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 1. Tugas Mandiri Bahasa Inggris

CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER. that the boys would have nothing to throw,
but they soon found others, or threw lumps
This text is for questions no. 1- no.5
of earth instead.
There was once a man who spent all his
Then, just as he was giving up hope of ever
spare time in one of his four-glass houses.
winning the battle, he had a truly marvelous
Flowers was his name, and flowers were his
idea. He put up a large notice made of good
main joy in life. He grew flowers of every
wood, some meters away from the glass-
color with names as long and difficult as
houses. He had painted on the board the
those of the rulers of Ancient Rome. He grew
words; DO NOT THROW STONES AT THIS
these flowers in order to enter them for
NOTICE. After this, Mr. Flowers had no
competitions. His one ambition in life was to
further trouble; the boys were much more
grow a rose of an entirely new color, that
tempted to throw stones at the notice than
would win him the silver cup for the Rose of
at the glass-houses.
the Year.
1. What did Mr. Flowers enjoy doing?
Mr. Flowers glass houses were very close to a
(A) Building glass-houses in his spare
public path. This path was always used by
time.
children walking to and from school. Boys of
(B) Reading about the rulers of Ancient
around thirteen years of age, in particular,
Rome.
were often tempted to throw a stone or two
(C) Thinking up long names for the
at one of Mr. Flower’s glass houses. They
roses he grew.
managed to resist the temptation when Mr.
(D) Growing flowers and entering them
Flowers was about, but the temptation often
for competitions.
proved to be too strong when he was
(E) Giving various new colors to the
nowhere to be seen. For this reason, Mr.
roses he grew.
Flowers did his best to be in or close by his
glass-houses at the beginning and end of the 2. Mr. Flowers was hoping to………….
school day. (A) grow the Rose of the year in a silver
cup.
However, it was not always convenient or
(B) enter a competition for a rose with
possible to be on guard at these times. Mr.
the longest name.
Flowers had tried in many ways to prevent
(C) win a silver cup for growing a rose of
damage to his glass; but nothing that he had
a new color.
done had been successful. He had been to
(D) build the most beautiful glass-
school to the headmaster; he had hidden in
houses in the region.
the bushes and chased boys that threw
(E) grow a silver-colored rose which
stones into his garden, and had even picked
would be the Rose of the Year.
up all the loose stones that he could find, so
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3. Mr. Flowers was very annoyed with the
boys because……….
(A) they always used the public path
close to his glass-houses.
(B) they were naughty and were causing
damage to his glass-houses.
(C) they often played in one of his glass-
houses after school.
(D) they picked the roses that he grew
in the glass-houses.
(E) they threw stones at him when he
was working in his glass-houses.
4. At last Mr. Flowers succeeded in
protecting his glass-houses by……….
(A) putting lumps of earth in his garden
instead of stones.
(B) throwing stones at the wooden
notice.
(C) having somebody guard his garden
all day long.
(D) picking up all the stones in front of
his glass-houses.
(E) turning the boy’s attention to a
wooden notice board.
5. Mr. Flowers tried to protect his glass-
houses in several ways, except …………
(A) he threw stones at the boys before
chasing them.
(B) he guarded his glass-houses at
certain times of the day.
(C) he complained to the school
headmaster about the boys.
(D) he did in the bushes, so that he
could chase the boys when they
came.
(E) he cleared the path of all loose
stones that could otherwise be used
by the boys.
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This text is for questions no. 6 – no. 10.
For three days Inspector Robinson had been
completely in the dark. A man had been
found unconscious in the car park of the
Swan Hotel. He had been robbed and his car
had been stolen. The police had no idea of
his identity until at last the man was able to
tell them who he was and what had
happened. He was also able to give them a
description of the man, which the police sent
to all the newspaper.
The next day Inspector Robinson got a
message to say that the man had been seen
in a small seaside town. Inspector Robinson
immediately went there. When he reached
the police-station, the inspector in charge
had a second message for him. The owner of
a small restaurant on the seafront had just
telephoned. According to him, a person like
he wanted was having dinner in his
restaurant.
The police at once rushed round to the
restaurant. Two policemen stayed outside
the front entrance while Inspector Robinson
and another man entered through the
kitchen. Very excited, the owner of the
restaurant showed Inspector Robinson the
man he had been watching. He was sitting at
a corner table, reading a newspaper.
Without doubt it was the right man.
Inspector Robinson did not want to disturb
the other people in the restaurant. He let
the man finish his meal. Then, as he left the
restaurant Inspector Robinson followed him
into the street and arrested him.
6. “For three days Inspector Robinson had
been completely in the dark”.
The underlined words mean: Inspector
Robinson…………..
(A) arrived at the Swan Hotel when it
was already dark.
(B) did not have any information at all
about the criminal.
(C) stayed at the Swan Hotel until it got
dark.
(D) wanted to stay all by himself
thinking about the robbery.
(E) stood in the dark unnoticed by the
hotel owner.
7. Inspector Robinson was able to find the
robber after he was personally informed
by……………
(A) a newspaper man.
(B) the restaurant owner.
(C) a local citizen.
(D) the police of a small seaside town.
(E) a guest at the restaurant.
8. From the text we may conclude
that……………
(A) it usually takes three days for
Inspector Robinson to catch a
criminal.
(B) the criminal knew that there were
policemen in the restaurant.
(C) the newspapers played an
important role in finding the
criminal.
(D) the newspapers played an
important role in finding the
criminal.
(E) the owner of the stolen car went
with Inspector Robinson to arrest
the criminal.
9. Which of the following statements is
NOT TRUE according to the text?
(A) It was Inspector Robinson who
arrested the criminal.
(B) The criminal was caught when he
was eating in a restaurant.
(C) The police saw the robber reading a
newspaper in the restaurant.
(D) The robber was arrested without
disturbing the other quest of the
restaurant.
(E) Four policemen were in charge of
arresting the robber.
10. Which of the following statements is
TRUE according to the passage?
(A) The police knew immediately who
the unconscious man was.
(B) The robbery did not take place in
one of the hotel rooms.
(C) It was the police who gave the first
description of the robber.
(D) The victim of the robbery lost only
his car.
(E) Inspector Robinson found an
unconscious man at the Swan hotel.
This text is for questions no. 11- no.14.
In 1956 a Brazilian scientist imported some
special bees into Brazil from Africa. The
African bees were the same size as ordinary
bees. But they were much stronger and
more dangerous. A sting from of these bees
can kill a man of even a buffalo very quickly.
The scientist imported the bees because he
wanted to breed a new type of bees, using
the African Bees and ordinary European
bees. He wanted to combine the strength of
the African bee with the safety of the
European bee. Unfortunately, in 1957, 26
queen bees escaped and began to breed in
the jungles of Brazil. They spread very
quickly and science that time they have been
moving slowly north-wards, covering 300 to
400 kilometers a year. Over 200 people have
died after being stung by the killer bees, and
thousands of animals have also died.
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By March 1978 the killer bees had reached
Venezuela and in 1980 they arrived in
Panama. If they continue to move at the
same speed they will reach the USA in 1988.
Today scientists from many different
countries are trying to find ways of stopping
the killer bees. But if they can not be
stopped, the Americans, like the Brazilians,
will have to learn how to live with a new and
very dangerous visitor.
11. Which bees kill people?
(A) The African bees.
(B) The new type of bees.
(C) The European bees.
(D) The ordinary bees.
(E) The passage does not say.
12. Which of the following is TRUE according
to the passage?
(A) The imported African bees are
stronger but not as dangerous as the
European bees.
(B) The African bees are smaller but
more dangerous than the European
bees.
(C) A sting from the African bee is so
poisonous that it can kill a buffalo in
a very short time.
(D) Scientist have been successful in
stopping the killer bees.
(E) A scientist wanted to breed a new
type of bees that give more honey.
13. Which of the following is NOT TRUE
according to the passage?
(A) A Brazilians scientist wanted to have
a new type of bees.
(B) Scientists are trying to prevent the
killer bees from moving north-
wards.
(C) Many people have died because of
the poisonous sting of the African
bees.
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(D) The dangerous bees moved to
Venezuela before reaching Panama.
(E) The imported African bees are less
dangerous than the European ones.
14. When the passage was written…………..
(A) The killer bees had already reached
the USA.
(B) Thousands of animals had already
died.
(C) Scientists had found ways of
stopping the killer bees.
(D) The Brazilian scientists had already
bread a new type of bees
(E) People in Brazil had already known
how to live with the killer bees.
This text is for questions no. 15 – no. 19.
Young people and older people do not
always agree. They something have different
ideas about living, working and playing. But
in one special program in New York State,
adults and teenagers live together in peace.
Each summer 200 teenagers and 50 adults
live together for eight weeks as members of
a special work group. Everyone works
several hours each day. The aim is not just to
keep busy. It is to find meanings and
enjoyment in Work. Some teenagers work in
the woods or on the farms near the village.
Some learn to make furniture and to build
houses. The adults teach them these skills.
There are several free hours each day.
Weekends are free, too. During the free
hours some of the teenagers learn
photography or painting. Others sit around
and talk or sing. Each teenager chooses his
own way to spend his free time.
When people live together, rulers are always
necessary. In this program the teenagers and
the adults make the rules together.
If someone breaks a rule, the problem goes
before the whole group. The group discusses
the problem. They ask, “Why did it happen?”
“What should we do about it?”
One of the teenagers has this to say about
the experience : “You stop thinking only
about yourself. You learn how to think about
the group.”
15. Which of the following tells us that the
program is successful?
(A) Everyone works several hours each
day.
(B) Rules are always necessary.
(C) Weekends are free.
(D) You stop thinking about yourself.
(E) The adults teach the teenagers new
skills.
16. In the group discussions the
teenagers………….
(A) decide who has to do what job.
(B) want to know how things should be
done.
(C) have no chance to explain why they
act differently.
(D) discuss how they will spend their
free time.
(E) discuss how rules are made.
17. Which of the following statements is
NOT TRUE according to the passage?
(A) Each summer young people and
older people live together.
(B) Each teenager decides how he will
spend free time.
(C) The teenagers learn skills from the
adults.
(D) Keeping busy is the aim of the
program.
(E) Young people and older people
always disagree.
18. In this program, everybody…………
(A) has to obey the rules they have
made together.
(B) is free to do what he wants to.
(C) has to learn to make furniture and
build houses.
(D) works during the whole week.
(E) has to live on a farm from town.
19. ‘It’ in ‘What should we do about it?’
(line 3) refers to……..
(A) the making of the rules.
(B) the special program in New York
State.
(C) the problem.
(D) the rule.
(E) young people and older people
living together in peace.
This text is for questions no. 20 – no.25.
I was taking a pair of shoes to be mended at
a shop in the Tottenham Court Road when I
first met the little old man with the yellow
face, with whom my life has now become so
involved. He was standing on the curb, and
staring at the number on the door in a
doubtful way, as I opened it. His eyes they
were dull grey eyes, and reddish under the
rims fell to my face, and his wrinkled face
broke into a smile.
‘You come’, he said, at exactly the right
moment. I had forgotten the number of your
house. “How do you do, Mr. Eden?”
I was a little astonished at his calling me by
name, for I had never met the man before.
I hesitated.
Wonder who I am , eh? A friend, let me
assure you. I have seen you before, though
you haven’t seen me. “ Is there anywhere I
can talk to you?”
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20. How did the author meet the old man
for the first time?
(A) He answered the doorbell.
(B) He was going to the shoemaker’s.
(C) He was taking a walk.
(D) He saw him from the window.
(E) He was knocking at the door.
21. Which sentence tells us that the man
was old?
(A) His eyes were dull and grey.
(B) He was smiling.
(C) His face was wrinkled.
(D) He was staring at the number in a
doubtful way.
(E) He had forgotten the number of the
house.
22. Why was the author surprised?
(A) He had forgotten his old friend.
(B) He knew the old man.
(C) He didn’t expect his old friend.
(D) The old man knew his name.
(E) His friend looked very old.
23. What did the old man want?
(A) To say you.
(B) To talk.
(C) To repair the shoes.
(D) To take a walk.
(E) To come into the house.
24. What happened after they met?
(A) They became involved with each
other.
(B) We don’t know.
(C) They renewed their friendship.
(D) They never saw each other again.
(E) They became very good friends.
25. What did the author think of the old
man?
(A) He was impolite.
(B) He was wonderful.
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(C) He was frightening.
(D) He was kind.
(E) We don’t know.
This text is for questions no. 26 – no.29.
One day a farmer, who was well known in his
village as a very mean man, said “I will give
three meals and twenty five pence to anyone
who is willing to do a day’s work for me”.
This offer was accepted by a hungry tramp,
who was more interested in the meals than
the money.
You can have your breakfast first. Said the
farmer, and then you can start work. After
the farmer had given him a very small
breakfast, he said, Now you can have your
dinner. This will save us a lot of time. The
tramp agreed, and ate a poor dinner. When
he has finished, the farmer said: “What
would you say to have supper also while you
are about it?”
“I will try”, replied the tramp. To enjoy
another meal. Then he had his supper, which
again was not a very filling meal. When it
was over, the farmer looked very pleased
and said, “Now you can do a long day’s
work”.
No, thank you. Was the tramp’s reply, as he
rose to leave. “ I never work after supper?”
26. What is a tramp according to the
passage?
A tramp is…………..
(A) a person who works for a farmer.
(B) a homeless person going from place
to place.
(C) a very hungry person.
(D) a person who is interested in
farming.
(E) one who needs a job.
27. “While you are about it”. It the Jewish girl who wrote the famed about
means………….. her family’s life while hiding from the Nazis.
(A) while the tramp is working.
Before the war, Mr. Wiesenthal was a
(B) when the tramp is at his farm.
successful architect in Poland. The German
(C) if the tramp is still hungry.
sent him and his wife to a prison camp. He
(D) while the tramp is eating.
was able to make contact with the Polish
(E) when the tramp begins to work.
underground, and he gave them sketches
showing how to blow up the railway. In
28. Which of these statements is TRUE
return, the underground supplied him with
according to the passage above?
false papers so his wife could escape.
(A) The farmer was a generous man.
(B) The tramp started to work after Still in prison, Mr. Wiesenthal watched in
having supper. horror as Nazi guards drove elderly Jewish
(C) The tramp enjoyed the meals very into freight and cattle cars for deportation.
much. One of them was sixty – three years old
(D) The tramp was able to eat three mother.
meals because none of them was
Mr. and Mrs. Wiesenthal had lost eighty-
big.
nine relatives and they were the only
(E) The farmer wanted to help the
surviving members of their families.
tramp.
30. Who was Simon Wiesenthal?
29. The tramp was willing to work for the
(A) An architect who became a war
farmer………..
criminal.
(A) because he felt very hungry.
(B) A Nazi officer.
(B) because he liked the job.
(C) A Nazi hunter.
(C) because he needed twenty five
(D) A publisher.
pence.
(E) A soldier.
(D) because the farmer was a generous
man.
31. Some people who supplied him with
(E) because the farmer was well-known.
information……
(A) were given a reward.
This text is for questions no. 30 – no.33.
(B) were brought to justice.
(C) didn’t want their names to be
Since he was released from a death camp in
mentioned.
1945, Simon Wiesenthal has devoted his life
(D) didn’t like him.
to avenging the fate of the six million Jews
(E) were old and poor women.
killed in Germany during World War 2. His
work is bringing Nazi war criminals to justice.
32. Because of his help to the Polish
He finds them by using information from the
underground……………….
Nazi’s own files. He also gets leads from
(A) he was almost killed.
informers, who are often anonymous.
(B) his mother was killed.
(C) he became famous.
He has helped in the capture of about eight
(D) his wife could escape.
hundred Nazis, including Adolph Eichman. In
(E) he became an architect.
1963, he located the captor of Anner Frank,
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33. Which of these statements is NOT TRUE
according to the passage?
(A) Her diary made was a cattle Frankle
famous.
(B) Simon’s mother was a cattle car
driver.
(C) Mr and Mrs. Wiesenthal lost many
relatives.
(D) Wiesenthal used to be an architect.
(E) Adolph Eichmann was one of the
war criminals.
This text is for questions no. 34 – no. 37.
A potato farmer was sent to prison just at the
time when he should have been digging the
ground for planting the new crop of
potatoes.
He knew that his wife would not be strong
enough to do the digging by herself, but that
could manage to do the planting; and he also
knew that he did not have any friends of
neighbors who would be willing to do the
digging for him. So he wrote a letter to his
wife which said, “ Please do not dig the
potato field. I had the money and the gun
there.”
Ten days later he got a letter from his wife. It
said, “ I think somebody is reading your letter
before they go out of the prison. Some
policemen arrived here two days ago and dug
up the whole potato field. What shall I do
now?”
The prisoner wrote back at once. “Plant the
potatoes, of course.”
34. Why was the potato farmer sent to
prison?
(A) He killed a policeman.
(B) He didn’t want to work.
(C) He had stolen some money.
(D) He had stolen a gun.
(E) The passage doesn’t tell.
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35. It was a very bad time for the potato
farmer to go to prison because……….
(A) it was planting time.
(B) his wife could not do the planting.
(C) his neighbors did not like him.
(D) his wife would be quite alone at
home.
(E) it was harvest time.
36. The prisoner wrote the letter………….
(A) to ask his wife not to tell anybody
where he had the money.
(B) to tell his wife that the policemen
were coming to get the money and
the gun.
(C) to make a confession to his wife.
(D) to get his field dug up by the
policemen.
(E) to share his secret with his wife.
37. Which of the following statements is
TRUE?
(A) The policemen came to the field 10
days after the farmer wrote the
letter.
(B) Although the potato farmer was in
prison, his field was ready for
planting.
(C) The policemen succeeded in finding
the hidden money and gun.
(D) Although the farmer’s wife was not
so strong, she did the digging.
(E) The policemen had willingly helped
the farmer to dig up his field.
This text is for questions no. 38 – no.39
In 1854 a seventeen year-old youth named
Francis Brett Harte came from the East to the
California territory to join his mother, who
had remarried and settled in Oakland.
Almost from the first, he was charmed by the
idea of the dusty mining districts and the
miners, the stagecoaches and their drivers,
the saloons and their dancing women.
For him the whole country was picturesque
and absorbing. After working at a number of
jobs as an expressman on a stagecoach, as a
teacher in a little Sieere mining town, as a
druggist, as a fence builder and finally as a
reporter local newspaper. He decided to try
to capture in fiction what he felt was the
spirit of the wild life of the camps and mining
districts.
38. Francis Brett Harte came to the
California territory because………..
(A) he wanted to live with his mother.
(B) he wanted to teach in a little mining
town.
(C) he liked saloons and their dancing
women.
(D) he could get a good job as a
druggist.
(E) he liked the country very much.
39. The story tells us about the following,
EXCEPT………….
(A) A number of jobs in the California
territory.
(B) The community of a mining district.
(C) The beauty of a country.
(D) Francis Brett Harte’s childhood.
(E) The spirit of the wild life in mining
district.
This text is for questions no. 40 – no. 42.
A hundred years ago it took one month to
travel from Tokyo to Osaka by horse. Today
it is possible to cover the distance of 313
miles between the two Japanese cities in less
than 2,5 hours if we travel on a super express
train which is called “ The super-express of
Dreams”. The train is even faster and better
than people dreamed could be possible.
Visitors from other countries are delighted
with the inside of the carriages. They are
furnished with brightly-colored curtains and
rugs. Passengers are also able to purchase
several kinds several kinds of food and drink.
The Tokyo- Osaka railway is the busiest
section in Japan. Passenger’s train travel the
day and the goods trains travel only at night.
The working of the railway is as automatic as
possible. When the train approaches a
station where it has to stop, an automatic
device slows the train and the driver controls
the train to stop it at the station. When the
train enters a part of the railway where the
speed must be reduced another automatic
device slows the train to the proper speed.
Japanese railway engineers say that is
possible for the trains to travel at 180 miles
an hour but the people may not like such
great speeds. Safety is more important than
speed. Anyway the Japanese super express
traveling at 130 miles an hour is the fastest
train in Asia.
40. The Japanese Super-express is a train
which……….
(A) is a hundred years old.
(B) travel 313 miles a day.
(C) is only meant for passengers.
(D) carries passengers by day and night.
(E) travels faster than any train in Asia.
41. What do foreigners like about the Super-
express?
(A) The attractive interior of the
carriages.
(B) The bright appearance of the train.
(C) The food given freely to passengers.
(D) It use of such modern automatic
devices.
(E) Its speed of hundred and eighty
miles per hour.
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42. If the super-express ran faster than 130
miles per hour,
(A) it would be too noisy and
uncomfortable.
(B) it would be the safest train in Asia.
(C) passengers would not feel safe
anymore.
(D) the automatic devices wouldn’t
work properly.
(E) It will be the more comfortable train
in Asia.
This text is for questions no. 43 – no.45.
Timothy was ten years old. He was not a
very good pupil, and he did not like having to
do his homework, because he preferred to
do other things in his free time. Frequently
he did not do his homework, and when he
did it, he always made a lot of mistakes.
Then one day, his mathematics teacher
looked at Timothy’s homework and saw that
he got all his sums right. He was very
pleased and rather surprised. He called
Timothy to his desk and said to him, “You got
all your homework right this time, Timothy,
what happened ? Did your father help you?”
Usually Timothy’s father did help him with
homework, but the evening before this, he
had not been able to, because he had not
been at home, so Timothy answered, “ No,
sir. He was busy last night, so I had to do it
all myself.”
43. Timothy didn’t like doing homework
because………..
(A) he always needed the help of
others.
(B) he didn’t like going to school.
(C) he always made many mistakes.
(D) he’d rather enjoy his free time.
(E) he preferred working with his
father.
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44. Why did the teacher call Timothy one
day?
(A) His father couldn’t help him his
homework.
(B) The teacher was disappointed with
Timothy’s homework.
(C) There was no mistake in Timothy’s
homework.
(D) Timothy didn’t do his homework at
all.
(E) Timothy had left his home work at
home.
45. Which of the following statements is
TRUE according to the text?
(A) Timothy used to do his homework
by himself.
(B) Timothy didn’t like mathematics at
all.
(C) The teacher was very angry with
Timothy.
(D) Timothy’s father was called by the
teacher.
(E) Without any help Timothy’s work
was good.
This text is for questions no. 46 – no.50.
In a good cartoon, the artist can tell in a few
lines as much as a writer can tell in half a
dozen paragraphs. The cartoonist not only
tells a story but also persuades the reader to
his way of thinking. He has great influence
on public opinion. Controversial issues in
politics or a meeting at the United Nations
may keep the cartoonist well supplied with
current materials.
A clever cartoonist may cause laughter
because he often uses humor in his drawings.
If he is sketching a famous person, he takes a
prominent feature and exaggerates it.
Cartoonist for instance, like to lengthen an
already long nose and to widen an already
broad grin.
This exaggeration of a person’s characteristic 49. The best title for this passage is…………
is called caricature. This artist uses such (A) A cartoonist’s exaggeration.
exaggeration to put his message across. (B) A cartoonist’s influence.
(C) The cartoonist and politics.
46. A good cartoon is like…………. (D) The art of the cartoonist.
(A) a fine picture. (E) The cartoonists and politicians.
(B) a written story.
(C) a sketch. 50. A subject about which people have
(D) a model. different opinions is said to be ………
(E) an anecdote. (A) public.
(B) current.
47. The subject of a cartoonist is……….. (C) prominent.
(A) today’s topics. (D) controversial.
(B) people’s face. (E) proficient.
(C) cartoon film.
(D) landscapes.
(E) scenaris.

48. Cartoonists influence people through

…………..
(A) essays.
(B) lectures.
(C) campaigning.
(D) public opinion.
(E) humor.

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 2. Tugas Mandiri Bahasa Inggris
CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER.
This text is for questions no. 1 – no.5.
It was very hot in the small court-room and
everybody was feeling sleepy after a tiring
morning the clerks felt anxious to get off to
lunch and even the judge felt relieved when
the last cast came up before the court. A
short, middle aged man with grey hair and
small blue eyes was now standing before
him. The man had a foolish expression on his
face and he kept looking around stupidly as if
he was trying hard to understand what was
going on.
The man was accused of breaking into a
house and stealing a cheap watch. The
witness who was called did not give a very
clear account of what had happened. He
claimed to have seen a man outside the
house one night, but on being questioned
further, he confessed that he was not sure
whether this was the man. The judge
considered the matter for a short time and
then declared that as there was no real
proof, the man could not be found guilty of
any crime. He said that the case was
dismissed and then rose to go. Meanwhile,
the accused looked very puzzled. It was clear
that he had not understood a thing. Noticing
this, the judge paused for a moment and
then the man said suddenly: “Excuse me, sir,
but, do I have to give the watch back or not?”
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1. Why was the judge glad when the last
cast came up?
(A) He was exhausted.
(B) He was hungry.
(C) He found the old man foolish.
(D) The courtroom was crowded.
(E) He felt relieved.
2. The foolish expression on the face of the
man showed that he…………
(A) acted as if he was not guilty.
(B) tried very hard to look stupid.
(C) had not done what he was accused
of.
(D) seemed not to know why he was in
court.
(E) had never seen in court before.
3. Who is meant by ‘the witness’?
(A) the owner of the watch.
(B) the man who was called for trial.
(C) the man who had broken into the
house.
(D) the man who conducted the trial.
(E) the person who saw the happening.
4. Why did the judge decide to release the
accused?
(A) The man was not guilty.
(B) The judge wanted to leave quickly.
(C) The judge was not sure of the man’s
guilty.
(D) Somebody else had done the crime.
(E) The man stole only a cheap watch.
5. According to the passage which of these
statements is TRUE?
(A) The witness did not tell the truth.
(B) The accused unintentionally
admitted the crime.
(C) The man was a professional thief .
(D) The judge asked the accused to
return the watch.
(E) The trial took considerable time.
This text is for questions no. 6 – no. 10.
Many years ago as a young doctor in London,
I had among my patients a retired school
teacher suffering from an incurable disorder.
He lodged with a working class family in a
Paddington housing. Something about this
poor old man impressed me, perhaps the
quiet, uncomplaining cheerfulness that
seemed to radiate from his small shrunken
figure and bright brown eyes; at least I visited
him oftener than necessity demanded.
When summer came, I obtained money for
him from a welfare organization so that he
might escape from the crowded city and
spend a month at the seaside. I know he
loved the sea. Ten days later I met him,
looking tired and drawn, in that dirty
Paddington street. Astonished, I asked him
why he had not gone away. It was sometime
before the admission came; rather than take
the holiday himself, he had sent his
landlady’s children instead. As I blamed him
for what he had done, he heard me in
silence, gave me finally an odd smile.
Doctor, he said, “it does one good
sometimes ....... to do without.”
6. Why was the doctor impressed by the
old man?
Because the old man ……………..
(A) was very poor.
(B) was seriously ill.
(C) always looked cheerful.
(D) has bright brown eyes.
(E) Was a retired school teacher.
7. “At least I visited him oftener than
necessity demanded” in line 5 means
that………….
(A) The doctor visited the old man
whenever it was necessary.
(B) It was necessary that the doctor
visited the old man everyday.
(C) The old man demanded that the
doctor visited him very often.
(D) It was at least necessary that the
doctor visited him oftener.
(E) The doctor visited the old man
frequently.
8. The money that the doctor obtained
from an organization …………
(A) was spent up by the doctor.
(B) was meant for the landlady’s
medicine.
(C) was used to pay for the old man’s
medicine.
(D) should have been used by the old
man himself.
(E) was a means which the old man
escaped.
9. Why was the doctor surprised to see the
old man still in London ten days later?
Because…………..
(A) the doctor had already given the old
man the money.
(B) the old man looked tired and drawn.
(C) the old man still looked sick.
(D) the old man was supposed to be
away at the sea side.
(E) the doctor did not want to see the
old man for a month.
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10. Which of these statements is TRUE
according to the passage?
(A) The old man was happy to do things
for others.
(B) The landlady’s was sent away by the
old man.
(C) The doctor found that the old man
had done the right thing.
(D) The old man was angry when the
doctor blamed him.
(E) The landlady went with her children
to the sea side.
This text is for questions no. 11- no. 15.
An old friend from abroad, whom I was
expecting to stay with me, telephoned from
the airport to tell me that he had arrived. I
was still at the office at the time, but I had
made arrangements for his arrival. After
explaining where my new flat was, I told him
that I had left the key under the door- mat.
As I was likely to be home rather late, I
advised him to go into the kitchen and help
himself to food and drink.
Two hours later my friend telephoned me
from the flat. At the moment, he said, he
was listening to some of my record after
having just a truly wonderful meal. He had
found a pan on the gas stove and fried two
eggs and helped himself to some cold
chicken from the refrigerator. Now, he said,
he was drinking glass of orange juice and he
hoped I would join him. When I asked him if
he had reached the flat without difficulty, he
answered that he had not been able to find
the key under door-mat, but fortunately the
living room window just by the apple tree
had been left open and he had climbed in. I
listened to all this in astonishment. There is
no apple tree in front of my living-room, but
there is one in front of my neighbors!
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11. When his friend telephoned from the
airport, the writer……….
(A) already knew that he was coming.
(B) was very surprised.
(C) didn’t want to come home.
(D) left his key under the door-mat.
(E) offered him one cold chicken.
12. Before his friend arrived, the writer
…………
(A) put all his things in order.
(B) called the airport.
(C) had made preparation.
(D) had made adjustments.
(E) had put cold chicken in his
refrigerator.
13. All of the following sentences are true,
EXCEPT………
(A) the writer thought his friend would
find the way.
(B) the writer still had work to do at his
office.
(C) the writer had made arrangements
for his friend.
(D) the writer’s friend had arrived too
early.
(E) the writer had only recently moved
into his flat.
14. ‘All this’ in ‘I listened to all this in
astonishment’, refers to…………..
(A) the explanation of the writer’s
friend.
(B) the record that writer’s friend was
playing.
(C) the sound of the writer’s friend’s
footsteps.
(D) the sound of the writer’s
refrigerator.
(E) the answer of the writer’s friend.
15. Why was writer astonished?
(A) His friend had forced a window
open.
(B) He realized he hadn’t closed his
window.
(C) His friend had made himself
comfortable in his flat.
(D) His friend had finished all his food.
(E) His friend had not followed his
directions.
This text is for questions no. 16 – no. 20.
Professor Jones did not want to have long
hair, but he used to forget that there were
barbers in the world until somebody
reminded him. Then he used to go and have
his hair cut quite short. This meant that
sometimes he went around with long hair for
several weeks, or even several months, and
then suddenly came to one of his lectures
with quite short hair.
After sometime, his students began to bet on
the date of his next visit to the barber.
Whenever his hair became long enough to
need cutting, a jar and a piece of paper were
put on a table outside the professor’s lecture
room. Students who wanted to bet used to
put a shilling into the jar and write their
names and the date they had chosen on the
piece of paper. The student of the
professor’s next visit to the barber correctly
won all the money in the jar.
Professor Jones was very puzzled by the jar
and list which appeared on the table one day,
stayed there for several weeks, then
disappeared again.
But he was a clever man and a university
professor of mathematics, so he began to
write down the dates on which the jar and
the list appeared and disappeared, and study
them carefully. After a few months, he
suddenly realized what they meant. When
he finished his next lecture, he stopped at
the table, put a shilling into the jar, wrote his
name and the day’s date on the paper, went
to the barber’s shop, and then came back to
collect the jar of money which he had won.
16. Professor Jones often had long hair
because…………
(A) it was the fashion.
(B) he liked it that way.
(C) he wanted to look different from his
students.
(D) he was an absent-minded professor.
(E) he was too busy to go to the barber.
17. What did the students think of the
professor’s long hair?
(A) They liked it.
(B) They made fun of it.
(C) They reminded him to go to the
barber.
(D) They collected money for his hair
cut.
(E) They wanted him to go to a barber.
18. When the professor understood what
the students were doing……….
(A) he made a bet, too.
(B) he was disappointed.
(C) he decided to go to the barber
regularly.
(D) he collected the jar of money.
(E) he pretended to be angry with
them.
19. How most probably did the professor
find out what the jar of money meant?
(A) By counting the money.
(B) By writing dates.
(C) By listening names.
(D) By putting a shilling into the jar.
(E) By thinking.
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20. Why was the jar put outside the
professor’s lecture room?
(A) To keep the money for the
professor’s haircut.
(B) To remind the professor that he
needed a haircut.
(C) To collect the student’s bets.
(D) To place the list of names and dates.
(E) To put reminding the professor
about his haircut.
This text is for questions no. 21 – no. 25.
While I was walking along the road the other
day I happened to notice a small brown
leather purse lying on the pavement. I
picked it up and opened it to see if I could
find out the owner’s name. There was
nothing inside it except some small change
and a rather old photograph a picture of a
woman and a young girl about twelve years
old, who looked like the woman’s daughter.
I put the photograph back and took the purse
to the police station, where I handed it to the
sergeant in charge. Before I left, the
sergeant made a note of my name and
address in case the owner of the purse
wanted to write and thank me.
The evening I went to have dinner with uncle
and aunt. They had also invited another
person, a young man, so that there would be
four people at table. They young woman’s
face was familiar, but I could not remember
where I had seen it. I was quite sure that we
had not met before.
In the course of the conversation, however,
the young woman happened to remark that
she had lost her purse that afternoon. I at
once remembered where I had seen her face.
She was the young girl in the photograph,
although she was now much older.
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Of course she was very surprised when I was
able to describe her purse to her. Then I
explained that I had recognized her face from
the photograph. I had found in the purse.
My uncle instead on going round to the
police station immediately to claim the
purse.
21. ‘Back’ in : I put the photograph back
means………
(A) on the pavement.
(B) on the picture.
(C) to the police station.
(D) to the woman.
(E) in the purse.
22. The sergeant asked for the writer’s name
and address………
(A) to send him a reward.
(B) to thank him.
(C) to give it to the professor of the
purse.
(D) to call on him.
(E) to correspond him.
23. The person had lost the article most
probably for…………
(A) one afternoon.
(B) one evening.
(C) three days.
(D) more than four hours.
(E) an instant.
24. The purse was returned to the owner
because…………
(A) the sergeant had found her address.
(B) the uncle had seen it.
(C) the aunt had helped her.
(D) the finder had recognized her.
(E) of the announcement in the
newspaper.
25. The writer didn’t recognize her at once
because of………….
(A) shyness.
(B) forgetfulness.
(C) bad eye –sight.
(D) change in appearance.
(E) darkness.
This text is for questions no. 26 – no.29.
One of the greatest sea tragedies that had
ever occurred was that of the steamship
Titanic. It was the first trip of the giant ship.
There were more than two thousand people
aboard their way to the United States from
England.
On the night of April 14, 1912, the sea was
calm. The weather was beautiful. People
were dancing in the spacious salons. Music,
laughter and singing could be heard
everywhere. The thought of the danger was
far away.
Suddenly, just before the ship could change
her course the iceberg had torn a huge hole
in the bottom of the ship. Nothing could be
done. The new ship went down into the sea.
Unfortunately, more than fifteen hundred
people lost their lives.
26. What were people on board the Titanic
doing when it was struck by iceberg?
(A) Merry-making.
(B) Playing music.
(C) Dancing.
(D) Laughing and singing.
(E) Entertaining.
27. Why couldn’t the Titanic avoid the
iceberg?
(A) it was too dark.
(B) there was not enough time.
(C) the iceberg was too big.
(D) the sailor’s alarm was not loud
enough.
(E) the ship was too big.
28. People on board the Titanic didn’t
expect any danger most probably
because………..
(A) it was a strong new ship.
(B) the weather was fine.
(C) they were enjoying the trip.
(D) its crew was quite experienced.
(E) it had modern equipment.
29. Which of the following statements is
TRUE?
(A) The Titanic was crippled.
(B) The Titanic was torn apart.
(C) The lower part of the Titanic leaked.
(D) The sailor on guard was very
watchful.
(E) The Titanic was damaged beyond
repair.
This text is for questions no. 30 – no. 35.
Cassava is the staple food of millions of
people in Africa, Asia and South and Central
America. Its swollen tuberous can be boiled
and mashed or grated to produce a meal
known as ‘Farinha’ in Brazil and ‘Garri’ in
Nigeria, which can be cooked in small cakes.
The root is also the source of the
manufactured commodity, tapioca. A small
field planted with Cassava can be insurance
against famine, because the crop can be left
in the ground for two or three years without
determination of the tubers. But recent
finding suggest that cassava may be
responsible for birth defects.
It has other serious disadvantages. The
tubers consist almost entirely at starch and
are particularly low in protein, so
dependence on cassava leads to serious
malnutrition. To make matters worse, some
varieties, when grown under certain
conditions of soil and climate, develop a high
acid content and become extremely
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poisonous to people and livestock it eaten
raw. These tubers have to be well-prepared
for consumption by prolonged and repeated
boiling.
The new danger has emerged over the past
few years in Nigeria. Doctors have begun to
suspect that cassava, if eaten in large
amounts during pregnancy, may cause
deformities in the developing fetus, there
appears to be a correlation between the
eating of Cassava by pregnant women and
the occurrence of various kind of brain or
other neuronal malformations in their
babies.
30. The topic of the text is……..
(A) Cassava, the source of various kinds
of meals.
(B) The advantages and disadvantages
of cassava.
(C) Characteristic of people consuming
cassava.
(D) The staple food of people in
developing countries.
(E) Malnutrition, the effect of eating
cassava.
31. People can rely on cassava in times of
famine because……….
(A) Cassava can grow in any climate
through out the year.
(B) It can be manufactured into flour
called tapioca.
(C) The tubers can last for more than
one year as long as they are not
pulled out.
(D) It is the most important food in
many parts of the world.
(E) It can be stored for a long time
without being rotten.
32. Which of the following statements if
NOT TRUE according to the text?
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(A) Farinha and garrie are other names
for cassava.
(B) Being low in protein, cassava may
cause malnutrition.
(C) Some cassavas should not be eaten
because they are poisonous.
(D) People consuming only cassava for
long periods of time may endanger
their health.
(E) Particular conditions of soil and
climate can make cassava
poisonous.
33. It is likely that doctors will advise
pregnant women not to eat too much
cassava for fear that………..
(A) they will be deformed.
(B) the fetus will not develop.
(C) their babies will become crippled.
(D) their babies blood will be poisoned
(E) their babies may have malformed
brains
34. We may conclude that the
writer……………..
(A) suggests that cassava is a good
alternative for staple food.
(B) wants to tell people to stop eating
cassava.
(C) shows how people in developing
countries live.
(D) warns the readers of the danger of
consuming too much cassava.
(E) explains the effect of food shortages
in developing countries.
35. Sarah’s parents could not sleep until she
came home.
This meant that………………
(A) Although Sarah came home, her
parents could not sleep.
(B) Sarah did not come home until her
parents had slept.
(C) Before Sarah came home, her
parents could not sleep.
 (D) When Sarah came home, her
parents were sleeping.
(E) Her parents were still sleeping when
Sarah came home.
This text is for questions no.36 – no. 40.
Ultraviolet light means the invisible part of
the spectrum beyond violet. This light has
always been regarded as very useful because
it is used to cure certain skin diseases, kill
bacteria, detect counterfeit, form vitamins,
etc.
Along with the increasingly extensive use of
computers in financial activities, ultraviolet
light has been widely applied by banks to
identify the signatures of their customers in
passbooks. When a customer opens a new
account with a bank, the bank teller always
asks him to sign on a card placed in the
signature column of a passbook. When the
card is removed, the trace of his signature
will be left; this can be used to compare with
the signature on the customer’s withdrawal
slip under ultraviolet light.
Ultraviolet light certainly has many practical
applications, but it may also be harmful to
human beings on some occasions. To
everyone’s knowledge, the direct impact of
the light on the eyes for an excessive length
of time may blind a person.
Even though it can cure certain skin diseases,
it is also very harmful to the skin. A study
just completed in the United Stated says the
light may cause skin cancer. The ultraviolet
rays of the sun have been ranked as the third
most dangerous cancer-causing agent after
alcohol and tobacco.
It is high time to warn- sun worshippers in
the quest for a bronzed look to be careful of
excessive and uncontrolled to the sun.
36. We may conclude that the main
information of the text is about…………
(A) the advantages and disadvantages
of ultraviolet light.
(B) the use of ultraviolet light in
business.
(C) the application of ultraviolet light in
people’s lives.
(D) the effect of ultraviolet rays on
human beings.
(E) the danger of ultraviolet light to
people’s health.
37. Which of the following statements about
ultraviolet light is TRUE according to the
text?
(A) Ultraviolet is used by banks for
computers.
(B) The position of ultraviolet rays is
above the spectrum.
(C) Skin diseases can only be caused by
ultraviolet rays.
(D) Ultraviolet light, which is part of the
spectrum, can not be seen.
(E) Ultraviolet light is one of the existing
vitamins.
38. We may conclude that the writer’s main
purpose in writing the text is to………….
(A) encourage people to get the best
advantage of ultraviolet rays.
(B) explain that sunrays consist of violet
and ultraviolet rays.
(C) introduce the effective use of
ultraviolet light in banks.
(D) warn people against the alarming
dangers caused by sunrays.
(E) ask people to avoid the use of
ultraviolet light as much as possible.
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39. We benefit from ultraviolet rays as they
can……………
(A) sign false customer’s passbooks.
(B) detect false signatures.
(C) cure a particular kind of cancer.
(D) check customers deposits.
(E) be a component in medicines.
40. Ultraviolet rays may endanger people
who…………
(A) take vitamins regularly.
(B) stay indoors.
(C) have skin cancer.
(D) consume alcohol and tobacco.
(E) like sun-bathing.
This text is for questions no. 41 – no.42.
Hospitality is natural in my village. Guests
arrive at any time of the day or night and
they are always welcome. Nobody asks them
“Why have you come?” or “How long are you
going to stay?” They become a part of the
family.
The villagers are delighted to receive guests.
They are fed, clothed and given presents.
When guests arrive they are offered a pot of
water to wash their hands, face, and feet.
Then they are given mat or chair to sit on.
Previously, sherbet was offered, but now it is
the custom to give a cup of tea, depending
on the time of the day. Guests are never
asked “Have you eaten?” or Would you like
something to eat or drink?”. Food is placed
before them and it is impolite for guest to
refuse. Hospitality means giving yourself
completely to guests and strangers.
41. What is the topic of the paragraph?
(A) Guest and Strangers.
(B) Hospitality in a village.
(C) Rules of politeness.
(D) Advice for guests.
(E) The arrival of guests.
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42. What is the main idea of the text?
(A) In the writer’s village, guests are
always received warmly.
(B) Guests have to wash their hands,
face, and feet when they arrive.
(C) The hosts never ask their visitors
questions.
(D) Guest are usually asked about the
purpose of their visit.
(E) It is impolite to refuse food and
drink offered by the host.
This text is for questions no. 43 – no. 44.
Progress is gradually being made in the fight
of cancer. In the early 1900s, few cancer
patients had any hope of long term survival,
In the 1920s, the ratio was one in four,
currently, the ratio is down to one in three.
The gain from one in four to one in three
represents about 58,000 lives saved each
year.
43. What is the topic of the paragraph?
(A) The danger of cancer.
(B) Cancer victims.
(C) The problem of cancer.
(D) Progress in the flight of cancer.
(E) The history of cancer.
44. What is the main idea of the text?
(A) in the 1900s cancer patients had
good hope of long term survival.
(B) the progress in fighting cancer
results in the increasing number of
survival.
(C) there is progress in preventing
people from getting cancer.
(D) currently, the gain from the fight
against cancer is the survival of
58,000 lives.
(E) the number of cancer victims has
gradually increased.
This text is for questions no. 45 – no. 50. The following morning, while the others were
still in their sleeping bags, he said; I’m just
Scott and his four companions were terribly going outside and may be gone sometime.
disappointed when they got to the South He was never seen again. He had walked out
Pole and found the Norwegians had beaten alone the snow, hoping that his death would
them in the race to be first men ever to reach help his companions. It takes nothing away
it. After planting the British flag at the Pole, from his brave act that in the end it was in
they look a photograph of themselves before vain.
they left, and then started the 950 miles
journey back. 45. The story is about………….
(A) the race to the South Pole.
The journey was painfully slow, and the joy
(B) the victory of the Norwegians.
and excitement had gone out of them. The
(C) the journey back from the South
sun hardly appeared, but the snow was soft,
Pole.
and snowstorm often made it impossible to
(D) the 950-miles journey to the South
sight the stones they had all thought the
Pole.
strongest of the five, showed signs of
(E) the death of Captain Oats.
weakening, feel into the deep hole in the ice,
and after struggling along for several days,
46. The journey back from the South Pole
suddenly collapsed and died.
was extremely slow because………….
The four who were left pushed on at the best
(A) food was running short and there
speed they could manage; they knew their
were no sleeping bags.
strength was going and food was running
(B) Evans got an accident and finally
short. The winds tired them out, so that each
died.
day the distance they traveled was shorter
(C) There was no more oil for cooking
than the previous day’s. If they had had
and heating.
warm food and dry sleeping bags, they might
(D) Captain Oats was terribly suffering
have lived, but each time they reached one
from his frozen feet.
of the places were they had left oil for
(E) Extreme cold and hunger physically
cooking and heat, they found that there was
weakened Scott’s party.
less than they had expected. They hadn’t
known that oil creeps out from tins in very
47. For the British team, the race to the
low temperature.
South Pole was………….
Captain Oats had been suffering for (A) a great experience.
sometime from frozen feet; at night his feed (B) a tragedy.
swelled so large that he could scarcely put his (C) an honor.
boots on the next morning, and he walked in (D) a victory.
great pain. He was very brave. He did not (E) a mystery.
complain, but he knew his slowness was
making it less likely that the other could save
themselves. He asked them to leave him
behind in his sleeping bag, but they refused,
and helped him on a few more miles, until it
was time to put up the tent for another
night.
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48. Which of the following statements is 49. ‘In vain’ in the last sentence
TRUE about Captain Oats? means………….
(A) Captain Oats sacrificed himself for (A) impractical.
the good of the other members of (B) useless.
the party. (C) illegal.
(B) The other team members did not (D) imbalanced.
know that Captain Oats had left the (E) unavailable.
tent.
(C) Captain Oats refused to stay in the 50. From the text we may conclude
tent and took leave from his friends that……………
the same night. (A) three members of the British party
(D) Although his feet were badly were alive.
swollen, Captain Oats was able to (B) Scott, being the party leader,
keep pace with the others. became well known.
(E) Captain Oats left his friends because (C) Britain celebrated the return of its
he could not stand his friend party.
attitude towards him. (D) none of the British party survived.
(E) Captain Oats was rewarded because
of his bravery.

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 3. Tugas Mandiri Bahasa Inggris
Choose the correct answer.
This text is for questions no.1 – no. 5.
There is no stopping rock and roll. Since its
birth in the fifties, rock and rolls have
become the liveliest force in popular culture.
It was born as a child of jazz, blues, and
country music. More recently, it has been
influenced by movies, television, sex, drugs,
art, literature, and electronics. Since its birth,
rock and roll has grouped and regrouped
into an explosion of style ; folk rock, soul,
Motown, hard rock, jazz rock, country rock
heavy metal, punk rock, reggae, new wave,
rap, and so on. Each of types has its own
styles, themes, and stars. Two of the more
successful styles are rap and reggae.
One of the newest style of rock and roll is
rap. Rap is a form of dance music in which
singers – rappers – speak in rhythm and
rhyme rather than sing. Rap first appeared in
the mid – seventies in the discos of New York
City’s black neighborhoods. Disco DJs teamed
up with rappers to play songs for dancers at
parties. At first, the role of the rapper was to
keep the beat going with hand clap while the
DJ changed record. Soon, rappers added
lyrics, slogans, rhymes, and call and response
exchanges with the audience. Early rap songs
were mainly about dancing, partying, and the
romantic adventures of the rappers, but
politics became an important theme in the
late eighties and nineties. Although rap is
primarily the music of young black males, the
first white rappers appeared in 1980, and a
woman rapper, Queen Latifah, began her
career in 1989. M.C. Hammer’s 1990 album,
Please Hammer Don’t Hurt Em , has sold
fifteen million copies, making it the best
selling rap album of the decade.
Another style of rock and roll is reggae, which
was born on the Carribean island of Jamaica
in the sixties and spread throughout the
world in the seventies. It developed from a
kind of Afro – Caribbean music called mento,
which was sung and played on guitars and
drums. Some musicians changed mento into
a music style called ska by adding a
hesitation beat. A few years later, other
musicians changed ska , and reggae was
born. Reggae’s special sound comes from
reversing the roles of the instruments. The
guitar plays the rhythm and the bass plays
melody. An important influence on reggae
music was the Rastafarian cult. The
Rastafarians added unusual sound mixes,
extra – low tempos, strange lyrics, and
mystical – political themes. The best – known
reggae musician in the United States is Bob
Marley.
Rock and roll music is constantly
changing. New styles are born, grow, change,
and produce off shoots. Some styles enjoy
lasting popularity , but others disappear
rather quickly. However, all contribute to the
power and excitement of rock and roll music
in our time.
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1. Rock and roll music is mainly influenced
by…..
(A) explosive style of music.
(B) jazz, blues and country music.
(C) native popular culture.
(D) mass media, sex and drugs.
(E) soul, Motown, and heavy metal.
2. A suitable title for the text is……
(A) The history of pop music
(B) The origin of Rock and Roll Music
(C) The role of jazz in today’s Music
(D) Styles of Rock and Roll Music
(E) The young Black male’s Music
3. Which of the following is TRUE about
rap?
(A) Rappers do not sing at all but speak
in rhythm.
(B) Rap was originally a form of dance
of the 1970s.
(C) Rappers enjoy interacting with the
audience.
(D) Rap music is confined to black
neighborhoods.
(E) Themes of rap music are limited to
casual things.
4. From the text we may conclude that rock
and roll music …….
(A) was born and developed among
black people.
(B) became popular when the first
white rapper appeared.
(C) is a means to unite black and white
people.
(D) will grow and change into other
forms of music.
(E) is limited to adults because of its
serious themes.
5. Which of the following is NOT a
characteristic of reggae ?
(A) It is particularly used to convey
political messages.
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(B) It is sung and played on guitars and
drums.
(C) Its appearance was inspired by a
religious group.
(D) It has a hesitation beat like mento
and ska.
(E) Its instruments have to play
different roles.
This text is for questions no.6 - no.7.
Stress is an experience that puts pressure or
a requirement on us. That pressure means
we have to adjust to our new situation or
environment. Stress can last for a short
period, as when a driver has to act to avoid
having an accident, or it can lost longer, as
when a woman is told she has a medical
problem and thus must change her diet or
daily routine in order to become well again.
We all experience stress in different ways.
Some people experience stress as just a
nervous or busy feeling. Other people
experience stress so strongly that it my cause
them to seek professional help at a hospital.
Still other people may die from experiencing
so much stress that it leads to heart disease
or other serious health-related problems.
Sometimes these health-related problems
are physical, and other times they are
psychological. Some people have a
personality type that cause them to
experience stress more than others. These
people are often impatient, competitive, and
aggressive and are always short on time.
6. The topic of the paragraph is……………
(A) the adjustment to stress in human
life.
(B) the possible causes of stress.
(C) the effects of stress on people.
(D) the ways to overcome stress.
(E) the behavior of stressed people.
7. With which of the following sentences
should the paragraph end ?
(A) In conclusion, controlling the impact
of stress is very important.
(B) Therefore, stress should be totally
avoided because it can cause
problems.
(C) Thus, stress is something people
experience that puts pressure on us.
(D) Thus, stress is part of life and it has
different effects on different people.
(E) Thus, stress is useful to keep us
challenged and involved in life.
This text is for questions No. 8- no.9
(A) ………..
2. Hackers tend to have a more through
knowledge of system and more highly
developed skill set, whereas virus writers
generally take shallower approach to what
they are doing.(3) While both hackers and
virus writers are initially attracted by the
technical challenge, hacking is more about
power and control. (4) When they are
hacking and they got into a system, they
remain involved with that system –they take
it over and dominate it.(5) On the other
hand, once a virus writer releases a program
into the wild, the virus goes off and keeps on
making copies of itself independently of the
author.(6) It is not as intimate or connected a
relationship as between a hacker and the
computer the virus writer relinquishes
control and becomes disassociated from the
actual activity he or she has set in motion.(7)
Social pressure is changing the impressions
people have of hackers and virus writers.
8. With which of the following sentences
should the paragraph begin?
(A) Hackers and virus writers have
different characteristics.
(B) Hackers and virus writers are
predominantly male and academic.
(C) Hackers and virus writers are
regarded as brilliant people.
(D) Hackers and virus writers have good
knowledge of computer software.
(E) Hackers and virus writers work
together to spread new viruses.
9. The sentence which is irrelevant to the
text is sentences number……………
(A) 3
(B) 4
(C) 5
(D) 6
(E) 7
This text is for questions no. 10 - no.17
Coffee is a much part of the average adult’s
morning routine as is brushing their teeth.
Coffee really is a comfort ‘Food’ but how
good is it really for you? Some studies
suggest that coffee is……(10)……a health food
with is abundance of
antioxidants,…..(11) ....other studies highlight
the negative side effect of caffeine on our
bodies. If you‘re deciding to….(12) ... on your
coffee habit or you’ve been advised by your
doctor to cut out coffee all together, maybe
you’ve tried to stop and ….(13) from
painful headaches. This is because caffeine
narrows blood vessels in the brain and
…..(14)…. circulation , and when caffeine is
suddenly missing from your diet, there is a
sudden increase in circulation both to the
brain and the ….(15)….system. This may lead
to severe headaches as well as constipation
or bowel upset. So, ….(16) ...it is ideal for
your body to be rid of
this…..(17) .. substances as quickly as
possible, it is best to take a gradual to
approach to cutting out coffee in order to
achieve the most success pain free.
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10. (A) practice (D) practically 19. “With the increase of gasoline prices,
(B) practicable (E) practicality many people can not afford to use their
(C) practical own cars”.
“They .......... public transport, then.”
11. (A) when (D) whether (A) must have used
(B) because (E) which (B) would use
(C) while (C) could have used
(D) may have used
12. (A) pull back (D) let go (E) had better use
(B) cut down (E) look down
(C) push down 20. “As I was sent out of town to work on a
construction project, I could not help my
13. (A) have been suffering fiancée with our wedding preparations.”
(B) would suffer “But you should .......... ”
(C) had suffered (A) ask her to help.
(D) will be suffering (B) have helped her.
(E) were suffering (C) ask us to help her.
(D) have somebody help her.
14. (A) enhances (D) accelerates (E) have her help you.
(B) influences (E) decreases
(C) improves 21. I’m sorry you didn’t win the race.”
“ ........... , I should have tried harder.”
15. (A) digest (D) digested (A) Of course
(B) digestion (E) digesting (B) Me too
(C) digestive (C) Thank you
(D) I’m afraid so
16. (A) because (D) since (E) So do I
(B) although (E) digesting
(C) whether 22. The government is trying to reduce
smoking by putting warnings on
17. (A) addict (D) addictive cigarettes packs and………..
(B) addiction (E) addicting (A) they ban all advertising of
(C) addicted cigarettes.
(B) banning all advertising of cigarettes.
18. “What should we do if we are uncertain (C) they also have banned all
of the meaning of a word?” advertising of cigarettes.
“ ........... , of course!” (D) all advertising of cigarettes is also
(A) Consulting dictionary banned.
(B) A dictionary should be consulted (E) advertising of cigarettes have been
(C) Consult a dictionary banned.
(D) If we consult dictionary
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23. “Have you seen Pak Imam about our
proposal?”
“Yes, I have and I asked him .......... ”
(A) was our proposed budget feasible?
(B) That our proposed budget was
feasible.
(C) Whether our proposed budget was
feasible.
(D) How feasible was our budget?
(E) Our proposed budget was feasible.
24. As Nita would like to change her
appointment with Dr. Narendra. She
called his recepsionist asking ....... ?
(A) Could I reschedule my appointment
please
(B) I’d like to meet Dr. Narendra in
person
(C) Can I discuss my appointment with
Dr. Narendra
(D) I want to cancel my appointment
with Dr. Narendra
(E) Could you change the schedule
25. These tourists, ......... are Japanese, were
among the crowd participating in the
‘Dangdut’ Dance .
(A) there are many
(B) many of them
(C) whose many
(D) many of whom
(E) they who
This text is for questions no. 26 – no.30
Lightning has been a mystery since early
times. People of ancient civilizations believe
angry gods threw lightning bolts from the
sky. Nobody understood that lightning
resulted from electricity until Ben Franklin
flew a kite with a key dangling from the
string, and it was struck by lightning.
In current times, it is known that lightning
has a very scientific cause generally, within a
storm cloud, friction from water and ice-
laden clouds creates a negative charge at the
bottom of the cloud. When that charge
grows too great for the air to hold it back, it
is united with a positive charge from the
earth, creating a channel of electricity that
flows between the two points. The charge
remains invisible as it moves towards the
ground until it meets the charge rising from
the ground. Once they meet, a fifty
thousand degree current superheats the air
around the channel, resulting in an explosion
of sound known as thunder. In fact, very
recently it has been discovered that
occasionally the positive charges appear at
the bottom of the cloud, which are then met
by negative charges from earth.
Generally, people are injured by lightening
when they are in the open, near or in water,
or near tall structures like trees. Golfers,
simmers, beach-goers, and outdoor workers
are in greatest danger. The greatest number
of victims are males, but it is believed that
this is because males are more likely to be in
the places where lightning strikes. When
lightening is about to strike, one feels an odd,
tingling sensation, and one’s hair stands on
end. Of course, there is little change to do
anything about it, because the full blow will
occur within a second and be over in a couple
of seconds. The victim may be thrown, lose
consciousness, be burned, die, or suffer
permanent injury. Some people recover
completely, but others do not.
26. The main information of the text is
about……………
(A) the history of lightning.
(B) Benyamin Franklin’s discovery.
(C) The ancient civilization’s belief.
(D) The cause of lightning.
(E) The mystery of lightening.
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27. The following are TRUE about the
process of the cause of lightning,
EXCEPT…………
(A) it starts with the negative charge at
the bottom of the cloud.
(B) the creation of channel of electricity
happens in the air.
(C) the flow of electricity within the
channel can not be seen.
(D) the charge within the channel
moves freely towards the ground.
(E) an explosion occurs when positive
charge meet negative charges.
28. People understood that lightning was
electricity because……..
(A) the key of Franklin’s kite attracted
the lightning.
(B) electricity came out from the string
of Franklin’s kite.
(C) a dangling key on a string could
generate fire.
(D) ancient gods were angry and made
thunderstorms.
(E) the people could gets struck by
lightning bolts and die.
29. Lightning may strike people and
endanger them when they are………
(A) doing any kind of sports
(B) walking along the beach.
(C) outdoors along the beach.
(D) swimming indoors in pools.
(E) inside a tall structure.
30. When lightning is about to strike, people
who are in the open-air .........before it
really strikes.
(A) have the opportunities to look for a
shelter
(B) can predict the current degree of
the lightning
(C) are excited to wait for the blow to
happen
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(D) lose consciousness because of their
fear
(E) can feel the approach of the
lightning
This text is for questions No. 31- no.32
Our legal department requires a mature,
versatile secretary who will report to one
senior counsel and one assistant counsel.
The successful candidate should have a solid
background in organizational work, advanced
skill in shorthand and data processing.
Combined with at least three years of legal
secretarial training. Some experiences in real
estate could be an asset. Sunham life offers
excellent opportunities for personal
advancement. Compensation will be in
accord with qualification. Beginning at a
minimum of $ 2000 per month. A superior
benefit package and attractive incentive
program are included. Begin at one,
interviews will be held Monday through
Friday, May 12th to 16th
31. The text can be found in a………….
(A) scientific magazine.
(B) billboard.
(C) daily newspaper.
(D) announcement board.
(E) business report.
32. From the text we may conclude that the
company needs a qualified secretary for
its business which deals with…………
(A) counseling in life insurance.
(B) insurance in real estate.
(C) legal secretary secretarial.
(D) organization work in insurance
companies.
(E) shorthand and data processing skills.
This text is for questions no. 33- no.34. This text is for questions no. 35 – no. 39.

In meeting habitats, a number of small A popular method of treating exposure to

creatures are involves in a “cleaning very cold weather and frostbite is to slowly
symbiosis”. At least six species of small warm the fingers or toes or to rub them with
shrimp, frequently brightly colored, crawl snow. The best treatment, ….(35)…..is now
over fish, picking off parasites and cleaning slow warming., is not slow warming but
injured areas. This is not an accidental …..(36)….warming. Putting the finger or toes
occurrence, because fish are observed to in a warm bath ….(37)….a heating pad, or
gather around these shrimps and stay using a hot water bottle are all good ways to
motionless of small fish (wrasses) are also …(38)….frostbite. Hot drinks to warm the
cleaners, nearly all of them having body from within are helpful. One must be
appropriate adaptation such as long snouts, careful about burning the skin,
tweezer like teeth, and bright coloration. however…..(39) the affected parts are
Striking coloration probably communicates anesthetized. The temperature of any heat
that these animals are not prey. applied should not be greater than 43
degrees celcius (110 degrees F).
33. The passage describes……………….
(A) the activities of sea creatures in 35. (A) because (D) since
marine live. (B) while (E) although
(B) the difference in the cleaning (C) however
activities.
(C) the helpness of fish towards the 36. (A) gradual (D) extensive
shrimps. (B) long (E) rapid
(D) the way all sea creatures clean their (C) steady
environment.
(E) a symbiotic relationship in a marine 37. (A) applicant (D) applied
habitat. (B) application (E) applying
(C) apply
34. Several species of fish are unlikely to be
eaten fish because………. 38. (A) help (D) conquer
(A) they clean the parasites found in (B) survive (E) endure
marine habitats. (C) treat
(B) they stay motionless while being
inspected. 39. (A) while (D) since
(C) they are very brightly colored (B) due to (E) but
cleaner fish. (C) in order that
(D) they have appropriate adaptations
as cleaner. 40. As I found out that not all off the
(E) they usually gather around other workshop participants knew about this
creatures. week schedule, I got my secretary……
it right away.
(A) distributing (D) to distribute
(B) distributed (E) in distributing
(C) distributes
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41. Randy isn’t a team leader, but he acts as 46. Mr. Narendra is not only a good
though he ...... the team leader. teacher,……………
(A) was (A) he is a friendly neighbor too
(B) were (B) but he is a friendly neighbor
(C) is (C) also is a friendly neighbor
(D) has (D) he is a friendly neighbor as well
(E) had been (E) but also a friendly neighbor

42. He said that he had spent all this money 47. “How long has the U.S. been fiercely
on books; ........., he could have taken fighting terrorism?”
his girlfriend to good restaurant. “Since the bombing of the World Trade
(A) moreover Center which ........ hundred of
(B) otherwise Americans”.
(C) therefore (A) is killing (D) has killed
(D) besides (B) had killing (E) was killed
(E) yet (C) killed

43. “I tried to call Shafira on her mobile 48. “Why am I not allowed to take
phone yesterday, but I only got her Narendra’s picture?”
mailbox.” “Well, he doesn’t like.......... ”
“She ....... to bring her phone, she often (A) he photographed
does that.” (B) was photographing
(A) had to forget (C) to be photographed
(B) should have forgotten (D) he was photographed
(C) must forget (E) photographed
(D) must have forgotten
(E) ought to forget 49. A number of people killed in Tsunami are
evacuated in a barrack outside the town.
44. “How do we get the money for farewell The underlined words mean a number of
party?” people in Tsunami.
“Everyone ......... to contribute a certain (A) who were killed
amount of money.” (B) who was killed
(A) have (D) he has (C) who killed
(B) has (E) they have (D) who is killed
(C) is (E) who has been killed

45. If I died my hair blue everyone would
laugh at me.
The sentence means………….
(A) I dyed my hair
(B) I don’t intend to dye it
(C) I hadn’t dyed my hair
(D) I asked him to dye it
(E) I intended to dye my hair
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50. “I know that you have left these
computers idle for some time because
they are slow. Please, ...... at once to
make them efficient for our work.”
(A) having to be upgraded
(B) have them upgraded
(C) they have been upgraded
(D) have them to be upgraded
(E) to have them upgrade
 4. Tugas Mandiri Bahasa Inggris
CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER.
This text is for questions no.1- no.5
The catastrophe called the Great Dying,
which occurred between the Permian and
Triassic period wiped out 90 percent of the
planet’s marine life and 70 percent of all
plant and animal life. The most recent
popular scientific belief about what caused it
was the impact of a large object from space,
but the examination of sediment and fossils
deposited at the time had led two groups of
scientists to revise this belief.
Animals and plants both on land and in the
sea were dying at the same time and
apparently from the same causes too much
heat and too little oxygen, said Peter Ward, a
University of Washington paleontologist. In
their research published in Science Express,
the groups found increased levels of sulphur
and deleted oxygen in the ancient rock.
Ward and his team of researchers from the
United States and South Africa thought that
the sulphur came from continued volcanic
eruptions in an area knows as the Siberian
Trap. The eruption warmed the Earth,
trapped sunlight, and depleted oxygen in the
air.
At the same time, the Earth’s shifting
tectonic plates lowered the levels of the
ocean, exposing seabed and releasing
methane trapped in the sediment there
further increasing the global warming. The
temperatures kept rising so that it got hotter
until it reached a critical point causing
everything to die. Temperatures around the
world rose 8 degrees, killing of plants which
served as food for animals, there by starving
them in addition, oxygen levels dropped to
about 16 percent of the atmosphere,
whereas normal levels today are at 21
percent.
Therefore, it is believed that widespread
volcanic eruptions that led to global warming
was likely the cause of massive extinction
250 an asteroid million years ago, not the
impact an asteroid or comet.
1. The text tells us about…………..
(A) the extinction of global life.
(B) research conducted by scientist.
(C) the effect of the shifting of tectonic
plates.
(D) Prof. Ward, the anthropologist.
(E) the cause of the Great Dying.
2. From the text we may conclude that
writer’s objective is to show the public
that………….
(A) the great Dying occurred two
hundred and fifty million years ago.
(B) there is a new theory about the
cause of the Great Dying.
(C) the enormous extinction on earth
was caused by the fall of a comet.
(D) it was during the Permian and
Triassic periods that the earth
changed.
(E) the Great Dying refered to be dying
of marine life the world.
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3. Which of the following is NOT the cause
of the massive extinction millions of the
years?
(A) Increased global warming.
(B) Sudden drop high temperatures.
(C) Gradual loss of oxygen.
(D) Widespread eruption of volcanoes.
(E) High rate of sulphur emissions.
4. What was most probably the cause of
the Great Dying?
(A) Volcanic eruptions in the area called
the Siberian Trap.
(B) The shifting of tectonic plates
caused by terrible earthquakes.
(C) The publication of scientific
researchers in the United States and
in Africa.
(D) The finding of excessive amounts of
sulphur and lack oxygen in the
ancient rock.
(E) The massive extinction of animal
and plant life on the planet.
5. ‘Marine life’ in line 2 means the life
of…………
(A) all life existing in the sea.
(B) people working for sea-lines.
(C) creatures living in nature.
(D) sailors who have ranks in the navy.
(E) fisherman living along the beach.
This text is for questions no. 6 – no.7
(1)………………………..
(2) It often must be distinguished from lack
of communication, for the rapid spreads of
rumor may very well be due to effective
communication. (3) The term rumor refers
not to a method of its communication, but to
its content.(4) Under crowd conditions, it
becomes difficult to check the source and
accuracy of the information one receives,
and thus to evaluate it, and so rumors are
acted one as if they were true
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information.(5) Rumors often arises because
of a lack of information.(6) people want to
know what is happening, and so they rumors
fills that need. (7) Many TV programmers
provide especially those about celebrities.(8)
Rumor may also be created as a
rationalization or justification for emotional
excesses and collective behavior.
6. Which sentences would best begin the
paragraph above?
(A) Collective behavior is very much
effected by communication.
(B) The method of communication
should be improved to avoid
misunderstanding.
(C) A rumor is a widespread report that
is not confirm as fact.
(D) The source of rumor is generally
very unreliable.
(E) The people who create rumors do
not think rationally.
7. The sentence irrelevant to the text is
sentence number……...
(A) three
(B) five
(C) six
(D) seven
(E) eight
This text is for questions no. 8 - no.9
The term primitive art has been used in a
variety of ways to describe works and styles
of art. One way that this term has been used
is to describe the early period within the
development of a certain style of art.
Another way is to describe artists who have
received little professional training and who
demonstrate a non- traditional naivete in
their work. A wonderful example of this
second type of primitive artists is Grandma
Moses, who spent all her life living on a farm
and working at task normally associated with
farm live. She did not begin painting until to give a clot dissolver, ….(13)….AS TPA, as
she reached the age embroidery because the soon as possible. But generally TPA is not
arthritis in her hands made embroidery too given to the patient until he or
difficult. Totally without formal education she…..(14)……the hospital, and it still does
art, she began creating panoramic images of not immediately stop the damage. The new
everyday life on the farm that have achieved technology, still in the research stage,
international fame. involves cooling the area of patient….(15)…...
. It is already known that when an organ is
8. Which of the following does NOT show cooled, damage is slowed. This is why
the characteristic of primitive art? sometimes a person who….(16) ... into an icy
(A) The artist did not have formal pond is not significantly harmed
education. ….(17) .. being warmed up again.
(B) It shows a particular naivete.
(C) The artist might not follow 10. (A) directly (D) direct
traditions. (B) direction (E) directed
(D) It does not have a professional (C) directive
touch.
(E) The artist started producing works 11. (A) support (D) involve
at old age. (B) add (E) prevent
(C) trigger
9. From the text we may conclude
that…………. 12. (A) neighbor (D) neighborhood
(A) it is difficult to give a definition to (B) neighboring (E) neighborliness
primitive art. (C) neighborly
(B) grangma Moses embroidered
panoramic images to farm life. 13. (A) is known (D) which knows
(C) primitive art is a product to artist (B) knowing (E) knows
centuries ago. (C) known
(D) most primitive artist were people
who live on farms. 14. (A) reaches (D) will reach
(E) there is no difference between (B) reached (E) was reaching
primitive and formal art. (C) is reaching

This text is for questions no. 10 – no.17 15. (A) wholly (D) commonly
Scientists have experimented with a new (B) accordingly (E) perfectly
procedure for alleviating the damage caused (C) entirely
by strokes. Stroke are frequently caused by a
blood cold staying in the free of arteries in 16. (A) is falling (D) fell
the head, chocking the flow of blood. Some (B) falls (E) had fallen
brain cells die as a…..(10)….result of the (C) was falling
stroke, but others also die over several hours
because the proteins spilling out of the first 17. (A) as (D) after
cells that die….(11)…chemical chain reaction (B) hence (E) so that
that kills the….(12)….cells. The current (C) while
method of reducing the amount of damage is
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18. “What has the donated money been 23. “How can you determine student’s
used for?” ability in writing?”
“ ......... a school for the needly.” “For a start, ......... a five-hundred words
(A) We set up essay.”
(B) Setting up (A) the students write
(C) It is set up (B) the students are writing
(D) In setting up (C) have the students to write
(E) Sets up (D) the students have written
(E) have the students write
19. In spite of the many vacancies in a
neighboring factory, the unemployed in
24. A: “ This is the third time you do not
my village can not get work
submit your paper on time.”
because……….
B: “ I’m sorry, but there was a virus in my
(A) they need money.
computer.”
(B) they have jobs.
A : “ .........”
(C) they are unfamiliar.
(A) I know it’s true.
(D) they work part-time.
(B) I can’t trust true.
(E) they are unskilled.
(C) Don’t say that is the truth.
(D) Do you really expect me to believe
20. “I haven’t got the report on the seminar
that?
held Last Week.”
(E) Oh yes, I quite agree that’s the case.
“I am sure it ........ on your desk
yesterday.”
25. Being lost, the tourist stopped ....... at
(A) put (D) was put
his map for the place they wanted to
(B) being put (E) putting
visit.
(C) was putting
(A) looking
(B) to look
21. Even though the speaker had been
(C) looked
reminded that his time was up,………….
(D) he looked
(A) he kept on talking.
(E) was looking
(B) he stopped his presentation.
(C) he did not realize it.
This text is for questions no.26 – no.30
(D) the audience enjoyed it.
(E) the talk was boring.
Seventy percent of the world’s fish stocks are
now either fully exploited, over fished,
22. “Until now I haven’t found any decent
depleted, or rebuilding from previous over-
place to live in.”
fishing. Marine pollution has also adversely
“………………….”
effected fish populations. As a result, world
(A) Well, I’m very fortunate.
catches have leveled off since their peak in
(B) You have to find a better one.
1989, when 85 to 95 million tones of fish
(C) I don’t mind sharing my flat with
were harvested. It seems unlikely they will
you.
start rising, again until efforts are made to
(D) You shouldn’t stay in your old place.
allow stocks to recover and then to fish them
(E) I guess, you like the place, don’t
in a sustainable way.
you?

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Some scientists argue the solution to the fish
shortage could be aquaculture. This is
another term for fish farming, that is
cultivating fish in controlled conditions,
rather than catching whatever swims in the
sea. However there are fears that
aquaculture will create more problem than it
will solve.
Much fish farming relies heavily on fish feed,
that is, capturing small fish like mackeler and
anchovy and feeding them to carnivorous
farmed fish. In the production of the ten
most commonly farmed fish, roughly 2 kg of
wild fish feed are required for every kilogram
of farmed fish produced. This means that at
the moment fish feed is already further
draining wild fish stocks, without even
producing and equivalent mass of farmed
fish.
It is not only through changes in food chain
interactions that aquaculture depletes wild
fish stocks, but also by spreading diseases
from farmed to wild fish. It’s difficult to
persuade farmed fish to keep to their
habitat, as is shown by the fact that nearly
half of the salmon caught by North Atlantic
fisherman are of farmed origin. A further
worry is that farmed fish may expand with
wild fish and diminish the genetic make up of
their offspring, making them less well
adapted to their environment than their wild
parents.
26. From the text, we may conclude that the
writer………….
(A) is a scientist trying to solve the
problem of fish scarcity.
(B) does not believe that the number of
fish is depleting.
(C) is worried about the depletion of
wild fish.
(D) thinks that aquaculture has no
disadvantages.
(E) is a farmer who has an aquaculture
business.
27. The implementation of aquaculture to
solve the problem of fish
shortage……………
(A) may make the shortage of wild fish
even greater.
(B) has sharply increased the number of
fish.
(C) enlarges the supply of wild fish for
fish feed.
(D) has only produced carnivorous kinds
of fish.
(E) should immediately be introduced
worldwide.
28. Which of the following is NOT TRUE
about the farmed fish?
(A) They contaminate the wild fish with
disease.
(B) They may not keep the genetic
make up of their offspring.
(C) They mix with wild fish in the ocean.
(D) They do not include salmon found in
North Atlantic.
(E) They can escape to the Atlantic
ocean.
29. What is happening with the world fish
stocks?
(A) World catches have stayed at a
stayed level since 1989.
(B) There is a sharp decrease in the
world catch.
(C) Marine pollution has killed the
majority of fish at sea.
(D) After 1989, 95 million tones of fish
were caught.
(E) At present, world catches remain
seventy percents.
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30. “Rebuilding from previous over-fishing
line 1 is an effort ........... ”
(A) to produce fish feed aquaculture.
(B) to catch fish as much as possible at
sea.
(C) to cultivate salmon in controlled
farming.
(D) to establish controlled areas for
fishing.
(E) to overcome the depletion of the
stocks of fish.
This text is for questions no. 31- no.32.
Carbon dioxide levels rise. Mercury climbs.
Ocean warm. Glacier melt. Sea level rises.
Sea ice thins. Permafrost thaws. Wildfires
increases. Lakes shrink, lakes freeze up later.
Ice shelver collapse. Drought linger.
Precipitation increases. Mountain streams
run dry. Winter loses its bite. Spring arrives
earlier. Snow packs decline. Exotic species
invade. Amphibians disappear. Coastlines
spike at high latitude……………….
31. What is a suitable concluding idea for
the text?
(A) Governments have predicted what
is happening now.
(B) Scientists are wondering what is
going on in the world.
(C) Efforts should be made to prevent
disaster from happening.
(D) The surface on the earth has
changed by the thinning of ice.
(E) People try to live comfortable in the
changing world.
32. Which sentence would best begin the
paragraph?
(A) Natural disasters recently happened
in the world.
(B) Incident on earth have caused
natural disaster.
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(C) Changes in nature are likely to
destroy human civilizations.
(D) People are concerned about the
disasters that have happened.
(E) The whole world is threatened by
the changes occurring on earth.
This text is for questions no. 33 – no. 34
(1) It seems that the public believes it is very
difficult for a young mother to work, take
care of the household, and be primarily
responsible for raising children. (2) There
simply is not enough time to do it all.(3)
Husbands insist that wives stay a home to
take care of the household. (4) But there is
no doubt that most women in the future are
going to choose to work, marry, conclude,
tradition must change and male spouses
must do many things that their fathers and
grandfathers would not have agreed to do.
(6) Women, especially young women, are
determined to see change come about.(7)
Even more interesting is that males,
particularly teenage boys, agree with the
women. (8) The significance of this is that
right in the home, daily, the reality of
equality between the sexes is being created.
(9) This newfound sharing is not simply
something that people say without doing. It
is real revolution.
33. In spite of the difficulty to manage their
time, women of the future still tend to
choose to work after they are married
because……….
(A) there is a revolution related to
men’s right.
(B) equality between the sexes is being
created.
(C) male spouses maintain the old
tradition of marriage.
(D) women should also be responsible
for the family.
(E) grandfathers agreed to equality
between sexes.
34. Which of the following sentences is 38. (A) moving (D) movingly
irrelevant to the topic of the text? (B) moved (E) movement
(A) two (D) five (C) mover
(B) three (E) six
(C) four 39. (A) allocated (D) have allocated
(B) are allocated (E) were allocated
This text is for questions no. 35 – no.42 (C) are allocating

Cycle rickshaws are not as efficient as 40. (A) most (D) majority
bicycles for personal (B) bulk (E) larger
transport……(35)……should be encouraged as (C) greater
a complementary mode to motorized goods
transport and as a passenger transit mode, 41. (A) and (D) also
particularly in countries….(36)….low wages (B) but (E) thus
and surplus labor are substantial features of (C) so
the economy. Where they are in use, they
should be accepted as a useful part of the 42. (A) constrained (D) confined
transformation system rather than as a (B) restrained (E) reserved
nuisance or barrier to transport (C) restricted
system…..(37)….even in high-income. Motor
vehicle dependent cities, there are 43. “………………….”
opportunities for appropriate use of cycle “I had toast and jam, juice, and coffee.”
rickshaws for short-distance…..(38)…..of (A) What would you like for breakfast?
persons and goods and services at dispersed (B) Did you have breakfast?
locations. They find greatest utility where (C) Did you have rice for breakfast?
slow modes of transport are….(39)….road (D) What did you have for breakfast?
space separate from motorized traffic, in (E) Do you usually have light breakfast?
neighborhoods where the…..(40)……of
people go from one place to another on foot 44. Inspired by the recent natural
or in central areas with slow traffic speeds, in disasters,………….
large factories and shopping (A) sad and sentimental songs are
districts,…..(41)……areas where private composed.
automobiles are ….(42)…….. (B) composers produced sad and
sentimental songs.
35. (A) and (D) but (C) there are compositions of sad and
(B) also (E) thus sentimental songs.
(C) so (D) the composition includes sad and
sentimental songs.
36. (A) modernization (D) modern (E) the result is the composition of sad
(B) modernity (E) modernistic and sentimental songs.
(C) modernize

37. (A) which (D) when

(B) whose (E) that
(C) where
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45. I can’t stay longer in this room; it is very 48. “Last year I didn’t have to pay for
dirty and it needs…………… brother’s tuition fee.”
(A) to clean “That’s great. I heard he ......... a
(B) to be cleaning scholarship from a foreign university.”
(C) cleaning (A) receives
(D) cleaned (B) had received
(E) being cleaned (C) was receiving
(D) would receive
46. “Problem of transportation has caused (E) had received
donated food and clothing for the
Tsunami victims to be piled up at the 49. “I wonder if the sound system and the
airport”. I wish…………. overhead projector are ready for my
(A) there are more volunteers to help. presentation.”
(B) the victims should not have worried. “You .......... check the equipment before
(C) the government can ask for help. hand.”
(D) the problem will be solved (A) had to
immediately. (B) could have
(E) there were more helicopter (C) had better
available. (D) must have
(E) would rather
47. After I had finished one glass of
lemonade, I was offered another glass, 50. “Why do you ask your son to repair your
but since I’m no longer thirsty I said: watch?”
“ .......... ” “If I were able to do it myself,
(A) No, thanks. I …… my son do it.”
(B) One glass is enough. (A) would not have
(C) I’m not thirsty any more. (B) would have
(D) I ‘d love too. (C) would have had
(E) That’s enough. (D) wouldn’t have had
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 5. Tugas Mandiri Bahasa Inggris

If you think that Greenland is only a
land of snow and ice, where Eskimos live in
igloos and eat whale – meat and seal – meat,
you are wrong.
These days, the people of Greenland
live as comfortably as your own family –
perhaps more comfortably, because cold
weather never catches them by surprise.
They know when to expect it, and always get
ready for the winter in plenty of time.
Greenland belongs to Denmark and
the Danes decided to bring Greenland up to
date. The Greenlanders needed help
because their way of life was changing and
they could do nothing about it. Slowly, bit by
bit each year, the Arctic Ocean round
Greenland is getting warmer. The change is
tiny – only a fraction of degree each year but
it is enough to alter the kind of wild life in the
sea. The Greenlanders used to rely on seals
as their main food and source of clothing.
But as the sea gets warmer, the seals retreat
to the colder seas further north and west. At
the same time, fish moved into the
Greenland seas. As for whales, they were
driven away from Greenland long ago by
hunters.
So the government helped the
Greenlanders to buy fishing boats. Factories
were set up to can the catch. At the same
time, new schools and hospitals were built.
Greenlanders came out of primitive way of
life into modern times, all in the space of a
few years.
Hundreds of kilometers of ocean
separate Greenland from the rest of the
world. But the Greenland way of life is now
very different from our own.
1. The story is about ………
(A) the traditional lives of Eskimos in
Greenland
(B) the change in the temperature of
the Arctic Ocean
(C) the lives of the Eskimos in the land
of ice and snow
(D) the change happening in the lives of
the Greenlanders
(E) the inability of the Eskimos to give
up their primitive life
2. Which of the following statements is
NOT TRUE ?
(A) Whale- meat has always been the
main food of Greenlanders
(B) The change in sea temperature
made the seals move to colder
water
(C) There are no more whales or seals in
the Greenland sea
(D) The result of whale- hunting was
that the whales left the Greenland
seas
(E) Instead of seal- meat, fish has
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3. One of the factors that had a great
influence on the lives of people living in
Greenland was ……….
(A) the ever- lasting winter
(B) the warmer sea temperature
(C) the vast ocean that surrounds
Greenland
(D) the great distance from the central
government
(E) the inability to communicate with
other
4. From the text we may conclude that the
Danish government has succeeded in
………
(A) building the most modern schools
and hospitals
(B) modernizing the way of live of the
Greenlanders
(C) introducing igloos in which they can
live comfortably
(D) setting up modern factories
especially those producing boats
(E) supporting them with facilities to
catch seals and whales
5. According to the text, which is TRUE of
the Greenlanders ?
(A) It is difficult for the Greenlanders to
give up their traditional way of life
(B) Greenlanders have been greatly
influenced by the Eskimos
(C) There is slight improvement in the
life of Greenlanders
(D) The Greenlanders cannot
communicate with other people
(E) Greenlanders live as comfortably as
any other people in the world
6. On my way home, I saw a dog ......by a
boy.
(A) beating (D) be beaten
(B) being beaten (E) beat
(C) it was beaten
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7. “Iwan was offered the choice between
two posts,” means :
“ …………… the choice between two
posts”.
(A) Iwan offered someone
(B) Iwan has offered
(C) Someone offered Iwan
(D) They would offer Iwan
(E) Somebody offers Iwan
8. For the last five months he ……… of
moving out because the area has
become highly polluted.
(A) Thinks
(B) is thinking
(C) thought
(D) had thought
(E) has been thinking
9. “Suryo had already been working in that
company for two years when I started
working there.” means :
(A) Suryo wasn’t working in that
company anymore
(B) Suryo would be working for two
more years
(C) Suryo stopped working in that
company
(D) Suryo worked in that company only
for two years
(E) Suryo was still working in that
company
10. “If He had taken the swimming lesson
seriously, he could have become a good
swimmer”. The sentence means…..
(A) He liked swimming very much
(B) He didn’t have to potential of a good
swimmer
(C) He was afraid of swimming
(D) He succeeded in becoming a good
swimmer
(E) He was not interested in becoming a
good swimmer
11. Last year the couple did not save much
money, otherwise, they ……… to make a
tour around the world this year.
(A) can’t afford
(B) could afford
(C) could not have afforded
(D) will afford
(E) wouldn’t afford
12. The production process in the textile
plant ………..
(A) needs to be monitored
(B) are needed to monitor
(C) they need to monitor
(D) needs to be monitoring
(E) are needed to be monitored
13. Neither of these companies ............. for
our pilot project.
(A) meets the requirements
(B) it meets the requirements
(C) they meet the requirements
(D) meeting the requirements
(E) meet the requirements
14. Which of the following statements is
correct?
(A) I think he is not enough strong to lift
that box alone
(B) I think he is not strong enough to lift
that box alone
(C) I think he is not enough strong alone
to lift that box
(D) I think he is alone not strong enough
to lift that box
(E) I think he alone is not enough strong
to lift that box
15. She is sneezing all the time. She …….
a cold.
(A) must have
(B) ought to have
(C) is to have
(D) should have
(E) would have
16. There is no one outside the theater, the
performance ……….
(A) must have started
(B) ought to have started
(C) should have started
(D) ould rather have started
(E) was to be started
17. Please excuse me ........... you.
(A) to interrupt (D) interrupted
(B) interrupt (E) for interrupting
(C) interrupting
18 ............, the student prepared a report.
(A) Finished his survey
(B) He finished his survey
(C) Having finished his survey
(D) He had finished his survey
(E) He has finished his survey
19. We won’t be able to go to the football
game.......... we can still get tickets.
(A) because (D) whether
(B) unless (E) if
(C) but
20 ................ in Kalimantan, it is the main
building material for the houses of the
people living there.
(A) Wood is abundant
(B) That wood is abundant
(C) Why wood is abundant
(D) Where wood is abundant
(E) Because wood is abundant
21. As my mother was not strong enough to
clear the old trunks from the shed, she
.............
(A) had the gardener do the job
(B) had to do the job of the gardener
(C) had the gardener doing the job
(D) had been doing the gardener’s job
(E) had done the job by the gardener
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22. “The farmer had his fields ploughed.” 27. Transmigration helps people from
means ………. densely ......... areas to start a new life.
(A) the farmer ploughed his fields (A) populating (D) populated
himself (B) to be populated (E) to populate
(B) the farmer wanted to plough his (C) population
fields
(C) the farmer has finished plough his 28. The students are free to write a true
fields story or an .............. one.
(D) the farmer let others plough his (A) imagine (D) imaginary
fields (B) imagination (E) imaginable
(E) the farmer had to plough his fields (C) imagery

23. “I like these dark red roses very much.” 29. The doctor told me to .......... the pills
“And I like …”. after supper.
(A) those yellow (A) eat (D) take
(B) which yellow (B) drink (E) bring
(C) the ones of yellow colors (C) taste
(D) the yellow ones
(E) the yellow color 30. “Rina looks after her sick aunt without
complaining.” “We should appreciate
24. His supervisor,........ , is a very generous her ”.
person. (A) contribution (D) cooperation
(A) he borrowed a car from him (B) patience (E) performance
(B) where he borrowed a car (C) occupation
(C) from whom he borrowed a car
(D) his car he borrowed 31 ........... the best car to buy is a Mercedez
(E) the person he borrowed a car benz.
(A) Because of its durability and
25. The text is too long, ............ within economy
twenty minutes. (B) Because it lasts a long time, and it is
(A) be read very economical
(B) we read (C) Because of its durability and it is
(C) to read economical
(D) when read (D) Because durability and economy
(E) reading wise it is better than all others
(E) Because durability and economical
26. As soon as he saw an advertisement
wise
offering a job that he was interested in,
he immediately sent an............ letter to
32. When Henry arrived home after a hard
that company.
day at work, ………….
(A) apply
(A) his wife was sleeping
(B) applicant
(B) his wife slept
(C) application
(C) his wife has slept
(D) applicable
(D) his wife has been sleeping
(E) applying
(E) his wife is going to sleep
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33. He gave ………………. 39. The jurors were told to …………
(A) to the class a tough assignment (A) talk all they wanted
(B) the class a tough assignment (B) make lots of expressions
(C) a tough assignment for the class (C) speak freely
(D) an assignment very tough to the (D) talk with their minds open
class (E) spoke freely
(E) to the class an assignment though
40. Those students do not like to read
34. Radizga is a diligent student,........ He is novels, …………. text books.
very smart in my classroom. (A) in any case
(A) however (B) forgetting about
(B) consequently (C) leaving out of the question
(C) as a result (D) much less
(D) furthermore (E) yet
(E) yet
41. He ............... looked forward to the new
35. It was not until she arrived in class adventure.
……………. realized she had forgotten her (A) eagerly
book. (B) with great eagerness
(A) and she (D) that she (C) eagernessly
(B) when she (E) which she (D) in a state of increasing eagerness
(C) she (E) eager

36. John has not been able to recall where 42. The families were told to evacuate their
…………. houses immediately …………….
(A) does Almira live (A) at the time when the water began
(B) Almira lives to go up
(C) did Almira live (B) when the water began to rise
(D) lived Almira (C) when up was going the water
(E) has Almira lived (D) in the time when the water raised
(E) at the time when the water begins
37. Ben would have studied medicine if he to go up
………… to a medical school.
43. I hope you had ....... journey back after
(A) is admitted
the national conference.
(B) had been admitted
(A) comfort (D) to comfort
(C) was admitted
(B) comfortably (E) comforts
(D) were admitted
(C) comfortable
(E) has been admitted
44. When he first phoned me , I ………
38. He entered a university …………… informed by the police.
(A) when he had been sixteen years old (A) was already been
(B) when sixteen where his age (B) will be
(C) at the age of sixteen (C) would be
(D) at age sixteen years old (D) have already been
(E) when he has been sixteen years old (E) had already been
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45. As he was badly hurt in the car accident, 48. “ Is John coming to the party tonight ?”
He ……. to the nearest hospital. “ Yes, he asked me .......... ”
(A) being taken (A) if he could go with us
(B) took (B) can he go with us
(C) was taken (C) he went with us
(D) be taken (D) going with us
(E) was taking (E) whether he goes with us

46. “ Did she leave a message for me ?” 49. John asked ………..
“ yes, She said ...... tonight.” (A) where Radiz lived
(A) she called you (B) where did Radiz live
(B) she would call her (C) Radiz lived where ?
(C) you called her (D) Where Radiz did live
(D) she would call you (E) Radiz did live where
(E) I would call you
50. The librarian asked me ……..
47. When I was reading a book in the living (A) why had I returned the book ?
room, I heard someone knocking at the (B) whether I had returned the book
Door. I called out “ ......... ?” (C) when did I return the book
(A) who are you (D) that I returned the book
(B) what is it (E) where the book had I returned ?
(C) who was there
(D) who is there
(E) what are you

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 6. Tugas Mandiri Bahasa Inggris
Young people and older people do
not always agree. They sometimes have
different ideas about living, working and
playing. But in one special program in New
York State, adults and teenagers live together
in people.
Each summer 200 teenagers and 50
adults live together for eight weeks as
members of a special work group. Everyone
works several hours each day. The aim is not
just to keep busy. It is to find meanings and
enjoyment in work. Some teenagers work in
the woods or on the farms near the village.
Some learn to make furniture and to build
houses. The adults teach them skills.
There are several free hours each
day. Weekends are free hours each day.
Weekends are free, too. During the free
hours some of the teenagers learn
photography or painting. Others sit around
and talk or sing. Each teenager chooses his
own way to spend his free time.
When people live together, rules are
always necessary. In this program the
teenagers and the adults make the rules
together. If someone breaks a rule, the
problem goes before the whole group. The
group discusses the problem. They ask,”
Why did happen? What should we do about
it?”
One of the teenagers has his to say
about the experience: “You stop thinking
only about yourself. You learn how to think
about the group.”
1. Which of the following tells us that the
program in successful?
(A) Everyone works several hours each
day
(B) Rules are always necessary
(C) Weekends are free
(D) You stop thinking about yourself
(E) The adults teach the teenagers new
skills
2. In the group discussions the teenagers.
………….
(A) decide who has to do what job
(B) want to know how things should be
done
(C) have no change to explain why they
act differently
(D) discuss how they will spend their
free time
(E) discuss how rules are made
3. Which of the following statements is
NOT TRUE according to the passage?
(A) Each summer young people and
older people live together
(B) Each teenager decides how he will
spend his free time
(C) The teenagers learn skills from the
adults
(D) Keeping busy is the aim of the
program
(E) Young people and older people
always disagree
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4. In the program, everybody …………. (D) Memorable Events
(A) has to obey the rules they have (E) Stimulating Memory
made together
(B) is free to do what he wants to 7. According to the passage, the capacity
(C) has to learn to make furniture and for the storage in the brain?
built houses (A) Can be understood by examining the
(D) works during the whole week physiology
(E) has to live on a farm far from town (B) Is stimulated by the patterns of
activity
5. “It” in What should we do about it? (C) Has a limited combination of
(line 13) refers to ………. relationship
(A) the making of the rules (D) Is not influenced by repetition
(B) the special program in New York (E) Is the result of limited combination
State of inter- connection between brain
(C) the problem cells
(D) the rule
(E) young people and older people 8. All of the following are true of a memory
living together in peace trace, EXCEPT ……..
(A) It is probably made by structural
The memory trace is the term for
changes in the brain
whatever is the internal stored in the
(B) It is able to be observed
memory. Assumed to have been made by
(C) It is a theoretical construct
structural changes in the brain, the memory
(D) It is a related to the degree of recall
trace is not subject to direct observation but
(E) It is not subject to direct
is rather a theoretical construct that we use
observation
to speculate about how information
presented at particular time can cause
Heat stroke is a sudden, uncontrolled
performance at a later time. Most theories
rise in body temperature. It is a ……(9)…..
include the strength of the memory trace as
that results from the human body not being
a variable in the degree of learning, retention
able to …..(10)…… fluid lost trough
and retrieval possible for a memory. One
perspiration. If the lost fluids …….(11)……..
theory is that a fantastic capacity for storage
then dehydration occurs and this leads to
in the brain is the result of an almost
decrease in blood.
unlimited combination of inter- connections
between brain cells, stimulated by patterns
9. (A) reaction
of activity. Repeated references to the same
(B) react
information supports recall. One to say that
(C) reacting
another way, improved performance is the
(D) reacting
result of strengthening the chemical bonds in
(E) reacted
the memory.
6. With what topic is the passage mainly 10. (A) break
concerned? (B) change
(A) Memory Trace (C) gain
(B) Brain Cell (D) dump
(C) Brain Capacity (E) replace
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11. (A) not replace
(B) do not replace
(C) are not replacing
(D) are not replaced
(E) have not replaced
Some Indians of the American
Southwest created towns called pueblos.
They built these towns at places in the desert
where they found water. Like the desert
groups of the Sahara’s the pueblo Indians
were made up of several different groups
whose ways of life were not exactly the
same.
The Indians of the pueblos grew as
much of their food as possible. Maize (Indian
Corn), beans, and pumpkins were among
crops usually grown at the pueblos. They
hunted for meat, and they tamed animals to
raise for food. Wild Turkeys were one kind of
animal by the pueblo Indians. They also
made jewelry, pots, and baskets. The
jewelry, pots and baskets they made were
often used to trade at other pueblos. They
traded for the things needed or wanted and
could not make themselves.
The pueblo Indians built large
towns. Their pueblo houses are built like
apartment houses with the living areas
connected together. The houses are built of
stone or adobe , and they are sometimes
four or five storey high. Two of these houses
can be found in the pueblo in Pecos New
Mexico. One has 585 rooms and the other
has 517 rooms.
Many pueblo Indians still and work
in the desert. In New Mexico, nineteen cities
are still being lived in. Although the insiders
of the pueblo houses have been made more
modern, they are much the same as they
were before the United States was founded.
Two buildings of one of the pueblos at Taos,
New Mexico, are over eight hundred years
old. They were built three hundred years
before Columbus sailed to the Americas.
Like the oasis dwellers of the Sahara’s, the
pueblo Indian sometimes traded with and
were often raided by the nomads of the
American desert.
12. The story is a about …………
(A) The American Southwest
(B) Pueblo Indians
(C) Living in the desert
(D) Indian towns
(E) Farming in the desert
13. Which of the following statements is
NOT TRUE about the Pueblo Indians?
(A) They could produce everything and
hunting
(B) They lived from the farming and
hunting
(C) They traded their handicraft
products
(D) They domesticated wild turkeys
(E) They consisted of slightly different
cultural groups
14. Which of the following is TRUE about
Pueblo Houses?
(A) They are built and constructed
(B) They look like skyscrapers
(C) Their inside are just like modern
houses
(D) They are constructed like apartment
(E) They are no longer inhabited by the
Indians
15. When were the first pueblo houses
built?
(A) When Columbus discovered America
(B) At the time New Mexico was
founded
(C) Under the government of the United
States
(D) Three hundred years before America
was founded
(E) More than eight centuries ago
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16. From the text we may conclude that
………….
(A) There are no Pueblo Indians
anymore today
(B) Pueblo town are now completely
deserted
(C) The Pueblo culture has so far been
preserved
(D) Mexico is now the centre of the
Pueblo cultures
(E) Mexican originated from the pueblo
Indians
Ultraviolet light means the invisible
part of the spectrum beyond violet. This light
has always been regarded as very useful
because it is used to cure certain skin
diseases, kill bacteria, detect counterfeit
money, form vitamins, etc.
Along with the increasingly
extensive use of computers in financial
activities, ultraviolet light has been widely
applied by banks to identify the signatures of
their customers in passbooks. When a
customer opens a new account with a bank,
the bank teller always asks him to sign on a
card placed in the signature will be left; this
can be used to compare with signature on
the customer’s withdraw slip under
ultraviolet light.
Ultraviolet light certainly has many
practical applications, but it may also be
harmful to human beings on some occasions.
To everyone’s knowledge, the direct impact
of the light on the eyes for an excessive
length of time may blind a person.
Even though it can cure certain skin
diseases, it is also very harmful to the skin. A
study just completed in the United States
says that the light my cause skin cancer. The
ultraviolet rays of the sun have been ranked
as the third most dangerous cancer-causing
agent after alcohol and tobacco.
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It is high time to warn sun-worshippers
in the quest for a bronzed look to careful of
excessive and uncontrolled exposure to the
sun.
17. We may conclude that the main
information of the text is about ………
(A) the advantages and disadvantages
of ultraviolet light
(B) the use of ultraviolet light in
business
(C) the application of ultraviolet light in
people’s lives
(D) the effect of ultraviolet rays on
human being
(E) the danger of ultraviolet light to
people’s health
18. Which of the following statements about
ultraviolet light is TRUE according to the
text?
(A) Ultraviolet is used by banks for
computers
(B) The position of ultraviolet rays is
above the spectrum
(C) Skin diseases can only be caused by
ultraviolet rays
(D) Ultraviolet light, which is part of the
spectrum, cannot be seen
(E) Ultraviolet light is one of the existing
vitamins
19. We may conclude that the writer’s main
purpose in writing the text is to………..
(A) encourage people to get the best
advantage of ultraviolet rays
(B) introduce the effective use the
alarming dangers light in banks
(C) explain that sunrays consist of violet
and ultraviolet rays
(D) Warn people against the alarming
dangers caused by sunrays
(E) Ask people to avoid the use of
ultraviolet light as much as possible
20. The benefit from ultraviolet rays as they
can ……….
(A) sign customer’s passbooks
(B) detect false signatures
(C) cure a particular kind of cancer
(D) check customer’s deposits
(E) be a component in medicines
21. Ultraviolet rays may endanger people
who………..
(A) take vitamins regularly
(B) stay indoors
(C) have skin cancer
(D) consume alcohol and tobacco
(E) like sun –bathing
Many years ago as a young doctor in
London, I had among a patient a retired
school teacher suffering from an incurable
disorder. He lodged with a working class
family in a Paddington housing. Something
about this poor old man impressed me,
perhaps the quit , uncomplaining
cheerfulness that seemed to radiate from his
small shrunken figure and bright brown eyes;
at least I visited him oftener than necessity
demanded.
When summer came, I obtained
money for him from a welfare organization
so that he might escape from the crowded
city and spend a month at the seaside. I
know he loved the sea. Ten days later I met
him, looking tired and drawn, in that dirty
Paddington street. Astonished, I asked him
why he had not gone away. It was some time
before the admission came: rather than take
the holiday himself, he had sent his land
lady’s children instead. As I blamed him for
what he had done, he heard me in silence,
gave me finally an odd smile.
“Doctor, “he said, “ it does one good
sometimes … to do without.”
22. Why was the doctor impressed by the
old man?
(A) was very poor
(B) was seriously ill
(C) always looked cheerful
(D) has bright brown eyes
(E) was retired
23. “At least I visited him oftener than
necessity demanded” in line 5 means
that……………
(A) The doctor visited the old man
whenever it was necessary
(B) It was necessary that the doctor
visited the old man everyday
(C) The old man demanded that the
doctor visited him very often
(D) It was at least necessary that a
doctor visited him oftener
(E) The doctor visited the old man
frequently
24. The money that the doctor obtained
from an organization……….
(A) was spent up by the doctor
(B) was meant for the landlady’s
children
(C) was used to pay for the old man’s
medicine
(D) should have been used by the old
man himself
(E) was a meant which the old man
escaped
25. Why was the doctor surprised to see the
old man still in London ten days later?.
Because……….
(A) the doctor already given the old
man the money
(B) the old man still looked sick
(C) the old man looked tired and drawn
(D) the old man was supposed to be
away at the sea side
(E) the doctor did not want to see the
old man for a month
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26. Which of these statements is TRUE (D) could not sell the potato crop
according to the passage? (E) bought the crop by themselves
(A) the old man was happy to do things
for others 31. After we had our dinner, mother …… the
(B) the landlady was sent away by the servant…….the dishes.
old man (A) had – to clear
(C) the doctor found that the old man (B) has – clear
had done the right thing (C) had - clear
(D) the old man was angry when the (D) got – cleared
doctor blamed him (E) had got – clear
(E) the landlady went with her children
to the sea side 32. During the graduation day , the students
let their photograph ....... by a famous
27. If the customer ...... not satisfied with his photographer.
product, please have him ...... the (A) take
manager. (B) taken
(A) is – to call (D) be – called (C) is taken
(B) are – called (E) are – call (D) which took
(C) is – call (E) had taken

28. The seminar was canceled because the 33. Since the announcer reported the
invitations ........ in time. disaster; money, clothes, and food …..
(A) printed for the victims.
(B) was not printing (A) have collected
(C) were printed (B) is being collected
(D) were being printed (C) will be collected
(E) were not printed (D) has been collected
(E) have been collected
29. Neither of the participants ...... to enter
the museum before the President 34. I had a serious headache so I had my son
Director arrives. do the washing.
(A) will be allowed The underlined sentence means …………
(B) will not have been allowed (A) the washing is done by my son
(C) has not been allowed (B) my son will do the washing
(D) have not been allowed (C) the washing was done by my son
(E) will not be allowed (D) I did the washing by myself
(E) My son was done the washing
30. Had the bridge been renovated, the
villagers could have sold their potato
35 ......... the bad weather, we can not
crop directly to the customers at low
continue our journey.
price. The sentence means: the
(A) Despite
customers………..
(B) In spite of
(A) bought the crop at high price
(C) Because of
(B) sold the crop to the customers
(D) Because
(C) can not sell the crop to the villagers
(E) Instead of
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36. One of my classmates ……we 41. “Did you notice the boy entering the
accompanied at the airport left for room ?” “No, I …. a nap.”
Medan. (A) took
(A) whom (B) had taken
(B) with whom (C) was taking
(C) whose (D) have taken
(D) whoever (E) would take
(E) by whom
42. A gentleman in blue trousers asked me
37. “ I think Ryan would stop showing off if kindly : “Don’t you mind........beside you
people took no notice of him“ ?”
“ ……………” (A) sitting
(A) and so did Jack (B) I sat
(B) but Jack didn’t (C) me sit
(C) and neither does Jack (D) my sitting
(D) and Jack would too (E) me to sit
(E) but Jack doesn’t
43. “ I hear you’re leaving this firm”.
38. The demonstrator ………violently was led “ Yes, I ....... a very good job at a much
away by the police. higher salary.”
(A) was protesting (A) was offered
(B) had protested (B) am offering
(C) has been protesting (C) have offered
(D) protested (D) have been offered
(E) protesting (E) had been offered

39 .......... , I didn’t see the accident by 44 ......... , the man was sent to prison for six
myself months.
(A) To tell the truth (A) Having found guilty of fraud
(B) Telling the truth (B) Finding guilty of fraud
(C) Having told the truth (C) To have been found guilty of fraud
(D) Being told the truth (D) To have found guilty of fraud
(E) Tell the truth (E) Having been found guilty of fraud

40. When I was an elementary student, 45. “Why do you ask your son to repair your
I ....... a funny story before going to bed. watch ?”
(A) used to tell “ If I had free time, I .......my son do it.”
(B) was used to tell (A) would no get
(C) used to telling (B) would have
(D) was used to telling (C) would have got
(E) was used to being told (D) wouldn’t have got
(E) would not have.

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46. “I wonder if the sound system and the 49. “Last year I didn’t have to pay for my
overhead projector are ready for brother’s tuition fee.”
presentation .” “That’s great. I heard he………
“You ………check the equipment before a scholarship from a foreign university.”
being used.” (A) receives
(A) had to (B) had received
(B) could have (C) was receiving
(C) had better (D) would receive
(D) must have (E) has received
(E) would rather
50. We were planning to open a new branch
47. I can not stay longer in this room, it is office in Balikpapan, ...... the economic
very dirty and it needs………. crisis forced us to postpone it.
(A) to clean (A) and
(B) to be cleaning (B) or
(C) cleaning (C) so
(D) cleaned (D) but
(E) being cleaned (E) for

48. After I had finished one glass of

lemonade, I was offered another glass,
but since I’m no longer thirsty, I said
“ ........ ”.
(A) No, thanks
(B) One glass is enough
(C) I’m not thirsty anymore
(D) I’d love to
(E) That’s enough

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 7. Tugas Mandiri Bahasa Inggris
I was taking a pair of shoes to be
mended at a shop in the Tottenham Court
Road when I first met the title old man with
the yellow face, with whom my life has now
become so involved. He was standing on the
curb, and staring at the number on the door
in a doubtful way, as I opened it. His eyes
they were dull grey eyes.
And reddish under the rims fell to
my face, and his wrinkled face into a smile.
“You come,” he said,” at exactly the right
moment. “I had forgotten the number of
your house. How do you do, Mr. Eden?”
I was a little astonished at his calling
me by name, for I had never met the man
before, I hesitated.
“Wonder who I am, eh? A friend, let me
assure you. I have seen you before, though
you haven’t seen me. Is there anywhere I
can talk to you?”
1. How did the author meet the old man
for the first time?
(A) He answered the doorbell
(B) He was going to the shoemaker’s
(C) He was talking a walk
(D) He saw him from the window
(E) He was knocking at the door
2. Which sentence tells us that the man
was old?
(A) His eyes were dull and grey
(B) He was smiling
(C) He face was wrinkled
(D) He was staring at the number in a
doubtful way
(E) He had forgotten the number of the
house
3. Why was the author surprised?
(A) He had forgotten his old friend
(B) He knew the old man
(C) He didn’t expect his old friend
(D) The old man knew his name
(E) His friend looked very old
4. What did the old man want?
(A) to say hello
(B) to talk
(C) to repair the shoes
(D) to take a walk
(E) to come into the house
5. What happened after they met?
(A) They became involved with each
other
(B) We don’t know
(C) They renewed their friendship
(D) They never saw each other again
(E) They became very good friends
6. What did the author think of the old
man?
(A) He was impolite
(B) He was wonderful
(C) He was frightening
(D) He was kind
(E) We don’t know
Between 1977 and 1981, three
groups of American Women, numbering 27 in
all, between the ages of 35 and 65, were
month, long tests to determine how they
would respond to conditions resembling
those aboard the space shuttle.
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 Through carefully selected from
among many applicants, the women were
volunteers and pay was barely above the
minimum wage. They were not allowed to
smoke or drink alcohol during the tests, and
they were expected to tolerate each others
company at close quarters for the entire
period. Among other things, they had to
stand pressure three times the force of
gravity and carry out both physical and
mental tasks while exhausted from strenuous
physical exercise. At the end on ten day,
they had to spend a further twenty days
absolutely confined to bed, during which
time they suffered backaches and other
discomforts, and they were finally allowed
up, the more physically active women were
especially subject to paints due to a slight
calcium loss.
Results of the tests suggest that
women will have significant advantages over
men in space. They need less food and less
oxygen and they stand up to radiation better.
Men’s advantages in terms of strength and
stamina, meanwhile, are virtually wiped out
by the Zero gravity condition in space.
7. Each woman was tested for ………..
(A) four days
(B) one month
(C) two months
(D) twenty days
(E) twenty-seven months
8. The average number of women in each
group tested was ……….
(A) 9
(B) 23
(C) 27
(D) 35
(E) 65
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9. The most suitable title for the passage is
………..
(A) older women, too, can travel in
space
(B) space testing causes backaches in
women
(C) the physical and meal exercises
(D) tests show women suited for space
travel
(E) poor wages for women space test
volunteers
10. The calcium loss particularly affected
……….
(A) all the women tested
(B) those who has been particularly
active in the previous ten days
(C) those who were generally very
active
(D) those who had suffered backaches
(E) all who had physical and mental
tasks
The world’s economic and political
landscape …….(11)……. Radical transportation
since the movement was born at a summit
meeting on September 1, 1960 in Belgrade,
the capital of what was then Yugoslavia. In
the cold war climate of those days, leaders of
the 25 developing countries all African and
Asian with the exception of Yugoslavia and
Cyprus agreed …….(12) ….. a strategy of
political ....... (13)…… or non alignment with
regard to the two major blocks ……...(14)……..
by the Soviet Union (Now Russia) and the
United States.
11. (A) undergo
(B) underwent
(C) have underground
(D) had undergone
(E) has undergone
12. (A) to adopt (D) adopts
(B) adopted (E) to be adopted
(C) adopting
13. (A) neutrality (D) neutralize 15. What is the social function of the text?
(B) neutral (E) neutral (A) to explain the process involved in
(C) neutralization the formation of a socio- cultural
phenomena
14. (A) submitted (D) injected (B) to persuade the reader that
(B) steered (E) led something should not be the case
(C) staved (C) to persuade the reader that
something in the case
The Australia- Indonesia Youth (D) to persuade two points of view
Exchange Program (AIYEP) which began in about an issue
1981,is beneficial for both youth people of (E) to retell an event for the purpose of
Indonesia and Australia, and the two informing
countries themselves.
Firstly the participants can get an 16. Firstly participants can get an
opportunity for first- hand experience of opportunity for first hand experience
living in and being an active part of another (paragraph 2). The synonym of the
culture. Their experience is from a “rural underlined word is …………..
stay” in which the groups in the village, and (A) change (D) spare time
an “urban stay”. Where they live in a town (B) time (E) willingness
or city. In the two places they stay with host (C) vacation
families.
Besides, they can develop their 17. Besides, they can develop their
personality in teamwork and negotiating skill, personality in teamwork and ……..
leadership, confidence, etc. This so because (paragraph 3). The underlined word
they are given chance to undertake a means ……
community based work and social activities (A) Support (D) Obtain
in the urban stay. (B) Improve (E) Give
Moreover, they can have practical (C) Help
experiences and the development of skill
related to their academic studies of personal 18 ......... between Australia and Indonesia,
carrier paths. The experience can be increases people to people (paragraph
obtained through undertaking experience 5). The antonym of the underlined word
related to their chosen fields of study or is………….
expertise, where ever possible. (A) Decrease (D) Grow
Not only for participants, but the (B) Improve (E) Rise
countries also get benefit from the program. (C) Develop
It can contribute to a more stable and
enduring relationship between Australia and 19. What is the best title of the text?
Indonesia, increase people to people contact (A) Youth Exchange
and institutional link and can develop a (B) Youth Exchange Program
greeter understanding of present Australia- (C) Australia Youth Exchange Program
Indonesia relationships and possibilities for (D) Indonesia Youth Exchange Program
future cooperation and involvement. (E) Australia- Indonesia Youth Exchange
Program

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20. What the topic of the text?
(A) The reasons for Australia- Indonesia
Youth Exchange Program
(B) The experience obtained in
Australia- Indonesia Youth Exchange
Program
(C) Indonesia and Australia get the
benefit from Youth Exchange
Program
(D) The Australia- Indonesia Youth
Exchange Program is beneficial for
their youth and countries
(E) The practical Experience got through
Australia Indonesia Student
Exchange program
21. Which the following statement is
correct?
(A) AIYEP is just for teenagers under
seventeen
(B) AIYEP participants are only allowed
to stay with the rich
(C) AIYEP participants do not study
leadership
(D) Australia will hold the AIYEP because
of some reasons
(E) AIYEP has proven to be fruitful
program
22. Moreover, they can have practical
experience and development of skill
related their academic studies or
personal career paths (paragraph 4).
The Synonym of the underlined word is
………
(A) Accordingly
(B) However
(C) In the mean time
(D) Furthermore
(E) One the other hand
23. If I ……… money by father, I could have
bought that new novel.
(A) has been given money
(B) had been given money
(C) am given
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(D) would have been given
(E) were given
24. I wished Almira had come to my party
two days ago.
I was sorry Almira ……. to my party two
days ago.
(A) had not come (D) has come
(B) is going to come (E) came
(C) had come
25. If only my application letter had been
accepted by that company.
Means, my application letter ……. by that
company.
(A) is not accepted
(B) will be accepted
(C) was not accepted
(D) has been accepted
(E) were not accepted
Typhus is a contagious disease,
which is caused by germ named Salmonella
Lyphi. This germ enters into human body
through the impure food or drink. When the
germs enter the body, people will get
syndrome after seven to twenty one days.
The main syndrome is a fever. At
first phase, the fever will increase step by
step during five to seven days. Then, it will
begin constantly. Besides, the infected
people also will get a disturbing digestion,
such as disturbing taste and uncomfortable
stomach. They also may get diarrhea. At a
serious infection, disease will cause people to
get consciousness disturbance, even shock.
However, because of the advance
technology in medicine, typhus can be cured
using the antibiotic therapy. The patients
will get well and be productive again, but
some of them still have the typhoid germs in
their bodies, and this germ in their urine.
They become the contagion of this disease to
other people, although they have not
suffered it. These people are called carriers.
26. What is the type of the text? 30. Roger Federer, the world tennis
(A) Narrative champion, ......... tennis since he was
(B) Anecdote nine.
(C) Procedure (A) played
(D) Commentary (B) has been playing
(E) Explanatory (C) plays
(D) is playing
27. What is the topic of the second (E) has played
paragraph?
(A) How to recover typhus 31. All the students had just left the
(B) The advanced medicine classroom when the mathematics
(C) How the typhus syndrome works teachers came in. From this sentences
(D) Some factors that causes the typhus we may conclude that …………
(E) How the typhus infects other people (A) the students came late for the
mathematics class
28. Which of the following statements is (B) the teachers cancelled the
NOT correct? mathematics class
(A) The first syndrome of typhus is fever (C) the mathematics class started late
(B) Typhus can be cured by antibiotic that day
therapy (D) there was no mathematics class that
(C) People may get shock because of day
the typhus (E) the teacher asked the students to
(D) The germ that caused typhoid is leave the class
called Salmonella Liphi
(E) People who have been recovered 32. All these years, Aulia’s family ......... in
from typhus cannot transfer it to poverty.
other (A) lived
(B) has been living
29. Tina had just watered the flowers when (C) had living
Ali came. From this sentence we may (D) was living
conclude that ………… (E) lives
(A) Ali didn’t see Tina watering the
flowers 33. “ Have the boys had their breakfast?”
(B) Ali came at the time Tina was “Not yet, they … “
watering the flowers (A) have taken a bath
(C) Ali was watching Tina watering the (B) are still taking a bath
flowers (C) will take a bath
(D) Ali would come when Tina finished (D) were taking a bath
watering the flowers (E) would still take a bath
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34. My friend said, “I have never seen such a 38. “We haven’t heard from Didi for such a
good film”. From above statement we long time. “We haven’t either, since he
may conclude that……… …….to Dili.”
(A) it was the first time he went to see a (A) moves
film (B) moved
(B) he seldom went to good movies (C) was moving
(C) this is the best film he has ever seen (D) has moved
(D) the film he saw was a bad one (E) had moved
(E) he has never seen bad films before
39. The bus came after I ……… for about
35. “I’ d never seen panda bear until twenty minutes.
I visited the London Zoo,” means (A) have been waiting
……… (B) have waited
(A) I didn’t go London zoo until I saw a (C) am waiting
Panda bear
(B) I visited the London zoo until a (D) had been waiting
Panda bear (E) was waiting
(C) I saw a Panda bear for the first time
in the London zoo 40. “The Antropologist has been studying
(D) I didn’t see a Panda bear when that tribe for the last five years”. means :
I visited the London zoo He ........ that tribe.
(E) When I entered a London zoo (A) has finished studying
immediately saw a Panda bear (B) studied
(C) was studying
36. “How long has he been the principal of (D) has studied
our school?” “since I …….. this school.” (E) is still studying
(A) was entering
(B) have entered 41. When you arrive on the 6th floor, give my
(C) had entered note the secretary and she ..... you to
(D) entered my office.
(E) had been entering (A) directs
(B) to direct
37. I can lend you the book next week (C) directing
because by that time I …… reading it. (D) will direct
(A) will be finishing (E) directed
(B) have finishing
(C) am finishing 42. “I forgot to return this book to the
(D) will have finished library last week.” “Well, I am afraid you
(E) would have finished ……… a fine when you return it.”
(A) had to pay
(B) having to pay
(C) have had to pay
(D) will have to pay
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43. “When did the farmer find that ancient 47. “Since when hasn’t she been feeling
tool?” “When he ....... his field.” well?” “Since she ........ from
(A) was ploughing Singapore.”
(B) has ploughed (A) returned
(C) had ploughed (B) has returned
(D) is ploughed (C) was returning
(E) had been ploughing (D) has returned
(E) has been returning
44. “What is your plan for this weekend?”.
“I ........ my brother.” 48. “When did you realize you had lost your
(A) will have visited purse?” “When I........ money to pay the
(B) have visited bus fare.”
(C) will have been visiting (A) was needing
(D) visited (B) needed
(E) will visit (C) had needed
(D) have needed
45. “Did you see the children when you (E) am needing
came home this afternoon?” “No, they
…………their teacher in priok.” 49. I didn’t hear the thunder during the
(A) Visited storm last night because I ........ soundly.
(B) had visited (A) have been sleeping
(C) to visit (B) and
(D) were visiting (C) am sleeping
(E) would have visited (D) was sleeping
(E) have slept
46. “Our football team had never won until
we got a new coach.” The above 50 ........... she has much money, she isn’t
sentence means :………. happy.
(A) Our football team was able to win (A) Because
after we got a new coach (B) Because of
(B) Our football team used to win (C) Although
before the new coach came (D) Moreover
(C) Although we got a new coach, we (E) However
have never won
(D) Even before the new coach came,
our football team has always won
(E) Ever since the new coach came, out
football team has always been
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 8. Tugas Mandiri Bahasa Inggris
One day a farmer, who was well
known is his village as a very mean man,
said,” will give three meals and twenty five
pence to anyone who is willing to do a day’s
work for me”. This offer was accepted by a
hungry tramp, who was more interested in
the meals that the money.
“You can have your breakfast first”,
said the farmer,” and then you can start
work”. After the farmer had given him a very
small breakfast, he said , Now you can have
your dinner. This will save us a lot of time.”
What would you say to having supper also
while you are about it?”.
“I will try”, replied the tramp,” to
enjoy another meal”. Then he had his
supper, which again was not a very filling
meal. When it was cover, the farmer looked
very pleased and said,” Now you can do
along day’s work”.
“No thank you”, was the tramps
reply, as he rose to leave. “I never work after
supper’!
1. What is a tramp according to the
passage?
A tramp is …………
(A) a person who works for a farmer
(B) a homeless person going from place
to place
(C) a very hungry person
(D) a person who is interested in
farming
(E) one who needs a jobs
2. “While you are about it”, Means ………..
(A) while the tramp is working
(B) when the tramp is at his farm
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(C) if the tramp is still hungry
(D) while the tramp is eating
(E) when the tramp begins to work
3. Which of these statements is true
according to the passage above?
(A) The farmer was a generous man
(B) The tramp started to work after
having supper
(C) The tramp enjoyed the meals very
much
(D) The tramp was able to eat three
meals because none of them was
big
(E) The farmer wanted to help the
tramp
4. The tramp was willing to work for the
farmer ……….
(A) because he felt very hungry
(B) because he liked the job
(C) because he needed twenty five
pence
(D) because the farmer was a generous
man
(E) because the farmer was well-known
There are basically two kinds of
printer considering these days for use with a
small home or business computer, but of
them of the impact variety, that is, those
which strike through an inked ribbon in order
to deposit the impression on the paper. The
first, and by far and the most popular, is the
dot metric variety, which is cheaper and
faster than the second type, the formed
character printer. This letter type,
characterized by its use of a’ daisy wheel’
arrangement, while suffering from the
disadvantages mentioned, as well as from a
lack of ability to reproduce graphics, is the
only kind so far which can offer quick
changes of type style or size and which gives
professional quality printing.
…….(9)…… blue. After a few months, the
melanin moves to the …...(10)….. of the iris.
It is the amount of melanin on the surface
that determines a person’s …..(11) …… eye
color, so it is at this point that a baby’s eyes
develop the color they will have for a
lifetime.

5. What is an impact printer? 8. (A) because of (D) because

(A) A printer which is used an inked (B) although (E) unless
ribbon (C) so
(B) Aprinter which makes
impressionable 9. (A) apparition (D) appearance
(C) A printer which use business (B) appear (E) apparently
computer (C) apparent
(D) The only printers available for
computers 10. (A) surface (D) underneath
(E) The only printer which is cheaper (B) amount (E) beneath
and faster (C) surplus

6. It may be inferred from the passage that 11. (A) persuaded (D) concrete
………. (B) permanence (E) permanent
(A) all impact printers are cheap (C) complete
(B) some computer printers are not
impact printers What do you call the card in your
(C) dot- matrix printers were the first wallet that lets you ……(12)…… cash money
impact printers from ATM and make ……(13) …… without
(D) impact printers can only be used using credit. The answer is a debit card.
with small computers …(14)……. If you said a check card or an
(E) some computer printers are enhanced ATM card even an express
expensive checking card you could be …..(15)…… as
well. …..(16) ...... banks call debit cards
7. Formed- character printers have the different think.
advantage offer dot- matrix printers of
……….. 12. (A) withdraw (D) send
(A) cost (D) printing excellence (B) conserve (E) borrow
(B) speed (E) excellent size (C) save
(C) graphics production
13. (A) selling (D) borrowing
When babies are born they always (B) lending (E) investing
have blue eyes. This is ……(8)…..The melanin, (C) purchase
the pigment that colors the eyes, is not the
surface of the iris. Instead, it is within the 14. (A) but (D) while
crease of the iris. Because there is little (B) if (E) whereas
melanin on the surface of the iris, the eyes (C) when
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15. (A) similar (D) wrong
(B) like (E) false
(C) right
16. (A) differ
(B) differing
(C) difference
(D) different
(E) differentiate
Measles, a childhood disease, has
caused sufferings to mankind for thousands
of years. However, the search for an
effective measles vaccine lasted two
hundred years and has finally ended in
success. Now, for the first time, measles is a
preventable disease. You may ask,” How is
this important to children?
Every year measles kills twice as
many Americans as polio now does. More
children die from measles than from any
other common childhood disease. Also
complications of some degree occur in about
one child out of six. Most complications
include pneumonia and ear disorders.
Another after –effect of measles-brain
damage is less common, but it can have such
serious consequences that it deserves special
attention.
Brain damage due to measles
sounds like something far away from our
experience. In reality, it is not. Like any
other in jury, damage to the brain can be
very slight or very severe. It is quite possible
that we have never seen or heard a child who
has severe brain damage the child would
either have died or would be in an
institution. However, in medical research a
relation has been found between measles
and such things as behavior problem,
personality changes and dulling of mental
ability. For example, a child may be had
tempered or a little slow to learn after he has
recovered from measles.
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17. The main information of the text is that
…….
(A) measles has been a disease for
thousands of years
(B) after 200 years of research, an
effective measles vaccine was found
(C) measles is a serious disease greatly
neglected in the past
(D) a lot research was done on the
complications of measles
(E) measles may have bad effects on
children who get the disease
18. Which of the following statements is
TRUE about measles?
(A) The number of children in the USA
killed by measles is smaller than that
killed by polio.
(B) Medical research revealed that
measles may cause brain damage.
(C) In the USA children with brain
damage have all been measles
patients.
(D) Research findings show that
pneumonia and ear disorder may
causes measles.
(E) Children who get measles will have
measles,will have pneumonia and
ear disorders at the same time.
19. Which of the following is NOT an after
effect of measles?
(A) Polio
(B) Ear disorder
(C) Personality changes
(D) Slow learning
(E) Pneumonia
20. “Or would be in an institution”
(paragraph 3).
The underlined word means ……..
(A) an orphanage (D) a company
(B) a hospital (E) a public
(C) a rehabilitation
21. One of the important findings of the Of course she was very surprise
research on measles is that …….. when I was able to describe her purse to her.
(A) children who have got measles may Then I explained that I had recognized her
become difficult to handle because face from the photograph. I had found in the
of their behavior purse. My uncle insisted on going round to
(B) in reality, there are no measles the police station immediately to claim the
patients who get brain damage purse.
(C) personality changes already occur at
the time a child has measles 22. “Back” in: “I put the photograph back”
(D) measles can cause children to means :……
become physically handicapped (A) on the pavement
(E) measles is the first killer of (B) on the picture
childhood disease in the world (C) to the police station
(D) to the woman
While I was walking along the road (E) in the purse
the other day I happened to notice a small
brown leather purse lying on the pavement. 23. The sergeant asked for the writer’s name
I picked it up and opened it to see if I could and address……
find out the owner’s name. there was (A) to send him a reward
nothing inside it except some small change (B) to thank him
and a rather old photograph a picture of a (C) to give it to the professor of the
woman and a young girl about twelve years purse
old, who looked like the woman’s daughter. I (D) to call on him
put the photograph back and took the purse (E) to correspond him
to the police station, where I handed it to the
sergeant in change. Before I left, the 24. The person had lost the article most
sergeant made a note of my name and probably for……..
address in case the owner of the purse (A) one afternoon
wanted to write and thank me. (B) one evening
The evening I went to have dinner (C) three days
with uncle and aunt. They had also invited (D) more than four hours
another person, a young man, so that there (E) an instant
would be four people at table. The young
woman’s face a familiar, but I could not 25. The purse was returned to the owner
remember where I had seen it. I was quite because…….
sure that we had not met before. (A) The sergeant had found her address
In the course of the conversation, (B) The uncle had seen it.
however, the young woman happened to (C) The aunt had helped her
remark that she had lost her purse that (D) The finder had recognized her
afternoon. I at once remembered where I (E) Of the announcement in the
had seen her face. She was the young girl in newspaper
the photograph, although she was now much
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26. The writer did not recognize her at once
because of …..
(A) shyness
(B) forgetfulness
(C) bad eye- sight
(D) change in appearance
(E) darkness
One of the greatest sea tragedies
that had ever occurred was that of the
steamship Titanic. It was the first trip of the
giant ship. There were more than two
thousand people aboard their way to the
United States from England.
On the night of April 14, 1912, the
sea was calm. The weather was beautiful.
People were dancing in the spacious salons.
Music, laughter and singing could be heard
everywhere. The thought of danger was far
away.
Suddenly, just before the ship could
change her course the iceberg had torn a
huge hole in the bottom of the ship. Nothing
could be done. The new ship went down into
the sea. Unfortunately, more than fifteen
hundred people lost their lives.
27. What were people on board the Titanic
doing when it was struck by Iceberg?
(A) Merry- making
(B) Playing music
(C) Dancing
(D) Laughing and singing
(E) Entertaining
28. Why couldn’t the Titanic avoid the
iceberg?
(A) It was too dark
(B) There was not enough time
(C) The ice berg was too big
(D) The sailor’s alarm was not loud
enough
(E) The ship was too big
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29. People on board the Titanic did not
expect any danger most probably
because :
(A) it was a strong new ship
(B) the weather was fine
(C) they were enjoying the trip
(D) its crew was quite experienced
(E) it had modern equipment
30. Which of the following statements is
TRUE?
(A) The Titanic was crippled
(B) The Titanic was torn apart
(C) The lower part of the Titanic leaked
(D) The sailor on guard was very
watchful
(E) The Titanic was damaged beyond
repair
31. ‘What’re you looking for?” “My wallet, I
don’t know where I........it.”
(A) have been putting
(B) am putting
(C) had put
(D) was putting
(E) have put
32. “Anwar was promoted president of your
company last week, wasn’t he?”
“ I am glad he was, he ........ in this
company for years.”
(A) had worked
(B) had been working
(C) was working
(D) would work
(E) worked
33. “So you have finished typing those
letters! When did you do it?” “When
you .......... the meeting.”
(A) were attending
(B) attend
(C) have attended
(D) attended
(E) had attended
34. “Several hotels in this region are closing
down”.” That’s because tourism itself
……… since last year.”
(A) is declining
(B) had declined
(C) declined
(D) was declining
(E) has been declining
35. “While living in Bogor, we always went
to school on foot.” This means that We
……… on foot while we were living in
Bogor.
(A) go to school
(B) are going to school
(C) used to go to school
(D) are used to go to school
(E) liked going to school
36. “After she had already signed a year’s
rent for the house, she found another
that she liked much better.” From the
above sentence we may conclude that
………….
(A) she had to stay in the house for
which she had paid the rent
(B) she found it more profitable to stay
in the house she liked better
(C) she signed a year’s rent for the
house although she did not like it
(D) she decided to cancel the house
which she had already rented
(E) she signed a year’s rent for the
house she liked much better
37. We don’t have to return the book
tomorrow, but he ………..
(A) has
(B) returns
(C) have
(D) do
(E) does
38. Ani’s mother can’t speak English
well……….
(A) also my mother
(B) and so can my mother
(C) my mother doesn’t too
(D) but my mother can’t
(E) and my mother can’t either
39. Because of the rain, the teacher couldn’t
come on time and ……….
(A) I neither could
(B) Neither did I
(C) Also I could not
(D) I couldn’t either
(E) So I didn’t
40. Kris does not have a pen. Kris does not
have paper. The two sentences can be
combined into :
(A) Kris does not have a pen but paper
(B) Kris has neither a pen nor paper
(C) Kris has either a pen or paper
(D) Kris does not have a pen and also
paper
(E) Kris does not only have a pen also
paper
41. “Yanti didn’t like the movie and Tati
didn’t either.” Means ………
(A) Yanti and Tati didn’t like the movie
(B) Yati didn’t like the movie as much as
Tati did
(C) Only Yanti didn’t like the movie
(D) Yanti didn’t like the movie but Tati
did
(E) One of two girls didn’t like the
movie
42. Andy agreed that everybody had to pay
Rp 500.000,- for the study tour to
Bali,………..
(A) neither was I (D) while I didn’t
(B) but I’m not (E) I didn’t either
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43. I think that my mother will be interested 47. This institution for the handicapped was
in reading this novel, but ……… ………. by the Minister of Social Affairs in
(A) so will my father 1950.
(B) my father won’t (A) founded
(C) so does my father (B) composed
(D) my father isn’t (C) invented
(E) my father will be (D) discovered
(E) contributed
44. “ I wonder if our sister likes seafood.”
“Oh yes, she ........ ” 48. “A well known architect is designing our
(A) wonder new office”. The passive form of the
(B) likes above sentence is Our new office ………
(C) does by a well known architect.
(D) is (A) designs
(E) has (B) designed
(C) be designed
45. His shop was burnt down ...... his car (D) is designed
that parked nearly. (E) is being designed
(A) and either did
(B) also was 49. After the house ......... green, it looked
(C) either have I beautiful.
(D) neither have I (A) had been painted
(E) me, neither (B) to be painting
(C) has been painting
46. Whose book is this? I’d like to borrow it (D) be painted
when nobody else ...... it. (E) had painted
(A) read
(B) will read 50. As the groceries were sent an hour ago.
(C) had read They should have been here by now.
(D) was reading From the underlined words we may
(E) is reading conclude that the groceries …….
(A) will probably arrive soon
(B) are already here now
(C) have not arrived yet
(D) have just arrived
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 9. Tugas Mandiri Bahasa Inggris
Since he was released from a death
camp in 1945, Simon Wiesenthal has devoted
his life to avenging the fate of the six million
Jews killed in Germany during World War II.
His work is bringing Nazi war criminals to
justice. He finds them by using information
from the Nazi’s own files. He also gets leads
from informers, who are often anonymous.
He has helped in the capture of
about eight hundred Nazis, including Adolph
Eichman. In 1963, he located the captor of
Anne Frank, the Jewish girl who wrote the
famed diary about her family’s life while
hiding from the Nazis.
Before the war, Mr. Wiesenthal was a
successful architect in Poland. The Germans
sent him and his wife to a prison camp. He
was able to make contact with the Polish
underground, and he gave them sketches
showing how to blow up the railway. In
return, the underground supplied him with
false papers in his wife could escape.
Still in prison, Mr. Wiesenthal
watched in horror as Nazi guards drove
elderly Jewish women into freight and cattle
cars for deportation. One of them was his
sixty –three old mother.
Mr. and Mrs. Wiesenthal had lost
eighty –nine relatives and they were the only
surviving members of their families.
1. Who was Simon Wiesenthal?
(A) An architect who became a war
criminal
(B) A Nazi officer
(C) A Nazi hunter
(D) A publisher
(E) A soldier
2. Some people who supplied him with
information:
(A) were given a reward
(B) were brought to justice
(C) didn’t want their names to be
mentioned
(D) did not like him
(E) were old and poor women
3. Because of his help to the Polish
underground ………
(A) he was almost killed
(B) his mother was killed
(C) he became famous
(D) his wife could escape
(E) he became an architect
4. Which of these statements is NOT TRUE
according to the passage :
(A) Her diary made Anne Franke famous
(B) Simon’s mother was a cattle car
driver
(C) Mr. and Mrs. Wiesenthal lost many
relatives
(D) Wiesenthal used to be an architect
(E) Adolph Eichman was one of the war
criminals
Amber is created when the resins
produced by certain trees in tropical or
subtropical climates undergo a
transformation process that usually takes
millions of years, and which is still not fully
understood. The Baltic sea area, not
temperate zone probably holds the best –
known and most highly –prized supply of
amber, which is used in jewelry. In addition,
in earlier centuries, magical properties where
attribute to amber become of the electricity.
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It requires when rubbed. The substance is
also of great interest to scientist since it has
been the means of preserving fossils,
especially of insects as 40 millions years old.
Amber varies greatly according to the place
where it is formed, the amber in each
location having in characteristic color,
hardness and even odor.
5. What can be inferred about the Baltic
sea area?
(A) It was once drier than it is today
(B) It was once hotter than it is today
(C) It has won money prizes for its
amber
(D) It produced more amber than any
other
(E) It has formed a great interest to
scientists
6. According the passage, what can be said
about transportation process that results
in amber?
(A) It is magical
(B) It is made into jewelry
(C) It is a very lengthy one
(D) It is not take too long
(E) It is shorter than usual
7. Which of the following can not be
inferred from the passage?
(A) Amber is of interest for a number of
reasons
(B) Not amber has the same
characteristic
(C) When amber is rubbed, it produced
electricity
(D) Only insect fossils are found in
amber
(E) The oldest fossils in amber found so
far are about 40 million years old.
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8. The characteristic of amber vary
according to……….
(A) Where it is found
(B) How old it is
(C) How hard it is to find
(D) Where it is sold
(E) How much it interests scientists
Historically, the business person has
wanted his or her company to grow. Larger
companies meant greater success and
greater profits. Larger companies also meant
more jobs for people in the community. But
some companies have become so large that
they are no longer profitable or practical to
run. When this happen, the company may
downsize, or deliberately reduce growth.
This corporate downsizing is no longer
unusual. Major corporations have either
already downsized or have announced plans
to do so. But the decision to downsize is not
always popular with the community, because
it means loss of the jobs.
9. What has been trend for business in the
past?
(A) to downsize
(B) to get smaller
(C) to grow larger
(D) to be less successful
(E) to less important
10. A company tries to slow growth because
it wants ………
(A) to stay profitable
(B) to avoid moving
(C) to move its operations overseas
(D) to meet government regulations
(E) to lessen the company’s product
11. Why may the community dislike the 16. (A) modified (D) left out
decision to downsize? (B) avoided (E) put out
(A) the company will lose profits (C) escaped
(B) the company will probably move
(C) the community may get their jobs 17. (A) cut down (D) think over
(D) are residents may lose their jobs (B) calm down (E) make up
(E) the company’s products will get (C) take away
more expensive
18. (A) looked at (D) peeped
12. Some companies have become so large (B) showed (E) watched
that they are no longer profitable or (C) saw
practical to run. The word profitable
means…… 19. (A) sports (D) exercise
(A) accountable (B) doing (E) sleeps
(B) beneficial (B) habits
(C) actual
(D) communal Professor Jones did not want to
(E) friable have long hair, but he used to forget that
there were barbers in the world until
There are numerous things you can somebody reminded him. Then he used to
do to …….(13)…… your risk of cancer by a go and have his hair cut quite short. This
third research …….(14)…… by Harvard meant that sometimes he went around with
University showed one third of the seven long hair for several weeks, or even several
million cancer …….(15)……. in the world in months, and then suddenly came to one of
2001 could have been …..(16)……. If the his lectures with quite short hair.
victims had taken sufficient fruits and After sometimes, his students began
vegetables, refrain from smoking, take less to bet on the date of his next visit to the
salt, sugar and oil, do more exercise, …..(17) barber. Whenever his hair became long
……. Red meat consumption and …..(18) …… enough to need cutting, a jar and a piece of
their weight. Other indulgence on unhealthy paper were put on a table outside the
…..(19)…… are key factors for stroke, cancer professor’s lecture room. Students who
and heart attack. wanted to bet used to put a shilling in to the
jar and write their names and the date they
13. (A) support (D) minimize had chosen on the piece of paper. The
(B) creative (E) organize students who guessed the date of the
(C) release professor’s next visit to the barber correctly
won all the money in the jar.
14. (A) carry out (D) carrying out Professor Jones was very puzzled by
(B) carries out (E) to carry out the jar and list which appeared on the table
(C) carried out one day, stayed there for several weeks, then
disappeared for quite a long time, and then
15. (A) death (D) suffering appeared again.
(B) illness (E) poverties But he was clever man and a
(C) disease university professor of mathematics, so he
began to write down the dates on which the
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jar and the list appeared and disappeared ,
and study them carefully. After a few
months, he suddenly realized what they
meant. When he finished his next lecture, he
stopped at the table, put a shilling into the
jar, wrote his name and the day’s date on the
paper, went to the barber’s shop, and then
came back to collect the jar of money which
he had won.
20. Professor Jones often had long hair
because :
(A) it was the fashion
(B) he liked it that way
(C) he wanted to look different from his
students
(D) he was an- absent minded professor
(E) he was too busy to go to the barber
21. What did the students think of the
professor’s long hair?
(A) They liked it
(B) They made fun of it
(C) They reminded him to go to the
barber
(D) They collected money for his hair
cut
(E) They wanted him to go to a barber
22. When the professor understood what
the student were doing :
(A) he made a bet, too
(B) he was disappointed
(C) he decided to go the barber
regularly
(D) he collected the jar of money
(E) he presented to be angry with them
23. How must probably did the professor
find out what the jar of money meant?
(A) By counting the money
(B) By writing dates
(C) By listing names
(D) By putting a shilling in to the jar
(E) By thinking
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24. Why was the jar put outside the
professor’s lecture room?
(A) to keep the money for the
professor’s haircut
(B) to remind the professor’s that he
needed a haircut
(C) to collect the student’s bets
(D) to place the list of names and dates
(E) to put note reminding the professor
about his haircut
25. “The stewardess is now serving coffee to
the passengers.” The passive form on
the above sentence is ………….
(A) The passengers are serving coffee
now
(B) The passengers are now served
coffee
(C) Coffee is now served by the
passengers
(D) Coffee is now being served to the
passengers
(E) Coffee is now served to the
passengers
26. To prevent accidents, parents………..
allow their children to play near the well.
(A) might not
(B) do not have to
(C) can not
(D) would not
(E) should not
27. He told me a lot about New Zealand.. He
…….. there for a long time.
(A) must have lived
(B) might be living
(C) ought to have lived
(D) should be living
(E) would have lived
28. “I could have asked my brother to lift the 33. The curtains are dirty, we ...... at the dry
table.” From the sentence we may cleaner’s.
conclude that ……… (A) must have washed them
(A) I didn’t lift the table (B) have washed them
(B) I lifted the table with the help of my (C) must have them washed
brother (D) are washing them
(C) I asked my brother to lift the table (E) washing them
(D) I lifted the table myself
(E) I would ask my brother to lift the 34. Almira is looking forward to her birthday
table because she ...... a new watch.
(A) promised
29. The picture is not here anymore, it must
(B) had been promising
have ………..
(C) being promised
(A) been taken away
(D) has been promised
(B) been taking away
(E) has promised
(C) took way
(D) taken away
35. “I want the red dress displayed in the
(E) being taken away
window yesterday”. “I’m sorry,
it ......... ”.
30. “ It is possible that there will be another
(A) had been selling (D) has sold
rise in the price of petrol soon.”
(B) has to be sold (E) has been sold
We can also say : There ........ another
(C) has to sell
rise in the price of petrol soon.
(A) must be (D) has to be
36. The doctor promised to come at 7 a.m.,
(B) may be (E) had better be
but he isn’t here yet. He ........ some
(C) should be
patients.
(A) ought still to have
31. He has been attending the English
(B) might still have
Conversation Course for six months; his
(C) is still to have
English should be very fluent now. The
(D) would still have
underlined word mean………
(E) must still have had
(A) I am sure that he speaks English
fluently
37. The whole kitchen was still very dirty,
(B) It is possible that he speaks English
she ........ forgotten to clean it.
fluently
(A) should have (D) must have
(C) I expect he speaks English fluently
(B) would have (E) could have
(D) He must speak English fluently
(C) might have
(E) I doubt he speaks English fluently
38. They have lost all their properties in the
32. “We could have eaten the ice cream
fire, they ........ hard time now.
yesterday.” Means……….
(A) may have had
(A) We didn’t eat the ice cream
(B) must be having
(B) We have eaten the ice cream
(C) ought to have
(C) We had to eat the ice cream
(D) used to have
(D) We should eat the ice cream
(E) are to have
(E) We would eat the ice cream
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39. “Tony no longer waits for Nita to eat 45. Indonesian Idol is a very popular TV
lunch at the cafeteria, and he doesn’t program. Every week it……… by millions
call her either.” “ Well, he …..no longer of people.
be interested in dating her.” (A) watches (D) has watched
(A) could (D) has to (B) being watched (E) to be watched
(B) ought to (E) may (C) is watched
(C) should
46. The thief ..........into teacher’s room
40. “Why weren’t you at Yanti ‘s birthday through this window because there are
party last night?” “Oh, I ……… overtime.” footprints near the window.
(A) must work (A) was to get (D) must have got
(B) must have worked (B) may get (E) should get
(C) should work (C) would rather get
(D) ought to have worked
(E) had to work 47. “Why do those people panic?” “Their
semi- permanent houses ....... ”.
41. “Adiz got an “A” for English test.” “That (A) demolished
is great! He …about it.” (B) are demolishing
(A) must be happy (C) to be demolished
(B) had to be happy (D) to demolish
(C) could have been happy (E) are being demolished
(D) must have been happy
(E) have to be happy 48. You ...... the gathering, some old friends
of ours were there.
42. “Has Almira called you from London?” (A) should attend
“Not yet, she ……… it right after she (B) can attend
arrived a week ago.” (C) should have attended
(A) must have done (D) might have attended
(B) had better do (E) must attend
(C) should have done
(D) might have done 49. Komodos ......... to be descended from
(E) would rather have done dinosaurs.
(A) they believe (D) to be believe
43. “He told me a lot about that small
(B) to believe (E) are believed
island.” “He ….. there for a long time.”
(C) believed
(A) might be living
(B) should be living
50. “It is surprising that he was not seriously
(C) must have lived
hurt even though he was thrown Off
(D) would have lived
from his motorbike.” He ........ good
(E) ought to have lived
helmet at that time.”
44. “I’m sorry but you can’t swim today.” (A) must have worn
“The pool …” (B) has to wear
(A) be cleaned (D) is cleaning (C) should have worn
(B) it cleans (E) cleaning (D) might wear
(C) is being cleaned (E) ought to have worn
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 10. Tugas Mandiri Bahasa Inggris
A potato farmer was sent to prison
just at the time when he should have been
digging the ground for planting the new crop
of potatoes. He knew that his wife would not
be strong enough to do the digging by
herself, but that she could manage to do the
planting ; and he also knew that he did not
have any wrote a letter to his wife which
said,” Please do not dig the potato field. I hid
the money and the gun there”.
Ten days later he got a letter from
his wife. It said,” I think somebody is reading
your letter before they go out of the prison.
Some policeman arrived here two days ago
and dug up the whole potato field. What
shall I do now?”
The prisoner wrote back at once,”
Plant the potatoes, of course”.
1. Why was the potato farmer sent to
prison?
(A) He killed a policeman
(B) He didn’t want to work
(C) He had stolen some money
(D) He had stolen a gun
(E) The passage doesn’t tell
2. It was bad very time for the potato
farmer to go to prison because ………
(A) it was planting time
(B) his wife could not do the planting
(C) his neighbors did not like him
(D) his wife would be quite alone at
home
(E) it was harvest time
3. The prisoner wrote the letter ………..
(A) to ask his wife not to tell anybody
where he did the money
(B) to tell his wife that the policeman
were coming to get the money and
the gun
(C) to make a confession to his wife
(D) to get his field dug up by the
policeman
(E) to share his secret with his wife
4. Which of the following statements is
TRUE?
(A) The policeman came to the field 10
days after the farmer wrote the
letter
(B) Although the potato farmer was in
prison, his field was ready for
planting
(C) The policeman succeeded in finding
the hidden money and gun
(D) Although the farmer’s wife was not
so strong, she did the digging
(E) The policemen had willingly helped
the farmer to dig up his field
Advertisers use many methods to
get us …….(5)…… their products. One of their
most …..(6)……methods is to make us
dissatisfied ……(7)….. ourselves and our
imperfect lives. Advertisements show us
who aren’t and what we don’t have. Our
clothes aren’t white enough. Advertisements
make us afraid tat people ……(8)….. us if we
don’t use the ….. (9)…… product. “A good
looking girl sadly asks in a commercial,
”Here,” replies her roommate,” Try Zoom
toothpaste!” Of course she tries it, and
immediately the whole football team falls in
love with.
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5. (A) to buy (D) bought for consumption by prolonged and repeated
(B) buying (E) to buying boiling.
(C) buys The new danger has emerged over
the past few years in Nigeria. Doctors have
6. (A) success (D) successful begun to suspect that cassava, if eaten in
(B) succeed (E) successive large amounts during pregnancy, may cause
(C) successfully deformities in the developing fetus, there
appears to be a correlation between the
7. (A) by (D) of eating of cassava by pregnant women and
(B) with (E) to the occurrence of various kind of brain or
(C) in other neuronal malformations in their
babies.
8. (A) would be liked (D) will be liked
(B) would have liked (E) won’t like 10. The topic of the text is ………..
(C) would like (A) Cassava, the source of various kinds
of meals
9. (A) advertising (D) advertises (B) The advantages and disadvantages
(B) advertise (E) advertisement of cassava
(C) advertised (C) Characteristic of people consuming
cassava
Cassava is the staple food of millions (D) The staple food of people in
of people in Africa, Asia and South and developing countries
Central America. Its swollen tuberous root (E) Malnutrition, the effect of eating
can be boiled and mashed or grated to cassava
produce a meal known as “Farinha” in Brazil
and “Garri” in Nigeria, which can be cooked 11. People can rely on cassava in times of
in small cakes. The root is also the source of famine because ……….
the manufactured commodity, tapioca. A (A) cassava can grow in any climate
small field planted with cassava can be through out the year
insurance against famine, because the crop (B) it can be manufactured into flour
can be left in the ground for two or three called tapioca
years without deterioration of the tubers. (C) the tubers can last for more than
But recent findings suggest that cassava may one years as long as they are not
be responsible for birth defect. pulled out
It has other serious disadvantages. (D) it is the most important food in
The tubers consist almost entirely of starch many parts of the world
and are particularly low in protein, so (E) it can be stored for a long time
dependence on cassava leads to serious without being eaten
malnutrition. To make matters worse, some
varieties, when grown under certain
conditions of soil and climate, develop a high
acid content and become extremely
poisonous to people and livestock if eaten
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12. Which of the following statements is
NOT TRUE according to the text?
(A) Farinha and Garri are other names
for cassava
(B) Being low in protein, cassava may
cause malnutrition
(C) Some cassavas should not be eaten
because they are poisonous
(D) People consuming only cassava for
long periods of time may endanger
their health
(E) Particular conditions of soil and
climate can make cassava poisonous
13. It is likely that doctors will advise
pregnant women not to eat too much
cassava for fear that ……….
(A) they will be deformed
(B) the fetus will not develop
(C) their bodies will become crippled
(D) their babies blood will be poisoned
(E) their babies may have malformed
brains
14. We may conclude that the writer
…………..
(A) suggest that cassava is a good
alternative for staple foods
(B) wants to tell people to stop eating
cassava
(C) shows how people in developing
countries live
(D) warns the readers of the danger of
consuming too much cassava
(E) explains the effect of food
shortages in developing countries
Scott and his four companions were
terribly disappointed when they got to the
South Pole and found the Norwegians had
beaten them in the race to be first men ever
to reach it. After planting the British flag at
the pole, they took a photograph of
themselves before they left, and then started
the 950- mile journey back.
The journey was painfully slow, and
the joy and excitement had gone out of
them. The sun hardly appeared, but the
snow was soft, and snow storms often made
it impossible to sight the stones they had to
mark their way home. Then, to make things
worse, Evans, whom they had all thought the
strongest of the five, showed signs of
weakening, feel into the deep hole in the ice,
and after struggling along for several days,
suddenly collapsed and died.
The four who were left pushed on at
the best speed they could manager; they
knew their strength was going and food was
running short. The winds tired them out, so
that each day the distance they traveled was
shorter than the previous day’s. If they had
warm food and dry sleeping bags, they might
have lived, but each time they reach one of
the places were they had left oil for cooking
and heat, they found that there was less than
they had expected. They hadn’t known that
oil creeps out from tins in very low
temperatures.
Captain oats had been suffering for
some time from frozen feet; at night his feed
swelled so large that he could scarcely put his
boots on the text morning, and he walked in
great pain. He was very brave. He did not
complain, but he knew his slowness was
making it less likely that the other could save
themselves. He asked them to leave him
behind in his sleeping bag refused, and
helped him on a few more miles, until it was
time to put up the tent for another night.
The following morning, while the
others were still in their sleeping bags, he
said : ‘I am just going outside and may be
gone some time. He was never seen again.
He had walked out alone into the snow,
hoping that his death would help his
companions. It takes nothing away from his
brave act that in the end it was in vain
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15. The story is about ………..
(A) the race to the South Pole
(B) the victory of the Norwegians
(C) the journey back from the South
Pole
(D) the 950-miles journey to the South
Pole
(E) the death of Captain Oats
16. The journey back from the South Pole
was extremely slow because …….
(A) food was running short and there
were no sleeping bags
(B) Evans got an accident and finally
died
(C) There was no more oil for cooking
and heating
(D) Captain Oats was terribly suffering
from his frozen feet.
(E) Extreme cold and hunger physically
weakened Scott’s party
17. For the British team, their race to the
South Pole was ………
(A) a great experience
(B) a tragedy
(C) an honor
(D) a victory
(E) a mystery
18. Which of the following statements is
TRUE about Captain Oats?
(A) Captain Oats sacrificed himself for
the good of the other members of
the party
(B) The other team members did not
know that Captain Oats had left the
tent
(C) Captain Oats refused to stay in the
tent and took leave his friends the
same night
(D) Although his feet were badly
swollen, Captain Oats was able to
keep pace with the others
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(E) Captain Oats left his friends because
he could not stand his friends
attitude towards him
19. In vain’ in the last sentence means……….
(A) impractical
(B) useless
(C) illegal
(D) imbalanced
(E) unavailable
20. From the text we may conclude that
……….
(A) three members of the British party
were alive
(B) Scott, being the party leader,
became well known
(C) Britain celebrated the return of its
party
(D) None of the British party survived
(E) Captain Oats was rewarded because
of his bravery
Timothy was ten years old. He was
not a very good pupil, and he did not like
having to do his home work, because he
preferred to do other things in his free time.
Frequently he did not do his homework, and
when he did do it, he always made a lot of
mistakes.
Then one day, his mathematics
teaches looked at Timothy’s homework and
saw that he got all his sum right. He was very
pleased and rather surprised. He called
Timothy to his desk and said to him,” You got
all your homework right this time, Timothy,
what happened? Did your father help you?
Usually Timothy’s father did help
him with his homework, but the evening
before this, he had not been able to, because
he had not been at home, so Timothy
answered ,” No, sir. He was busy last night,
so I had to do it all myself.”
21. Timothy didn’t like doing his homework
because …………
(A) he always needed the help of others
(B) he didn’t like going to school
(C) he always made many mistakes
(D) he’d rather enjoy his free time
(E) he preferred working with his father
22. Why did the teacher call Timothy one
day?
(A) His father couldn’t help him with his
homework
(B) The teacher was disappointed with
Timothy’s homework
(C) There was no mistake in Timothy’s
homework
(D) Timothy did not do his homework at
all
(E) Timothy had left his homework at
home
23. Which of the following statements is
true according to the text?
(A) Timothy used to do his homework
by himself
(B) Timothy didn’t like mathematics at
all
(C) The teacher was very angry with
Timothy
(D) Timothy’s father was called by the
teacher
(E) Without any help Timothy’s work
was good
Every country has people who are
too poor to live a decent, comfortable life.
They do not have enough to eat. They live in
shacks that they have built for themselves
out of scraps of wood and metal sometimes
even out cardboard packing cases. Often
they have no proper water supply or drains.
When they are ill, they can’t afford to go to
the doctor. When they are cold, they have to
look for fuel to light a fire.
On the hill sides in Brazil, the shacks
of the poor or piled on top of one another
like old cars in a scrap-yard. And scrap –
yards are often what shanty towns are like
places for people who have nowhere else to
go.
Thousands of Brazilians leave the
countryside each year and travel to the cities
to seek a better life. When they arrive they
find that things are no better than in the
country. There are few jobs to be had. The
only was to find a place to sleep other than
on the streets as many have to do is to move
in with friends or built a shack of their own.
For these people, sleeping is often
the best away to forget how hard life is. If
you sleep, at least you might dream of better
things.
24. The reading passage tells us about
………… in Brazil.
(A) decent life for the poor
(B) the shacks in the countryside
(C) poverty in the cities
(D) building homes in Brazil
(E) the shortage of doctors
25. The Brazilians leaving the countryside for
the cities ………..
(A) are earning a little bit better
(B) are traveling a lot more many cities
(C) have succeeded in building their
own houses
(D) are living in better conditions
(E) are very disappointed in their hopes
for a better life
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26. Which of the following statements is (D) is being restructured
NOT TRUE according to the text? (E) restructuring
(A) The poor like sleeping because they
are very lazy 30. “Why does the baby next-door keep
(B) It is difficult to find a job in the city crying?” “As usual , it ……. by the baby
(C) Every country has its poverty sister.”
problems (A) is neglecting
(D) Sleeping is a way to escape from (B) is neglected
reality (C) neglects
(E) In Brazil the poor build shanty towns (D) is to be neglected
in the hills (E) is to neglect

27. “When they arrive they find that that 31. “There was so much noise next door.”
things are no better than in the “Our neighbor …… from their vacation
Country” (line10). This means that abroad.”
………. (A) may come back
(A) it is easier to live in the countryside (B) would have come back
(B) shacks are piled on top of one (C) is supposed to come back
another (D) must have come back
(C) people built cardboard shacks (E) ought to come back
(D) old cars are thrown on top of one
another 32. “Harry could not pay his school fee
(E) Living in the city has many because his father was unemployed.”
advantages “His rich uncle ……… him with his school
fee.”
28. What is a ‘scrap-yard’? It is a place (A) may support
where ………… (B) should have supported
(A) people forget how hard life is (C) might support
(B) shacks are piled on top of one (D) will have supported
another (E) would rather support
(C) people built cardboard shacks
(D) old cars are thrown on top of one 33. “I could not find the museum you told
another me about.” “I ………. the wrong bus.”
(E) scraps of wood and metal are sold (A) must have taken
by the poor (B) should have taken
(C) should take
29. “The President Director agreed that the (D) would have taken
performance of the company has not (E) ought to take
been good these past few years.” In
fact, its organization ....... now for 34. I am still waiting ........ for an interview.
improvement. (A) to be called
(A) Restructured (B) be called
(B) is restructuring (C) be calling
(C) is to restructure (D) to called
(E) called
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35. “I can’t find my hand phone in my bag”. 41. As a child I always enjoyed...... in the
“Well, you ........in the car. Let’s take a rain.
look.” (A) be playing
(A) may have to leave it (B) play
(B) had to leave it (C) played
(C) should have left it (D) playing
(D) may have left it (E) to play
(E) must leave it
42. He must avoid ........ too hard because of
36. “The hotel is suffering a great loss”. “Yes his poor health.
only ten percent of their rooms ........... ” (A) be working
(A) being occupied (B) in working
(B) occupied (C) work
(C) is occupied (D) working
(D) are occupied (E) to be working
(E) they are occupied
43. The man sitting next to Ati said.” Do you
37. “Why aren’t you driving your own car?”. mind ........ ?”
“It .......... ” (A) smoking
(A) has sold (B) I smoke
(B) has to sell (C) to smoke
(C) has been selling (D) my smoking
(D) has been sold (E) mine smoking
(E) has to be sold
44. “What was he punished for?” “ ... late to
38. Don’t put off ......... the application form. the english class.”
(A) to fill in (D) filling in (A) When he came
(B) fill in (E) you fill in (B) Coming
(C) for filling in (C) In order to come
(D) By coming
39. Your handwriting is almost impossible (E) To come
………….
(A) my reading it (D) be read 45. My niece is not used ......... in a
(B) to read (E) reading dormitory.
(C) for reading it (A) to live (D) live
(B) living (E) a lives
40. If you want to ......... in running your (C) to living
business, you must have the full support
of your employees. 46. “What did Amir promise you yesterday?”
(A) succeed “ .... together in the library.”
(B) successful (A) We study
(C) successfully (B) Studying
(D) succeeded (C) In studying
(E) succeeding (D) Studied
(E) To study
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47. “The students are talking so excitedly; 49. When we were in San Fransisco, we
what do they want?” “….the test asked a policeman for……… to the Art
postponed until next week.” Gallery.
(A) In having (A) information
(B) Having (B) permission
(C) I have (C) advice
(D) To have (D) direction
(E) They have (E) requirement

48. We were astonished at ........ a good 50. Careless dumping of ……… waste into the
score for an English test in spite of his Musi River has caused serious water
poor English. pollution.
(A) he could get (A) industry
(B) his being able to get (B) industrial
(C) to be able to get (C) industrialize
(D) being able to get (D) industrialist
(E) be able to get (E) industrialize

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 SNMPTN Tahun 2008 Kode Soal 301

BACAAN

Text 1

We often think it very funny if a film shows a women or a girl screaming and running in
fright at the sight of a mouse or a cockroach. But we don’t consider our own little, secret
fears a laughing matter. Perhaps you shiver at the sight of a snake or an eel, cannot bear
to hear the sound of jagged metal rubbing against metal, or feel uneasy in a lift.
5 Fortunately, most of us suffer only a mild from of fright about certain things. According
to psychiatrists, this is quite normal.
It becomes a problem only when the fear develops into a mental condition that
affects all aspects of person’s life. Studies of thousands of people with an abnormal
dread show that every time they think about – or come into contact with – the subject of
10 their fear, they show all the physical signs of a person who is facing serious danger : a
racing heart, dry mouth, cold sweat and weak knees.
Doctors and psychiatrists welcome publicity about phobias, for this help to convince
their patients that their fears are not unique. It reassures the patients to know that there
are other people who are afraid of the same thing, and it makes the patients more willing
15 to try to understand what is causing their fear. Once they realize what in their
subconscious is causing their fear, they are half-way to being cured. Psychiatrist believe
that these unreasonable fears are caused by deep-seated reasons, perhaps a terrifying
experience during childhood.
One typical case was Mrs. Mary Bachelor, a London housewife who suffered from
20 agoraphobia (fears of open spaces). For twenty-three years, she remains indoors.
Following publicity about other agoraphobia cases, she was persuaded to go out for the
first time to watch her son perform with a pop group.
Most of us suffer from claustrophobia (fear of being in closed areas) in a mild way,
but the real sufferers go about in great fear of being trapped without escape in a lift, in a
packed train or in an aircraft. Altogether, there are a hundred and thirty phobias listed in
the medical dictionary, ranging from acrophobia (fear of heights) to xenophobia (morbid
dislike of foreigners). Some phobias are very odd indeed. There are cases of people who
turn cold with terror at the sight of a cabbage leaf, run away in fright at the sight of a bird
or faint when they hear a dog bark. There was even a man who refused to eat anything
that he knew had been touched by someone who had handled matches.

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soal nomor 51 sampai nomor 75
1. Fear of certain things will become a
problem when the fear
(A) disturbs all aspects of the sufferer’s
life
(B) is influenced by a person’s
personality
(C) develops mentally or physically
(D) is reflected in a person’s daily life
(E) makes the sufferer unfriendly to
others
2. ‘deep-seated reasons’ (line …) most
likely means reasons that are . their abnormal fears
(A) long forgotten
(B) difficult to choose
(C) not easy to handle
(D) difficult to realize
(E) flexible to change
3. To cure their phobias, patients . courses would this passage probably be
(A) should take their unusual fear
seriously
(B) may have to consider publicity of
their fears
(C) determine the dangers caused by
their phobias
(D) try to convince their doctors of their
secret fears
(E) try to understand the real cause of
their phobias
4. The following statements may be the
purposes of the writer in writing the
text, EXCEPT .
(A) to explain the causes of different
kinds of phobias
(B) to convince people about the
importance of publicity about
phobias
(C) to inform people how to overcome
(D) to persuade people with abnormal
fears to talk to psychiatrist
(E) to inform people about different
kinds of phobias
5. In which of the following combined
used as assigned reading?
(A) psychology / sociology
(B) medicine / biology
(C) philosophy /medicine
(D) psychology / medicine
(E) sociology / biology

Text II

(1) . (2) That should not be surprising, since the study of

music and the study of language have a lot in common. (3) Both require you to have a ‘good
ear’ – the ability to hear the difference reproduce sounds you have heard. (5) Finally, when
you learn music or language, you have to learn complex sets of rules. (6) With language, the
rule are about grammar and meaning. (7) in fact, grammar is the rules about how words
change their form and combine with other words to make sentences. (8) With music, the rules
are about sounds and rhythm. (9) Not surprisingly, researchers have discovered a scientific
reason why people are good at music and languages. (10) According to a study done in
Germany, you use the same part of the brain for both subjects. (11) This part of the brain is
called Broca’s area. (12) Scientists have known for some time that it is connected to learning
languages. (13) Now they believe that it is also the part of the brain you use when you are
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should the text begin? apply the same rules.
(A) We are lucky if we are good at both 7. he sentence which is irrelevant to the
music and languages. text is sentence number
(B) Many people who are good at music (A) 6
are good at languages as well. (B) 7
(C) Both music and languages are (C) 8
commonly taught at schools. (D) 9
(D) Music and languages are two (E) 10
relevant subjects to learn.

Text III

Colours, hair, and jewellery are frequently determined by a person’s sex. This is not always
true for all cultures, ad it ii not even true now throughout the United States. In this country,
there were protests to bring about a change from these culturally strict norms. The ‘anti
military’ attitudes of the 1960’s and the 1970’s sought to break with the military tradition
masculine or ‘macho’ position, thus making it more acceptable for men to wear floral designs
on their shirts in pinks, purples, violets, and other ‘feminine colours’. For some people, long
hair and jewellery on men also became acceptable as a means of expressing this changed way
of thinking. More facial hair also became common, precisely because it differed from the
military norm. The business world, however, has been slow to change.
.

8. What is the topic of the text?
(A) The change in gender-based attitude
in the U.S.
(B) Jewellery as a means of expressing
thoughts.
(C) Feminine colours versus masculine
colours.
(D) The anti military movement in the
U.S.
(E) Various cultures in the world.
9. With which of the following sentences
should the text end?
In most offices today,
(A) wearing a bright colours, jewellery,
and long hair is still not acceptable
for men
(B) men and women have the same
right in deciding the color of their
rooms
(C) men are free to wear bright and
colorful shirts
(D) bright colours are used in the
working areas as well as in the
common room
(E) people coming from various cultural
backgrounds work hand in hand

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Text IV

One of the major achievements of modern science is the determination of the approximate
age of the Earth, now reckoned at 4.6 billion years. This makes the Earth far older than was
(10) imagined. Indeed, one eighteenth century religious and scientific authority
circulated the widely (11) view that the planet was only some four thousand years old.
To modern scientists, (12) , geologic time begins with the formation of the Earth’s solid
crust sometime earlier than the age of the oldest known rock. Geologists divide this vat
expanse of time into four eras – the Precambrian, the Paleozoic’ the Mesozoic, and the
Cenozoic, which takes us to the present. Thus, the almost five billion years of planelary history
and the 100,000 or so years of human (13) are encapsulated in a mere for categories.
(14) , to aid in the discussion of such vast periods of time, further division and
(15) becomes necessary. Accordingly, the last three eras are further (16) into 12
periods and more than 40 epochs, each division being (17) by characteristic types of
rock and plant and animal fossils.

10. (A) comfortably 15. (A) specifics

(B) cautiously (B) specification
(C) separately (C) specifically
(D) formerly (D) specificity
(E) quietly (E) specify

11. (A) constructed 16. (A) staged

(B) accepted (B) planned
(C) formulated (C) determined
(D) circulated (D) divided
(E) protected (E) multiplied

12. (A) otherwise 17. (A) determiner

(B) moreover (B) determinate
(C) therefore (C) determination
(D) besides (D) determinant
(E) however (E) determined

13. (A) existence 18. Prof. Bahren was not satisfied with the
(B) existed data that I collected, therefore to
(C) existing support my arguments.
(D) existent (A) he had me collect more data
(E) exist (B) I had him collect more data
(C) he had more data collected
14. (A) Finally (D) I had collected more data
(B) Literally (E) he had to collect more data
(C) Obviously
(D) Approvingly
(E) Completely
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19. ‘I always admire artists who succeeded
in winning the Citra Trophy.’
‘I’m sure they for it.’
(A) must have worked hard
(B) should be working hard
(C) had rather work hard
(D) ought to work hard
(E) would have worked hard
23. ‘You didn’t forget your appointment, did
you?’
, I might have forgotten it.’
(A) If Tom hadn’t reminded me
(B) Had Tom reminded me
(C) If Tom didn’t remind me
(D) When Tom didn’t remind me.
(E) Even if Tom reminded me.

20. Invited to present a paper in a seminar,
. this week-end?”
(A) Mr Suryadi’s soft copy of the paper
was sent to the committee by email
this morning
(B) The committee was sent a soft copy
of the paper by email this morning
(C) The soft copy of the paper was sent
by Mr. Suryadi to committee by
email this morning
(D) An email with the soft copy of the
paper was sent to the committee
this morning
(E) Mr. Suryadi sent the soft copy of the
paper to the committee by email
this morning
21. “Where’s Fred? I haven’t seen him.”
“Well, he the reports when I
arrived.”
(A) had typed
(B) was typing
(C) has typed
(D) is typing
(E) typed
24. “Would you like to join us for a picnic
‘Oh, I have to prepare for my
project presentation.”
(A) thanks for asking
(B) I’m afraid I can’t
(C) I’d love to
(D) it’s very kind of you
(E) do you want me to come?
25. Most mangoes in Britain arrive by
airfreight they are still fresh when
they reach the consumers.
(A) while
(B) although
(C) whenever
(D) so that
(E) because

22. The children went on talking when the

teacher came into the room; in fact, they
didn’t event stop “Good
morning.’
(A) saying
(B) to say
(C) say
(D) to saying
(E) to be saying

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Passage 1
A new study, published Thursday in Science, makes a strong case that the second theory is the
right one. A team of anthropologists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, developed a battery of learning tests they call the Primate
Cognition Test Battery, and gave it to 106 chimps, 105 children and 32 orang-utans, to
5 compare the groups directly on physical and social learning. Says Esther Hermann, a co-author
of the paper: “It’s the first time anything like this has been done.
The three groups performed about equally well on physical learning –- locating hidden
objects, figuring out the source of a noise, understanding the concepts of more and less, using
a stick to get something that’s out of reach. And indeed, the kids were of an age –-- 2 ½ years
old –-- where it’s widely known that they do perform about as well as chimps in such tests. So
10 for example, the scientists would hide a treat of some kind –-- a toy, or some food –-- behind a
box, while the test subjects looked on, the kids, chimps and orang-utans would have to be
sophisticated enough to know that the object disappearing from view didn’t mean it stopped
existing, and had to be able to figure out where it had gone All three groups did equally well at
this sort of thing.
1. With reference to the primates in the (D) see if there is a similarity between
experiment, the author mainly deals some animals and humans in the
with their … physical and social learning.
(A) intelligent capacity. (E) explain factors in the physical and
(B) social achievement. social learning between some
(C) physical performance. animals and humans.
(D) emotional maturity.
3. The expression physical learning in ‘The
(E) cognitive curiosity.
three groups performed about equally
well on physical learning …’ (line 6)
2. The purpose of the study is to …
refers to …
(A) examine the physical and social
(A) the performance on the Primate
relationships between some
Cognition Test Battery.
animals and humans.
(B) the comparison of the subjects
(B) analyze the physical and social
physical and social performance.
ability between some animals and
(C) the development of learning tests
humans.
to evaluate a theory.
(C) describe the behavior of some
(D) the strong claim to the second
animals and humans in the
acceptable theory .
physical and social learning.
(E) the ability to find the location of a
hidden object.

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infants of about 2 – 3 years of age would
probably generally …
(A) be unable to perform the tasks for
chimps and orang-utans.
(B) know more the concepts of simple
calculation than chimps and orang-
utans.
(C) have the level of physical learning
similar to chimps and orang-utans.
(D) perform test tasks more poorly
than adult chimps and orang-
utans.
(E) be able to do social activities that
normally chimps and orang-utans
can do.
5. The paragraph preceding the passage
above is most likely about description of
…
(A) the psychological test.
(B) the two theories of learning.
(C) the social and physical learning.
(D) mammals and their classification.
(E) the Primate Cognition Test
Battery.

Passage 2
Although this term has not been commonly used to describe health in years past, sustainable
health is a growing movement. Health can be defined as a state of feeling good. The word
sustainability describes the process by which something can keep going. Thus, sustainable
health describes being in a state where you feel good not just once but over an extended
5 period of time. Some major areas of interest surrounding sustainable health include: food
additives, animal welfare, biodiversity, community farming, genetic engineering, and
pesticides.
Youths are increasingly being exposed to unhealthy diets, including diets are high in
saturated fats and low in fruits, vegetables, and complex carbohydrates. Probably the most
worrying realities of unhealthy eating practices have been the increased risk of diseases like
diabetes, heart failure, malnutrition, and obesity. In 2006 the WHO reported that 400
10 million out of the 1.6 billion adults who were diagnosed as overweight were simultaneously
diagnosed as obese in both developed and developing countries.
Research studies have shown that educating school-aged children and young people
on healthy and sustainable nutritional habits will increase the likelihood of those children and
young people remaining healthy in the future regardless of socio-economic background.
These educational programs not only teach nutrition, but also teach youth how to prepare and
15 handle food in safe and sustainable ways, achieve a balanced diet with limited resources, and
to decrease their risk of acquiring a nutrition-related disease or disorder. The Theory of
Planned Behavior (TPB) has been used by many research studies on nutrition to predict the
factors that affect youth decision-making with regards to eating healthy. A study found that
youth in a multicultural low-income community in the Unites States of America who
20 participated in a 10-week program significantly improved in nutrition and eating habits. The
success of the nutrition education program for multicultural youth identified several factors
that were important to positively influencing the nutrition choices, which includes: a nutrition
and cooking curriculum that emphasized culturally diverse foods; participatory learning
activities (role-playing), sustainable gardening lessons, in addition to skills to fight racism and
poverty discrimination. TPB model has also been used to help identify the ecological and
cultural factors that affect indigenous youth in the Americas.
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6. In the passage above the author mainly
deals with …
(A) values of being healthy.
(B) ways to healthy lives.
(C) sustainable health.
(D) keeping healthy.
(E) youths’ health.
7. Concerning food consumption, the
author suspects that young people …
(A) lack knowledge of types of healthy
food.
(B) tend to consume a lot of junk food.
(C) are unaware of consuming poison
our food.
(D) become the victim of eating
harmful food.
(E) are unfamiliar with the risk of
unhealthy food.
8. To promote a school’s sustainable health
program, a school principal would
probably encourage everyone in school
to …
(A) have regular health checks.
(B) practice cooking classes.
(C) do sustainable gardening.
(D) put more lessons on health.
(E) hold meetings by nutritionists.
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9. A relevant question raised with
reference to the text above would be …
(A) Why do most Americans tend to
consume unhealthy meals?
(B) What are the characteristics of
diseases related with
malnutrition?
(C) Is unhealthy consumption of meals
related with the types of race?
(D) Does anyone who is healthy
always have a state of thinking
stability?
(E) Is education on sustainable health
related with eating habits?
10. Concerning diets and health among
young people, there is a need to …
(A) promote sustainable health for
those with malnutrition.
(B) educate those between 5 – 19 of
age about sustainable health.
(C) introduce sustainable health to
those concerned with education.
(D) make young people realize the role
of healthy living in their future.
(E) Show the relation between
diseases and socio-economic
conditions.
 Passage 3

A difficult problem that the society is facing is the legalization of euthanasia – the act of
causing death painlessly in order to end suffering. People who are in a coma because of injury
to their brains and elderly people who are terminally ill are being kept alive by artificial means.
They do not have a chance to recover, but laws in most states of the United States do not
5 allow doctors to end their lives. Although many people feel that doctors must do everything
possible to keep their patients alive, I believe that euthanasia should be legal for three
reasons.
The first and most important reason to support euthanasia is that some patients who
have no chance to recover do not wish to be kept alive on machines. These patients are kept
alive by life-support machines such as respirators to help them breathe and feeding tubes to
provide them with nutrition. A well-known example in the United States is the case of Teri
10 Schiavo, a young woman who went into a coma in 1990. Mrs. Schiavo was able to breathe on
her own, but her brain was dead. For fifteen years, she was kept alive by a feeding tube.
After eight years of seeking treatment for her condition, her husband asked the court for
permission to remove her feeding tube. He said that his wife had told him that she would not
want to be kept alive artificially when there was no hope of recovery. Mrs. Schiavo’s parents
15 disagreed with Mr. Schiavo and fought to keep their daughter alive. After seven years of
bitter court battles, Mr. Schiavo finally won. Doctors removed Mrs. Schiavo’s feeding tube, and
she soon died. Clearly, when there is absolutely no hope of recover, society should allow a
person to die if that is her or his wish.
A second reason is that medical costs in the United States were very high. Keeping a
person alive for years requires round-the-clock care in a hospital. According to an
administrator at a local hospital, a daily hospital room charges average $5,000 there. The high
cost can cause serious financial problems for a family.
The final reason is that the family suffers. Hospital staffs give terminally ill patients only
20 minimal care. Thus, the family must spend time caring for the special needs of their loved
one. For instance, a cousin of mine who had been in a motorcycle accident was kept on life-
support machines for eight years. Someone had to stay with him twenty-four hours a day.
During those years, his parents took turns taking care of him. Other family members tried to
help out when they could, but his parents did most of the physical work and suffered most of
25 the emotional stress. After he finally died, my aunt said, “Of course, I am sad, but since we all
knew he would eventually die, it might have been better if it had happened right when he had
the accident. These past eight years have been hard.”
To summarize patients who are either terminally ill or who are in an irreversible coma
often wish to die. Their care is a financial, physical, and emotional burden for their families.
Therefore, families should have the right to ask doctors to turn off life-support machines or to
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11. Concerning euthanasia, the author 14. If you agree with the author, what might
thinks that … happen if someone who has a serious
(A) it should be legalized in any illness does not have the probability to
circumstances. get better?
(B) the family, not the law, decides if it (A) The doctor could remove feeding
is to be performed. tubes.
(C) doctors should perform it when (B) The family might refuse the idea of
the patient wishes to die. euthanasia.
(D) it should be legalized under certain (C) The doctor would offer to perform
conditions. euthanasia.
(E) it is the answer to relieve a social (D) The patient would refuse to be
burden of the patient’s family. hospitalized.
(E) The patient could ask their right to
12. The least important reason the author die soon.
argues is that …
(A) the patient’s family suffers 15. The word irreversible in “… who are in an
because of the hospital staff’s irreversible coma …” (line 26) means …
indifference. (A) temporary
(B) doctors and nurses do not really (B) unchangeable
care about their patients. (C) dangerous
(C) when somebody is ill, the family (D) permanent
has to take turns caring for them. (E) unconscious
(D) the parents of the terminally ill
patient suffer a lot.
(E) the family suffers the most
although they know the patient
will not recover.

13. What does the author’s concern about

the legal form of euthanasia?
(A) the family’s objection
(B) the family’s rights
(C) the life of the dying patient
(D) the patient’s expectation
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Passage 1
Sometimes experience in other countries can help people to understand their own identity better.
Mahatma Gandhi was born 1869 at Portandar in Western India. After studying in India, he dreamt of
going to England to study. He was told that his Hindu religion did not allow voyages abroad. However,
Gandhi was very determined and he finally left for England in 1887. At first he tried to learn to believe
5 like an English gentleman, but he soon learnt that it was better to be himself. He studied law in
London, qualifying in 1891. He also learnt aboutother religious.
He returned home to India and worked as a lawyer for two years. After some problems, he
was offered a job in South Africa. Here he experienced racism as a member of the Indian community. He
decided to fight for the rights of Indians using “passive resistance”. He had three main beliefs, namely
non-violence, religious tolerance and truth. When he finally returned to India in 1915, he became a
10 greatpolitical leader. During thefight for independence he was often put in prison, but his beliefsnever
changed.
Gandhi had studied in Britain, so he understood the British better than they understood him.
Gandhi’s leadership led to independence, but, on Independence Day, 15 August, 1947, Gandhi refused
to celebrate. He was in favor of Hindu-Muslim unity but Muslims and Hindus could not agree, so a
separate Muslim state was formed in Pakistan. In 1948, Gandhi started fasting to death as a protest
15 against fighting between India and Pakistan. He was assassinated by a Hindu fanatic on 30th January
1948. India and Pakistan are still fighting in Kashmir today. The fight for independence was a difficult one,
butnotas difficult as the fight for non-violence, religious tolerance and truth.

1. The passage above mainly deals with 2. The following statement are true
Mahatma Gandhi’s… about Mahatma Gandhi, EXPECT…
(A) search for principles of his three (A) Mahatma Gandhi’s studying in
main beliefs. Britain was against Hinduism
(B) fighting against racism in South principles.
Africa. (B) Mahatma Gandhi believed in non-
(C) political career as an important violence, religious tolerance and
national leader. truth.
(D) experience to identify his life (C) Mahatma Gandhi learned and
principles. understood about, some religious
(E) political struggle for India’s well.
independence. (D) Mahatma Gandhi fought hard for
unity of his nation.
(E) Mahatma Gandhi did not like the
idea of Hindu-Muslim unity in
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three main beliefs, non-violence, statements about Mahatma Gandhi,
religious tolerance and truth (line 8) EXPECT …
can best be replaced by … (A) he understood Hinduism and
(A) favorable conducts. Islam equally well.
(B) peaceful actions. (B) he knew well the characteristics
(C) political spirits. of the English people.
(D) religious prejudices. (C) he had good knowledge about
(E) passive behaviors. law issues.
(D) he had the hardest time fighting
4. Mahatma Gandhi got his university for independence of his nation.
degree in … (E) he experienced racism when he
(A) 1887. was in South Africa.
(B) 1915.
(C) 1891.
(D) 1947.
(E) 1948.

Passage 2

Education is often viewed as school in a traditional, formal sense. Many people believe that true
learning can only take place in a formal classroom setting. Others feel education occurs in many
different forms and environments. There may not be a definitive answer to the question of, ‘What is
education?’ However, we can start thinking about the purpose of education. Is it to educate youth to
5 be responsible citizens? Is it to develop individuals, as well as society, in order to ensure a society’s
economic success? Or is it to simply focus on developing individual talents and intelligence? Perhaps
it is the balance of all three that defines education? While our answers may differ, we can perhaps
agree that education is a basic human right. When that right is granted growth and development, the
society as a whole is more likely to improve in areas such as health, nutrition, general income and
living standards and population fertility rates.
As global citizens it is our responsibility to critically think about the issues and attempt to come
10 up with solutions to the problems plaguing education. In 1990 UNESCO launched EFA, the movement
to provide quality education for all children, youth, and adults by the year 2015. The unfortunate
reality is that for many countries, larger issue come before improving the quality of education. How
can we achieve the goals of EFA when numerous countries around the world are faced with
challenges that seem far too impossible to overcome? The answer lies in attempting to bridge some
15 the gaps that prevent developing nations to compete with developed nations. One example is that
of
of providing greater access to technology and narrowing the ever widening digital divide. In many
ways the most basic access to technology can serve as a valuable educational tool. Individuals who are
not afforded this access are at a disadvantage when trying to grasp opportunities to make life better
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paragraph of the passage is that …
(A) there is no exact definition about
education.
(B) education is a fundamental
individual’s right.
(C) everyone has the right to get
quality education.
(D) education occurs in any place not
just school.
(E) development can be gained
through education.
7. The situation the author shows in the
passage above is best described as
follows…
(A) quality education fundamentally
ensures quality living in all
sectors.
(B) education is essentially
everyone’s right yet it still has its
challenges.
(C) there are problems in education
in spite of its significant role.
(D) as long as nations compete,
education cannot progress.
(E) absence of an exact definition
causes problems in education.
8. The following sentences reflect the
author’s opinions in the passage,
EXCEPT…
(A) everyone has the right to get
education.
(B) education cannot be easily
defined.
(C) EFA provides quality education by
2015.
(D) education is basic to human
development.
(E) the EFA goals are faced with
serious challenges.
9. If the author is right concerning the
role of education, the following might
be predicted to take place EXCEPT…
(A) longer life expectation.
(B) lesser birth rates.
(C) improved welfare.
(D) better quality living.
(E) more job opportunities.
10. The part following the passage above
would likely discuss …
(A) lack of access to technology in
developing countries to support
educational practices.
(B) needs of modern digital
technology to back up the
implementation of EFA in
education.
(C) roles of technology in providing
individuals with cheap and
accessible quality education.
(D) inability of developing nations to
compete with developed
countries in technology.
(E) government’s roles and
responsibilities in managing
education for their citizens.
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Generally, by people’s own accounts, the public idea of women at home is that they are dull and boring. And the
stereotype of working woman is of hard, ambitious, selfish creatures. It is not just you are either gentle and dull or
selfish and interesting. It is that you are either a good mother or you are an interesting woman.
‘Young women now seem to get very clear picture that they have got a choice. If they are going to do mothering
well, they have got to pay for it by not being interesting women. If you are an interesting working woman, you are a
5 bad mother.’ Lyn Richards puts the blame for such notions and for resulting family tensions on the failure of people to
talk enough about them. The media, too, are guilty. ‘There is a lot of media coverage of successful career women and
still a lot, especially in women’s magazines, on the joys of motherhood. There’s not that much about the trouble of
either role and precious little about combining the roles. Yet half the women who are married in our society are
working.’
10 Nor is much thought given to the task of loosening the ties entrapping men. Lyn Richards, a working mother,
grateful for the privilege of genuinely choosing and being able to afford the role, criticizes the systematic exclusion of
men from ‘child rearing and the really pretty fabulous aspects of having children’. She condemns as ludicrous the
idea of the 9 to 5 treadmill of work as an absolute duty for men. ‘The sheer irony to me is that the women’s
movement has told women the way to be liberated is to get into the 9 to 5 tied work force that men have been
15 fighting against for a century. Really we should be using changes in women’s values to shake up all the oppression and
rigidity that men been under.’
Indeed, there has been a change. ‘The new thing since I married is that it’s normal for both husband and wife to
go on working when they marry. Now marriage isn’t a particularly big deal. Very often it just legalizes something which
has been going on anyway and it certainly doesn’t change a women’s whole basis of life, her notion of who she is. The
real life change is having the first child and when that happens I think that probably most couples are still reverting to
20 something like the traditional concept of marriage. But the longer people put off having a child the more likely it is
that they won’t because they have set up a viable life style. They don’t need to have kids now to have a good
marriage.’
Not that motherhood and raising families are wholly going out of fashion but rather that people are having smaller
families. Consequently, the period in a woman’s life when she is not required to devote herself to mothering is
lengthening. ‘Motherhood – the mother role – just isn’t a very good identity base today,’ Lyn Richards says.
25 ‘Motherhood is a short-term appointment now. It doesn’t last long.’

11. The passage mainly deals with 13. Lyn argues that in rearing children in a
women’s… family …
(A) alternative role. (A) women’s role should be more
(B) social function. dominant.
(C) natural interest. (B) both men and women are equally
(D) fundamental duty. responsible.
(E) main responsibility. (C) men’s role should be put into
account.
12. The expression combining the roles in (D) working women share equal work
‘… precious little about combining the distribution.
roles.’ (line 9) in the passage means … (E) men’s role should be excluded.
(A) being either a married or a career
woman. 14. If Lyn is correct, in the future women
(B) working both in an office and at in families of younger generations…
home. (A) have less children to care for.
(C) serving the family and doing (B) make up career individuals.
office work. (C) will be more prosperous.
(D) enjoying motherhood and caring (D) are more individualistic.
for the family. (E) share an equal responsibility.
(E) having a dual role of mother and
career woman.
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out of the passage would be …
(A) what characterizes a good
working woman?
(B) how could men and women build
eternal marriage?
(C) what ways are there to keep a
family harmonious?
(D) why would the role of a woman in
mothering not last long?
(E) what requirements should
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Text 1

Climate change is with us. A decade ago, it was conjecture. Now the future is unfolding before our eyes.
Canada’s Inuit see it in melting Arctic ice and permafrost. The shantytown dwellers of Latin America and
Southern Asia see it in lethal storms and floods. Europeans see it in disappearing glaciers, forest fires and fatal
heat waves. Scientists see it in tree rings, ancient coral and bubbles trapped in ice cores. These reveal that the
5 world has not been as warm as it is now for a millennium or more. Earth has probably never warmed as fast as
in the past 30 years – a period when natural influences on global temperatures, such as solar cycles and
volcanoes should have cooled us down.

People are causing the change by burning nature’s vast stores of coal, oil and natural gas. This releases
billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) every year although the changes may actually have started with the
10 dawn of agriculture, say some scientists. The physics of the “greenhouse effect” has been a matter of scientific
fact for a century. CO2 is a greenhouse gas that traps the sun’s radiation within the troposphere. It has
accumulated along with other man-made greenhouse gases, such as methane and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).
If current trends continue, we will raise atmospheric CO2 concentrations to double pre-industrial levels during
this century. That will probably be enough to raise global temperatures by around 2C to 5C. Some warming is
15 certain, but the degree will be determined by feedbacks involving melting ice, the oceans, water vapor, clouds
and changes to vegetation.

Global warming is bringing about unpredictable changes. Melting glaciers and precipitation are
causing some rivers to overflow, while evaporation is emptying others. Diseases are spreading. Some crops
grow faster while others see yields slashed by disease and drought. Strong hurricanes are becoming more
20 frequent and destructive. Arctic sea ice is melting faster every year, and there are growing fears of a shutdown
of the ocean currents that keep Europe warm for its latitude. Clashes over dwindling water resources may
cause conflicts in many regions.

1. The first paragraph of the text mainly 2. As stated in the third paragraph, global
deals with the topic on … warming according to the writer in
(A) natural causes of global warming. general may result in …
(B) Effects of global warming in Arctic (A) random changes in the flow of sea
regions. currents.
(C) natural disasters happening (B) natural disasters and social
worldwide. problems.
(D) current facts for climate change (C) a longer winter period in European
everywhere. countries.
(E) an increase of the world’s (D) widespread floods and deadly
temperature. droughts.
(E) torrential storms in equatorial
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3. The factors responsible for an increase in
the global temperature come from the
greenhouse effect in which …
(A) A lot of agricultural activities
involve oil or coal burning.
(B) The tropospheric layer is filled up
with the sun’s radiation.
(C) Methane and chlorofluorocarbons
concentrate in the air.
(D) The rays from the sun are blocked
by greenhouse gases.
(E) A large amount of ice in the poles
melts much faster than normal.
5. The following phenomena suggest
inevitable impacts of climate change on
nature mentioned in the text, EXCEPT …
(A) extended droughts and famine.
(B) gradual increase of global
temperature.
(C) growing heavy snow storms.
(D) decrease of Arctic sea ice areas.
(E) seasonal floods due to the raise of
sea levels.

4. It can be predicted that if global actions

are not taken immediately to control
emissions of greenhouse gases, the
Arctic permafrost in a decade to go will
significantly …
(A) expand.
(B) increase.
(C) disappear.
(D) melt.
(E) evaporate.

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“Don’t write that down! Put your pencil away!” Agnes Buckley is trying in vain to head off an entertaining story
about how she used to sneak out of the house as a teenager. She favored boys with motorcycles. When their
father hid her shoes to keep her at home, Agnes simply by passed the front door and leaped out the window.
“Everyone is going to think I was a troublemaker,” she laments.

5 Agnes may have had some fun as teen, but there is a lifetime of evidence to prove she has grown into
respectability. A lifetime, that is, that already includes a full decade and a half more than the 80 or so years that
a girl born in the U.S. today can expect to live. Agnes was born in 1913, the year that Grand Central Terminal
opened in New York City and the U.S Postal Service began delivering packages as well as letters, which
makes her 96 years old. Two of her 11 brothers and sisters are nonagenarians too. The other surviving
10 members of the clan are pushing 80 or well beyond it. And, as Agnes points out, “none of us have canes.”

In fact, the entire Hurlburt family is a model of long-lived, healthful vigor, which makes it a perfect
candidate for the Long Life Family Study, an investigation into the factors that help certain families produce
members who live into their 80s, 90s an even 100s. The study, sponsored by the National Institute on Aging,
includes investigators form four U.S research centers and one Danish one. The idea, says Dr. Perls, the principal
15 investigator at the Boston University Medical Center location, is to reveal which genetic, environmental and
behavioral factors contribute to longevity.

“When it comes to rare genetic variations contributing to longevity, family analysis is particularly
powerful,” he says. “But just because something occurs in a family does not mean it is necessarily genetic.
There are lots of behaviors and traditions that happen in families that play a role in longer life expectancies.
20 We use these families like the Hurlburts to search out what these factors are.”

6. Which of the following statements
contains an opinion about the
information in the text?
(A) Dr. Perls and his team investigate
several factors believed to
contribute to longevity.
(B) There are factors of a variety of
sources, including family
conditions that explan longevity.
(C) All the Hurlburts are considered to
be a perfect model for The Long
Life Family Study.
(D) Agnes Buckley who has 11
brothers and makes her 96 years
old was born in 1913.
(E) The Long Life Family Study involves
researchers from research centers
of different countries.
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7. The part that comes next after the text
above most likely describes …
(A) research steps that will be taken
for investigating longer life
expectancies.
(B) Agnes Buckley’s habits and
behaviours when she was in her
adolescence.
(C) an investigation towards all family
members of the Hurlburts.
(D) genetic, environmental and
behavioral aspects that play a role
in longevity.
(E) genetic factors in families like the
Hurlburts contributing to longer
life.
8. As a teenager obviously Agnes Buckley …
(A) did a lot of outdoor activities.
(B) like having physical exercises.
(C) made her father get annoyed.
(D) was the pride for her family.
(E) once escaped from her family.
9. The factors to be investigated in the 10. One habit in the Hurlburts that may
Long Life Family Study related with explain longevity among the family
longevity are essentially … members would be …
(A) speculative. (A) absence in sugary food
(B) convincing. consumption.
(C) integrated. (B) doing regular physical exercises.
(D) influential. (C) having a lot of fun as a teenager.
(E) unavoidable. (D) regular health examinations.
(E) good practices in having selective
diets.

Text 3

Local or imported? Conventional or organic? Can you make choices that will keep your diet
healthy and reduce your carbon footprint? Is it possible to eat green? Does it even matter? It
may surprise you to learn that our diets account for up to twice as many greenhouse emissions
as driving. One recent study suggested that the average US household’s annual carbon
footprint is 8.1 tonnes of “equivalent CO2 emissions” or CO2eq – a measure that incorporates
any other greenhouse gases produced alongside the CO2. That’s almost twice the 4.4 tonnes of
CO2eq emitted by driving a 25-mile-per-US gallon, or 9 litres per 100 kilometers, vehicle 19,000
km – a typical year’s mileage in the US.
As greenhouse gas emissions attract ever greater scrutiny and criticism, the fields of
sustainable consumption and life-cycle carbon accounting have prompted academics to tally
the greenhouse gas emissions of hundreds of products and manufacturing processes so that
we can make more environmentally friendly food choices. In the UK some supermarkets have
already begun pilot programs to label foods with their carbon footprint. One potato crisp
producer is now labeling some lines with their CO2eq footprint – the makers calculated that
each 34.5-gram packet that leaves the factory accounts for 75 grams of CO2eq. The Carbon
Trust, a campaign group based in London, is working on a standardized system that companies
can follow to work out the CO2eq footprint of any product.
So how do you calculate your stomach’s CO2eq footprint? It’s far from simple. For a start,
you have to analyze every joule of energy used, from farm to fork, to measure its greenhouse
gas contribution. Food produced using wind or solar power will produce lower emissions than
food reliant on gas or coal, for example. For meat and dairy products you also have to account
for methane and nitrous oxide emissions – both potent greenhouse gases.

11. Which of the following ideas in the text
above contains an opinion?
(A) Dairy products are blamed for
methane and nitrous oxide
emissions.
(B) Measuring our stomach’s CO2 eq
footprints is more easily said than
done.
(C) US household’s yearly carbon
footprint 1s 8.1 tonnes on the
average.
(D) Carbon footprints have been in use
to label foods in supermarkets.
(E) Academic are concerned with the
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will be most likely found in those that greenhouse gas emissions …
processed in the factory employing … (A) Occur in foods and their
(A) solar energy. production and become the
(B) biogas fuels. expert’s interest; yet, the
(C) coal energy. technology to asses them is not
(D) fossil fuels. easy.
(E) bio energy. (B) In foods exceed those of car
driving as has been revealed by
13. If the text is true, reducing greenhouse experts using complex procedures.
gas emissions can be more optimally (C) Are suspected to be there in the
achieved by, for example, consuming fish food production and experts find it
which is … problematic to prove this.
(A) known for its greenhouse gas (D) cannot be determined using a
contents. simple method especially those
(B) low in its greenhouse gas contents. that take place during food
(C) manufactured without gas or oil. productions.
(D) processed with natural (E) Are the concern of scientist in food
ingredients. industries who specialize in the
(E) taken from unpolluted seas or evaluation of the emission level.
rivers.

14. The labeling CO2eq footprint in food

products very likely aims at making food
consumers …
(A) Realize the greenhouse gas
contest of the food they consume.
(B) Aware of the danger of consuming
some food products.
(C) Concerned more with the
greenhouse gas contents in the
foods.
(D) Reduce food products with high
levels of greenhouse gas contents.
(E) Choose the right foods with
appropriate greenhouse gas
contest.

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Text 1

The first ancient DNA sequences to be gathered - 3400 base pairs from a 2400-year-old Egyptian mummy 
were a proof of principle. A full genome sequence would be far more informative  perhaps explaining what
killed King Tut, for instance. At present, Inuk's is the only published ancient human genome. However,
a team led by Svante Paabo and Ed Green at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig,
5 Germany, will soon publish the complete genome sequence combined together from several Neanderthals,
from between 38,000 and 70,000 years ago.
Neanderthals are not the only hominids whose genomes could be sequenced, says Willerslev. Homo
erectus, a species that emerged in Africa about 2 million years ago, survived in east Asia until less than 100,000
years ago. If well-preserved bones can be found, a genome might be possible, Willerslev says. Willerslev's
10 laboratory has just received bones from Spain belonging to Homo heidelbergensis, the predecessor to
Neanderthals. "We are basically starting on it right now," he says. If these genomes ever materialize - and that's
a big if - they could lead to a better understanding of how different hominid species are related, and when and
where they branched off. If the genetic information is good enough, it may tell us
something about the nature of past peoples  possibly even what they looked like. Ancient human genomes
15 could give us insights into the evolution of our own species, explaining when genes involved in disease and
higher cognitive skills emerged.
But DNA is not forever. As it ages, its long strands shred into ever smaller pieces. Eventually they become
too small to reassemble, and all information is lost. "There seems to be a time horizon of 100,000 years or so
under most preservation conditions during which intact DNA survives," Green says. Stephan Schuster at
20 Pennsylvania State University, who led the woolly mammoth genome project, thinks ancient genomics is
already plateauing. Large chunks of Inuk's genome couldn't be filled in because his DNA had crumbled into
small pieces. "We will face an uphill battle in trying to apply this to a large number of human remains," he says.

1. With reference to the whole text, the 2. The writer is mainly of the opinion that
writer mainly deals with the topic on … tracing ancient humans’ life using their
(A) DNA research on the DNA …
Neanderthals. (A) is technologically possible through
(B) the past life of the Neanderthals. it has natural challenges.
(C) the use of ancient DNA in (B) promises a new horizon of
anthropology. understanding past illnesses.
(D) the role of DNA in fossil studies. (C) is a new breakthrough in modern
(E) DNA engineering in the Max Planck anthropological studies.
Institute. (D) provides a better picture of old
peoples’ DNA structures.
(E) requiring a longer chain of
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3. The physical look of hominid species can
even be reconstructed using the DNA
technology under the condition that …
(A) the DNA forms a solid fossil in a
good shape.
(B) the genetic information in the DNA
is high-quality.
(C) the DNA had not been smaller in
chunks.
(D) the sequence of the DNA pieces is
systematic.
(E) the DNA sequences can be easily
reassembled.
4. Based on the text, the following would
be the kind of information that could be
revealed about ancient people through
modern genome analyses, EXCEPT …
(A) typical illnesses.
(B) thinking potentials.
(C) evolutionary phases.
(D) migratory directions.
(E) nutritional patterns.
5. Based on the text, soon Darwin’s human
evolution theory will be most likely
empirically validated, if contemporary
DNA analyses are supported by the
following factors, EXCEPT …
(A) more discovery of early human
remains.
(B) modern genomic laboratories.
(C) expertise associated with ancient
DNA.
(D) better management in fossil
excavation.
(E) availability of complete ancient
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John Apollos is losing weight the old-fashioned way  by eating less. A whole lot less. As a volunteer in the two-
year Comprehensive Assessment of Long-Term Effects of Reducing Intake of Energy (CALERIE) study at Tufts
University in Boston, Apollos has lowered his daily calorie intake 25% over the past eight months. The fat, not
surprisingly, has melted away; the 52-year-old physical trainer has lost more than 11 kg since the study began
5 and is down to his high school weight.
Yet, that's not the real reason Apollos and the other participants in the program are eating only three-
quarters of what they used to. The researchers running the multicenter CALERIE study are trying to determine
whether restricting food intake can slow the aging process and extend our life span. "I feel better and lighter
and healthier," says Apollos. "But if it could help you live longer, that would be pretty amazing." The idea is
10 counterintuitive: If we eat to live, how can starving ourselves add years to our lives? Yet. decades of calorie-
restriction studies involving organisms ranging from microscopic yeast to rats have shown just that, extending
the life spans of the semi starved as much as 50%. Last July a long-term study led by researchers at the
University of Wisconsin nudged the implications of this a bit closer to our species, finding that calorie
restriction seemed to extend the lives of humanlike rhesus monkeys as well. The hungry primates fell victim to
15 diabetes, heart and brain disease and cancer much less frequently than their well-fed counterparts did.
However, there may be more than just the absence of disease operating here. Anytime you go on a diet,
after all, you stand a good chance of lowering your blood pressure, cholesterol level and risk of diabetes and
other health woes. All that can translate into extra years. With calorie restriction, usually defined as a diet with
25% to 30% fewer calories than normal but still containing essential nutrients, something else appears to be at
20 work to extend longevity.

6. Which of the following ideas from the 8. If the information in the text is true, the
text above contains an opinion? risks that someone whose calorie
(A) Restricting calorie consumption for consumption is controlled up to the
longevity. portion suggested in the study suffers
(B) Absence of disease due to from bone cancer are …
controlling calorie intake. (A) substantial.
(C) Apollo’s feeling better and lighter (B) negligible.
and healthier. (C) unpredictable.
(D) The melting of body fat by having (D) serious.
less foods. (E) indefinite.
(E) Apollos’ restricting his daily calorie
consumption. 9. The following is among other things the
empirical impacts of the study
7. The study aims at evaluating the impact mentioned in the text, EXCEPT …
of calorie restriction on … (A) slender body shape.
(A) minimizing the risks of getting (B) long life expectancy.
serious illnesses. (C) good healthiness.
(B) enhancing the feeling of happiness (D) emotion stability.
and health. (E) good feelings.
(C) reducing the amount of extreme
fat accumulation.
(D) controlling blood pressure and
cholesterol levels.
(E) aging-process slowing and life span
extension.
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10. As mentioned in the text, the study held
at the multicenter CALERIE, Tufts
University in Boston has employed a
research method that seems to be …
(A) conventional.
(B) complicated.
(C) temporary.
(D) ultramodern.
(E) methodological.

Text 3

Further research, conducted by Dean Mobbs, then at Stanford University in California,

uncovered a second point of activity in the brain's limbic system - associated with dopamine
release and reward processing - which may explain the pleasure felt once you "get" the joke.
Examining one particular part of the limbic system-the ventral striatum-was especially
revealing, as its level of activity corresponded with the perceived funniness of a joke. "It's the
same region that is involved in many different types of reward, from drugs, to sex and our
favourite music," says Mobbs, now at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in
Cambridge, UK. "Humour thus taps into basic rewards systems that are important to our
survival."
Yet humour is a far more multifaceted process than primeval pleasures like food. In
addition to the two core processes of getting the joke and feeling good about it, jokes also
activate regions of the frontal and cingulate cortex, which are linked with association
formation, learning and decision-making. The team also found heightened activity in the
anterior cingulate cortex and the frontoinsular cortex - regions that are only
present in humans and, in a less developed form, great apes. Indeed, the fact that these
regions are involved
suggests that humour is an advanced ability which may have only evolved in early humans,
says Watson, who conducted the research.
No two brains are the same, however, and how these differences are reflected in our
sense of humour is the subject of much research. Men and women, for example, seem to
process jokes slightly differently. Although both sexes laugh at roughly the same number of
jokes, women show greater activity in the left prefrontal cortex than men. "This suggests a
greater degree of executive processing and language-based decoding," says Mobbs. As a
result, women take significantly much longer than men to decide whether they find something
funny, though that does not seem to spoil their enjoyment of the joke. Indeed, women show
a greater response in the limbic system than men, suggesting they feel a greater sense of
reward.

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11. Which of the following statements in the
text above contains an opinion?
(A) Basic rewards systems associated
with humor are vital to human
continued existence.
(B) The anterior cingulate cortex and
the frontoinsular cortex regions
belong to humans.
(C) Women’s limbic system reacts
more responsively than men’s
does to a humor stimulus.
(D) Different types of reward like
drugs and our favorite music are
linked to the ventral striatum.
(E) Joke funiness relates with the
amount of dopamine release and
reward processing.
12. The part that comes before the text
would most likely describe …
(A) Mobbs’ same study conducted on
humans’ brain limbic system
sensitiveness.
(B) another activity found in the
brain’s limbic system of Mobbs’
different study.
(C) a researcher’s study other than
Mobbs’ on another activity found
in the brain limbic system.
(D) the importance of conducting a
study on responses by humans’
brain limbic system.
(E) the timely reaction of humans’
brain limbic system to perception
on humor.
13. The scientists see that the internal
mechanisms in a human’s brain related
with enjoyment in having good meals
are …
(A) more explainable than those in
perceiving a joke.
(B) less observable than pleasures in
getting a prize.
(C) as quick as those in seeing
funniness of a joke.
(D) more complex than those in
perceiving a joke.
(E) less clear than those of enjoyment
in winning a prize.
14. Humor is worth in these four facets,
EXCEPT …
(A) experiencing the sense of the
humor itself.
(B) having good feelings about the
humor.
(C) activating parts of the frontal and
cingulate cortex.
(D) enhancing activities in two
humans’ cortex areas.
(E) triggering more dynamic responses
in all cells.
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the response time needed by women
and men to laugh on a joke?
(A)

(B)

(C)

(D)

(E)

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Text 1

The most common causes of tsunamis are underwater earthquakes. To understand underwater earthquakes, you
must first understand plate tectonics. The theory of plate tectonics suggests that the lithosphere, or top layer of the
Earth, is made up of a series of huge plates. These plates make up the continents and seafloor. They rest on an
underlying viscous layer called the asthenosphere.
5 Think of a pie cut into eight slices. The pie crust would be the lithosphere and the hot, sticky pie filling
underneath would be the asthenosphere. On the Earth, these plates are constantly in motion, moving along each
other at a speed of 1 to 2 inches (2.5-5 cm) per year. The movement occurs most dramatically along fault lines (where
the pie is cut). These motions are capable of producing earthquakes and volcanism, which, when they occur at the
bottom of the ocean, are two possible sources of tsunamis.
10 When two plates come into contact at a region known as a plate boundary, a heavier platecan slip under a
lighter one. This is called subduction. Underwater subduction often leaves enormous "handprints" in the form of deep
ocean trenches along the seafloor. In some cases of subduction, part of the seafloor connected to the lighter plate
may "snap up" suddenly due to pressure from the sinking plate. This results in an earthquake. The focus of the
earthquake is the point within the Earth where the rupture first occurs, rocks break and the first seismic waves are
15 generated. The epicenter is the point on the seafloor directly above the focus.
When this piece of the plate snaps up and sends tons of rock shooting upward with tremendous force, the
energy of that force is transferred to the water. The energy pushes the water upward above normal sea level. This is
the birth of a tsunami. The earthquake that generated the December 26, 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean was a 9.0
on the Richter scale — one of the biggest in recorded history.

1. Which of the following best states the 3. Implied in the text is that the earthquake
topic of this text? will never occur when ...
(A) The birth of a tsunami (A) the subduction is evidenced.
(B) The magnitude of tsunamis (B) seismic waves are generated.
(C) Tsunamis in the Indian Ocean (C) no fault line of plate tectonics
(D) Series of huge plates on earth happens.
(E) Lithosphere and asthenosphere (D) Heaver plates and lighter ones break
up.
2. The main idea of this text is that ... (E) ocean trenches lie along the
(A) deep ocean trench is a result of an seashore.
earthquake.
(B) the energy of subduction can lead to 4. Which of the following natural disasters
earthquakes. happening in Indonesia is related to the
(C) plate tectonics lead to an fault movement of plate tectonics?
earthquake and volcanism. (A) volcanic eruptions
(D) tsunamis in the Indian Ocean are the (B) Soil erosion
biggest in the history. (C) Forest fires
(E) strong movements of undersea fault (D) Landslides
lines cause tsunamis. (E) Floods
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about tsunamis, EXCEPT that tsunamis
are …
(A) predictable following any incidence
of earthquakes.
(B) close to the rise of sea levels from
the sinking plate.
(C) connected to deep ocean trenches
along sea floors.
(D) related to strong movements of
plate tectonics.
(E) Highly linked to underwater
earthquakes.

Text 2

Some people believe that the key to averting a potential food crisis may lie in recent advances in science
and biotechnology. By manipulating the genetic composition of basic crops, such as rice, it is possible to boost a
plant's rate of photosynthesis and to produce bigger crop yields. This process is known as genetic modification;
plants that are produced in such a way are called genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Genetic modification
5 can be carried out for a variety of purposes – not only to enhance the crop yield. Scientists have produced
GMOs with higher than normal vitamin content, for example; other genetically modified crops are resistant to
commonly used agricultural herbicides that used to kill the weeds round them, as well as insects and fungal
and vita! pests. Food products that are made from, or contain traces of genetically modified organisms are
known as GM foods.
10 Scientists claim that a GM strain of 'super-rice' could boost rice yields by as much as 35 percent. Another
strain called 'golden rice' – which contains added amounts of vitamin A – could reduce vitamin A deficiency in
more than 120 children worldwide. Some might think that such advances in biotechnology would be welcomed
enthusiastically by people around the world. But, in fact, the issue of genetic modification has become one of
the most controversial issues of our age. For many people, it highlights the fine iine that exists between the
15 benefits of technology and scientific innovation, on the one hand, and the risks of environmental destruction,
on the other.

6. The part preceding the text above most 7. Paragraph 1 of the text mainly discusses
likely discusses ... about ....
(A) controversial issues in genetic (A) genetic modification of plants.
modification. (B) photosynthesis of the certain plant.
(B) the rate of photosynthesis of certain (C) the purpose of genetic modification.
plants. (D) a solution to alleviate the food
(C) some advances in science and shortage.
biotechnology. (E) technology to produce higher
(D) food shortage that potentially vitamin content in crops.
threats the world.
(E) scientists' experiment in science and
biotechnology.

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8. It can be inferred from the text that
what scientis should do is ...
(A) avoid the controversial issue of GM
food.
(B) discover more environment-friendly
GM food.
(C) predict and calculate the potential
risks GM food.
(D) add new genes that 100 percent
free. of harmful consequences.
(E) work with environment activists to
solve the problems of GM food.
9. How is the information in the text
organized?
(A) Technology and products are
classified
(B) Problem solving and examples are
presented.
(C) Debates on genetic modification are
highlighted.
(D) Technology for genetic modification
is discussed.
(E) Vitamin A deficiency and its effects
are described.
10. The word 'it' in “..., it highlights the fine
line that exists between ...”(line 14)
refers to ...
(A) super-rice.
(B) golden rice.
(C) biotechnology.
(D) vitamin A deficiency.
(E) issue of genetic modification.
Text 3
Text A
The pressurized-water reactor (PWR) evolved from
the reactor design for the propulsion system of the
world's first nuclear submarine the U.S.S. Nautilus,
launched in January 1954. A 60-MW prototype
5 PWR installed at Shipping port, Pa., for electric
power generation began delivering for commercial
use in 1957. This was the first nuclear power plant
in the United States.
In the PWR, ordinary pure water under
10 pressure is used both as the moderator and the
coolant. A moderator is used in a reactor core to
slow down the neutrons from their initial fission
energies because lower-energy neutrons have
a greater probability of being absorbed in the fuel
15 to produce more fissions. The heat from the
nuclear chain reaction is removed from the reactor
by a coolant, which may include ordinary water,
heavy water, liquid metal, molten salt, or gas.
The water passes through the reactor core at
20 a pressure of about 2.250 pounds per square inch
and a temperature of 600UF (315UC) enters a heat
exchanger in which steam is produced to drive a
turbine, which in turn drives an electric
generator.There are two distinct fluid loops in the
25 design so that the coolant for the reactor core does
not mix with the fluid for driving the turbine.
Because of the high pressure in the coolant loop,
the water there cannot boil, even at a temperature
of 600UF. A PWR constructed for commercial
30 power generation is very large because a large
reactor provides power at a lower unit cost than
does a smaller reactor.
Text B
The boiling water reactor (BWR) was developed
from PWR. In the BWR, cooling water enters the
reactor core and is heated when it travels between
the nuclear fuel elements. The water boils under
5 the influence of the heat generated in the reactor
core. The steam is collected at the too of the
reactor vessel and is subsequently delivered to
a turbine that drives an electric generator. The
pressure in the reactor is kept at about 1.000 psi
10 (2 kgs/sq cm), and the steam temperature is about
545UF (285UC). Under these conditions, boiling
can occur.
A single-cycle BWR has only one fluid loop
and thus has fewer main components than does a
15 PWR. In a —dual cycle BWR, a secondary fluid is
used for the production of steam. The components
of a BWR tend to be very large For an 800-MW
electrical power plant, a reactor vessel about 70
feet (21 meters) high and 20 feet (6 meters) in
20 diameter is required.
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 The Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant consists
of six BWRs. On March 11, 2011, reactors 4, 5 and
6 had been shut down prior to the earthquake for
planned maintenance. The remaining reactors
25 were snot down automatically after the
earthquake, out the subsequent tsunami flooded
the plant, Knocking out emergency generators
needed to run pumps which cool and control the
reactors. Over the following days there was
30 evidence of partial nuclear meltdowns in reactors
1, 2 and 3; hydrogen explosions destroyed the
upper cladding of the building housing reactors 1
and 3; an explosion damaged reactor 2's
containment; and severe fires broke out at reactor
4.
11. The two texts above mainly talk about ...
(A) how boiling water is used as a
moderator and a coolant.
(B) the example of how pressure is used
in nuclear reactions.
(C) the type of nuclear power plant to
drive electric generators.
(D) the use of water in the reactor core
of a nuclear power plant.
(E) how partial nuclear meltdowns can
be detected beforehand.
12. Which of the following is factual
information supported by both texts?
(A) Electricity is produced in the reactor
core when boiling occurs.
(B) Water boils because the
temperature is kept above 545UF.
(C) The smaller reactor is more efficient
than the bigger one.
(D) Two fluid loops are used as a
coolant and as a steam collector.
(E) Similar pressurised water is used to
generate heat and steam.
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13. From the two texts, we can conclude
that, in both PWR and BWR ...
(A) two fluid loops are used to avoid the
mixture of coolant and steam.
(B) the reactor vessel should be very
large to make it more efficient.
(C) pressurised pure water is used as a
moderator and a coolant.
(D) reactors can be shut down
automatically after an earthquake.
(E) steam is delivered to drive the
turbine to generate electricity.
14. Based on the two texts, we can
hypothesize that ....
(A) bigger reactor vessels are safer and
more cost-efficient than the smaller
ones.
(B) the more electric power needed, the
more and bigger reactor vessel
required.
(C) the more electric power produced,
the more efficient the plant will be.
(D) the smaller the nuclear reactor, the
more efficient its unit cost will be.
(E) bigger reactor vessels are more
expensive than those of smaller size.
15. Which of the following statements is
supported by both texts?
(A) BWR power plants are more prone
to earthquakes than those of PWR.
(B) BWR nuclear power plants can stand
severe earthquakes but not
tsunamis.
(C) PWR yields steam through
pressurised water, BWR through
boiling water.
(D) PWR nuclear vessels are more
efficient and cheaper than those of
BWR.
(E) The size of PWR and BWR is much
smaller than that of the modern
one.
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Bacalah teks berikut untuk menjawab soal Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and
nomor 1 sampai dengan nomor 5! Forest Degradation in Developing Countries –
that offers a powerful financial incentive to
Green plants use light to transform keep forests intact.
carbon dioxide, absorbed from the
atmosphere, and water into organic 1. In the passage the author clearly tries to
compounds, with oxygen as a by-product. …
The process is called photosynthesis, and it (A) explain the amount of greenhouse
enables forests like Ulu Masen, Aceh Jaya, to gas emissions.
play a critical role in regulating our climate. (B) link forests and current changes of
Forests store an estimated 300 billion world climate.
tons of carbon, or the equivalent of 40 times (C) argue for vast damage of Indonesian
the world’s total annual greenhouse-gas forests.
emissions – emissions that cause global (D) describe needs for reforestation
warming. Destroy the trees and you release projects.
that carbon into the atmosphere, putting the (E) show roles of forests in climate
great challenge of our age – averting regulation.
catastrophic climate change – beyond reach.
Forest destruction accounts for 15% of global 2. Which of the following best describes
emissions by human activity, far outranking the link between paragraphs 3 and 4?
the total from vehicles and aircraft (A) Issues – example
combined. (B) Problems – solution
Forests are disappearing so fast in (C) Challenges – explanation
Indonesia that, incredibly, this developing (D) Explanation – solution
country ranks third in emissions behind (E) Cases – example
industrial giants China and the U.S. Since
1950, estimates Greenpeace, more than 182 3. What does the woed ‘it’ in “… and it
million acres (740,000 sq km) of Indonesian enables forests like UluMasen to play a
forests, the equivalent of more than 95 Ulu critical role …” (paragraph 1 line 2) refer
Masens, have been destroyed or degraded. to?
The good news is that protecting forests (A) Water
“is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to (B) Oxygen
take a big bite cut of the apple when it comes (C) By-product
to emissions,” says Greenpeace spokesman (D) Carbon dioxide
Daniel Kessler. UluMasen will be one of the (E) Photosynthesis
first forests to be protected under a
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4. Which of the following can Indonesia do
to reduce carbon dioxide emissions?
(A) Minimizing degradation and
deforestation
(B) Adopting strategies used in greening
UluMasen
(C) Integrating agriculture into
forestration programs
(D) Programing a flora conservation
project like REDD
(E) Improving human settlement quality
near the forests
5. The author’s view regarding reducing
greenhouse-gas emissions is that …
(A) deforestation is vital.
(B) fauna conservation is critical.
(C) keeping forests green is a key.
(D) massive funding is unavoidable.
(E) awareness raising is necessary.
Bacalah teks berikut untuk menjawab soal
nomor 6 sampai dengan nomor 10!
Everyone likes to group things.
Language students group words as verbs,
nouns and so on; collections of words are
classified as phrases, or clauses, or
sentences, and these again are reclassified
according to their function. In the same way,
botanists classify plants as algae, or fungi, or
gymnosperms, etc. Zoologists classify animals
as vertebrates and invertebrates. The
vertebrates can be further classified as
mammals, reptiles, birds, fish, etc.
Classification enables us to keep hold of
more information and, if it is based on the
right data, enables us to understand better
the ideas we are studying.
Chemists are no exception. The
chemical classification of materials, if it is
based on a good system, should enable us to
understand better the many substances
which exist in our world. What is to be the
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basis of our classification? Perhaps the most
obvious on is appearance. Materials could be
classified as solid, liquid or gas with some
mixed types as, for example, mud being
solid/liquid material and steam a liquid/gas
material. Appearance could enable us to
subdivide our main classification groups a
little further; the solid may be green, or
black, powdery or crystalline; the liquid may
be colored, oily, thick, or free flowing; the gas
may be colored. However, we soon realize
that many probably quite different materials
have the same appearance. Both air and the
deadly carbon-monoxide gas, are colorless,
odorless gasses, but we would not like to
group them as the same thing. Many
different liquids are colorless, water-like
materials.
6. The examples provided in paragraph 2
clarify that …
(A) many kinds of liquid should be
grouped as one.
(B) different kinds of gas can be
colorless and odorless.
(C) materials in chemistry should be
classified differently.
(D) chemistry materials have more
complicated classification.
(E) taxonomy can be made and applied
further to other areas.
7. Paragraph 2 exemplifies the idea about
classification that …
(A) chemicals may be solid, liquid, and
gaseous.
(B) appearance is not a useful basis in
chemistry.
(C) the use of colors is better than that
of appearance.
(D) both colors and appearance should
be considered.
(E) colors should be included for
identifying appearance.
8. The sentence “Chemists are no
exception” (Paragraph 2 line 1) could
possibly be restated as …
(A) chemical materials can also be put
into classification.
(B) classification of chemical materials is
without exception.
(C) chemist may also classify materials
using certain criteria.
(D) when appearance is the basis,
chemists are not involved.
(E) in material classification, chemicals
should not be included.
9. The paragraph following the passage
most likely deals with the classification
of …
(A) flora and fauna.
(B) human sounds.
(C) liquid and gases.
(D) human behaviors.
(E) words and phrases.
10. How does the author organize the ideas?
(A) Putting the main idea with examples
(B) Presenting causes followed by
effects
(C) Interpreting different ways of
classifying
(D) Presenting the strength of the main
idea
(E) Exposing supporting details
chronologically
Bacalah teks berikut untuk menjawab soal
nomor 11 sampai dengan nomor 15!
Passage A
The nuclear industry is in near-
terminal decline world-wide, following its
failure to establish itself as a clean, cheap,
safe or reliable energy source. The on-going
crisis in nuclear waste management, in safety
and in economic costs have severely
undermined the industry’s credibility. It is
currently desperate to find a valid rationale
and justification for renewed state support
and funding. It is promoting the claim that as
nuclear power stations do not emit carbon
dioxide, the major greenhouse gas, switching
from fossil fuels to nuclear power is the only
way to cut Carbon Dioxide (CO2) without
radically changing consumption patterns.
Passage B
Nuclear energy produces no
greenhouse gases, but it has many
drawbacks. Now a radical new technology
based on thorium promises what uranium
never delivered: abundant, safe and clean
energy – and a way to burn up old
radioactive waste.
Named after Thor, the warlike Norse
god of thunder, thorium could ironically
prove a potent instrument of peace as well as
a tool to soothe the world’s changing
climate. With the demand for energy on the
increase around the world, and the
implications of climate change beginning to
strike home, governments are increasingly
considering nuclear power as a possible
alternative to burning fossil fuels.
A thorium reactor is different. And, on
paper at least, this radical new technology
could be the key to unlocking a new
generation of clean and safe nuclear power.
It could prove the circuit-breaker to the two
most intractable problems of the 21st
century: our insatiable thirst for energy, and
the warming of the world’s climate.
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11. What of the following best reflects the
theme discussed in the passages above?
(A) Impact of nuclear power on
environment
(B) Link of nuclear power and global
warming
(C) Thorium as an alternative for
nuclear energy
(D) Climate change and conventional
nuclear power
(E) Use of nuclear power as a clean
source of energy
12. Which of the following is factual
according to the passages above?
(A) Nuclear power emits no carbon
dioxide.
(B) Fossils fuels are possibly replaced by
nuclear power.
(C) Governments strongly support the
use of nuclear power.
(D) Nuclear-powered electricity is
efficient and clean to environment.
(E) Thorium is empirically cleaner and
less dangerous to environment.
13. Both passages are different in terms of …
(A) negative impacts of nuclear power.
(B) nuclear energy as an alternative
power.
(C) governments’ supports to nuclear
power.
(D) the role of nuclear power to climate
change.
(E) greenhouse effects caused by
nuclear power stations.
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14. The ideas in the passages above can be
best summarized as …
(A) nuclear power is empirically
expensive and dangerous.
(B) nuclear energy is a choice which is
clean, safe, and long lasting.
(C) the use of nuclear power is an
alternative preferred by
governments.
(D) nuclear power needs replacing by
carbon-emission free and safe ones.
(E) nuclear energy requires
governments to have good waste
management.
15. If the thorium technology is efficient in
generating energy, …
(A) nuclear power will reduce global
warming better.
(B) more finance is needed to run the
technology.
(C) governments will build more power
plants.
(D) carbon emissions will be reduced to
zero.
(E) global warming will not take place.
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Numbers 1 to 3 refer to the following passage.

Passage 1
Over this decade, employment in jobs requiring education beyond a high school
diploma will grow more rapidly than employment in jobs that do not; of the 30 fastest growing
occupations, more than half require post-secondary education. With the average earnings of
college graduates at a level that is twice as high as that of workers with only a high school
diploma, higher education is now the clearest (31) … into the middle class.
In higher education, the U.S. has been outpaced internationally. While the United States
ranks ninth in the world in the proportion of young adults enrolled in college, we have fallen to
16th in the world in out share of certificates and degrees awarded to adult ages 25-34 – lagging
behind Korea, Canada, Japan and other nations. While more than half of college students
graduate within six years, the (32) … for low-income students is around 25 percent.
Acknowledging these factors early in his administration, President Obam challenged
every American to commit to at least one year of higher education or post-secondary training.
(33) …: that by 2020, America would once again have the highest proportion of college
graduates in the world.
(www.whitehouse.gov)

1. The option that best completes (31) is …. 3. The option that best completes (33) is ….
(A) endeavour (A) American people will deserve higher
(B) advantage education for their future
(C) opening (B) The President has also set up an
(D) direction innovative goal for the country
(E) pathway (C) President Obama has reminded
Americans of their college
2. The option that best completes (32) is …. completion
(A) completion rate (D) American students and workers
(B) academic potential became encouraged to take further
(C) learning achievement studies
(D) academic absorption (E) Middle class people of America are
(E) logical understanding encouraged to go to American
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Questions 4 – 7 refer to the following passage.

Passage 2
Fires such as the Las Conchas one leave behind few seed sources, strip soils of nutrients
and increase the likelihood of landslides. In their wake, vegetation of any kind can struggle to
take root. When trees and shrubs do regrow, the region’s warming temperatures and more
frequent dry spells are likely to favour heat- and drought-tolerant species. By looking at tree
rings, Park Williams of the Los Alamos National Laboratory and his colleagues have been able
to assess how droughts stress southwestern forests. They forecast that if temperatures rise as
projected by climate models, trees will face worse drought stress in the first half of the
twenty-first century than they have experienced for 1,000 years, probably driving a
transformation of the ecosystem.
In some places in the Jemez, the transformation seems to have started. In 1996, the
Dome Fire burned almost 7,000 hectares in the mountains, leaving patches of dead trees that
at the time seemed surprisingly large. Swathes of shrubby vegetation, dominated by scrub
oaks, sprouted in the burned patches, surrounding small islands of surviving ponderosa pine
and other conifers. When the Las Conchas fire roared through some of the same areas last
summers, the oaks burned hot and fast, killing almost all the conifers that had survived the
Dome fire.
Because the shrubs are better adapted to warmer, drier conditions than the trees,
researchers expect that they will regrow in even larger patches. Eventually, they could
dominate the entire landscape and establish a pattern of intense and frequent fires that is
currently more common in coastal California and other Mediterranean-style ecosystems.
(www.nature.com)

4. With reference to the ideas described in
paragraph 1, paragraph 2 ….
(A) provides a case of an environmental
shift
(B) elaborates types of vegetation after
the fires
(C) supports arguments for the
importance of forest fires
(D) exemplifies the effects of drought
on trees after the forest fires
(E) provides examples of vegetation
keeping the climate not to change
5. When forest areas are on fire and rain
falls shortly in the areas afterwards ….
(A) the fertile soil will be gone replaced
by rock
(B) the areas will turn into a desert
(C) only palm trees will grow
(D) bush will dominate the vegetation
(E) the areas will turn to be hot during
the day and very cold in the night
time
6. What does the author assume about the
environment described in the passage?
(A) Fires enable seeds to grow and form
a new dense forest.
(B) Climate helps environment select
appropriate vegetation.
(C) Types of soils influence the growth
of types of vegetation.
(D) A model of future environmental
change can be predicted.
(E) A process of selection by nature
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7. Points discussed in paragraph 3 confirm
that ….
(A) after the fire all forests will be
replaced by the shrubs
(B) only temperature rise influences the
change of vegetation
(C) warmer environment conditions
give bushes a way to grow massively
(D) the 21st century temperature is
much hotter than it was in the
previous millennium
(E) only in a relatively warmer condition
does the transformation of
landscape take place

Questions 8 to 11 refer to the following passage.

Passage 3
Hopes that a Mediterranean diet would be as good for the head as it is for the heart
may have been dampened by a French study that found little benefit for aging brains from the
diet rich in fruit, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, wine and olive oil. The study, published in the
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, looked at the participants’ dietary patterns in their
middle age and measured their cognitive performance at around age 65, but found no
connection between Mediterannean eating and mental performance.
“Our study does not support the hypothesis of a significant neuro-protective effect of a
Mediterranean diet on cognitive function,” wrote study leader Emmanuelle Kesse-Guyot at
the nutritional epidemiology research center of the French national health research agency
INSERM. It has been suggested that the “good” fats in Mediterranean diet might benefit the
brain directly, or that low saturated fats and high fiber in the diet could help stave of cognitive
decline indirectly by keeping blood vessels healthy.
Previous research has seemed to uphold that premise. One large study in the US
Midwest, for example, found that people in their 60s and older who ate a mostly
Mediterranean diet were less prone to mental decline as they aged. Another study of
residents of Manhattan linked a Mediterannean style diet to a 40 percent lower risk of
Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers in the French study used data on 3,083 people who were
followed from the mid-1990s, when they were at least 45 years old.
(www.huffingtonpost.com)

8. The author believes that ….
(A) a Mediterranean diet contributes
less benefits to cognition
(B) saturated fats function to keep
blood vessels working well
(C) some studies rightly prove that their
finding are not identical
(D) the eating habits can be a key factor
to cognitive functionality
(E) Alzheimer’s disease and a
Mediterranean style diet are
dangerous
9. In the other words, the sentence “…who
ate a mostly Mediterranean diet were
less prone to mental decline as they
aged …” (Paragraph 3 lines 2-3) may be
restated as ….
(A) efforts to improve quality of life is
excessively encouraged
(B) better life should be given a priority
in whatever it has to be
(C) it is an obligation for dieters to be
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 (D) healthier life is everyone’s
expectation including active dieters
(E) when getting older, dieters should
be alert to their mental decline
10. Another way of saying/expressing
“Another study of residents of
Manhattan linked a Mediterranean style
diet to a 40 percent lower risk of
Alzheimer’s disease.” (Paragraph 3 lines
3-4) is ….
(A) 40% of the lower risk of Alzheimer’s
diseases is correlated with people’s
diet
(B) a study conducted in Manhattan
projects only 40% of the Alzheimer’s
residents
(C) a Mediterranean diet can reduce the
risk of Alzheimer’s diseases to 40%
(D) 40% of Manhattan residents suffer
from Alzheimer’s disease due to
style diets
(E) A Mediterranean study on
Alzheimer’s disease is conducted
40% by a French
11. In organizing the ideas, the writer starts
by ….
(A) interpreting ways of classifying
things
(B) comparing one study with other
findings
(C) presenting causes followed by their
effects
(D) putting one study supported by
other findings
(E) showing an expectation supported
by examples
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Questions 12-15 refer to the following
passages.
Passage 4
The roots of writing seem to lay in the
human need to store information in order to
communicate, to store information for longer
periods of time, and to spread it over
broader areas.
Writing started with the production of
art, simple cave drawings of the
environment, a buffalo created with its horns
and paws, a human with two hands and two
legs and women with their distinctive body
organs. These works of art over time became
more popular in certain tribes and societies
and symbolized over time.
The first pully written language is the
Sumerian cuneiform script. The Sumerians in
Uruk were in search of a way to simplify their
complex administration which led them
eventually to create a standardized system of
cuneiform symbols to store and pass this
information. The cuneiform script was a
revolution and soon after we find an
explosion of thousands upon thousands of
Sumerian clay tablets.
Passage 5
The earliest dated printed book known
is the “Diamond Sutra”, printed in China in
868 CE. However, it is suspected book
printing may have occurred long before this
date. In 1041, movable clay type was first
invented in China.
Johannes Gutenberg, a goldsmith and
businessman from southern Germany,
borrowed money to invent a technology that
changed the world of printing. Gutenberg
invented the printing press with replaceable
wooden or metal letters in 1436. This
printing method can be credited not only for
a revolution in storing information in books,
but also for fostering rapid development in
the sciences, arts and religion through the
transmission of texts.
 The Gutenberg press with its wooden
and later metal movable type printing
brought down the price of printed materials
and made such materials available for the
masses. It remained the standard until the
20th century.
(www2.iath.virginia.edu)
12. What is the topic discussed in both
passages?
(A) Printing and writing methods to
store information
(B) Origins of writing traditions and
printing technology
(C) Development of written works in
the printed forms
(D) History of writing and printing in
ethnic groups
(E) Advances in the technology of
writing and printing
15. According to both passage above, what
would most likely have happened to the
sciences if storage systems of printed
had not been invented?
(A) Communication would have been
hard.
(B) Technology would have been
stagnant.
(C) Important knowledge would have
lost.
(D) Their spread would have been
hampered.
(E) Sciences would not have progressed
well.

13. Both reading passages are similar in

terms of dealing with humans’ attempt
to ….
(A) communicate using graphic and
verbal
(B) advance cultures through writing
and printing
(C) keep information for a later and
broader scope
(D) sustain technology to transmit
cultural values
(E) record important events in printed
materials

14. Which of the following statements is not

true about events of verbal
communication in both passages?
(A) Dissemination information through
books
(B) Making use of Sumerian clay tablets
(C) Publication in manuscripts
(D) Utilization of the cuneiform scripts
(E) Simple drawings of animals on cave
walls
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