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Sherina was born in Bandung on June 11, 1990 and later moved to Jakarta with her family. Every afternoon after her
elementary school classes, she would be kept busy learning English and other extracurricular activities. She graduated from
senior high school in July 2008 and has decided to take some time out for a while. She continued her music career and was
busy working on her new album. Sherina would like to go to America to study film-score writing in her future. Being
independent is very important to Sherina. She saved money by being her own designer. When she appeared on TV or
concert, she did her own makeup and hair stylist. As Panasonic’s youth ambassador, she had visited Japan several times. In
the Harajuku shopping area, she had a couple of favorite shops she always buys clothes from. She likes to listens to music
in her free time and twice a week she practices Wushu for one and half hour. It’s a great sport for keeping fit and building
stamina, said Sherina.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein which is considered as the greatest scientist of the 20th century was born from a Jewish family in
Ulm, Wurttemberg, Germany on March 14, 1879. His father is Hermann Einstein and his mother is Paulina
Koch. In his childhood, Einstein was not like to socialize with his friends and he was considered as a stupid boy.
Although considered as stupid boy, he loved mathematics and physics. When he was 5 years, Einstein was
school in Catholic elementary school for three years. Then he continued his study at Luitpold Gymnasium for
junior and senior secondary education when he was 8 years old. Then Einstein went to high school at the age of
21 years at the ETH (Technische Eidgenoessische Hochscule).
Albert Einstein got his doctorate in 1905 after completing his dissertation, entitled “Eine Neue Bestimmung der
molecule Dimension” at the University of Zurich. Then he got the title of professor in 1909. Albert Einstein
found theory of relativity which becomes Inspiration for scientists after him. From the results of his research, he
introduced a formula E = MC2 that is famous in the world. Then in 1921 Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize
for his theories.
In 1933 Einstein migrated along with his whole family to America because of Nazi in Germany. Einstein worked
at Princeton University and obtained official citizenship in 1940. Albert Einstein felt sad when his work is used
to make bomb that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki city by the Americans. Einstein closed his age on April
18, 1955 at the age of 76 years at Princeton Hospital. He leaves a great work for the development of knowledge.
Albert Einstein, the greatest scientist of the 20th century, was born from a Jewish family in Germany on March
14, 1879. In his childhood, Einstein didn’tuse to socialize with his friends and he was considered as a stupid boy. However,
he loved mathematics and physics a lot. When he was 5 years, Einstein studied in Catholic elementary school for three
years. Then he continued his study at Luitpold Gymnasium for junior and senior secondary education when he was 8
years old. Then Einstein went to high school at the age of 21 years at the Technische Eidgenoessische Hochscule.
He got his doctorate in 1905 after completing his dissertation, entitled “Eine Neue Bestimmung der molecule
Dimension” at the University of Zurich. Then he got the title of professor in 1909. Albert Einstein found theory of relativity
which becomes Inspiration for scientists after him. From the results of his research, he introduced a formula E = MC2 that
is famous in the world. Then in 1921 Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for his theories.
In 1933 Einstein migrated along with his whole family to America because of Nazi in Germany. Einstein worked at
Princeton University and obtained official citizenship in 1940. Albert Einstein felt sad when his work is used to make bomb
that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Einstein closed his age on April 18, 1955 at the age of 76 years.
How old was Einstein when awarded the Nobel Prize for his theory?
A. 21 years old C. 30 years old
B. 26 years old D. 42 years old
Picasso was one of the most important artists of 1900s. He is the best known for his paintings. Almost every style
in modern art is represented in Picasso’s works. Picasso was born in Malaga, Spain as the son of an art teacher.
He studied painting with his father and also in Madrid.
From about 1895 to 1901 he painted realistic works in a traditional style. Then he entered what was called the
Blue Period. During this time he only used shades of blue in his paintings to show poverty he saw in Barcelona.
After 1907, he entered into the style of cubism. Among his well-known cubist paintings are “The Three
Musicians” and “The man with a guitar” which depict the destruction of a Spanish town. Picasso died in France
in 1973.
Marlon Brando was born in Nebraska. In 1937 the family moved to Libertyville, Illinois. He was of Dutch, French,
English and Irish stock; the original family’s name was Brandeau. His mother, a kind and talented woman, was involved
in a local theater, and this first attracted him to stage acting.
Brando had a tumultuous childhood, in which he was expelled from several schools. His father was largely critical of his
son, but encouraged him to seek his own direction. Brando left Illinois for New York City, where he studied Method
acting at the New School.
He was expelled from his acting school in Sayville but was discovered in another play there and then made it to
Broadway in the bittersweet drama, I Remember Mama, in 1944. Critics voted him Broadway's Most Promising Actor for
his role as an anguished, paraplegic veteran in Truckline Cafe, although the play was a commercial failure. He achieved
real stardom, however, as Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee William’s play, A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947, directed by
Elia Kazan.
Some years ago, Gordon Summer dropped out of teaching to risk all in the chancy world of pop music. Two
years ago, he was struggling to pay there. Now he is known as String, the lead singer of today hottest band,
The Police. How did this ex school master manufacture the right image, the right band of sex appeal, to make
himself into a teenage idol? Lulu Appleton reports.
Gordon Summer, an exceptionally good looking man idolized by millions and so rich, that he can afford all he
could ever wish for. Better known as Sting, he's the lead singer of the Police. His naturally fair hair has
replaced the dyed blond hair of his stage act. The face magnetizes. The voice is low and husky, eyes bright
and intelligent, yet wary. Suddenly, he has become a superstar. "I can't walk down a street anymore without
feeling that people are watching me, i can't be anonymous any longer, and that's a drag," he says.
A. A singer
B. A teacher
C. A Musician
D. An entertainer
Jaya Suprana, the young executive is more popular as a musician and a cartoonist than a
businessman. He was born in Denpasar, Bali. His father, Lambang Suprana is one of the four
siblings that would be the second batch of the inheritant of Jamu Jago company. Having completed
junior high school in Semarang, he continued to study at high school in Germany and passed it in
1976. Then he got into colleges and universities in the country while working in several places.
How long has Jaya Suprana graduated from high school in Germany from now?
BORN TO BE AN ACTOR
Jake Gyllenhaal was born as Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal on December 19, 1980. He is an Academy Award-
nominated American actor.
The son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, began his acting at 11 years old. He has
appeared in varied roles since his first leading role in 1999’s October Sky, followed by the 2001 cult hit Donnie
Darko, in which he played a psychologically troubled teenager and onscreen brother to his real life sister, actress,
Maggie Gyllenhaal. In the 2004 blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, he potrayed a student caught in a
cataclysmic global cooling event, alongside Dennis Quaid as his father.
Jake then played againts type as a frustrated Marine in Jarhead ( 2005 ). In the same year, he won critical acclaim
potraying a role that entered popular shorthand as a “gay cowboy” in the controversial but highly praised film
Brokeback Mountain.
The author of the best-selling The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown has now sold over 80 million copies of the book, making
him one of the richest novelists of all time. All four of his novels were on The New York Times bestseller list in the
same week, and he made it to Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people of the year 2005. His income
from the sales of The Da Vinci Code alone was over $200 million. This latter figure makes his fortune next to that of
Harry Potter series author J. K. Rowling, whose wealth from the sales of her novels is estimated at over $800 million.
By how much does Dan Brown’s income from his books compare to that of J. K. Rowling?
A. One fourth. C. One half.
B. One third. D. Two thirds.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (was born 26 February 1954) is the 25th and current Prime Minister of Turkey, in office
since 2003. He is also the chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), which holds a majority
of the seats in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Erdoğan served as Mayor of Istanbul from 1994 to 1998.
He graduated from an Imam Hatip school, an Islamic high school, before studying in Marmara
University's Faculty of Economics and Commercial Sciences, where he graduated in 1981. Erdoğan was also
a semi-professional footballer from 1969 to 1982. Erdoğan was elected Mayor of Istanbul in the local elections
of 27 March 1994. He was banned from office and sentenced to a ten-month prison term for reciting a poem
during a public address in the province of Siirt in 1997. After less than four months in prison, Erdoğan
established the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in 2001. From its first year, the AKP became the largest
publicly supported political movement in Turkey. In the general election of 2002, the AKP won 34% of the vote
and nearly two-thirds of the seats in parliament, forming the first single-party government since 1987.[1]
45 years after Turkey signed an Association Agreement with the EU, the negotiations for Turkey's accession to
the EU started during Erdoğan's tenure. Parallel to this, inflation, which had for decades adversely affected
the country's economy, was brought under control and the Turkish Lira was re-valued. Interest rates were
reduced and per capita income grew significantly.
His foreign policy vision is claimed to rest on Neo-Ottomanism, the policy according to which Turkey should
How old was Erdogan when he was elected as Mayor of Istanbul?
A. 37 years old C. 41 years old
B. 40 years old D. 35 years old
Carlos Diego has been promoted to a senior account representative for Transformation Inc. , an office design firm. He was a previous
junior sales representative in the firm as well as a customer service translator. Prior to working for Transformation, diego taught
Spanish at henderson High School in houston Texas. Diego holdsB.S. in Education from the University of Houston and MBA from Texas
A&M
“..........the3 firm as well as a customer ( line 3 ). The synonym of the underlined word is .......
a. Seller
b. Buyer
c. Custom officer
d. accountant
Amelia Earheart who was born at Atchison in 1987 was one of the first and still probably the most famous woman aviator in the
world. She dropped out of Columbia university and worked in California to earn money for flying lessons. In 1928, she became the first
female passanger on trans atlantic flight. She flew from Newfoundland to Burry Port, wales. In 1932, at the age of thirty four, she was
the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean alone, from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, to Ireland. This successwas soon followed
by a series of flight across the United states alone. In 1935 she was the first woman who made a solo flight from Hawaii to California
in both directions. In 1937, she tried to fly around the world with Fred Noonan as her navigator. After completing more than two
thirds of the trip her twin engine lockheed Electra vanished near Howland Islandin the Pasific Ocean, and no trace of Earhart or her
plane was ever found.
Which of the following is the most suitable title for the text above?
BORN TO BE AN ACTOR
Jake Gyllenhaal was born as Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal on December 19, 1980. He is an Academy Award-nominated American actor.
The son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, began his acting at 11 years old. He has appeared in varied
roles since his first leading role in 1999’s October Sky, followed by the 2001 cult hit Donnie Darko, in which he played a
psychologically troubled teenager and onscreen brother to his real life sister, actress, Maggie Gyllenhaal. In the 2004 blockbuster The
Day After Tomorrow, he potrayed a student caught in a cataclysmic global cooling event, alongside Dennis Quaid as his father.
Jake then played againts type as a frustrated Marine in Jarhead ( 2005 ). In the same year, he won critical acclaim potraying a role that
entered popular shorthand as a “gay cowboy” in the controversial but highly praised film Brokeback Mountain.
Robert Moog was an American inventor who developed the Moog Synthesizer. It was one of the first synthesizers
to gain widespread use as a musical instrument. Moog's synthesizers were an important part of musical innovation in rock
and jazz music in the 1960s and 1970s. (5) Robert Arthur Moog was born in Queens, a borough of New York City 75 years
ago. He became fascinated with electronics as a teenager,particularly an early electronic music instrument called the
theremin.
Moog studied physic and electrical engineering at Queens College and Columbia University, both in New York
City, and later received a Ph.D. in (10) engineering physic Cornel University in Ithaca, New York. In 1954, while still an
undergraduate student, Moog formed his own company to sell theremins and theremin kits. Soon after, Moog began
working on a keyboard instrument that could replicate the sound of any musical instrument electronically. Working with
(15) American composer Herbert Deutsch, Moog introduced the prototype Moog Synthesizer at a convention in 1964. The
device represented a significant advance over previous electronic synthesizer because of its use of new semiconductor
technology, which made Lt smaller and considerably cheaper than earlier machines. The Moog, as it was known, (20) was
soon in demand by musician all over the world. In 1964, Moog began a collaboration with American composer and
organist Walter Carlos (now Wendy Carlos), who released the bestselling electronic music album Switched-On Bach in
1968. Rock groups such as the Beatles and Yes and jazz musicians such as Herbie Hancock and Chick (25) Corea began
incorporating Moog Synthesizer into their recordings, a trend that increased when the company introduced the compact and
portable Minimoog in 1970. A Moog Synthesizer was also prominently featured on the soundtrack to the movie A
Clockwork Orange in 1971. Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2008
a. significantly
b. perfectly
c. accurately
d. excellently