PART 1. Complete the following sentences using appropriate words.

1. If I _________ about your problems, I would have helped you.

a) knew
b) know
c) had known
2. She has agreed to _________ my dogs while I am away on holiday.
a) look after
b) look at
c) look for
3. The test was _________ difficult that she couldnt answer many questions.
a) too
b) very
c) so
4. She _________ by the time we arrived.
a) left
b) had left
c) was left

5. When I stopped _________ to him, he was working in his garden.

a) speaking
b) to speak
c) speak
6. Eli's hobbies include jogging, swimming, and __________.
a) to climb mountains
b) climb mountains
c) to climb
d) climbing mountains
7. We've been colleagues for ages. I _________ him since I first moved to Manila.
a) have known
b) know
c) knew
d) am knowing
8. What a noise! You fed the cat, _____ you?
a) did
b) will

c) didnt
d) wont
9. ________, he didn't do as well as expected in the exam. The teachers wondered
why.
a) Definitely
b) Surprisingly
c) Interestingly
d) Fortunately
10. I wish I ________ home earlier last night. I'm so tired today.
a) had gone
b) gone
c) go
d) was going
PART 2. Change the word(s) in [square brackets] if necessary.
1. He was [pleased] to hear such a fine musician [plays] his favorite piece of music.
2. Will he succeed in [pass] the exam?
3. If I [was] you, I [wouldn't] interfere [on] his business.
4. The leading runner was two miles [further] ahead.
5. Complaining about faulty goods or bad service [are] never easy.

6. Our last two days in Florida were [slight] spoiled [with] the weather.
7. [Despite of] his [foolish], many people like him.
8. Very [little] scientists come up with [complete] new answers to the world's problems.
9. Misuse of the [world resources] [are] one of the boiling issues today.
10. He'll [ever] get a promotion, no matter how [hardly] he tries.
PART 3. FILL IN THE BLANKS.
1. If the two eventually fell in _____________, _____________ the disparity in their ages and
academic levels, this only lends substance to the truism that the heart has ______________ of
its own which reason does not _____________. - CHUA-QUA VS CLAVE 189 SCRA 117
CHOICES:

despite

love

reasons

know

2. Marital union is a _____________ process. An expressive interest in each other's feelings at

a time it is needed by the other can go a long way in deepening the marital relationship.
Marriage is definitely not for _____________ but for two consenting adults who view the
relationship with love amor gignit amorem, respect, sacrifice and a _____________ commitment
to compromise, conscious of its value as a sublime social _____________. - CHI MING TSOI V.
COURT OF APPEALS AND GINA LAO- TSOI, GR No. 119190
CHOICES:

two-way

institution

continuing

children

3. ___________________ is neither communism, nor despotism, nor atomism, nor anarchy, but
the ___________________ of laws and the equalization of social and economic forces by the
State so that justice in its rational and objectively secular conception may at least be
___________________. Social justice means the promotion of the welfare of all the people, the
adoption by the Government of measures calculated to ensure economic stability of all the
component elements of society, through the maintenance of a proper economic and social
equilibrium in the interrelations of the members of the community, constitutionally, through the
adoption of measures legally justifiable, or ___________________, through the exercise of
powers underlying the existence of all governments on the time-honored principle of salus
populi est supremo lex. -CALALANG vs. WILLIAMS, G.R. No. 47800. December 2, 1940
CHOICES: humanization

approximated

extra- constitutionally

Social Justice

4. The days of the secret laws and the unpublished decrees are ___________________. This is
once again an open society, with all the acts of the ___________________ subject to public
scrutiny and available always to public ___________________. This has to be so if our country
is to remain democratic, with ___________________ residing in the people and all government
authority emanating from them. -TAADA vs TUVERA, G.R. No. L-63915
CHOICES: over

government

cognizance

sovereignty

5. Certainly, the rule of stare ___________________ is entitled to respect because stability in

___________________ is desirable. Nonetheless, reverence for precedent, simply as
precedent, cannot prevail when constitutionalism and the public ___________________
demand otherwise. Thus, a ___________________ which should be abandoned or modified
should be abandoned or modified accordingly. After all, more important than anything else is
that this Court should be right. - OLAGUER v. MILITARY COMMISSION, G.R. No. L-54558
CHOICES: doctrine

jurisprudence

interest

decisis