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5. Based on the text, which of the following is the reason why people choose online shop-ping?
A. the high price
B. it can be done everywhere
C. the limited kind the goods
D. the laziness of the customer
E. the practically of transaction
6. “Therefore, with the presence of testimo-nies, consumers can easily determine whether the quality of
goods is decent or not.” (paragraph 3). The underlined word may be best replaced by ….
A. consider
B. respect
C. accept
D. credit
E. rely
7. What did the Dwarf do to his mother when the king asked him to lift the heavy stone?
A. crying
B. complaining
C. shouting
D. protesting
E. mumbling
8. Based on the text, we can conclude that ….
A. the old woman never tried to pray to get a baby
B. the dwarf used super power to fight the king
C. the dwarf knew his power to fight the king
D. the dwarf‟s mother realized that her son was strong enough
E. the King challenged the dwarf to do harder and harder task
Adam Smith was a great philosopher and economist of the 18th century. He was born in 1723 at Kirkcaldy in
Scotland. His father was also called Adam Smith and he worked as a sec-retary but he died 5 months before
his son was born.
Adam Smith junior was brought up by his mother Margaret Smith. When he was 14, he went to Glasgow
college. Adam was particularly interested in Mathematics. In 1740, he went to Oxford and he spent 6 years
there. In 1746 Adam Smith returned to Kirkcaldy. Then in 1748 he giving at Edinburgh University. Finally,
in 1752 Smith also became professor of philoso-phy.
In 1759 Adam Smith published the first of his two great books, the theory of Moral Senti-ments. In 1776
Adam Smith produce his second great book. An inquiry into The Nature and Causes of The Wealth Of Nations.
In it, Smith argued strongly for free trade between nations.
Adam Smith said that the market may appear chaotic, is actually guided by invisible hand. Smith also argued
that division increases production.
In 1778 was given a post as a commissioners of customs in Edirtburgh until he died on 17 July 1790. He was
buried in Canon gate church-yard on 22 July 790.
Taken from Saat-Saat Jelang UN Bahasa Inggris 2018 Tim Alfa Cendikia
In the science experiment, we will make a minia-ture bolt of lightning using a balloon, piece of wool, and
some metal. We will explore static electricity and what causes lightning. We will learn about electrons, atoms,
positive, and nega-tive charges.
What to do:
(1) blow up the balloons
(2) turn off the light in a room at night and get it as dark as possible
(3) rub the balloon rapidly against a piece of wool or wool sweater several times. This will give the balloons
a negative charge as elec-trons jump from the wool to the balloon. When rubbing the wool against the balloon,
we are creating static electricity and saving it up in the balloon
(4) move the balloon close to something metal like a filing cabinet or a door knob
(5) Watch for a flash or spark that jumps from the balloon to the metal object just like light-ning
Please note: the humidity in the air can affect static electricity. If the air is damp, such as during the winter,
then this experiment may not work
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing to complain about an article in last Monday's newspaper, “Schools fail low-income children.” As
the Head teacher of one of the largest junior highs I feel strongly that the article does not describe our school.
My school has children from many different economic backgrounds, but a large percentage some from lower-
income families. Nevertheless, our tests show that the children do well and benefit from the excellent work
our teachers do. Last year, our school moved from 24th to 5th place according to the official assessment by
the state government. This clearly is not the „failure" that the article suggests.
I would be strongly recommend that more careful research should be conducted in the future so that the
newspaper will more realisti-cally describe the true situation in our school.
Rain always comes from clouds. But where do clouds come from? How does all that water get into the sky?
Think about your bathroom. There is hot water in your bath. Steam goes up from the hot water. The steam
makes small clouds in the bath-room. These warm clouds meet the cold walls and windows, and then we see
small drops of water on the walls and windows.
The world is like your bathroom. The water in the oceans is warm when the sun shines on it. Some of this
water goes up into the sky and makes clouds. The wind carries the clouds for hundreds of kilometres. Then
the clouds meet cold air in the sky, and we see drops of water. The drops of water are rain.
The rain falls and runs into rivers. Rivers run into oceans. And the water from oceans makes clouds and more
rain. So water is always moving from oceans to clouds to rain to rivers to oceans. So the rain on your head
was on other heads before! The water in your garden was in other gardens in other countries.
25. According to the text, what is the result when warm clouds meet the cold walls in windows?
A. the drops of water
B. the cloud is formed
C. the water moves to the river
D. the water moves to the ocean
E. the rain makes a cloud
26. The water in the oceans is warm when the sun shines on it”. The underlined word in the third paragraph
refers to ….
A. the water in the oceans
B. bathroom water
C. grey cloud
D. the sun shine
E. water in the rivers
California wildfires have destroyed more than 1,000 homes
(CNN)One person died and 10 homes burned in a fire that started Saturday in California's Carmel Valley south
of Monterey, fire officials said. Two nearby communities are under evacuation as the fire has burned 1,200
acres so far and is only 10% contained, according to the state wildfire fighting agency, Cal Fire.
Three other people have died so far in this summer's wildfires: a 72-year-old woman with multiple sclerosis
who couldn't get out of her house, a 66-year-old man who didn't follow evacuation orders, and an elderly
person who was found by cadaver dogs.
Two more large wildfires burning for days in Northern California have destroyed more than 1,000 homes and
hundreds of outbuildings, fire authorities said.
The Valley Fire has consumed 585 homes as while raging through Lake, Napa and Sonoma counties over the
course of a week. It has destroyed hundreds of other structures and scorched more than 70,000 acres of land,
according to Cal Fire.
Another wildfire burning in a nearby area, the Butte Fire, has destroyed 511 residences and more than 330
outbuildings in the course of at least 10 days. Cal Fire's data was posted late Saturday.
Late Saturday, many of the other current fires burning in California were nearly 100% contained, and the
Valley Fire and Butte Fire were mostly contained.
The American West has seen one of its worst fire seasons this year, burning through a particularly large area
of the landscape, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. Nearly 9 million acres have gone up in
flames so far this year compared with close to 3 million over the same period in 2014.
This year's tally is already higher than any other in the last decade. Four years of exceptional drought in
California in particular have provided a lot of dry tinder for the flames.
CNN's Tony Marco contributed to this story.
27. What made the wildfire in California higher than the year before?
A. Due to exceptional drought
B. Due to crowded housing
C. Due to difficulties in evacuation
D. Due to late firefighters
E. Due to a lot of fires
28. It has destroyed hundreds of other structures and scorched more than 70,000 acres of land. (paragraph
4). The word ‘it’ refers to:
A. Lake county
B. Sonoma county
C. Wildfire
D. The Valley fire
E. The Butter fire
29. Late Saturday, many of the other current fires burning in California were nearly 100% contained. The
word ‘contained’ has the closest meaning with:
A. Consisted
B. Flamed
C. Unbounded
D. Closed
E. controlled
32. What job will be done the day before the festival begins?
A. Making posters
B. Setting up the gym
C. Cleaning up the gym
D. Helping the performers
E. Welcoming guests
34. Rearrange the following sentences into the correct and meaningful paragraph!
1) If you don’t have an account yet, create one.
2) Sign in to get into your account in your mail provider.
3) Click compose message button to start writing your email.
4) Type the message you want to send just like typing a letter.
5) You may add a title for your email by typing it in the subject bar below the address.
6) When you finish typing, click send button. Your email will be sent to the desired address.
7) Prior to writing, decide the receiving mail address by typing it on the address bar or browsing it in
your contact database.
The best arrangement of sentences above is ....
A. 1-2-4-5-7-3-6
B. 3-7-4-5-1-2-6
C. 7-3-4-2-1-5-6
D. 2-1-3-7-5-4-6
E. 4-3-2-1-5-7-6
Everybody likes home sweet home however making office at home is possible and recommended. Of course
home office will have both advantage and disadvantage. Therefore it is wise to consider the strengths and
weaknesses to have a home office.
Some people will agree that having an office at home will make benefit. It saves time. We need no commuting
which occasionally takes a long time. Besides we are free to set the work schedule. Having home office will
save money as we need not to purchase or lease of office space from rent companies. What make it more
flexible is that we can set part or all parts of our home just as a real office. What we need is only a wireless
router to cover all parts of our house with Internet.
We can run our business wherever part of house we want, from living room, bed room, veranda, etc even we
can make sales or purchases by online shopping for things we need. Furthermore working at home might
reduce stress, effort and time and divert it to other more productive things because while working, we are
close to our families.
However making home as office also has some disadvantages. For some people, keeping the schedule is hard
in flexible time. Such people type wills harder if they are working just from home. There will no clear border
between working and breaking. Working just from home also reduces the possibility to meet new people. It is
true that computer and Internet connection possibly relate people every time and everywhere but we will
interact with them in a dimension which is not real face.
So considering carefully what we actually need in running our business is much recommended before choosing
to have office at home or not.
Last night I caught “Eclipse” on PPV TV and a sillier, more inane movie I’ve never watched in ages. The back
stories add nothing to the plot, Kristen Stewart is even more irritating if that’s possible, and the whole
“triangle” between Bella, Jacob and Edward is such a farce I couldn’t help laughing. There is no triangle to
speak of, actually; only Jake’s inability to accept no for an answer. There were two things I liked about this
film: one was the new actress who plays Victoria, and the other was Edward’s touching explanation of why
he insists on no sex before marriage: he wants to re-live the oldfashioned way of courtship he was cheated of
when he was made a vampire. Kind of sweet, when you think about it.
Taken as a whole, however, “Eclipse” adds up to two hours of nothing. Even the intrusion of the evil Volturi
toward the movie’s end seems more like an afterthought tacked onto the story. “Twilight” and “New Moon”
still occupy a place on my crappy movies you can’t help watching list, but “Eclipse” has earned a spoy on my
other list of crappy movies I don’t care if I never wtch again.
40. … and the other was Edward’s touching explanation of why he insist on no sex before marriage. The
underlined words means:
A. need
B. enforce
C. challenge
D. approve
E. agree