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SMAN 1 SUMBAR 1
SMAN 1 SUMBAR 2
READING COMPREHENSION
TEXT 1

Mecca is a city in the Hijaz and the capital of Makkah province in Saudi Arabia. The
city is located 73 km (45 mi) inland from Jeddah in a narrow valley at a height of 277 m
(909 ft) above sea level. Its resident population in 2008 was 1.7 million, although visitors
more than double this number every year during Dhu al-Hijjah.

As the birthplace of prophet Muhammad and a site of the composition of the Quran, Mecca is
regarded as the holiest city in Islam and a pilgrimage to it known as the Hajj is obligatory upon all able
Muslims. The Hijaz was long ruled by Muhammad's descendants, the sharifs, either as independent
rulers or as vassals to larger empires. It was absorbed into Saudi Arabia in 1925. In its modern period,
Mecca has seen tremendous expansion in size and infrastructure. Because of this Mecca has lost many
thousand years old buildings and archaeological sites.Today, more than 13 million Muslims visit Mecca
annually, including several million during the few days of the Hajj. As a result, Mecca has become one
of the most cosmopolitan and diverse cities in the Muslim world, although non-Muslims remain formally
prohibited from entering the city.

1. What is the text about? b. There were about 1.7 million people lived in Mecca
a. Land of pilgrimage in 2008
b. City of Muslim c. Mecca is known as the place for pilgrimage
c. Saudi Arabia d. Mecca is not included in one of the most
d. Islamic city cosmopolitan cities in the Muslim world
e. Mecca e. The infrastructure has been tremendously expanded
in Mecca
2. Which of the followings is NOT TRUE?
a. The distance from Jeddah to Mecca is 73 KM

TEXT 2
INTEROFFICE MEMO

Meeting in the boardroom on Friday, July 10 at 10 am has been changed to Monday, July 13. Same time, same
place. Please bring the notes of the previous meeting.

Director

3. Which of the statement below is NOT TRUE according 4. Please bring the notes of the previous meeting.
to the text? The antonym of the underlined word is
a. It is second meeting a. Former
b. They had another meeting before b. Next
c. The place of the meeting is charged c. At the time
d. The meeting will be on Monday d. At the moment
e. The venue of the meeting will be at the boardroom e. Different time

SMAN 1 SUMBAR 3
TEXT 3

Indi and Lavea were young Indian couple and they had a beautiful baby boy. One day, Lavea said to her husband: “Please
help me look after the baby, while I go down to the river.” Indi sat down beside the pram, and the baby fell asleep at once. A short
time later, a messenger arrived from the royal palace and ordered Indi to follow him. Indi had to entrust the baby to the pet
mongoose, which the young couple kept in the house.
In India, they keep mongooses rather like we keep cats; but where cats hunt mice, a mongoose does not hesitate to
confront a snake. What is more, mongooses are more loyal than cats.
Indi’s mongoose at once sat down to guard the baby. When a huge python entered by the window and approached the
pram, the mongoose was ready for it, and killed the python.
When Indi came home and found the mongoose, mouth and paws dripping with blood, he immediately thought the worst and
beat the faithful animal. How surprised he was when he went into the house and found the baby sleeping peacefully, and a huge
python dead on the floor by the pram.
From that day on, the young couple loved the courageous mongoose even more.

5. Which of the following is the most suitable title for the text a. Indi beat the snake.
above? b. The mongoose killed the baby.
a. A Mongoose. c. The mongoose was not trustworthy.
b. Indi and Lavea. d. The mongoose found the python dead.
c. A Faithful Mongoose. e. Indi thought that the mongoose had killed his baby.
d. A Young Indian Couple.
e. The Indian Couple’s Baby.

6. The followings are about the mongoose EXCEPT …. 8. What do we learn from the text?
a. It is loyal. a. We should never doubt a faithful friend.
b. It is brave. b. We should never entrust our child to animal.
c. It eats snake. c. We should never expect someone to be faithful.
d. It is kept as pet. d. We should never ask someone to look after our child.
e. It is a faithful animal. e. We should never rely on someone to take care of our
child.
7. What is the main idea of the fourth paragraph?

TEXT 4

The issue of abortion is one of the most contentious, and emotive dilemmas faced by modern societies. The question is whether
one should allow the termination of a child whilst he or she is still in the mother’s womb.

Abortion is one of the method of birth control. Let’s see the fact about the population problem in a country. When a country faces
the problem of population explosion, the government should find methods to solve it. But since no methods of contraception is one
hundred percent effective and successful, abortion becomes the only way out when prevention fail.

On the other hand, abortion may cause many negative effects for women’s health. Women risk their health and lives in bearing
the weight of the operation and consequences. The most common complications are inflammation, interruption of menstrual patterns,
infertility, endometriosis, myoma of the uterus and many other kind of ovary illnesses.

So far, abortion becomes a dilemma for countries with a large number of citizens. On the other hand, it can control the birthrate
but on the other hand, it brings terrible consequences, especially for the women’s health

9. The text discusses about…. 11. Paragraph 3 tells us about….

A. Abortion in our life A. Women’s health
B. The value of abortion B. The causes of abortion
C. The danger of abortion C. The bad impacts of abortion
D. The bad impacts of abortion D. The difficulties of abortion
E. The controversy about abortion E. Abortion in our modern life

10. The followings are the bad impacts of abortion, 12. The issue of abortion is one of the most
EXCEPT…. contentious…..
A. It risks women’s life The word contentious can be replaced by….
B. It controls the birth rate A. controversial
C. It can cause other illnesses B. unbelievable
D. It endanger women’s health C. fundamental
E. It interrupts menstrual pattern D. embarrassed
E. unpredictable

TEXT 5

corruption is common everywhere in the world, even in the U.S. It’s just a matter of the intensity. However, it is quite
shocking when one reliable survery claims Jakarta as the most corrupt place in Indonesia.
The survey has made me sad, actually, because I stay and earn a living here in the capital. As most people know,
Tanjung Priok Port smuggling is not a new thing at all. Entrepreneurs who want to minimize their tax payments tend to do
such a thing more often. They even bribe the officials.
Well, I think the measures taken so far to overcome the problem by punishing the corruptors is still not far enough.
We have to prevent the younger generations from getting a bad mentality caused by corruption.
I believe we should start at the earliest stages in school and I think everyone should be involved in the effort to
eradicate corruption. We must not make any distinctions.

13. Based on the text, the writer feels sad because …

a. Entrepreneurs tend to bribe officials
b. Entrepreneurs want to minimize their tax payment
c. Punishment given to corruptors is not enough
d. Corruption is common every where in the world
e. The place he lives is claimed as the most corrupt city in
Indonesia
14. They even bribe officials (paragraph 2)
The meaning of the underlined word is to ………
a. Buy some thing for some one
b. Give some thing for illegal reason
c. Ask someone to do something illegal
d. Give something to some one as a present
e. Persuade some one to do something illegal
TEXT 6

All sales hotline staff, please note .

For orders received before 1pm Monday through Thursday, tell customers we guarantee next day delivery. For
those received after that time, explain that we can deliver within two working days.

15. According to the text, if customers place an order

from Monday to Thursday in the morning,…
a. they will receive their order before 1pm. d. they give special price for the goods delivered
b. the goods will be delivered two days later. e. they will be no reimbursement for the goods
c. they are assured of a delivery the following day.

TEXT 7

In the beginning of sixteen century, an old man lived in a village in a warm country along time ago. One day a
young man came to the old man’s house and said “Can I use your donkey today, please? My two donkeys are ill, and
you are not using yours.”

The old man knew this young man well. The young man was not kind to animals and often hit his donkeys. So
his donkeys were often ill. The old man did not want to say “Yes” but he could not say “No” because the young man
was very polite. So he said, “I’m sorry, but my donkey is not here. My son is using it.”

The young man did not believe this because the old man’s son had three donkeys. Then the old man’s
donkey made a loud noise, and the young man heard it. The young man was angry and said, “I can hear the donkey
in your garden. How can you say it is not here?” This was a difficult question, but the old man always had an answer
for difficult question. He looked at the young man and said, “Who do you believe? Me or the donkey?”

16.Why did the young man come to the old man’s house? d. The old man was very sorry to let his son use the
a. To make his donkey healthy donkey
b. To use his donkey for a ride e. The old man didn’t want to let his donkey used by the
c. To borrow the old man’s donkey young man.
d. To sell his donkey to the old man
e. To ask the old man to help his donkey 19.“How can you say it is not here?” (paragraph 3)
What does the word it refer to?
17.According to the old man, the young man was a/an a. The young man’s donkey
………..person. b. The old man’s donkey
a. Unbelievable c. The loud noise
b. Dishonest d. The question
c. Impolite e. The garden
d. Rude
e. Unfair 20.From the story we can learn that ………
a. The young should believe the old
18. What can we infer from paragraph two? b. The young should respect the old
a. The young man’s donkeys were often ill c. One should not help the bad people
b. The young man was so kind to animals d. The old should always help the young
c. The young man was very polite to the old man e. One can not trust who often does bad things
 6 C 16 C
7 E 17 D
8 A 18 E
9 E 19 B
10 B 20 E
1 E 11 C
2 D 12 A
3 C 13 E
4 B 14 C
5 C 15 C