SRCLC Practice Test 1

SRCLC Practice Test Booklet

Name: _______________________________

High School: __________________________

Testing Center: ________________________

Testing Guidelines :
● The test will take ____ hours and ____ minutes to complete : ____ for Language
Proficiency, _____ for General Information, _____ for Math, _____ for Verbal
Analogy, _____ for Logical Reasoning, _____ for Reading Comprehension,
______ for Abstract Reasoning and _____ for Numerical Ability.

● Time yourself properly to get an accurate reflection of your test-day performance.

● You may work on one section at a time only. Going back or ahead to other sections
is strictly prohibited and will result in the confiscation of your test booklet.

● Use only a no. 2 pencil

● You may use any spaces in the booklet as scratch paper.

● You receive 1 point for each correct answer, and 0 for every omission or error.

BOOKLET NO. 012482

This is still in its testing phase.

This simulated test is property of SRCLC. No part shall be taken or reproduced without
permission.
The passages used in this simulated test do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the makers of the
test.

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(Do not answer this portion)

Degree program: Rank the degree programs from 1th to 4th in order of preference.

School of Humanities (SOH)

____B. Fine Arts: Major in Art Management ____A.B. Interdisciplinary Studies

____B. Fine Arts: Major in Creative Writing ____A.B. Literature: English

____B. Fine Arts: Major in Information Design ____A.B. Literature: Filipino
____B. Fine Arts: Major in Theatre Arts ____A.B. Philosophy
____A.B. Humanities ____A.B. Philosophy: Pre-Divinity

School of Social Sciences (SOSS

____A.B. Chinese Studies ____A.B. European Studies ____A.B. Social Science

____A.B. Communication ____A.B. History

____A.B. Development Studies ____A.B. Management Economics
____A.B. Diplomacy & International ____A.B. Political Science
Relation
____A.B. Economics ____A.B. Psychology

School of Science and Engineering (SOSE)

____B.S. Computer Engineering ___B.S. Environmental Science

____B.S. Electronics and

Communication Engineering
____B.S. Management Information
System

John Gokongwei School of Management (JGSOM)

____B.S. Communication Technology Management ____B.S. Management

____ B.S. Legal Management ____B.S. Management of Applied Chemistry

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Honors Programs (Top 15% of ACET takers only)
___A.B. Economics-Honors (SOSS) ___B.S. Chemistry (SOSE) __B.S. Health Sciences(SOSE)

___A.B. /Political Science and Public ___B.S. Chemistry/Applied Computer ___B.S. Mathematics (SOSE)
Management (SOSS) System (SOSE)
___A.B. /M.A.Political Science (SOSS) ___B.S. Computer Science (SOSE) ___B.S. Applied Mathematics:
Mathematical Finance (SOSE)
___B.S. Psychology (SOSS) ___B.S/M.S. Computer Science (SOSE)___B.S. Applied Physics/ Applied
Computer System (SOSE)
___B.S. Biology (SOSE) ___B.S. Life Sciences (SOSE) __B.S. Applied Physics/Material
Sciences and Engineering (SOSE)
___B.S. Information Technology & ___B.S. Management-Honors (JGSOM)__B.S. Management Engineering
Entrepreneurship (JGSOM)

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Section 1

Language Proficiency

1-70

70 items; 60 minutes

I. Essay

Directions: Write an essay on the given topic or prompt. Off topic, illegible, and pen written
essays will not be graded and will be given a score of zero.

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great
men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”

-Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If higher levels of knowledge and thought lead to inevitable suffering, why do men continue
to strive for more knowledge and depth in life? Does ignorance not lead to a more blissful, happier
state of being?

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I. Error Identification: Select the letter of the portion of the sentence that contains an error. If
there is no error, select D. to indicate that the sentence contains no error. Each item may only have up
at one error underlined.

1. In the 1990’s, the people’s Republic of China grew economically, territorially, and culturally. No Error.
A B C D

2. Latin is practically a dead language, spoken only by students, academics, and the catholic clergy.
A B C
No Error.
D

3. In November 29, 1890, the Imperial Japanese Diet convened for the first time. No Error.
A B C D

4. The financial expert which flew into advice the president, came from London. No Error.
A B C D

5. In 2010 Harvard University had an acceptance rate of 6.9%, and will have rejected students with
A B
perfect SAT score. No Error.
C D

6. Akihiro tried to acquire as many of the valuable and groundbreaking knowledge as he can from the
A B C
lecture. No Error.
D

7. Ateneo’s rank of 307 in the 2010 QS University rankings is far ahead of La Salle, rank 451. No Error
A B C D

8. The Continental Congress is drafting a constitution for the delegates they will address in June. No Error.
A B C D

9. Xabi Alonso’s shot was wide off the mark and the goalkeeper Casillias did not have to make a save.
A B C
No Error.
D

10. The proposal made by the British Labour Party was in opposition of privatization of state holdings.
A B C
No Error.
D

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II. Sentence Completion: Select the word/ words that best completes/ the sentence.

11. Just like National Bookstore, Barnes & Noble 12. The Royal Albert Hall____South Kensington,
sells____ and writing tools London, was opened by Queen Victoria in 1871.

a. Stationary a. On
b. Stationery b. In
c. Stationarry c. Over
d. Stationairy d. Along

13. Alexei had ______ over the vast Siberian expanse 14. As one continues to play basketball,____will realize
more than once. that handling the ball become second nature.

a. Drove a. He
b. Drive b. They
c. Driven c. I
d. Been Driving d.One

15. May dad give Erik and____ some UAPP season 16. Economics students in Cambridge University’s
tickets. Trinity College are tipped to become_____in the future.

a. Me a. A technocrat
b. I b. Technocrats
c. Then c. Technocrat inclined
d. Us d. Technocrats, being

17. Johnny_____ate the cookies by the time we got 18. Students prefer the Ateneo______ other private
home. colleges and universities because of the unique Jesuit
education it provides.
a. All ready
b. Al ready a. Than
c. Already b. More than
d. Readily c. To
d. Compared to

19. The amalgamation of the various unions across the 20. Neither Mikhail Gorbachev_____Boris Yeltsin
country______given workers more leverage. emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union with his
reputation intact.
a. Has
b. Have a. Or
c. Had b. Nor
d. Will have c. And
d. But

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III. Vocabulary

A. Synonyms: Select the word/s that best capture the meaning of the italicized word.

21. As a result of inbreeding, some members of the 22. The rapid staccato of raindrops on the roof kept
Russian Imperial Household suffered from hemophilia. everyone from sleeping early.

a. Bloodthirstiness a. Sharp, rapid sounds

b. Infertility b. Heavy banging
c. Uncontrollable Bleeding c. Incessant tapping
d. Mental Disorder d. Flowing

23. The candidate committed a serious faux pas when he 24. George Orwell brilliantly portrayed a socialist
described the laborers as “ignorant.” dystopia in his book 1984.

a. Sin a. Fable
b. Misstep b. Anti-utopia
c. Offense c. Myth
d. Insult d. Utopia

25. Fabio made a facetious comment in the national 26. The Pope appointed a new apostolic nuncio to France.
assembly yesterday.
a. Bishop
a. Inappropriate b. Cardinal
b. Humorous c. Envoy
c. Strongly worded d. Prelate
d. Contentious

27. In medieval England, papists, or Catholics, could be 28. In the U.K the name of the Scottish city Edinburgh, in
obtruncated if caught. the vernacular, is actually pronounced “E-dinburrah.

a. Deported a. Native Language or Dialect

b. Beheaded b. Local Slang
c. Tortured c. Peculiar manner
d. Imprisoned d. Surrounding area

29. Gabriel was a sedulous student, and was highly 30. The Apotheosis of Washington is a unique work of art
regarded by his teachers. than can be found in the U.S. Capitol.

a. Assiduous a. Glorification
b. Timorous b. Deification
c. Intelligent c. Inauguration
d. Creative d. Archetype

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B. Antonyms: Select the word that is the opposite of the meaning of the highlighted word.
Choose the best answer available.

31. The defendant was acquitted by the court in 32. Van Gogh certainly wasn’t a proponent of
yesterday’s hearing. achromatic painting.

a. Arrested a. Colorful
b. Absolved b. Abstract
c. Convicted c. Matte
d. Released d. Multifaceted

33. After his coronation, Louis XIV was warmly 34. The new student appeared rather phlegmatic at first,
applauded by the Parisians on the streets. but proved otherwise when the going got tough.

a. Acidulation a. Brilliant
b. Decimation b. Emotional
c. Abdication c. Clean
d. Denunciation d. Munificent

35. It was thought as late as the 1960’s that a proletarian 36. The shaft that kept the roof up stayed rigid, even as
takeover was inevitable. the wind and rain gained strength.

a. Bourgeoisie a. Flaccid
b. Anarchist b. Pliable
c. Elitist c. Broken
d. Government d. Bent

37. Back in her time, Margaret Thatcher was an eminent 38. The redoubtable Netherlands football squad,
world leader, although she was very unpopular with the stacked with world-class players, wash humbled in the
U.K.’s leftist north. recent European Championships

a. Infamous a. Feeble
b. Obscure b. Doubtable
c. Unimportant c. Formidable
d. Articulate d. Perturbing

39. The government proved to be profligate in its 40. Germany abrogated its agreements with the Allied
spending, constructing unnecessary theatres and powers, continuing with the Anschlub and the
convention centers. annexation of Czechoslovakia.

a. Wise a. Ratified
b. Careful b. Liquidated
c. Frugal c. Permitted
d. Creative d. Countermanded

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IV. Improving sentences. Select the item that will change the underlined portion and make the
sentence grammatically correct and more effective. Select choice A if no improvement is necessary.
Choose the best answer.

41. Having moderated inflation, economic growth and 42. Right of the bat, the critics told the painter that his
the rapid creation of jobs is the objective of the work was horrendous.
incoming administration.
a. Right of the bat, the critics
a. Having moderated inflation, economic growth and the b. Right off the bat, the critics
rapid creation of jobs is c. Right with the bat, the critics had
b. Having moderated inflation, economic and jobs d. Right on the bat, critics have
created is already
c. Having moderated inflation, economic growth and
rapid creations of jobs are
d. Having moderated inflation, economic growth and
rapid job creation is

43. Dan Brown is the author which had been the major 44. Erick was made to choose between staying at home
cause of numerous conspiracy theories regarding the for the game or his girlfriend’s debut in the theatre.
Church, the Masons and the Illuminati
a. Staying at home for the game or his girlfriend’s
a. Dan Brown is the author which had been the major debut
cause b. Staying at home for the game and attending his
b. Dan Brown has been causing girlfriend’s debut
c. Dan Brown is the author who caused c. Staying at home for the game or attending his
d. Dan Brown has been the author who had caused girlfriend’s debut
d. Staying for the game and attending to his girlfriend

45. Frederick the Great of Prussia exhibited wisdom 46. The unification of the English and Scottish
and being idealistic, traits appropriate for the ideal monarchies was the cause of much friction in the new
monarch that the Enlightenment thinkers portrayed him British state.
as.
a. Monarchies was the cause
a. Exhibited wisdom and being idealistic, traits b. Monarchies were the cause
appropriate c. Monarchies caused
b. Exhibition wisdom and idealism d. Monarchy were a divisive caused
c. Exhibition wisdom and idealistic traits that are
specially proper
d. Exhibition wisdom and idealism, traits appropriate

47. The tensions between Japan and China were so high 48. By the age of 21, most children in the world of
as to both countries have prepared their militaries for a today would have gone
potential attack.
a. Most children in the world today
a. China were so high as to both countries b. Most children in the modern world
b. China was so high that both countries c. Most children now
c. China were so high that both countries d. Most children as, of the present,
d. China were so high that both, beginning today with
missile barriers

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49. The Philippine economy grew by 7.8%, which is 50. The Ateneo is one of the oldest institutions in Asia,
higher than China, which grew by 7.5%. dating back to the 1800’s, when the Jesuits returned
from its exile.
a. Which is higher than china, which grew by 7.5%
b. Which is higher than 7.5% a. To the 1800’s, the Jesuits returned from its exile.
c. Which is higher than China’s growth of 7.5% b. In the 1800’s, when the Jesuits returned it from exile.
d. Which is higher than the Chinese rate of growth c. In the 1800’s, when the Jesuits have returned from
their extensive exile.
d. To the 1800’s, when the Jesuits returned from their
exile.

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V. Improving paragraphs: Read the given paragraph and answer the questions that follow.
Choose the most effective and grammatically correct answer.

This is the first draft of an essay written by a journalist. It has multiple errors in usage and grammar.

1. The Japanese have built a reputation for the most eccentric things.
2. Its difficult to find a place to begin with, as this eccentricity is present in most facets of Japanese
life.
3. For example, to show how this eccentricity affects everything, we can start with the humble toilet.
4. Japanese toilets are naturally weird.
5. First off, is the famous Washlet, which is one of the most advance toilets in the world.
6. These toilets have heated seats, warm water massages, warm air dryers, automatic deodorizers and
a digital thermostat.
7. Also, one more Japanese oddity in the toilet is the Otohime or “Sound Princess.”
8. These devices are available in women’s cubicles, mainly because Japanese women feel ashamed
when other people hear the sounds they make when they are in the toilet.
9. The Otohime, when activated, creates the sound of flushing water, therefore drowning out the
sounds the users make.

51. How can the first sentence be improved? 52. Which part of sentence 2 is erroneous?

a. It cannot be improved a. No part is erroneous

b. Replace the word “ eccentric” with the word “weird” b. “its”
c. Insert the word “creating” after “for” c. “a place to begin with”
d. Replace the phrase “The Japanese” with the phrase “ d. “ this eccentricity is present”
The Japanese people”

53. After which sentence is it most appropriate to begin 54. Which sentence should be removed?
a new paragraph?
a. 2
a. 1 b. 4
b. 6 c. 9
c. 9 d. 6
d.2

55. How can sentence 7 be improved? 56. What is wrong with sentence 9?

a. It cannot be improved a. It refers to the gadget as “Otohime”

b. Replace the phrase “Also, one more” with “ Another” b. The use of the verb “drowning” is inappropriate.
c. Remove the word “ Otohime” c. The word “creates” does not follow Subject-verb
d. Attach sentence 8 to sentence 7. Agreement rules.
d. There is no error.

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VI. Paragraph Agreement; Arrange the sentences in a coherent and logical manner, in the form of a
paragraph. Select the best answer from among the choices.

a. Before him, thought of themselves as beings that were special, set apart from all creation.
b. With this is mind, the notion of being no different from the heathen chimpanzees in the
rainforests of Africa caused quite a stir back in his day.
c. In time, Darwin has proved that he was correct, and his theory is now generally accepted
students, teachers and academics everywhere.
d. Charles Darwin was the man who formulated the theory of evolution.

57. What should be the first sentence? 58. What should be the last sentence?

a. (a) a. (a)
b. (b) b. (b)
c. (c) c. (c)
d. (d) d. (d)

59. What should be the third sentence? 60. What could be the title of this short essay?

a. (a) a. The Life and Works of Charles Darwin

b. (b) b. Survival of the Fittest
c. (c) c. Evolution’s Eventual Acceptance
d. (d) d. The Socio-Political Ramifications of Darwinism

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Section 2

General Information
61-85

25 items, 10 minutes

61. The first nation to launch a satellite and a man to 62. Taiwan’s official name is _______.
space was_______.
a. Republic of China
a. The United States of America b. Chinese Taipei
b. The United Kingdom c. Republic of Taiwan
c. Japan d. Kuomintang
d. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

63. Who was the author of Catcher in the Rye? 64. What was the most downloaded song on iTunes in
the year 2012?
a. Henry Thoreau
b. Matthew Emerson a. “Starship”- Nicky Minaj
c. J.D. Salinger b. “Call me maybe”- Carly Rae Jepsen
d. William Faulkner c. “Payphone”- Maroon 5
d. ‘What Makes You Beautiful” – One Direction

65. Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago narrowly lost a 66. Who was the Japanese emperor that presided over
presidential election against which candidate? Japan’s transition towards modernization?

a. Joseph Estrada a. Hirohito

b. Gloria Arroyo b. Mutsuhito
c. Corazon Aquino c. Jimmu
d. Fidel Ramos d. Amaterasu

67. Which band/ artist made the song “Hotel California” 68. When a human is infected with the Human
Papillomavirus (HPV),______may occur.
a. Santana
b. Queen a. HIV / AIDS
c. Led Zepplin b. Sore Eyes
d. The Eagle c. Warts
d. Smallpox

69. Which celebrity is the father of Kim Kardashian’s 70. The South and North Korea are separated at which
child? Parallel?

a. Jay-Z a. 39th parallel

b. Kanye West b. 43rd parallel
c. Kris Humphries c. 38th parallel
d. Kriss Jenner d. 29th parallel

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71. Which writer wrote Historie de ma vie and became 72. The Ottoman Empire had its beginnings where?
famous in history for his womanizing?
a. Anatolia
a. Henry XIII b. Syria
b. Giacomo Casanova c. Persia
c. Maximilien de Robespierre d. Constantinople
d. Amerigo Vaspucci

73. Which is the 12th longest river in the world? 74. During the seven years’ War, which country
occupied Manila and most of Luzon?
a. Yangtze
b. Amazon a. The Netherlands
c. Mississippi b. Spain
d. Mekong c. France
d. Great Britain

75. Which is not part of the United Kingdom? 76. What is inscribed on the gates of hell in Dante’s
Inferno?
a. Scotland
b. Wales a. “Through me you go into a city of weeping through
c. Ireland me you go into eternal pain: through me you go amongst
d. England the lost people.”
b. “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”
c. Thence we came forth to rebehold the stars.”
d. “Hope not ever to see heaven again.”

77. How many points did Lebron James average in the 78. Who was the communist revolutionary who led a
2012-2013 playoffs? revolution in Cuba, died in Bolivia, and then was
immortalized in countless T-shirts and merchandise?
a. 23.2
b. 27.6 a. Vladimir Lenin
c. 20.4 b. Enersto “ Che” Guevara
d. 25.9 c. Mao Zedong
d. Leon Trotsky

79. Which was the last dynasty to rule over China? 80. Where are white blood cells in the human body
made?
a. Zhou
b. Tang a. Bone Marrow
c. Han b. Thymus Gland
d. Qing c. Spine
d. Spleen

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81. Which celebrity / personality has the most number 82. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un was educated
of Twitter followers? where?

a. Lionel Messi a. Switzerland

b. Justin Bieber b. North Korea
c. Lady Gaga c. U.K.
d. Barack Obama d. China

83. Who made St. Peter’s Baldachin or Ciborium in St. 84. On the feast day of whom did the Imperial Japanese
Peter’s Basilica? Army invade the Philippines?

a. Michelangelo a. San Isidro Labrador

b. Gian Lorenzo Bernini b. The Black Nazarene
c. Raphael c. Francis Xavier
d. Sandro Botticelli d. The Immaculate Conception

85. In the War of the Austrian Succession, Frederick the Great of Prussia took what part of Habsburg Austria and
made it part of Prussia?

a. Silesia
b. Venice
c. Vienna
d. Salzburg

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Section 3

Mathematics
86-145

60 items; 50 minutes

Instructions: You will be given questions that test your ability in mathematics. Choose the best and
simplest answer from among the choices. Take not that figures are not drawn to scale.

86. 27,813 students took the SRCLC this year. If only 2

𝑥 +25
87. Simply the expression:
2,836 students were admitted into the Ateneo among 2
𝑥 −10𝑥+25
those students, what is the Ateneo’s acceptance rate?
a. (x-5)
a. 7.5% b. (x+5)
b. 10.2% c. -10x
c. 13.4% d. 25x2
d. 9.0%

88. Given the equation (x-y) x (y-x) = - 4, where x and y 89. Given the functions
are whole numbers, which of the following can be the 𝑓(𝑔) =
𝑥 2
+ 𝑥 , 𝑥 (𝑦) = 𝑦 − 1 and g(x) = x + 6,
4
value of x?
what is the value f (g(x(y))) if y=5?
a. 3
b. 5 a. 100
c. 10 b. 56.7
d. – 3 c. 102.5
d. 64.5

90. The tuition fee of two semesters in the Loyola 91. What is the x-intercept of y = 17x + 51?
Schools costs 150,000. If the fee increases at the rate of
5% per year, around how much will the tuition be in 5 a. 5
years for one semester? b. 3
c. 14
a. 182,326 d. – 3
b. 81,274
c. 95,721
d. 191,443

92. Given inscribe angle , what is the angle of central 93. Given that x3 x5 = y8, what is y3 equal to if x = 4?
angle , which subtends the same arc?
a. 64
2
a. ∂ b. 24
b. θ/δ c. 16
d. 42
c. 90
Ѳ
d. 2

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4 3 95. The flat rate of taxis is 45 pesos. For every

94. What is the expression 𝑥 equivalent to? half-kilometer, 2 pesos and 50 centavos are added to
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the fare. What is the equation for the total fare if k is
a. 𝑥 the distance traveled in kilometers and t is the cost?
b. x ¾
c. 𝑥
16 a. 1.25(36+k) = x
2 b. 45 + 2.5k = x
d. 𝑥 c. 45 + 5k = x
d. k2 + 48 = x

96. What is the Volume of the biggest sphere that can

fit in a cube with a volume of 216 cm3?

a. 9
b. 20
c. 36
d. 40

97. Given the figure, when is the x-intercept of the ray 98. Given the figure, where AC =5, and BC=12, what
with endpoint ( 0,3)? is the area of the shaded portions of the circle?

a. (0, 3)
b. (0, 2) a. 21.125π − 30
c. (0,1) b.20π + 30
d. (0, 2.1) c.14π − 30
d.13π − 30

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99. What is the point of intersection of the following 100. . Given figure with cubic and linear functions f(x)
lines? and t(x), where
f(y)=t(y), which could
Line A: y = 4x+8 be a value of y?
Line B: y = 7x+5

a. (4, 16) a. -1
b. (5, 10) b. 567
c. (1, 12) c. 2
d. (1, 24)
d. -6
101. What is the standard deviation of the set of values 102. What is the surface area of a rectangular prism that
{2, 4, 4, 4, 5, 7, 9}? has a length of 7, a width of 5 and a height of 6?

a. 4 a. 221
b. 2 b. 198
c. 7 c. 214
d. 9 d. 266

256 2
103. Simplify the expression 2 if x = 4. 104. 1+ 𝑡𝑎𝑛 θ = ?
𝑥 −4 2
a. 𝑠𝑖𝑛 θ
a. 1 b. 2
2
b. 16 c. 𝑐𝑜𝑠 θ
c. 4 2
d. 𝑠𝑒𝑐 θ
d. 21

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1 6
105. ( 4 + 3)2 = ? 106. Simplify the expression ( )2
𝑧 𝑥 15
4 2
𝑧 𝑥 3

a.7+2 12
b. 7+2 7
c. 25+2 7
d. 5+ 49

107. Gian wants to build a kite, shown in the figure 108. What is the perimeter of the triangle ABC, which is
2
below, with an area of 30𝑐𝑚 . What could be the within an equilateral triangle with line AB as its altitude,
lengths of the diagonals that support the kite? if AC=6?

a. 15 and 10
b. 15 and 15
c. 6 and 10
d. 6 and 5

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111. Given this graph of a function, its equation 112. Given triangle ABC, where angle ABC is a right
probably has angle, AB= x, BC= y, and AC= (x+4)2 , what is y in
terms of x?
a. A squared value
b. An absolute value
c. An exponent
d. A regression

113. When the perimeter of square ABCD is doubled, 114. If 5x + n = 45 + 2n, What is n in terms of x?
then area, x, will be____.
a.
a. Quadrupled b. 5x + 45
b. Doubled c. -45 + 5x
c. Squared d. x - 9
d. Cubed

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118. What is the height of a trapezoid with an area of

30cm2 and bases with lengths of 10 cm and 5 cm?

a. 1.2 cm
b. 8 cm
c. 4 cm
d. 0.25 cm

119. The sum of two integral number is 20. The larger 120. The ratio of females to males in the Loyola School
number is the square of the smaller number, and the is 4:6. If you add the 6000 male students of the Grade
larger number when squared, has a value greater than School and High School to the 8000 students of the
600. What are the two numbers? Loyola Schools, what will be the approximate ratio of
females to males?
a. 16 and 4
b. 25 and -5 a. 3:10
c. 36 and 6 b. 2:5
d. 23 and -3 c. 3:20
d. 4:11

121. What is the 6th term of this series?

1, 5,11,17,33…

a. 61
b. 50
c. 59
d. 47

124. If 3x + 4 + n, 6x +8 is equal to what?

2
a. 𝑛
b. 4n
c. 2n
d. 2n + 3

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126. Given this figure, what is the length of x?

(Reminder: figures are not drawn to scale.)

a. 9
b. 6
c. 1.5
d. 3

127. log5 z = 2. What is he value of z? 128. The Trans-Siberian Railway travels 9000 km from
Moscow to Novosibirsk in 1 day. What is the average
a. 10 speed of train in kilometers per hour throughout its
b. 5/2 journey?
c. 7
d. 25 a. 100 km/hr
b. 90 km/hr
c. 110 km/hr
d. 120 km/hr

129. A rhombus with a perimeter of 20 cm has a 130. Every year, the price of a Big Mac increases by
diagonal that has a length of 8 cm. What is the length of 15%. If a Big Mac currently cost 145 pesos, around how
the other diagonal? much will it cost in 4 years?

a.4 2 a. 254 pesos

b.4 3 b. 270 pesos
c.3 3 c. 284 pesos
d. 3 d. 195 pesos

131. The amount of sodas sold, x, is inversely 132. What is the length of the longest segment that can
proportional to its price, y. Which of the following could fit into a cube with sides 4 cm long?
be the equation that represents the relationship
between the sodas sold and its price? a. 8 3
b. 4 3
a. x y = 40 c. 51
b. x y = 40 d. 4 2 + 5
c. x 2 y 2 = 40
d. x 2 y = 40

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133. What is the point of intersection of the following 134. What is the value of one internal angle of a regular
lines? decagon?

y = 2x +1 a. 1440
b. 140
y = −2x – 2 c. 144
d. 120
a. (0, 1)
b. (1, -2)
c. (-1, -1)
d. (-1, -2)

135. For general exponential functions, where , what

should be the value of base b?

a. A positive integer
b. A negative integer
c. A whole number
d. A positive constant

138. What is the mode of the following set of numbers?

{1,1,2,2,4,5,5,5,7}

a. 5
b. 7
c. 4
d. 1

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141. If every ⊗ represents 500,000 casualties, how

many casualties are represented by this set of
symbols?

⊗⊗⊗⊗⊗

a. 250,000
b. 2,500,000
c. 3,125,000
d. 1,000,000

144. What is the area of a triangle with a base of 5 and

a height of 6?

a. 4
b. 30
c. 60
d. 15

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Section 4
Verbal Analogy
146-165
20 items: 5 minutes

A. Single Word Analogy

146. Cow: Plants; Termite: _______. 147. Thin: Portly; Irate: _______.

a. Furniture a. Furious
b. Insect b. Calm
c. Wood c. Confused
d. Mound d. Organized

148. Flowing: River; Stagnant: _______. 149. Eyes; Ophthalmologist; Feet: _______.

a. Pond a. Paleopathologist
b. Ocean b. Pondiatrist
c. Lake c. Orthopedist
d. Glacier d. Gerontologist

150. Life: Death; Coagulate: _______. 151. Fire: Water; Wood: ________.

a. Celebrate a. Tree
b. Dissolve b. Axe
c. Destroy c. Fire
d. Oppose d. Water

152. Human: Food; Turbine: ________. 153. Oppresion: Revolution; Eradication: _______.

a. Water a. Extinction
b. Spin b. Dissipation
c. Engineer c. Emancipation
d. Rotate d. Infection

154. Music: Emotions; Pictures: ______. 155. Articulate: Words; Emancipate: _______.

a. Sadness a. Workers
b. Mysteries b. Voters
c. Memories c. Unions
d. Creativity d. Colleges

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B. Paired Word Analogy: Select the pair of words that are related in a similar manner to those
given to the number.

156. Rice: Paddy--_____:_____ 157. Policeman: Crime--______:______

a. Oil: Caves a. Broom: Dust

b. Staples: Stapler b. Fireman: Rescue
c. Car: Factory c. Soap: Skin
d. Teacher: Prep-School d. Eraser: Write

158. Journalism: News--______:______ 159. Memories: Experiences--______:______

a. Engineering: Structure a. Learning: People

b. Mathematics: Equations b. Money: Power
c. Pencils: Books c. Creativity: Pedigree
d. Poets: Laureates d. Knowledge: Studies

160. Scalpel: Surgery--______:______ 161. Tenable: Defensible--_______:______.

a. Visualization: Photography a. Impossible: Viable

b. Anesthesia: Numbness b. Arduous: Difficult
c. Mnemonic: Memorization c. Credible: Justifiable
d. Magnets: Poles d. Sweltering: Sun

162. Xylophilia: Wood--______:______. 163. Madrid: Spain--______:______.

a. Petrophilia: Rock art or structure a. New York: U.S.A.

b. Anglophilia: Britain b. Phnom Penh: Cambodia
c. Logophilia: Pictures c. Almaty: Kazakhstan
d. Retrophilia: Disco Music d. Sydney: Australia

164. Arbitration: To Settle--______:______ 165. Washington: U.S.A.--_______:_______.

a. Mastication: To Chew a. L’Ouverture: Haiti

b. Application: To Reject b. Napoleon: France
c. Destruction: Edification c. Raffles: Hong Kong
d. Elimination: Obstruction d. Togo: Japan

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Section 5
Logical Reasoning
166-175
10 items; 5 minutes

A. Select the statement that follows the stated logic of the question. Choose the best answer.

166. All red items are fruits. A banana is red. All rocks 167. When a fire burns, smoke is formed. When smoke
are red, therefore_______. is formed, sometimes there is a fire. If there is
smoke______.
a. The rock is a fruit.
b. The rock is a hard. a. There is fire.
c. The rock could be a fruit. b. There is no fire
d. The rock is not a fruit. c. There could be a fire.
d. There will be fire.

168. If Steve has money, he eats ice cream. If Daniel 169. All parents are workers. Not all workers are
has money, he buys ice cream and shares it with married, and only some parents are married. Some
Steven. If only Steven is eating ice cream__________. childless people are workers. Therefore,___________.

a. Steven and Daniel had no money. a. Some workers have neither a spouse nor a child.
b. Steven has no money. b. All workers have children.
c. Daniel has no money. c. All parents are married.
d. Steven and Daniel both have money. d. No singles workers are parents

170. In an unknown language “Ya smertel medveda 171. When the university’s basketball team does well,
vsegda.” Means That over there is the bear’s prey. In alumni contributions increase. When it doesn’t it
the same language, the sentence “Ya Otchizne krasniy decreases. This year, the team did not do well,
medved,” means That big bear is red. What word most therefore____________.
probably means bear?
a. The team will do well next year.
a. “Ya” b. Alumni contributions will increase.
b. “Vsegda” c. Alumni contributions will remain the same.
c. “Medved” d. Alumni contributions will decrease.
c. “Krasniy”

172. Payment of salaries takes up most of the budget of 173. There are 10 pencils that are divided among
high schools. The total paid by North High School for Jonny, Nicky and Art. If Jonny gives all his pencils to
salaries is higher than that paid by East High School, Art, Art will have more than half of all the pencils. If
but the total budget of East High School is lower than Art and Nicky combine their pencils, they will have
that of North High School, therefore__________. exactly half of the pencils available. If Art has an even
number of pencils, and if Nicky has more pencils than
a. North High School actually has an even greater Art, how many pencils does Art have?
portion of its budget allotted for salaries.
b. The other expenses of East High School are higher a. 5
than of North High School’s b. 4
c. The total budget of North High School is higher. c. 0
d. The portion of North High School’s budget that goes d. 2
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174. For questions 174-175 read the following 175. If Dan and Martin must start together, what is the
passage: only possible starting lineup?

The coach of the college basketball team needs to pick a. James, Martin, Dan, Chris, Josh.
5 players for the starting lineup from James, Franco, b. Martin, Dan, Chris, Ricky, Franco
Miguel, Ricky, Dan, Martin, Josh and Chris. The c. Martin, Franco, Chris, Miguel, James
starting lineup must include only one big man and one d. Martin, Dan, Chris, Miguel, James
guard.

Martin, Franco and Ricky are guards. Dan and Josh are
big man. Which of he following are possible starting
lineups?

a. James, Franco, Chris, Josh, Miguel.

b. Martin, Franco, Sam, Chris and Josh.
c. Dan, James, Ricky, Martin, Josh.
d. Dan, James, Miguel, Chris, Josh.

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Section 6
Reading Comprehension
176-250
75 items; 1 hour, 10 minutes

A. Passage-Based Reading: You will be given sets of passages that cover various topics. With these
passages are equations that test your ability to infer, comprehend, and understand a reading material
effectively. Choose the letter of your answer that best answers the question.

PASSAGE 1. Adapted from Ivan Henares.

http://www.ivanhenares.com/2009/10/culion-island- where-philippines.html

1. Culion was called the “Island of the Living Dead” or the “Island of No Return.” Once the largest
leper colony in the world, it stand today as a stark reminder of life in the Philippines when leprosy
was still an incurable disease, and a testament to how leprosy was eradicated not just in the
Philippines but in the entire world. It shows how technology advances in medicine have improved and
change the way we live today.

4. Culion was selected as the containment area of all those with leprosy in the Philippines during the
American period. At that time, leprosy was incurable and the only way to stop its spread was to isolate
all those afflicted with the diseases. People with leprosy were rounded up like criminals to be sent to
the island, most certainly to die given that there was no cure.

7. The government apprehended lepers, detained them and sent them for isolation on the island on
ships every three months, 25 years after its founding, 16,138 lepers were patients on Culion’s roster,
making it the largest leper colony in the world in its time. The largest number of the patients also
made Culion a natural choice for scientists who sought the cure that will eradicate leprosy from the
world.

176. When was Culion founded as a leper colony? 177. Why was Culion needed?

a. In the Spanish colonial era a. Leprosy was unsightly and people preferred to have
b. In the pre-Hispanic era lepers hidden away.
c. In the post-World War 2 era b. Researchers needed subjects for the new cures they
d. The American period were creating.
c. To stop the spread of leprosy, which was incurable.
d. Lepers were not contributing to society, so they were
sent to work in the island.

178. What does the word “roster” in line 8, most nearly 179. Why was Culion reffered to as the “Island of No
mean? Return”

a. List a. All people who visit the island never come back.
b. Hospital b. When lepers got treated in Culion, their diseases
c. Prison never returned.
d. Wage Bill c. The government executed lepers in the island for the
good of the general public
d. Lepers who were contained in the island were
expected to die there of their disease or of natural
causes.

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that_________.

a. Culion is no longer a leper colony.

b. Leper still from the majority of the population in
Culion.
c. Culion is now a major research center for the
treatment of leprosy.
d. The government created new leper colonies in
response to increasing leper populations.
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PASSAGE 2. Valentine-by Carol Ann Duffy

1. Not a red rose or a satin heart.

2. I give an onion.
It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
It promises light
like the careful undressing of love.

6. Here.
It will blind you with tears
Like a lover.
It will make your reflection
a wobbling photo of grief.

11. I am trying to be truthful.

12. Not a cute cord or a kissogram.

13. I give you an onion.

Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips,
Possessive and faithful
As we are,
For as long as we are.

18. Take it.

Its platinum loops shrunk to a wedding ring,
If you like.

21. Lethal.
Its scent will cling to your fingers,
Cling to your knife.

**A person sent to kiss another person on behalf of a lover on special occasions like Valentine’s.
181. Why did the author place the line “Not a red 182. What do lines 7-8 refer to?
rose or a satin heart,” before line 1?
a. The tears that their relationship will cause.

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b. To contrast with the unusual symbol of love that c. Tears caused by infidelity
is the onion d. Jealousy and fighting between the in-laws
c. To convey her preference for a less romantic sort
of love
d. To preclude the references to it in lines 21-23

183. Lines 13-15 and line 22 show that one reason 184. How does the poem flow from beginning to
the author used the onion for her metaphor is end?
__________.
a. It starts with a broken relationship that eventually
a. Because it turns foul quickly, as love eventually descends into murder.
does. b. It starts with an insulting symbol and ends with a
b. Because it induces tears, like a quarrel between threatening symbol.
lovers. c. It begins with the enchanting first encounters
c. Because the onion provides shock value. with love and descends into possessiveness, and
d. Because the smell of an onion clings, just as finally, conflict.
loves cling to each other and their memories. d. It start and ends with condescending references
to naïve love.
185. What do lines 4-5, shown below, symbolize? 186. Why does the author mention the word knife
in line 23?
“It promises light, like the careful undressing of
love.” a. To show the relationship between the knife and
the onion
a. It symbolizes the pleasant first adventures and b. To end on a grim tone
expression of love. c. To represent the escalating of conflict between
b. It symbolizes unbridled lust. the lovers
c. It is meant to be a literal representation of an d. To hint the lovers killed each other and their
onion children.
d. It symbolizes the native lovers

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PASSAGE 3: Adapted from Richard Heller of

Forbes.com.http://www.forbes.com/global/2001/034_html

1. Swedish snapshot A: Shows a taxed-to-the-eyeballs welfare state where the government grabs more
than 52% of the country’s GDP- the highest percentage of any industrial country. A Swedish
businessman who earns Euro 200,000 a year gets to keep just 49% of his paycheck. Of OECD
countries, only France comes close to Swedish in taxing its most successful businesspeople.

4. Swedish snapshot B: Shows a booming economy bubbling with entrepreneurial activity. Growth is
predicted to be 3.5% for 2001; inflation, 1.7%; unemployment, 4% (less than half the European
average). In 1999, according to the European Information Technology Observatory, Sweden ranked
first in the world in investment in information technology and telecommunications. Venture capital is
pouring into Sweden , and labor productivity is rocketing: From 1990 to 1999 productivity climbed
47% in Sweden, against 39% in the U.S. and 31% (on average) in the EU. Last year, Sweden topped
the global standings in R&D spending as a percentage of GDP with 3.7% (in the U.S. it was 3.1%),
according to the OECD. How to reconcile snapshots A and B? Is Sweden a bloated welfare state? Or a
People’s Republic of Entrepreneurs?

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ascendancy. One yardstick is the number of business startups. They averaged 29,000 a year between
1984 and 1989 and 36,000 between 1994 and 1999, an increase of nearly 25%. Cradle-10-grave
security is the rule in Sweden, and has been since the early 1950s (the country went socialist in 1932).
Go on the dole in Sweden, for example, and you can get 80% of your last job’s pay for at least five
years. Like to fish? The government will put you in a twelve-month program to learn how to be a
fishing guide. Health care is free. So is education; Hence those obscenely high taxes.

15. Less well known, however, is that starting in the early 1990s, Sweden finally woke up to the fact
that to be successful, as country needs entrepreneurs. No entrepreneurs, no new businesses. No new
businesses, rising unemployment, politicians looking for new jobs-or new careers. Deciding that they
like their jobs, a new generation of Swedish Social Democrats has created a much more friendly
environment for business . Sweden is not a capitalistic heaven on earth, but it’s not the hell on earth
for entrepreneurs that it was until a few years ago.

187. The Swedish government taxes what percent of the 188. How does “Swedish Snapshot A “contrast with
country’s GDP? “Swedish Snapshot B?

a. 47% a. Snapshot A portrays Sweden negatively, while

b. 49% Snapshot B portrays it positively.
c. 52% b. Snapshots A and B portray Sweden as Communistic
d. 39% in nature.
c. Snapshot B provides a positives interpretation of the
data in Snapshot A.
d. Snapshot B and B provide balanced portrayals of
Sweden.

189. How does Snapshot B support the fact that Sweden 190. Why does the author refer to Sweden as a
is a booming economy? “People’s Republic of Entrepreneurs?

a. By relaying anecdotes on the Swedish economy. a. To present Sweden as a model of an ideal, egalitarian
b. By directly contrasting it with Snapshot A. society.
c. By providing statistics. b. To show Swedish totalitarianism
d. By quoting expert opinion. c. To discredit Sweden.
d. To compare Sweden to a socialist state.
191. How does the author respond to the question posed 192. What happened to the number of startups between
at the end of line 9? 1984 and 1999?

a. By saying that Snapshot B is correct? a. It increased steadily

b. By stating that it is a amalgamation of both b. It increased exponentially
descriptions c. It stagnated
c. By dismissing both statements as erroneous. d. It decrease slowly
d. By qualifying both statements as true on different
levels.

193. According to the passage, why are taxes high in 194. According to line 15, what does a country need to
Sweden? be successful?

a. Because of the high number of entrepreneurs. a. Taxes

b. Because funding for its business ventures is required b. Entrepreneurs
c. Because health care and education is free. c. Bureaucrats
d. Because Sweden needs to find its military d. GDP growth

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the new needs of Sweden? that_________.

a. It democratized society. a. The Swedes returned to socialism a few years ago.

b. It lowered taxes back to normal levels for industrial b. The Swedish Social Democrats cemented their hold
countries. on government by abolishing other parties.
c. It created a more business friendly atmosphere. c. Entrepreneurs are starting to have a more difficult
d. It gave jobs to entrepreneurs in government. time doing business.
d. The Swedes learned to construct a compromise
between the extremes of socialism and capitalism.

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PASSAGE 4A: Taken from the Emily Anthes, the New York Times. March 9,2013.
http://www.mytimes.com/2013/03/10/opinion/dont-be-afraid-of-genetic-modification.html?
Pagewanted=all&_r = o

1. If patience is a virtue, then AquaBounty, a Massachusetts biotech company, might be the most
virtuous entity on the planet.
2. In 1993, the company approached the Food and Drug Administration about selling a genetically
modified salmon that grew faster than normal fish. In 1995, AquaBounty formally applied for
approval. Last month, more than 17 years later, the public comment period, one of the last steps in the
approval process, was finally supposed to conclude. But the F.D.A has extended the deadline –
members of the public now have until late April to submit their thoughts on the AquAvantage salmon.
It’s just one more delay in a process that’s dragged on far too long.
6. The AquAdvantages fish is an Atlantic salmon that carries two foreign bits of DNA: a growth
hormone gene from the Chinook salmon that is under the control of a genetic “switch” from the ocean
pout, an eel-like fish that lives in the chilly deep. Normally, Atlantic salmon produce growth hormone
only in the warm summer months, but these genetic adjustments let the fish churn it out year round.
As a result, the AquAdvantage salmon typically reach their adult size in a year and a half, rather than
three years.
10. If the modified fish is approved, which could still happen later this year, it will be the first
transgenic animal to officially enter the human food supply. Appropriately, it has been subjected to
rigorous reviews, with scientists all over the country weighing in on whether it is fit for human
consumption and what reproducing, and ultimately drive wild salmon populations to extinction. But
scientists, including the F.D.A.’s experts, have concluded that the fish is just as safe to eat as
conventional salmon and that, raised in isolated tanks, it poses little risk to wild populations.
16. This decision isn’t meant to be made quickly; due scientific diligence requires time. But some
aspect that political considerations have played a role in drawing the approval process out to tortuous
lengths. Many of the members of Congress who oppose the modified fish represent states with strong
salmon industries. And some nonprofit groups seem to be opposing the modified salmon reflectively,
as part of an agenda to oppose all animal biotechnology, regardless of its safety or potential benefits.
20. We should all be rooting for the agency to do the right thing and approve the AquAvantage
salmon. It’s a healthy and relatively cheap food source that, as global demand for fish increases, can
take some pressure off our wild fish stock. But most important, a rejection will have a chilling effect
on biotechnological innovation in this country.

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23. Some scientist may move abroad, to china, Argentina, India or another nation where the political
climate is more favorable. (Indeed, some have already done so-researchers at the University of
California, Davis, who have developed goats whose modified milk could be used to treat and prevent
childhood diarrhea, are moving much of their operations to Brazil.) Others me decide not to pursue
such research at all. If a company that has done everything right can’t get its product approved, who
else will be foolish enough to embark upon this kind of research? Who will finance it? Of course, all
this would be just fine with some anti-biotech groups, which traffic in scare tactics rather than science.
But it shouldn’t be fine with the rest of
29. The F.D.A. must make sure that other promising genetically modified animals don’t come to the
same end. Of course every application needs to be painstakingly evaluated, and not every modified
animal should be approved. But in cases like AquaBounty’s, where all the available evidence indicates
that the animals are safe, we shouldn’t let political calculations or unfounded fears keep these
products off the market. If we do that, we’ll be closing the door on innovations that could help us face
the public health and environmental threats of the future, saving countless animals – and perhaps
ourselves.

PASSAGE 4B: Taken from Helen Wallace. The Guardian.

http://www.gaurdian.co.uk/zurichfuturology/story/0,,1920348,00.html

1. Should we improve our genetic make – up so we live longer, healthier lives? At first, the answer to
this question may seem obvious – we all dream of winning the battle against ageing. But the idea of
genetic improvement is deeply flawed.
3. The term “eugenics” was first coined by France Galton in 1883 to mean “truly” or “purely” born. It
was later developed as “the science of the improvement of the human race by better breeding.”
Galton’s many disciples believed that traits such as intelligence, feeblemindedness, criminality,
alcoholism and prostitution were all caused by genes passed on by parents to successive generations.
Eugenicists developed research programmers into all these conditions, as well as medical conditions
such as deafness, blindness, depression, cancer and schizophrenia. The also lobbied for compulsory
sterilization and incarceration of the genetically unfit and, eventually, in Nazi Germany, for
euthanasia.
8. Modern genetics has improved our understanding of genetic disorders such as cystic fibrosis and
sickle cell disease. However, there are also important debates about the extent to which prenatal
screening programmers prejudge the value of disabled people’s lives. Genetic research into more
complex conditions – such as heart diseases – can sometimes help to find clues about the biological
mechanism underlying such diseases. In addition, a high risk of some rare familial forms of cancer –
including about 5% of breast cancer cases – have been traced to mutations in particular genes, passed
from one generations to the next. But genetic research has not delivered the much-promised “genetic
revolution” in health – the prediction and prevention of common diseases in most people – or an
explanation of intelligence, criminality, heart diseases or schizophrenia.
14. What more and more research has shown is that the underlying assumptions of eugenics – that
some people are born genetically superior to others – are simply wrong. For example, the growing
global epidemic of obesity is caused by overeating and lack of exercise, not by an increase in “genes
for obesity.” Of more than 600 obesity genes that have been identified, only a handful have been
relevant to just a small number of families with children who are unusually obese. This relative
unimportance of genetic factors limits the potential of human genetic engineering to improve our
quality of life. Even for those relatively rare conditions known as genetic disorders, the genetic
mutation does not determine a person’s quality of life or their other attributes and value as a human
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20 genetic researches can sometimes help to find new treatments for disease, and today’s experimental
gene therapy (known as “somatic gene therapy”) may one day become safe enough to treat some
people with serious conditions – but this is not the same as altering the genetic make-up that an
individual passes on their children and their grandchildren.

23 Changing genetic make-up (known as 'germline gene therapy') would involve enormous risks,
experimenting on mothers and unborn babies, and would have unpredictable biological consequences
which are passed to future generations. As most conditions are affected by many complex interactions
between our biology and our environment, there is also likely to be little benefit to this approach.

26 Genetic enhancement is a dangerous fantasy, which distracts us from the real issues affecting our
quality of life. According to the United Nations, poverty is still the world's biggest killer. A billion
people are suffering from malnutrition and another billion are threatening their health by eating too
much saturated fat and sugar. Many of the latter are also poor people, living in cities in developing
countries, or on our own housing estates. Genetic engineering isn't going to help them - tackling the
global fast food industry, agricultural subsidies and other social and environmental factors might.
197. Passage A tackles what kind of salmon? 198. According to Passage A, what is the F.D.A.’s
a. Norwegian stance on the safety of
b. Pacific genetically modified salmon for raising and
c. Atlantic consumption?
d. d. Antarctic a. It could be unsafe for consumption in some
isolated cases.
b. It is totally safe for consumption and may be
bred alongside
normal salmon.
c. It is unsafe for consumption and will be
banned.
d. d. It is safe for consumption, but should be
bred in isolated areas.
199. What did the genetic adjustment do to the 200. It can be inferred from lines 16-19 of Passage A
salmon? that the process is
a. It accelerated growth. taking longer than it should because of __________.
b. It made the salmon disease-proof. a. Public protests on the issue
c. It made salmon breeding in warm water b. Political opposition
possible. c. Lack of investors
a. d. It increased the average salmon size b. d. Movement of researchers to foreign
and weight fourfold. countries
201. What is the example given of researchers 204. What is the main premise of the science of
moving to foreign countries to eugenics?
do their work? a. That humans with inferior genes should be
a. China, India and Argentina have isolated in islands
hired fresh graduates from b. That life is largely determined by genes and
American Universities. inherited traits
b. Some American researchers stopped c. That intelligence and health can never be
doing research. inherited
c. European anti-Biotech groups hired a. d. That genetics is only a very minor cause of
researchers to do work against Bio social ills
Engineering in Switzerland.
d. Scientists from the University of
California moved to do their work
in Brazil.

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the belief of the followers of a. Genetic Engineering is dangerous for the
eugenics? environment.
a. By flatly dismissing it as insufficiently b. Genetic Engineering is not the solution to the
researched world’s problems
b. By giving examples of “abnormal” c. The fast food industry and the environment
people who succeeded are the major issues of the day.
c. By presenting Genetic Engineering as a d. Eugenics is a dangerous science that should be
viable solution suppressed.
d. By explaining how a person’s lifestyle,
not genetics, has a bigger
effect on his quality of life.
207. Which of the following is the main 208. Both authors would agree that Genetic
difference between Passage A and B? Engineering is ____.
a. Passage A talks about Genetic a. Insignificant
Engineering on animals, while passage b. Powerful
B talks about Genetic Engineering on c. Highly unstable
humans. a. d. Unethical
b. They have identical topics.
c. Passage A talks about the political
implications of science while Passage B
talks about how science is used by
politics.
d. Passage A is hostile to Bio Engineering
while Passage B is in support of it.
209. Unlike Passage B, Passage A ______. 210. How would the author of Passage B react to the
a. Uses a lot of anecdotes to support her developments in
theory Passage A?
b. Portrays politics as an irrelevant force a. With outright rejection, since genetic
c. Makes greater use of statistics and data engineering should be done away with
to support her claims entirely.
d. Generally takes a supportive stance b. With caution, since this development in
towards genetic engineering genetics could later be used on humans.
c. With unrestrained optimism, since it will solve
world hunger.
d. With disgust, because of the involvement of
politics in science.

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PASSAGE 5: Taken from Sam Dillon of the New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/04/education/04colleges.html

1 Harvard turned down 1,100 student applicants with perfect 800 scores on the SAT math exam. Yale
rejected several applicants with perfect 2400 scores on the three-part SAT, and Princeton turned away
thousands of high school applicants with 4.0 grade point averages. Needless to say, high school
valedictorians were a dime a dozen.

4 It was the most selective spring in modern memory at America’s elite schools, according to college
admissions officers. More applications poured into top schools this admissions cycle than in any
previous year on record. Schools have been sending decision letters to student applicants in recent
days, and rejection letters have overwhelmingly outnumbered the acceptances.

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7 Stanford received a record 23,956 undergraduate applications for the fall term, accepting 2,456
students, meaning the school took 10.3 percent of applicants.

9 Harvard College received applications from 22,955 students, another record, and accepted 2,058 of
them, for an acceptance rate of 9 percent. The university called that “the lowest admit rate in
Harvard’s history.” Applications to Columbia numbered 18,081, and the college accepted 1,618 of
them, for what was certainly one of the lowest acceptance rates this spring at an American university:
8.9 percent.

13 “There’s a sense of collective shock among parents at seeing extraordinarily talented kids getting
rejected,” said Susan Gzesh, whose son Max Rothstein is a senior with an exemplary record at the
Laboratory School, a private school associated with the University of Chicago. Max applied to 12 top
schools and was accepted outright only by Wesleyan, New York University and the University of
Michigan.

16 “Some of his classmates, with better test scores than his, were rejected at every Ivy League
School,” Ms. Gzesh said.

17 The brutally low acceptance rates this year were a result of an avalanche of applications to top
schools, which college admissions officials attributed to three factors. First, a demographic bulge is
working through the nation’s population — the children of the baby boomers are graduating from high
school in record numbers. The federal Department of Education projects that 3.2 million students will
graduate from high school this spring, compared with 3.1 million last year and 2.4 million in 1993.
(The statistics project that the number of high school graduates will peak in 2008.) Another factor is
that more high school students are enrolling in college immediately after high school. In the 1970s,
less than half of all high school graduates went directly to college, compared with more than 60
percent today, said David Hawkins, a director at the National Association of College Admission
Counseling.

23 The third trend driving the frantic competition is that the average college applicant applies to many
more colleges than in past decades. In the 1960s, fewer than 2 percent of college freshmen had
applied to six or more colleges, whereas in 2006 more than 2 percent reported having applied to 11 or
more, according to The American Freshman: National Norms for Fall 2006, an annual report on a
continuing long-term study published by the University of California, Los Angeles.

27 “Multiple applications per student,” Mr. Hawkins said, “is a factor that exponentially crowds the
college admissions environment.” One reason that students are filing more applications is the
increasing use of the Common Application, a form that can be completed and filed via the Internet.

30 The ferocious competition at the most selective schools has not affected the overall acceptance rate
at the rest of the nation’s 2,500 four-year colleges and universities, which accept an average of 70
percent of applicants.

32 “That overall 70 percent acceptance rate hasn’t changed since the 1980s,” Mr. Hawkins said.

33 But with more and more students filling out ever more applications, schools like the California
Institute of Technology received a record number of applications this year — 3,595, or 8 percent more
than last year — and admitted 576 students. Among so many talented applicants, a prospective
student with perfect SAT scores was not unusual, said Jill Perry, a Caltech spokeswoman.

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37 “The successful students have to have shown some passion for science and technology in high
school or their personal life,” Ms. Perry said. “That means creating a computer system for your high
school, or taking a tractor apart and putting it back together.”

39 The competition was ferocious not only at the top universities, but at selective small colleges, like
Williams, Bowdoin and Amherst, all of which reported record numbers of applications.

41 Amherst received 6,668 applications and accepted 1,167 students for its class of 2011, compared
with the 4,491 applications and 1,030 acceptance letters it sent for the class of 2002 nine years ago,
said Paul Statt, an Amherst spokesman.

43 “Many of us who went to Amherst three decades ago know we couldn’t get in now; I know I
couldn’t,” said Mr. Statt, who graduated from Amherst in 1978.

211. According to the passage, Harvard College has 212. What does the phrase “a dime a dozen,” used
an acceptance rate of to describe valedictorian
____%. applicants in line 3, most nearly mean?
a. 8 a. Hard to find
b. 5 b. Common
c. 3 c. In high demand
d. 9 d. Cheap
213. Why were parents shocked by the results of 214. Which of the following is not mentioned as a
the previous admissions contributing factor to the
cycle? low acceptance rates in the top colleges?
a. Extraordinarily talented kids were getting a. Multiple applications per student
rejected by colleges b. The high number of high school graduates
b. There were too many applicants to the c. More students are enrolling in college right
colleges after high school
c. Acceptance rates were brutally low d. Super-students with high test scores, stellar
d. Perfect SAT scores were no longer enough grades and outstanding activities have
become more common.
215. This quote about Caltech applicants below, 216. The tone in lines 1-3 can best be described as
from line 37 of the ________.
passage indicates that _______. a. Excited
“The successful students have to have shown some b. Matter-of-factly
passion for c. Sarcastic
science and technology in high school or their d. Stricken
personal life…”
a. Applicants to Caltech need to have created
a computer system independently while in
high school.
b. Caltech does not hold extracurricular
activities in the humanities in high regard.
c. Because of the highly competitive
applicant pool, applicants need to
distinguish themselves with activities that
clearly show their passion.
d. Science and technology are always given
the most value in college admissions for all
schools.
217. What would be an appropriate title for the 218. What is the author’s purpose for writing this
passage? passage?
a. Selectivity in Today’s Colleges. a. To entertain
b. Destruction of Hopes and Dreams b. To persuade

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 c. The End of the American Dream c. To inform
d. Ivy League Admissions d. To criticize
219. What does Mr. Statt’s statement in line 43 220. What is the main idea of the passage?
regarding college a. The Ivy League admissions process is
admissions imply? ridiculously outdated.
a. Students have it easier these days. b. Admission to America’s top colleges has
b. Amherst decreased its number of enrollees become fiercely competitive.
this year. c. Top schools should accept more students to
c. Colleges everywhere have raised the bar help stymie the intense competition for
for admissions significantly. limited slots.
d. Admission to college was less competitive d. Extraordinary students with stellar grades,
before. test scores and activities should prepare for
eventual rejection.

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PASSAGE 6: Adapted from Donald Richie. Criterion.com.

http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1323-remembering-kurosawa

Remembering Kurosawa

1 Not that he himself wanted to be remembered. Rather, he wanted his work to be remembered. He
once wrote: “Take ‘myself,’ subtract ‘movies,’ and the result is ‘zero.’” It was as though he thought he
did not exist except through his movies. When I was writing my book about him, he sometimes
complained that there was nothing to write about if I persisted in asking him about himself. He
became interested in my project only when he learned it was to be called The Films of Akira
Kurosawa.

5 He was interested in practice—how to make films more convincing, more real, more right. He
would have agreed with Picasso’s remark that when critics get together they talk about theory, but
when artists get together they talk about turpentine. He was interested in focal lengths, in multiple
camera positions, in color values, just as he was interested in convincing narrative, in consistent
characters, and in the moral concern that was his subject. I do not think he even considered himself an
artist. He talked about his methods as though he were a carpenter or a mason. And he was
old-fashioned enough to believe in the traditional Japanese lack of distinction between the arts and the
crafts.

10 Though he sometimes said that he photographed merely in order to have something to edit, he was
nonetheless very particular about how and what he filmed. He had the castle for Throne of Blood
dismantled, unphotographed, when he found that the carpenters had used nails, an anachronism the
long distance lens would have readily revealed; he allegedly had assistants pour twenty years’ worth
of tea into the teacups for the hospital scenes of Red Beard, in order to achieve the proper patina.

14 To exercise such complete control, Kurosawa had also to exhibit such socially unattractive
qualities as egotism and a dictatorial disposition. “Though I am certainly not a militarist,” he once
said, “if you compare a production unit to an army, then the script is the battle flag and the director is
the commander of the front line.”

17 I remember a number of consequently bellicose blowups, lots of storming off the set, and an
unfortunate habit of needling individuals in order show the others what awaited if they did not behave.

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It was through the employment of such perhaps necessary strategies that he had earned his sobriquet
of Tenno— the Emperor—a title not at all popular in postwar Japan.

20 It was, indeed, Kurosawa’s concern for perfecting the product that led to his later reversals.
Though many film companies would have been delighted by such directorial devotion, Japanese
studios are commonly more impressed by cooperation than by innovation. They thus refused to fund
his films. He occasionally did not finish a production on time and/or went over the amount of money
budgeted; they said he was expensive, difficult to work with. And he was famously uncooperative
with the media.

24 As a result, his films became fewer. Convinced that Kagemusha would never get made, Kurosawa
spent his time painting pictures of every scene—this collection would have to take the place of the
unrealized film. He had, like many other directors, long used storyboards. These now blossomed into
whole galleries—screening rooms for unmade masterpieces.

27 Finally, fully abandoned by big-business Japan, Kurosawa had to search for funds
elsewhere—Russia, the USA, France. Like Lear himself, he wandered the blighted heath to get the
money for Ran. All of this was then seen by the local media as yet more proof of horrid Western
influence on his films. Once, exasperated by this repeated canard, he said: “I hear a lot about
foreigners being able to understand my movies, but I certainly never thought of them when I was
making the films. Perhaps because I am making them for today’s young Japanese, I find a
Western-looking format most practical, but I really only make my pictures for young Japanese in their
twenties.”

32 With the young, the director was different. During one of his birthday parties—there were some
Mosfilm guests, so it must have been 1975, when negotiations were concluding on Dersu Uzala—it
had been all business talk and grumpiness, and then Kurosawa’s little grandson toddled in. The
change in the director was so swift, so dramatic, that I was as surprised as the Soviets were. The stern
figure of authority, the Emperor himself, melted before our eyes, and here was a doting grandpa and a
smiling, trusting grandchild—since children liked him as much as he liked them: just look at the kids
in Rhapsody in August, the little tubercular patient in Drunken Angel, even that baby in Rashomon.

37 He was very fond not only of the young, but older kids as well. It was perhaps another birthday, or
a celebration of some sort, when the much younger director Nagisa Oshima suddenly approached
Kurosawa. Everyone turned to stare. Oshima had never before spoken to Kurosawa, would have
refused to, had attacked him, as well as many another grown-up Japanese film director.

40 And here was the young perpetrator again setting upon his aging target. But now his purpose was
different. I was near enough to the two that I could hear Kurosawa being congratulated, on whatever
the occasion was, but also being addressed as “sensei,” a title of the highest respect, “teacher” plus
“master.”

42 What had happened? I have no idea. Perhaps Oshima had reconsidered, and just as Shohei
Imamura later decided that his mentor, Yasujiro Ozu, was not the calcified creator he had earlier
accused him of being but a teacher from whom he had learned much, so Oshima had come to
recognize the worth of Kurosawa.

45 I wonder what Kurosawa made of this. There is no knowing, but it might have seemed to him a
kind of vindication—the most noticeably rebellious of the young rebels was now seeking him out, an

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indication that his films, always moral and even toward the end moralistic, held lessons that could be
imparted across the generations.

48 And that was what he valued most. Who he himself was interested him very little, because just as
he insisted that his heroes neglect the past and live only in the present, so was he unconcerned with
anything that had happened to him.

50 He perhaps initially thought that in my book I was after a summing-up, a taking into account of the
past but not the present. If so, then it would follow that I was not properly concerned with life. Life is
not that.

52 And in Kurosawa’s films, the major theme is that the heroes are always, from Sugata on, not being
but becoming. They live in a present where, though history may indicate, it does not define. You
cannot sum up a living person. You can sum up only the dead.

54 Maybe that is why the films of Kurosawa remain so alive and why this dedicated director, about
whom we really don’t know all that much, becomes so admirably the sum of all of his parts.

221. Why was Kurosawa only interested in the 222. Why does the Picasso use the word turpentine
author’s project when he learned it was to be called in line 6?
“The Films of Akira Kurosawa?” a. He wanted to convey the fact that artists
were more concerned with the practical
a. Kurosawa had an unfulfilled ego. side of art, not theory.
b. He was flattered by the title. b. He wanted to show how artists were
c. It will help him become remembered by the obsessed over the emotions and feelings
future generations of the world, which was that their works invoke.
his objective. c. Artists were impractical, and thus
d. He did not believe that he could be written discussed only mundane concerns.
or talked about without his films, because d. He wanted it to complement with the
his life was only about his films. discussion on theory by critics.

223. Kurosawa had the castle from which film 224. Why did Kurosawa gain the title of “Tenno?”
dismantled because it a. Because he made only ten films in his life
was used nails? as a matter of principle.
b. Because of his destructive nature in and out
a. Rashomon of work.
b. Throne of Blood c. Because of his dictatorial style as director.
c. Kagemusha d. Because of the fame he garnered in Japan
d. Sugata and abroad.
225. What did Kurosawa do when he realized that 226. What did the event in lines 33-36 show about
local organizations and companies would not fund Kurosawa?
his films? a. Kurosawa was still obsessed over minor
a. He gave up and focused on less expensive details in his later years.
films, and was thus able to continue his b. The Soviets from Mosfilm had an easy
work. time negotiating, since Kurosawa was
b. He immigrated to America to gain funding. desperate for funding.
c. He made detailed storyboards of his c. Kurosawa had another side to his strict and
unmade films and looked for funding dictatorial nature.
abroad. d. Age had tempered Kurosawa’s attitude.
d. He quit filmmaking for the rest of his life,
and focused on taking care of his
grandchildren and negotiating film
contracts instead.

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229. Lines 45-49 indicate that ________. 230. Why does the author say that you “cannot sum
a. Kurosawa was still obsessed over his up the dead” in line 53?
reputation. a. Life was, in Kurosawa’s point of view, only
b. Kurosawa had created his newest films to about the past.
cement his legacy. b. To contrast with the perception that he was
c. Kurosawa was about to die, and intended to “summing up” Kurosawa’s life
pass on his experience to a successor. c. To point out a common misconception
d. Kurosawa was always more concerned among scholars of Kurosawa
about imparting lessons to future d. Kurosawa will always remain a mysterious
generation figure whom we may never know well
enough.

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PASSAGE 7: An excerpt from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

In the story, Elizabeth had just expressed her gratitude to Mr. Darcy, whom she dislikes, for his
assistance to her family. She left little doubts that her feelings about him had completely changed.
Darcy replies:

1’If you will thank me,' he replied, let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to
you might add force to the other inducements which led me on, I shall not attempt to deny. But your
family owes me nothing. Much as I respect them, I believe I thought only of you.'

3 Elizabeth was too much embarrassed to say a word. After a short pause, her companion added, 'you
are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at
once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject
forever.'

5 Elizabeth, feeling all the more than common awkwardness and anxiety of his situation, now forced
herself to speak; and immediately, though not very fluently, gave him to understand that her
sentiments had undergone so material a change since the period to which he alluded, as to make her
receive with gratitude and pleasure his present assurances. The happiness which this reply produced
was such as he had probably never felt before, and he expressed himself on the occasion as sensibly
and as warmly as a man violently in love can be supposed to do. Had Elizabeth been able to encounter
his eyes, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight diffused over his face
became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings which, in
proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.

11 They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt,
and said, for attention to any other objects.

231. The phrase “If you will thank me” in line 1 232. What does the word “inducements” in line 2
indicates that _______. most nearly mean?
a. Mr. Darcy was egotistical.
b. Mr. Darcy was looking for a favor from a. Motives
Elizabeth.
c. Mr. Darcy did something good for b. Initiatives
Elizabeth’s family. c. Thoughts
d. Mr. Darcy helped everyone in town
with their problems. d. Punishments

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233. What does the phrase “I believe I thought only 234. Why was Elizabeth embarrassed by Darcy’s
of you,” in line 2 mean? remarks?
a. Mr. Darcy did not care at all for Elizabeth’s
family. a. She was flattered and shocked by his
b. Mr. Darcy did it out of his affection for unexpected remarks.
Elizabeth. b. Darcy was making her family look
c. Mr. Darcy was an obsessive and mad helpless.
person. c. Darcy was being rude to Elizabeth
d. Mr. Darcy only wanted to return a favor to d. Elizabeth felt that Darcy was trying to
Elizabeth for her help. embarrass her again.
235. What does the word “trifle’ mentioned in line 236. What did Darcy wish to express in lines 3-5?
3 most nearly mean?
a. To eat a. That if Elizabeth still dislikes him, she only
b. To dabble needs to say so, then he will leave her life.
c. To squander b. That he is willing to make peace, even if
d. To give back they hated each other before.
c. That their love has never faltered at all.
d. That he had no affection for her at all.
237. What did Mr. Darcy feel about Elizabeth’s 238. Though Elizabeth was not able to see Darcy’s
reaction in lines 6-8? affection visually, ____.
a. Darcy conducted himself in such a manner
a. Regret that showed it.
b. Happiness b. Darcy’s words expressed it.
c. Pride c. Darcy still showed his contempt through
d. Shame his body language.
d. It showed in his actions.
239. What does the world “alluded” in line 6 most 240. Line 11 shows that _______.
nearly mean? a. They did not mind each other because of
the awkwardness that came about.
a. Referenced b. They were in love, and could not mind
b. Withheld anything else.
c. Remembered c. They were expressing resentment, and so
d. Neglect did not talk much.
d. Although they admitted that they liked
each other, they could not actually
converse with each other properly.
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PASSAGE 8: Invictus by William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

5 In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeoning of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

9 Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

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13 It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

241. What is the pit being referred to in line 2? 242. In lines 3-4, the author expresses
his___________.
a. The pit of his enemies
b. An executioner’s pit a. Pride at being unbeaten or unconquered.
c. Hell b. Defiance of fate
d. His grave c. Appreciation of his will to survive
d. Indebtedness to the gods
243. What does the word circumstance in line 5 244. When the author wrote that he did has “not
refer to? winced nor cried aloud,” what was he trying to
express?
a. His situation
b. His blessedness a. That he was suffering much
c. His mentality b. That he will not complain or back down to the
d. His indomitable attitude circumstances
that befell him
c. That he was weakened by long periods of
trying to fight
d. That he will not go against fate anymore.
245. Lines 7-8 would most likely convey an image 246. What lies in the “beyond” being referred to in
of ________. line 9?

a. A helpless prisoner being executed a. Safety and peace

b. A madman inflicting wounds on himself b. More suffering and darkness
c. A soldier fighting on despite his wounds c. Memories and regrets
d. An animal that remains hostile despite being d. The warm embrace of the gods
caged.
247. What does the author say he is as the ‘menace 248. What beckons for the author in line 14?
of the years” finds
him? a. Peace
b. A short break from suffering
a. Fearless c. Death
b. Destitute d. Even more suffering and punishment
c. Cold and just barely alive
d. Desperate

249. The words in lines 15-16 are a statement 250. Based on the tone and content of the passage,
of__________. the title Invictus probably means __________.

a. Fear a. Fearless
b. Impudence b. Unconquerable
c. Defiance c. Vanquished
d. Effrontery d. Protected by the gods

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Section 7
Abstract Reasoning

__ items; __ minutes

SKIP THIS SECTION.

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Section 8

Numerical Ability

251-275

25 items; 10 minutes

251. In this set of numbers, what is the mode? 252. You got an average score of 72 over 100 in
{0, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6} three tests. If an average of 75 is passing and
you only have one more test, what score must
a. 0 and 6 you get in that tests to get a passing mark?
b. 24
c. 4 a. 92
d. 3 b. 82
c. 84
d. 78
253. What is the probability of getting a perfect 254. A rocket travels at a speed of 3 miles per
score in 3 items of a test that have 5 choices second. How far would it have traveled at
per item? constant speed if the rocket was traveling for 1
hour?
a. 125
b. 3/15 a. 10,800 miles
c. 1/64 b. 5,400 miles
d. 1/125 c. 3,600 miles
d. 12, 504 miles
255. Gabriel is 3 years younger than Frank at 256. Chris can finish painting a wall in 6 hours.
the moment. When their ages are doubled, Gretchen can finish painting the same wall
Frank is 6 years older than Gabriel. Finally, the twice as fast as Chris does. How quickly can
current total of their ages right now is 17. they finish painting the wall together?
Which of the following could be Gabriel’s age
right now? a. 3 hours
b. 1 hour
a. 15 years old c. 4 hours
b. 7 years old d. 2 hours
c. 17 years old
d. 20 years old
257. The Ateneo has 18,000 applicants every 258. A chemist wants to mix a 5% alcohol
year. Only 25% of these applicants will be solution with a 10% alcohol solution to make
accepted into the college and only the top 10% an 8% solution If there are 3 liters of the 10%
of the accepted students can take honors solution, around how many liters of the 5%
courses in the School of Management. How solution does he need to get an 8% solution?
many students can take honors courses in the
School of Management? a. 4.6 liters
b. 6 liters
a. 520 c. 2 liters
b. 450 d. 10.3 liters
c. 1000
d. 840

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259. Rachel saved 100,000 pesos in a bank 260. 10 students in section A play Ultimate
that has an interest rate of 5% per annum. while 14 play basketball. If 4 of the students
Around how much money will she have in 5 who play Ultimate play basketball too, how
years if the amount earned from the interest is many students play basketball only?
deposited with the original amount?
a. 3
a. 121,530 pesos b. 13
b. 127,627 pesos c. 10
c. 105,000 pesos d. 7
d. 1115, 762 pesos
261. What is the median of this set of 262. A basketball team is behind by 40 points
numbers? at the start of the 4th quarter. If the opponent
does not score at all in the fourth quarter,
{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6} what is the average number of points the team
needs to score per 30 seconds if the game
a. 3 should be tied by the 10th minute?
b. 4
c. 7 a. 4 points
d. 3.5 b. 2 points
c. 13 points
d. 5 points

263. What is the probability of getting a sum of 264. City A is 10,000 miles away from City B.
12 after rolling a dice twice? If a plane travels at an average speed of 200
miles per hour, how long will it take for it to
a. 1/36 travel from City A to City B?
b. 1/12
c. 1/6 a. 20 hours
d. 1/4 b. 5 hours
c. 50 hours
d. 45 hours

265. Justin can finish cleaning the garage in 5 266. In a small village of 12,000 people, 20%
hours. Bella can finish cleaning the same of all residents have been vaccinated for the
garage in 10 hours. They worked together for flu. If the village leader wants to increase this
two hours, then Bella left to do some errands, percentage to 40%, how many more people
leaving Justin to finish the work. How long did will need to be vaccinated?
it take in total to clean the garage?
a. 4,800
a. 2.5 hours b. 2,000
b. 3 hours c. 2,400
c. 4 hours d. 3,400
d. 5 hours

267. In a factory, a worker needs to make a 268. KC invested 20,000 pesos into a business
10% solution of chlorine. If there are 15 liters that earns 5% every year. How much more
of 20% chlorine solution and an endless supply money will she need to invest in a business
of 5% chlorine solution, what is the minimum that earns 10% per year if she wants to earn
amount of 5% solution needed to make a 10% 5,000 pesos a year?
solution?
a. 20,000
a. 30 liters b. 40,000
b. 15 liters c. 30,000
c. 10 liters d. 35,000
d. 5 liters

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269. A pair of shoes costs 5,000 pesos. It was 270. Kim has 400 pesos worth of 20 peso and
initially being sold at a 20% discount, but an 50 peso bills. If two more than two times the
additional 15% was decreased from the amount of the 50 peso bills is equal to the
discounted price. What is the price of the pair amount of 20 peso bills, what is the value of
of shoes? the 50 peso bills she has?

a. 3400 pesos a. 250

b. 3600 pesos b. 300
c. 4000 pesos c. 200
d. 3200 pesos d. 100
271. A boat in a river travels upstream at a rate 272. If John’s password has twenty-eight
of 10 km/h and upstream at a rate of 14 km/h. letters, how many possible passwords are
What is the speed of the river’s current? there?

a. 1 km/h a. 28!
b. 3 km/h b. 27!
c. 4 km/h c. 5!
d. 2 km/h d. 28/28
273. If 10 cows can produce 20 liters of milk 274. How many games are played in a season if
per week, how long will it take 2 cows to make there are 10 teams and each team plays
the same amount? another team only once?

a. 3 weeks a. 10!
b. 2 weeks b. 20
c. 5 weeks c. 30
d. 4 weeks d. 45

275. What is the probability that 2 coins tossed

at the same time will yield two tails?

a. ½
b. ¼
c. 1/8
d. 1/10

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Proficiency Information 86. B 119. B Reasoning
1. D 61. D 87. B 120. A 166. A
2. C 62. A 88. A 121. A 167. C
3. A 63. C 89. C 122. A 168. C
4. B 64. B 90. C 123. C 169. A
5. B 65. D 91. D 124. C 170. C
6. A 66. B 92. D 125. B 171. D
7. B 67. D 93. A 126. B 172. B
8. C 68. C 94. B 127. D 173. D
9. A 69. B 95. A 128. A 174. A
10. B 70. C 96. C 129. D 175. D
11. B 71. B 97. B 130. A
12. B 72. A 98. A 131. A
13. C 73. D 99. C 132. B
14. D 74. D 100. C 133. C
15. A 75. C 101. B 134. C
16. B 76. B 102. C 135. D
17. C 77. D 103. A 136. B
18. C 78. B 104. D 137. A
19. A 79. D 105. A 138. A
20. B 80. A 106. C 139. C
21. C 81. B 107. C 140. A
22. A 82. A 108. B 141. B
23. B 83. B 109. A 142. B
24. B 84. D 110. A 143. C
25. A 85. A 111. B 144. D
26. C 112. D 145. A
27. B 113. A
28. A 114. C Verbal Analogy
29. A 115. D 146. C
30. B 116. B 147. B
31. C 117. C 148. A
32. A 149. B
33. C 150. B
34. B 151. C
35. A 152. A
36. A 153. A
37. A 154. C
38. A 155. B
39. C 156. C
40. A 157. A
41. D 158. A
42. B 159. D
43. C 160. C
44. B 161. B
45. D 162. B
46. A 163. C
47. C 164. A
48. B 165. A
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176. D 252. C
177. C 253. D
178. A 254. A
179. D 255. B
180. A 256. D
181. B 257. B
182. A 258. A
183. D 259. B
184. C 260. C
185. A 261. D
186. C 262. B
187. C 263. A
188. A 264. C
189. C 265. B
190. D 266. C
191. B 267. A
192. A 268. B
193. C 269. A
194. B 270. C
195. C 271. D
196. D 272. A
197. C 273. C
198. D 274. D
199. A 275.B
200. B
201. D
202. A
203. B
204. B
205. D
206. B
207. A
208. B
209. D
210. B
211. D
212. B
213. A
214. D
215. C
216. B
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221. D
222. A
223. B
224. C 238. B
225. C 239. A
226. C 240. B
227. A 241. C
228. B 242. D
229. D 243. A
230. B 244. B
231. C 245. C
232. A 246. B
233. B 247. A
234. A 248. D
235. B 249. C
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