SEMESTER TEST

I. Choose the correct answer by crossing a, b, c, d, or e!

Text 1
Fuel Price Must Be Dropped
Government should cancel the rise of fuel price done in the beginning of October
2005. Most of Indonesian people badly beg it for some basic reasons.
First, for industry, the rise of fuel price will increase their production cost because
the must pay more for fuel and electricity used in the process of production.
Consequently, it will rise the selling price for the product. If the product price is
increased, it will be hard for the product to compete with the goods from other countries.
The export will decrease rapidly and government will lose the income from exporting
goods.
Second, for workers, the rise of fuel price will force the company where they
work to limit the budget to low the production cost. One of the ways that is usually don
by the employees of a company is by cutting of the number or workers. It means
hundreds even thousands of workers will lose their jobs. The jobless people will increase
instability of nations because they will do whatever they can do to get some money, even
by doing crime. What a dreadful nightmare!
Thirdly,, for ordinary people. They must manage their finance to survive because
the rise of the fuel rice will increase the price of their basic needs price. They have to
find alternative ways to survive; reducing the meals, postponing the buying of
unnecessary things or event for the from school. This is the worst.
]based on the facts above, considering the negative impact of the rise of the fuel
price above, government must cancel the rise and try to find other ways to cover the lack
of the national budget by not cutting the subsidy of fuel.
1. What should be canceled?
a. fuel price
d. industry products
b. the rise of industry products
e. fuel price for industry
c. the rise of fuel price
2. What is the purpose of the text?
a. Fuel price must be dropped
b. To persuade the readers or listeners that rise of fuel price is should or should
not be in the case
c. To persuade the readers that the topic must be concerned about
d. The reasons about the rise of fuel price
e. The text have a clear in statements
3. Who suffer most of rise of fuel pries?
a. company
d. the ordinary people
b. government
e. the workers
c. developer
4. Why must rise of fuel be canceled?
a. because there are some negative impact
b. because the government will get profit
c. because the fuel pries in Indonesia is still cheap
d. because the company will increase the products

e. because there are not many crimes

5. Why does the company cut of the number of workers?
a. the workers have been old
b. the workers have stolen the company products
c. the company wants to limit the budget to low the production cost
d. the workers want to increase their salary
e. the company wants to get some profit
6. They must manage finance to survive in paragraph four the words they refers
to
a. companies
d. the citizen
b. industry products
e. the rich people
c. the workers
Text 2
Good morning, ladies and gentlement
Thank you very much for the House of Representatives which had invited me to
give the speech concerning about the mystery sinetrons shown in many televisions
presently. My name is Budi Santoso, a lecturer at University of Indonesia majoring in
mass communication. Here, I represent the academics point of view about the subject we
discuss this morning.
As we know, there are many mystery sinetrons shown on Television stations
presently. The sinetrons depict horrible scenes about the spirit world. It is described that
spirits often disturb people by frightening them in the darkness, when they walk alone at
night or at the cemetery. The spirits are pictured as frightening appearance such as white
clothes flying corpse, shattered face copse etc. the show must be abandoned for several
reasons.
Firstly, it make a wrong perception of people especially children and women to do
activity at nights, for example going to the wells, even cooking at kitchen alone. How do
you fell if you always live in anxiety.
Thirdly, such kind of sinetrons waste out time to think unreal phenomena while we
are facing many kinds of living problems.
In brief, for the reason, I think television station must stop showing mystery
sinetrons. They are bad influences for people, frightening our children and destroying
their belief to god.
Thank you very much for your attention.
7. Who is the writer?
a. lady
d. watcher sinetron
b. a gentleman
e. the man who gave speeches
c. a lecture
8. What is the really profession of the writer?
a. the minister
d. the lecturer at university of Indonesia
b. the teacher of SMU
e. Budi Santoso
c. the government

9. Where did the give speech?

a. at the company
d. at the university
b. at the house of representatives
e. at television
c. at the mosque
10. How many reasons does the speaker mention to support his argument?
a. 4 arguments
d. one arguments
b. 5 arguments
e. three fourth argument
c. 3 arguments
11. What program does the speaker critic?
a. sinetron on TV
d. drama sinetron
b. love story sinetron
e. spirits sinetron
c. mystery sinetron
12. So theyll afraid of them in paragraph three. They word them refer to ..
a. sinetrons
d. people
b. watchers
e. spirits
c. audiences
Text 3
The police at the big city were looking for a thief. At last they caught him. But while
they were taking photographs of him-from the front, from the left, from the right, with a
hat, without a hat-he suddenly attacked the policeman and ran off. They tried to catch
him, but he got away.
Then a week later the telephone rang in the police-station and somebody said. You
are looking for Bill Cross, aren't you?"
Yes.
Well, he left here for waterbridge an hour."
Waterbridege was a small town 150 kilometers from the city. The city police at once
sent four different photographs of the thief to the police in Waterbridge.
Less than twelve hours later they got a telephone call from the police in Waterbridge.
We have caught three of the men. they said happily, and we will catch the fourth this
evening, we think"
13. Who were looking for thief?
a. The police
b. The big city
c. The police in the big city
d. People in the big city
e. The writer
14. How did the police take photographs of the thief?
a. from the front
b. from the left
c. from the right
d. without a hat
e. all answers are true
15. Which statement is not true based on the story?
a. The police were searching for a thief
b. The police failed to take his picture

c. The police had taken pictures of the thief

d. The policeman were attacked by the thief
e. The police took pictures of the thief from many angles
16. Did somebody know where the thief was?
a. Yes, he was
b. No, he wasnt
c. Yes, he did
d. No, he didnt
e. Yes, they were
17. Which statement is true about the story?
a. The thief did not get away
b. Someone called the police from the big city
c. The caller was Bill Cross
d. The thief was still in Waterbridge
e. The thief was on the way to Waterbridge
18. Where was the thief when someone called the police station?
a. in the big city
b. he was not in Waterbridge yet
c. in Waterbridge
d. in the small city
e. at police station in Waterbridge
19. Did the policeman in Waterbridge catch the real thief?
a. Yes, they did
b. No, they didnt
c. Yes, they were
d. No, they were not
e. Yes, they do
20. How did the police in big city possibly fell about the capture?
a. happy
d. worried
b. sad
e. confused
c. dissapointed
21. The police at the big city were looking for a thief.
The bold sentences is called ....
a. orientation
d. event
b. complication
e. twist
c. resolution
Text 4
Too Late
The plane was late and detectives were waiting at the airport all morning. They were
expecting a valuable parcel of diamonds from South Africa. A few hours earlier, someone
had told the police that thieves would try steal the diamonds. When the plane arrived,
some of the detectives were waiting inside the main building while others were waiting
on the airfield. Two men took the parcel off the plane and carried it into the customs

House. While two detectives were keeping guard at the door, two others opened the
parcel. To their surprise, the precious parcel was full of stones and sand!
22. Which sentence showed the first event?
a. The plane was late and detectives were waiting at the airport all morning
b. They were expecting a valuable parcel of diamonds from South Africa
c. When the plane arrived some of the detectives were waiting inside the main
building
d. A few hours earlier, someone had told the police that thieves would try to steal the
diamonds.
e. Two man took the parcel off the plane and carried it into the Customs House
23. Who are the participants in the story?
a. the police
b. detectives
c. the police and the thieves
d. someone and the police
e. the detectives, the police, the thieves, someone
24. How many detectives were there in the Customs House when they opened the parcel?
a. Many detectives
b. One detective
c. Two detectives
d. Three detectives
e. Four detectives
25. Where did two men take the parcel after the arrival of the plane?
a. into the Custom House
b. in the plane
c. in the airport
d. in the plane cabin
e. at the door
Text 5
Joe was going into his usual bar before lunch when he saw a poorly dressed man
fishing in a small pool of rain-water about five centimeters deep outside it.
Joe stopped and watched the man for a few minutes. He saw that most of the
people who passed by him believed he must be rather mad.
Joe pitied the man, so after a few minutes he went up to him and said kindly,
Hello, would you like to come into the bar and have a drink with me?
The fisherman was delighted to accept his offer, and the two men went into the
bar together. Joe bought the fisherman a few drinks, and finally said to him, Youve
been fishing outside here, havent you? How many did you manage to catch this
morning, if I may ask?
'Youre the eighth, the fisherman answered merrily.
26. Who were the participants in the story?
a. Joe
b. Fisherman
c. Barber

d. Joe and the fisherman

e. Poor man
27. Where do you think the story happened?
a. School
b. Bar
c. Restaurant
d. Caf
e. Sea
28. Why did the most people who passed the fisherman believe that he rather mad?
Because
a. He was dinking in the bar
b. He was fishing in a small pool of rain-water
c. He was fishing in the bar
d. He was looking for a fish in the bar
e. He was taking his lunch in the bar
29. What did the fisherman actually catch?
a. Fish
d. shrimp
b. Food
e. people
c. Customer
Text 6
The Ducks and the Turtle
Two ducks who lived in a big lake had a friend who was a turtle. One year there was a
very little rain and the lake began to dry up. One of the ducks said to the other, Soon,
therell be no water in this lake. Lets go and look for another lake. Yes. Answered the
second duck, But first lets say goodbye to our friend, the turtle.
When they told the turtle they were going to leave, he said, Ill die here without any
water and without any friends. Take me within you. The duck answered, We cant. We
are going to fly, and you have no wings.
The turtle thought for a minute and then said, Please wait here. Then he went away
and found a strong, straight stick. He brought it back to his friends, put the middle of it in
his mouth and said, Now if each of you takes me one end of the stick in his mouth, you
can lift me up and carry me with you
There is one danger, said the ducks, If you try to talk while were carrying you
through the air, you wont be able to hold the stick, so youll fall down along way and
break your shell.
All right, answered the turtle, I promise not to talk while were in the air. So the
ducks took the stick and flew away, with the turtle between them. All went well until they
were flying over a town. Then some people saw them and shouted, Look, those ducks
are carrying a cat!
First the turtle very proud of himself because of his idea he could fly. But when he
heard that, the turtle got very angry, A Cat? I am not........, he said, but he didnt get any
further because he opened his mouth, the stick came out of his mouth and the poor turtle
fell to the ground.
30. The communicative purpose of this text is ....
a. To entertain or amuse the readers

b.
c.
d.
e.

To give a view of an art work

To inform the readers
To describe a thing
To explain a place

31. Tina : Who involved in the story?

Rita : They were ....
a. two turtles and a duck
b. two ducks and a turtle
c. a duck and three turtles
d. two ducks and turtles
e. a duck and turtle
32. Henny : How did the turtle solve his problem?
Ardi : ....
a. By drying up the lake
b. By flooding the lake
c. By flying away from the dry lake with the help of the ducks
d. By flying down over the town by the help of the ducks
e. By dropping the turtle down
33. Linda : What problems faced by the ducks?
Ferry :....
a. A lot of water flows to the lake
b. Much water flows out of the lake
c. Long rainy season
d. Long dry season
e. Trying to fly
34. What can we learn from the story?
a. One may proud of himself
b. One must keep his promise
c. One may angry to others
d. One may not too boastfull of himself
e. One must always be patient to others
Text 7
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.

35. The story mainly tells us about....

a. twenty crocodiles
b. the boss of the crocodile
c. a rabbit and twenty crocodiles
d. a rabbit and the boss of crocodile
e. the boss of the crocodile and all his friends
36.

We know from the first paragraph that the rabbit actually wanted
to cross the river
to swim across the river
to meet the boss of crocodile
to know where the crocodiles are
to know the number of crocodiles there

a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
37.

All of you are good, nice, gentle, and kind .... (Paragraph 2)
The underlined word is synonymous with ....
a. wild
b. cheerful
c. easy going
d. diligent
e. honourable

Text 7

The Jakarta Post, a leading English-language daily newspaper, requires a

qualified reporter.
The following qualifications are required:
1
Indonesian citizen
2.
university degree
3.
good understanding of English. TOEFL score of at least 550
4.
able to operate a computer
5.
not more than 26 years old
6
pleasing personality, highly motivated and dynamic
7.
willing to take a series of tests
Please send an application letter in English, a copy of current curriculum
vitae, a photocopy of identification card, a photocopy of diploma, a photocopy
of TOEFL score, a sample of writing in English, and a recent passport-sized
photograph, to
Human Resources Manager
The Jakarta Post
P.O. BOX Palmerah, Jakarta, 11001.
Application should reach us before May 15, 2007

38. Under what heading is this text likely found?

a. Housing.
d. Job vacancy
b. Education.
e. Travel agency
c. Furniture.
39.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.

The Jakarta Post is looking for a person who is qualified in ....

teaching English
writing news reports
making a series of tests
leading a daily newspaper
being a human resource manager

40. The Jakarta Post, a leading English-language daily newspaper, requires a qualified
reporter.
The underlined word means ....
a. hires
b. find
c. needs
d. looks
e. employs
41. X : What do you do if you know the students smoke in the bus?
Y : I think I will suggest them to stop smoking.
The dialogue above express
a. agreement
d. hope
b. opinion
e. sympathy
c. disagreement
42. Mr. Karto : my son always got nine at English. I am very happy.
Mr. Karyo : congratulation for your son
From the dialogue we know that Mr. Karto expresses his
a. satisfaction
d. agreement
b. anger
e. disappointment
c. love
43. Frida
: Sit, do you know Mr. Fitri?
Siti
: Is he our English teacher . brings a new motorcycle?
a. who
d. when
b. whom
e. where
c. whose
44. The girl begged the robber...
a. Don't take my money.
b. Not taking her money.
c. Not to take her money.
d. He didn't take her money.
e. He'd better not to take her money.
45. As the road had become very slippery after the rain, I told the bus driver ...
a. Do not speed
d. not speeding

b. Not to speed
e. he does not speed
c. Let us not speed
46. Don't put off ... the application form.
a. To fill in
d. filling in
b. Fill in
e. you fill in
c. For filling in
47. We are astonished at ... a good score for this TOEFL in spite of his poor English.
a. he could get
d. being able to get
b. his being able to get
e. be able to get
c. to be able to get
48. "What are the horn of buffalo used for?"
"Well, mostly for ... handicrafts."
a. Make
d. they make
b. To make
e. making
c. Being made
49. We were dreadfully late. It was very
a. embarrass
b. embarrassing
c. embarrassed
d. embarrassment
e. embarrasses
50. When I was young, I to be a singer.
a. Want
b. Wants
c. Wanted
d. Was wanting
e. Were wanting
II. Essay
1. Fill in the blank with suitable abstract noun.
We always like to reminisce the happy moments of our Childhood
2.
Agung
: What will you do this evening?
Rini
: I will read a new novel which I borrow from the library.
3. Change the sentences into indirect speech:
a. "Do you love me?" Boni asked. Boni asked me if I love him
b. A foreigner asked me, "What is your name?" A foreigner asker me what my
name was.
4. Complete the dialogue below:
Ari: What do you feel after seeing the tsunami victims?
Dea: Oh, I am so sad.
5. What can you learn from the poster?
Dont ever give up in doing everything