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Reading Comprehension
Reading 1 (for questions 1-5)
Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy. He was the
illegitimate son of Ser Piero, a Florentine notary and landlord, but lived on the estate
and was treated as a legitimate son. In 1483, Leonardo da Vinci drew the first model of
a helicopter. It did not look very much like our modern day “copter,” but the idea of what
5 it could do was about the same.
Leonardo was an artist and sculptor. He was very interested in motion and
movement and tried to show it in his art. In order to show movement, he found it helpful
to study the way things moved. One subject he liked to study was birds and how they
flew. He spent many hours watching the birds and examining the structure of their wings.
10 He noticed how they cupped air with their wings and how the feathers helped hold the
air. Through these studies, Leonardo began to understand how birds were able to fly.
Like many other men, Leonardo began to dream of the day when people would
be able to fly. He designed a machine that used all the things he had learned about flight,
and thus became the first model of a helicopter.
15 Poor Leonardo had only one problem, however. He had no way to give the
necessary speed to his invention. You see, motors had not yet been invented and speed
was an important part of the flying process. It would be another four hundred years before
the engine was invented and another fifty years before it was put to the test in an airplane.
Leonardo’s dream of a helicopter finally came to pass in 1936
20 The Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist, Leonardo died on
May 2, 1519, and was buried in the cloister of San Fiorentino in Amboise.

1. What is the author’s main point? D. pain

A. The invention of the helicopter.
B. Birds cup air with their wings and
use feathers to help hold the air.
C. An overview of one of Leonardo
da Vinci’s many skills.
D. Leonardo da Vinci was born in
1452 and died in 1519.
3. The word illegitimate in paragraph one
is closest in meaning to:
A. against the law or illegal
B. not in correct usage
C. incorrectly deduced; illogical
D. born out of wedlock

2. The word problem in paragraph four 4. The following sentence would best
could best be replaced by the word: complete which paragraph? “Since
A. dilemma then people have been living out
B. mistake Leonardo’s dream of flying.”
C. danger A. paragraph 3
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B. paragraph 4 A. motors were not yet invented
C. paragraph 5 B. the birds lost their feathers
D. paragraph 2 C. he was illegitimate
D. he couldn’t draw
5. What was the main problem with
Leonardo’s invention?

Reading 2 (for questions 6-12)

Colon cancer is a disease afflicting humans and is a malignant tumor, which
arises from the inner wall of the large intestine (colon), or the rectum (which is the end
of the colon). It is also referred to as colorectal cancer. The human colon is a tube shaped
muscular organ which is about four feet in length, extending from the small bowel to the
5 anus. It has three main functions, which are digest and absorb nutrients from the food,
to concentrate fecal material by absorbing fluids, and store fecal material and control its
evacuations.
Normally cells divide and multiply only when our bodies need them to do so.
When normal cells transform and grow and multiply in an abnormal manner, they form
10 a mass of tissue, which is called a growth or tumor. This can be either be malignant or
benign. They do not extend to other parts of the body, and therefore can be removed, and
rarely recur. However, malignant tumors are cancer, and the cells can invade and spread
to other tissues and organs of our body. These cells can also break awal from the tumors
and enter the blood stream, thereby spreading to other parts of the human body. When
15 such spread occurs it is termed as metastases.
There is no single cause of colon cancer. While colon cancer is not contagious,
some people are more likely to get afflicted by colon cancer than the others. While the
disease is common n the Western World, it is rare Asians and Africans. Doctors believe
that people having diets high in fat are more prone to developing colon cancer, as
20 countries with higher instances of colon cancer consume higher amount of fat in their
diet. The breakdown products of fat metabolism cause the formation of carcinogens,
which are cancer causing chemicals. Consumption of vegetables and food rich in fiber
content, such as whole grain cereals and breads may reduce the risk as they rid the bowel
of these harmful carcinogens. The genetic background of a person also determines the
25 risk of him developing colon cancer, though about 80 percent of the cases are found to
occur in people who have no family history of the disease.

6. The word contagious in paragraph B. Dangerous

three can be replaced by …. C. Harmless
A. Infectious D. painful
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7. What type of food that can reduce the A. The description of colon cancer
risk of colon cancer? B. The cause of colon cancer
A. Chocolate C. The growth of colon cancer
B. Cheese D. The danger of colon cancer
C. Meet 11. What can be inferred about the effect of
D. Bread genetic background on colon cancer?
8. The word it in paragraph one refers to A. It is the main factor in increasing
…. the risk of colon cancer.
A. organ B. It has a small role in increasing the
B. colon risk of colon cancer.
C. small bowel C. It has no influence in increasing
D. anus the risk of colon cancer.
9. It is stated in the passage that malignant D. It determines whether a person has
tumor is a mass of tissue which … high risk of colon cancer.
A. grows and spreads abnormally to 12. According to the passage, what is NOT
organs of the body the function of colon in human?
B. rarely recur and do not spread to A. To store fecal material and control
other parts of body its evacuation.
C. divides and multiples only when B. To generate the formation of
the body need it to do so carcinogens.
D. grows and multiplies unusually C. To digest and absorb nutrients
then spreads to human colon from the food.
10. What is the main idea of paragraph D. To concentrate fecal material by
two? absorbing fluids.

ERROR RECOGNITION
13. They asked me what did happen last night, but I was unable to tell him.
A. Did happen
B. Last night
C. Unable
D. Tell him
14. Christian Jericho was having his children closed the door, because they would go to Puncak.
A. Having
B. Closed
C. They
D. Go

15. David is particularly fond of cooking, and he often cooking really delicious meals.
A. Particularly
B. Fond of
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C. Often cooking
D. Really
16. Hardly ever we will see comet as clear as we can see now because only once in ten years will
it happen again.
A. We will see
B. As clear as
C. Once in ten years
D. Will it happen again
17. The lonely man to whom I talked this morning, lives in a house which is alike a palace alone.
A. The lonely man
B. To whom I talked
C. Which
D. Is alike
18. Clocks not only measure and tell time but also serve as decorated in homes and other buildings.
A. Not only
B. Tell time
C. Decorated
D. Buildings
19. Educated at home and requiring to work to support her family, Louisa May Alcott recorded
many of her life’s events in her autobiographical novels.
A. At home
B. Requiring
C. Recorded
D. Of her
20. The basis concepts of systems engineering have been in use for centuries.
A. Basis
B. Engineering
C. In use
D. For centuries
21. Boston, the hub of historic New England, It is the capital of Massachusetts and the largest city
In the area.
A. Of historic
B. It
C. Capital
D. The largest
22. If I had known that she was in hospital, I would have visit her.
A. Known
B. Was
C. Would have
D. Visit
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23. Almost half of the pilgrims did not survive theirs first winter in the New World.
A. Half of the
B. Theirs
C. First
D. In
24. Can you wait me after the game ?
A. Can
B. Wait me
C. After
D. The game
25. While searching for the wreckage of a unidentified aircraft, the Coast Guard encountered severe
squalls at sea
A. Searching
B. The
C. a
D. Severe squalls at sea

MULTIPLE CHOICES
26. X: I’d like to book three standard rooms B. may have asked
for next week, please. C. must have asked
Y: I’m sorry sir, our hotel . . . until the end D. would ask
of the month.
A. fully booked 29. ASEAN trade ministers … the
B. being fully booked possibility of developing economic
C. is fully booked cooperation before they attended the
D. be fully booked summit meeting last month.
A. discuss
27. Fast food restaurant have become B. discussed
popular in big cities because many C. had discussed
people prefer . . . quickly. D. were discussing
A. served 30. Smoking can be the cause of many
B. being served illness and respiratory disorders … it
C. serving may harms nonsmokers.
D. they are served A. however
B. in addition
28. X: I finally bought a computer but I’m C. nevertheless
not satisfied with it. D. otherwise
Y: That’s too bad. You …Darno, our
computer technician, for advice. 31. X : Can you turn on this electric stove ?
A. should have asked Y : I’m sorry. I don’t know ….
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A. operating it D. because the customs officials were
B. the way operating it trying
C. how to operate it
D. it is operated 36. This is the latest news about the
kidnapping of the richest businessman in
32. The news on the local radio stations as town … we received a few minutes ago.
well as in the newspapers . . . that the A. whom
riots have spread to other place in the B. of which
city. C. where
A. to be confirmed D. which
B. is confirmed 37. About ten percent of the earth’s land area
C. are confirmed or nearly 5,8 million square miles . . . by
D. confirms glacial ice.
33. People are concerned about the depletion A. are covered
of energy sources. However, they should B. has covered
not forget … another important thing. C. had covered
A. to protect D. is covered
B. it is protecting 38. It is impossible for us to translate the
C. having to protect whole book within 2 weeks. So we….
D. protected A. have some assistants help us
34. I … all over the place for my dictionary B. have translated the whole book
when I suddenly remembered that my C. have been asked to translate it
sister had borrowed it. D. have given all the translation to the
A. have looked assistants
B. was looking 39. Toba lake, ..... received over one
C. looked thousand tourists and became crowded.
D. have been looking A. a beautiful resort and panorama
B. a beautiful resort and panorama was
35. Trying to smuggle things into the C. was a beautiful resort and panorama
country, the criminals were caught by D. which a beautiful resort and
customs officials at the airport. The panorama
underlined words means “… to smuggle 40. Netadea has no excuse for … out of
drugs into the country.” school.
A. when the criminals were trying A. drop
B. although the customs officials have B. was drop
tried C. to drop
C. before the smugglers tried D. dropping