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Wednesday, December 21, 2022 4:32 PM

• Questions 1–5 are based on the following passage.

Mini Dictionary:
Many great inventions are initially greeted with ridicule and disbelief. The invention of the airplane was no exception. Although many • Invention: penemuan
people who heard about the first powered flight on December 17, 1903 were excited and impressed, others reacted with peals of • Ridicule: ejekan
laughter. The idea of flying an aircraft was repulsive to some people. Such people called Wilbur and Orville 5Wright, the inventors of
• Disbelief: ketidakpercayaan
the first flying machine, impulsive fools. Negative reactions, however, did not stop the Wrights. Impelled by their desire to succeed,
they continued their experiments in aviation. • Peals: gemuruh
• Repulsive: menjijikkan
Orville and Wilbur Wright had always had a compelling interest in aeronautics and mechanics. As young boys they earned money by • Impelled: terdorong
making and selling kites and mechanical toys. 10Later, they designed a newspaper-folding machine, built a printing press, and • Aviations: penerbangan
operated a bicycle-repair shop. In 1896, when they read about the death of Otto Lilienthal, the brothers’ interest in flight grew into • Compelling: menarik
a compulsion. • Compulsion: paksaan
• Shifting: pergeseran
Lilienthal, a pioneer in hang-gliding, had controlled his gliders by shifting his body in the desired direction. This idea was repellent to • Repellent: penolak
the Wright brothers, however, and they searched for 15more efficient methods to control the balance of airborne vehicles. In 1900 • Airborne: lintas udara
and 1901, the Wrights tested numerous gliders and developed control techniques. The brothers’ inability to obtain enough lift power • Obtain: memperoleh
for the gliders almost led them to abandon their efforts.
• Abandon: mengabaikan
After further study, the Wright brothers concluded that the published tables of air pressure on curved surfaces must be wrong. They • Repealed: dicabut
set up a wind tunnel and began a series of experiments 20with model wings. Because of their efforts, the old tables were repealed in • Pulsated: berdenyut
time and replaced by the first reliable figures for air pressure on curved surfaces. This work, in turn, made it possible for the brothers • Boring: membosankan
to design a machine that would fly. In 1903 the Wrights built their first airplane, which cost less than $1,000. They even designed and • Distasteful: tidak menyenangkan
built their own source of propulsion-a lightweight gasoline engine. When they started the engine on December 17, the airplane • Saddening: menyedihkan
pulsated 25wildly before taking off. The plane managed to stay aloft for 12 seconds, however, and it(The plane) flew 120 feet. • Needless: tidak diperlukan
• Concerning: mengkhawatirkan
By 1905, the Wrights had (5)_________ the first airplane that could turn, circle, and remain airborne for half an hour at a time. • Unique: unik
Others had flown in balloons and hang gliders, but the Wright brothers were the first to build a full-size machine that could fly under • Remarkable: luar biasa
its own power. As the 30contributors of one of the most outstanding engineering achievements in history, the Wright brothers are
• Exquisite: sangat indah
accurately called the fathers of aviation.
• Enormous: besar sekali
Adapted from: https://www.testprepreview.com/modules/reading1.htm • ordinary : biasa

1. The passage mainly talks about… (main idea) --> skimming

a. Wrights’ experiments in aviation
b. People’s disbelief about aircraft
c. Description of Wrights’ first airplane (x)
d. The history of aviation industry (x)
e. Wrights’ inventions (x) --> pesawat, mesin, body pesawat, baling2
2. According to the passage, the idea of flying an aircraft to some people was…(paragraph 1) --> underestimate, tertawa
a. Boring = membosankan
b. Distasteful = tdk menyenangkan
c. Saddening = menyedihkan
d. Needless = tdk penting/tdk dibutuhkan
e. Concerning = mengkhawatirkan
3. The word “it” in line 25 refers to…
a. lightweight gasoline engine (x)
b. Wrights’ airplane --> the plane
c. wind tunnel (x)
d. old table (x)
e. Machine (x)
4. The word “outstanding” in line 30 is closest in meaning to…
a. Unique = unik Has/have v1
b. Remarkable = luar biasa Has: he, she, it
c. Exquisite = sangat indah Have: I you they we
d. Enormous = sangat besar Had (v2, v3): he she it I you they we
e. ordinary = biasa
5. By 1905, the Wrights had (modal aux) (perfect)_____ the first airplane that could turn, circle, and remain airborne for half an hour
at a time. (past perfect) had + v3. eat, ate, eaten (irregular)
a. perfection
b. perfects
c. perfected
d. perfect
e. perfecting

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Wednesday, December 21, 2022 5:24 PM

Questions 6–10 are based on the following passage.

(1) Most people think that it’s fine to be “busy as a beaver.” Little do they know. Beavers may work hard, but often Mini dictionary:
they don’t get very much done. • Beaver: berang-berang
• Gnaw: menggerogoti
(2) Beavers are supposed to be great tree cutters. It is true that a beaver can gnaw through a tree very quickly: A six- • Birch:
inch birch takes about 10 minutes. But then what? Often the beaver does 5not make use of the tree. One expert says • Waste: limbah
that beavers waste one out of every five trees they cut. • Wisely: secara bijak
• Cottonwood: kayu kapas
(3) For one thing, they do not choose their trees wisely. One bunch of beavers cut down a cottonwood tree more than • Stream: sungai kecil
100 feet tall. Then they found that they could not move it. • Lean: bersandar
• Dam: bendungan
(4) In thick woods, a tree sometimes won’t fall down. It gets stuck in the other trees. Of course, the beaver doesn’t
think to cut down the trees that are in the way. So a good tree goes to 10waste. • Leak: bocor

(5) Some people think that beavers can make a tree fall the way they want it to. Not true. (In fact, beavers sometimes
get pinned under a falling tree.) When beavers cut a tree near a stream, it usually falls into the water, but (8)____ do
not plan it that way. The fact is that most trees lean toward the water to start with.

(6)15Now what about dam building? Most beaver dams are wonders of engineering. The best ones are strongly built of
trees, stones, and mud. They are wide at the bottom and narrow at the top.

(7) Beavers think nothing of building a dam more than 200 feet long. One dam in Montana was more than 2,000 feet
long. The largest one ever seen was in New Hampshire: it stretched 204,000 feet, and made a lake large enough to hold
40 beaver homes.

(8) So beavers do build good dams. But they don’t always build them in the right places. They just don’t plan. They will
build a dam across the widest part of the stream. They don’t try to find a place where the stream is narrow. So a lot of
their hard work is wasted.

(9) Beavers should learn that it’s not enough to be busy. You have to know what you’re 25doing, too. For example, there
was one Oregon beaver that really was a worker. It decided to fix a leak in a man-made dam. After five days of work it
gave up. The leak it was trying to block was the lock that boats go through.

Adapted from: https://www.testprepreview.com/modules/readingmainidea.htm

6. It can be inferred from the passage that…

a. Beavers work clumsily
b. Beavers work efficiently
c. Beavers are the busiest animal
d. Beavers are the greatest dam builders
e. Beavers are the greatest tree cutters
7. Where in the passage does the author provide a description about dams built by the beavers?
a. Paragraph 1
b. Paragraph 3
c. Paragraph 6
d. Paragraph 8
e. Paragraph 9
8. When beavers cut a tree near a stream, it usually falls into the water, but ____ do not plan it that way.

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 8. When beavers cut a tree near a stream, it usually falls into the water, but ____ do not plan it that way.
a. he
b. she
c. it
d. they
e. you
9. The word “they” in line 16 refers to…
a. beavers
b. stones
c. best dams
d. mud
e. buildings
10. The word “narrow” in line 23 is closest in meaning to…
a. spacious
b. small
c. wide
d. thin
e. enormous

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Wednesday, December 21, 2022 5:24 PM
• Questions 11–15 are based on the following passage.

High in the Andes Mountains in Peru stands the ancient city of Machu Picchu. No one knows why this great city was built, nor is it likely Mini Dictionary:
that anyone will ever know. Nevertheless, the deserted city of Machu Picchu is important for what it reveals about the ancien t Inca • Ancient: kuno
people of South America. • Nevertheless: namun demikian
• Reveals: mengungkapkan
5The Incas once ruled a great empire that covered a large part of the South American continent. The empire was more than 500 y ears old • Empire: kerajaan
when the first Spanish explorers, looking for gold, went to that continent in the 16th century. • Continent: benua
The Incas were advanced people. They were skillful engineers who paved their roads and built sturdy bridges. They plowed the land in such • Advanced: maju, canggih
a way that rains would not wash away 10valuable soil, and dug ditches to carry water into dry areas for farming. • Skillful: terampil
• Paved: membuat, mengaspal
Even though they did not know about the wheel, the Incas were able to move huge stone blocks -some as heavy as 10 tons-up the sides of
• Sturdy: kokoh
mountains to build walls. The blocks were fitted so tightly, without cement of any kind, that it would be impossible to slip a knife blade
between them! The walls have stood firm through great storms and earthquakes that have destroyed many 15modern buildings. • Plowed: dibajak
• Dug: gali
The Incas were great artists, too. Today, Incan dishes and other kinds of pottery are prized for their wonderful designs. Bec ause both gold • Ditches: parit
and silver were in great supply, the Incas created splendid objects from these precious metals. • Blade: pisau
While it is true that the Incas had no written language, they kept their accounts by using a 20system of knotted strings of various lengths • Firm: kaku
and colors. The sizes of the knots and the distances between them represented numbers. • Pottery: tembikar
• Splendid: megah
At its height, the Incan Empire included as many as 30 million people. The emperor ruled them with an iron hand. He told his subjects • Precious: berharha
where to live, what to plant, how long they should work, and even whom they could marry. Because he owned everything, the emp eror • Knotted: rajutan
gave what 25he wished when he wished-and in the amount he wished-to his people.
• Emperor: kaisar, raja
In 1533, Spanish (13)____ led by Francisco Pizarro murdered the emperor of the Incas. Earlier, the heir to the Incan empire h ad also been • Conquered: mengalahkan, menaklukkan
killed. The Incas, who had always been entirely dependent on their emperor, now had no recognized leader. The Spaniards easil y • Plundered: menjajah, menjarah
conquered the empire and plundered its riches. • Tribute: penghargaan
• Accolade: penghargaan
30Have the Incas disappeared from South America? Not at all. In Peru alone, once the center of that great empire, 80 percent of the 20 • Condemnation: kutukan
million people are descendants of the Inca people. Evidence of the Incan empire can be found in many other places in South Am erica as • Achievement: prestasi
well. Tourists can even visit Machu Picchu. The remains of this ancient city still stand high in the mountains of Peru, an aw esome tribute to • Commemoration: peringatan
this once powerful empire. • Evidence: bukti
Adapted from: https://www.testprepreview.com/modules/readingmainidea.htm

11. What is the main idea of this passage?

a. The Incas were advanced people
b. The Spanish murdered the Incan emperor
c. The Incas once ruled a great empire before plundered by Spanish
d. The Incas have disappeared from South America
e. The Incan Empire was located in Machu Picchu
12. According to the passage, which of the following proves that the Incas were great artists?
a. they were able to build bridges
b. they were able to pave roads
c. they were able to move huge stone blocks
d. they were able to create beautiful potteries
e. they were able to make a writing system
13. In 1533, Spanish _____ led by Francisco Pizarro murdered the emperor of the Incas.
a. explore
b. exploring
c. explored
d. explorers
e. explores

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 e. explores
14. The word “its” in line 29 refers to…
a. the Spaniards
b. the Incan empire
c. the Incas
d. Francisco Pizarro
e. the Incan emperor
15. The word “tribute” in line 34 is closest in meaning to…
a. accolade
b. condemnation
c. achievement
d. commemoration
e. evidence

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Wednesday, December 21, 2022 5:24 PM
• Read the text below to answer question 16–19.

Singer Anne-Marie has spoken about her struggles with her body image — saying photo filters and airbrushing make Mini Dictionary:
people feel like they can't live up to “edited” versions of themselves. The 27 year-old songwriter, full name Anne-Marie • Struggle: berjuang, bersusah payah
Nicholson, has released her new single Perfect To Me to help combat the pressure on young people to live up to • Airbrushing:
unrealistic expectations. • Combat: pertempuran
• Pressure: tekanan
She told A-list, “Photoshop and filters are just so easy that it becomes a habit and it ends up not being about what
• Habit: kebiasaan
other people see you like, it becomes about what you see yourself like.”
• Battles: pertempuran
“It's personal damage. When you go out, if you don't look the same, it's embarrassing. Although it seems to be for other • Deal: sepakat
people, it's actually for you. I just try to stay away from it. If you are happy with the way you look then you wouldn't • Aloud: dengan lantang
put that on.” • Elevate: meninggikan, meningkatkan

Opening up about her own body-image battles, the Friends hitmaker added: “I think for me I always wanted to try and
find what that comfortable feeling was, even when I was skinny I wasn't comfortable so something was wrong.”

Anne-Marie said how she is hopeful the song will help people deal with their insecurities by saying them aloud. She
added, “I tried to show people you shouldn't be perfect for someone else because they haven't got the same definition
as you. It took a long time. I still have issues with what I look like. I have bad days.
“When you talk to other people you get another perspective on it.”

16. What is the main idea of the passage?

a. Anne-Marie launched her new single called Perfect To Me
b. Anne-Marie’s image as a singer with her latest single
c. Anne-Marie tried to educate people to be self-confident
d. Anne-Marie did a photoshoot and interview with popular magazine
e. Anne-Marie’s story behind her new single Perfect To Me
17. What's the best replacement for a bolded word in the passage?
a. Addictive
b. Intensity
c. Battle
d. Figure Out
e. Productive
18. Why does Anne-Marie look at the filters and photoshops as personal damage?
a. They don't show the truth of people
b. They will never make people happy
c. They are just an application in gadgets
d. They will lost people's confidence
e. They never elevate people's expectations
19. What is the best moral value that Anne Marie wants to share by the text?
a. Her current single is worth to wait
b. She tells people to stay in their perspectives, not anybody’s
c. She tells the damage of people who live in other people's perspective
d. The beauty of makeup and photoshop in life
e. The connections of her single with the story behind it

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Wednesday, December 21, 2022 5:26 PM

• Read the text below to answer question 20

TikTok, a product of the massive Chinese company Byte Dance, came to the US in 2018. The app's addictive recommendation engin e Mini Dictionary:
and simple video-making process quickly turned it into a mainstay in internet culture. It now has more than 100 million users in the • Massive: sangat besar
US. • Addictive: ketagihan
• Mainstay: andalan
As TikTok's popularity has grown, so has scrutiny from US lawmakers over its roots in China, a country President Donald Trump has • Scrutiny: pemeriksaan
readily painted as an enemy. Chinese law requires domestic companies to "cooperate" with the state's security efforts - a • Cooperate: bekerja sama
connection that raised concerns about the government's influence over TikTok content moderation in the US and its access to • Quietly: diam-diam
American users' data. The US government quietly launched an investigation in November 2019 into TikTok's potential national - • Rocket: naik, meroket
security risks, a review led by a government body called CFIUS.
• Falsely: salah
TikTok's popularity continued to rocket during the coronavirus pandemic. Mainstream attention turned to TikTok when its user base • Emerged: muncul
mobilized to falsely inflate the expected attendance for a major Trump rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At the start of July 2020, T rump • Weighed: ditimbang
administration officials first stated publicly they were considering banning TikTok in the US. • Acquiesced: diakui
• Acquisition: akuisisi
On July 31, reports emerged the president would soon turn his words into action as the Trump administration weighed two • Eager: ingin sekali
executive orders: a nationwide TikTok ban, or a directive that Byte Dance divest its TikTok operations in the US. In anticipation of a • Frontrunner: terdepan
ban, Byte Dance started shopping around for potential buyers. Although Trump seemed to initially lean toward a ban, he • Divest: divestasi
acquiesced in allowing Byte Dance to hold talks to sell off TikTok's US operations — an acquisition in which Microsoft appears to be
the eager frontrunner.

Trump has given Byte Dance until Sept. 15 to find a buyer, or he says he'll ban TikTok. He's also issued an executive order, set to
take effect in less than 45 days, that will bar US companies and entities from any transactions" with TikTok and ByteDance.
However, it's unclear whether Trump has the power to issue a nationwide ban on an app like TikTok. Experts have questioned
whether such action could violate Americans' First Amendment rights, and how effective the ban would be in practice.
Taken from http://businessinsider.com

20. What is the best title of the passage?

a. Trump Says: TikTok is a Trap (jebakan) --> ban
b. Trump Suggests to Use TikTok in US (x)
c. Trump Doesn't Believe in ByteDance's TikTok (x)
d. Trump Tries to Ban TikTok in US
e. Trump Hates the Success of TikTok in US (x)

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