READING
Question 16 to 17 refer to the following announcement.
ANNOUNCEMENT
We are announcing today that we are bringing the Milestone and Ever Green brands even closer together. Effective December 20, 2009, our official will be “GREEN MILES WEST”.
The substitution of “West” in our name replacing “California” is the result of an agreement we reached with the California Gardening Association, following a protest over the original use of “California” in our name.
We hope this does not created any confusion among our loyal consumers. While this represents a change from our initial name introduction, it does not change the quality of products we offer our consumers.
16. What is the text about?
A. The conflict with another organization.
B. The changing name of the company.
C. The corporate offices.
D. The merged companies.
E. The loyal consumers
17. What is the original name of the merged companies?
A. Milestone
B. Green Miles West
C. Milestone California
D. Green Miles California
E. Green Milestone California
Read the text to answer questions 18 to 19.
18. What does the letter tell about?
A. Asking for a friend's suggestion
B. Preparing for the national examination.
C. Asking a friend to teach science.
D. Having extra lessons at school.
E. Giving a solution to a friend.
19. What is the purpose of the text?
A. to tell experience
B. to give information
C. to ask for suggestion
D. to explain the exam
E. to persuade his friend
Read this text to answer no. 20 – 21.
20. What is the text tell about ?
A. Description of Naj’s Restaurant.
B. Special price for lunch and dinner.
C. New Mexican products.
D. Mexican dishes in Naj’s Mexican Restaurant.
E. Job opportunity in Naj’s Restaurant.
21. The following statements are not true about the NAJ’S Restaurant, except ....
A. Complete meals for more than $ 50
B. The restaurant gives delivery service
C. The dishes prepared from oriental ingredients
D. Superb wine is provided at lunch and dinner.
E. It is romantic atmosphere in the Naj’s restaurant
This text is for questions 22 – 25.
One day Abu Ali went to the fair, and bought nine donkey. He rode home one of them and the rest of the donkeys followed behind.
After a while Abu Ali said to himself, “ I must make sure that Ali my donkeys are here.” And he turned round to count them.“One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Oh! Where’s number nine?” Abu Ali cried. He jumped down from his donkey. He looked behind the rocks and behind the tree. But there was no donkey to be seen.“I’II count them again, “Abu Ali said. “One , two, tree, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Oh, he must have come back”.
Abu Ali climbed back on to the donkey and trotted away. After a while he counted his donkey again. He counted only eight? Once more he looked behind the rocks and behind the trees. But there was no donkey to be seen. “I will count again,” he said, and this time there were nine.
Just then Abu Ali saw his friend Musa walking along the road. “Musa,” he called. “Help me to count my donkeys. I keep losing one. Where I stop to count I have only eight, but when I get down to look for the ninth, there he is again!”
“Well, I can see ten donkeys, Abu Ali, “laughed Musa.
“Ten? How can you see ten?” asked Abu Ali.
“I can see the donkey you are sitting on and I see eight donkey behind you,” said Musa.
“Of couse! “ cried Abu Ali. “ How silly of me, but where is the tenth donkey?”
“He is sitting on top of the ninth donkey,”said Musa.” And his name is Abu Ali.”
22. What is the moral value of the story?
A. We should not sit on a donkey when counting.
B. We often can not see our own mistake.
C. We need to ask friends for help.
D. We should make sure the value of our belongings.
E. We like laughing at each other.
23. Why did Abu Ali keep losing the ninth donkey?
A. Because he was careless
B. Because he was sitting on it
C. Because he could not count correctly
D. Because he was not helped by Musa
E. Because the donkey was hiding
24. What is the main idea of paragraph 4?
A. Abu Ali bought nine donkey at the fair.
B. Musa was walking on the road when Abu Ali rode on his donkeys.
C. Abu Ali turned round to count his donkeys.
D. Abu Ali asked Musa to help him to count his donkeys.
E. Musa saw Abu Ali count his donkeys.
25. “Abu Ali climbed back on to the donkey and trotted away.”(paragraph 3 line 1)
The underlined word has closest meaning with ...
A. rode
B. counted
C. danced
D. left
E. ran
Read the following dialogues to answer no. 26 – 31!
26. Rudi : Hi Ton, Where is your motorcycle?
Tono : It ... in the garage.
A. repaired
B. be repaired
C. is being repaired
D. is repairing
E. has repaired
27. Sigit : Vin, your necklace is beautiful. When did you buy it?
Vina : ...
A. It was bought last week
B. It is being bought last week
C. It is buying last week
D. It can be bought last week
E. It will be bought last week
28. Sandra : What time do you get up every morning?
Adi : I usually ... at 5 o’clock.
A. getting up
B. got up
C. is gotten up
D. is getting up
E. get up
29. Dony : Where does your Mom work?
Shinta : She ... in Borobudur Department Store in Pekalongan.
A. worked
B. is working
C. has worked
D. will work
E. works
30. Aurel : Sorry, I couldn’t come to your house because the electricity was off.
Popo : It’s OK, When the electricity was off last night, I ...
A. have watched TV
B. was still watching TV
C. watched TV
D. would watch TV
E. had to watch TV
31. Adi : Did you see the Headmaster in his room?
Budi : No, He was absent. I heard he ... to Singapore yesterday.
A. had gone
B. was going
C. goes
D. went
E. would go
This text is for questions 32 – 36.
Lilo and Stitch 2
Lilo and Stitch 2 is a little darker in tone. This VCD focuses primarily on Stitch, Lilo, and Lilo's sister Nani.
It begins with Stitch's bad dream about coming back to wreck havoc on the island, including threatening his friend, Lilo. Something is making Stitch go back into his old, naughty ways. In making his diagnosis, Jumba reveals at last story of his creation of Stitch, and how something that went wrong due to a fault when Jumba originally created him and if it isn't somehow fixed, Stitch will die! Unfortunately, Stitch's disorderly actions always seem to interfere with Lilo's important preparations for the May Day hula competition-a competition that Lilo desperately wants to win in her mother's memory. This sets up the main conflict with Lilo: is a victory in the hula competition, her attempt to get closer to the memory of her mother, more important than her continued friendship with Stitch, who suddenly seems intent on wrecking everything? Jumba goes to work creating a fusion chamber that will re-charge Stitch's molecules and wash out his badness but he can't seem to build one that works. In the end, it's Lilo's faith in herself and the power of Ohana that offer the only chance to cure Stitch and fill his goodness level to tile top.
This film captures the emotional pitch of the original movie, while in sonic ways, deepening the characters. One main plot thread involves Lilo attempting to win the annual hula competition, For the first time, the movie explicitly mentions her mother. Lilo is initially depressed, because she doesn't have a mom to help her make her costume for the contest. Moses awakens her interest by shoving Lilo an old scrapbook, with pictures of her mom, winning the hula contest! Lilo is also searching for inspiration for her hula dance, which conveys the spirit-of aloha.
It's a four-star movie, especially for the wonderful heartfelt ending.
Taken from Hello no. 240, November 2005.
32. What is the text about?
A. An album
B. A movie
C. A comic
D. A book
E. A music concert
33. The movie explicitly mentions Lilo's mother for the first time when …
A. Lilo wins the annual hula competition
B. Lilo comes back to wreck havoc on the island
C. Lilo is searching for inspiration for her hula dance
D. Lilo is preparing for the May Day hula competition
E. Lilo is attempting to win the annual hula competition
34. It begins with Stitch's bad dream about coming back to wreck havoc on the island.
The underlined word means ...
A. place for rest
B. dangerous place
C. slight confusion
D. dangerous situation
E. ordinary damage
35. The communicative purpose of the text is …
A. ¬to critique an art work for a public audience
B. to describe a particular person, place or thing
C. to present (at least) two points of view about an issue
D. to describe how something is accomplished through a sequence of actions
E. to amuse, entertain the readers and to deal with actual
36. The last paragraph of the text functions as …
A. Evaluation
B. Orientation
C. Explanation
D. Interpretative recount
E. Evaluative summation
This text is for questions 37 – 41.
It is commonly observed during the rainy season that water falling on roads and streets disappears after a few hours. Similarly, in summer, wet clothes dry up very soon. Do you know where this water goes? This water gets converted into vapor is called evaporation.
How does evaporation take place? Every substance is made up of very small particles called molecules. These molecules are held together by strong forces of attrition called cohesive forces. These forces are opposed by the repulsive forces due to the motion of molecules. As long as the cohesive forces are far greater than the repulsive forces, the substance remains in the solid state. When the substance is heated up, it absorbs heat energy which the molecules area set up in rapid motion. This motion starts counterbalancing the cohesive force. When the repulsive force generated by the motion of molecules equals the cohesive force, matter changes from solid to liquid state. If the liquid is still heated, the molecules still move fast. When the force exceeds the cohesive force, the molecules of the liquid become free and escape into the air. It is how the liquid is converted into vapor. The liberation of the molecules from the liquid surface to the air is called evaporation.
This explains the drying up process of clothes. If the wet clothes are put under the sun, they dry up faster because at the rate of evaporation increases with the rise in temperature. It takes place more rapidly when the air is dry. That is why clothes dry up more quickly on a dry than on a damp cloudy day.
37. The suitable heading of the text above is . . .
A. Do you know where this water goes?
B. Where does evaporation take place?
C. How liquid is converted into vapor.
D. This water gets converted into vapor
E. This explains the drying up process of the clothes.
38. Paragraph 1 is the . . . of the passage
A. identification
B. general statement
C. orientation
D. general classification
E. thesis
39. Which of the following options contains technical terms?
A. Faster, higher, more rapidly
B. Dry day, cloudy day, dry up
C. Rainy season, summer, few hours
D. Evaporation, molecules, cohesive forces.
E. Forces of attraction, wet clothes, liquid surface
40. The conversion of water into vapor is called ...
A. molecule
B. strong force
C. cohesive force
D. evaporation
E. repulsive force
41. The explanation about how evaporation happens in found in prangraph ...
A. 1
B. 1 and 2
C. 2
D. 2 and 3
E. 3
This text is for questions 42 – 46.
There has been a great deal of discussion on the problem of abortion in this country and abroad. The discussion includes: is abortion legal or illegal? , is abortion morally justified or not?
On the one hand, abortion is one of the methods of birth control. When a country faces the problems of population explosion, the government should find methods to solve it. But since there is no method of contraception is one hundred percent effective and successful, abortion becomes the only way out when prevention fails.
On the other hand, abortion may cause many negative effects for women’s health. Women risk their health and lives in bearing the weight of the operation and its consequences. The most common complications are inflammation, interruption of menstrual patterns, infertility, endometriosis, myoma of the uterus and many other kind of ovary illness. Besides that, the humanists say that abortion is a crime and it against the law.
So far, abortion becomes a dilemma for countries with a large number of citizens. On the one hand, it can control the birthrate but on the other hand, it brings terrible consequences, especially for the women’s health.
42. What does the text tell us about?
A. The explanation of abortion
B. The risks of abortion
C. The advantageous of abortion
D. The controversy of abortion
E. The information of abortion
43. Why is abortion concerned as a method of birth control?
A. Because our country faces population explosion.
B. Because there are no risks using this method.
C. Because there is no effective and successful method of contraception.
D. Because abortion is legal.
E. Because abortion is morally justified.
44. The followings are the common complications caused by abortion, except . . .
A. Digestive problems
B. Ovary illness
C. Myoma of uterus
D. Bad menstrual patterns
E. Infertility
45. . . . the government should find methods to solve it (Par. 2)
The underlined word has the same meaning with . . .
A. protect
B. overcome
C. quit
D. get rid of
E. determine
46. The government should find methods to solve it.
The word “it” refers to ...
A. the problem of abortion
B. the problem of population explosion
C. the problem of contraception
D. the problem of infertility
E. the problem of ovary illness
This text is for questions 47 – 50.
One day when a rabbit was walking in the forest, he heard someone crying out, “Help! Help! Help me, please!” He looked around and finally he saw a wolf. A great stone had fallen on his back, so he couldn’t get up. The wolf asked the rabbit’s help and he said he would die if nobody helped him.
The rabbit worked very hard and finally he managed to get the big stone off the wolf’s back. However, instead of saying thank you, the wolf jumped up and caught the rabbit in this mouth. The rabbit cried and asked for the mercy but the wolf insisted on killing him for his meal.
Then the rabbit said, “No good person kills someone who has helped him. It is not fair. You can ask the duck, who is very fat and knows everything.”
Therefore both of them went to the duck. He listened to their story and he said, “Show me the stone I want to know how the story happened.” Then, they all together went to the stone.”
“Now, let me be sure about this, said the duck. “ Put the stone on the wolf’ back exactly as it was when you found him. “So the wolf lay down and with much effort the rabbit put the stone on his back again.
“Well, what do you think?” the wolf asked the duck. The duck thought for a moment. Then he said, “I think you were wrong to be cruel to the rabbit, who had helped you. Now wait and see until someone else will help you!” And the duck and rabbit left the wolf in the sorry state in which the rabbit had come upon him. They laughed at the wolf although he asked for help. “Help! Help! Help me, please!
47. What is the text about?
A. A forest life
B. Wild animals
C. The rabbit and the wolf
D. Food chain in ecosystem
E. How the wolf was trapped
48. The rabbit cried and asked for the mercy … (paragraph. 2). What does the underlined word mean?
A. happines
B. reason
C. kindness
D. forgiveness
E. sadness
49. What did the rabbit do to the wolf?
A. He wanted to eat the wolf
B. He lifted the stone on the wolf’s tail.
C. He forgave the wolf.
D. He helped the wolf meet the duck.
E. He trapped the wolf in the forest.
50. What do we learn from the text?
A. We must thank the favor done for us.
B. We need to lift the stones on the street.
C. Don’t ever help a wolf.
D. Go to a wise duck for an advice.
E. Run away when we meet a wolf.
Good Luck
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