SECTION 1 : STRUCTURE (1– a.

I can see his performance

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b. I liked to see his
Direction : Choose the correct
performance
answer.
c. I planned to see his
performance
1. We (wait) for you when you
d. I like his performance very
get back tomorrow.
much
a. Will wait
e. I can’t see his performance
b. Had wait
c. Will be waiting
4. When Maria went shopping,
d. Had been waiting
she found a jacket that she
e. Are waiting
really liked. After she had the
sleeves , it fit perfectly.
2. If they had not helped us, we
a. to shorten
would still be in despair.
b. shortened
This sentence means …
c. is shortened
a. They had helped us, so we
d. shortening
were not in despair
e. shorten
anymore
b. Although they helped us,
5. Besides the fact that it can
we were still in despair
walk, the crayfish has another
c. They helped us, so we are
_______, by swimming.
not in despair anymore
a. Different means of quite
d. They had helped us, so we
locomotion
are in despair any more
b. Different locomotion of
e. They had been helped us,
quite means
so we were not in despair
c. Locomotion of different
anymore
quite means
d. Quite of means different
3. “I wish I could see my
locomotion
brother’s performance on the
e. Quite different means of
cafe.” This means that _______.
locomotion
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6. Arif sometimes takes a swim. Writing a poetry?”
Arif often read an article. Sammy : “ ."
We can also say … What should Sammy say?
a. Arif likes reading an a. I prefer to writing a short
article than take a swim story than write a poetry
b. Arif would rather reading b. I prefers writing a short
an article than taking a story than writing poetry
swim c. I like writing a short story
c. Arif prefers reading an to writing poetry
article than taking a swim d. I like writing a short story
d. Arif prefers reading an better than writing a
article to taking a swim poetry
e. Arif prefers to reading an e. I would rather write a
article to take a swim short story to write a
poetry
7. Aldi : “This Japanese text
on morning newspaper is too 9. If only he _______ more skillful,
difficult to read”. he would make a good
Andre : “Oh well, you’d football player.
better _________. a. Being d. Be
a. To translate b. Had been e. Were
b. Be translating it c. Was
c. Have it translated
d. Have translated it 10. In 1791, Quebec was divided
e. Translate it into two sections, Upper
Canada and Lower Canada,
8. Teacher : ”Do you have any _____________ were ruled by
hobbies Sam?” elected assemblies.
Sammy : ”I don’t really have a. they both
any hobbies, Sir.” b. in which both
Teacher: “Well, what do you c. which them
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 e. both of them 14. All of these applicants
________ by the executive of
the company.
11. Threatened with prison for
a. have been highly
debt_______, Peale fled to
recommended
Boston in 1765 on horseback.
b. has been highly
a. Of some three hundred
recommended
dollars
c. is commended highly
b. Some of three hundred
d. it is recommended
dollars
e. they have been
c. Some three hundred of
recommended highly
dollars
d. Three hundred some of
15. Because of its tropical
dollars
climate, Hawai________subzero
e. Three dollars of some
temperatures.
hundred
a. Almost experiences never
b. Never experiences almost
12. Your sister used to visit you
c. Almost never experiences
quite often, ?
d. Experiences almost never
a. wouldn’t she
e. Never almost experiences
b. doesn’t she
c. didn’t she
16. I will be interested in going
d. hadn’t she
to cinema of Grand Indonesia
e. haven’t she
this weekend, and .
a. do my best friend
13. Endi will give Alifa your
b. my best friend will too
message when he (see) her.
c. so my best friend did too
a. Sees d. Had seen
d. my best friend didn’t
b. Saw e. Has seen
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17. “Hasn’t Alifa submitted her Faishal : “I have an English
report yet?” exam, mom.”
“I don’t think so. It_______.” Mom : “Then, you _______.”
a. Be printing a. Should turn off your
b. Is printing gadget
c. To be printing b. Would rather put off your
d. Is being printed gadget
e. Being printed c. Should have your gadget
turned off
18. Having developed a new d. Should rather put off your
method in medicine, the gadget
doctor was invited to give a e. Would have your gadget
speech in a seminar. The turned off
underline words mean …
a. because the doctor was 20. A waterway should be made
developing a new method of 14 cm diameter pipe so
in medicine that no water capacity is
b. after the doctor had smaller than desired. How
developed a new method many pieces of pipe with a
in medicine diameter of 3.5 cm to replace
c. although the doctor had a pipe with of a diameter 14
developed a new method cm?
in medicine a. 4 b. 8 c. 32 d. 16 e. 6
d. the doctor was developing
a new method in medicine 21. Rainbows/ the/ appear/
e. whenever the doctor had always/ the/ when/ directly/
developed a new method sun/ they/ part/ sky/ of/
in medicine opposite/ are/ in/ the
a. When rainbows appear,
19. Mom : “What are you they are always in the part
doing tomorrow afternoon, of the sky directly
Faishal?” opposite the sun
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 b. When the sun appear, they The passive form of the above
rainbows are always in the sentence is: the packages
part of the sky opposite _______ by us.
directly a. To be delivered
c. Rainbows are always in b. Have been delivering
the part of the sky c. Delivered
opposite directly the sun d. Have been delivered
when they appear e. Have to be delivered
d. When rainbows appear,
they are directly opposite 24. “Which shoes shall I buy?”
the sun always in the part “In my opinion the red shoes
of the sky ___ the grey one.”
e. When rainbows appear, a. most style than
they are always in the part b. much stylish than
of the sky opposite c. more stylish than
directly the sun d. stylish than
e. most stylish from
22. The oldest known bison
fossils have been found in 25. Despite the appearance of
China and the Himalaya being merely pests, ants can
Foothills animals serve the garden by
with all the essential features eliminating other bother
of the genus lived a million some insect, and_______.
years ago. a. To aerate the soil
a. Where d. which b. That can aerate the soil
b. to which e. whose c. Aerating the soil
c. from whom d. They can aerate the soil
e. Aerate the soil
23. We have delivered the
packages. 26. Almost everyone (leave) for
home by the time we arrived.
a. Left d. Leaves
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 b. Had left e. Had been 29. Ummah : “I can’t finish my
c. Is leaving leaving task alone, _____________.”
a. I have someone finish my
27. He told me he _______ be here homework
by three o’clock at the latest b. I would have someone to
and it’s half past already. finish my homework
a. Will d. Was c. I should had my task
b. Would e. Either could finished by someone
c. Is be used here d. I could have asked
someone to help finish my
28. We must remember what homework
happened in the past so that e. I had someone finish my
it will never happen again. It homework
means _______.
a. Since we all tend to forget 30. I always work late. The
what happened in the past sentence means _______.
we do the same mistakes a. I come home on time
again b. I never go home late
b. Those who couldn’t c. I always go home early
remember what happened d. I never go home early
in the past were more e. I always go to work late
likely to repeat it
c. We couldn’t remember 31. If Fadli (have) the money, he
what happened in the past would have lent it to me.
so we did it again a. Had d. Will have
d. In order not to repeat the b. Had had e. Will be
past, we should certainly c. Is having having
not forget what happened
then. 32. _________my mother________my
e. If we could remember the father is English. Both of
past, it would not happen them are America.
again. a. Both-of d. With-and
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 b. So-that e. Either-or a. Had d. Will have
c. Neither-nor b. Had had e. Will be
c. are having having
33. “Profita and Tutik get a very
good score in English, _______.” 36. Mom : “Go to the market
a. They should have studied and buy a sachet of tea,
hard last night Dina.”
b. They could have studied Dina : “Yes, Mom.”
hard last night Dika : “What did Mom tell
c. They must have studied you to do, Dina?”
hard last night Dina : “Mom told me ____.”
d. They should be study hard a. Buy a sachet of tea
last night b. To buy a sachet of tea
e. They could have study c. Buying a sachet of tea
hard last night d. Bought a sachet of tea
e. Be buying a sachet of tea
34. The hotel provides facilities,
yet_______. 37. Kiki and Wira _______ in Batam
a. It is advertised in the for three years now.
yellow pages a. Have living
b. Job training is provided b. Is living
for the employee c. Have been living
c. It is located on a beautiful d. Live
beach e. Will be living
d. Foreign tourist like to stay
there 38. The Guatemala is a
e. The occupancy rate is very detrimental city in Central
low America because of crime.
People can’t leave their
35. If I (have) the day off homes at night, and the
tomorrow, I would go to the police cannot provide
beach. their____ .
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 a. Savagely d. Saver SECTION 2 : VOCABULARY (41
b. Safety e. Safely – 50)
Direction : In question 41 – 50
c. Safe
each sentence has an underlined
word or phrase. Below each
39. The lecturer asked Saputri,
sentence are five other words or
“Which way did you go?”
phrases, marked A, B, C, D, and E.
The lecturer wondered_______.
you choose one word or phrase
a. Which way she had gone
that keeps the meaning of the
b. Which way she has gone
original sentences if it substitutes
c. Which way she had go
for the underlined word or phrase.
d. Which way she went
e. Which way she had went
41. The two girls take after their
mother very much in
40. When I was in rural area in
appearance.
China, the indigenous people
a. Care d. Greet
always told me that the more
b. Resemble e. Demand
we drink the dragon water,
c. Ignore
________.
a. then we become more
42. That company is going to put
beautiful
up a new building on this
b. the more beautiful we
corner.
become
a. Sell d. Close
c. we are becoming more
b. Open e. Demolish
beautiful
c. Erect
d. of course we become
beautiful
43. We had to call off the picnic
e. and we will more beautiful
because of the bad weather.
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44. Ms. Rahmah taught a class of 49. Febry has an infectious smile
uncontrollable children. that makes everybody loves
a. Obedient d. Willing her.
b. Very ugly to work a. Contagious d. Skeptical
c. Intractable e. Stable b. Cynical e. Happy
c. Mocking
45. Mala need to abbreviate her
sentence to make her idea 50. When you make up that list
clearer. for me, and don’t omit any
a. Lengthen d. Draw out name.
b. Shorten e. Change a. Add d. Select
c. Extend b. Change e. Make up
c. Leave out
46. The classroom is very roomy
and big.
a. Vacant d. Modern SECTION 3 : READING
b. Lavish e. Small COMPREHENSION (51 – 60)
Direction : Question 51-54
c. Spacious
based on the following reading.
The oldest living things
47. Lecturer is a noble profession
on Earth are trees. Some of
for some people.
California's sequoias have for
a. Promotion d. Skill
four thousand years looked
b. Appointment e. Task
5 down on the changes in the
c. Vocation
landscape and the comings
and goings of humans. They
48. Mary’s doctor said she was
sprouted from tiny seeds
obese and had to take
about the time the Egyptian
immediate measures to
10 pyramids were being built.
correct the problem.
Today these giant patriarchs
a. Captious d. Tired
seem as remote and
b. Petulant e. Corpulent
inaccessible as the rocks and
c. Anemic
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 mountain cliffs on which they everlasting life.
15 grow, like cathedral columns
holding up the sky. It is hard to 51. What is the main idea of the
imagine them playing any part passage?
in the lives of mere humans or a. Trees grow to great
being in any way affected by heights.
20 the creatures that pass at their b. Trees have been
feet. important to people
Lesser trees, however, throughout history.
have played an intimate role in c. Trees make humans seem
the lives of people since they superior.
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25 first appeared on Earth. Trees d. Trees that grow in
fed the fires that warmed California are very old.
humans: they provided e. Tress expressed the
shelter, food and medicine and grandeur and mystery of
even clothing. They also life.
30
30 shaped people's spiritual
horizons. Trees expressed the 52. Which of the following is NOT
grandeur and mystery of life, mentioned in the passage as a
as they moved through the way in which people have
cycle of seasons, from life to used trees?
25
35 death and back to life again. a. For furniture
Trees were the largest living b. For housing
things around humans and c. For shelter
they knew that some trees had d. For fuel
been standing on the same e. For nourishment
30
40 spot in their parent's and
grandparents' time, and would 53. In line 29, the word "they"
continue to stand long after refers to which of the
they were gone. No wonder following?
these trees became symbols of a. Trees
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 c. Fires century. They were of crucial
d. Seasons importance in stimulating
e. People's spiritual horizons 15 economic expansion, but their
influence reached beyond the
54. The author implies that, economy and was pervasive in
compared with sequoias, American society at large.
other trees have By 1804, English as well as
a. Been in existence longer 20 American inventors had
b. Adapted more readily to experimented with steam engines
their environments for moving land vehicles. In 1920,
c. Been affected more by John Stevens ran a locomotive and
animals cars around in a circular track on
d. Had a closer relationship 25
25 his New Jersey estate, which the
with people public saw as an amusing toy. And
e. Not playing any part in the in 1825, after opening a short
lives of mere humans length of track, the Stockton to
Darlington Railroad in England
30
30 became the first line to carry
Question 55 through 59 based on general traffic. American
the following reading. businesspeople, especially those in
The work of the railroad the Atlantic coastal region who
pioneers in America became the looked for better communication
basis for a great surge of railroad 25
35 with the West, quickly became
building halfway through the interested in the English
5 nineteenth century that linked the experiment. The first company in
nation together as never before. America to begin actual operations
Railroads eventually became the was the Baltimore and Ohio, which
30
nation’s number one 40 opened a thirteen- mile length of
transportation system, and track in 1830. It used a team of
10 remained so until the construction horses to pull a train of passenger
of the interstate highway system carriages and freight wagons along
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45 didn’t come into regular service
until two years later.
However, for the first decade
or more, there was not yet a true
railroad system. Even the longest
50 of the lines was relatively short in
the 1830’s, and most of them
served simply to connect water
routes to each other, not to link
one railroad to another. Even
25
55 when two lines did connect, the
tracks often differed in width, so
cars from one line couldn’t fit onto
tracks of the next line. Schedules
were unreliable and wrecks were
30
60 frequent. Significantly, however,
some important developments
during the 1830’s and 1840’s
included the introduction of
heavier iron rails, more flexible
25
65 and powerful locomotives, and
passenger cars were redesigned to
become more stable, comfortable,
and larger. By the end of 1830 only
23 miles of track had been laid in
30
70 the country. But by 1836, more
than 1,000 miles of track had been
laid in eleven States, and within
the decade, almost 3,000 miles had
been constructed. By that early
75 age, the United States had already
surpassed Great Britain in railroad
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construction, and particularly from
the mid-1860’s, the late nineteenth
century belonged to the railroads.
55. Which of the following is NOT
true about the 1830’s and
1840’s (line 63).
a. Passenger cars became
larger
b. Schedules were reliable
c. Locomotives became more
powerful
d. Tracks were heavier
e. Schedules were wrecked
56. Why does the author include
details about Great Britain in
the passage?
a. To compare developments
in both the United States
and Great Britain
b. To inform the reader the
details about Great Britain
c. To show where Americans
got their ideas and
technology from
d. To provide a more
complete historical
context
e. To illustrate the
competitiveness between
the two countries
57. Where in the passage does
the author outline the main
conclusions about the
importance of railroads in
America?
a. Lines 7-18
b. Lines 31-41
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 c. Lines 49-60 moisturizes our skin, keeps it fresh
d. Lines 41-46 and gets rid of wrinkles. Then,
e. Lines 68-74 pure water helps maintenance our
body temperature since our body
is 70% composed by water. Third,
58. By what time had almost
Pure water helps relieve and
3,000 miles of track been prevent headaches which are
laid? commonly caused by dehydration.
a. 1830
b. 1840
c. 1836 60. From the text, we can infer
d. 1846 that the text message us to
e. Mid-1860s ________________.
a. Purify the water
59. Which of the following can be
inferred from the passage? b. Save water
a. The United States c. Start drinking pure water
regarded Great Britain as a
continuously
competitor in developing
the most efficient railroad d. Find another better
system substance than water
b. American businessmen
e. Start a new research about
saw railroads as a threat
to established businesses water
c. Steam locomotive power
was first used in 1832
d. The first company in
America to begin actual
operations was the
Californian
e. Steam locomotives
replaced horses because of
the distances across the
country

Question number 60 based on the

following reading.

Water is one of the most important

substances in life. By drinking pure
water continuously, we’ll get a lot
of benefits. First, water can

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