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Verbal Aptitude

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6) If legislation is to change social attitudes and values, it must come with adequate enforcement and machinery, which should include efforts to educate people on these laws. Otherwise, legal provision not only remain dead letters, but actually promote lack of respect for the law.

The paragraph best supports the statement that __________.

1. people should respect laws because laws protect them

2. the effectiveness of laws lies in adequate education of the people about them and their proper enforcement.

3. laws lose their effectiveness if people do not respect them

4. ignorance of the law does not excuse anyone

5. laws could change the social attitudes and values of people if properly enforced

7) Two person look out through the same bars; one sees mud and the other, the stars.

The sentence best supports the statement that __________.

1. some people are more blind than others

2. people see things differently depending on their own perspective

3. people have varied ways of looking at different things

4. people have different tastes and interests

5. people tend to influence one another’s views of things

8) Ang pagbaba ng halaga ng piso lumikha ng krisis sa maraming industriya ng bansa. Kasunod nito ang pagtitipid at problema sa kawalan ng mapasukang trabaho. Lumikha rin ito ng pagtataas ng presyo ng mga bilihin na labis nakaapekto sa kita ng mga manggagawa.

Ayon sa talata __________.

1. ang kasalukuyang krisis ay bunga ng mga mahal na bilihin at kawalan ng mapasukang trabaho.

2. ang krisis ay nakaapekto sa hangarin ng maraming industriya na makapagbigay ng karagdagang sahod sa kanilang mga manggagawa

3. dumarami ang mga walang hanapbuhay at tumataas ang halaga ng mga bilihin dahil sa krisis

4. maraming industriya ang nalulugi dahil sa krisis kaya itinataas din nila ang presyo ng kanilang mga produkto

5. dahil sa krisis, maraming industriya ang napilitang magsara

9) Sixty years ago I know everything ; now I know nothing ; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

The sentence best supports the statement that __________.

1. the older we get, the more we forget what we have learned

2. the older we get, the more knowledgeable we become

3. the more we learn, the more we realize that there’s more we need to know

4. we learn more as we grow old

5. ignorance is a lifelong experience

10) Nagawang mabago ng mga kasalukuyang awitin ang kamalayan ng Pilipino upang kantahin ang sarili niyang mga awit sa tanging wikang nakapagsasatinig sa kanyang kaluluwa.

Isinasaad ng pangungusap na __________.

1. madamdamin at makabuluhan ang mga awiting isinulat sa wikang Pilipino

2. tagumpay ang mga awiting Pilipino na mabago ang kaugalian ng mga tao Pilipino

3. madaling matutuhan ang mga awiting Pilipino dahil ang mga ito ay nasusulat sa katutubong wika

4. natututuhan nang tangkilikin ng mga Pilipino ang kanilang mga sariling awitin

5. nagkakaroon na ng kamalayan ang mga Pilipino tungkol sa lahat ng mga awitin ngayon

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