SOAL

Please select the best answer among a, b, c, and d

1. I wish you would tell me …
a. Who next door was living
b. Who does living in the next door
c. Who does live in the next door
d. Who lives in the next door
e. Who is being lived the next door
2. During the early period of ocean navigation, … any need for sophisticated instruments
and techniques
a. so that hardly
b. where there hardly was
c. hardly was
d. there was hardly
e. hardly
3. Rubber … from vulcanized silicones with a high molecular weight is difficult to
distinguish from natural rubber.
a. is produced
b. producing
c. that produces
d. produced
4. If I were you, ….
a. I will buy that expensive sporty car
b. I would buy that expensive sporty car
c. I would bought that expensive sporty car
d. I would have bought that expensive sporty car
e. I would had bought that expensive sporty car
5. Instead of .... the money, my friend gave it to a stranger.
a. returned
b. have returned
c. return
d. returning
e. be returned
6. You do not deserve … that university because you cheated on the … exam.
a. Entering ; entrance
b. Enter ; entrance
c. In entering ; entrancing
d. That entering ; entrance
e. To enter ; entrance
Directions: in question 7-10, each sentence has four underlined words or phrases. The
four underlined parts of the sentence are marked A, B, C, and D. Identify the one
 underlined word or phrase that must be change in order for the sentence to be correct.
Then, on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that
corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen.
Look at the following examples:
Example 1
Guppies are sometimes call rainbow fish because of the males' bright colors
A B C D

The sentence should read, "Guppies are sometimes called rainbow fish because of the
males' bright colors." Therefore, you should choose answer A.

7. On the floor of the Pacific Ocean is hundreds of flat-topped mountains more than a mile
A B C D
Beneath sea level.

8. Sirius, the Dog Star, is the most brightest star in the sky with an absolute magnitude about
A B
twenty-three times that of the Sun
B D
9. Quarter horses were developed in eighteenth-century- Virginia to race on courses short of
A B
about a quarter of a mile in length.
C D
10. During the 1960s the Berkeley campus of the University of California came to national
A B
attention as a result its radical political activity.
C D
 ANSWER

1. D 6. A
2. D 7. B
3. D 8. A
4. B 9. B
5. D 10. C