Listening Section

In this section of the test, you will have the chance to show how well you understand spoken English There are four parts to this
section with special directions for each part.

PART I Question 1 to 4.
Directions:
In this part of the test you will hear some dialogues and questions spoken in English. The dialogues and the questions will be
spoken twice. They will not be printed in your test book, so you must listen carefully to understand what the speakers are saying.
After you listen to the dialogue and the question about it, read the five possible answers, and decide which one would be the best
answer to the question you have heard. Now Listen to a sample question.

You will hear:

Man : I don't know what to order. 1 could drink everything on the menu.
Woman : Why don't you try guava juice, orange juice or ice tea.
Man : Guava juice sounds good. 1'll Lake it.
Woman : I think I'll have a big glass of cola float,
Narrator : What will the woman do?

A. Take a guava juice.

B. Order an orange juice.
C. Try an ice tea,
D. Order a cola float.
E. Drink mineral bottled water.

Narrator : The best answer to the question "What will the woman do?" is order a cola float. Therefore you should answer (D).

1. A. The woman's dress 3. A. one week

B. The elegant woman B. two weeks
C. The woman's black dress C. four days
D. The woman's appearance D. three days
E. The man's complaint about the woman E. seven days

2. A Sick. 4. A. She is discussing the cause of heart attacks.

B. Tired . B She is finishing her report on heart attacks.
C. Sleepy. C. She is finishing her school project
D. Thirsty D. She is presenting her assignment.
E. Hungry. E. She is looking for a scholarship.

PART II
Questions 5 to 7.

Directions:
In this part of the test, you will hear some incomplete dialogue spoken in English, followed by four responses, also spoken
in English. The dialogues and the responses will be spoken twice. They will not be printed in your test book, so you must listen
carefully to understand what the speakers are saying. You have to choose the best response to each question.
Now listen to a sample question.
Woman : Youll arrived late again?
Boy : I'm sorry, Ma'am. The bus had already left when I arrived at the shelter.
Woman : Dont you promised that you wouldn't come late again.
Boy : .....
Narrator : What does the boy probably respond?
A. I'm sorry to hear that. B. I really appreciate it.
C. I do apologize Ma'am. D. No problem. Ma'am.
Narrator : The best answer to the question "What does the boy probably respond?" is "I do apologize Ma'am"
Therefore you should choose answer (C).

5. Mark your answer on your answer sheet.

6. Mark your answer on your answer sheet.

7. Mark your answer on your answer sheet,

PART III
Questions: 8 - 11
Direction:
In this part of the test you will hear some dialogues or monologues spoken in English. The dialogues or monologues will
be spoken twice. They will not be printed in your test book, so you must listen carefully to what the speakers are saying. After you
listen to the dialogue or monologue, look at the five pictures provided in your test book, and decide which one would be the most
suitable one for the dialogue or monologue you have heard.

8.

A B C D E
9.

A
B C D
E

10.

11.

PART IV
Questions 12 to 15.
Directions:
In this part of the test, you will hear several monologues. Each monologue will be spoken twice. They will not be printed in your test
book, so you must listen carefully to understand what the Speakers are saying.

After you hear the monologue and the question about it, read the five possible answers and decide which one would be the best
answer to the question you have heard.
Question12 and 13 are based on the following description. Questions 14 and 15 are based on the following monolog.

12. A. A military city. 14. A. The cooking pot,

B. A railway museum, B. The stinginess
C. A new railway town, C. The new place.
D. King Willem I station. D. The wealth
E. Steam locomotives station, E. Rice

13. A. To build new railway museums. 15. A. The family was hungry.
B. To transport government troops. B. It was the last rice they had.
C. To preserve the steam locomotives. C. He didn't want the rice to be stolen.
D. To build a new government station. D. The rice was still fresh from the pot.
E. To park the locomotives at the original station, E. Pak Pesut wished to share with the villagers,
 This is the end of listening section

This text is for question 16 - 18

Jakarta, Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama denies that he insulted verses in the Quran last month and says that
his words were taken out of context. Ahoks claim follows protests from some groups who say that the governor engaged in
religious defamation.
Ahok said a video published on social media, in which he mentioned the Quran's al-Maidah:51 verse during a working visit
to Thousand Islands regency on Sept. 27, was cut and edited and did not display his full conversation with the local residents.
"I did not say [things] that insulted the Quran. I did not say the Quran was stupid. What I said to the local people of Thousand
Islands is that if you are fooled by racists and cowards using that verse in the Quran not to vote for me, then don't vote for me," he
said on Friday as reported by kompas.com.
He mentioned the al-Maidah verse because the verse is often used by his political opponents to encourage people not to
vote for him. Ahoks opponents have used this line of attack against him since he started his political career in East Belitung in
2003.
"There is nothing wrong with the verses in the Quran. It was not the context [of my speech]," Ahok added.
A petition on change.org was set up demanding that Ahok make a public apology and stop interpreting the Quran in his own way.
As of Friday afternoon, the petition has so far garnered 58,802 signatories.
Novelist Chaidir Hasan, secretary-general of the hard-line Islam Defenders Front (FPI), also filed a report with the National
Polices Criminal Investigation Department (Bareskrim) on Thursday, charging Ahok with religious defamation. (rin)

16. What is the kind of the text above?

a. Narrative c. News Item e. Descriptive
b. Report d. Recount

17. What is the social function / aim / purpose of the text?

a. To inform readers about newsworthy events of the day d. To entertain the readers
b. To persuade the readers e. To describe governor in general
c. To describe Ahoks case

18. Where did Ahok mentioned the Quran's al-Maidah : 51 verse during his work?
a. Regency c. National Police Office e. FPI Office
b. His Office d. Thousand Islands regency

This text is for questions 19 - 20.

Most people in Nepal are farmers. They live in stone or timber houses with thatched or slab roofing. They grow rice, which
is their main crop, maize, barley, potatoes, and vegetables. Sheep are their main source of meet. Cows are kept to produce milk.
Donkeys and mules are used to carry goods. Nepal is an isolated country so hardly any modernizing has occurred. They have few
facilities and mainly live on their intensive subsistence agriculture.

19. The text mainly talks about.

a. the borders of Nepal c. the animals in Nepal e. the facilities in Nepal
b. the people in Nepal d. the scenery in Nepal

20. It is difficult to find modernization in Nepal because Nepal is.country.

a. a modern c. an agriculture e. a primitive
b. an isolated d. a developing

This text is for questions 21 - 24.

Spring, summer, autumn, winter the season change without fail. The Ancient Greek told a story of how the seasons came
to be. When the world was new, it was always summer. The goddess Demeter took care of the earth. She watered the plants and
crops, and picked up flowers with her beautiful daughter Persephone. Below the earth, Pluto was king of the underworld, where it
was always dark and cloudy. Sometimes he climbed to the banks of the River Styx at the earth.
 One day he saw Persephone. He had never seen anyone so beautiful and he fell in love with instantly, Pluto wanted
Persephone to be his wife. Pluto used his chariot. He took Persephone and thundered back to the underworld. Dont be afraid he
said. I love you. I will make you my queen.
On earth, Demeter searched for Persephone and forgot all her work. When she had almost given up hope, she sat by the
River Styx. The water whispered what had happened. Demeter ran to the Zeus, the king of the Gods for help. It Persephone eats
anything in the underworld, she must stay, said Zeus. Let me send Hermes. My messenger is to find out. In the underworld,
Persephone is nothing at all.
One day Pluto held out something. It smelled delicious, and when twelve seeds dropped into Persephones hand, she
lifted them to her lips. Just at the moment, Hernes arrived in the underworld. Stop! he shouted. But it was too late. Persephone
had eaten half the seeds. Now, you must stay here forever, said Hernes.
Finally, Zeus decided what would happen. Because Persephone ate six seeds, she will live in the underworld for six
month of the year. For the eater six months, she will return to her mother. That is why spring and summer when Demeter is happy
is, the sun shines. In autumn, when Persephone goes back to the underworld, flowers die and trees shed their leaves as Demeter
cries.

21. Paragraph two tells us that

a. Pluto took care of the earth d. Pluto was dark and gloomy
b. Pluto asked Persephone and fell in love with her e. Pluto asked Persephone to marry
c. Pluto asked Persephone to understand

22. What is the communicative purpose of the text?

a. to describe a season d. to inform readers about seasons
b. to persuade readers to pay attention to the reason e. to present different point of view about the season
c. to amuse the readers

23. To show the real words of the speakers, the writer uses.
a. Indirect speech c. Direct speech
b. Reported speech d. Passive voice e. Simple present tense

24. Who was the king of the Gods?

a. Pluto c. Zeus
b. Demeter d. Persephone e. Hermes

This text is for questions no. 25 - 27

Once upon a time, a rabbit wanted to cross a river but he could not swim. He had an idea. He saw a boss of crocodile
swimming in the river. The rabbit asked the boss of crocodile, How many crocodiles are there in the river? The boss of crocodile
answered, We are twenty here. Where are they? the rabbit asked for the second time. What is it for? the boss of crocodile
asked.
All of you are good, nice, gentle and kind, so I want to make a line in order. Later I will know how kind you are, said the
rabbit. Then, the boss of the crocodile called all his friends and asked them to make a line in order from one side to the other side
of the river. Just then, the rabbit started to count while jumping from one crocodile to another: one two three four until
twenty, and finally, he thanked all crocodiles because he had crossed the river.

25. The story mainly tells us about

a. twenty crocodiles d. the boss of the crocodile
b. a rabbit and twenty crocodiles e. a rabbit and the boss of crocodile
c. the boss of the crocodile and ail his friends

26. We know from the first paragraph that the rabbit actually wanted
a. to cross the river d. to swim across the river
b. to meet the boss of crocodile e. to know where the crocodiles are
c. to know the number of crocodiles there

27. All of you are good, nice, gentle, and kind (Paragraph 2)
The underlined word is synonymous with
 a. Wild c. Diligent
b. Cheerful d. easygoing e. honorable

This text is for questions 28 - 30.

An elephant is the largest and strongest of all animals. It is a strange looking animal with its thick legs, huge sides and backs,
large hanging ears, a small tail, little eyes, long white tusks and above all it has a long nose, the trunk.
The trunk is the elephants peculiar feature, and it has various uses. The elephant draws up water by its trunk and can squirt it all
over its body like a shower bath. It can also lift leaves and puts them, into its mouth. In fact the trunk serves the elephant as a long
arm and hand. An elephant looks very-clumsy and heavy and yet it can move very quickly.
The elephant is a very intelligent animal. Its intelligence combined with its great strength makes it a very useful servant to man and
it can be trained to serve in various ways such as carry heavy loads, hunt for tigers and even fight.

28. The third paragraph is mainly about the fact that

A. elephants are strong B. elephants can lift logs
C. elephants are servants D. elephants are very useful E. elephants must be trained

29. Which of the following is NOT part of the elephant described in the first paragraph?
A. It looks strange B. It is heavy. C. It is wild.
D. It has a trunk. E. It has a small tail.

30. It is stated in the text that the elephant uses the trunk to do the following, EXCEPT
A. to eat B. to push C. to drink
D. to carry thing E. to squirt water over the body

31. The trunk is the elephants peculiar feature (Paragraph 2)

The underlined word is close in meaning to
A. large B. strange C. tough D. smooth E. long

Text for question 32 to 34

Kaka was born in Brazilia. From age 4 to 7, his family lived in Cuiaba, following his father, a civil engineer. At age 7, the
family moved to the city of Sao Paulo, in the neighborhood of Morumbi, near the stadium of Sao Paulo FC. As FIFA says, Kaka
fails to fit the Brazilian stereo type of the kid from the favela who first played the game in the street with a ball made from rags.
Coming from comfortable and cultured family, Kaka kept up his studies as long as they were compatible with his profession.
His talent was soon recognized. A professor called the family and suggested enrolling him in a football school. At age 8,
Kaka was playing with Sao Paulo FC, where he succeeded in all categories. At age 14, Kaka used to wake up two hours early, to
keep up with his studies. Kaka managed to conclude the intermediary cycle (eleven years) in Brazil, before dedicating exclusively
to football.
In 2006, only 24 years old, Kaka was one of the main Brazilian players in the World Cup. Despite the abundance of good
players, Coach Carlos Alberto Parreira already said that Kaka would start as a principle. The groups formed by Kaka, Ronaldinho,
Ronaldo and Adriano were called the Magic Square by Brazilian media fans.

32. Having recognized Kakas talent, the professor suggested that .. in the football school.
a. he became a supervisor c. he enroll as a member e. he accommodate
b. he practice more d. he spend his free time

33. The main idea of paragraph 3 is .

a. his talent was soon recognized.
b. Kaka would start as a principle.
c. "Magic square "was formed by Kaka, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, and Andriano.
d. a professor suggested Kaka's family enrolling him in a football school.
e. Kaka was one of the main Brazilian players in the World Cup.

34. His talent was soon recognized. (Paragraph 2). The underlined word is closest in meaning to .
a. Predicted c. registered
b. Managed d. succeeded e. identified
This text is for question 35 - 37
Octopuses are mollusks, a kind of animal with a soft body. Unlike other mollusks, such as clams and oysters, octopuses
and squid have no hard ..(35) to protect them. An octopus is an animal without any bones. Surrounding the main portion of its
body is a fleshy covering, called a mantle. Most of the internal organs of an octopus are inside the mantle.
An octopus has two big ..(36), so it has very good vision. Seals, eels, and other sea animals prey on octopuses. An
octopus main method of defense is to shoot a cloud of dark ink into the water.
The ink cloud confuses the attacker, and the octopus jets away. Octopuses can also ..(37) color rapidly when they are
in danger. They change color to fit in with their surroundings. This helps them to hide from prey.

35. ..
a. Skin c. scales
b. Seals d. shells e. skull

36. ..
a. eyes c. bones
b. fingers d. thumbs e. shoulders

37. ..
a. complain d. wonder
b. deliver e. change
c. breathe

This text is for question 38 40.

Obesity or overweight causes people discomfort, especially women. It indicates that they cant control dietary habits.
Potentially, people with too much body fat inside have several problems with their health.
Many people do not realize that overweight can be a major factor in heart diseases such as heart attacks because it
triggers the heart to work harder than usual. Furthermore, people with obesity are exposed to risk of blood cholesterol and high
blood pressure. The doctor added that 60% of people with obesity have high blood sugar and that can cause diabetes.
Being too fat also bothers physical appearance for everyone because they do not feel confident. Accordingly, many people
use diet programs to keep their bodies slim. However, some people disagree with diets since they assume that it restricts them.
Many people are not aware that obesity is more dangerous because it is not good for a healthy life.

38. Which of the following diseases is not caused by obesity ?

a. Blood cholesterol c. Hypertension
b. Lung cancer d. Heart attack e. Diabetes

39. Why do some people disagree with diets?

a. It exposes one to heart diseases d. It effects physical appearance
b. It keeps fat inside the body e. It doesnt cause any change
c. It prevents them doing their daily activities

40. it restricts them. ( paragraph 3 ). What does the underlined word refers to?
a. Going a diet program c. Disagreement
b. Laziness d. Obesity e. Slim

This text is for number 41 - 43

Everyone hates anyone coming late to the class because it disturbs the teaching and learning process. It doesnt only
apply to students, but also to teachers. Lateness becomes a serious problem in school because it is a form of disobedience to the
rules.
Two days ago, three students arrived in a physics class after the teacher began explaining an important point. They
knocked the door calmly when they came in. Of course; our attention was directed to them. When they walked into their seats, the
teacher asked them some questions, but they kept silent because they didnt dare speak.
 Finally, the teacher halted the lesson until those three students gave their reason for coming late. the teacher was very
upset. This indicates that lateness not only disrupts the classroom activity, but also affects someones mood. Therefore, the school
must have strict regulation towards lateness.

41. What is the main topic being discussed?

a. Activity in the classroom c. Teaching and learning process e. Teachers and students lateness
b. Lateness become a serios problem d. Coming late as a habit among student

42. What happened to the three students in physics class?

a. They did in the canteen d. They were absent from the class
b. They were bullied by their friends e. The teacher gave them punishment
c. They couldnt come at the appropriate time

43. How did the teacher feel about those three students?
a. Awesome c. annoyed
b. Terrible d. terrific e. awful

This text is for number 44 46

Seaweed is the common name for countless of marine plants and algae that grow in the ocean, as well as in rivers,
lakes, and other water bodies
Some seaweed is microscopic, such as phytoplankton that live suspended in the water column and provides the base for
most marine food chains. Some are enormous, like the giant kelp that grow in abundant forests and tower like underwater
redwoods from their roots at the bottom of the sea. Most are medium-sized, come in colors of red, green, brown, and black, and
randomly wash up on beaches and shorelines just about everywhere.
The vernacular seaweed is a bona-fide misnomer, because a weed is a plant that spreads so profusely it can harm the
habitat where it takes hold. Not only are the fixed and free-floating weeds of the sea utterly essential to innumerable marine
creatures, both as food and as habitat, they also provide many benefits to land-dwellers, notably those of the human variety.

44. Why are some seaweeds called microscopic? Because.

a. They live in the ocean, rivers, lakes and other water bodies
b. They keep moving and wash the bottom of the sea
c. They travel around underwater and along shorelines
d. They are countless species of marine plants
e. They are so tiny

45. Where does the giant seaweed usually arise?

a. Beaches c. Shorelines
b. Dense forest d. Water bodies e. Underwater redwood

46. What is the purpose of weeds of the sea?

a. To wash the bottom of the sea d. To hide the coral reefs in the sea
b. To cleanse the sea of plankton e. To outsmart the prey and big predator
c. To provide food to other marine creatures

Rearrange the following sentence into a correct and meaningful paragraph.

1. They were calling me and trying to grasp my arms and legs
2. I couldnt imagine the dream that came to me
3. I had a terrible dream that came to me
4. I dreamed of walking alone in a denses forest in darkness
5. thanks god, it was just a dream.
6. The forest was full of living plants
7. I was crying aloud for help but no one came to help
8. I slipped and woke up
47. a. 1-2-4-3-6-7-5
b. 2-1-3-5-6-7-4
c. 2-1-5-4-6-3-7
d. 2-3-5-1-6-7-4
e. 3-7-5-3-1-4-6

This incomplete text is for questions 48-50

My Adorable Rabbit
When I was thirteen, my mother gave me a rabbit as a birthday gift. I named her jesia that day. She is small, with a short tail and
pointed ears. She (48).light brown, thick fur, and her fur is so soft to touch. I (49)her with a big bowl of carrots, a half-
kilogram, twice a day. When I come to is her with the meal, she looks so happy and eats what I bring. She always (50)..closer
to me as if she is inviting me to play together while I am sitting in the garden. She likes playing around my garden. Sometimes she
hides behind the bush or a big tree. I love my adorable rabbit so much.

48. a. is b. was e. has

d. had e. have

49. a. feed b. fed c. feeds

d. feeding e. have fed

50. a. come b. came c. comes

d. coming e. has come