Soal Bahasa Inggris USM STIS 2007

Waktu : 60 Menit

Petunjuk

 Di bawah setiap soal dicantumkan 5 kemungkinan jawaban masing masing diberi

kode A, B, C, D atau E. Gunakan pensil 2B untuk menghitamkan lingkaran yang
berisi kode jawaban yang saudara anggap benar pada lembar jawaban computer
(LJK)

 Nilai Jawaban tiap soal adalah :

2 untuk jawaban benar
0 untuk tidak ada jawaban
-1 untuk jawaban salah

 Mengganti jawaban dilakukan dengan cara melingkari kode jawaban baru yang
dipilih kemudian bubuhkan tanda silang di dalam lingkaran jawaban sebelumnya.

 Lembar jawaban tidak boleh kotor dan terlipat

 Hanya lembar jawaban yang dikumpulkan, sedangkan soal bisa dibawa pulang.

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Bagi manusia yang terus mempelajari ilmu pengetahuan
Direction : D. The boy asked the girl what
The Prolem consist of four sections. she had done the previous
Four word phrases, marked A, B, C, night
dan D given beneath each sentence.
You are to choose the one word or 5. The doctor has known the girl
phrase. Section 1 : to complete each ……….. from breast cancer.
sentence( no : 1 -25) : Section 2 : To A. Suffer
Find each synonym of the underlined B. To suffer
word ( no : 26-45). Secstion 3 : To C. Suffering
analyze each problem of the D. Suffered
underlined word (no : 46 – 50).
Section 4 : To Answer each question 6. Did you meet the girl ……………
(no : 51 – 60). was chosen in Indonesian Idols
A. Who
Section 1 : Structure and Written B. Whom
Expression C. What
D. Which
1. If I ………….. a student at STIS, I
would finish my study on time. 7. If you want to …………….. in
running your bussinee, you must
A. Am accepted have full support of our
B. Were accepted employees.
C. Was accepted A. Success
D. Would accepted B. Succeed
C. Successful
2. Ita has kept her mother D. Successfully
………………. outside for hours.
8. Everybody knows that he has
A. Wait shown great loyalty to the
B. To Wait company. Therefore, he ………….. a
C. Waiting big sum of money at the next
D. Waited anniversary of the company.

3. You‟d better ………………… a job A. Rewards

now if you don‟t want miss the B. Is rewarding
opportunity C. Will be rewarded
D. Will reward
A. Get
B. To get 9. Rudi : “ Why did you quit the job,
C. Getting Jack?”
D. Got Jack : “I …………………. If the pay
had been better.
4. “What did yo dou last night?”
A. Would stay
A. The boy asked the girl what B. Would have stayed
she was doing the previous C. Had stayed
night D. Would had stayed
B. The boy asked the girl what
she did the previous night 10. ………………………….. debate and
C. The boy asked the girl what discussion, opposing ideas are
she has done the previous presented in attempt to persuade
night people.
A. Both
 B. Although both A. Acts as if she were the sales
C. That both manager
D. In both B. Is acting as if she was the
sales manager
11. John Neter, …………………… , C. Would act as if she was the
specialized in opinion polls an slaes manager
business surveys. D. Acts if she is the slaes
A. Whose statistician manager
B. A statiscian who
C. A statiscian 17. …………………… a common belief,
D. As a statiscian he fright or excitement causes the
flesh of young game fowl to turn
12. Over centuries, various theories different color.
have been advanced ………….
A. Is according to
A. The origin of alphabetic B. Ahile according to
writing is explained C. That is according to
B. Of explaining the origin of D. According to
alphabetic writing
C. The explanation of the origin 18. A planetarium is a special kind of
origin of alphabetic writing education facility ………………. The
D. To explain the origin of teaching astronomy.
alphabetic writing
A. To devoted
13. The girl desires ……………….. as B. Devoted to
long as she is at her room. C. Which devotes
D. To devote to
A. Not be disturbed
B. Not to be disturbed 19. …………………….. that modern corn
C. Be not disturbed may be a hybrid of teosinte and
D. To be not disturbed other wild species that no longer
exist.
14. The man is very busy and lets his
mobile phone …………….. very A. Now is thought
often. B. The tought
C. It is thougt
A. Ring D. Thinking
B. To ring
C. Ringing 20. Public transportation in most of
D. Rung the nation is expanding ……………
the use of subways and busess is
15. Next week is ……………………. That declining in some metropolitan
we can take a trip out of Jakarta. areas.

A. Such a beautiful holiday A. Nevertheless

B. Such a holiday beautiful B. Despite
C. Beautiful such holiday C. Concequently
D. Such a beautiful holiday D. Although

16. I am sure that she is not the girl 21. Some bees make the
in charge of the slaes characteristic monotonous noise
department. But now, she : known as buzzing.
……………………………………..
 A. But their wings are vibrated 27. This area has been preserved in
rapidly all its pristine wildness.
B. The vibration of their wings is
rapid A. Modern
C. By vibrating their wings B. Sophisticated
rapidly C. Primitive
D. And their wings rapidly D. Old
vibrating
28. The Titanic lies buried its
22. Pencils are available aqueous tomb.
…………………………………
A. Watery
A. In many degrees of hardness B. Glorious
B. Are many degrees of hardness C. Subterranean
C. Hardness in many degrees D. Unknown
D. Many degrees have hardness
29. His explanation was lucid and to
23. Sonic booms cannot hurt people, the point.
…………………………….. they may
damage buildings and breaks A. Short
windows. B. Believable
C. Clear
A. As D. Understandable
B. But
C. Or 30. Lava, purnice, and other igneous
D. What rocks are founds in great
abundance around Mount Merapi
24. …………………………… are shaped near Magelang.
like teardrops in untrue.
A. Coral
A. That there are raindrop B. Volcanic
B. That Raindrops C. Hard
C. Raindrops that D. Huge
D. Raindrops
31. We can overlook the foibles of
25. The javelin used in competition our friends, no one is perfect.
must be between 260 and 270
centimeters ……. A. Strength
B. Dumd
A. In length C. Weakness
B. Whose length D. Bravery
C. It is long
D. Lengthily 32. The country boy gawked at the
skyscrapes and neon lights of big
Section 2 : Vocabulary city.

26. I am afraid that this border raid is A. Scared

prelude to more serious attacks. B. Stared foolishly
C. Admired
A. End D. Climbed
B. Introduction
C. Result 33. His that was knocked askew by
D. Influence the wind.
 A. Awry
B. Out of shape A. Describes
C. Off B. Analyze
D. On the ground C. Guesses
D. Develops
34. Scientists measure the
microscopic distances between 40. Boredom shortens life, and
atoms in microns bereaves the days of the light.

A. Visible A. Robs
B. Tiny B. Empowers
C. Small C. Takes
D. Short D. Delivers

35. Because of the gravitational pull 41. To be a favorite of an ignorant

of the sun, the earth and the multitude, a man must descend
other planet maintain an orbit to their level.
around the sun.
A. Crowd
A. Source B. Youth
B. Force C. Student
C. Push D. World
D. Attractiveness
42. Perseverance led to his success.
36. The meat must be chopped
before it can be used in that A. Precaution
recipe. B. Testimony
C. Rectitude
A. Stewed D. Persistence
B. Cut
C. Bought 43. A complex sentence must contain
D. Cooked a subordinate clause.

37. Mendel‟s formula explains the A. Dependent

appearance of hybrids and pure B. Nominative
species in breeding. C. Main
D. Adverbial
A. Origin
B. Natural 44. Your chances of being elected
C. Mongrel mayor are rather remote.
D. Descent
A. Control
38. To educate a child perfectly B. Unlikely
requires profounder thought, C. Automatic
greater wisdom, than to govern a D. Good
state.
45. Most of the wounded passengers
A. Longer were quickly removed from the
B. Less aircraft.
C. Simpler
D. Deeper A. Deceased
B. Unconscious
39. The head best leaves to the heart C. Injured
what the heart alone divines. D. Distress
 A. 60
Section 3 : Analitycal reading B. 72
C. 100
46. If the length of rectangle is D. 120
increased by 20 %, and the width
of the same rectangle is 50. A sport jacket marked $48 is
decreased by 20 %, then the area offered at a discount of 25 %
of the rectangle ………………. during a storewide. At this
reduced price the dealer makes a
A. Decreased by 20 % profit of 20 % on the cost. The
B. Decreases by 4 % cost to the dealer is ………….
C. Is unchanged
D. Increased by 4 % A. $30
B. $32
47. In a survey of a town, it was C. $36
found that 65 % of the people D. $40
polled watched the news on
television, 40 % read a Section 4 : Reading Comprehension
newspaper, and 25 % read a Question 51-52 refer to the
newspaper and watched the news following passage
on television. What percent of the The rattles with which a
people surveyed neither watched rattlesnake warm of its presence
the news on television nor read a are formed by loosely
newspaper? interlooking hollow rings of hard
skins, which make a buzzing
A. 5% sound when its tail shaken. As a
B. 10 % baby, the snake begins to form its
C. 15 % rattles from the button at the very
D. 20 % tip of its tail. Thereafter, each
time it sheds it skin, a new ring is
48. A screwdriver and a hammer formed. Popular belief holds that
currently have the same price. If a snake‟s age can be told by
the price of a screwdriver by 5 % counting the rings, but this idea is
and the price of hammer goes up fallacious. In fact, a snake may
by 3%, by what percent will the lose its old skin as often as four
cost of 3 screwdriver and 3 times a year. Also, rattles tend to
hammers rise? wear of break off with time.

A. 3% 51. A rattlesnake‟s rattles are made of

B. 4% ………………
C. 5%
D. 6% A. Skin
B. Bone
49. There are 220 questions on a 3- C. Wood
hours examination. Among these D. Muscle
questions are 50 mathematics
problems. It is suggested that 52. How often does a rattlesnake
twice as much time be allowed shade its skin?
for each mathematics problem as
for each of the other questions. A. Once every four years
How many minutes should be B. Up to four years
spent on the mathematics C. Once every four month
problems. D. Four times more often than
other snake
 Question 53-55 refer to the
following passage
The Mediterranean climate is little
suited to stock-breeding; only
sheep and goats can make use of
the extensive feeding grounds
with their meager rainfall.
53. The Mediterranean climate is
described as …………………..
A. Humid
B. Extremely cold
C. Rainy
D. Generally climate
54. The Mediterranean area is
………………….
A. Good for raising all varieties
of animals
B. Poor for raising animals
C. Suitable for some animals, but
not for sheep and goats
D. Well suited to breeding
animals
55. According to these sentences
animal feeding grounds in
Mediterranean are ……
A. Severely limited in size
B. Very step and rocky
C. Large, but not very good for
grazing
D. Large, but very swampy
Question 56-57 refer to the following
passage
An observer sitting on a beach
can make at least an intelligent guess
whether the surf spilling out onto the
sand before him has been produced by
a gale close offshore or by a distant
storm.
56. Surf must be …………………….
A. Distant storm
B. Wave action near the shore
C. Wave action far out in the
ocean
D. Small rocks and seashells
57. A gale is probably …………………..
A. A very strong wind
B. A breeze
C. A tidal wave
D. An island
Question 58-60 refer to the
following passage
The normal daytime retreats of
bats are rooms of caves, but
individuals commonly live in dry,
dark room of buildings. Males are
usually solitary, but females,
especially when they are young,
gather colonies. The bats do not
hide in crevices but, when not
hibernating, hang from the open
roof of caves or buildings where
they can see, and escape from,
any intruder. In the dormant
condition, which the bats assume
when the air temperature is low,
the body temperature is drops;
andthey cling with thumbs and
toes to some vertical walls, with
their ears closely coiledto
conserve body heat.
58. Young female bats …………………
A. Hide in crevices
B. Like to live in groups
C. Prefer the dry, dark rooms of
buildings
D. Hibernate until maturity
59. When the weather turns cold
…………………
A. The bats move to the rooms
of buildings
B. The bats gather in colonies
C. The bats coil their ears
D. The bats hide in creveces
60. Bats often hang from the open
roof of caves and buildings
………….
A. To keep warm
B. To see and escape from
intrudes
C. To hibernate
D. To lower their body
temperature