UPCAT (ENGLISH)

Select the word/s or phrase that most appropriately completes the sentence.
May I please request that each of the two groups take an ______ position in the issue now.

• alternating

• alternative

• alternate

• none of the above

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By the time the operation ends, Billy _____ a total of 1,300 hours for his friend and _____ countless outdated magazines in the emergency room waiting area.

• will have waited, will have read

• have waited, have read

• waited, read

• will have waited, read

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If we __________ harder we would have passed the college entrance exam.

• study

• had studied

• studied

• have studied

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______ are you deserting me ______ you are also taking our supplies.

• neither, nor

• not only, but

• both, and

• either, or

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Neither of her Oscar awards, however, _____ been polished for a long time.

• have

• is

• has

• have already

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Ms. Dinna Lee-Go does not ____ Metro Manila Development Authority's plan of bulldozing the Katipunan Avenue islands in the name of traffic decongestion.

• agree with

• agree on

• agree in

• agree about

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Nearly all _______ demand observance of the standard punctuation.

• editor-in-chief

• editors-in-chief

• editor-in-chiefs

• editors-in-chiefs

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It is important that the bridge _____ before the holiday season.

• to be built

• is built

• will built

• be built

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Her father _____ her 1, 000 pesos _____ she spent on new books.

• gave, that

• has given, that

• had given, which

• gave, which

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If it _____ for their mother’s pension, _____ the previous years.

• wasn’t, they will not have survived

• weren’t, they would not have survived

• isn't, they would not survive

• isn’t, they would not have survived