SOAL PENILAIAN AKHIR SEMESTER 2

SMA ISEN MULANG PALANGKA RAYA

MATA PELAJARAN : BAHASA INGGRIS

KELAS : XI IPA/IPS

I. MUTIPLE CHOICE
Question number 1 – 3 refer to following advertisement :

Drive The New Chenia Today !

 The Chenia rides more comfortably than a Honda
 It drives more quietly than a Buick
 It handles as easily as a Jaguar
 It accelerates as quickly as a Mercedes
 It looks better than a Mazda
 It is built as carefully as a Volvo
 And it costs less than any of them

1. Which of the following statements is true according to the text?

a. The Chenia and a Buick are hard to handle
b. The Chenia drives more quickly than a Jaguar
c. The Chenia is more carefully built than a Honda
d. The Chenia has the cheapest price of all the other cars
e. The chenia is hard to drive.
2. “… as carefully as a Volvo”.
The underlined word has similar meaning to ….
a. carelessly
b. thoroughly
c. exclusively
d. efficiently
e. suddenly
3. What feature is compared between the Chenia and Mazda?
a. comfort riding
b. ease of handling
c. acceleration
d. creation
e. appearance
Questions 4 to 6 refer to the following letter:

225 New Station Road,

Agra – 7
March 2nd, 2011
To : The Manager,
Navajivan Trading Co.,
Agra

Dear Sir,
In response to your advertisement in “The Times of India” of today that you are on the look
– out for enterprising and capable men who can take up market research for you, I respectfully
offer myself as candidate for the post. I give below in brief my qualifications and experience in the
line for your kind consideration.
I am a diploma holder in commercial courses from S.D. College of Commerce; Agra and had
taken marketing as my special subject of study.
I have worked as a field investigator with Messrs Kirpal Marketing and Trading Co., Agra for
about two years on a salary of Rs. 1800/-p.m. and had the privilege of winning laurels from my
superiors in regard to my work as well as general conduct.
I am a young man of about 24 years and possess good health and personality. I have
pleasing manners, hard-working disposition and keenness for outdoor jobs. I am unmarried and
can be posted to any area of the country for market study. I can speak, beside Hindi, Punjabi, and
English, some southern languages too. I can join immediately.
I shall highly appreciate if an opportunity is given to me to explain my experience to you in
person during my interview. Would you kindly let me know the time and date when it will be
convenient for you?
Thanking you, I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Yours faithfully,

B.K. Bhalla

4. What position does Bhalla apply for?

a. A candidate of a reporter in “The Times of India”.
b. A candidate of a market researcher.
c. A candidate of a field investigator.
d. A candidate of university lecturer.
e. A candidate of teacher
5. What will the company most probably do before inviting Bhalla to an interview?
a. To ask him to hold a press conference.
b. To admit him directly as new employee.
c. To find information from his former employer.
d. To send back his application letter without notice.
e. To go the super market
6. “I give below in brief my qualification ...” (paragraph 1)
 The antonym of the underlined phrase is...
a. Long
b. Short
c. Concise
d. Simple
e. sum

Text for questions 7 - 9

In April 2005 the number of people killed in December 26 tsunami disasters which devastated 11
Indian Ocean Countries has been revised down to 217,000 after Indonesia drastically reduced its
number of missing. Indonesia remains the worst hit country, with 163,978 people dead and missing.
According to the National Disaster Relief Coordination Agency, the number confirmed dead was 126,915
people with 37,063 were listed as missing. Officials said the figure had been reduced because many
people listed as missing had now been identified among more than half a million homeless people
living in the temporary camps or other shelters. The toll in Sri Langka, which was second hardest j et by
the catastrophe, was 30,957, according to The Center for National Operations. The number of people
listed as missing was 5,637, but many were expected to be among those in never formally identified,
hurriedly buried and included the confirmed death toll.

7. How many people were reported missing when Sri Langka was hit by catastrophe?
a. 5,637
b. 30,957
c. 163,978
d. 217,000
e. 30,995
8. ‘... its number ... (line 3)’. The word “its” refers to...
a. Indonesia
b. Sri Langka
c. Number
d. People
e. Tsunami
9. ‘... drastically reduced ...’ (line 2)
The antonym of the word ‘reduced’ is...
a. Devastated
b. Revised
c. Increased
d. Remained
e. Creative

Questions 10 – 12 refer to the following letter:

78 Jalan Balai Raya
East Jakarta
April 2nd, 2011
Ms. Dina Siregar
Directory of Administration
Navaro Inc.
27 Jalan Edelweis
Jakarta

Dear Ms. Siregar,

Your advertisement in March 30 issue of the “Republika” was attractive because I believe I have the
proven skills you requiring for an administrative assistant.
I am Linda and I’m 22 years old. I recently completed a three course Apple Computer System. These
specialization skills have proven valuable in my work for the past eight months as an assistant to the
chief accountant at Galaxy Building. Since ‘proven skills’ are best explained in person, I would
appreciate an interview with you. Please phone me in the afternoon between 2 and 5 p.m. at (021)
4733756 to let me know the day and time most convenient for you.

Sincerely,

Linda
Enc.

10. What position is needed?

a. Receptionist.
b. Interviewer.
c. Chief Accountant
d. Administrative assistant.
e. Director

11. What does the applicant hope after sending the letter?
a. She will be a manager.
b. She will start training.
c. She will receive the salary.
d. She will be interviewed.
e. She will be never come
12. “... proven skills “ (line 5). The word ‘proven’ has a closest meaning to...
a. Constant
b. External
c. Internal
d. Outcome
e. Acknowledged

Text is for questions 13 and 15.

A planet is a body in space that revolves around a star. There are nine planets in our solar system,
and these nine planets travel around the sun. The names of the planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth,
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
Planets travel in orbit, around the stars. All of the planets of the solar system revolve in elliptical
orbits. In other words, their orbits are like large, flat circles. The time that it takes
a planet to make one revolution around the Sun is called a year.
The Greeks were the first people to recognize and give names to some of the planets. The word
‘planet’ comes from a Greek word meaning ‘wanderer’. If a person wanders, it means that he goes from
one place to another and does not have a home. The Greeks thought that planets ‘wandered’ in the sky.
However, modern scientists can predict the movement of the planets very accurately.

13. What is the suitable title for this text?

a. The Stars
b. The Planets
c. The Orbits
d. The Wanderers
e. The Greeks
14. The planets in our solar system travel ________.
a. around the stars
b. around the circles
c. in one movement
d. from one position to another
e. in elliptical orbits
15. ‘... it means that he goes ... (paragraph 3)’. The word “it” refers to...
a. Greek
b. people
c. wanders
d. planet
e. scientist

This text is for questions 16 to 19.

The living and nonliving things in any area form a community are called ecosystem. They act on one
another in many ways. Two of the most important ways are through food chains and chemical cycles.
Life could not exist without energy from the Sun. The Sun’s energy travels to Earth as light. It affects
plants and animals through chemical processes. All plants and animals are linked together in these
processes. The Sun’s energy flows through all of them in a continuing path called a food chain.
Plant-eating animals, or herbivores, consume (eat) the plants. In their own bodies, these animals
reorganize the chemical in the plants and use them as nourishment. The same thing happens when a
plant-eating animal, such as rabbit, is eaten by a meat-eating animal, or carnivore, such as a fox.
(Animals that eat both plants and meat are called omnivore).
A certain process takes place when living things die. Bacteria and fungi break the chemical
compounds down into simple nutrients. This process is called decomposition. The nutrients from
decaying animals enter the soil, where they are used again by plants.
Thousands of years ago, the human population was much smaller than it is today and people did
not greatly affect the balance of nature. Several hundred people who lived as community of hunters did
not kill enough animals to disturb the balance of their
ecosystem. A few thousand people who lived by a river, and discarded waste did not pollute the water
enough to change the ecosystem.
Today the human population is enormous. People have created many ecological crises, especially in
areas where the population has grown quickly. Their demand for space, their production of waste, and
their need for quantities of food, water and energy all have had an important effect on natural system.
Very often, the activities of people have upset the natural balance.
16. Why are ecological issues more concern today rather than in the past?
Because ________.
a. the food chains has changes
b. there is less energy from the Sun
c. there is more people on the planet
d. there is not many animals and pets
e. the growth of people affects the balance of nature
17. Each form of life can survive only when ________.
a. there is other living things
b. it is in its own environment
c. the ecosystem is not balance
d. the area is densely populated
e. there is plants and animals
18. According to the text, which statement is NOT TRUE?
a. The natural balance in the environment has been disrupted by the human beings.
b. Ecosystem is a community of the living and non living things in one area.
c. Herbivores are chemical which process plants and use them as nourishment.
d. Foxes can be considered as carnivore.
e. Bacteria and fungi are useful to the
environment.
19. The main idea of paragraph ________ is “energy is essential for life”.
a. one
b. two
c. three
d. four
e. five
This text is for questions 20 and 21.
We have fingernails to form a firm layer at the back of the fingertip. This stops the flexible fingertip
from bending too much, so we can feel, press and pick up small items more easily and without damage.
A nail grows at its root, which is under the skin at its base, and slides slowly along the finger.
Source: Steve Parker, Question & Answer Encyclopedia: Human Body, Essex, Miles Kelly Publishing Ltd,
2004.
20. What is the suitable title for the text?
a. What Fingernails are
b. How Fingernails are formed
c. How We Cut Our Fingernailss
d. Why do We Have to Cut Our Fingernails?
e. Why do We Have Fingernails?
21. “This stops the flexible fingertip from . . . .” (Sentence 2)
Which word has the closest meaning to the underlined word?
a. Halts.
b. Alters.
c. Puts aside.
d. Determines.
e. Leaves behind.
This text is for questions 22 and 23.
Friends, I am really happy our team could win the football match. It was really because of
our hard work. So, to celebrate it, please come to a party held at Merapi Resto, on Wednesday,
October 12, 2011 at 7 p.m. Please don’t miss it.
22. What is the speaker doing?
a. He is inviting his friends for a party.
b. He is announcing a football match.
c. He is asking his friends to work hard.
d. He is asking his friends to support their team.
e. He is inviting his friends to see a football match.
23. Which of the statements is NOT TRUE based on the text?
a. The listeners and the speaker are in
a football team.
b. The speaker appreciates the team’s hard work.
c. The party will be held at the speaker’s house.
d. The speaker’s team has won a football match.
e. The party will be held in the evening.

This text is for questions 24 to 27.

The archer and the trumpeter were traveling together in a lonely place. The archer boasted of his
skill as a warrior, and asked the trumpeter if he bore arms.
“No,” replied the trumpeter, “I cannot fight. I can only blow my horn, and make music for those
who are at war.”
“But I can hit a mark at a hundred paces,” said the archer. As he spoke, an eagle appeared,
hovering over the tree tops. He drew out an arrow, fitted it on the string, shot at the bird, which
straightway fell to the ground, transfixed to the heart.
“I am not afraid of any foe for that bird might just as well have been a man,” said the archer
proudly. “But you would be quite helpless if anyone attacked you.”
They saw at that moment a band of robbers approaching them with drawn swords. The archer
immediately discharged a sharp arrow, which laid low the foremost of the wicked men. But the rest
soon overpowered and bound his hands.
“As for this trumpeter, he can do us no harm for he has neither sword nor bow,” one of the robbers
said. They released the trumpeter, but took away his wallet.
Then, the trumpeter said, “You are welcome, friends, but let me play you a tune on my horn.” With
their consent he blew loud and long on his trumpet, and in a short space of time the guards of the king
came running up at the sound, and surrounded the robbers and carried them off to prison.
When they unbound the hands of the archer, the archer said to the trumpeter, “Friend, I have
learned today that a trumpet is better than a bow; for you have saved our lives without doing harm to
anyone.”
Source: Achmad Doddy, Ahmad Sugeng, Effendi, Developing English Competencies for Grade X, Jakarta,
Pusat Perbukuan Depdiknas, 2008.

24. What is the purpose of the text?

a. To entertain the readers.
b. To tell the readers the news of the day.
 c. To persuade the readers to do something.
d. To describe how an archer and a trumpeter look like.
e. To talk about the experience of an archer and a trumpeter.
25. What did the robbers do to the archer?
a. They killed him.
b. They bound him.
c. They released him.
d. They played a trumpet for him.
e. They brought him to the guards of the king.
26. Man : I don’t know what to order, I could drink everything on the menu.
Woman : Why don’t you try guava juice, orange juice, or ice tea.
Man : Guava juice sounds good. I‘ll take it.
Woman : I think I’ll have a big glass of cola float.
Narrator : What will the woman do?
a. Take a guava juice
b. Order an orange juice
c. Try an ice tea
d. Order a cola float
e. Drink mineral bottled water
27. Woman : What do you think about my appearance, do I look okay?
Man : Well, Yes, but it would be more elegant if you wear long black dress.
Woman : All right.
Narrator : What is the dialogue about?
a. The woman’s dress
b. The elegant woman
c. The woman’s black dress
d. The woman’s appearance
e. The man’s complaint about the woman

28. Man : Hi, Nita you look so busy, what are you doing?
Woman : I’m finishing the report on my research.
Man : What research is that?
Woman : I did research about the cause of heart attack and I did it as my assignment in order to
get a scholarship.
Narrator : Why is the woman busy?
a. She is discussing the cause of heart attacks.
b. She is finishing her report on heart attacks
c. She is finishing her school project.
d. She is presenting her assignment
e. She is looking for a scholarship.
29. Man : I have been working since seven in the morning, and now I’m exhausted.
Woman : Why don’t you take a rest for a while?
Narrator : How does the man feel?
a. Sick
b. Tired
c. Sleepy
d. Thirsty
e. Hungry
30. Man : How long have you been out of the country?
Woman : Two weeks and it was amazing
Man : Where did you go?
Woman : Finland for a week, Scotland for four days and the rest I spent in England.
Narrator : How long have the woman out of the country?
a. One week
b. Two weeks
c. Four days
d. Three days
e. Seven days

ESSAY:
Questions for number 31 to 35. Answer based on the text.

President Sukarno of Indonesia:

Speech at the Opening of the Bandung Conference, April 18, 1955.

This twentieth century has been a period of terrific dynamism. Perhaps the last fifty years have seen
more developments and more material progress than the previous five hundred years. Man has
learned to control many of the scourges, which once threatened him. He has learned to consume
distance. He has learned to project his voice and his picture across oceans and continents. He has
learned how to make the desert bloom and the plants of the earth increase their bounty. He has
learned how to release the immense forces locked in the smallest particles of matter.

But has man’s political skill marched hand-in-hand with his technical and scientific skill? The
answer in NO! The political skill of man has been far outstripped by technical skill. The result of this is
fear. And man gasps for safety and morality.

Perhaps now, more than at any other moment in the history of the world, society, government and
statesmanship need to be based upon the highest code of morality? It is the subordination of
everything to the well-being of mankind. But today, we are faced with a situation where the well-being
of mankind is not always the primary consideration. Many who are in places of high power think,
rather, of controlling the world.

Yes, we are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear. Fear
of the future, fear of hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the
danger itself, because it is fear which drives men to act foolishly, to act dangerously.

All of us, I am certain are united by more important things than those which superficially divide us.
We are united, for instance, by a common detestation of colonialism in whatever form it appears. We
are united by a common detestation of racialism. And we are united by common determination to
preserve and stabilize peace in the world.

We are often told, “colonialism is dead.” Let us not be deceived or even soothed by that. I say to
you, colonialism is not yet dead. How can we say it is dead, so long as vast areas of Asia and Africa are
not free .
 And, I beg of you do not think of colonialism only in the classic form, which we of Indonesia and
our brothers in different parts of Asia and Africa, knew. Colonialism has also its modern dress, in the
form of economic control, intellectual control, and actual physical control by a small but alien
community within a nation. It is a skillful and determined enemy, and it appears in many guises. It does
not give up its loot easily. Wherever, whenever and however it appears, colonialism is an evil thing,
and one which must be eradicated from the earth …

1. What is the main idea of the fourth paragraph?

2. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?
3. When did the speech of President Sukarno happen?
4. Why did President Sukarno want everyone to be united?
5. What did President Sukarno’s hope and dreams for the world?

GOODLUCK

KUNCI JAWABAN SOAL PAS BAHASA INGGRIS

SEMESTER 2 KELAS XI SMA ISEN MULANG PALANGKA RAYA

1. D 16. E
2. D 17. A
3. E 18. C
4. B 19. B
5. D 20. A
6. E 21. A
7. B 22. B
8. D 23. C
9. C 24. A
10. D 25. B
11. D 26. D
12. E 27. D
13. B 28. B
14. A 29. B
15. C 30. B