Questions 161-170

Relying heavily on other sciences for concepts and principles, the study of earth science basically includes all of the following, except one. Which?

• oceanography
• toxicology
• astronomy
• meteorology
  

Reflexes are _______________.

• temporary
• acquired
• inborn
• learned
  

This singer was known as "Empress of the Blues":

• Bessie Smith
• Billie Holiday
• Betty Carter
• Pattie Austin
  

I need _______________.

• the visa
• a visa
• some visa
• any visas
  

Common body of knowledge we all need to know - this is the philosophy of education called _______________.

• essentialism
• social reconstructivism
• progressivism
• perennialism
  

In morphology, which hypothesis - which first appeared in Chomsky (1970) - was a reaction to the programme of generative semantics ?

• morphological hypothesis
• limited access hypothesis
• lexicalist hypothesis
• reductionist hypothesis
  

The art of bell-ringing:

• bellology
• oncology
• campanology
• ringology
  

Confucianism emphasizes that man's role in the universe is _______________.

• to be essentially passive
• to master nature
• to conform with the natural rhythm of things
• to harmonize with the dominant rhythm of nature
  

It is associated with the normal blood clotting and bone strength:

• Vitamin A
• Vitamin B Complex
• Vitamin E
• Vitamin K
  

Let's stop by the bookstore, _______________?

• won't we
• don't we
• shall we
• didn't we
  

Questions 151-160

Sarah is in her car. She is on her way to work. She _______________.

• drives to work
• is driving to work
• has driven to work
• drove to work
  

This started the educational and vocational guidance in the Philippines:

• EDCOM Report
• Philippine Guidance and Personnel Association
• the Industrial Revolution
• Monroe Educational Survey Commission
  

The first important advancement of the Greeks was the creation of the _______________.

• sound system
• alphabet
• picture symbols
• sentence structures
  

He was spokesman for Moses to the Egyptian pharaoh in his attempts the lead the Israelites out of Egypt but gave in to their idolatrous worship in Moses' absence:

• Abraham
• Aaron
• Lot
• Jacob
  

In Piaget's theory of cognitive development, a child between birth to two years, that is during the sensorimotor period does not see things in abstract forms. Therefore, in teaching mathematics to young children, the _______________.

• use of pictures may not be necessary
• use of concrete objects may not be necessary
• concrete stage should precede the abstract stage
• abstract stage should precede the concrete stage
  

Person who wrecks, or who plunders wrecked ships:

• shipper
• wrecker
• plunderer
• sailor
  

Civilized man everywhere lives in some system of organized society, which is known as _______________.

• community
• state
• group
• club
  

Based on a situation that is not real, but that might happen:

• hypothetical
• grisly
• uncanny
• logical
  

Parson's University is located in _______________.

• New York
• Chicago
• Los Angeles
• Seattle
  

The only sea with which the ancient Greeks were acquainted:

• the Euxine Sea
• the Mediterranean Sea
• the Adriatic Sea
• the Caspian Sea
  

Questions 141-150

Inflammation of a ligament:

• arthritis
• desmitis
• rhenitis
• cystitis

The primary purpose of counseling is to assist the individual in _______________.

• self-development
• self-direction
• self-discipline
• self-confidence

There was an accident this morning. A bus _______________ a car.

• collided
• collided with
• collided at
• collided on

The rise of liquid in a capillary tube:

• cappillary rise
• tube rise
• liquid rise
• aqua-rise

This Filipino value results in strengthening cooperation and loyalty:

• utang na loob
• indolence
• ningas cogon
• mañana habit

The study of the relationship between workers and their environment:

• conchology
• kinesthetics
• vexillology
• ergonomics

Tom is looking for his key. He can't find it. He _______________.

• lost his key
• has lost his key
• loses his key
• is losing his key

The worst war in Philippine history:

• World War I
• World War II
• Moro-Christian War
• Battle of Manila Bay

This book is intended _______________ intermediate students.

• for
• to
• by
• at
  

A finger-shaped cream puff, filled with whipped cream, ice-cream, or pastry cream, usually coated with an icing:

• eclair
• eclat
• eck
• eckhart
  

Questions 131-140

A mark made in written or printed matter to show the place where something is to be inserted:

• hyphen
• apostrophe
• caret
• dash

A unit of measurement that shows by how much the separate scores tend to differ from the mean is _______________.

• variance
• graph
• range
• standard deviation

I _______________ to see Chris on my way home.

• dropped
• dropped in
• dropped out
• dropped over

A precious yellow metal:

• gold
• silver
• copper
• bronze

The patron saint of Negroes in America:

• St. Peter Claver
• St. Martin de Porres
• St. Ignatius Loyola
• St. Nikolaus Kostka

A beauty treatment for the face:

• facial
• fascism
• facility
• face lift

The liquid portion of whole blood is called _______________.

• serum
• plasma
• lymph
• water

In 868, Wang Chieh printed the _______________, the oldest known printed book in the world.

• Bay Psalm Book
• Doctrina Cristiana
• Succesos Felices
• Diamond Sutra

Vitamin B1 is also called _______________.

• cyanocobalamine
• riboflavin
• thiamine
• niacin

Teaching requires a careful blending of _______________.

• facts and knowledge
• theory and practice
• skills and practice
• attitudes and values
  

Questions 121-130

"Farewell-to-spring" is _______________.

• a form of friendly greeting
• a weather condition
• a slender, showy herb
• a state of perfect happiness

The first process in analyzing scores is _______________.

• finding the mean
• grouping
• tallying
• ranking

Rachel _________________ at the gym three times a week.

• works in
• works on
• works out
• works off

The ratio of mass to volume:

• mass density
• volume density
• mass volume
• density mass

The use of language, where words are used to represent objects, is an example of _______________.

• symbolic thought
• acquisition
• representative thought
• object permanence

Fandango is a lively _______________.

• Italian dance
• Spanish dance
• Portuguese dance
• French dance

The father of Orestes in Greek mythology:

• Menelaus
• Agamemnon
• Priam
• Atreus

Following are the preventions of malaria, except one. Which?

• eradication of anopheles mosquito
• screening of houses
• use of mosquito nets while sleeping
• taking of aspirin table

Abraham is also an important figure in Islam:

• true
• false
• maybe
• no answer

The study of biology at the molecular level. Both molecular anatomy and molecular physiology is called _______________.

• biochemistry
• bacteriology
• anatomy
• histology
  

Questions 111-120

Marketing specialists have conducted extensive studies of what _______________ customers to buy a particular product.

• attractive
• attraction
• attracts
• attracting

In research, the method that involves the researcher to inquire deeper and examine thoroughly the behavior of a person is _______________.

• cluster sampling
• case study
• cross-section method
• developmental study

Shall we stop at this petrol station or shall we _______________ to the next one?

• drive in
• drive on
• drive at
• drive for

The smallest unit in a chemical compound:

• element
• substance
• mixture
• molecule

Socialization begins with the intimate relationship in the _______________.

• home
• school
• church
• community

The belief that all events are decided in advance by God or Fate so that human beings are powerless to alter their destiny:

• Fascism
• Deism
• Fatalism
• Theism

Which is not a basic part of speech in English?

• preposition
• indirect speech
• noun
• conjunction

The only one full-length epic that has survived in English literature:

• Beowulf
• Widsith
• Deor's Lament
• Piers Plowman

This term refers to the birth of two or more babies within a few hours or days:

• live birth
• caesarian birth
• ectopic pregnancy
• multiple birth

Good speech depends upon the ability to produce the following characteristics of the language correctly, except one. Which?

• the sounds of the vowels and the consonants
• the intonation patterns
• the rhythm of the spoken language
• where to stop when speaking
  

Questions 101-110

In Greek mythology, the son of Hercules and Deianira:

• Pyramus
• Glenus
• Astyanax
• Skamandrios

Mrs. Cruz, the guidance counselor, helps students in understanding themselves in learning about the world of work, in making decisions about jobs and careers. she applies _______________.

• transactional analysis
• clinical counseling
• placement service
• vocational counseling

What is the past tense of "sit" ?

• sat
• set
• sitted
• satted

Undesirable substances in the atmosphere:

• particulates
• pollutants
• sewage
• precipitates

An adult female:

• girl
• lass
• belle
• woman

Acts and omissions punishable by law are _______________.

• felonies
• deviations
• faults
• immoral deeds

She became an international heroine in 1928 as the first woman to cross the Atlantic by plane:

• Amelia Earhart
• Golda Meir
• Benazir Bhutto
• Valentina Tereshkova
  

Witty remark:

• epicure
• epilogue
• epigram
• epiphany

How fast a driver can act is called _______________.

• preventive action
• decision time
• reaction time
• agility

Which kind of culture is tangible?

• non-material culture
• material culture
• static culture
• dynamic culture
  

Questions 91-100

The Elizaldes went on vacation in Boracay.

Who went on vacation in Boracay?

• all people whose family name is Elizalde.
• the Elizalde grandfather and grandmother
• all Elizalde fathers
• Mr. and Mrs. Elizalde and children

This class in ancient England traced his ancestry to some war captive of the tribe:

• earl
• churl
• duke
• count

Who wrote the play "New Yorker in Tondo" ?

• Marcelino Agana, Jr.
• Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero
• Alberto S. Florentino
• Wilfrido D. Nolledo

_______________ may be the most important legacy of the Arabs to the Filipinos.

• The Sultanate
• Islam
• The Arabic language
• Sarimanok

A simple statistical way of checking individual items in a test:

• distractor evaluator
• ranking of scores
• measures of central tendency
• item analysis

A British scientist who first proposed the theory of Evolution in his book "Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection":

• Isaac Newton
• Charles Darwin
• Sigmund Freud
• Carolus Linnaeus

A sickness at the stomach, especially when accompanied by a loathing for food and an involuntary impulse to vomit:

• anosmia
• bulimia
• nausea
• anorexia

A large scale communication reaching and involving virtually everyone in a society to a greater or lesser degree:

• mass media
• media of instruction
• public media
• organizational media

Small or unimportant:

• fibroid
• fickle
• fictitious
• fiddling

A scientific theory is _______________.

• a hypothesis not yet subjected to experimental tests
• an idea that correctly predicts the results of many experiments
• a figment of the imagination
• a guess
  

Questions 81-90

In theater, what is the chief source of character revelation?

• action
• dialogue
• prop
• costume

When a person is more alert and has trained his faculties for effective study and work, he is _______________.

• physically fit
• mentally fit
• socially fit
• emotionally fit

An acid derived from ants:

• peptic acid
• hydrochloric acid
• lactic acid
• formic acid

A small fleet or a fleet of small ships:

• flotilla
• flounder
• flotsam
• flotation

A river in San Joaquin, Iloilo at whose mouth the ten Bornean datus first landed:

• Pan-ay River
• Andona River
• Jalaud River
• Tigum River

Which British statesman was famous for his particularly large vocabulary?

• Tony Blair
• John Major
• Winston Churchill
• Henry VIII

What is the capital of Colombia?

• Bogota
• San Jose
• Montevideo
• Tegucigalpa

Literature of power appeals to the _______________.

• intellect
• imagination
• sensibilities
• spirituality

A carefully planned and systematic investigation into some "question" to discover or establish facts and generalizations:

• science
• learning
• education
• research

It represents an idea, experience, or quality rather than an object that you can touch:

• collective noun
• abstract noun
• proper noun
• common noun
  

Questions 71-80

He suggested that competition and awards should be used to motivate people:

• Aristotle
• Plato
• Herbart
• Socrates
  

An apt theme that could be tagged to Hernando R. Ocampo's short story "Rice and Bullets":

• No Man is an Island
• Mind Over Matter
• Blood is Thicker than Water
• Necessity Knows No Law
  

This suffix is used for the person who does an activity:

• -er
• -ee
• -ion
• -ist
  

The only learning opportunity in ancient Egypt:

• religious instruction
• internship
• apprenticeship
• formal school system
  

It is used to preserve vital body organs awaiting transplantation:

• CT Scan
• endoscope
• cryogenics
• laser
  

This used to be the monetary unit of Italy:

• pound
• schilling
• peseta
• lira
  

The study of light:

• mechanics
• optics
• acoustics
• thermodynamics
  

Western civilization came much later than Asian civilization. It grew along the Mediterranean Sea among the early peoples of _______________.

• Greece
• Rome
• England
• Norway
  

Bilang ng mga pantig sa isang taludtod:

• kaanyuan
• sukat
• tugma
• tayutay
  

In chemistry, all measurements are made in the _______________.

• metric system
• English system
• either the metric system or the English system
• none of these
  

Questions 61-70

"Kismet" means _______________.

• fashion sense
• a central area
• destiny or fate
• love and romance

A kind of soil mostly composed of coarse particles of rock:

• sandy soil
• rocky soil
• alluvial soil
• colluvial soil
  

It is considered to be the highest and most refined of all the levels of usage because it is stylized:

• literary language
• technical language
• colloquial language
• provincial language

The science or philosophy of law:

• jurisprudence
• jurisdiction
• justice
• legality

A pirate:

• freelancer
• freak
• freedman
• freebooter

The branch of practical theology that treats of homilies or sermons:

• homilogy
• homililogy
• homiliary
• homiletics

The fourth estate:

• the government
• the people
• the press
• the military

Movement of cold, deep currents toward the equator:

• polar creep
• solar creep
• lunar creep
• ocean creep

A pragmatic philosophy maintaining that the function of thought is to be instrumental in controlling environment, and that the value of ideas is determined by their function in human experience or progress:

• instrumentalism
• functionalism
• purposivism
• existentialism

The presence of glucose in the blood:

• hemoglobin
• glycemia
• anemia
• leukemia
  

Questions 51-60

When one conducts a research, he is always guided by the _______________.

• mentor or adviser
• rewards received
• satisfaction on efforts exerted
• purpose
  

A British award for slavery, usually awarded to civilians:

• Boniface Cross
• John Cross
• George Cross
• Augustine Cross
  

An instrument used to measure the vibrations of an earthquake:

• seismograph
• barograph
• hydrograph
• anemometer
  

The present military training requirements among students in the secondary and tertiary levels can be traced as a strong influence of the _______________.

• Greeks
• Romans
• Spartans
• Athenians
  

The process of separation where particles settle at the bottom of the container:

• aeration
• sedimentation
• filtration
• manipulation
  

A castrated male horse:

• ass
• gelding
• stallion
• stag
  

Point of view held by Wundt and Tichener:

• Functionalism
• Structuralism
• Behaviorism
• Gestalt
  

Changing materials so that they can be used:

• recycling
• decomposition
• recombination
• re-using
  

An article of clothing:

• garment
• garland
• garret
• garter
  

Mike wanted to pass the board examinations for teachers. In the process, however, he has to make some concessions in his lifestyle to realize this objective. What will you suggest to Mike to resolve this conflict?

• He should not take the board examinations.
• He should continue his lifestyle.
• He should make a choice that would serve a useful purpose.
• He should leave things to chance.
  

Questions 41-50

Identifying sounds is very important in distinguishing words.

• true
• false
• maybe
• no answer

Hudhud is _______________.

• an Ilocano epic
• an Ifugao epic
• a Muslim epic
• a Mangyan epic

The median of the scores 4, 6, 7, 5, 4 is _______________.

• 6.0
• 5.5
• 5.0
• 5.2

The upper extremity of the animal body, containing the brain and the organs of sight, hearing, taste, and smell:

• trunk
• cranium
• head
• thorax

You should do _______________ your teacher tells you

• like
• as
• seem
• even

The state shall promote social justice to ensure the dignity, welfare, and security of _______________.

• all the people
• the military officials
• the government leaders
• the clergy

Where can you find Mount Apo?

• Zamboanga Peninsula
• Southern Luzon
• Western Visayas
• Mindanao

What does the word "adjacent" mean?

• beneath
• behind
• beside
• across

The Greek hero who killed Hector:

• Paris
• Agamemnon
• Achilles
• Odysseus

The first identifying attitude for the individual:

• limitation
• distribution
• attribution
• projection
  

Questions 31-40

Substances that result from chemical reactions:

• chemicals
• reactants
• products
• elements
  

A young goose:

• gosling
• gosler
• goslet
• goser
  

He holds the distinction of being the first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature:

• Wole Soyinka
• Yasunari Kawabata
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Po Chi-I
  

A particle found in the nucleus of an atom. It is positively charged and has a mass of nearly 1 amu.

• proton
• neutron
• electron
• positron
  

A big drum of animal skin struck by a twig used by the ancient Malays as means for making public announcements in the barangays:

• kudyapi
• agong
• budyong
• tultogan
  

Filial piety is a basic tenet of this school of thought:

• Taoism
• Confucianism
• Hinduism
• Buddhism
  

A small biting two-winged insect:

• gnat
  
• carbuncle
• gander
• canary
  

A resource that can be used and then replaced:

• nonrenewable
• renewable
• limited
• unlimited

The first Filipino military pilot:

• Cadet Jose Padilla
• Cadet Alfonso de Guzman
• Cadet Leoncio Malinao
• Cadet Marcillano Navarro

The general condition of the body and mind with reference to soundness and vigor:

• stability
• sanity
• health
  
• fitness
  

Questions 21-30

Community health is a service that is provided in an environment that is constantly changing. This implies that the health worker in providing relevant services must _______________.

• involve other discipline in carrying health care services in various settings
• provide services that are community-based
• provide services that are integrated and comprehensive
• upgrade her knowledge on the current and evolving characteristics of health care system

What is the past tense of "split" ?

• split
• splat
• splitted
• splatted

A student challenges your authority as a teacher that caught you by surprise. It is best that you _______________.

• shout back at the student and impose your will on him
• ignore his challenge and do your own thing
• report the matter to the principal and recommend appropriate disciplinary action
• report to the police such dastardly act

We will _______________ in three weeks.

• be back
• be over
• be on
• be with

Children learning the alphabeth is a common form of _______________.

• serial learning
• repetition
• pairing
• rehearsal

I don't want to hear anymore about this matter. Please don't _______________ again.

• bring it out
• bring it on
• bring it up
• bring it off

What divides North Korea and South Korea?

• Pektu Mountain
• 38th Parallel
• Yellow Sea
• Han River

As soon as the board of elections " promulgates" the list of candidates, a ballot is prepared.

Give the meaning of the quoted word.

• informally discusses
• quickly contacts
• officially declares
• critically reviews

The scientific method starts with _______________.

• a solution
• a hypothesis
• a problem
• an experiment

I _______________ to tie my shoelace.

• bent
• bent down
• bent over
• bent off
  

Questions 11-20

Under the _______________ organization, the individual has a much narrower choice; he is a worker, or soldier of industry, who must fall into place wherever the state most need him.

• democratic
• totalitarian
• socialist
• religious

Between Mars and Jupiter are heavenly bodies smaller than planets. What do you call them?

• meteorites
• planetoids
• meteors
• stars

Tests that stress objective evaluation by language specialists:

• intuitive tests
• subjective tests
• communicative tests
• scientific tests

A change in technology and science is _______________.

• innovation
• geographical change
• culture change
• social change

Marriage is an institution for the stabilization of _______________.

• family
• school
• society
• country

The use of white lies to please a person:

• euphemism
• onomatopoeia
• polysemy
• litotes

Movable beads for counting developed by the Chinese:

• movable blocks
• calculator
• abacus
  
• sun dial

Which is the most accepted definition of sociology?

• Science of man and his environment
• Science of human behavior
• Science of man and society
• Science of man, development and works

What was the basic aim of primitive education?

• security and survival
• enhance individual interest
• training of the young for the future
• all of the above

A stated comparison between two unlike things or persons using "as" or "like":

• metaphor
• personification
• simile
• irony
  

Questions 1-10

The process by which drug passes into the bloodstream:

• assimilation
• absorption
• injection
• adhesion
  

A very frightening dream:

• hearth
• nightmare
• abortion
• debt

Name for the people of the Cordillera region, in the Philippines island of Luzon. They form two subgroups: the larger group lives in the south, central and western areas, and is very adept at rice-terrace farming; the smaller group lives in the east and north. This group of people formerly practiced headhunting:

• Ifugao
• Igorot
• Ibaloi
• Ivatan

Study and use of electronic devices in aviation:

• avionics
• electronic aviation
• avitionology
• avio-electronics

Removal of fluids from the peritonial cavity:

• abdominal paracentecis
• liquid paracentecis
• peretonial paracentecis
• bodily paracentecis

Although the concept of consanguinity referred to relations by "blood", many anthropologists have argued that one must understand the notion of "blood" metaphorically, and that many societies understand "family" through other concepts rather through genetic distance.

• true
• false
• maybe
• no answer

In 1879, he established the first psychological experimental laboratory in Leipzig, Germany:

• Carl Jung
• Wilhelm Wundt
• William James
• Sigmund Freud

Essayist, poet, and politician; best known for his elegant articles in the two periodicals, "The Tatler" and "The Spectator":

• Joseph Addison
• George Orwell
• Norman Cousin
• Matthew Arnold

Indonesia is formerly known as _______________.

• the East Indies (Netherlands)
• Indo-China
• Celebes
• Annam

A substance that releases hydrogen (H+) ions in solution:

• base
• acid
• water
• toxin