: addiction has added to our understanding
a. Stanza 1 b. No one can have read all the literature on any drug
b. stanza 3 c. The more that is publicly wants to know are likely to
c. stanza 4 understand
d. stanza 6 d. The rate of growth should be higher if we are to
understand the subject
42. The overall message conveyed in the poem is
a. The contrast of hopes versus reality Selection J (Items 46 – 49)
b. The guidance provided by authority We have so much in life to be thankful for. We walk,
c. The missed opportunities of rebels talk, see, hear, think and breathe – usually without
d. A life unfulfilled and unchallenged effort. Why do we have to spend so much time dwelling
on what we can’t, don’t have and what is going wrong?.
43. What did the author used in the Stanza 2, 3 and 4? We can instantly recall the negative experiences, people
a. Imagery and circumstances without recognizing we have the
b. Simile ability to walk away or make a change. Perhaps we have
c. Irony too many options from which to choose. Or it could be
d. Symbols we simply want to complain. Maybe if we spent just a
little time saying “thank you” for what we do have, we
Selection I (Items 44 – 45) won’t have so much time to dwell on what we lack.
The literature on drug addiction has grown at a rate Gratitude, praise and thanksgiving activate the divine
that defies anyone to keep abreast of the literature and laws of abundance. When the universe can see we are
apparently in inverse proportion tour understanding of conscious of and grateful for what we have, it is
the subject. Addiction or dependence, as it is more activated to shower us with more. Even when it seems
fashionable to call it, excites controversy and that the well is drying up, we can affirm “I can hardly
speculation yet true understanding of the phenomenon wait to see the good that will come out of this”.
remains elusive. In fact, the area is fraught with
speculation and acrimonious debate. Definition of terms 46. According to the author, which of the following
such as “drug”, “addiction” and “abuse” is obviously less activates the Divine laws of abundance?
controversial than attempts to explain the nature of A. Recalling negative experiences
drug dependence, yet even the terminology is imprecise B. Dwelling on what we can’t do
and overlain with subjective connotations. At its most C. Having so much in life
basic, a drug as defined by the World Health D. Giving thanks
Organization is simply any substance which when taken 47. Which of these statements from the selection
into the living organism may modify one or more of its expresses cause-effect relationship?
A. When the universe can see that we are grateful for b. deal with the siege of Troy by the Greeks
what we have, it is activated to shower us with more c. have been thought to have different writers
B. We walk, talk, see, hear, think and breathe – usually d. are collections of traditional ballads
without effort
C. Perhaps we have too many options from which to Selection L (Items 53 – 55)
choose Many consider World War I to have been the first
D. We have so much in life to be thankful for modern war, a total war where the civilian populations
were deliberately endangered as a direct tactic of war,
48. Why do we always have to be thankful in life? which has continued in all subsequent wars. While
A. Giving thanks solves most of our problems civilians have always died in wars, World War I made
B. Being thankful attracts more blessings civilian casualties accepted and commonplace from, for
C. Thanks giving banishes most of our worries example, aerial bombardment. All aspects of the
D. Thankfulness is rare among blessed societies fighting were affected by the conflict, often
causing profound social change if the countries were
49. What is the main idea of the selection? not in the war zone.
A. There are people who have so much in life
B. We have too many choices in life 53. It is stated in the reading that World War I
C. There is good that comes from every thankful a. caused a major depression in countries that were
D. Some people tend to dwell on negative against killing civilians
b. introduced the killing of civilians as a method of
Selection K (Items 50 – 52) warfare
Homer was a Greek epic poet. Both the date and the c. is the bloodiest war in history
place of his birth and death are not known precisely, d. marked the end of the peaceful period in modern
but recent research suggests a date between 1050 and history
800 B.C. It has even been claimed that no such man as
Homer existed and The Iliad and Odyssey are collections 54. It is pointed in the passage that
of traditional ballads and not the work of one man. In a. the war’s economic impact was felt sharply in
any event, they were known all over the Greek – countries that were close to the war zone
speaking world before the sixth century B.C. The Iliad is b. the aftermath of World War I brought more attempts
an epic poem dealing with the siege of Troy by the to protect civilians in war
Greeks. The Odyssey describes the wandering of c. unlike all subsequent wars, World War I was
Odysseus, a Greek seafarer on his way to Ithaca after worldwide
the fall of Troy. d. the impact of the World War I was felt even by the
50. We can infer from the passage that ___________ countries which were not close to the war fronts
a. It’s not definite when and where Homer was born
b. Homer only deals with poetry 55. We can understand from the passage that
c. Recent research shows the impossibility of finding a. very few countries had designed or built aircraft
Homer’s birth date specifically for war functions before World War I
d. Some suggest that he was born in 800 B.C b. World War I was not the first war in which civilians
died
51. The Odyssey ____________ c. many consider World War I the defining moment of
a. belongs to another poet rather than Homer modern life
b. explains the voyage of a sailor d. the aerial bombardment of civilian was widely
c. has no connection with the Iliad criticized
d. doesn’t have a specific protagonist Selection M (Items 56 – 60)
52. The works of Homer ______________
a. have no potential readers YOUTH
by Samuel Ullman c. Juxtaposition
Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a d. Understatements
matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a
matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor 60. Where did the author focused?
of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs a. Persona
of life. Youth means a temperamental predominance of b. Timeline
courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure c. Sensory details
over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty d. Emotion
more than a body of twenty. Nobody grows old merely
by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our 61. The most appropriate title for this selection is
ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up a. On Growing Old
enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust b. On Being Young
bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust. c. Young and Old
Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human d. You Can be Young
being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like
appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of 62. How did the author described the young
living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is generation?
a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of a. Assertive
beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and b. Inquisitive
from the Infinite, so long are you young. When the c. Informative
aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows d. Provocative
of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are
grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials 63. According to the selection, which of the following is
are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope not a characteristic of youth?
you may die young at eighty. a. rosy cheeks
56. What kind of passage is this? b. imaginative
a. Informative c. adventurous
b. Descriptive d. timidity
c. Expository .
d. Narrative
64. According to the author, one has grown old if
57. What does predominance in the second paragraph ___________
refer to? a. he has lost the desire to improve himself
a. Superiority b. he indulges in hazardous himself
b. Strong Element c. he has reached the age of 70
c. Majority of existence d. his children have set up their own families
d. Interaction
65. The selection tells us that youth is based on one’s
58. Which is not a characteristic of the youth? a. physical appearance
a. Imaginative b. status in life
b. Rosy Cheek c. charm and glamour
c. Timidity d. views about life
d. Adventurous

59. What did the author use in the passage?

a. Paradox
b. Simile