BANK SOAL NARRATIVE TEXT

1. Direction: Fill the blank spaces with the correct form of past tense! Use the words in
the brackets to help you! Be mindful of the "capital and small letters" in sentences!
1. Did Anton … to the cinema last night? (go)
2. When did Arisa .... this cola yesterday? (drink)
3. Nanda … the butterfly in front of my home yesterday. (see)
4. Agus and Raka … In this village since last year. (live)
5. What …. he give to you yesterday? (Do)
6. Rama .... stones to the army last week. (throw)
7. What did he just … in their store? (buy)
8. How … she … in the morning? (do eat)
9. The math teacher … something to the student yesterday (say)
10. Andrew: How did you learn to speak English?
Mira: “My brother …. Me (teach)
11. Annisa and I played badminton last month.
She is much better than me, So Annisa … easily. (win)
12. Andre … more than 200 books last year. (write)
13. Where did he … this paper? (take)
14. Inke …. the door yesterday. (close)
15. My biology teacher …. me to be excellent each other last month (tell)
16. The door was open when the cat .... this house. (enter)
17. Mr. Akbar … some bread last night. (make)
18. Nina was sick, so she … to bed early (go)
19. Tania was not hungry, so she …. anything (not, eat)
20. I knew Nina was very busy, So I …. her. (not, disturb)
 2. Direction: Read the following text!

A. Direction: Based on the text, match the following statements in the left column with the
appropriate responses in the right column.
Statements Main Idea
1. It was almost midday and it was a a. You must be scared. Did you run away?
quiet day. No one came to drink or have a
meal.
2. The night of my car accident, I was b. How was that day? Was there anyone with
heading for damaging my dad’s car you?
because he refused to give me more
pocket money.
3. I tried to lease as soon as possible and c. A How did you know that he was not a bad
not to stare at the tiny scar across his left person?
eyebrow.
d. How could such a small thing make you lose
your mind?
e. Have you lost your mind? Yours is one of
the worse opinions I have ever heard.
B. Direction: Answer all the questions based on the text.
1) How would you feel if you were in the same situation as the writer or the mysterious man?
2) What is the moral value of the story?

3. Direction: Fill in all the blank spaces based on the story that you heard.

Link to the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AMyP5Ce2Q4

Sir Galahad: The Perfect Knight

Galahad is the purest of all King Arthur's knights. He is the (1) ________ of Lancelot
the most (2) ________ of all the Knights he had with Princess Elaine of Corbenic but the (3)
_______ between his mother and father was a lie. Lancelot was bewitched and
(4)__________ that Guinevere was his true love after (5)__________ the farce of that
marriage. Lancelot (6)__________ the princess and his son was (7)________ in a convent.
Galahad grew up and showed (8)________ to be as good a knight as his father. Merlin had
(9)__________ that Lancelot's son would (10)__________ his father and find the Holy
Grail.
Galahad became a great (11)________ and even defeated Lancelot in a (12)_______.
Impressed his father (13)______ him to King Arthur. There was a vacant (14)_______ on the
round table which was (15)________ as the (16)_________ seat for all who sat on it would
(17)_______ immediately. It was (18)_______ for anyone who could find the Holy Grail.
Everyone was (19)_______ when Galahad (20)______ on it and survived. Impressed, Arthur
decided to (21)_______ him to see if he would be (22)________ to become one of his
(23)_______. Galahad was challenged to (24) _________ a sword from a (25)________ that
could be only removed by the (26)________ Knight in the (27)________ and the young man
(28)_________ that feat. The king (29)_______ by the act consecrated the night in Galahad
(30)_________ known as the best of all Knights.
 BANK SOAL NARRATIVE TEXT

Direction: Read the following text then answer all the questions!

Three large fish lived very happily in a pond that few people ever passed.
One day two men who were passing by the pond were the fish. One of them said, “Let us
hurry home and get our nets. Those fish are too fine to lose.” The three fish were very much
frightened. The first one thought a moment, then swam through the outlet of the pond into the
river.
When the men came back with their nets, there were only two fish to be seen. They found
the outlet of the pond and made a dam across it. The second fish now began to think. It came
to the top of the water and floated on its back. One of the men picked it up in his net, but it
seemed dead, so he threw it back into the water. The fish that never thought sank to the
bottom of the pond and was easily caught.

1. What is the main idea of paragraph five?

A. A man picked the second fish.
B. The second fish could finally save itself.
C. The second fish pretended of being dead.
D. A man threw the second fish back into the pond.

2. What was the main problem of the story?

A. The fish could not escape from the men.
B. Two men were going to catch the three fish.
C. The third fist didn’t think about how to save itself.
D. The fish looked for ways to escape themselves from the men.

3. How could you describe the first fish?

A. Smart
B. Honest
 C. Patient
D. Humble

4. From the test we can learn that ….

A. a good man is hard to find
B. two heads are better than one
C. no one succeeds without efforts
D. a good beginning makes a good ending

Once upon a time an owl and a pigeon met and talked. “There are more owls than
pigeons,” said Owl. “No, way,” said Pigeon, “There are many more pigeons.” “Let’s count!”
answered Owl, “We will meet in the big wood a week from today.” On that day. the owls
came first. The trees were full of them. The owls laughed and said, ”wah-wah-wah!” Soon
they heard a roar from the sky. Pigeons were coming from everywhere! The owls could not
believe there could be so many pigeons. They sat there moving their heads back and forth
staring with wide eyes.

The owl stared so long and hard at the pigeons that their eyes just stayed that way. Then,
one by one the owls took off and fled into the sky. In the meantime, the pigeons were
shouting at each other, celebrating their victory. Since then, owls have always traveled at
night when the pigeons are asleep.

5. The writer’s purpose of writing the text is ….

A. to entertain the readers.
B. to describe owls and pigeons.
C. to relate the writer’s experience.
D. to explain how owls have big, flat eyes.

6. Why were the owls laughing when they first arrived?

A. They were making jokes about the pigeons.
B. They were telling foolish stories about the pigeons.
C. They were sure they would outnumber the pigeons.
D. They were talking about how ugly the pigeons were.
 7. Why were the owls staring at the pigeons?
A. They were afraid that the pigeons would.
B. They were shocked there were so many pigeons.
C. They’d like to count the number of all the pigeons.
D. They wanted to scare the pigeons by acting wicked.

8. What can we learn from the story?

A. Boasting will do more harm to others.
B. Friendship is very easy to build.
C. We can do anything if we are together.
D. Being too proud does not make us noble.

“Away with you, vile insect!” said a lion angrily to a gnat that was buzzing around his
head, but the Gnat was not in the least disturbed. “do you think.” he said spitefully to the lion,
“that I am afraid of you because they call you king?” The next instant he flew at the Lion and
stung him sharply on the nose. Mad with rage, the lion struck fiercely at the Gnat, but only
succeeded in tearing himself with his claws. Again and again, the Gnat stung the Lion, who
now was roaring terribly. At last, worn out with rage and covered with wounds thas own teeth
and claws had made, the Lion gave up the fight.

The Gnat buzzed away to tell the whole world about his victory, but instead, he flew
straight into a spider’s web. And there, he who had defeated the king of beasts came to a
miserable end, the prey of a little spider.

9. The text tells us about ….

A. a lion that is annoyed by a gnat
B. confrontation between a lion and a spider
C. a gnat that loved to sting other animals
D. a good relationship between a lion and a spider
10. Why did the lion give up hitting the gnat?
A. The lion only wounded itself
 B. The gnat stopped stinging the lion
C. the lion felt nothing from the sting
D. The gnat flew to bother the spider

Answer Keys:

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