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This text is for questions 1 and 2. C. story telling

D. garage sale
All students are required to attend the
Indonesian Independence Day ceremony on 5. “The 5th annual students’ art exhibition.”
The underlined word is closest in meaning to ….
Wednesday, 17 August 2016, at 7 A.M. in the A. once a year
school yard. Please wear your white-blue B. twice a year
C. three times a year
uniforms complete with all attributes. D. four times a year
Regard,
Vice Principle. The following text is for questions 6 to 8.

Attention Patients
1. Why does the school issue this notice? If you do not have health insurance,
A. to ask students to attend the Independence you may qualify for financial assistance.
Day ceremony This hospital has a program to assist uninsured,
B. to inform about Indonesia Independence Day low-income patients with payment of
C. to tell students when Indonesia Independence hospital bills.
Day is
D. to invite students to contribute in the For more information, please ask any hospital
Indonesia Independence Day celebration
receptionist.
Or call: 021 - 43567890
2. What must the students do in regard to the
notice?
A. pay attention to the notice
B. fill all the requirements
C. wear tie and cap
D. send regard to the vice principle 6. Where can we find such an announcement?
A. In the front office of a hospital.
This text is for questions 3 to 5. B. In the doctor’s room of a hospital.
C. In the operation room of a hospital.
In celebration of youth art month D. In the cashier counter of a hospital.
Bina Prestasi elementary school presents
“CREATIONS” 7. What will happen if the patients do not have
The 5th Annual Students’ Art Exhibition enough money to pay the hospital bills?
We invite all students to participate in one of the A. The hospital will give financial assistance.
following programs: B. The patients will be helped by the high income
patients.
 Fine art
C. The hospital bills will be paid by a health
 Musical performance
insurance.
 Dance performance
D. The patients can ask for help to the hospital
Please contact your art teachers or register to receptionist.
creation@bp.ac.id
8. …the patients have problem with the hospital
bills, they don’t have to worry.
A. If
3. Why does the school publish that B. So Look Whoooooo’s
announcement? C. And
A. to inform about youth art month D. But Turning One!
B. to ask students’ participations
C. to present “creations” Please join us for
D. to contact their art teachers
Amelia
Read the text and 1 Birthday
answer
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questions 9 and 10.
Saturday, April 5 at 2.00 p.m.
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Amelia’s House
623 W. Orchad Lane
4. What can the students present in the art Tampa, Florida
exhibition?
Please RSVP:
A. poetry reading
B. paintings amark987@yahoo.com
we hope you can join us for
food and fun!
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9. What is the writer’s purpose to write the text? 13. The text is probably addressed to someone who
A. To tell how to join Amelia’s party. wants to stay in the hotel to….
B. To announce Amelia’s birthday party. A. have fun
C. To ask the addressee to come to the party. B. enjoy beautiful scenery
D. To informs how to come to the birthday party. C. work hard
D. have important meetings
10. What should you do first before going to the
party? 14. A company probably wants to hold am event in
A. Buy a present and some food. that The
hotelSongkran
because….festival is celebrated in Thailand
B. Write a greeting card for Amelia. A. it can accommodate many people
C. Prepare some food and cheeriness. asB.theit traditional Newhotel
is a luxurious Year’s Day. It is celebrated
D. Confirm the attendance by email. C. it
from 13istoclose the airport
15 April. It coincides with the New Year of
D. it has free parking area
This text is for questions 11 and 12. many calendars of South and Southeast Asian
15. “124 opulent
countries. bedrooms
It is believed andbeen
to have suites.”
adapted from
Lisbon School Department The underlined word is closest in meaning to….
the Sankranti Hindu festival. It is now observed
A. luxurious
nationwide
B. spacious even in the far south.
Dear: Felicia, 7th grade C. large
However, the most Sonkran celebrations are
You are cordially invited to attend the D. neat
still in the northern city of Chiang Mai, where it lasts
Lisboh High School’s Athletic
for six days and even longer. It has also become a
Opening Ceremony
party for foreigners and an additional reason for
Date: Saturday, October 18, 2016 tourists to visit Thailand. The most obvious
Time: 10.00 a.m. celebration of Songkran is the throwing of water to
Place: Lisbon High School field other people. Thais roam the streets with containers
Please join us for a ceremonial first lap of water or water guns. In addition, many Thais will
around have a bowl of cheap beige coloured tale and mixed
the field after the opening ceremony. with water which is then smeared on the faces and
11. What was Felicia supposed to do in the opening
ceremony? bodies of random passersby as a blessing for the
A. Having a ceremony New Year. City officials close off many sections of the
B. Running around the field
C. Cleaning the field street for the festival.
The following text is for questions 16 to 19.
D. Standing around the field Besides the throwing of water, people
celebrate Songkran by going to a wat (Buddhist
12. “You are cordially invited to…”
GN monastery) to pray and give food to monks. They
The underlined word is closest in meaning to….
A. informally Great Nation also cleanse Buddha images in the household shrines
Hotels and Convention Hall
B. carefully
C. seriously as well as Buddha images at monasteries by gently
D. formally pouring water mixed with Thai fragrance over them.
 124 opulent bedrooms and suites
This textFull choice
is for of restaurants
questions 13 and 14. It is believed that doing this will bring good luck and
 Convention Room
prosperity in the New Year. In many cities, such as
 Free secure parking
 Capacity for up to 1200 persons Chiang Mai, the Buddha images from all of the city’s
 Minutes from limerick tunnel & motorways
important monasteries are paraded through the
 90 minutes from Dublin
 15 minutes from Shannon Airport. street so that people can toss water at them, ritually
‘bathing’ the images as they pass by.
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Many people have heard about the Moai, the

beautiful stone statues that you can see looking out
at the ocean on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). But how
much do we know about people built and moved
these statues?
16. TheThere
purpose of the
are 887 text is
statues in ….
total, and we know
A. to retell about an experience in Thailand
thatB.thetofirst ones readers
informs were made
aboutabout 1.000 years
a celebration
C.The
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D. to entertain the readers
tools- the evidence of this is many old tools which
17. Why do they
archaeologist pour
have foundfragrant water
all over over the
the island.
Buddha images?
Archaeologists believe that it must have taken about
A. Because they are in the party mood.
a year
B. to make each
Because statue, which
the officials five street.
close the or six men
C. Because
working it will
on it. But it is bring
much them
more good luck.
difficult to explain
D. Because the images need some cleansing. 20. The text is mainly about … making the statues of
how these people moved these heavy stones across
Moai.
18.
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islandisinto
thetheir
mainfinal
ideaplaces.
of paragraph 2? believe
Most people A. the mystery in
A. The celebration is longer than a week. B. the way of the ancient people
that people couldn’t have carried them by hand. The
B. People come to Thailand for the festival. C. the difficulty in
largest stones are
C. People sell nearly
specialten
talemeters long andfestival.
for Songkran weigh
D. the incredible process of
D. The most famous Songkran Celebration
about 18.000 kilograms! Professor Carl Jeffrey says, is in
Chiang Mai. 21. In the text above it is stated that in making a
“The people must have had some ways of moving
statue needed ….
19. Thestones.
these suitable
Sometitlearchaeologists
for the text above
think is …. might
they A. high technology and creative workers
A. New Year celebration B. short time and modern tools
pull the stones across the island. But the stones
B. The Songkran Festival C. long time and cooperative skill of the makers
were
C. soSankranti
heavy; it Hindu
must be taken between 180 and
festival D. strong workers and sophisticated tools
250D.menSoutheast Asia’s
to pull each water festival
one.
But is
the mystery doesn’t 22. After reading the text, the readers may wonder
This text for questions 20end
to there.
23. The
….
statues all sit on other stones called Abu. So the A. why it was not easy to pull the statue at that
people must have put these large stones onto the time
Abu. Archaeologists can’t give a clear explanation of
how it happened.
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B. how the big stones could be brought to
Easter island
C. where the stone statues are placed now
D. which the best stone statue is
23. “Most people believe that people couldn’t have
carried them by hand.”
The underlined word refers to ….
A. most people
B. heavy stones
C. six men
D. stones statues
This text is for questions 24 to 27.
Last weekend, my family and I went
2017
B. animals
C. insects
D. meals
This text is for questions 28 to 31.
1. First of all, plug in the cable into the electric outlet.
2. Then, press the “on” button to turn on the
machine.
3. Open up the cover and put the document face
down on the glass surface to enable the censor to
detect the document.
4. If you want to make more copies, you can select
numbers on the “Select” button.
5. Close the cover and press “copy” button until a

camping. We reached the camping site after we flash is passing through the machine.
6. Once it stops, your copy document is ready in the
walked for about one and half hour from the
tray to collect.
parking area. We built a camp next to a small Once upon a time, there lived a father with his
river. It was getting darker and colder, so we set two beautiful daughters in a village. His wife, the
a bon fire. daughters’
28. The textmother, had already
above tells you howdied. The….
to use father
The next day, we spent our time A. the
raised coffee machine
daughters by himself. He loved them very
B. photocopy machine
observing plantation and insects while the girls much.
C. fax machine
were preparing meals. In the afternoon we went D. The
printing
fathermachine
liked hunting very much. He often

to the river and caught some fish for supper. At went to the forest to hunt deer, rabbit or many kinds
29. Why do we need to put the document face
night, we had some activities. We sang, danced, of birds
down? in the forest. But the two girls disliked it.
TheyA. didn’t
to record
want the
theirdocument
father killed animals. The
read poetry, played magic trick, and some of us
B. to fit with the glass surface
father
C. tried hardmore
to make to stop his hobby as the girls
copies
performed standing comedy. On Monday, we
D. to make the flash pass through
wanted.
packed our bags and got ready to go home.
30. How do we know that document is completely
One day, when the father went around the
copied?
village,
A. thehe met
copyhis friends.
button They talked about many
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B. birds
white the select
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C. check the tray
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check the birds. The men asked the
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father to hunt the birds. The father couldn’t help
24. What is the best title for the passage above?
31. “Once it stops, ….” (step 6)
A. My holiday himself. He forgot his promise not to hunt anymore.
The word “it” refers to ….
B. My weekend activities
TheA.father went button
the copy home to take his gun.
C. My trip to the mountain
B. Knowing
the flashhis father’s plan to go hunting, the
D. My camping trip
C. the select button
eldest
D. daughter
the coversaid to her sister that she would wear
25. When did the writer set a camp?
A. after he arrived at the parking long white clothes and go to the lake. She pretended
The following text is for questions 32 to 35.
B. when he arrived at the camping site to be a white bird so that the father would kill her and
C. when it was dark and cold
would stop hunting. When the eldest daughter went
D. after he set a bon fire
away wearing long white cloth, the younger daughter
26. Why did the writer set up a fire?
wearing the same clothes, followed her sister.
A. to bake some fish
B. to observe plantation The two daughters ran away to the lake. The
C. to keep body warm father who had already in the lake saw them. He
D. to prepare body
thought that they were birds. He shot both of them.
27. “… caught some fish for supper.” How shocked he was, when they cried in pain. He ran
The underlined word related to ….
A. plants to them, but it was too late, both of his daughters
had already died. The father was shocked. Since then
he never hunted animals.
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F.

36. What does the text tell us about?

A. The history of Aurora
32. What does the text tell us about? B. The characteristics of Aurora
A. The sadness of two daughters. C. The mystery of natural lights
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The effort appears as curtains of lights, but
two daughters. D. The brilliant light in Earth’s atmosphere
C. can
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a father to his daughters.
they also or spirals, often following Chameleon Facts
D. The regret of a father. 37. The different color of aurora is caused by….
lines of force in Earth’s magnetic field. Most are A. Chameleon
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violet colors.
D. The father raised the daughter by himself. 38. What happened when aurora appears in
seen in the far north – the nations bordering the Asia and Sri Lanka. Some chameleon species are
southerly latitudes in the United Stated?
34. What would happen andif theAlaska,
girls didn’t wear long endangered due to
A. It is more habitat loss and destruction and
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birds. And 39. This text will likely attract the attention of
field of 180 degrees. This way chameleon can watch
of course, the lights have a counterpart at Earth’s students who….
35. How could you describe the girls? in two
A. different directions
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the same time and
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B. have high curiosity in sides. Eyes move
B. They were animal lovers. C. are interested in natural phenomenon
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The following text is for questions 36 to 39. Chameleons are vary in size. The smallest
The following text is for questions 40 to 42.
that different gases in Earth’s atmosphere give off
chameleon Brookesia micra, which reaches 0,6
E.
different colors when they are excited. Oxygen gives E.
inches in length. The biggest chameleon is Furcifer
off the green color of the aurora, for example.
oustaleti, which reaches 30 inches in length.
Nitrogen causes blue or red colors.
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F. D. By walking along the tree’s stem with its toes

The following text is for questions 43 to 45.

A. I remembered that day. It was the day that

I will never forget. I was at my home after having
the exam the previous day. The result of the exam
would be announced the next day. But considering
the distance of the exam location, I asked my friend
to check the result of the exam.
That morning I was having a morning tea
while waiting for my friend call. My parents and I
were nervous that morning as the result of the
exam was important for me to continue to higher
school in my area without having the entrance test.
As I was dreaming about my results while taking a
sip of tea; suddenly the phone rang and I was so
excited when my mom told me it was my friend. I
ran towards phone as soon as possible.

I grabbed the phone from mom and started missile

Chameleons prefer life in the forest and they
of questions on my friend. From the other end my
adapted to move in the trees. Their toes are divided
friend shouted at me and suggested me to keep
in two groups of two or three toes on each foot,
calm and allow her to speak. She said that I got the
which help them grab the branch and achieve
highest mark all the exam participants. Listening
stability during walking. Chameleons move slowly,
this I shouted, Oh Really!!! My mother came
using one limb at the time. Chameleons also use
running towards me, she was so happy. She
their long tail when moving in the trees to grab a
started crying and gave me a tight hug. She said
branch and secure their position.
she was very proud of me.

40. What is the writer’s intention to write the text? 43. What did the writer do to know the results of
A. To explain how chameleons detect the the exam?
object. A. Checked it at the location at the exam
B. To inform about some endangered B. Asked her friend to inform her by phone
C. Waited for the school to inform her by phone
chameleons.
D. Asked her mother to check by phone
C. To describe chameleon species in general.
D. To tell how chameleons move their bodies.
44. How did the writer probably feel before the
41. How can a chameleon hunt its prey or ran away announcement?
A. Sad
from predator?
B. Anxious
A. With its unusual toes
C. Tired
B. With its unique eyes
D. Calm
C. With its moving ability
D. With its long tail
45. The writer felt very happy … she knew that
42. How can a chameleon climb up on trees? she got the highest score in the exam.
A. By moving slowly along the tree with its tail A. if
B. By seizing the branch of tress with its tail and B. when
C. so
toes
D. although
C. By pulling its limb on the stem of the tress
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The following text is for questions 46 to 48. This text is for questions 49 and 50.

The Hen and the Butterfly E.

Once upon a time, in a beautiful morning, a
hen and her children searched for food in the
backyard. There were many seeds and falling fruits
to fulfill their appetite for breakfast. Suddenly, she
saw a small moving object under tree branch not far
from the backyard. She came closer and found out
You are an amazing friend, with a
that a butterfly was stuck under that branch.
“Oh, hen, can you do me a favour to lift this good heart.
May GOD pour his love and warmth
branch? It fell on my right wing so I can’t move
anywhere”, begged butterfly to hen. “How pity you on you, in all walks of life.
are. Be ready butterfly, I will try to remove this
branch”, said the hen. So, she helped butterfly and
49. What does the writer’s intention to write the
succeeded.
card above?
A. To show her care of her friend’s birthday.
B. To tell her friend how amazing she is in her
birthday.
Unluckily, butterfly’s right wing was broken and C. To inform something good to her friend.
flying was impossible to do. Kind hen offered D. To ask her friend to celebrate her birthday.
butterfly a shelter in her cage until it was ready for
50. “May GOD pour his love and warmth on you,
butterfly to fly again. Time passed by and finally in all walks of life.”
butterfly could fly freely with happiest face ever. From this sentence we can infer that the writer
hopes her friend will get guidance from God in….
“Thanks hen, we will be best friend forever from
A. the relationship with her family
now on”, butterfly shouted while flying away. B. her school life
C. everything she does
From that moment, butterfly and hen are still
D. achieving higher career
best friend until today. Whenever we find hen
searching some food, there must be butterfly flying
around nearby. A friend in need is a friend in deed.

46. The purpose of the story teaches the readers

about ….
A. responsibility
B. friendship
C. bravery
D. loyalty

47. If the kind Hen didn’t help her, the butterfly

will die of ….
A. poverty
B. starvation
C. bleeding
D. depression

48. “It fell on my right wing.”

The underlined word refers to ….
A. the moving object
B. the branch of the tree
C. the hen cage
D. the food