PAKET 20 – BAHASA INGGRIS
During the early years of this century, wheat was
seen as the very lifeblood of Western Canada. When the
crops were good, the economy was good; when the crops
failed, there was depression. People on city streets
watched the yields and the price of wheat with almost as
much feeling as if they were growers. The marketing of
wheat became an increasingly favorite topic of
conversation.
War set the stage for the most dramatic events in
marketing the western crop. For years, farmers
mistrusted speculative grain selling as carried on through
the Winnipeg Grain Exchange. Wheat prices were
generally low in the autumn, but farmers could not wait
for markets to improve. It had happened too often that
they sold their wheat soon after harvest when' farm
debts were coming due, only to see prices rising and
speculators getting rich. On various occasions, producer
groups asked for firmer controls. but governments had no
wish to become involved, at least not until wartime
wheat prices threatened to run wild.
Anxious to check inflation and rising living costs, the
federal government appointed a board of grain
supervisors to handle deliveries from the crops of 1917
and 1918. Grain Exchange trading was suspended, and
farmers sold at prices fixed by the board. To handle the
crop of 919, the government appointed the first Canadian
Wheat Board, with full authority to buy, sell, and set
prices.
1. What is the main purpose of the passage?
A. To explain how wheat is marketed today
B. To justify suspension of trading on the Grain
Exchange
C. To describe the origins of the Canadian Wheat
Board
D. To argue for further reforms on the Canadian
Wheat Board
E. To persuade the reader to buy Canadian wheat
2. The author uses the term "lifeblood" (line 1) to
indicate that wheat was
A. Difficult to produce in large quantities
B. Susceptible to many parasites
C. Essential to the health of the country
D. Easy to produce and store
E. Expensive to gather and transport
3. According to the passage, most farmers debts had to
be paid
A. when the autumn harvest had just been
competed
B. when the wheat prices were high
C. before the new growing season arrive
D. as soon as the Winnipeg Grain Exchange
demanded payment
E. when crop failure caused depression
4. According to the passage, wheat prices be-came
unmanageable because of conditions caused by
A. farmers
B. seeds
C. supervisors
D. weather
E. war
5. In parapraph 3, the word "check" could best be
replaced by which of the following?
A. Ignore
B. Control
C. Investigate
D. Finance
E. Reinforce
6. According to the passage, a preliminary step in the
creation of the Canadian Wheat Board was the
appointment of
A. Grain exchange trading commission
B. The Winnipeg Grain Exchange
C. A board of supervisors
D. Several producer groups
E. A new government
The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded annually and the
first woman to win this prize was Baroness Bertha Felicie
Sophie von Suttner in 1905. In fact, her work inspired the
creation of the Prize. The first American woman to win
this prize was Jane Addams, in 1931. However, Addams is
best known as the founder of Hull House.
Jane Addams was born in 1860, into a wealthy family.
She was one of a small number of women in her
generation to graduate from college. Her commitment to
improving the lives of those around her led her to work
for social reform and world peace. In the 1880s Jane
Addams traveled to Europe. While she was in London, she
visited a ‘settlement house’ called Toynbee Hall. Inspired
by Toynbee Hall, Addams and her friend, Ellen Gates
Starr, opened Hull House in a neighborhood of slums in
Chicago in 1899.
Hull House provided a day care center for children of
working mothers, a community kitchen, and visiting
nurses. Addams and her staff gave classes in English
literacy, art, and other subjects. Hull House also became a
meeting place for clubs and labor unions. Most of the
people who worked with Addams in Hull House were well
educated, middle-class women. Hull House gave them an
opportunity to use their education and it provided a
training ground for careers in social work.
Before World War I, Addams was probably the most
beloved woman in America. In a newspaper poll that
asked, “Who among our contemporaries are of the most
value to the community?”, Jane Addams was rated
second, after Thomas Edison. When she opposed
 America’s involvement in World War I, however, 11. The word “their” in line 24 refers to
newspaper editors called her a traitor and a fool, but she A. Children of working mothers
never changed her mind. Jane Addams was a strong B. Middle-class women
champion of several other causes. Until 1920, American C. Visiting nurses
women could not vote. D. Labor union members
Addams joined in the movement for women’s E. Working mothers
suffrage and was a vice president of the National
American Woman Suffrage Association. She was a 12. The word “contemporaries” in line 28 is closest in
founding member of the National Association for the meaning to
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and was A. people of the same time
president of the Women’s International League for Peace B. famous people still alive
and Freedom. Her reputation was gradually restored C. elected officials
during the last years of her life. She died of cancer in D. unknown indivudual
1935. E. people old enough to vote

7. With which of the following subjects is the passage 13. According to the passage, Jane Addams’ reputation
mainly concerned? was damaged when she
A. The first award of the Nobel Peace Prize to an A. Allowed Hull House to become a meeting place
American woman for clubs and labor unions
B. A woman’s work for social reform and world B. Joined in the movement for women’s suffrage
peace C. Provided a training ground for careers in social
C. The early development of Social Work in America work
D. The history of the Hull house D. Became a founding member of the NAACP
E. Contributions of educated women to American E. Opposed America’s involvement in World War I
society
14. Where in the passage does the author mention the
services provided by Hull House?
8. Which of the following can be inferred from the
A. Paragraph 1
passage?
B. Paragraph 2
A. the work of Baroness Bertha Felicie Sophie von
C. Paragraph 3
Suttner was an inspiration to Jane Addams
D. Paragraph 4
B. Jane Addams is most famous for her opening of
E. Paragraph 5
Hull House
C. Jane Addams was the most beloved man in World
Bacteria are extremely small living things. While we
War I
measure our own sizes in inches or centimeters, bacterial
D. those who lived near Hull House had very poor
size is measured in microns. One micron is a thousandth
literacy skills
of a millimeter a pinhead is about a millimeter across.
E. Jane Addams considered herself as a citizen of
Rod shaped bacteria are usually from two to four microns
the world rather than of one particular country
long, while rounded ones are generally one micron in
diameter Thus if you enlarged a founded bacterium a
9. The word “commitment” in line 9 is closest in
thousand times, it would be just about the size of a
meaning to
pinhead. An adult human magnified by the same amount
A. Involvement
would be over a mile(1.6 kilometers) tall.
B. Resentment
Even with an ordinary microscope, you must look
C. obligation
closely to see bacteria. Using a magnification of 100
D. dedication
times, one finds that bacteria are barely visible as tiny
E. enthusiasm
rods or dots One cannot make out anything of their
structure. Using special stains, one can see that some
10. Jane Addams was inspired to open Hull House
bacteria have attached to them wavy - looking "hairs"
because:
called flagella. Others have only one flagellum. The
A. She observed Ellen Gates Starr’s works
flagella rotate, pushing the bacteria though the water.
B. it gave educated women an opportunity to use
Many bacteria lack flagella and cannot move about by
their education and develop careers in social
their own power while others can glide along over
work
surfaces by some little understood mechanism.
C. she traveled to Europe in the 1880s
From the bacterial point of view, the world is a very
D. she visited Toynbee Hall
different place from what it is to humans To a bacterium
E. she was invited by a ‘settlement house’ in
water is as thick as molasses is to us. Bacteria are so small
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that they are influenced by the movements of the
chemical molecules around them. Bacteria under the
microscope, even those with no flagella, often bounce
about in the water. This is because they collide with the
water molecules and are pushed this way and that.
Molecules move so rapidly that within a tenth of a second
the molecules around a bacterium have all been replaced
by new ones even bacteria without flagella are thus
constantly exposed to a changing environment.

15. Which of the following is the main topic of the

passage?
A. The various species of bacteria
B. The characteristics of bacteria
C. How bacteria reproduce
D. The various functions of bacteria
E. How bacteria contribute to disease

16. Bacteria are measured in

A. Inches
B. Centimeters
C. Microns
D. Millimeters
E. Meters

17. Which of the following is the smallest?

A. A pinhead
B. A rounded bacterium
C. A microscope
D. Adult human
E. A rod-shaped bacterium

18. According to the passage, someone who examines

bacteria using only a microscope that magnifies 100
times would see
A. Tiny dots
B. Small "hairs"
C. Water molecules
D. Large rods
E. Detailed structures

19. The relationship between a bacterium and its flagella

is most nearly analogous to which of the following?
A. A rider jumping on a horse's back
B. A water is heated by kettle
C. A ball being hit by a bat
D. A boat powered by a motor
E. A door closed by a gust of wind

20. In line 16, the author compares water to molasses, in

order to introduce which of the following topics?
A. The bacteria behavior in viscous material
B. The bacterial content of different liquids
C. What happens when bacteria are added to
molasses
D. The molecular structures of different chemicals
E. How difficult it is for bacteria to move through
water