Bimbingan belajar 8

PEMERINTAH KABUPATEN BOJONEGORO
DINAS PENDIDIKAN
SMA NEGERI 1 BOJONEGORO
BIMBINGAN BELAJAR INTENSIF KELAS XII TAHUN PELAJARAN 2009/2010

Mata Pelajaran : Bahasa Inggris
Kelas : XII IPA/IPS
Pertemuan ke : VIII (Delapan)

Text 1

When Anderson looked at the station clock, it was ten to two. The train was already twenty minutes late and since his own watch had proved to be five minutes fast when he got to the station, he had already been waiting nearly half an hour. He turned over in his mind the idea of going to the booking of fice and leaving a massage, but of course that would hardly do. As secretary of the local historical society, it was his duty to meet the monthly speaker give him dinner and take him rested and refreshed to the meeting.

Anderson hoped that at least, F.P. Maurice would prove to be more interesting than his articles which were, in Anderson’s opinion, more suitable for the popular press than for serious historians. However, it wasn’t always easy to find speakers, and if the man spoke reasonably well, the members wouldn’t complain to fine.

It was a warm afternoon. The station was sleepy and quiet and it was difficult to imagine that any train would ever stop there. Anderson walked up and down the flat form and wondered wheter the train would ever come.

It came at last just when Anderson had decided that he wasn’t going to wait any longer. Only two people got out – a local farmer and his dog and a young woman in jeans and scarlet sweater. Anderson cursed. Not only was the train late but F.P. Maurice had apparently missed it. There wasn’t another for two hours. He certainly wasn’t going to hang about here all that long.

He was marching angrily to the exit when he felt a little tug at his sleeve. He turned, in surprise, to see the young woman who had got off the train.

“Mr. Anderson “she said,” I hope you haven’t been waiting long I’m F.P. Maurice – I was told you’d be here to meet me.”

1. The train was due to arrive at ….
a. 2.00 b. 1.40 c. 2.10 d. 1.30 e. 2.30

2. When Anderson thought that the train would never come, …..
a. he felt a massage at the Booking Office
b. he felt that his job was not a very pleasant one
c. he felt the station and decided to come back later
d. he read Maurice’s articles to kill the time
e. he become very uneasy and impatient

3. What was Anderson’s opinion about Maurice?
a. He was the best newspaper reporter d. He did not do his job seriously
b. He was not much of a scientist e. He would certainly attract the audience
c. He was not a good speaker

4. How was the situation at the station?
a. Crowded b. Warm c. Desterted d. Noisy e. Isolated





Text 2

Some Indians of the American Southwest created towns called pueblos. They built these town at places in the desert where they found water. like the dessert groups of the Sahara, the pueblo Indians were made up of several different groups whose ways of life were not exactly the same.
The Indians of the pueblos grew as much of their food as possible. Maize (Indian corn), beans, and pumpkins were among crops usually grown at the pueblos. They hunted for meat, and they tamed animals to raise for food. Wild turkeys were one kind of animal tamed by the Pueblo Indians. They also made jewellery, pots and baskets. The jewellery, pots and baskets they made were often used to trade at the other pueblos. They traded for things needed or wanted and could not make themselves.
The Pueblo Indians built large towns. Their pueblo houses are built like apartment houses with the living areas connected together. The houses are built of stone or adobe, and are sometimes four or five storeys high. Two of these houses can be found in the pueblo in Pecos, New Mexico. One has 585 rooms and the other has 517 rooms.
Many Pueblo Indians still live and work in the desert. In new Mexico, nineteen pueblo cities are still being lived in. although the inside of the Pueblo houses have been made modern, they are much the same as they were before the United States was founded. Two buildings of one of the pueblos at Taos, New Mexico, are over eight hundred years old. They were built three hundred years before Columbus sailed to the Americas.
Like the oasis owellers of the Sahara, the Pueblo Indians sometimes traded with and were often raided by the nomads of the American desert.

5. The story is about …..
a. The American Southwest c. Living in the desert e. farming in the desert
b. Pueblo Indians d. Indian towns

6. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE about the Pueblo Indians?
a. They could produce everything they needed
b. They lived from farming and hunting
c. They traded their handicraft products
d. They domesticated wild turkeys
e. They consisted of slightly different cultural groups

7. When were the pueblo houses built?
a. When Columbus discovered America
b. At the time New Mexico was founded
c. Under the government of the United states
d. Three hundred years before America was founded
e. More the eight countries ago

8. Which of the following is TRUE about pueblo houses?
a. They are built of concrete d. They are constructed like apartments
b. They look like skyscrapers e. They are no longer inhabited by the Indians
c. Their insider are just like modern houses

9. From the text we may conclude that …..
a. there are no Pueblo Indians anymore today
b. Pueblo towns are now completely deserted
c. the Pueblo culture has so far been preserved
d. Mexico is now the centre of the Pueblo culture
e. Mexicans originated from the Pueblo Indians

Text 3

The Eskimos have lived on the coasts of Baffin Island for the last 4000 years or so. Although a European, Martin Frobisher, seeking gold and a route to China, reached the Island in 1576, Europeans had little influence on the Eskimo’s way of life until the nineteenth century.
The Eskimos continued, as they had for thousands of years before, to manage to live in one of the unfriendliest parts of the world, hunting with weapons made of bone, living in houses made of snow, and wearing clothes made from skins and furs. They had neither metal nor wood, and depended entirely on the meat, fat and bone of the animals they could catch from the Artic sea or land in order to survive. They lived in small groups of several families, and the best hunter of the group was also leader.
European came increasing numbers in the second half of the 19th century to hunt whales. They also began trading with the Eskimos, giving them metal cooking pots, guns and cloth in return for skins, and adding tea, sugar and flour to the meat which had formerly been almost their only food.
The Eskimos came to rely more and more on these goods from abroad, but still did not change their way of life in any important way. They still lived in small groups in the best hunting areas, and if they were careless or unlucky their family could die of hunger.
Then in the fifties of this century, the Canadian Government suddenly became interested in its Eskimo population. Since then it has built towns near the Arctic Circle with schools and cheap wooden houses for the Eskimos, and more of them have come to live in these houses. Fewer and fewer Eskimos want to go hunting now, but in the Arctic towns there is no other kind of work for them to do.

10. The text is about ….
a. the first European on Baffin Island
b. trading between the Eskimos and Europeans
c. the changing life of the Eskimos
d. how the Eskimos lived 4000 years ago
e. what the Canadian Government did for Eskimos

11. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?
a. Martin Probisher was trying to find a new day to China when he came to Baffin Island
b. In the past, survival for the Eskimos and their families depended on their skill as hunters
c. Eskimos used primitive weapons for thousand of years
d. Nowadays Eskimos do not go hunting anymore, even those living in the Arctic Circle
e. Baffin Island is located in the Arctic of Canada

12. European used to trade with the Eskimos to obtain ….
a. gold b. skins c. whale fat d. animal bones e. metal

13. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
a. Europeans have always been better hunters the Eskimos
b. The Government began to built school for the Eskimos children in 1850
c. There was more variety in the food eaten by the Eskimos after the European traders came
d. The first European who found gold on Baffin Island was Martin Frobisher
e. The Eskimos did not like the wooden houses by the government

14. After reading the text, we know that most important change in the Eskimo’s way of life took place ….
a. when the first European came
b. in the mid-nineteenth century
c. when the whale hunters came in increasing numbers
d. at the beginning of the twentieth century
e. when the government began to take care of the Eskimos

Text 4

Warman’s, the makers of office materials, had advertised for a traveling salesman. Mr. Barlow applied for the job, and soon afterwards was invited to the company’s head office to meet Mr. Snell, the sales manager. Mr. Snell asked Mr. Barlow what experience he had as a salesman.

I worked as a salesman for a brush company until six months ago. I sold brushes, dusters, tins a polish, things like that. I went from door to door selling direct to housewives. Mr. Snell then asked him why he had left the job well, to be honest, it was very hard work, Mr. Barlow replied. It meant walking sometimes six or eight miles a day. But the real reason for leaving was that I didn’t think very highly of the goods that I was selling, and that made it difficult for me to be sincere when I had to tell housewives what wonderful brushes they were. I knew perfectly well they wouldn’t last beyond a month. What’s more, the pay was rather poor. I realized after a while that I wouldn’t be able to support a family on the money I was earning.

‘I see, said Mr. Snell.’ So what did you do next?

‘For the last six months I have been a salesman in a department store’, said Mr. Barlow. ‘And do you think you could sell Warman’s office materials with a clear conscience ‘Mr. Snell asked. “Do you think you could be sincere about selling the papers , inks, copying-machines and so on that we produce here ‘Mr. Barlow said that he could, that Warman’s office materials enjoyed a very high reputation, and that in his department at Caldwell’s he sold almost nothing else. He said that he had always wanted to work for a big company with a good name, to travel all over the country selling goods to other companies, rather than to housewives on the doorstep, and he added with a smile to enjoy the money and the working conditions offered with the job for which he had applied.

‘Mr. Barlow’, said Mr. Snell, ‘do you have a clean driving licence, ‘Yes, I do’, Mr. Barlow replied. ‘Then as long as your medical examination proves to be satisfactory’. I’m quite prepared to offer you the job. ‘Mr. Snell got up and shook Mr. Barlow by the hand. ‘Congratulations’, he said, ‘and welcome to Warman’s.

15. The text tell us about ….
a. the experience of Mr. Barlow as a salesman
b. Mr. Barlow’s ideals of his future career
c. Mr. Barlow’s miserable life at a brush company
d. what Mr. Barlow likes about Warman’s
e. the acceptance of Mr. Barlow at Warman’s

16. The purpose of inviting Mr. Barlow to Warman’s head office is ….
a. to have Mr. Barlow apply for the advertised job
b. to find out if he was the right man for the job
c. the explain to him more about traveling salesman
d. to introduce him to Warman’s sales manager
e. to see what kind of products he has been selling

17. Which of the following statements id TRUE about Mr. Barlow?
a. he worked for a brush company for six months
b. He was unemployed for six months after leaving the department store
c. He worked for the department store six months ago
d. He applied at Warman’s six months after he left the brush company
e. He has worked for Caldwell’s before he worked for the brush company

GERUND AND PARTICIPLES

18. …. what she had done that day on her diary, Adrian went to bed.
a. writes c. being written e. having been written
b. wrote d. having written

19. … a big city, Jakarta is very noisy.
a. being b. be c. because d. that e. causing

20. Steven went on …. although his mother called him many times.
a. slept b. to sleep c. sleeping d. sleeps e. was sleeping

21. Watching the film, he talked about his future with his girl friend.
This sentence means : ….
a. because he watched the film, he talked about his future
b. although he watched the film, he talked about his future
c. if he watched the film, he would talk about his future
d. while he was watching the film, he talked about his future
e. he didn’t watched the film, so he talked about his future

22. Adrian, ….. that Niken was sick, was upset.
a. is knowing c. knows e. knowing
b. was knowing d. who knowing

23. The teacher … the students is my teacher.
a. is teaching c. who teaching e. taught
b. teaching d. teaches

24. I remember writing Mary about it.
It means : ….
a. I remember that I wrote Mary about it. d. I remember it and I writing it
b. I remember that I should write Mary about it e. I remember Mary
c. I remember that Mary wrote about it

25. When I entered the room I found the students … their text books.
a. was reading c. to read e. having read
b. reading d. were going to read

26. Having learned my lesson, …
a. the teacher praised me c. I was praised by the teacher e. the teacher was praising
b. I praised the teacher d. the teacher was praised me

27. What do you object to?
… a test on Sundays.
a. Having b. That I have c. have d. I have e. when having

28.When we came home last night we saw a man … to get on our roof.
a. he tries b. tried c. to be trying d. to try e. trying

29. Would you mind … until I finished typing this letter?
a. to wait b. to be waiting c. wait d. will wait e. waiting

30. “Do you like Rendra?”
“Yes, I am looking forward … his play tomorrow.”
a. seeing b. to be seeing c. to see d. to seeing e. see

31. Visitor : “May I smoke here?”
Secretary : “I’m sorry, … is not allowed in this room.”
a. smoke b. smoking c. smoked d. to smoke e. is smoking

32. The Normans gave up … to make the native speak French.
a. try b. to try c. trying d. for trying e. tried

33. “Ita Told me a confusing story”.
The means : “ …”
a. Its’s story confused me c. Ita’s story was confused e. I confused Ita’s story
b. The story confused Ita d. Ita was confusing the story

34. She expected that she would have to wait for hours at the airport.
She brought a book along the road.
The above sentences can be joined as follows :
“ … at the airport, she brought a book along the road”.
a. Expecting to have to wait for hours d. She expects waiting for hours
b. Expected to wait for hours e. In expecting waiting for hours
c. To be expecting to wait for hours

35. I don’t remember giving him my address.
It means : …
a. I had to give him my address, but I forgot to do it
b. I gave him my address, but I forgot to do it
c. If I remember, I will give him my address
d. Giving him my address is one thing I must remember
e. I remember to give him my address
36. “What did the cashier of the bookstore tell you?”
“ … with a credit card.”
a. Not paying c. Let’s not pay e. Did not pay
b. Not pay d. Not to pay

37. “What did Amir promise you yesterday?”
“ … together in the library.”
a. We study b Studying c. In studying d. Studied e. To study

38. “The students are talking so excitedly; what do they want?”
“ … the test postponed until next week.”
a. In having b. Having c. I have d. To have e. They have

39. My sister thinks that the ceramic vase is too big … on the piano.
a. be put b. being put c. it was put d. for being put e. to be put

40. “Where is Budi?”
“Oh! I completely forgot … him”.
a. to invite c. invite e. inviting
b. not inviting d. not to invite

41. It is often difficult for new university students … themselves to their new environment.
a. they adapt b. to adapt c. adapting d. being adapted e. adapt

42. “You seem to like him very much.”
“Yes, he is such a nice man …
a. talking to c. be talking to e. to talk to
b. to be talked to d. talked to

43. He hasn’t got enough experience … principal of our school.
a. promoted c. being promoted e. he will be promoted
b. to be promoted d. be promoted

44. A car … safely, it is essential to have good brakes.
a. driving b. that he drove c. to be driven d. we drive e. to drive

45. The man sitting next to Ati said, “Do you mind … ?”
a. smoking b. I smoke c. to smoke d. we drive e. to drive

46. After … his pass, he was allowed to after the building.
a. shown b. have shown c. showed d. showing e. to show

47. ‘What was he ponished for?’
‘ … others to break school rules.’
a. When he persuaded c. In order to persuade e. To persuade
b. Persuading d. By persuading

48. Her winning a prize in the beauty contest surprises me.
The underlined word mean : ‘…’
a. The fact that se won a prize d. After she won a prize
b. She is winning a prize e. The expectation that she’ll win a prize
c. When she won a prize

49. I remember … in this town when traffic wasn’t too heavy yet.
a. be driving c. drive e. to drive
b. we drive d. our driving

50. ‘My niece is not used … in a dormitory.’
a. to live b. living c. to living d. live e. live