Ujian Semester Gasal Aksel X Paket 2
Ujian Semester Gasal Aksel X Paket 2
Ujian Semester Gasal Aksel X Paket 2
MID-TERM TEST
SUBJECT : ENGLISH
DAY/DATE : THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2013
TIME : 07.15 – 09.15 A.M.
CLASS/PROGRAM : ACELERATED CLASS
A. LISTENING SECTION
Last year I learned a valuable lesson. It all happened when my mother entrusted me
with the job of delivering some important documents to my uncle. I stupidly insisted on
carrying the papers in an old traveling bag, rather than in something more substantial.
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I had to get on a bus to reach my uncle’s house. I was not all alarmed until I reached
my destination. I discovered to my dismay that the bag next to me was not my own. The
bag had contained some recently purchased fruit.
My overnight stay at my uncle’s was not a happy one. I felt guilty to have caused
such anguish. Luckily for me, the documents in my bag contained my cousin’s name
and address. The lady who walked off with it proved to be very honest. She turned up at
my cousin’s house, full of apologies and we exchanged bags.
Adopted from: R. Glover, G. Rodway, P. Shirley, H. Toner, The Cambridge Revision
Guide, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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holes. They sat inside them with only their eyes showing, watching to see if the cat was
around.
Claudia began to get hungry, so at last she thought of a trick. She fell down where
the mice could see her, gave a little meow and lay still, pretending to be dead. But
nothing happened! After a while, Claudia said in a whisper, “I’m dead. You can come
out now.” But the mice called back, “We’re not as stupid as you. We can tell the
difference between a live cat and a dead one.”
Adopted from: http://www.kidsgen.com/stories/animal_stories/tit_for_tat.htm (February
7, 2012)
9. What did Claudia do to make the mice come out of their holes?
A. She acted as if she hadn’t liked mice anymore.
B. She acted as if she had lost her strength.
C. She hid in a safe place, waiting for the mice.
D. She pretended to be kind to them.
E. She pretended to be dead.
10. What were the mice responses to what Claudia had done?
A. They fought her.
B. They knew it was just a trick.
C. They asked her proof of what she had said.
D. They came out, but didn’t approach her.
E. They came out from their holes one by one.
B. READING SECTION
This text is for questions 11 to 14.
Once upon a time there was a queen who had no children. Every morning she went
into the garden and prayed to God in heaven to bestow on her a son or a daughter.
Then an angel from heaven came to her and said, “Be at rest, you shall have a son
with the power of wishing, so that whatsoever in the world he wishes for, he shall have.”
Then she went to the king and told him the joyful news and when the time was due, she
gave birth to a son and the king was filled with gladness.
Every morning she went with the child to the garden where the wild beasts were
kept and washed herself there in a clear stream. It happened once when the child was a
little older when he was lying in her arms and she fell asleep.
Then came the old cook, who knew that the child had the power of wishing and stole
him. He took a hen, cut it in pieces and dropped some of its blood on the queen’s apron
and dress.
The cook carried the child to a secret place, where a nurse was obliged to suckle
him and he ran to the king and accused the queen of having allowed her child to be
taken by the wild beasts.
When the king saw the blood on her apron, he believed this, that he ordered a high
tower be built, in which neither sun nor moon could be seen and had his wife put in it
and walled up. Here she was to stay for seven years without food or drink and die of
hunger, but God sent two white doves, which flew to her twice a day, to bring her food
until the seven years were over.
Meanwhile, the nurse who suckled the child knew the fact. She felt guilty after years
trying hide it. So, when the cook died, she came to the king to confess and gave the
child to the king. The king did not believe her. He even accused the nurse of creating an
imaginary story. However, when he saw the power of wishing the child had and his
wife’s condition, he believed it. The king asked for his wife’s forgiveness and the family
lived happily ever after.
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Adapted from: http://www.popularfairytales.com/original-grimm-fairy-tales/the-pink-
grimm.html (February 1, 2012)
11. Who stole the king’s child?
A. The child’s nurse.
B. A witch.
C. The king’s soldier.
D. The king’s brother.
E. A cook.
12. What did the person do to cover his guilt?
A. He killed the queen.
B. He kidnapped the queen together with the child.
C. He accused the queen of letting the child be taken by wild beasts.
D. He did as if the child had been kidnapped by a cruel creature.
E. He ran away with the child.
13. What did God send to give the queen food?
A. An eagle.
B. Two doves.
C. A hen.
D. Two crows.
E. Some ants.
14. How did the king know that his son was still alive?
A. The queen told him what really happened.
B. A bird showed him where his son was.
C. An angel told him the fact.
D. The child’s nurse gave him to the king.
E. He had a dream about his son.
This text is for question 15.
Attention please,
We, from English extra-curricular club, invite you all to join us in our special
program. In the program we will have two guests, a student from Australia and England.
You can ask them questions freely. So, it’s a good chance to improve your English. The
program will be held tomorrow at 3 P.M. at the school hall. In addition, after meeting the
guests, we will watch a movie about student life in Australia. It is interesting, isn’t it?
15. Which of the following statements is TRUE based on the text?
A. The event is just for students who join the English extra-curricular club.
B. The event will be held in the evening.
C. Students can watch a movie after meeting the foreigners.
D. There will be three guests attending the program.
E. The student from England will talk about what student life in England is like.
This text is for questions 16 and 17.
Dear Sara,
Hi, friends, I wonder how you are at high school. Are you getting fatter, or
slimmer?
One thing for sure. You must still like cooking. I still remember what our friends
called you, Vinsa and me: “The three little chefs”. Because, besides being close
friends, we also like cooking.
In a few weeks, we will have a holiday. Let me tell you. My father has bought a
small cottage near the beach. He said that I can use it whenever I want. So, during
the holiday, I would like to invite you and Vinsa to the cottage. Here, we can cook
together, just like we used to. Just tell me what you would like to cook, the
ingredients and I will prepare all.
I really hope you and Vinsa can come. Please suggest another time if you can’t
come O.K.? I look forward to hearing from you.
Joan
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16. What does Joan invite Sara to do?
A. To her cottage.
B. To celebrate her birthday.
C. To have a house-warming party.
D. To join a cooking competition.
E. To go to the beach and rent a cottage there.
17. Which of the following is NOT TRUE based on the text?
A. The cottage is small.
B. The cottage is near the beach.
C. Both the sender and the receiver like cooking.
D. Joan will prepare the ingredients for cooking.
E. Joan can use the cottage just in the holiday time.
This text is for questions 18 to 22.
Once upon a time, there was an old man selling dumplings in a village. He had
white hair, a white beard and his clothing was very old and worn. He carried a heavy
load of hot dumplings which looked and smelled delicious. However, everyone in the
village thought the old man was stupid because he yelled, “Hot and delicious dumplings!
One for ten cents, two for twenty cents and three for free!”
“What is going on?” asked the villagers, surprised.
“Hot and delicious dumplings! Red beans and sesame. One for ten cents, two for
twenty cents and three for free!” the crazy old man yelled again.
More and more villagers began to gather around. They whispered in low voices,
“Can this be true? Three dumplings for free? Is this old man tricking us?”
“Who cares! I’ll eat three dumplings first and see whether it’s free or not.” Big Head
Wang said.
“Mmmm, these dumplings are so good and as big as chicken eggs.” When Big Head
Wang finished his second dumpling, he was so full that he could not eat anymore. So,
he asked the old man, “If I eat three dumplings, I don’t have to pay right?”
“I never tell lies. I already said three for free.” the old man replied.
Big Head Wang stuffed down another dumpling just so he could have the dumplings
for free. The old man kept his word and didn’t charge Big Head Wang any money.
The other villagers began to order the old man’s dumplings. Everyone ordered three
free dumplings; no one ordered either one or two dumplings. After a while, all the
dumplings were eaten by the villagers. “You all do have a good appetite,” the old man
said smilingly. People who did not get any dumplings watched the old man leave with
disappointment.
The villagers began to talk about the old man. “Ha! I can’t believe there is a stupid
person who would sell three dumplings for free.”
“His dumplings are so delicious. I wonder what they’re made of. I wonder where this
old man came from? I wish he could come every day.”
On the second day, the crazy old man came to the village again. He yelled, “Hot and
delicious dumplings! Peanut and sesame. One for ten cents, two for twenty cents, or
three for free!” Everyone began to gather around the old man. They ate the dumplings
so fast that they didn’t even chew on the dumplings. After a while, all the dumplings
were eaten again.
On the third day, the same thing happened; villagers were trying to eat as much as
they possibly could. Suddenly, a voice was heard, “Sir, can you please give me one
dumpling?” Everyone was surprised. They turned and stared at the young man.
“Young man, did you hear me clearly? One for ten cents, two for twenty cents, or
three for free. Why do you want one dumpling when you could get three for free?”
“I know,” the young man replied, “but I see how you’ve carried a heavy load of
dumplings every day and not made any money. I feel sorry for you. I really want to help,
but I have only enough money to pay for one dumpling.” Every one of the greedy
villagers felt ashamed when they heard the young man’s words.
“Aha! I’ve found you at last. You are the person, suitable to be my successor.”
Everyone saw the old man and realized now that he was actually their king. To find
himself
a trustworthy and kindhearted successor, he had disguised himself as a senile old man
in order to test the people’s hearts.
Adapted from: http://www.taiwandc.org/folk-ban.htm
(April 13, 2012)
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18. What did the villagers say of the dumpling seller?
A. He was forgetful.
B. He was stupid.
C. He was generous.
D. He was tricky.
E. He was the best dumpling maker.
19. How could villagers get dumplings for free?
A. When they bought four red beans.
B. When they bought two dumplings.
C. When they bought three dumplings.
D. When they ate as many dumplings as they could.
E. When they bought dumplings from him for three days.
20. Which of the following is TRUE about the dumplings?
A. They were cold.
B. They tasted terrible.
C. They smelled nasty.
D. They were as white as eggs.
E. They were as big as chicken eggs.
21. Why did a young man buy one dumpling from him?
A. He didn’t know that he could get more dumplings for free.
B. He wanted to know who the man was.
C. He just wanted to taste the dumpling.
D. He felt sorry for the old man.
E. He felt stuffed.
22. What is the purpose of the text?
A. To entertain the readers.
B. To tell the readers the news of the day.
C. To persuade the readers to do something.
D. To describe what dumplings look like.
E. To talk about the experience of a dumplings seller.
UNIT 1 VERSION B
This text is for questions 23 and 24.
Mitha, are you going to go to the course this afternoon by motorbike? If you are, can you
give me a lift? You always pass by my house while riding to the course, don’t you? I’ll wait for
you in front of my house. My motorbike has broken down. Thank you.
Suzan
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Indonesian people will turn off their electricity at these hours, but also all people
worldwide will do it. That’s why, we suggest you turn off your electricity at these times.
Thank you.
25. What is the announcement about?
A. Earthquakes.
B. AIDS day.
C. Earth Day.
D. The electricity.
E. Earth Hour.
29. Besides being an artist, Leonardo had the following professions, EXCEPT
________.
A. an architect
B. a scientist
C. a teacher
D. a writer
E. an inventor
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30. “He loved to draw them.” (Paragraph 2)
What does the word ‘them’ refer to?
A. Animals.
B. Artists.
C. Portraits.
D. Nature.
E. Plants.
31. Bryan : What did you see along the journey?
Lucy : I ________ beautiful landscapes.
A. see
B. am seeing
C. saw
D. seen
E. was seen
32. Kayla : Look at the boy ________. He is our old friend, isn’t he?
Ivan : Yes. You’re right. He is Tony.
A. plays the drums
B. playing the drums
C. played the drums
D. is playing the drums
E. was playing the drums
Alexander Graham Bell was born in Scotland. His mother was deaf. She was a
musician and a painter of portraits. His father, who taught deaf people how to speak,
invented “Visible Speech”. This was a code which showed how the tongue, lips and
throat were positioned to make speech sounds. Graham, or “Aleck”, as his family called
him, was interested in working with the deaf throughout his life.
He only attended school for five years; from the time he was ten until he was
fourteen, but he never stopped learning. He read the books in his grandfather’s library.
When he was in his early 20’s, his two brothers died of tuberculosis. Bell himself had
the disease and his father moved the family to Canada. Finally, Bell recovered from the
disease.
Two years later he went to Boston to open a school for teachers of the deaf and
then became a professor at Boston University. It was at this time that he met Mabel
Hubbard, one of his students. She was 10 years younger than him. Mabel became deaf
at the age of four, due to scarlet fever.
Thomas Watson became an associate of Bell. He made parts and built models of
Bell’s inventions. One day while they were working, Bell accidently heard the sound of a
plucked reed coming over the telegraph wire. Watson had been tuning the metal reeds
in the next room. Bell drew up a plan for the telephone and they continued to
experiment. The next day he transmitted the famous words, Mr. Watson, come here. I
want you!” A few months later, on February 14, 1876, he applied for a patent on his
telephone.
Adopted from: http://www.gardenofpraise.com/ibdbell.htm
(April 12, 2012)
33. What was Alexander Graham Bell interested in throughout his life?
A. Working with the deaf.
B. Working with the blind.
C. Working with science.
D. Doing research.
E. Working with medicines.
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B. By attending a private school.
C. By reading books in a public library.
D. By reading books in his grandpa’s library.
E. By reading books in his father’s library.
35. What disease attacked Mabel Hubbard which made her deaf?
A. Dengue fever.
B. Scarlet fever.
C. Anemia.
D. Stroke.
E. Heart attack.
36. In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell got a patent on his ________.
A. device for the deaf
B. visible speech
C. electricity
D. telegraph
E. telephone
37. “The next day he transmitted the famous words, . . . .” (Last paragraph)
What is another word similar in the meaning to the word ‘transmitted’?
A. Heard.
B. Said.
C. Sent.
D. Received.
E. Yelled.
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40. What is the text about?
A. The information of shower gel’s benefit.
B. The composition of shower gel.
C. The instructions on how to get skin soft and clean.
D. The directions on how to use shower gel.
E. The description of shower gel.
41. When should we use the product?
A. After taking shower or bathing.
B. Before taking shower or bathing.
C. After and before swimming.
D. During taking shower or bathing.
E. Before eating something.
l Always take off your jewelry before doing housework. Detergents and cleaning
powders fade the shine of jewelry.
l Put jewelry on last when dressing. Perfumes and hairsprays can tarnish them.
l Don’t swim when wearing any gold–you might lose it. Also, chlorine and salt water
can havea corrosive effect on gold.
l Clean it regularly. Soak in warm soapy water and gently brush with a toothbrush.
Rinse in clean water and dry with a soft, clean cloth.
l To prevent scratching, keep gold separately in a jewel box.
42. What is the topic of the text?
A. A guide to buying jewelry.
B. What to look for when buying jewelry.
C. Jewelry gets dull easily.
D. How to take care of jewelry.
E. E.. Jewelry should not be worn when doing housework.
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Once upon a time there were two brothers; one was called True, and the other
Untrue. True was always upright and good towards all, but Untrue was bad and full of
lies, so that no one could believe what he said. Their mother was a widow, and hadn’t
much to live on; so when her sons had grown up, she was forced to send them away,
that they might earn their bread in the world. Each got some provisions, and then they
went their way.
Having walked until evening, they sat down on a windfall in the wood. They were
hungry after walking the whole day and thought a morsel of food would be sweet
enough.
Untrue suggested that they eat True’s provisions first and after that his provisions.
True agreed, but Untrue was greedy. He took all the best bits and stuffed himself with
them, while True got only the burnt crusts and scraps.
The next day, True hoped that they could eat his brother’s provisions, however,
Untrue refused to share his. He ate all his provisions. When True asked Untrue for his
share, Untrue refused, he even flew into a rage and hit True, who then lost his balance
and fell. Untrue then ran away and left him.
Trying to rise, True could not see anything. He became blind! Poor True went
walking along and feeling his way through the thick wood. Blind and alone, he scarcely
knew which way to turn, when all at once he caught hold of the trunk of a great bushy
lime-tree, so he thought he would climb up into it and sit there till night was over for fear
of wild beasts. After sitting there for a while, he heard some noise. Apparently, there
were two rabbits having a conversation.
“The king of the palace has such bad eyesight,” said the first rabbit, “he can scarcely
see a yard before him.”
“Very true!” said the other rabbit, “but if only he came to this lime-tree in the
morning, while the dew is still on the leaves and rubbed his eyes with the dew, he would
retrieve his sight, as good as ever.”
After they were gone, True fell asleep as he sat up in the tree; but when the birds
began to sing at dawn, he woke up and took the dew from the leaves and rubbed his
eyes with the dew and so got his sight back, as good as it was before Untrue hit him.
Then, he went straight to the king’s palace and begged for work and was employed
on the spot. One day the king came out into the palace-yard and there came a great
hawk flying after his chicken and all the king’s men began to clap their hands and bawl
out, “There he flies!” “There he flies!” The king held up his gun and tried to shoot the
hawk, but he couldn’t see so far, so he felt great grief.
“Would to Heaven,” he said, “was there anyone who could tell me a cure for my
eyes; for I think I shall soon go blind!”
“I can tell you one,” said True; and then he told the king what he had done to cure
his own eyes and the king set off that very afternoon to the lime-tree, as you may
imagine and his eyes were cured, as soon as he rubbed them with the dew which was
on the leaves from the morning. Since then, there was no one who the king held so dear
as True and True’s fate changed.
One day, a beggar lad came and begged for a morsel of food. True knew him at
once and saw that it was Untrue, his brother. True, who was kind-hearted, greeted him
and introduced himself, as his brother.
Untrue was surprised and embarrassed knowing that the man was his brother. He
regretted that he had done bad things to True. Because of True’s kindness, Untrue
repented.
Adapted from: http://www.zeluna.net/norwegian-fairytales.html (February 24, 2012)
46. How did True become blind?
A. A wild beast attacked him while he was sleeping.
B. Something unknown plucked out his eyes.
C. He fell from a tree.
D. His brother poisoned him.
E. His brother hit him.
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A. He ate a lime fruit.
B. He rubbed his eyes with the dew from the lime tree.
C. He rubbed his eyes with the lime leaves.
D. He washed himself with the river water of the forest.
E. He rubbed his eyes with the latex of a rubber tree in the forest.
48. How did True know about how to heal his eyes?
A. He overheard a conversation between two rabbits.
B. A bird informed him about it.
C. He just had a trial.
D. The king told him about it.
E. He had dreamt about it.
49. Which paragraph shows that Untrue didn’t want to share his provisions with True?
A. Paragraph two.
B. Paragraph three.
C. Paragraph four.
D. Paragraph five.
E. Paragraph six.
50. Arrange the sentences into a good paragraph.
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ANSWER KEY (PAKET 1)
1. D
2. C
3. A
4. B
5. E
6. B
7. E
8. C
9. E
10. B
11. E
12. C
13. B
14. D
15. C
16. E
17. C
18. A
19. A
20. E
21. D
22. A
23. A
24. C
25. E
26. D
27. C
28. D
29. C
30. C
31. C
32. B
33. A
34. D
35. B
36. E
37. C
38. A
39. C
40. D
41. D
42. D
43. B
44. A
45. E
46. E
47. B
48. A
49. C
50. C
ANSWER KEY
51. D
52. E
53. D
54. A
55. C
56. A
57. A
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58. B
59. C
60. D
61. B
62. E
63. D
64. A
65. B
66. D
67. D
68. C
69. E
70. B
71. B
72. D
73. E
74. D
75. C
76. A
77. E
78. B
79. A
80. A
81. A
82. D
83. A
84. A
85. A
86. C
87. A
88. A
89. E
90. E
91. E
92. B
93. D
94. C
95. A
96. C
97. A
98. C
99. D
100. E
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