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Section 1
Matters
1. Lecturing class
2. In-class discussion
3. News discussion
4. Main idea discussion
5. Topic of the text

Examples

Questions 1-5
M : What are you doing?
W : I'm ordering some filing cabinet out of a catalog
M : What do you need them for?
W : There's so much stuff pilling up in my dormitory room. If i don't do something soon, I
won't be able to move in there.
M : Do you usually order from a catalog?
W : Sometimes. Why?
M : Oh it's just in the history class today we were talking about how the catalog sales business
first got started in the US. A Chicago retailer, Montgomery Ward started it in the late 1800s. It
was really popular among farmers. It was difficult for them to make it to the big city stores so
they ordered from catalogs.
W : Was Ward the only one in the business?
M : At first, but another person named Richard Sears started his own catalog after he heard
how much money Ward was making.
W : What made them so popular?
M : Farmers trusted Ward and Sears for one thing. They delivered the product the farmers paid
for and even refunded the price of things the farmers weren't statisfied with. The catalog
became so popular that some countries school teachers even used them as textbooks.
W : Textbooks?
M : Yeah, students practice spelling the names and adding up the prices of things in the
catalogs.
W : Was everybody that thrilled about it?
M : That's doubtful. See, they drove some small store owners out of business. Sears and Ward
sold stuff in such large quantities. They were able undercut the prices at some small family-
owned stores.
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Questions
1. What is the conversation mainly about?
A. a catalog mailed to the man
B. the woman’s catalog order
C. the history of mail-order catalog
D. a comparison of two kinds of catalogs
2. Why was the woman reading a catalog?
A. She wants to learn about Richard sears
B. She is helping the man with his assignment
C. She needs to buy a filling cabinet
D. She wants to order some textbooks
3. Who were the main customers of Sears and Ward's business?
A. teachers
B. farmers
C. students
D. laborers
4. What unusual way were the catalog used?
A. as textbooks
B. as fuel
C. as newspaper
D. as art
5. What was one of the negative effects of the catalog business?
A. Taxes on factory goods rose
B. some people lost their farms
C. shipping prices rose
D. some families lost their businesses
Answare
1. C. the history of mail-order catalog
Pembahasan : Percakapan tersebut berisi tentang sejarah penggunaan katalog
2. C. She needs to buy a filling cabinet
Pembahasan : Si wanita berkata bahwa ia membaca catalog karena ia ingin membeli lemari
arsip yang baru
3. B. farmers
Pembahasan : Disebutkan di percakapan di atas bahwa pembeli utama adalah para petani
4. A. as textbooks
Pembahasan : Disebutkan di percakapan di atas bahwa di beberapa negara, para guru
menggunakan catalog sebagai buku teks.
5. D. some families lost their businesses
Pembahasan : Si pria berkata bahwa efek dari bisnis catalog adalah beberapa keluarga
kehilangan pekerjaan mereka.
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Section 2
Matters
1. Tenses
o Simple present tense
o Simple future tense
o Simple past tense
o Present perfect tense
o Past perfect tense
o Present perfect continous
o Past perfect continous
o Future continous tense
o Past Future continous tense
o Future past perfect continous tense
2. If clause
o Possible to happen
o Contradictive to the present time
o Contradictive to the past time
o Sequence of modifier
o Relative pronounce
o Noun clause
o Adverb clause
o Adjective clause
o Passive voice
o Gerund
o Concord

Examples
1. Fossil, traces of dead organisms found in the rocks of Earth’s crust, reveal … at
the time the rocks were formed.
A. What was like
B. Was like life
C. What life was like
D. Life was like
2. Dubbing is used in filmmaking … a new sound track to a motion picture.
A. Which to add
B. To add
C. Is adding that
D. To add while
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3. … the hamster’s basic diet is vegetarian some hamsters also eat insects.
A. Despite
B. Although
C. Regardless of
D. Consequently
4. Although the huge ice masses … glaciers move slowly, they are a powerful
erosive force in nature.
A. call them
B. are called
C. to call
D. called
5. The soybean contains vitamins, essential minerals, … high percentage of protein.
A. a
B. and a
C. since a
D. of which a

Answare
1. C. What life was like
Pembahasan : Karena maksud dari soal tersebut adalah mengungkap seperti apa
kehidupan pada jaman bebatuan terbentuk maka jawaban yang paling sesuai adalah
what life was like.
2. B. To add
Pemabahasan : karena menerangkan tujuan maka menggunakan infinitive to + Vinf jadi
jawaban yang sesuai adalah to add
3. B. Although
Pembahasan : karena soal tersebut terdiri dari 2 klausa yang bertentangan, maka
jawaban yang paling sesuai adalah although.
4. D. Called
Pembahasan : karena pada soal sudah terdapat predikat asli (move) maka kata yang
paling sesuai untuk mengisi rumpang adalah karena mengandung makna yang
disebut.
5. B. And a
Pembahasan : untuk kalimat penghubung yang digunakan pada kalimat tersebut
adalah And a karena konteks kalimat yang menyebutkan beberapa hal.
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Section 3
Matters
1. Understanding the passage by scanning and skimming method
2. Making conclution of a passage
3. Comparing the substantal message of two passage
4. Understanding the meaning of vocabularies

Example
Questions 1-5

A distinctively American architecture began with Frank Lloyd Wright, who had taken to
heart the admonition that form should follow function and who thought of buildings not as
separate architectural entities but as parts of an organic whole that included the land, the
community, and the society. In a very real way the houses of colonial New England and some
of the southern plantations had been functional, but Wright was the first architect to make
functionalism the authoritative principle for public as well as for domestic buildings. As early
as 1906 he built the Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois, the first of those churches that did so
much to revolutionize ecclesiastical architecture in the United States. Thereafter he turned his
genius to such miscellaneous structures as houses, schools, office buildings, and factories,
among them the famous Larkin Building in Buffalo, New York, and the Johnson Wax
Company building in Racine, Wisconsin.

1. The phrase “taken to heart” in line 1 is closest in meaning to which of the following?
(A) Taken seriously
(B) Criticized
(C) Memorized
(D) Taken offence

2. In what way did Wright’s public buildings differ from most of those built by earlier
architects?
(A) They were built on a larger scale.
(B) Their materials came from the southern United States.
(C) They looked more like private homes.
(D) Their designs were based on how they would be used.

3. The author mentions the Unity Temple because, it

(A) was Wright’s first building
(B) influenced the architecture of subsequent churches
(C) demonstrated traditional ecclesiastical architecture
(D) was the largest church Wright ever designed
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4. The passage mentions that all of the following structures were built by Wright EXCEPT
(A) factories
(B) public buildings
(C) offices
(D) southern plantations

5. Which of the following statements best reflects one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural
principles?
(A) Beautiful design is more important than utility.
(B) Ecclesiastical architecture should be derived from traditional designs.
(C) A building should fit into its surroundings.
(D) The architecture of public buildings does not need to be revolutionary

Answare

1. The phrase “taken to heart” in line 1 is closest in meaning to which of the following?
Jawab : A → Taken seriously

Pembahasan : Frasa taken to heart adalah bentuk ungkapan idiomatik dan memiliki arti
“melakukan dengan sepenuh hati/serius”.

2. In what way did Wright’s public buildings differ from most of those built by earlier
architects?
Jawab : D → Their designs were based on how they would be used.

Pembahasan : Pada kalimat “…that form should follow function…” menunjukkan

bahwa desain seharusnya berdasarkan pada fungsinya, untuk apa nantinya bangunan itu
digunakan dan jawaban yang demikian ditemukan di pilihan D.

3. The author mentions the Unity Temple because, it

Jawab : B → influenced the architecture of subsequent churches

Pembahasan : Pada kalimat “…the first of those churches that did so much to
revolutionize ecclesiastical architecture in the United States” menyatakan bahwa
bangunan itu sangat mempengaruhi desain bangunan-bangunan selanjutnya. Jawaban
yang mengandung ide serupa ada pada pilihan B.

4. The passage mentions that all of the following structures were built by Wright EXCEPT
Jawab : D → southern plantations

Pembahasan : Pada kalimat terakhir jelas bahwa offices, factories dan public building,
termasuk churches adalah karyanya. Sedangkan South Plantations bukanlah hasil
karyanya karena sudah didesain oleh orang terdahulu seperti yang disebutkan dalam
bacaan.
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5. Which of the following statements best reflects one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural
principles?
Jawab : C → A building should fit into its surroundings.

Pembahasan : Kalimat “…as parts of an organic whole that included the land, the
community, and the society” menyatakan bahwa bangunan seharusnya dianggap sebagai
bagian dari keseluruhan lingkungan dan masyarakat sekitarnya sehingga dengan kata lain
bangunan tersebut harus sesuai dengan lingkungannya.