QUIZ 1

Ang PAGAL na guro ay sandaling tumigil bago muling nagpatuloy sa pagsasalita.

• mabagal

• pagod

• galit

• pihikan

A special group in the police force is believe to be engage in FURTIVE activities.

• unusual

• suspicious

• worthy

• secret

The Defense presented its case to the jury in a TRENCHANT manner.

• cautious

• dignified

• emphatic

• vague

24.Ang mga magbubukid ay NABIHASA sa paggamit ng kalabaw bilang

katulong nila sa pagsasaka.

• nagsawa

• natuto

• nasanay

• nagtiwala

The baffled owner ACQUIESCED to the worker’s demands.

• agreed

• reacted

• resisted

• listened

The recommendation of the wage council is REPUGNANT to the employers.

• degrading

• acceptable

• objectionable

• beneficial

Sanctuaries for wildlife have DWINDLED alarmingly in the last decade.

• multiplied

• disappeared

• decreased

• changed

For a society to develop, its attitude towards life must not be a fatalistic one; rather, it must have strong faith in its capacity to improve.

The sentence best supports the statement that _________.

• the attitude of a society towards life is indicative of its socio-economic

  development

• a society cannot progress unless it is actively committed to the pursuit of a

  better life

• a person develops a healthy attitude towards life through constant efforts to

  improved oneself.

• a person with an optimistic outlook in life is confident of his capacity for

  advancement

Freedom and human rights without food are like freeing a prisoner and then not giving the prisoner the key to get out of the cell. The 450 million people who today live in the shadow of hunger and death from malnutrition can never be free men and women, however entrenched their freedom may be. These freedoms are only prospects held out and not realized.

The paragraph best supports the statement that __________.

• the satisfaction of one’s basic needs is a prerequisite to the enjoyment of

  freedom

• at times people have to work as one nation to address the problem of

  malnutrition

• a country which cannot feed its people with its own resources could never be

  free

• a country could not be free unless it could prove to the world that it could

  stand on its own feet

The Einstein revolution has produced a paradox; while vastly extending

humankind’s reach, it has also exposed the essentially finite nature of the human scale.

The sentence best supports the statement that Einstein’s discovery _________.

• proclaims only the glory of the universe

• reveals people’s limitations

• involves a real but not obvious contradiction

• reveals a contradiction between God and his people