Pre test

Pre test

1. Choose the best answer by crossing (x) a, b, c, d, or e!

Text 1

Smoking in a restaurant does not only give the bad impact to the active smokers but also the passive ones.

Smoking in a restaurant is impolite. The smell of the smoke affects all people and can turn them off their food. People pay to taste good food and not to be put off by foul-smelling smoke.

Besides, smoking harm the others especially passive smokers, that is, breathing in smoke made by a smoker, can lead to asthma attacks and even cancer.

Finally, smoking is dangerous and a health risk to the smoker. Cigarettes cause heart and lung disease and people do not smoke anywhere, not just in restaurants.

Regarding to the bad impacts, smoking must not be allowed in any restaurants.

1. The communicative purpose of the text is to…

1. explain how the smoking can be dangerous
2. retell about some positive effects of smoking
3. persuade readers with the smoking risk
4. describe how the smoking is not allowed
5. persuade readers that smoking must be banned

2. Smoking in a restaurant is impolite. (paragraph 2). 

The synonym of the underlined word is…

1. Rude                               D. Sensitive

    B. Polite                               E. Kind

    C. Delicate

3. The statements below are true based on the text, except…

    A. Smoking is dangerous               

    B. Smoking makes us better           

    C. Smoking is unhealthy for the smoker

    D. Smoking must not be allowed

    E. Smoking harms to the others

4. What is the main idea of the second paragraph?

    A. Smoking in a restaurant is rude to do

    B. Passive smoking is made by a smoker

    C. Cigarettes cause heart and lung disease

    D. Smoking in restaurants must not be allowed

    E. The smell of the smoke affects all people

Text 2

If you want to advance in your career, you will have to make some careful decision about which jobs to take. Evaluate a job offer for the value it has to your career. It may mean sacrifice at first. You may have to move to a different region or a different country to get a job that is right for you. You may have to work late hours, at last temporarily. You might even have to take lower salary for job that offers you the experience that you need. But you should never accept a job if it is not related to your career goals.

Accepting a job that is not within your career path will not give yoy the training or experience you need or want. You will find yourself frustrated in such position and consequently will not perform your best. This will have an effect on the people around you who will not feel as id you are being a part of the team. The best advice is to think carefully before accepting any position and make sure the job is the one you want to have.

5. What is the most significant factor in evaluating a job?
a. location
b. salary
c. value to your career
d. how much you like it.
e. prestige

6. Which is not mentioned as a sacrifice for valuable job?
a. moving to other region
b. no benefits
c. bad working hours
d. moving to other country
e. low salary

7. What is wrong with taking a job outside your career path?
a. you will earn less
b. You won’t perform well
c. People will give you advice
d. You will be part of a team
e. People will complain to you.

8. What is the writer’s best advice?

Take the first job offered.
b. Consider changing career
c. Don’t work with other people.
d. Think before accepting a job.
e. Find a job with the highest salary.

Text 3

When a person old enough to be responsible for a crime? This question needs to be investigated because the current law is not good enough

The law at present protects children aged between ten years and four years from being punished for committing crimes. It is believed that children under fourteen years are too young to realize the seriousness of their crimes. Mr. Stephen Scarlett, head of the NSW Children’s Court, describes how clever young offenders use this defense, saying that they are too young to understand that they have broken the law. Mr. Scarlett, an expert on this subject, states that the age should be dropped from fourteen to twelve years. I agree with this.

Teenagers these days are far more sophisticated than those in the past. The law should recognize this. In a recent survey some people suggested that the age for being responsible for a crime should be dropped to eight years old. This, I feel, is too young. Fourteen, however, is too old. Is there anyone who believes that a fourteen-year-old does not know that it is against the law to steal or vandalize property? By the age of twelve, children are aware of what is legal and what is not.

Public pressure creates change. It is now up to the public to put pressure on the government to change the age at which a person may be held responsible for a crime from fourteen years to twelve years. Out of date laws have no place in a modern society, especially one that needs people to be responsible for their actions.

9. What does the text above talk about?

1. When a person is old enough to be responsible for a crime
2. When a person is being punished for committing crimes
3. When children are too young to be responsible for a crime
4. When a person is too old to be responsible for a crime
5. When do teenagers realize the seriousness of their crime

10. In what age are the children protected by the present law from being punished for committing crimes?
A. Ten years old
B. Fourteen years old
C. Ten to fourteen years old
D. Eight years old
E. Twelve years old

11. In what paragraph do we find the recommendation of the text above…..
A. In the first paragraph
B. In the second paragraph
C. In the third paragraph
D. In the fourth paragraph.
E. In the fifth paragraph

12. The part of the text which states what ought or ought not to happen is called…..
A. Thesis
B. Argument
C. Elaboration
D. Reiteration
E. Recommendation

13.“Teenagers these days are far more sophisticated than those in the past.
The word “those” refer to…..
A. Days
B. Teenagers
C. Laws
D. Children
E. Crimes

14. What type of genre does the text belong to?
A. Analytical exposition
B. Hortatory exposition
C. Report
D. Description
E. Narrative

15. “Mr. Scarlett, an expert on this subject, states that the age should be dropped from fourteen to twelve years. I agree with this.”
The underlined sentence expresses…..
A. Argument
B. Opinion
C. Certainty
D. Debate
E. Agreement

Text 4

Space travel should be stopped for many reasons. Firstly, it is totally unsafe as proven by the Colombia Space Shuttle disaster. Thousand people have been killed in accidents. Secondly, it costs billions and billions dollars everyday just to put fuel into rockets. Professor Smith from the Spend Money on People Space Association agrees that space travel is a waste of time and money. Further, space travel is altering the world’s weather pattern as evidenced by the record of high temperatures this summer in Cobar. Everyone knows that if God wanted us to fly in space we should have been born with space suits. Stop space before it destroys the earth.

16. How many reasons are stated in the text dealing with the point that Space travel should be stopped?
A. One B. Two C. Three D. Four E. Five

`17. “Professor Smith from the Spend Money on People not Space Association agree that space travel is a waste of time and money.”
The sentence contains a word expresses…..
A. Agreement
B. Disagreement
C. Contrast
D. Certainty
E. Desire

18. Which is not true based on the text above…..
A. Space travel should be stopped
B. Space travel destroys the earth
C. Space travel costs billions and billions of dollars everyday
D. Space travel offer benefits to the earth
E. Space travel is unsafe

19.What does the text above mainly talk about?
A. Air travel
B. Road travel
C. Water travel
D. Space travel
E. Rocket travel

20. Stop space before it destroys the earth.
This part of paragraph indicates the…..
A. Reiteration
B. Reinforcement
C. Argument
D. Thesis
E. Elaboration

21. Stop space before it destroys the earth. What does the word it refers to…..
A. Space
B. Travel
C. Space travel
D. The earth
E. Space suit

22. “Further, space travel is altering the world’s weather pattern as evidenced by the record of high temperatures this summer in Cobar.”
The underlined word is a transitional word showing…..
A. Time
B. Addition
C. Logical relationship
D. Conclusion
E. Example

 Text 5

Students’ cheating is one of the biggest problems faced by teachers nowadays.

Despite the fact that teachers advise their students not to do dishonest acts during tests, some students still do cheating. There are many kinds of cheating that students do during the test or examination, such as looking other students’ work, put some notes under their clothes, write notes or formulas on their desks make hand signals or go to rest rooms to get the answers from their friends.

In my view, students who do cheating are committing a crime. It is a sort of taking something illegally. This crime causes negative results to the students. Students who always cheat deteriorate their mental capacity. Cheating acts also create dependence. They weaken their self confidence. Instead of preparing for the coming test, they are busy to organize notes on a piece of paper. If this awful habit continues, the students will lose their opportunity to develop their intellectual and mind.

Therefore, school should consider cheating as a very serious problem. School board and administration should go hand to overcome this matter. Honesty must be put in school’s vision. Harsh punishment must be applied to students who commit this crime.

23. What is mainly discussed in the text?
a. School policy
b. harsh punishment
c. cheating as a crime
d. mental deterioration
e. Different ways of cheating

24. What will the school do to eliminate students who commit cheating?
a. Create a good vision
b. Select honest students
c. Make harsh punishment
d. Make students confident
e. Administer the school affair

25. “Students who always cheat deteriorate their mental capacity.” (Paragraph 3)
The underlined word means…
a. support
b. worsen
c. cause
d. create
e. find