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Question number 1 refer to the following text.
Announcement
To all students of Merdeka Vocational School, Art
Contest and Exhibition will be started on Monday, 22
August 2016.
The students must register themselves in student
council room by Friday, 19 August 2016 at 2 p.m.
7. How much is the rain forests of Indonesia compared
to the ones in South America?
8. Change the sentence below into Passive form.
Active: The students have studied English for ten
years.
Passive:
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1. What is the topic of the announcement? 9. Please change this sentence into Conditional
Sentence Type III.

Questions 2 and 3, complete the following text by If Eza (pass) the last test, he (go) to America.
using the appropriate phrase/phrases. ______________________________________

….(2)…. Question number 10 refers to the following text.

You can make a video call in a 3G covered service area.

If the called user has a 3G video phone in a 3G covered To : All English Teachers
services area, the call will be established. You can also From: Mr. Lee Keenan, English Teachers Coordinator
answer a video call for video incoming call. To Date : October 20, 2018
make/answer a video call, do the following:
There will be a meeting tomorrow, October 22, 2018, at
1 p.m. in the teachers’ room. We are going to discuss the
1. Input the phone number using the keypad, or select
students’ achievement and development since the
the phone number from the calls made/received lists.
semester examination is getting closer. We need to
2. If you do not want to use the speakerphone, …(3)….
discuss the solution for the students who still get less
3. To start the video function, press the soft key
improvement. Thank you for your attention.
(options) and select video call.
4. Adjust the camera position if necessary.
5. Press to finish the call, or close the handset.
10. What is the text about?

Questions 4 and 5 refer to the following text. For questions no. 11 and 12, complete the following
conversation by giving appropriate sentence.
Rain forests cover about 10% of the earth, but they
contain 90% of the world’s animals and plants. Rain Receptionist : Thank you for calling the Orchid
forests are found in the hottest parts of the earth. They are Restaurant. May I help you?
situated in the area from the Tropic of Cancer to the Hidayatulloh : I’d like to make reservation.
Tropic of Capricorn. This is the area on both sides of the Receptionist : When will it be for, Sir?
Equator. Hidayatulloh : It’s for Friday, March 8, 2019.
These forests are called rain forests because it Receptionist : ….(11)…
usually rains there every day. The weather is always hot Hidayatulloh : There will be seven of us.
and humid. The main rain forests are in America, Africa, Receptionist : And the name for the reservation?
and Asia. The largest area of rain forest is Amazonian in Hidayatulloh : Hidayatulloh. Ahmad Hidayatulloh.
South America. It is three times larger than the whole of Receptionist : Okay. Let me repeat the information I
Indonesia. have. This is a reservation for Friday,
Indonesia was covered by rain forests, but many of March 8, for seven persons.
its forests have been cut down. Some fire also destroyed Hidayatulloh : Yes, that’s right.
the Indonesian forests, especially during the dry season. Receptionist : Anything else?
It is hard now to reforest the bare land. Hidayatulloh : …(12)….
Receptionist : No problem. Our restaurant is non-
smoking.
4. Where can actually rain forests be found according
to the text?

5. Why is it difficult to reforest the bare land?

6. What does paragraph one tell us about?

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13. Fill in the blank space with the appropriate
Preposition (in, on, at).
The Oriental Pearl Radio & Television Tower is a TV
tower in Shanghai. Its location (A) _______ the tip of
Luciazui in the Pudong New Area by the side of Huangpu
River, opposite The Bund, makes it a distinct landmark in the
area. Its principal designers were Jiang Huan Chen, Lin
Benlin, and Zhang Xiulin. Construction began in 1991, and
the tower was completed in 1994.
At 468 m (1,535 feet) high, it was the tallest structure
(B) ______ China from 1994-2007, when it was surpassed by
the Shanghai World Financial Center. It is classified as an
AAAAA scenic area by the China National Tourism
Administration. The tower is brightly lit in different LED
sequences at night. (C) _______ 7 July 2007, Oriental Pearl
Tower was host to the Chinese Live Earth concert.
The tower features 11 spheres, big and small. The two
largest spheres, along the length of the tower, have diameters
of 50 m (164 ft) for the lower and 45 m (148 ft) for the upper.
They are linked by three columns, each 9 m (30 ft) in diameter.
The highest sphere is 14 m (46 ft) in diameter. The entire
tower is supported by three enormous columns that start
underground.
14. Change the Verbs in the bracket with the correct
form of tenses.
It was about 9.30 in the morning and we (A) ______ (be)
in the room planning on making plans for the day. All of a
sudden water just started coming in between the wall and the
roof. It came in very fast and then the next minute I was trapped
on the floor underneath the bed which had (B) ______ (turn)
over on top of me. The roof of the hut was turned off by the
force of the water and both Fernando and I were taken out of
the hut and it just felt like we were drowning immediately.
It was just a huge force and I had no sense of direction
whatsoever. The only direction that I knew was up and we were
washed out and ended up popping up together. Fernando and I
were trying to stay together but the currents were going
sideways and we were just swirling and trying to keep our face
up.
Then the two of us wrapped ourselves around the
telephone pole and then all of a sudden we felt the water surge
again. Fernando looked at me and said, “It’s not over! And I felt
his hand on the back of my shirt and I felt his hand slip away.
And then I was (C) ________ (drown) again he was forced
to let go. The force of the water pushed me underneath and I got
my face trapped between two telephone wires and it pulled
myself out from underneath it and kept travelling.
It’s a miracle that I am sitting here. I believe that I was
spared for a reason. I’m really thankful that I was given the
strength and the presence of mind that I had.
For number 15, complete the following procedure
with appropriate word.
First, clean up the empty can. After that, make a slot (long
thin hole) on the upper side using screw or a nail and a
hammer. If your can have a thin layer, you may use a sharp
knife. Then to make it pretty, You can …(15)… it with
colored paper. Or else, you can paint it. Finally, put it on
your table and it is ready to be used as your saving box.
Questions no. 16 and 17 refer to the following memo.
To : Raihan Ardilangga
Date : March 27, 2014
Raihan, I need your help to announce all the managers that we
are going to take a meeting on Saturday, March 29. Also, you
have to prepare the data of our finance report for this month. It
must be clear before the meeting because the data is included in
the meeting and should be presented in front of all the managers.
I will be there on Friday to check your work.
Sincerely,
David
David Sitohang
16. What does the text talk about?
17. Why does Raihan need to prepare the finance report?
Questions no. 18 and 19 refer to the following
announcement.
I am sorry to announce that our Seattle Office will
close December 31 in order to reduce our overhead, the
functions of this branch will be combined with the New
York office. Some of the employees here will be
transferred to New York office.
We regret that we will be incapable to take all of you
with us. A generous severance pay will be unable to
those whose employment with Seattle will end, and I
would be very pleased to furnish anyone who asks with
a very positive reference.
I deeply appreciate our association over the years, and
regret the events which have made this decision
necessary.
18. What is the announcement mainly deal with?
19. What is the word “incapable” synonymous with?
Read the text below and answer the questions no.
20.
The term tsunami comes from two Japanese words that
mean “harbour” and “wave”. A tsunami is a series of large waves
generated by an abrupt movement on the ocean floor that can
result from an earthquake, an underwater landslide, a volcanic
eruption or – very rarely – a large meteorite strike. However,
powerful undersea earthquakes are responsible for most
tsunamis. Seismologists say only earthquakes measuring greater
than 7.0 on the Richter scale can produce a major tsunami.
Most earthquakes that generate tsunamis – including
Friday’s jolt off Japan’s eastern coast – occur in areas called
subduction zones, where pieces of the Earth’s crust press against
each other. Subduction means that one tectonic plate slides
beneath another and sinks deep into the Earth’s mantle. The
friction between two slow-moving plates of the Earth’s crust
creates vast amounts of seismic energy which is released in the
form of an earthquake. When a strong undersea earthquake
strikes a relatively short distance below the sea floor, it abruptly
pushes up one of the immense plates of the Earth’s crust. That
suddenly displaces an enormous amount of ocean water which
becomes a tsunami, spreading outward in every direction from
the epicentre of an earthquake – like ripples on a pond, only on a
much larger scale.
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20. A. What information can we obtain from the text

above?
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B. What is the cause of a major tsunami?

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