Reading Section
In this test, you have to Read each text carefully. Then choose the best answer to each question from the alternatives given.
1. What is the announcement about?
A. The famous singer
B. The recreation place
C. The Jim Band Show
D. The movie show
E. The artist show
2. According to the text the show will present …
A.The biggest band
B. The famous singers
C. The favourite artist
D. The famous actors
E. The favourite band
Dear Dr Tardelli,
I have recently learned from my friend,Miss Susan Hampton, that there is an opening for a physiotherapist in your hospital. I should like to apply for the post and enclose an application form setting out details of my qualifications and experience. I would be most grateful if you could give me details of the salary and conditions attached to the post.Can you also tell me if there is any staff accommodation which I could make use of while I look for my own accommodation?I look forward to your reply.
3. What’s the letter about?
A. Application letter
B. Inquiry letter
C. A candidate for physiotherapist
D. A vacancy
E. Job opening
4. What did the applicant enclose in her application letter?
A. Vitae and recommendation
B. Lay-out of the application form
C. Photos and supporting certificates
D. Post-stamp for a reply letter and compliance statement
E. Details of her qualifications and experience
5. After reading the text we conclude that Margaret needs …. to live temporarily.
A. a roommate
B. detailed information
C. a refund
D. accommodation
E. staff fellows
6. “I would be most very grateful if you could ….”(paragraph 2)
The underlined word means ….
A. glad
B. thankful
C. adviseable
D. respectful
E. elegant
7. What does this job involve?
A. making TV commercials
B. discovering what consumers like
C. advertising products
D. testing products
E. broadcasting research
8. Who will use the reports of the specialist writes?
A. The consumers
B. The television station
C. The manufacturers
D. The broadcasters
E. The TV advertising company
9. What qualification should the candidate have?
A. education in research and experience in advertising
B. experience in television audience
C. ability in accounting
D. a degree in broadcasting
E. negotiating capability
10.”Company with broadcast interests worldwide seeks a specialist….”(the first sentence)
The synonym of the underlined word is….
A. look at
B. look forward
C. look for
D. find
E. research
Once upon a time there was a poor widow who had an only son named Jack.They were so poor that they didn’t have anything except a cow. When the cow had grown too old,his mother sent Jack to the market to sell it. On the way to the market,Jack met a butcher who had some beautiful beans in his hand. The butcher told the boy that the beans were of great value and persuaded the silly lad to sell the cow for the beans.
Jack brought them happily. When he told his mother about this,his mother became so angry that he threw the beans out of the window.
When Jack woke up in the morning,he felt the sun shining into a part of his room,but all the rest was quite dark and shady.
So he jumped to the window. What did he see? The beanstalk grew up quite close past Jack’s window.He opened the window and jumped to the beanstalk which ran up jus: like a big ladder.
He climbed…and climbed till at last he reached the sky. While looking around, he saw a very huge castle. He was very amazed.
Then Jack walked along the path leading to the castle.There was a big tall woman on the doorstep.Jack greeted her and asked for the giantess’ mercy to give him breakfast,because he felt very hungry.Although the giantess grumbled at first, finally she gave Jack a hunk of bread and cheese and a jug of milk.
Jack hadn’t finished when the whole house began to tremble with the noise of someone’s coming.”Oh! It’s my husband!” cried the giantess. “What on earth shall I do?”
Hastily the giantess opened a very big cupboard and hid Jack there,
11. What is the story about?
A. Jack and a butcher
B. Jack and the giantess
C. Jack and the beanstalk
D. A poor widow and her son
E. The giantess and her husband
12. The text is in the form of ….
A. an anecdote
B. a spoof
C. narrative
D. recount
E. exposition
13. What is the communicative purpose of the text?
A. to entertain readers with a story
B. to persuade readers to take a pity on the characters in the story
C. to describe the destiny of a poor character
D. to critisize a story
E. to accomplish a sharing perspective
14. Which statement is true according to the text?
A. Jack’s mother was a rich widow
B. Jack sold a cow to the butcher
C. Jack’s mother wasn’t angry to her son
D. The giantess was not kind to Jack
E. Jack was caught by the giantess’husband
15. What do we learn from the text?
A. sincerity makes Jack get something precious
B. Jack’s mother was a furious mother
C. poverty makes people hopeless
D. the giantess took a pity on Jack
E. Jack was an innocent boy
The accident, which occurred 13 months before the Chernobyl disaster,spread radio active fall-out over the base and nearby town, but was covered up by officials of the Soviet Union.
Residents were told the explosion in the reactor of the Victor-class submarine during a refit had been a ‘thermal’ and not nuclear explosion. And those involve in the clean-up operation to remove more than 600 tons of contaminated material were sworn to secrecy.A board of investigators was later to describe it as the worst accident in the history of the Soviet Navy.
16. The writer wrote the text to …readers about important and newsworthy events.
A. entertain
B. persuade
C. explain
D. inform
E. amuse
17. The text is about….
A. the explosion in the reactor of the submarine at the naval base
B. A Russian journalist who find nuclear at Soviet
C. the Soviet Navy that has uncovered nuclear
D. the official of the Soviet Union
E. Yelena Vazrshavskya
18. Who said that the accident was not nuclear explosion?
A. Soviet Navy
B. Soviet Union
C. Russian journalist
D. a board of investigators
E. Residents
Jacob Epstein’s sculptures were the focus of much controversy during the sculpture’s lifetime. Epstein was born in the United States of Russian-Jewish immigrants in 1880. He moved to Paris in his youth and later to England, where he eventually settled and took out British citizenship in 1907. His first major public comissions, on a building in London, offended public taste because of the expressive distortion and nudity of the figures. In 1937 the Rhodesian government, which at that time owned the building actually multilated the sculptures to make them conform to public notions of decency.
19. What is the type of the text above?
A. narrative
B. descriptive
C. report
D. recount
E. spoof
20. What is the communicative purpose of the text?
A. to describe how is Epstein’s sculptures
B. to tell Epstein’s life story
C. to entertain readers with Epstein’s sculptures
D. to explain how Epstein became famous
E. to persuade readers to know Epstein
21. What’s Epstein’s nationality?
A. American-British
B. Russian-Jewish
C. American-Russian
D. British-Russian
E. American-Jewish
22. How old was Epstein when he got British citizenship?
A. 67
B. 27
C. 37
D. 47
E. 57
Psychologists have found that privately made resolution are rarely followed, whereas a public commitment to achieve some goal,such as losing weight or giving up smoking, is likely to be much more effective. This is because the approval of others for reaching one’s target is valued. In contrast, disapproval for failure can lead to feelings of shame.
Advertising agencies have designed studies bearing out the truth of this observation. In their research,a group of strangers was bombarded with information about the qualities of a particular product. They were then asked to either announce out loud or write down privately whether they intended to buy the product. It was later discovered that those who publicly declared their intention to buy were considerably more likely to do so than those who affirmed their intentions in private.
23. What is the main topic of this passage?
A. the commitment to converse the energy
B. the effectiveness of publicly stated commitments
C. the result of studies done on advertising agencies
D. the observations of the effects of advertising
E. the important of psychology
24. The word “resolution” in line 1 is closest in meaning to….
A. declaration
B. explanation
C. speculation
D. persuasion
E. solution
25. It can be inferred that all of the following help motivate a person to achieve a goal
EXCEPT….
A. a desire for approval
B. a fear of disapproval
C. a fear of failure
D. a sense of noncommitment
E. need of acceptance
26. The word ‘their’ in line 1 paragraph 2 refers to….
A. strangers
B. observations
C. agencies
D. psychologists
E. qualities
All types of fish live in water, and almost all of them breathe through gills. Most of them also have scales and fins. The entire fish family is classified into three categories :
Jawless, cartilaginous, and bony.
• Jawless, a good example of jawless fish is the lampreys. They look a lot like eels.
• Cartilaginous, good examples of this type of fish include sharks, skates and rays.
• Bony, a good examples of bony fish is the trout.
This is a very basic grouping of types of fish. With over 450 million years of evolution, the fish family is one of the most varied families in the animal kingdom, thus allowing it to be classified in many ways.
27. What is the topic of the text above?
A. fish breathing through gills
B. the examples of fish family
C. three categories of fish
D. the characteristics of fish
E. fish in the animal kingdom
28. The example of jawless fish is….
A. eels
B. sharks
C. trouts
D. skates
E. lampreys
29. To tell factual information, the writer uses….
A. passive voice
B. direct speech
C. reported speech
D. simple past tense
E. simple present tense
“We provide:
54- passenger bus
29- passenger bus
Full AC, Music, Toilet, TV/Video
We serve: Java, Bali, Sumatra
Office: Jl. Wijaya 12, Jakarta
For further information call 8802309
30. The type of the text above is ….
A. anecdote
B. recount
C. narrative
D. descriptive
E. spoof
31. What does the company provide?
A. 2 buses with a 54-passenger bus and a 29-passenger bus
B. city-round buses
C. 2 kinds of bus
D. bus with further information call
E. home-theatre bus
32. What is the communicative purpose of the text?
A. to give direction
B. to request people
C. to persuade others
D. to invite people
E. to give information
There are many reasons for keeping dogs as pets in the city are, but many people feels that dogs should not be allowed in the city.
Dogs are often not taken care properly. They are kept in small backyards and rarely taken for walks. They are left in a yard all day by themselves while the family are at work. Very little attention is ever given to the dog and it is not a very good life for it. It is no wonder why those dogs bark and disturb the neighbors and become a nuisance to the community.
On the other hand, not all people treat their dogs this way and why should the people receive a lot of pleasure and enjoyment from dog’s suffers? Dogs can make a lonely person’s life happy or make a wonderful playmate. It can also teach a child responsibility as they not only get to play with the dog, but also need to exercise, feed, and care for the dog.
33. The text tells us about?
A. pets
B. dogs
C. people
D. family
E. city
34. The main idea of paragraph two is ….
A. dogs need to get exercise and care
B. child gets enjoyment from dogs
C. dog can be a wonderful playmate
D. people receive a lot of pleasure from dogs
E. most dogs are not well-treated
35. The word nuisance in paragraph 2 closely means….
A. disturbance
B. contamination
C. infection
D. pollution
E. ineffectivity
In this test, you have to Read each text carefully. Then choose the best answer to each question from the alternatives given.
Biggest Band Show “Jim Band”
Held : Saturday,June 24
Time : 07.00 p.m.-10.00 p.m.
Place : Parking Area Taman Impian Jaya Ancol
We present the famous singers :
• Sherly Hamington
• Bill Stewart
• Tom Barbara
Tickets : Rp.75.000,-/adult
Rp.50.000,-/child
For entrance tickets,please call:
Ayu : Ph.4563287
Devy : Ph.3265446
Reza : Ph.7834568
Held : Saturday,June 24
Time : 07.00 p.m.-10.00 p.m.
Place : Parking Area Taman Impian Jaya Ancol
We present the famous singers :
• Sherly Hamington
• Bill Stewart
• Tom Barbara
Tickets : Rp.75.000,-/adult
Rp.50.000,-/child
For entrance tickets,please call:
Ayu : Ph.4563287
Devy : Ph.3265446
Reza : Ph.7834568
1. What is the announcement about?
A. The famous singer
B. The recreation place
C. The Jim Band Show
D. The movie show
E. The artist show
2. According to the text the show will present …
A.The biggest band
B. The famous singers
C. The favourite artist
D. The famous actors
E. The favourite band
Royal Essex Hospital,
Langley,
Essex,
8 August
Langley,
Essex,
8 August
Dear Dr Tardelli,
I have recently learned from my friend,Miss Susan Hampton, that there is an opening for a physiotherapist in your hospital. I should like to apply for the post and enclose an application form setting out details of my qualifications and experience. I would be most grateful if you could give me details of the salary and conditions attached to the post.Can you also tell me if there is any staff accommodation which I could make use of while I look for my own accommodation?I look forward to your reply.
Yours sincerely,
Margareth Oliver (Miss)
Margareth Oliver (Miss)
3. What’s the letter about?
A. Application letter
B. Inquiry letter
C. A candidate for physiotherapist
D. A vacancy
E. Job opening
4. What did the applicant enclose in her application letter?
A. Vitae and recommendation
B. Lay-out of the application form
C. Photos and supporting certificates
D. Post-stamp for a reply letter and compliance statement
E. Details of her qualifications and experience
5. After reading the text we conclude that Margaret needs …. to live temporarily.
A. a roommate
B. detailed information
C. a refund
D. accommodation
E. staff fellows
6. “I would be most very grateful if you could ….”(paragraph 2)
The underlined word means ….
A. glad
B. thankful
C. adviseable
D. respectful
E. elegant
Leading TV-Advertising
Company with broadcast interests worldwide seeks a Specialist in Audience Research. The specialist will design studies to determinate consumer preferences and write reports for use within the company. Candidates must have a college degree with courses in research. Must also have experience in advertising. Outstanding oral,written and computer skills are necessary. Downtown location,Excellent benefits.7. What does this job involve?
A. making TV commercials
B. discovering what consumers like
C. advertising products
D. testing products
E. broadcasting research
8. Who will use the reports of the specialist writes?
A. The consumers
B. The television station
C. The manufacturers
D. The broadcasters
E. The TV advertising company
9. What qualification should the candidate have?
A. education in research and experience in advertising
B. experience in television audience
C. ability in accounting
D. a degree in broadcasting
E. negotiating capability
10.”Company with broadcast interests worldwide seeks a specialist….”(the first sentence)
The synonym of the underlined word is….
A. look at
B. look forward
C. look for
D. find
E. research
Once upon a time there was a poor widow who had an only son named Jack.They were so poor that they didn’t have anything except a cow. When the cow had grown too old,his mother sent Jack to the market to sell it. On the way to the market,Jack met a butcher who had some beautiful beans in his hand. The butcher told the boy that the beans were of great value and persuaded the silly lad to sell the cow for the beans.
Jack brought them happily. When he told his mother about this,his mother became so angry that he threw the beans out of the window.
When Jack woke up in the morning,he felt the sun shining into a part of his room,but all the rest was quite dark and shady.
So he jumped to the window. What did he see? The beanstalk grew up quite close past Jack’s window.He opened the window and jumped to the beanstalk which ran up jus: like a big ladder.
He climbed…and climbed till at last he reached the sky. While looking around, he saw a very huge castle. He was very amazed.
Then Jack walked along the path leading to the castle.There was a big tall woman on the doorstep.Jack greeted her and asked for the giantess’ mercy to give him breakfast,because he felt very hungry.Although the giantess grumbled at first, finally she gave Jack a hunk of bread and cheese and a jug of milk.
Jack hadn’t finished when the whole house began to tremble with the noise of someone’s coming.”Oh! It’s my husband!” cried the giantess. “What on earth shall I do?”
Hastily the giantess opened a very big cupboard and hid Jack there,
11. What is the story about?
A. Jack and a butcher
B. Jack and the giantess
C. Jack and the beanstalk
D. A poor widow and her son
E. The giantess and her husband
12. The text is in the form of ….
A. an anecdote
B. a spoof
C. narrative
D. recount
E. exposition
13. What is the communicative purpose of the text?
A. to entertain readers with a story
B. to persuade readers to take a pity on the characters in the story
C. to describe the destiny of a poor character
D. to critisize a story
E. to accomplish a sharing perspective
14. Which statement is true according to the text?
A. Jack’s mother was a rich widow
B. Jack sold a cow to the butcher
C. Jack’s mother wasn’t angry to her son
D. The giantess was not kind to Jack
E. Jack was caught by the giantess’husband
15. What do we learn from the text?
A. sincerity makes Jack get something precious
B. Jack’s mother was a furious mother
C. poverty makes people hopeless
D. the giantess took a pity on Jack
E. Jack was an innocent boy
Town ‘Contaminated’
Moscow(JP). A Russian journalist has uncovered evidence at another Soviet nuclear catastrophe, which killed 10 sailors and contaminated an entire town. Yelena Vazrshavskya is the first journalist to speak to people who witnessed the explosion of a nuclear submarine at the naval base of Shkotovo-22,near Vladivostock.The accident, which occurred 13 months before the Chernobyl disaster,spread radio active fall-out over the base and nearby town, but was covered up by officials of the Soviet Union.
Residents were told the explosion in the reactor of the Victor-class submarine during a refit had been a ‘thermal’ and not nuclear explosion. And those involve in the clean-up operation to remove more than 600 tons of contaminated material were sworn to secrecy.A board of investigators was later to describe it as the worst accident in the history of the Soviet Navy.
16. The writer wrote the text to …readers about important and newsworthy events.
A. entertain
B. persuade
C. explain
D. inform
E. amuse
17. The text is about….
A. the explosion in the reactor of the submarine at the naval base
B. A Russian journalist who find nuclear at Soviet
C. the Soviet Navy that has uncovered nuclear
D. the official of the Soviet Union
E. Yelena Vazrshavskya
18. Who said that the accident was not nuclear explosion?
A. Soviet Navy
B. Soviet Union
C. Russian journalist
D. a board of investigators
E. Residents
Jacob Epstein’s sculptures were the focus of much controversy during the sculpture’s lifetime. Epstein was born in the United States of Russian-Jewish immigrants in 1880. He moved to Paris in his youth and later to England, where he eventually settled and took out British citizenship in 1907. His first major public comissions, on a building in London, offended public taste because of the expressive distortion and nudity of the figures. In 1937 the Rhodesian government, which at that time owned the building actually multilated the sculptures to make them conform to public notions of decency.
19. What is the type of the text above?
A. narrative
B. descriptive
C. report
D. recount
E. spoof
20. What is the communicative purpose of the text?
A. to describe how is Epstein’s sculptures
B. to tell Epstein’s life story
C. to entertain readers with Epstein’s sculptures
D. to explain how Epstein became famous
E. to persuade readers to know Epstein
21. What’s Epstein’s nationality?
A. American-British
B. Russian-Jewish
C. American-Russian
D. British-Russian
E. American-Jewish
22. How old was Epstein when he got British citizenship?
A. 67
B. 27
C. 37
D. 47
E. 57
Psychologists have found that privately made resolution are rarely followed, whereas a public commitment to achieve some goal,such as losing weight or giving up smoking, is likely to be much more effective. This is because the approval of others for reaching one’s target is valued. In contrast, disapproval for failure can lead to feelings of shame.
Advertising agencies have designed studies bearing out the truth of this observation. In their research,a group of strangers was bombarded with information about the qualities of a particular product. They were then asked to either announce out loud or write down privately whether they intended to buy the product. It was later discovered that those who publicly declared their intention to buy were considerably more likely to do so than those who affirmed their intentions in private.
23. What is the main topic of this passage?
A. the commitment to converse the energy
B. the effectiveness of publicly stated commitments
C. the result of studies done on advertising agencies
D. the observations of the effects of advertising
E. the important of psychology
24. The word “resolution” in line 1 is closest in meaning to….
A. declaration
B. explanation
C. speculation
D. persuasion
E. solution
25. It can be inferred that all of the following help motivate a person to achieve a goal
EXCEPT….
A. a desire for approval
B. a fear of disapproval
C. a fear of failure
D. a sense of noncommitment
E. need of acceptance
26. The word ‘their’ in line 1 paragraph 2 refers to….
A. strangers
B. observations
C. agencies
D. psychologists
E. qualities
Fish Clasification
All types of fish live in water, and almost all of them breathe through gills. Most of them also have scales and fins. The entire fish family is classified into three categories :
Jawless, cartilaginous, and bony.
• Jawless, a good example of jawless fish is the lampreys. They look a lot like eels.
• Cartilaginous, good examples of this type of fish include sharks, skates and rays.
• Bony, a good examples of bony fish is the trout.
This is a very basic grouping of types of fish. With over 450 million years of evolution, the fish family is one of the most varied families in the animal kingdom, thus allowing it to be classified in many ways.
27. What is the topic of the text above?
A. fish breathing through gills
B. the examples of fish family
C. three categories of fish
D. the characteristics of fish
E. fish in the animal kingdom
28. The example of jawless fish is….
A. eels
B. sharks
C. trouts
D. skates
E. lampreys
29. To tell factual information, the writer uses….
A. passive voice
B. direct speech
C. reported speech
D. simple past tense
E. simple present tense
FAST BIRD
“We provide:
54- passenger bus
29- passenger bus
Full AC, Music, Toilet, TV/Video
We serve: Java, Bali, Sumatra
Office: Jl. Wijaya 12, Jakarta
For further information call 8802309
30. The type of the text above is ….
A. anecdote
B. recount
C. narrative
D. descriptive
E. spoof
31. What does the company provide?
A. 2 buses with a 54-passenger bus and a 29-passenger bus
B. city-round buses
C. 2 kinds of bus
D. bus with further information call
E. home-theatre bus
32. What is the communicative purpose of the text?
A. to give direction
B. to request people
C. to persuade others
D. to invite people
E. to give information
There are many reasons for keeping dogs as pets in the city are, but many people feels that dogs should not be allowed in the city.
Dogs are often not taken care properly. They are kept in small backyards and rarely taken for walks. They are left in a yard all day by themselves while the family are at work. Very little attention is ever given to the dog and it is not a very good life for it. It is no wonder why those dogs bark and disturb the neighbors and become a nuisance to the community.
On the other hand, not all people treat their dogs this way and why should the people receive a lot of pleasure and enjoyment from dog’s suffers? Dogs can make a lonely person’s life happy or make a wonderful playmate. It can also teach a child responsibility as they not only get to play with the dog, but also need to exercise, feed, and care for the dog.
33. The text tells us about?
A. pets
B. dogs
C. people
D. family
E. city
34. The main idea of paragraph two is ….
A. dogs need to get exercise and care
B. child gets enjoyment from dogs
C. dog can be a wonderful playmate
D. people receive a lot of pleasure from dogs
E. most dogs are not well-treated
35. The word nuisance in paragraph 2 closely means….
A. disturbance
B. contamination
C. infection
D. pollution
E. ineffectivity
