Directions: This part of the test has incomplete sentences. Four words or phrases, marked (A), (B), (C), (D), are given
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- Directions: This part of the test has incomplete sentences. Four words or phrases, marked (A), (B), (C), (D), are given
- Directions: Read the passages below and answer the questions by marking the correct option.
- Directions: Kindly write about yourself in 250 words (Minimum).
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English Competency Test
Name : ____________________________________ Date : __________________
SECTION 1: GRAMMAR FUNCTIONS Directions: This part of the test has incomplete sentences. Four words or phrases, marked (A), (B), (C), (D), are given beneath each sentence. You are to choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence.
1. She has been looking for a job ............... since she left school. A) very B) never C) every
D) ever E) a long time
Answer: _____ 2. I'm so surprised to hear that he could do it ...............himself. A) apart from B) with C) except for
D) all by E) within
Answer: _____ 3. This apple has ............... exceptionally sweet taste. A) the B) never C) much
D) not E) an
Answer: _____ 4. ............... have you been sitting here in the dark all by yourself? A) Since noon B) How long
C) When
D) What length E) As long as
Answer: _____ 5. I'd like ............... lemonade with .............. sugar in it,please. A) the / the
B) a / a C) some / a D) a / some
E) a / the Answer: _____
6. These flowers .............. all dead; please give me some fresh ............... . A) was / were B) are / ones
C) will be / one D) aren't all / more E) were / ---
Answer: _____ 7. By the time the doctor ............... here, it'll be too late to do anything for her. A) gets B) will get
C) got D) get E) had got
Answer: _____ 8. The baby ............... very quiet until that terrible noise outside started. A) had been B) keeps
C) 's been keeping D) has been
E) will have been Answer: _____
9. "Whose shoes are these?" "They are ............... ." A) belong to Ali B) of Ali's
C) Alis' D) belonging to Ali
E) Ali's Answer: _____
10. The baby didn't get much sleep. We didn't............... . A) neither
B) less C) either D) more
E) such much Answer: _____
11. She can speak Turkish quite fluently; and so ............... . A) is he
B) she can C) can her friend D) am I E) you are
Answer: _____ 12. If I have enough money left, I'll buy some cheese, ............ . A) more
B) after C) a little
D) too E) either
Answer: _____ 13. She didn't want ............... anything that would influence his decision. A) having said B) saying
C) in order to say D) to be said E) to say
Answer: _____ 14. "I want you ............... on the picture," said the teacher. A) concentrating
B) so as to concentrate C) to concentrate
E) in order to concentrate
Answer: _____ 15. Why is she sitting there all ............... herself in the dark? A) with
B) by C) lonely
D) alone E) apart from
Answer: _____
SECTION 2: READING COMPREHENSION Directions: Read the passages below and answer the questions by marking the correct option.
Questions 1-7. In the sixteenth century, an age of great marine and terrestrial exploration, Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to sail around the world. As a young Portuguese noble, he served the king of Portugal, but he became involved in the quagmire of political intrigue at court and lost the king's favor. After he was dismissed from service to the king of Portugal, he offered to serve the future Emperor Charles V of Spain.
A papal decree of 1493 had assigned all land in the New World west of 50 degrees W longitude to Spain and all the land east of that line to Portugal. Magellan offered to prove that the East Indies fell under Spanish authority. On September 20, 1519, Magellan set sail from Spain with five ships. More than a year later, one of these ships was exploring the topography of South America in search of a water route across the continent. This ship sank, but the remaining four ships searched along the southern peninsula of South America. Finally they found the passage they sought near a latitude of 50 degrees S. Magellan named this passage the Strait of All Saints, but today we know it as the Strait of Magellan.
One ship deserted while in this passage and returned to Spain, so fewer sailors were privileged to gaze at that first panorama of the Pacific Ocean. Those who remained crossed the meridian we now call the International Date Line in the early spring of 1521 after ninety-eight days on the Pacific Ocean. During those long days at sea, many of Magellan's men died of starvation and disease. Later Magellan became involved in an insular conflict in the Philippines and was killed in a tribal battle. Only one ship and seventeen sailors under the command of the Basque navigator Elcano survived to complete the westward journey to Spain and thus prove once and for all that the world is round, with no precipice at the edge.
1. The sixteenth century was an age of great ___exploration.
A. cosmic B. land C. mental D. common man E. none of the above
Answer: _____ 2. Magellan lost the favor of the king of Portugal when he became involved in a political ___.
A. entanglement B. discussion C. negotiation D. problems E. none of the above
Answer: _____ 3. The Pope divided New World lands between Spain and Portugal according to their location on one side or the other of an imaginary geographical line 50 degrees west of Greenwich that extends in a ___ direction.
A. north and south B. crosswise C. easterly D. south east E. north and west
Answer: _____ 4. One of Magellan's ships explored the ___ of South America for a passage across the continent.
A. coastline B. mountain range
C. physical features D. islands
E. none of the above Answer: _____
5. Four of the ships sought a passage along a southern ___. A. coast B. inland C. body of land with water on three sides D. border E. answer not available
Answer: _____ 6. The passage was found near 50 degrees S of ___.
A. Greenwich B. The equator C. Spain D. Portugal
E. Madrid Answer: _____
7. In the spring of 1521, the ships crossed the ___ now called the International Date Line. A. imaginary circle passing through the poles
B. Imaginary line parallel to the equator C. area
D. land mass E. answer not found in article
Answer: _____ Questions 8-14
Marie Curie was one of the most accomplished scientists in history. Together with her husband, Pierre, she discovered radium, an element widely used for treating cancer, and studied uranium and other radioactive substances. Pierre and Marie's amicable collaboration later helped to unlock the secrets of the atom.
Marie was born in 1867 in Warsaw, Poland, where her father was a professor of physics. At the early age, she displayed a brilliant mind and a blithe personality. Her great exuberance for learning prompted her to continue with her studies after high school. She became disgruntled, however, when she learned that the university in Warsaw was closed to women. Determined to receive a higher education, she defiantly left Poland and in 1891 entered the Sorbonne, a French university, where she earned her master's degree and doctorate in physics.
Marie was fortunate to have studied at the Sorbonne with some of the greatest scientists of her day, one of whom was Pierre Curie. Marie and Pierre were married in 1895 and spent many productive years working together in the physics laboratory. A short time after they discovered radium, Pierre was killed by a horse-drawn wagon in 1906. Marie was stunned by this horrible misfortune and endured heartbreaking anguish. Despondently she recalled their close relationship and the joy that they had shared in scientific research. The fact that she had two young daughters to raise by herself greatly increased her distress. Curie's feeling of desolation finally began to fade when she was asked to succeed her husband as a physics professor at the Sorbonne. She was the first woman to be given a professorship at the world-famous university. In 1911 she received the Nobel Prize in chemistry for isolating radium. Although Marie Curie eventually suffered a fatal illness from her long exposure to radium, she never became disillusioned about her work. Regardless of the consequences, she had dedicated herself to science and to revealing the mysteries of the physical world.
A. friendly B. competitive C. courteous D. industrious E. chemistry
Answer: _____ 9. Marie had a bright mind and a __personality.
A. strong B. lighthearted C. humorous D. strange
E. envious Answer: _____
10. When she learned that she could not attend the university in Warsaw, she felt___. A. hopeless B. annoyed C. depressed
D. worried E. none of the above
Answer: _____ 11. Marie ___ by leaving Poland and traveling to France to enter the Sorbonne.
A. challenged authority B. showed intelligence C. behaved D. was distressed
E. answer not available in article Answer: _____
12. _____she remembered their joy together. A. Dejectedly B. Worried C. Tearfully D. Happily E. Sorrowfully
Answer: _____ 13. Her ____ began to fade when she returned to the Sorbonne to succeed her husband.
A. misfortune B. anger C. wretchedness D. disappointment E. ambition
Answer: _____ 14. Even though she became fatally ill from working with radium, Marie Curie was never ____.
A. troubled B. worried C. disappointed D. sorrowful
E. disturbed Answer: _____
SECTION 3: WRITTEN ASSESSMENT Directions: Kindly write about yourself in 250 words (Minimum).
Tell me about yourself.
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