Professional Documents
Culture Documents
A beggar found a leather purse that someone had dropped in the marketplace. Opening it, he
discovered that it contained 100 pieces of gold. Then he heard a merchant shout, "A reward!
A reward to the one who finds my leather purse!"
Being an honest man, the beggar came forward and handed the purse to the merchant saying,
"Here is your purse. May I have the reward now?"
"Reward?" scoffed the merchant, greedily counting his gold. "Why the purse I dropped had
200 pieces of gold in it. You've already stolen more than the reward! Go away or I'll tell the
police."
"I'm an honest man," said the beggar defiantly. "Let us take this matter to the court."
In court the judge patiently listened to both sides of the story and said, "I believe you both.
Justice is possible! Merchant, you stated that the purse you lost contained 200 pieces of gold.
Well, that's a considerable cost. But, the purse this beggar found had only 100 pieces of gold.
Therefore, it couldn't be the one you lost."
And, with that, the judge gave the purse and all the gold to the beggar.
Source: www.aesopfables.com
16. The passage mainly tells about .
A. a beggar
B. a stolen purse
C. an honest beggar
D. a reward of stolen purse
E. a beggar and a merchant
17. A beggar is .
A. a person asked for money for living
B. a person sold something for living
C. a man stole the purse
D. a place sold the purse
E. a very smart person
18. What is the character of the merchant?
A. Deceitful.
B. Honest
C. Clever.
D. Smart.
E. Calm.
19. Which paragraph told that the merchant was deceiving?
A. Paragraph 1.
B. Paragraph 2.
C. Paragraph 3.
D. Paragraph 4.
E. Paragraph 5.
20. Why did the beggar return the purse to the beggar? Because he .
A. had counted the 100 pieces of gold
B. heard the merchant saying
C. wanted to get the reward
Acid rain can severely damage both plant and animal life. Certain lakes, for example,
have lost all fish and plant life because of acid rain.
Acid rain comes from sulphur in coal and oil. When they burn, they make sulphur
dioxide (SO2 ). Most sulphur leaves factory chimneys as the gaseous sulphur dioxide (SO2 )
and most nitrogen is also emitted as one of the nitrogen oxides (NO or NO2 ), both of which
are gases. The gases may be dry depositedabsorbed directly by the land, by lakes or by the
surface vegetation. If they are in the atmosphere for any time, the gases will oxidise (gain an
oxygen atom) and go into solution as acids. Sulphuric acid (H2 SO4 ) and the nitrogen oxides
will become nitric acid (HNO3 ). The acids usually dissolve in cloud droplets and may travel
great distances before being precipitated as acid rain. Catalysts such as hydrogen peroxide,
ozone and ammonium help promote the formation of acids in clouds. More ammonium (NH4
) can be formed when some of the acids are partially neutralised by airborne ammonia
(NH3 ). Acidication increases with the number of active hydrogen (H+) ions dissolved in
acid. Hydrocarbons emitted by for example, car exhausts will react in sunlight with nitrogen
oxides to produce ozone. Although it is invaluable in the atmosphere, low level ozone causes
respiratory problems and also hastens the formation of acid rain. When acid rain falls on the
ground it dissolves and liberates heavy metals and aluminium (Al). When it is washed into
lakes, aluminium irritates the outer surfaces of many fish. As acid rain falls or drains into the
lake the pH of the lake falls. Forests suffer the effect of acid rain through damage to leaves,
through the loss of vital nutrients, and through the increased amounts of toxic metals
liberated by acid, which damage roots and soil micro organisms.
Taken from Science and Technology Encycopedia, 1998
26. What is the text mainly about?
A. The definition of acid rain.
B. The process of acid rain.
C. The effect of acid rain.
D. Acid rain.
E. Rain.
27. The acid of normal rain is than the acid rain.
A. higher
B. lower
C. denser
D. severer
E. the same
28 The third paragraph tells about .
A. acid rain damages environment
B. how acid rain endangers life
C. how acid rain occurs
D. the cause of acid rain
E. the acid rain cause
4. What is the result of the burning of the coal and oil?
A. ammonium
B. nitric acid
C. sulphuric acid
D. sulphur dioxide
E. airbone ammonia
5. The sulphur oxides and nitrogen oxides will . in the air.
A. be absorbed directly by the vegetation
B. dissolved in the lake water and land
C. emit another sulphur gas
D. radiate an oxygen atom
E. gain an oxygen atom
6. Which of the following is not true about acid rain?
A. It contains lower pH than the normal rain.
B. It has higher pH than the normal rain
C. It can damage animal and plant life.
D. It contains dangerous gases.
E. It endangers water life.
7. . is dangerous for the scale of fish in the lake.
A. Acid rain
B. Heavy metal
C. Alumunium
D. Vital nutrient
E. Sulphuric acid
8. What is the purpose of the text?
A. To report the acid rain in genera.l
B. To explain the process of acid rain.
C. To persuade the reader to prevent acid rain.
D. To discuss the danger of acid rain in the air.
E. To present two different opinion on acid rain process.
9. If they are in the atmosphere for any time, . The italic word can be best replaced by .
A. oil and coal
B. land and air
C. sulphur oxides
D. nitrogen oxides
E. sulphur and nitrogen oxides
10. Acid rain can severely damage both plant and animal life. The bold word has the closest
meaning to .
A. harm
B. hang
C. endow
D. produce
E. develop
Bank soal explanation dapat diunduh di sini
Discussion
Most people agree that some form of family limitation or spacing is desirable for the
good of the family and society. But individuals and groups especially religious groupsdiffer
sharply on the methods of birth control that they consider moral and acceptable.
Couples that practice birth control do so for various reasons. They may want to limit
or space their children, or to have no children at all. Young couples often postpone having
children so that both partners can work full-time. Other couples space their children so they
can give each child as much attention as possible. Some women are advised by their doctors
to avoid pregnancy for health reasons. In many countries with rapidly growing populations,
the government encourages couples to limit the size of their families.
Even though birth control has gained in acceptance, opposition to the practice is
continuous. Some people fear that birth control encourages sexual relations outside marriage
or that government might impose birth control. Some religious groups oppose birth control on
moral grounds.
Some religious groups teach that artificial methods of birth control are immoral
because they separate the two purposes of intercourse in marriageconjugal love and the
procreation of children. Although they oppose all artificial birth control, they consider natural
family planning acceptable.
Adapted from The World Book Encyclopedia, 2007
1. What does the text discuss about?
A. Family planning.
B. The disagreement to birth control
C. Reason to support family limitation
D. The two different opinion on birth control
E. The religious group which disagree to birth control
2. The issue of the text is .
A. governments population program
B. family planning programs
C. family limitation
D. birth control
E. sex control
3. Which of the following reason do not support birth control?
A. To limit the family size
B. To space the children birth.
C. To avoid high family budget.
D. To avoid a risk-health pregnancy.
C. an opinion on a novel
D. a review on Undead and Unwed
E. a review on Undead and Unwed movie
2. The second paragraph mainly told .
A. the writer bought three novel
B. the writer fond of vampire novel
C. the writer thought the novel was very bad
D. the writer thought the novel was fun and OK
E. the writer didnt recommend the readers read it
3. The Undead an Unwed is .
A. an horror novel
B. an romantic novel
C. very interesting novel
D. not a sequence novel
E. made into the movie
4. Which of the following statement does not represent the writers opinion?
A. The novel is very trashy.
B. It really good and interesting novel.
C. I will not add this novel to my book list.
D. Dont read this novel or you will be upset.
E. I do really want to forget this bad novel soon.
5. The following statement is not true .
A. the writer liked vampire novel very much
B. the writer bought three novel in series
C. the writer finished reading the novel
D. the writer could satisfy his target
E. the novel is not interesting
6. In general, the writer .
A. suggested the readers to buy the novel