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The Buyat Bay, issue has been a hot topic these past two weeks.
However, no party has claimed responsibility for the pollution in the bay. This country is
suffering from an old illness : it cannot see the culprits even though it could - if it wanted to.
The issue started when a non-governmental organization discovered that a number of
people living near the bay in South Minahasa district, North Sulawesi province, were
suffering from skin diseases.
Blood tests showed that some had high levels of mercury in their blood.
Public opinion then turned against the subsidiary of U.S based Newmont Minahasa
Corp. PT Newmont Minahasa Raya, accusing it of causing the pollution by dumping its
tailings in the bay.
2. "Public opinion then turned ........ by dumping its tailings in the bay." (Paragraph 5)
The underlined word means ........ in a careless manner. C
unloading packing
A. D.
piling covering
B. E.
burying
C.
Each society has its own beliefs, attitudes, customs, behaviours, and social habits.
These give people a sense of who they are, how they should behave, and what they should or
should not do. These 'rules' reflect the 'culture' of a country.
People become conscious of such rules when they meet people from different cultures.
For example, in some. cultures, being on time can mean turning up several hours late for an
appointment, even for a business meeting; in others, 3 p.m. means 3 p.m. Also, the rules
about when to eat vary from culture to culture. Many North Americans and Europeans are
used to having three mealtimes a day and organizing their timetable around them. In some
countries, on the other hand, people often do not have strict rules like this - people eat when
they want to and every family has its own time table.
When people visit or live in a country for the first time, they are often surprised at the
differences that exist between their own culture and that in the other country. The most
common way of comparing two cultures is in terms of their differences - not their
similarities.
5. "Being on time can mean turning up several hours late ..." (Paragraph 2).
The underlined words mean ........ C
arriving exposing
A. D.
emerging displaying
B. E.
appearing
C.
8. Ridwan : Do you think our youth have the competence to keep up with
the Americans in technology?
Ade : I don't think so because it needs a lot of money.
The underlined word means ........C
knowledge experiment
A. D.
cleverness profession
B. E.
capability
C.
9. Sherly : Billows of smoke from the forest fires in Jambi, Riau and West Kalimantan
are becoming thicker and thicker. They have harmful effects on our health
and daily activities.
Raissa : That's right. I think the government ........ people to understand the value of
forests and stop their bad habits. E
educated would educate
A. D.
have educated should have educated
B. E.
are educating
C.
10. Thailand, which has already won three gold medals at the Athens Olympics, will bid to
host the games in 2016, media reports ........ on Sunday. A
said demanded
A. D.
claimed justified
B. E.
purposed
C.
Latihan 2
Hayati Hutabarat says that she has downright satisfaction in her position in the company. But
what about some other thing in life. There are still important to many women like married
and children. Does Hayati regret not having time for this thing?
1. What is the text about ? B
Unmarried women
A.
Career women
B.
Married women
C.
Women's position in a company
D.
Women's lives
E.
At present, aeroplanes are playing a very important role to ..C...(3)..... one place to another.
People can go round the world just in a two day flight by the world's first supersonic airliner,
Concorde, which .....B(4)..... at a height of over 18.000 metres and .....D(5)..... a speed of
over 2.000 km per hour.
3. disjoin separate
A. D.
part divide
B. E.
connect
C.
4. goes drives
A. D.
flies comes
B. E.
jumps
C.
5. cuts reaches
A. D.
continues limits
B. E.
moves
C.
7. The manager always comes early to the office. I wonder where he lives. I often see him
driving his car to jalan Pakubuwono Kebayoran Baru. So he leaves not far from the
office then. D
What is the dialogue about?
The manager's car The manager's address
A. D.
The manager's office The manager's driver
B. E.
The manager's house
C.
8. 1. The aim of a political party is to elect officials who will try to carry their interests.
2. A large political party usually has millions of members and supporters.
3. A political party is a group organized to support certain policies on questions of
public interests.
4. When people in a democracy disagree about what the government should do,
each voter expresses his opinion by voting for the candidate that supports his
side of the argument.
5. The questions may range from issues of peace, war and taxes, to how people
should earn a living.
The best order of the sentences above is ........A
3-2-1-4-5 2-1-3-5-4
A. D.
2-1-3-4-5 3-2-4-5-1
B. E.
2-1-4-3-5
C.
9. Some pollutants are always ..........., because they are dangerous. A
unavailable unsuitable
A. D.
undesirable unavoidable
B. E.
unchangeable
C.
10. To accelerate the economic growth, social progress and cultural development is one
purpose of ASEAN.
"To accelerate" means ........ C
hold up turn on
A. D.
keep back slowdown
B. E.
speed up
C.
A planet is a body in space that revolves around a star. There are nine planets in our solar
system, and these nine planets travel around the sun. The names of the planets are Mercury,
Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
Planets travel in orbits around the stars. All of the planets of the solar system revolve
in elliptical orbits. In other words, their orbits are like large, flat circles. The time that it takes
a planet to make one revolution around the sun is called a year.
The Greeks were the first people to recognize and give names to some of the planets.
Tile word planet comes from a Greek word meaning wanderer If a person wanders, this
means that he goes from one place to another and does not have a home. The Greeks thought
that planets "wandered" in the sky. However, modern scientists can predict the movement of
the planets very accurately.
The average person will say that agriculture means farming. He is partly right, for
raising crops is a branch of agriculture. So do livestock raising, dairy farming, fruit growing,
chicken raising and even fur farming. Agricultural includes the raising of every kind of plants
and animals that is useful to man.
With all its many branches, agriculture is the world's most important industry. It
supplies the food we eat and many of the materials from which we make our clothing.
Farms are classified according to the type of farming that is done and kinds of crops
and livestock that are raised. They may be classified in several different ways, such as
general, specialized, intensive, and extensive farms.
General farming is a farm where a variety of things is raised. On such a farm there may
be a herd of dairy cows whose milk the farmer sells. There may also be poultry to provide
extra income and supply some of the family's needs.
There are many factors that influence the types of crops and livestock that a farmer
raised. The most important one is climate which includes temperature, length of growing
season, sunshine, and rainfall. Another is the type of soil. The third is the amount of water
available for irrigation. By concentrating on the particular crops or animals that fit best with
this situation, the specialized farmer hopes to use his land in the most efficient and profitable
way.
When a farmer devotes a great deal of labor to a piece of land, he is practising
intensive agriculture. If he works in a large area of land with relatively little labor, he is
practising extensive agriculture. Intensive agriculture usually goes together with small farms.
A great deal of careful work is always involved in intensive agriculture. Often this work must
be done by hand. Extensive agriculture is usually practised on large farms or ranches where
most of the work is done by machinery.
4. The practice of intensive and extensive agriculture is the main idea of paragraph ........E
2 5
A. D.
3 6
B. E.
4
C.
6. Mrs. Anwar : I heard that your son had won a scholarship to Pajajaran University.
Mrs. Budiman : Yes, that's right ............ A
He never ignores our advice and always studies hard.
I'm proud of him
A.
I prided myself on his success
B.
His pride would not let him down
C.
I'm to proud to have been successful
D.
He is a profile of a successful student
E.
Rice is the major staple food for most of the Indonesian people. The most liking impact of
research over the past year is its contribution to the change in Indonesia's rice production
from the world's largest importer of the major staple food to self-sufficiency. In creasing
availability of seed of new varieties, fertilizers and pesticides as well as favorable pricing
policies, encouraged farmers to intensify their rice fields.
Indonesian farmers often prefer to grow rice with good eating quality, then select
varieties for other characteristics such as high yield, early maturity, and resistance to certain
pests and diseases. Therefore, only a few varieties are grown widely by farmers.
Increased production of palawija crops-food crops other than rice that includes corn,
soybeans, peanuts, mungbeans, cassava, and sweet potatoes have been given a higher
priority. One of the goals of the agricultural development to continue to obtain sufficient rice
production, but at the same time substantially raise reducing of other crops to provide a more
balanced diet for Indonesians and reduce costly imports. In addition, these crops play an
important role as animal feed and material for industries.
The government hopes to reach self-sufficiency in these crops, especially corn and
soybeans through intensification, extensification, and diversification programes. Production
of corn and soybeans has begun to climb. Peanuts have shown a small increase but
production of cassava and sweet potatoes has changed very little over the past years due
mainly to marketing problems.
1. Why do Indonesian farmers only grow a few varieties of rice? Because they would
rather grow rice with ... then varieties with other characteristics. C
high yields various characteristics
A. D.
early maturity with pest and disease resistance
B. E.
good eating quality
C.
5. ". but at the same time substantially raise production of other crops to provide a
more balanced diet for Indonesian." (paragraph 3)
The underlined word is the synonym of ... B
raise produce
A. D.
supply reduce
B. E.
increase
C.
8. Ridwan : I'm going to Hide Park to hear the people making speeches.
David : You'll be late. By the time you get there, they ........ their speeches.E
finish have finished
A. D.
will finish will have finished
B. E.
are finishing
C.
The weather forecast, the story about the candidates, and the movie reviews are examples of
messages from the media. A communication medium is a means of communicating a
message. Examples of media are televisions, radios, newspapers, books, and telephones. The
media that can reach many people at once are called mass media.
It is not difficult to think of other messages we receive through the mass media Every
day we get hundreds of them Think about advertisements, for example. We see and hear
these messages almost everywhere we go. Advertisements are important messages, even
though they are sometimes annoying. They help us compare and evaluate products.
Most of us get information from the media than from the classroom. Think for a
moment about how you Team about local news and events. Do you depend on other people
or media? What about international news? What is the most important source of information
for you? People who am asked these questions usually answer 'Television".
We use the information we get from radios, televisions, newspaper and other media to
make decisions and opinions. That is why the mass media are so important. Editorials and
articles in newspapers help us decide how to vote. Consumers' reports on television help us
decide how to spend ow money, and international news on the radio or TV makes us think
and form opinions about questions of war and peace.
With each improvement in the media, audiences become larger and larger. Thanks to
the communication satellite, television audiences have become international. More than 500
million people watched the first walk on the moon, for example. And more than 1 billion
watched the events of the recent Olympic Games.
1. You can get the following information from television, EXCEPT .......B
events messages
A. D.
editorials international events
B. E.
local news
C.
3. The information obtained from mass media is important because it enables us .......B
to write editorials to make television reports
A. D.
to build up opinions to ask about war and peace
B. E.
to decide how to advertise
C.
Sailing may seem like a difficult sport. But it is really not hard. You do not need to be
strong, but you need to be quick. And you need understand .....C(4)..... basic rules about the
wind.
First, you must ask ....E.(5)..... "Where is the wind coming from ? Is it coming from
.....A(6)..... or behind or from the side ? You must be thinking about this all the time on the
boat. The wind direction tells you what to do with the sail.
4. a few a minor
A. D.
a tiny a slight
B. E.
a little
C.
5. it them
A. D.
us yourself
B. E.
him
C.
6. front previous
A. D.
ahead advanced
B. E.
before
C.
The money lent to the customers comes from the ....A.(7)..... who invest it in bank and
from profit made by private businesses and individuals. They are demanded deposits, and
tune deposits. Depositors get ....D.(8)..... from the use of their money in the banks, and the
interest is .....A(9)..... by the government.
7. owners managers
A. D.
cashiers stockholders
B. E.
creditors
C.
8. profit interest
A. D.
budget cheque
B. E.
capital
C.
9. paid drawn
A. D.
kept regulated
B. E.
taken
C.
10. Father : Andri, you'd better mow the grass first before you paint the fence.
Andri : .......?
Father : I'm afraid not. The smoke may make our neighbours feel annoyed. A
May I burn the rubbish
A.
May I gather the rubbish
B.
May I smoke while working
C.
May I sweep the yard afterward
D.
May I throw the rubbish in the back yard
E.