Materi Akademikl Bahasa Inggris

That oil has helped to shape the world is not an exaggeration. Indeed, the discovery of oil during the last
hundred years has changed a great deal of things. An oil product called kerosene has replaced firewood in the
kitchen of our cities. Motor vehicles using gasoline or diesel oil have put animal-drawn carriages into museums.

Steamships have lost against motor vehicles. Diesel locomotives have driven steam locomotives off the rails. Jet
planes using aviation fuel fly the skies, making remote places reachable in a matter of hours.

That oil is indispensable to our everyday lives is not an exaggeration, either. Yet few of us ever ask how this
important liquid is extracted from the earth and changed into finished products. In the first place, it is not an
easy matter to find an oil reserve. Exploration teams, sent by oil companies, have to go to remote places,
sometimes have to live under harsh conditions, to explore the earth or seabed for oil.

They study the rock and the soil, and if there are promising results, the next thing for the oil company to do is to
send a drilling team to the location. Again, this is not a simple matter. Roads, for examples, have to be built first
to transport the men and materials to the site. What is worse, the first drilling does not always bring about oil.
The drilling team often has to drill up to ten wells before oil is found.

1. Animal-drawn carriages have been replaced by...

A. ships
B. vehicles
C. planes
D. motor vehicles
E. motor boats and vessels

2. To find an oil reserve people have to explore...

A. any location
B. rock or oil
C. rock or water
D. the earth or seabed
E. remote places only

3. In line 15, the word "this" refers to ...

A. building a road them

B. sending a drilling team
C. gathering the crude oil
D. sending exploration teams
E. sending exploration machinery

4. In line 13, the word "they" refers to ...

A. people
B. exploration teams
C. finished product
D. oil companies
E. harsh conditions

5. The main idea of the first paragraph is that ...

A. oil has changed a great deal of things

B. kinds of oil for transportation
C. the importance of transportation
D. motor vehicles using gasoline
E. further processing of oil
6. Exploration teams, sent by oil companies, have to go to remote places. The word "remote" in the sentence
above means...

A. busy
B. near
C. far away
D. crowded
E. close

7. "... which was carrying staple food that sank in waters off the coast of Bangka Belitung...

What does the underlined word mean?

A. drowned
B. appeared
C. emerged
D. showed
E. stared

8. Beni: "You know Ria's father is hospitalized for his serious illness"

Alex: "......"

A. She must be very sad

B. Its boring
C. She must be very happy
D. its good idea
E. excuse me

9. The company’s new product was advertised on TV......

A. Nation
B. National
C. Nationally
D. Nationalize
E. Nationalized

A planet is a body in space that revolves around a star. There are nine planets in our solar system, and these nine
planets travel around the sun.

The names of the planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.

Planets travel in orbits around the stars. All of the planets of the solar system revolve in elliptical orbits. In other
words, their orbits are like large, flat circles.

The time that it takes a planet to make one revolution around the sun is called a year.
The Greeks were the first people to recognize and give names to some of the planets. Tile word planet comes
from a Greek word meaning wanderer If a person wanders, this means that he goes from one place to another
and does not have a home.

The Greeks thought that planets "wandered" in the sky. However, modern scientists can predict the movement
of the planets very accurately.

10. What is the suitable title for this text?

A. The Stars
B. The Orbits
C. The Greeks
 D. The Planets
E. The Wanderers

Jawaban:

D. The Planets

11. The planets in our solar system travel…

A. Around the stars

B. Around the circles
C. In one movement
D. From one position to another
E. In elliptical orbits

Jawaban:

E. In elliptical orbits

There are millions of plants and animals living in the sea. Most of the plants and animals living in the oceans are
extremely small and float near the surface of the water in their thousands. They are food for huge numbers of
small animals that also live near the surface.
Together, they are all known as plankton. Many fish feed on this plankton, including one of the largest, the
whale shark. Despite their great size, certain whales live entirely on plankton.

The blue whale is the largest animal ever to live. It grows to a length of over 100 feet. The humpback whale is a
smaller kind and has long flippers. It can jump right out the water. The Californian grey whale makes long
migrations every year - it spends the summer feeding in the Arctic but swims south to the warmer waters off the
coast of Mexico in the winter.
The females give birth in the shallow, warm water there.

Many of the fish in the sea may be eaten by other meat-eaters. Sharks, for example, area some of the fastest
hunters, although not all of them eat other fish. Deep down in the oceans live many strange fish. It is so dark
down there that many of these fish have "light" on them, which are used for attracting smaller fish for the larger
ones to eat.

Jellyfish are peculiar-looking creatures ranging in size from a fraction of an inch to 6 feet across. They don't
really swim but drift in the currents of the open oceans. Although they contain a powerful sting, they are often
eaten by turtles. Turtles are reptiles that spend most of their eggs on sandy beaches.

12. We are food for huge numbers of small animals that also live near the surface.

A. Very small plants and animals

B. Big animals
C. The oceans mammals
D. The smallest animal
E. Big plants

Jawaban:

A. Very small plants and animals

13. Paragraph three tells us about........

A. the life of whales

B. the size of whales
C. the movement of whales
 D. Three kinds of whales
E. the migration of whales

Jawaban:

D. Three kinds of whales

14. The main information of the passage is that........

A. Most plants are food for animals

B. the colour of the largest whales is blue
C. the female whales give birth in the shallow and warm water
D. the great size fish also eat plankton
E. millions of plants and animals live in the sea

Jawaban:

E. millions of plants and animals live in the sea

15. Which statement is True according to the text?

A. The turtles eat jellyfish

B. The turtles lay their eggs in the seabed
C. The sharks possess a powerful sting.
D. The California grey whales immigrate to the Arctic in winter.
E. The humpback whale is the largest animal in the sea

Jawaban:

A. The turtles eat jellyfish

16. The word "despite" in paragraph two could be replaced by........

A. Therefore
B. Referring to
C. In spite of
D. Except
E. Instead of

Jawaban

C. In spite of

17. I … go to school now.

A. am going to
B. will to
C. would
D. may to
E. might

Jawaban:

A. am going to

18. Mahdi started working in the department of Agriculture office in 1976. He… in the department agriculture
office for 23 years.
 A. Works
B. has worked
C. worked
D. is working

Jawaban:

B. has worked

19. A male mosquito is not … size… a female mosquito. The female is large.

A. the same… as…

B. different… as…
C. take same…with…
D. like… to…

Jawaban:

A. the same… as…

20. He knows only a little English…he is able to do good business.

A. Unless
B. Moreover
C. Since
D. but

Jawaban:

D. but

37. I… for two hours before my friends came.

A. had been studying

B. studies
C. was studying
D. studied

Jawaban:

A. had been studying

38. Farmers usually … dry land rice early in the rainy season, before blast incidence is high.

A. planted
B. planting
C. plant
D. to plan

Jawaban:

C. plant

39. The shipment of our supplies… delayed.

A. were
B. are
C. was
D. be

Jawaban:

C. was

40. The scientist…we meet yesterday is well-known for her research.

A. whom
B. which
C. where
D. whose

Jawaban:

A. whom

41. The new seed variety is the … one.

A. more productive
B. most productive
C. productive
D. producing

Jawaban:

B. most productive

43. I…Many people since I came here in June.

A. have met
B. studies
C. was studying
D. studied

Jawaban:

A. have met