YAYASAN PENDIDIKAN BUDI MULIA

SMA BUDI MULIA KOTA BENGKULU

TERAKREDITAS “C” BERDASARKAN KEPUTUSAN BADAN AKREDITASI
PROVINSI BENGKULU
Alamat : Jl. Raya Betungan Air Sebakul No. 8 RT.06 RW.03 Kelurahan Betungan
Kecamatan Selebar Kota Bengkulu, 38214
NSSS/NIS/NSM : 302266007110 NPSN. 10702465

Soal Ulangan Semester Genap

Mata Pelajaran : Bahasa Inggris
Guru Bidang Studi : Nike Anggraini, S.Pd
Kelas : XI

A. Choose the correct answer by crossing A, B, C, D or E!

1. Kenny was ill last night, ...... she did not eat anything a whole day.
a. Above
b. Sure
c. Because
d. As
e. Although

2. I love Indonesia ...... the culture.

a. So
b. Because
c. As
d. Because of
e. Since

3. Danu will stay at home . . . . . he does not have anything to do outside.

a. Since
b. So
c. As a result
d. For
e. Because

4. Which one is not correct? "She did not attend the exam......, she failed."
a. As a consequence
b. As a reason
c. As a result
d. Consequently
e. For this reason

5. They can win the competition ..... they always have a very hard exercise everyday.
a. So
b. As
 c. For
d. Due to
e. Whereas

6. I can not go to my aunt's house ..... she will have another appointment.
a. Because
b. Because of
c. So
d. Due to
e. Hence

7. I am not feeling well, …. I will come to the party.

a. Because
b. However
c. Since
d. Unless
e. Eventhough

8. . . . . . being very rich, they never shows off.

a. Other than
b. Despite
c. Instead
d. Although
e. Furthermore

The following text is for number 9-13!

How does Rain Fall?
Rain is one of the main sources of fresh water for almost all people in the world. It
provides suitable conditions for diverse ecosystems. It is also used as hydroelectric power
plants and crop irrigation. But, do you know how rain happens? The rain’s phenomenon is
actually what we often call as “water circle.” The concept of the water cycle involves the sun
heating the Earth’s surface water and causing the surface water to evaporate. Then the water
vapor rises into the Earth’s atmosphere. The water in the atmosphere cools and condenses
into liquid droplets. The droplets grow bigger and heavier and fall to the Earth as
precipitation. However, not all rain can reach the surface of the earth. Some evaporates while
failing through dry air. This is what we call as “Virga”, a phenomenon which is often seen in
hot, dry desert regions.

9. What happen to the droplet when it gets heavy?

a. Evaporates
b. Boiled
c. Rise
d. Fall
e. Flow
10. What is the other name of raining process?
a. Water metamorphosis
b. Water cycle
c. Watering
d. Water ransacking
e. Snowing

11. What can evaporate the sea?

a. Sun heat
b. Water heat
c. Ice
d. Global Warming
e. Fire heat

12. Where is the location of condensation?

a. Sea
b. River
c. Lake
d. Sun heat
e. Atmosphere

13. Why does not all rain fall to the ground?

a. The water’s ascendancy from the sun heat
b. The cooling of air into droplets
c. It is evaporate by hot air
d. The heat caused by the sun
e. The water boiling Phenomenon

The following text is for number 14 - 17!

Human body is made up of countless millions of cells. Food is needed to built up new
cells and replace the worn out cells. However, the food that we take must be changed into
substances that can be carried in the blood to the places where they are needed. This process
is called digestion.
The first digestive process takes place in the mouth. The food we eat is broken up into
small pieces by the action of teeth, mixed with saliva, a juice secreted by glands in the mouth.
Saliva contains digestive juice which moisten the food, so it can be swallowed easily.
From the mouth, food passes through the esophagus (the food passage) into the stomach.
Here, the food is mixed with the juices secreted by the cells in the stomach for several hours.
Then the food enters the small intestine. All the time the muscular walls of the intestine are
squeezing, mixing and moving the food onwards.
In a few hours, the food changes into acids. These are soon absorbed by the villi
(microscopic branch projections from the intestine walls) and passed into the bloodstream.
14. What is the text about?
a. The digestive juice
b. The method of the digestive system
c. The digestive system
d. The process of intestine work
e. The food substances

15. How can we swallow the food easily?

a. The food changes into acids absorbed by the villi
b. The food is directly swallowed through esophagus into the stomach.
c. The food must be digested first through the process
d. The food is mixed with the juices secreted by the cells in the stomach.
e. The food we take must be changed into substances carried in the blood to the places.
16. From the text above, we imply that ….
a. The digestive system is needed if we are eating the food instantly
b. Every body must conduct the processes of digestive system well
c. The better we digest the food we eat, the healthier we will be
d. A good process of digestive system will help our body becoming healthier
e. No one concerned with the process of digestive system for their health

17. “Human body is made up of countless millions of cells.” (Paragraph 1) The phrase “made
up” means ….
a. Arranged
b. Completed
c. Produced
d. Constructed
e. Managed

The following text is for number 18 - 22!

How do Seasons Happen?
Seasons come to us regularly. We have probably notice that it gets warmer in summer
or dry season while it get colder in the winter or wet season. However do we know how these
seasons change?
Season happen and change every year. This happens because the Earth tits back and
forth as it goes around the Sun. During the summer, the Earth tits toward the sun. it makes
half of the Earth hotter. This condition is what we call summer. During the other half of the
year, the Earth tilts away from the Sun. As a result, it makes that half of the Earth cooler.
This cool condition is then what we call winter.The different parts of the world have
the same season at different times. In the northern half of the world, winter happens during
the months of December, January, and Febuary. The regions are such North America and
Europe. In the other land, the southern half of the world have winter during the months of
June, July, and August. The regions are like South America and Australia. How does this
difference happen? The same season happens at different times because the top and bottom
halves of the Earth tilt away from the Sun at different times.
18. What kind of text is it?
a. Explanation
b. Recount
c. Report
d. Narrative
e. Review

19. Seasons happen due to the influence of the ….

a. Sun
b. Earth
c. Air
d. Wind
e. Moon

20. The Earth becomes cooler because….

a. There are many snow on earth
b. The earth is entering the winter session
c. The earth is in the cooling state
d. The earth tits towards the sun
e. The earth tits away from the sun

21. December, January, and February indicate the happening of …. season in north.
a. Dry
b. winter
c. Rain
d. Spring
e. Autumn

22. There are parts region that have the different season. It is caused by….
a. The Sun exposure
b. The different rate of Earth tilting
c. The rate of air
d. The wind speed
e. The constellation

The following text is for number 23 - 26!

The sense of taste is one of a person’s five senses. We taste with the help of taste-buds
in the tongue. There are four main kinds of taste: sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. All other tastes
are just mixtures of two or more of these main types. The surface of the tongue has more than
fifteen thousand taste-buds (or cells). These are connected to the brain by special nerves
which send the so-called ‘tastes messages. When the tongue comes into contact with food of
any kind, the taste-buds will pick up the taste. The nerves then send a message to the brain.
This will make us aware of the taste. All this happens in just a few seconds.
 There are four kinds of taste-buds, each of which is sensitive to only a particular taste.
These four groups are located in different parts of the tongue. The taste-buds for salty and
sweet tastes are found round the tip of the tongue and along its sides. Sour tastes can be
picked up only at the sides of the tongue. The taste-buds of the bitter taste are found at the
innermost edge of the tongue. There are taste-buds at the centre of the tongue.
The senses of smell and sight can affect taste. The good smell of food increases its
taste. Similarly, attractive colours can make food appear tastier and more delicious. If food
does not smell good or is dull-coloured, it will look tasty and may not taste good at all.
Very hot or cold sensations can make the taste-buds insensitive. Food that is too hot or too
cold, when placed in the mouth, will have no tastes at all.

23. We can taste any kind of food because of . . . . .

a. The good smell of food
b. The four main kinds of taste
c. The senses of smell and sight
d. The taste-buds round the tip of the tongue
e. The taste-buds in the tongue

24. When we eat very hot or cold food . . . . .

a. The taste of the food increases
b. The taste-buds will be sensitive
c. The food won’t smell good
d. the taste-buds will be very, responsive
e. The food will lose its taste

25. The senses of smell and sight . . . . .

a. Make food more delicious
b. Affect the taste of the food
c. Make the food look good
d. Make the food attractive
e. Increase the taste of the food

26. The purpose of the text is . . . . .

a. to give a report about the sense of taste
b. explain how we can taste any food in the mouth
c. to inform how important the tongue is
d. to describe the use of the tongue
e. to tell the taste of the food

The following text is for number 27 - 31!

A cell phone is a great gadget in this modern world. What is a cell phone? A cell
phone is actually a radio in certain way. Like a radio, by a cell phone we can communicate to
other people in real time. Million people use cell phone for their communication. Even
nowadays, people use cell phones to communicate in voice, written and data. Alexander
Graham Bell is the person who make great change in the way people communicate to each
other. He invented a telephone in 1876. While wireless radio was formally known in 18994
presented by Guglielmo Marconi. By these two technologies, then a cell phone was born.
However do you know how actually cell phones work? This short explanation on how
a cell phone work is really wonderful. A cell phone or in long term “cellular telephone’
works by transmitting signals of radio to towers of cellular. The towers are networked to a
central switching station. The connection usually uses wire, fiber optic-cables, or microwave.
Then the central switching station which handles calls in certain given area is directed
connected to the wire-based telephone system. Cellulars are pick up by the towers and
relayed to another cellular telephone user or the user of wire-based telephone network.
the towers vary in the capacity and capability to receive signals. Some can receive the signal
from short distance and the others can receive more distance. However, there are usually
more than one tower in certain given area so that the system can handle the increasing
telephone traffic.
27. How telephone celluler work . . . . .
a. By signal radio
b. By battery
c. By user
d. By transmitting signal
e. By GPS Signal

28. Who the telephone celluler founder . . . . .

a. Antonio Meucci
b. Graham bells
c. Guiglemo Marconi
d. Wilbur O’Wright
e. BJ Habibie

29. What the main idea of paragraph three . . . . .

a. The founder of telephone
b. Function of telephone
c. How to make the telephone
d. How to use the telephone
e. The part of telephone

30. What is cell phone . . . . .

a. A cell phone is actually a radio in certain way
b. Cell phone is an object can movement
c. Cell phone is general object
d. Cell phone is a contraption thing
e. Cell phone is Graham Bells’ founder

31. What the text about . . . . .

a. How much the telephone
 b. The history of telephone
c. The part of telephone
d. How telephone work
e. The telephone founder

32. We can see many beautiful paintings in this exhibition. They were ……. by famous
Indonesian painter.
a. Be Painting
b. Being painting
c. Painting
d. Paint
e. Painted
33. Two tents for our camping would …….. by my mother.
a. Bought
b. Been buying
c. Be bought
d. Being bought
e. Been bought

34. They cancelled all flights because of fog. The passive form of the sentence is, because of
fog….
a. All flights had cancelled
b. All flights have been cancelled
c. All flights were cancelled
d. They be cancelled
e. They are being cancelled

35. A well known architect is designing our new office. The passive form of the above
sentence is, Our new office …… by a well known architect.
a. Is being designed
b. Design
c. Designed
d. Be designing
e. Is designed

36. Jupiters four moons ……. through a telescope by Galileo.

a. Were being first viewed
b. First being viewed
c. Were first viewed
d. First viewed
e. Had been first viewed

37. “Somebody cleans the bedroom every day”, change the sentence into passive voice is . . .
a. The bedroom are cleaned by somebody every day
 b. The bedroom was clean by somebody every day
c. The bedroom is cleaned by somebody every day
d. The bedroom is clean by somebody every day.
e. Somebody has cleaned the bedroom every day.

38. “The students are using computers now”, change the sentence into passive voice is . . . . .
a. The computers are being use by them now
b. Computers is being used by them now
c. The computers are being used by the students now
d. The computers are used by them now
e. The computers were used by them now

39. “The kid has broken the chair”, change the sentence into passive voice is . . . . .
a. The chair have been broken by the kid
b. The chair will be broken by the kid
c. The chair being broken by the kid.
d. The chair has been broken by the kid
e. The chair is broken by the kid

40. “They translated some old documents last week”, change the sentence into passive voice
is . . . . .
a. Some old documents have been translated by them last week
b. Some old documents were being translated by them last week
c. Some old documents been translated by them last week
d. Some old documents are translated by them last week
e. Some old documents were translated by them last week

41. “The important email has been sent by my secretary”, change the sentence into active
voice is . . . . .
a. My secretary has sent the important email
b. My secretary was sending the important email
c. My secretary sends the important email
d. My secretary is sending the important email
e. My secretary has been sending the important email

42. “We’ll be visiting our parents next week”, change the sentence into passive voice is . . . .
a. Our parents will be visited by us next week
b. Our parents would be visited by us next week
c. Our parents would be being visited by us next week
d. Our parents would have been visited by us next week
e. Our parents will be being visited by us next week

The following song lyrics is for number 43- 50!

 Hero
Mariah Carey

There's hero
If you look inside your heart
You don't have to be afraid
Of what you are
there's an answer
If you reach into your soul
And the sorrow that you know
Will melt away

And then a hero comes along

With the strength to carry on
And you cast your fears aside
And you know you can survive
So when you feel like hope is gone
Look inside you and be strong
And you'll finally see the truth
That a hero lies in you

It's a long road

When you face the world alone
No one reaches out a hand
For you to hold
You can find love
If you search within yourself
And that emptiness you felt
Will disappear

And then a hero comes along

With the strength to carry on
And you cast your fears aside
And you know you can survive
So when you fell like hope is gone
Look inside you and be strong
And you'll finally see the truth
That a hero lies in you oh oh…

Lord knows
Dreams are hard to follow
But don't ket anyone
Tear them away, hey yeah
Hold on
There will be tomorrow
In time you'll find the way

And then a hero comes along

With the strength to carry on
And you cast your fears aside
 And you know you can survive
So when you fell like hope is gone
Look inside you and be strong
And you'll finally see the truth
That a hero lies in you
That a hero lies in you
Mmmm, that a hero lies in you

43. Who does the “Hero” in the song refers to?

a. A helper
b. Ourselves
c. A philanthropy
d. A great person
e. Someone

44. “Hold on, there will be tomorrow.” The singer wants to say that . . . . .
a. Life is getting harder tomorrow
b. Tomorrow will be harder
c. Tomorrow will come soon
d. There is always hope in the future
e. It is always nice to leave tomorrow

45. The song writer believes that we . . . . . stay optimistic in our life.
a. Will not
b. May not
c. Must
d. Will
e. Mustn’t

46. “So when you fell like hope is gone, . . . “, the clause above means that sometimes people
feel . . . . .
a. Stateless
b. Hopeless
c. Useless
d. loneliness
e. Sleepless

47. After listening to the song, people are excepted to be . . . . .

a. Reliable
b. Respectful
c. Creative
d. Optimistic
e. Lonely

48. What is the topic of the song?

 a. We must not lose hope
b. We mustgive up
c. A hero is someone who is strong
d. Everybody can have strong body
e. Following dreams are hard

49. “And you cast your fears aside, . . . . “, the clause above means that . . . . . to face the
world.
a. You must be happy
b. You must be afraid
c. You must be brave
d. You must give up
e. You must hide

50. What is the intention of writing the song?

a. To persuade people to seek for help
b. To tell people to help each other
c. To encourage people to be optimistic
d. To ask people to go to gym
e. To tell people to be weak

Good Luck!