UPCAT Language Proficiency Practice Test

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Questions 1 – 6: Determine which of the following synonyms on the given choices best corresponds to how the underlined word/s were used on each sentence.

1. Terrie kept fumbling the materials, gathering a few and shuffling them as if they were cards.

A. playing with

B. juggling

C. groping for

D. moving clumsily

2. Two police officers sprawled over a couch in Johanna’s living room, as if they were in their own homes.

A. creep awkwardly

B. lay down

C. jumped into

D. sit with arms and legs spread out

3. The interviewer, dark, young and serious, turned his attention to us with a cramped sort of face.

A. paralyzed

B. cheerful

C. bothered

D. expressionless

4. The dog ambled to the door, which was slightly ajar, and slowly squeezed out into the passage.

A. crept

B. ran

C. walked

D. jumped

5. Harold lumbered at him and clouted him across the head.

A. cover with a clout

B. hit forcefully

C. stroke gently

D. kissed

6. I thought they were likely to bundle him into a car but the policeman simply led him back to the road and pointed him towards the town center.

A. wrap

B. hustle

C. a lot of things

D. grouped together

Questions 7 – 12: Choose the correct sequence of sentences that will make the paragraph more organized and logical.

7.

(1) Dapat din makita ninuman ang ganda ng buhay para masilayan ang ganda ng daigdig at saka sabihin kung karapat-dapat ba ito sa ating pag-ibig at pagpapakasakit.

(2) Sa taong punong-puno ng hinanakit at pagdurusa, masasabing hindi maganda ang daigdig para sa kanya.

(3) Laging pakaisiping may mga nilikha na itinalaga na handang mabuhay at marunong mabuhay nang di lamang dahil sa kanilang sarili.

(4) Subalit hindi dapat doon matatapos ang lahat.

(5) Dapat bigyang puwang at pagkakataon ang pag-asa para makita ang kahiwagaan ng buhay.

A. 2-4-5-1-3

B. 2-5-1-3-4

C. 2-3-1-4-5

D. 2-4-5-3-1

8.

(1) Magaan din ang pag-angat at pagbagsak ng mga paa nito.

(2) Mula sa kinatatayuan ni Aling Rosa sa tabi ng bintana ay nakita niyang papasok na sa tarangkahan si Amelita.

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