LISTENING SECTION 2. A. Go to the field wearing her P.E uniform.
B. Wear the school uniform.
In this section of the best, you will have the
chance to show how well you understand
spoken English. There are four parts of this
section with special direcons foe each part.
Part I
Questions: 1 to 4.
Directions:
In this part of the test, you will hear several
dialogs and questions spoken in English. The
dialogs and the questions will be spoken twice.
They will no be printed in your test book, so you
must listen carefully to understand what the
speakers are saying.
After you listen to the dialog and the question
about it, read the five possible answers to the
question you have heard. Now listen to a
sample question.
You will hear:
Man : I highly appreciate you for helping me
the right loan I need
Woman : My pleasure, Sir. I hope you can use
the money to buy your dream house
Narrator: What is the topic of the conversation?
A. Asking for help
B. Giving an opinion
C. Giving Direction
D. Expressing pleasure
E. Expressing gratitude
The best answer to the question “What is the
topic of the conversation?” is “Expressing
gratitude.” Therefore, you should choose
answer (E).
Simple answers
A B C D E
Now let’s begin with number 1.
1. A. Make the boy coffee.
B. Drink cool water
C. uses other dispensers.
D. Take cold water
E. Get another dispensers.
C. Meet the principal.
D. congratulate the winner.
E. Join the P.E class.
3. A. Waiting for Mr. Indra.
B. Go to the design room.
C. Visits Mr. Indra during the break.
D. Take the prize for Mr. Indra.
E. Attend a design contest.
4. A. She likes comic show.
B Comics are not funny.
C. She only likes few comics.
D. Most comics have decent jokes.
E. She wants to be a comic.
Part II
Questions: 5 to 7.
Directions:
in this part of the test, you will hear several
incomplete dialogs spoken in English, followed
by four responses, also spoken in English. The
dialogs and the responses will be spoken twice.
They will not be printed in your teks book, so
you must listen carefully to understand what
the speakers are saying. You have to choose the
best responses to each questions.
Now listen wo a sample question.
Girl : I really made a mistake.
Boy : What about?
Girl : I have broken your pen.
Boy : The pen? Oh no.
Girl :…
Narrator : What does the girl probably
respond?
A. I’m sorry to hear that B. I really appreciate it.
C. I do apologise C. I love that pen
The best answer to the question “ What does
the girl probably respond?” is “I do apologise.”
Therefore, you should choose answer (C)
Simple answers
A B C D
5. Write your answer on your answer sheet. This is the end of the listening section.
6. Write your answer on your answer sheet
7. Write your answer on your answer sheet READING SECTION
The following text is for question 16 to 18.
Part IV
March 1, 2018.
Questions: 12 to 15.
Directions: Dears Ms. Silvia,
In this part of the test, tou will hear serveral
Helo, how are you? We hope that everthing
monologs. Each monolog will be spoken twice.
is fine abroad. We hope you don’t forget us. It is
They will not be printed in your test book, so
the harvest season now, everyone is busyfor the
you must listen carefully to understand what
harvest festival. We remember how you had
the speakers is saying.
fun during our last year’s festivals.
After you listen to the monolog and the We write this latter to thank you for what
question about it, read the five possible you have done for us. Thanks for teaching us
answers and decide which one would be the patiently. Thanks a lot for helping us to solve
best answer to the question you have just heard every problem happening in our ours lives.
Thanks you for challenging us with intersing
12. A. It will be fixed. homework. Everyone can speak English now
B. It will be renovated. because of you.
C. it will be relocated. We sent you peom inspired by our time
D. It wiil be refurbished. together. We do hope you’ll like it. Please visit
E. it will be improved. us again. We can celebrate the harvest festival
together.
13. A. She is happy. B. She is fine.
C. She is sad. D. She is indifferent. With love,
E. She is angry.
14. A. Wood crafting. B. Wood chipping. Nora, Yana dan Boris.
C. Wood milling. D. Wood cutting.
E. Wood selecting.
16. Who is Ms. Silvia?
15 A. The bark is removed feom the log.
A. A poet. B. A linguist.
B. The pulp is relled to make paper.
C. A travel. D. A teacher.
C. The wood is selected.
E. A farmer.
D. The log is exported.
17. What is the puspose of the letter?
E. The Puplp is bleached.
A. To ask Ms. Silvia to join the harvers
festival.
B. To thank you to Ms.Silvia for what she has
done
C. To say farewell to Ms. Silvia.
D.To ask Ms. Silvia about a poem.
E. To sent Ms. Silvia always gives them
difficult homework
18. From the latter we know that______.
A. Ms. Silvia is preferred by the children.
B. Ms. Silvia will join the harves festival.
C. The children sent Ms. Silvia harvest
products.
D. The children make a song for Ms. Silvia
E. Ms. Silvia always gives them diffuclt
homework
The following text is for questions 19 to 21.
Penguin is aquatic, flightless bird. Most of
their species live in cold climates area. They
have adapt to live in cold climates.
Penguins have to keep body temperatures
today high remain active. They have thick skin
and lots of fat (blubber) under their skin to keep
warm in cold weather.
They also huddle together with their friends
to keep warm. Emperor penguins have
developed a social behavior that when it gets
cold, they huddle together in groups thay may
comprise several thousand penguins.
The doctor colored feathers of a penguin’s
back surface absorb heat from the sun. It also
keeps them wo warm up too.
Penguin’s tightly packed feathers overlap to
provide waterproofing and warmth. They coat
their feathers with oil from a gland near the tail
to increase impermeability. Waterproofing is
critical to penguin’s survival in water, Antractic
seas may be as cold as-22oC (28oF) and rarely
get above +2oC (35.6oF).
19. What is the text about?
A. How penguins spend their lives in water.
B. How penguins stay warm in their habitat.
C. How penguins interact to each other.
D. How penguins absorb the heat from sun.
E. How penguins coat their feathers.
20. From the we know that_____.
A. Penguin fets help them absorb the heat
from sun.
B. Penguins huddle together during mating
season.
C. Penguins can swim faster by coating their
feather with oil.
D. Penguin fats protect them from cold.
E. penguin’s beaks are waterproof.
21. “They huddle together in groups that may
comprise several thousand penguins.”
(Paragrap 3) The underlined word can be
placed with_____.
A. Exclude B. Contain
C. Attract D. Shove
D. Drag.
The following text is for questions 22 to 24.
Widi: Good morning, Ari. You look pale. What is
Wrong with you?
Ari : I din’t get enough sleep last. I watched a
football match with my neighbors.
Widi: That’s no good, you know. You should get
enough sleep every day.
Ari : Why? I use to sleep very late.
Widi: There are health risks if you don’t get
enough sleep.
Ari : Really what are they?
Widi: First, inadequate sleep time can make you
fat. Your metabolism and hormones will
become unstable. It will make you gain
weight easily. On a long term this will
exspose you to the risk of getting heart
problems. Inadequate sleep will also
effect your immune system. You will
easily get sick if you don’t get enough.
inadequate sleep also effects your skin
health. Your body will loose most of it’s
moisture. Your skin will be dry and stiff.
the most easily spotted effect is probably
the increase of acne around the face.
Ari : I guess you’re right. I have acne around
cheeck
Widi : See! You should manage your sleep time.
Ari : Well, I’ll try my best.
22. Why are we prone to deseases if we don’t
get enough sleep?
A. Our metabolism become unstable.
B. Our immune system weakens.
C. Our body will be exposed to viruses.
D. Our bodies wiil loose its moisture.
E. We will easily gain weight.
23. How does inadequate sleep effect our
beauty?
A. Our skin will be draker.
B. We will have pimples.
C. our skin will look pale .
D. You will feel itchy.
E. We will have moist skin.
24. What will Ari do with his sleeping habbit?
A. He will try to fix his sleeping habit soon.
B. He will start before he get sick.
C. He will start when the competition is over.
D. He will wait after his acne is cured.
E. He will sleep during the day.
The following text is for question 25 to 28
to the recording industry association of
According America ( RIAA ), 30 biliion songs
were illegal
downloaded between 2004 and 2009. Even with
sites like itunnes and rhapsody offering legal
downloads, peers-to-peer file sharing still exists.
Legal music downloading has dad significant
impacts on the music industry resulting in a loss
of profits and jobs, and changing how music is
delivered to the masses.
the RIAA repots that music sales in the united
states have dropped 47 percent since napster
first debuted in 1999. The availability of free
music industry $12,5 bilion in economic
losses.to recoup some of these losses, the
music industry has filled lawsuits against
individuals who have been found to have
illegally downloaded music. In feew cases,
individuals have been sued for thousands, if not
hundreds of thousand of dollars.
singers and bands are the public face of the
music industry, but creating, recording and
promoting a song takes a large team of the
people.as record companies have seen their
profits decrease, they have cut positions they
are no longer able to afford.this includes artists
as well as engineers, songwriters,producers,
technicians and marketing support. The RIAA
reveals that more tham 71.000 jobs as a illegaly
downloaded music.
declining profits and fewer staff leave the music
industry whits less funds and opportunitess to
recruit and develop new talent. Record label are
more inclines to focus their money and time on
established artists and only a few, promising
new artists. As a result, more new artists have
to look for outlets to createt and promote their
music on their own, such as seliing it directly
online.
the illegaly sharing has impacted the way the
music industry markets and promotes its artists.
The introduction of napster and illegal
downloading has helped usher in a new era of
digitally accessible music where singles trump a
full-length album. To expose its artist to a wider
audience, the music has dad to develop and
depoloy new tactics like toutube and Pandora.
Touring and promotional deals are more
lucrative for touring and promotional deals are
more lucrative for the music industry than
selling songs.
25. what does the text mainly talks about?
A. the benefits of illegal music downloading .
B. the negatife impact of illegal downloading
music.
C. the jobs loss due to illegal music industry
D. the decreasing profit in music industry
E. the omunt of illegal downloaded music.
26.how does illegal music downloading cause a
job loss to people work in the music industry?
A. new artists choose to promote themselves
online
B. record companies don’t need people for
promotion
C. record companies cut many positions due to
profit decrease
D. record companies are focused only on
established artists
E.many positions are replaced by online services
27. what is the main idea of paragraph two?
A. unemployment increase due to illegal music
downloading
B. new sales strategies developed by record
companies
C. the decreasing profits in music business
D. music sales drop due to illegal music
downloading
E. the changes in promoting musics
28. “ Touring and promotional deals are more
lucrative for the music industry than selling
song “( paragraph 3 ) the underlined word is
closest in meaning to:……
A. motivating
B. protibale
C. acceptable
D. encouraging
E. feasible

The following text is for questions 29 to 31
Desember 20, 2017
Hello virza,
I hope this letter finds you in the best health
and spirits.
hey, are you free next new years eve? I’d like to
invite you to a new years party in my place.
There will be ournold friends from
middleschool. Everyone is interested to join the
party. Nanang, ditto, and candra said that they
also miss our old friends and definitely come to
the party. We can set firework, play games and
hold barbeque. We also miss you playing guitar.
What say? Please, say yes
sent’ my best regards to your parents
Gilang
29. what is the purpose of the letter?
A. to invete virza to a barbeque party.
B. to ask virza to play the guitar on the party.
C. to invete virza to a new years party.
D. to invite virza to watch fireworks.
E. to invete virza to play games
30. how did virza and the invitees know each
other?
A. they are neightbors
B. they are club friends
C. they were schoolmates
D. they are musicians
E. they are cousins
31. from the letter we know that _________.
A. gilang and virza studies at the same school
B. virza is the leader of the club
C. the party will be hald in virza’s place
D. virza will organize the party
E. gilang can play the guitar
The Following text is for questions 32 to 34
Aver curious how chocolate is made from cacao
fruit? At first, the manufacturer chooses cacao
baens for theirnchocolate. Then, the cacao
beans are roasted in large, rotating in large,
rotating ovens, at tempertures of about 2100 -
2900F. roasting lasts from half an hour up to two
hours. The heat brings out more flavor and
aroma, and it dries and darkens the beans.
Flavor and aroma, and it dries and darkens the
beens .then, the cacao beans aare cracked and
winnowed , that is, their outer shells are
cracked and blown away,leaving the crushed
and broken pieces of cacao beans,called
nibs.the nibs are edible,but they are also really
bitter.the cacao nibs will be crushed and ground
into a thick paste called chocolate liquor.to
make cocoa,the powdery stuff is mixed up into
hot chocolate and the cocoa liquor is slammed
by a giant hydraulic press.the removes mush of
the fat,or cocoa butter,the cocoa butter will be
used in making chocolate,cosmetic and
medicines.what’s left of the slammed chocolate
liquor is very dry and can be ground into cocoa.
32.why should cacao beans be roasted?
A.to brighten the color.
B.because the beans are raw.
C.to draw the chocolate scent.
D.to remove the bitterness.
E.to obtain cocoa butter.
33.how is the chocolate liquor made?
A.by roasting the cocoa butter.
B.by crushing the cacao nibs.
C.by slamming the beans using hydraulic press.
D.by cracking the roasted beans.
E.by grinding the cocoa butter.
34.from the text we can conclude that_______
A.hot chocolate is made from chocolate liquor.
B.roasting the beans enhances it’s taste.
C.cocoa powder is used for medicine.
D.cacao nibs is produced by cracking raw beans.
E.cacao powder has a lot cocoa butter.
The following text is for questions 35 to 37.
Alive again
(By:Chicago)
Yesterday I would not have believed
that tomorrow the sun would shine
they one day you came into my life
I am alive again I am alive again
All the empty yesterdays have disappeared
Now that you have filed my life with love
no one else could ever mean so much to me
every day my high lasts longer
as our love grows ever stronger
Yesterday I would not have believed
that tomorrow the sun would shine
then one day you came into my life
I am alive again I am alive again
When you gave your love to me,you changed
my life
dreams that once seemed hopeless come with
ease
Thank you girl for being just the way you are
I would never try to change you
All I live for is to love you
I felling alive again
Ifelling alive again
35.what does ‘you’in the lyrics refer to?
A.the singer.
B.the singer and listeners.
C.the listeners.
D.the singer’s love.
E.the sun.
36.what does the singer feel after meeting
someone he loves?
A.he feels alive again.
B.he is hopeless.
C.he is desparately seeking happiness.
D.he feels lonely.
E.he feels rejected.
37.what is the message of the song?
A.love can change someone’s life.
B.we should change to love someone.
C.we need each other for a better life.
D.let’s honor and respect each other.
E.love gives nothing to us.
The following text for questions 38 and 39
Lasers are devices that produce a narrow beam
of extremely strong light.lasers amplify light by
causing photons to be bounced back and forth
in a substance,which can be solid,liquid or
gas,which add extra energy.the result is that
intense light is emitted in a very narrow
beam.the intense beam of light produced by
laser can be used to produce images for
publicity or entertainment purposes.
Lasers are also used to cut metal and for
precision cuts in operations.in CD players,laser
light is scanned across the CD’s silvery
surface,reading the audio and video information
on the disc.they are also used in office printers
and scanners,to display text and graphics.in
engineering,the intense narrow beam of light is
used to measure and align roads and tunnels.
38.how do lasers increase the light intensity?
A.by absorbing less energy.
B.by producing a single colo of light.
C.by amplifying the power of light beams.
D.by ernitting intense light in a very narrow
beam.
E.by causing photons to be bounced back and
forth in a substance.
39.”they are also used in office printers and
scanners,…”(paragraph 2)what does “they”
refer to?
A.Lasers. B.printers
C.scanners. D.CD players.
E.silvery surface.
The following text is for question 40 to 44
Déjà vu is a which litterali means’already
seen’.it is experience of feeling sure that one
has already witnessed or experienced a current
situation, even thought the exact circumstances
of the prior encounter are uncertain snd were
perhaps imagined.
déjà vu has to with memory procceses.there are
portions of the brains that are specialized in the
past, the present and the future. In general the
frontal lobes are concerned with the future, the
temporal lobes are concerned with the past and
the underliying., intermediate portions ( the
limbic system) are concerned with the present.
When these are all function, in normal states of
consciousness, the feeling that an event will
happen, when we are thinking about it,
anticipating it or making plans for it.the sense of
the past will only come up when our memories
have been triggered another way.
al times, we can experience over-
communication between our short and long
term memories and in such instances, the
present can seem like the pastwhen our
perceptions from our present are pushed
throught yhe sections of the brain that ordinaly
deal with past memories, these percetions will
seem like memories and we may feel as
throught we are reliving stored long term
memories.
in simple terms, we experience something in
the present, compare it to similar experience in
the past and decide how will respond.the time
fram can be too brief event a few second. Once
in a while, there can bee too much
communication between short and long term
memories.when this happens, then the present
can feel like the past.
40. what is déjà vu?
A. the felling of knowing will happen in the
future
B. the felling og having faced the current
situation
C. the feeling of dealing with a memory in the
past
D. the felling of knowing experienced a certain
dream
E. the felling of knowing what is going to
happen
41.which part of the brain is concerned with the
future?
A.the long-term memory.
B.the short-term memory.
C.the limbic system.
D.the temporal lobes.
E.the frontal lobes.
42.what is the main idea of paragraph two?
A.the definition of déjà vu.
B.the results of over-communication.
C.the description of parts of the brain.
D.the correlation between the past and present
situation.
E.the explanation of short and long-term
memory.
43.what may happen when there is over
communication between the short and long-
term memories?
A.the response of the communication may be
disturbed.
B.the short-term memory may not function
well.
C.the perceptions of the future may seem to be
real.
D.the present situation may seem the past.
E.the memories of the past may affect the
future.
44.”…even though the exact circumstances of
the prior encounter are uncertain
and…”(paragraph 1)what is the synonym of the
underlined word?
A.later. B.former.
C.main. D.important.
E.trivial.
The following text is for questions 45 to 47.
The average baby is about one foot,eight inches
long at birth.over the next twenty years,man
will triple the length of the body he was born
with and will reach an average height of about
five feet,eight inchies.however,why don’t
human beings keep on growing?
In the body there are of glands called the
endocrines,which control our growth.the
endocrine glands are:the thyroid in the neck,the
pituitary attached to the brain,the thymus in
the chest and the sex glands.the pituitary
glands is the onethat stimulates our bones to
grow.if this works too hard,our arms and legs
would grow too long and our hands and feet
too big. Ig the gland doesn’t work hard enoght,
we would end up under-sized.
we continue to grow, nut only slightly, after the
age of 25 and we reach our maximum height
beetwen the ages of 35 and 40. After that, we
shrink about half an inch every ten years. The
season for this the drying up of the cartilages in
our joints and in the spinal column as we get
older
45. what is the text about?
A. the explanation on how we grow
B. the explanation on the system that effects
our growth
C. the description of on a system of glands
which control our growth
D. the explanation on why we stop growing
E. the description on how a baby grows 48. A. to make D.is making
B.made E. is made
46. what will happen when we reach 40 years C. makes
old?
A. our brains grow rapidly 49. A.planted D.soaked
B. we will gain height slightly B.harvested E.washed
C. our bones will grow thicker C.dryed
D. our growth id slowing down
E. we sre getting shorter 50. A.changed D. grounded
B.substituted E.roasted
47. from the text we know that______ C.turned
A. the thymus is in the neck and the sex glands
B. the pituitary stimulates our bones to grow
C. we only rapidly grow grow after the age 25
D. we reach our maximum weight at about the
age of 35 or 40
E. a system of glands called the endocrine
glands control our digest

For question 48 to 50, choose the correct

words to complete the text.

dear mega,

how are you? I received your letter about you

vacation a week ago. I think your journey to the
volcano crater was interting. I spent my holiday
in interesting way too.
I spent my holiday by visiting my uncle’s house.
He has a tempeh factory. He showed me how
make tempeh. Tempeh ( 48 )_____ from soy
fermentation. Soy beens are cracked in a grain
mill. Then, the soy beans are ( 49 )_____ in the
water for 6 to 18 hours.after that, the soybeens
are cooked in a pot. While cooking, add vinegar.
Cook them for 30 minutes. Next, inoculate the
soy bees with 1 teaspon of tempeh starter.
Then, the soy beans are incubated in
fermentation room. The soybeens is fermented
by the tempeh the tempeh started. ( 50 ) _____
into the tempeh that we know .
what do you think about my holiday? I hope
you’ll write me soon

lintang