I.

Choose the best answer by put a cross mark (X) on one of the options (a, b, c, or d) at
each question!

Text 1
Sanitation at Home
A home is a place where people cook, eat sleep and look after their children. It protects people
from harsh weather – cold, rain, wind, the burning rays of the sun-as well as from insects, animals and
other dangers, so a home is a very important place for people to live.
Sanitation at home is important. People can do a lot about improving some of their living
conditions in which they live. They should refrigerate food properly or store it carefully to keep it
away from bacteria, and they should not leave food lying around because it may attract insects and
rats. To Avoid these pests, proper care of garbage is also very important.
Careful housekeeping is extremely important to sanitation and food health. People should keep
all parts of the house neat and clean by sweeping and mopping them, such as bedroom, bathroom and
kitchen. They should tidy up the bedroom, scrub bathroom and kitchen often, and use disinfectants
freely. Sanitary condition of a house protects people from germs but health problems not caused by
germs are a growing challenge in the field of sanitation today.

1. The author is primarily concerned with describing …

a. the importance of having a good home
b. how people should keep their house tidy
c. the ways people should obey to have good sanitation
d. the danger of leaving their meal open
e. the diseases derive from garbage

2. According to the author …

a. house is the most important thing to have
b. people should store their meal in refrigerator
c. people should be aware of getting bad environment
d. flies, rats, ants and many other insects need our protection
e. keeping the environment healthy is the most important thing to do

3. Which one of the words below has similar meaning to sanitary ?

a. dirty d. soiled
b. waste e. health
c. clean

4. The word it paragraph 1, sentence 2 refers to …

a. a home d. weather
b. child e. wind
c. a place

Text 2
Healthy Water and Its Problem
Water is very precious to people. They use it in almost activities they do. Primarily, they use
water for domestic purposes such as drinking, food preparation, bathing cleaning, and watering plants.
Secondarily, water is used for industrial processes, commercial protect. Realizing how important
water is for drinking and food preparation. Clean water which is free from disease-causing bacteria
should always be available. Boiling water is the traditional way to get healthy drinking water. Clean
and healthy water is also necessary for bathing and cleaning; fish and plants need water which is free
from pollution.
As the population of the world increases, people are now facing a serious problem of water
pollution, especially in big cities. The growth of population does not cope with the development of
housing facility. Consequently, too many people live in one area, and environmental cleanliness
cannot be controlled very well. People’s activities are chemical substances that affect the natural
condition of water of its intended use. Organic wastes from homes and industries contaminate the
water. As the result, waterways like rivers, lakes, and even oceans are subjected to pollution. This
polluted water is harmful to living things that consume it. Plants cannot grow well and do not yield
good quality fruit. Fish do not grow and breed properly. This in turn, will affect the health of people
who consume them
Water pollution is really a problem for all people. They however cannot overcome this
individually. They need to cooperate as responsible citizens. They should not throw away domestic
wastes everywhere. They must not dump harmful substances into the rivers. Industries must realize
the importance of recycling rubbish. And above all, they should not let the chemical waste get into the
rivers or other public waterways.

5. The following are the primary uses of water except …

a. preparation of food
b. swimming –pools
c. cleaning
d. bathing
e. drinking

6. Water is very precious because …

a. it is not available everywhere
b. we cannot use it everyday
c. we use it in almost all activities
d. it is hard to get
e. we can use it to wash

7. We realize how important water is, so we have to …

a. find more water
b. boil the water
c. use as little water as possible
d. explore the earth for more water
e. keep water usable at all times
8. What do fish and plants need ? They need …
a. uncontaminated water
b. a large quantity of water
c. clean and healthy water
d. water from rivers
e. waste water
9. Why do big cities have serious water problems? Because …
a. water is difficult to find
b. they need too much water
c. water is needed there
 d. too many people live in one area
e. of the development of housing facilities
10. We need … for bathing and cleaning.
a. a warm water
b. a lot of water
c. clean and healthy
d. water from natural sources
e. contaminated water
11. Plants cannot grow well and do not yield good quality fruit (par.2)
The word “yield” means …
a. grow
b. give
c. affect
d. consume
e. produce/harvest
12. The primary cause of water pollution is …
a. animal waste
b. people’s activities
c. harmful plants
d. contaminated waste
e. the natural condition of water
13. Polluted water is very dangerous to ….
a. animal
b. all living things
c. environment
d. the people
e. health

Text 3
It is important to know how people in Jakarta satisfy the need of clean water. They use ground
water, the governmental water supply or PAM ( Perusahaan Air Minum ) and public hydrants. The
number of the population in Jakarta is 8,5 million, but only 41% of them have accessed to clean water
from PAM, while the rest still depend on ground water. The shallow ground water is used in hotels,
offices, factories, and areas of residences. There won’t be any problem if they do not use the water
more than the resource’s capacity.
Man is granted a large amount of colourless liquid called water. Life will not exist without
water. There are a lot of domestic purposes as drinking, preparation of food and beverages, bathing,
cleansing, and watering the lawns and gardens and secondarily in industrial processes, commercial
products disposal of wastes in sewers, fire fighting, street sprinkling, swimming pools, and public
fountains. For most of the purposes above the quality of water must be good.
There are a lot of sources of water supply such as underground and surface water. Ground
water resources are near at hand and systems are cheap to install, i. e by setting a pump or digging a
well. The surface water is obtained from large lake or river nearby, consequently it will be very
expensive to get the water because the supply depends on the amount of water in large reservoirs,
from which long pipes are needed to pump the water into the houses. Ground water is generally clear,
cold, cold, colourless, and cleaner than surface water in some regions.
In order to have clean water supplies people should conserve the water. It can be conserved
in many ways, including measurement and recording of all-purpose water consumption, holding flood
water in o0versize reservoirs, desalting seawater and guard of ground water against the intrusion of
seawater, and reducing evaporations in reservoirs using large ground water reservoir more
extensively.

14. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the text ? …

a. Deep ground water is used in houses.
b. Water is primarily used for fire fighting.
c. Ground water is generally smelly and gummy
d. The quality of water may be good for the most purposes.
e. People should conserve water to get enough clean water supply.
15. The main idea of paragraph 2 is …
a. We use water for domestic use
b. Life will not exist without water
c. The people in Jakarta use ground water.
d. There are a lot of sources of water supply
e. The surface water is obtained from large lake or river nearby.
16. The text tells us about …
a. clean water
b. ground water
c. the use of water
d. sources of water
e. the governmental water supply (PAM)
17. … people should conserve the water (par.3). The underlined word means …
a. harm
b. flow
c. manage
d. keep away
e. keep from lost or destruction
18. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE according to the text?
a. The quality of water must be good
b. We use water for domestic purpose
c. The surface water is obtained from the lakes
d. Swimming-pool, public fountain belong to primarily use of water.
e. People in Jakarta use ground water, PAM, and public hydrant primarily.

Text. 4
A woman and her two children could not stop sneezing as heaps of kapok floated in the air
around them. Even the afternoon downpour did not dampen their working spirit. With the silky fibers
or kapok flying all around them and setting onto their bodies, they kept stuffing kapok into a large
cloth bag to make mattress.
Rasni 40 is one of the woman working in a mattress-making centre in Wanakerta mattress in
Bajanegara village of Purbalingga district. Almost all of the women in Wanakerta, which has
population of some 350 families or about 1,200 people, works as mattress-makers.
Since 1978 Wanakerta residents have been making mattresses in a very traditional way. To
make one mattress they need stuffing, mattress cloth and thread. There are two kinds of stuffing with
which they are familiar : kapok and fibrous yarn called benglon which is made from textile factory
waste. The products have a good market not only in Purbalingga but also in other urban centers like
Surakarta, Tasikmalaya, and Jakarta.
 The mattress-making business in Wanakerta was pioneered by Mahwari, 50, and the late
Rasmadi. Before trying their hands at mattress-making, they sold agricultural products in a number of
areas in Java. When they were in a textile mill in Bandung, West Java they saw heaps of textile waste,
the kapoklike polyester benglon fibers.
The process of making a mattress in a traditional way is simple. “Before it is put into a cloth
bag, the kapok or benglon must be first put in the sunlight so that it will expand, “said Rasni.
Then it is put into a cloth bag of mattress size. The bag is sewn up with mattress thread.
“When the mattress is ready, it will be again put in the sunlight so that it will expand further, “she
added.
To make a single mattress, nine metres of mattress cloth, 20 kg of kapok or 25 kg of benglon
and two rolls of thread, are needed. One mattress is sold at an average price of Rp. 90,000,-
The mattress-makers handle heaps of kapok and benglon every do not wear protective masks,
leaving them vulnerable to health problem. The biggest risk they is when unpack the stuffing, put it in
the sunlight and fill the mattress bag.

19. what is the text about ?

a. The price of mattress
b. The process of making mattress
c. The Wanakerta residents
d. The mattress business in Wanakerta
e. The pioneer of making mattress in Wanakerta
20. The main idea of paragraph 2 is …
a. Making mattress has been started since 1978
b. It is simple to make a mattress in a traditional way
c. There are two kinds of stuffing in making mattress
d. Wanakerta hamlet is a mattress-making center
e. The products have a good market.

II. ESSAY

This text is for question number 1

Last summer, I went to Italy. I visited museums and sat in public gardens. A friendly waiter
taught me a few words of Italian. Then he lent me a book. I read a few lines, but I did not understand
a word.
Everyday I thought about postcards. My holidays passed quickly, but I did not send any cards
to my friends. On the last day I made a big decision. I got up early and bought thirty-seven cards. I
spent the whole day in my room but I did not write a single card.
1. Answer the following questions based on the text clearly!
a. What is the type of the text?
b. Where the writer sit when he visited museum?
2. Change words in the bracket ( ) into past (V.2) form!
a. Mr. Faiz …………..(GRADUATE) from Sekolah Menengah Pertama 1 Sagaranten last year
b. Mrs. Yuli ………….(BUY) some books for her son a week ago
3. Translate into English!
 a. Hamid mengirim surat ke Jakarta kemarin
b. Faiz bukan seorang dokter.
4. Find the synonym of the following words:
a. Sick = …………...
b. Pretty = ……………
5. Find the antonym of the following words:
a. Big x ………….....
b. Bad x …………….