direktorat kls 8
Be Careful
Road Improvement Ahead
What does the sign mean?
A. We should be careful to improve the road
B. The vehicle drivers must drive carefully
C. The road is safe for any vehicle
D. The road is broken and needs improving
Text for number 2-5 Finally you did it!
You have finished your study with cum laude
Your achievement has proven that you’re the best!
You really deserve it, buddy!
Congratulations!
2. The writer send the card because…
A. h/she is going to graduate from his/her school
B. h/she got the best achievement at school
C. his/her friend received a competition medal
D. his/her friend has graduated from with the best achievement
3. From the text we know that ….
A. The writer is the best student at the school
B. The writer/s friend’s name is Buddy
C. The writer is proud of his/her friend’s achievement
D. The writer is going to give his/her friend a gift
4. “Your achievement has proven that you’re the best!”. The word achievement means…
A. Accomplishment C. Enrollment
B. Punishment D. Statement
5. Why did the writer send the card?
A. h/she wanted to ask a favor from his friend
B. h/she wanted to congratulate him/her for the graduation
C. h/she wanted to tell her the day of the graduation
D. h/she wanted to explain how to achieve the best
Text for Number 6-8 Mr. Robert Redford
Jasmine Street No. 34
Jakarta.
Dear Mr. Robert Redford
In commemorating the Anniversary of our school, we would like to hold some competitions:
1. Speech contest
2. Story telling
3. Spelling bee
4. Poetry reading
And We are very proud to invite the students of your school to join the competition. There will be prize money and trophy for the winners and certificates of participation for all participants.
For detailed information please contact Miss Fanny on 081345678910 during working hours.
We look forward to having your students’ registration to the competition.
Thank you
The committee
Frank Einstein
6. All the participants of the competitions will receive….
A. Prize money C. Certificates
B. Many poems D. Trophy
7. The competitions will be held for…
A. Commemorating the birthday of Mr. Robert Redford
B. Celebrating the anniversary of Mr. Frank Einstein
C. Commemorating the birth of Frank Einstein’s school
D. Celebrating the winning of the school anniversary
8. What is the purpose of writing the letter?
A. To tell the story of the competition
B. To invite the school to join a competition
C. To show how to take part in the competition
D. To describe the numbers of the competition
Text for number 9-11 Announcement to all students
Water is important
In order to save our planet’s water, it is announced that all students must be responsible for using the water as needed only. Close the tap when no water is needed, and please use the shower for cleaning your body.
The future of the earth is on our hands. Be efficient in using water.
School Environment Lovers
Head
John Rambo
9. Who is the announcement for?
A. The school environment lover students
B. The responsible students only
C. All the students at the school
D. The members of school environment lovers
10. Which one is not true according to the text?
A. The students must be responsible for saving the earth
B. Water tap can be opened all the time
C. The students should use shower for bathing
D. John is the head of School Environment Lover
11. What is the announcement written for?
A. To warn students not to use the water facility at the school
B. To announce to the students about the wise use of water
C. To instruct the students to use much water
D. To describe the school environment lover’s activity
Read the text and answer the questions 11 to 14
PINGVELLIER
Pingvellier is a very famous historic place in Iceland where a lot of things happened, which have influenced the Iceland history. Pingvellier was reserved in 1928 and became a national park.
Pingvellier is surrounded by a fence. It is strong enough to protect it from sheep and other animals which can destroy the vegetation. To enter the national park, we can get through one of the four gates, at the south, north, west, and east. The south gate is the main entrance.
At the heart of pingvellier, there is a beautiful lake, namely Pingvellavatn. It is the largest lake in Iceland. It is 73,7 km2 and 144 m deep and surrounded by virgin forest. In the lake, there live many rare kind of fish.
Pingvellier is also a very famous tourism place. Thousands of people come every year to see this smashing nature and its beautiful surrounding.
The national park is well protected from any damages. Throughout Pingvellier, there are many paths to walk through. Walking out of the path is very restricted. Many camp sites are easy to find as well. Going camping outside the area is prohibited. The paths and camp sites were built to protect the vegetation. Furthermore, while you are in Pingvellier, you have to litter things into the trash cans provided. Neglecting the rules may be liable to heavy fine.
12. What is the main idea of the third paragraph?
a. The famous tourism place c. The situation of Pingvellier
b. The Pingvellavatn lake d. The way of protecting of national park
13. Which statement is TRUE according to the text?
a. The fence was built to protect tourist c. Pingvellavatn is the largest island
b. Visitors can camp at any place d. Pingvellier is a national park
14. What makes the visitors will get the heavy fine in Pingvellier?
a. The visitors enter to Pingvellier through one of the four gates
b. The visitors throw the rubbish into the trashcan properly
c. The visitors camp inside the area of national park.
d. The visitors disobey the rules of national park.
15. “Pingvellier was reserved in 1928…”(paragraph 1)
The underlined word is synonymous with….
a. built b. replaced c. booked d. restored
Text For Number 16-20
Natural gas explosion devastates neighborhood near San Francisco International Airport
SAN FRANCISCO (BNO NEWS) -- A massive natural gas explosion rocked a neighborhood in the city of San Bruno in central California on early Thursday evening, not far from San Francisco International Airport, officials said. The number of casualties was not immediately clear.
A large fireball was seen by numerous witnesses around 6 p.m., setting at least 20 homes on fire. Officials said the blaze was caused by a natural gas explosion, not a passenger plane crash as initially feared.
First responders via emergency scanners initially said a 'large commercial aircraft' had crashed in the area, setting scores of homes on fire. But they later said the cause appeared to be a natural gas explosion and not a plane crash.
Both San Francisco International Airport as well as Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) spokesman Ian Gregor confirmed no plane had gone down in the neighborhood.
Scores of emergency responders were on the scene of the disaster, where officials said at least several people had been injured. The number, or the extent of their injuries, was not immediately clear.
The blast was so strong that residents miles away were able to hear the explosion. "We're fine. We heard the blast, and we can see the fire," a witness, who lives about two miles from the scene, told BNO News. "We're told it's a gas pump explosion by fire fighters going by."
16. What is the main idea of paragraph four?
A. The score of emergency responder
B. The confirmation San Francisco Airport and FAA
C. The number of houses caught on the fire
D. The massive natural gas explosion
17. What does the text above tell about? It tells about …
A. The airplane crashed at the air of San Francisco
B. The scene of the big fireball caused by the explosion
C. The blast made by the result of the explosion
D. The devastation of San Francisco International Airport
18. What is the purpose of the text?
A. To tell the readers an event of natural gas explosion
B. To show the general information of the gas explosion
C. To entertain the readers with the blast of the fire
D. To describe the gas explosion at the international airport
19. From the text we know that …
A. The blast was not too loud
B. The blast could only be heard by the local people
C. The blast could be heard from a long distance
D. The blast had destroyed the airport
20. “But they later said the cause appeared to be”. The word ‘they’ in the sentence refers to …
A. Scores B. Scanners C. Homes D. Responders
Text for Number 21-24
Cars should be banned from the city. As we all know, cars create pollution, and cause a lot of road deaths and other accidents.
Firstly, cars, as well as we know, contribute to most of the pollution in the world. Cars emit a deadly gas that causes illness such as bronchitis, lung cancers and “triggers” of asthma. Some of these illnesses are so bad that people can die from them.
Secondly, a city is very busy. Pedestrians wander everywhere and cars commonly hit pedestrians in a city, which causes them to die. Cars, today, are the biggest killers on roads.
In conclusion, cars should be banned from a city for the reasons listed above.
21. Why should a car be banned from the city? Because …
A. There have been too many cars in the city
B. People do not like driving cars anymore
C. Cars have produced a lot of pollution
D. Cars have created new diseases
22. Cars have also caused …
A. Many people become richer C. The safer conditions on the roads
B. Many people lost their lives D. Many roads become more silent
23. What is the main idea of paragraph three?
A. Cars should be increased in the city C. The city has been very busy
B. Cars caused some diseases D. Cars triggers the asthma disease
24. Why is the city very busy? Because …
A. There are many cars and people walking here and there and
B. Many people work in the city everyday
C. People drives their cars very fast and wild
D. There have been a few people and vehicles in the city
Text For Number 25-28
Sapphire is a gemstone variety of the mineral corundum, an aluminum oxide (α-Al2O3), when it is a color other than red or dark pink, in which case the gem would instead be called a ruby, considered to be a different gemstone. Trace amounts of other elements such as iron, titanium, or chromium can give corundum blue, yellow, pink, purple, orange, or greenish color. Pink-orange sapphires are also called padparadscha. Pure chromium is the distinct impurity of rubies. However, a combination of e.g. chromium and titanium can give a sapphire of a color distinct from red.
Sapphires are commonly worn as jewelry. Sapphires can be found naturally, by searching through certain sediments or rock formations, or they can be manufactured for industrial or decorative purposes in large crystal boules. Because of the remarkable hardness of sapphires (and of aluminum oxide in general), sapphires are used in some non-ornamental applications, including infrared optical components, such as in scientific instruments; small, high-durability windows (also used in scientific instruments); wristwatch crystals; and very thin electronic wafers, which are used as the insulating substrates of very special-purpose solid-state electronics (most of which are integrated circuits).
25. What is the text about?
A. The use of jewelry C. An aluminum oxide called ruby
B. A gemstone variant called sapphire D. The formation of sapphire
26. What is the main idea of paragraph two
A. The usage of sapphire C. The color of sapphire
B. The formation of sapphire D. The composition of sapphire
27. What can give the sapphire a color other than red?
A. Padparascha C. Chromium and titanium combination
B. Aluminum oxide D. Padparascha and aluminum mixture
28. From the text we know that sapphire is …
A. Soft B. Strong C. Tender D. Weak
Text For number 29-32
During the summer of 1997, I had the opportunity to begin my research with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in Pasadena, through a grant from Caltech's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships program, or SURF. My research advisor was (and still is) Dr. David Wald of the USGS. I spent the summer analyzing the foreshocks and aftershocks of the 1857 Fort Tejon earthquake, which was the last major earthquake on the central and southern segments of the San Andreas Fault. (This was supposed to be a small project before I started work on my 1996 aftershock research, but it turned into a major publishable project in its own right!) The procedure for this project was similar to my 1996 project, and it is outlined in another abstract below.
During the following school year, I continued my work for research credits, and during Summer 1998 I completed a paper on the study, which was published as a U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report. Since then, a more polished version of that paper has been published in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, a leading scientific journal in seismological research. I also wrote an article briefly summarizing the effects of the Fort Tejon earthquake,
29. What does the text tell about?
A. Doing a research credit with USGS in Pasadena
B. Telling the experience in doing a research with USGS
C. Summarizing the effect of earthquake in Fort Tejon
D. Showing the research in Pasadena, USA.
30. How did the writer get the chance to do the research?
A. By having the advice from Dr. David Wald
B. By receiving grant from Caltech’s SURF
C. By applying to US. Geological Survey Open-File report
D. By reading the Bulletin of Seismological Society
31. From the text we know that …
A. The research was started in the end of 1996
B. The research was published by SURF program
C. The Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
D. The Caltech University undergraduate program
32. “…a leading scientific journal in seismological research”. The word ‘leading’ means…
A. Trivial B. Minor C. Marginal D. Foremost
Text For Number 33-36
We must keep our children away from drugs. You have known exactly how bad drugs are.
To Keep your Child Away from Drugs should be the single most important agenda that you today as parents of children above 11 must have because drug abuse and drug addiction in children is increasing at an alarming rate. It is a problem of not a particular class of society, of a city, place, economic or ethnic group. It is everywhere and is becoming everybody’s problem. Remember all children are vulnerable to the temptation of drugs. Usually it goes out of control before you can do anything about it. So keep your ears and eyes open and take the help of the following suggestions in doing so.
Never put your teen on the spot – if you think they may need the talk, you should bring it up in a discussion by leading into it. Do not sit them down and say, “Are you doing drugs?” This only pushes them away and makes them defensive and they feel as if you do not trust them.
Remember that children usually follow their family’s example and that they are likely to stay away from drugs if their parents do not use them or have an anti-drug attitude. Teach you children to be confident about themselves. Children who are confident will generally not experiment with something that they inherently know to be bad.
So, give a good example to your children and keep them away from drugs.
33. What is the text mainly about?
A. Persuading people to use drugs for their children
B. Persuading people to keep their children away from drugs
C. Persuading people to ask their children to purchase drugs
D. Persuading people to send their children away from home
34. The main idea of paragraph four is …
A. Asking the parents to keep their children safe
B. Prohibition of putting the children on the spot
C. Reminding the parents to give children a good example
D. Making an agenda to keep children away from drugs
35. “Do not sit them down and say…”. The word ‘them’ refers to ….
A. Children B. the parents C. your teen D. discussion
36 . From the text we know that we should prevent our children from consuming drugs since …
A. They are baby C. they are in junior high school
B. They are in elementary school D. they finish their study in senior high Text For Number 37-40
Nowadays traffic is a major problem for big cities. If we do some ……(37)…… to reduce the amount of traffic then a pollution free and comfortable living will created. With the development of science, now everything is possible in world. Computers are one of the most important inventions of science. We can reduce traffic by using the computers. Most of the people prefer e-education, e-shopping and working from home. All these are possible by using computers with net connectivity. Traffic can be reduced …………..
( 38)………….people reduce their travel from home to work, education or shopping. But I would like to say that is one way, but not the only way to reduce the amount of traffic. The use of computer is not possible ……………(39)…………. everybody because computers are very expensive. If people do not go out side and ………(39)………… with others then they will not feel happy. Outing is very important for humans. Hence I do not agree that for reducing traffic people should reduce travel for work, education or shopping. There are many other ways also to reduce traffic.
37. A. effort B. try C. feedback D. understanding
38. A. which B. how C. If D. However
39. A. from B. with C. of D. for
40. A. tell B. chat C. conversation D. call
Text For Number 41-44
Rescuers began to arrive ………(52)……….. the islands on Wednesday, which were rattled by a massive 7.7-magnitude earthquake at 9.42 p.m. local time (1442 GMT) on Monday that ……………(53)….. the devastating tsunami. At least 10 villages were completely destroyed on the Mentawai Islands, located about 240 kilometers (149 miles) south of Padang, the capital and largest city of West Sumatra.
The initial earthquake struck about 20 kilometers (12.8 miles) deep, making it a shallow earthquake. Indonesia's seismological agency immediately issued a tsunami warning for nearby coastlines, ……………..(54)………… the warning came too late for villages on the Mentawai Islands where a three-meter (9.8-feet) tsunami devastated towns near the coast.
The affected ………..(55)………. was initially estimated at 33,817 persons. However many islands have become inaccessible and the number of potentially affected people could be over 65,000.
41. A. along B. at C. for D. to
42. A. generated B. destroyed C. Swept D. washed
43. A. if B. but C. Besides D. then
44. A. pollution B. number C. casualties D. population
1. It was time to go climbing.
2. At 6:30 I called James.
3. I woke up at a quarter to 6 today.
4. and pretended to sleep for a while before checking my email.
5. It was too early so I went back to bed
6. He sounded sleepy when he answered the phone but quickly realized what was going on.
45. The best paragraph is …
A. 3 1 2 5 6 4 B. 3 2 6 1 5 4 C. 3 5 4 2 6 1 D. 3 5 4 6 1 2
1. She must be at least thirty-five years old.
2. This time she will be a girl of seventeen
3. Jennifer will have to take part in a new play soon.
4. My aunt Jennifer is an actress.
5. In spite of this, she often appears on the stage as a young girl.
6. in the play she must appear in a bright red dress and long black stockings.
46. Which arrangement of paragraph is correct?
A. 4 5 6 3 2 1 B. 4 1 5 3 6 2 C. 4 1 5 3 2 6 D. 4 5 2 6 3 1
47. moons – their – attraction – stars – and – by – atmosphere – gravitational – planets – keep -
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10
A. 4-9-5-1-10-2-7-6-8-3 C. 4-9-5-1-10-2-7-8-6-3
B. 4-9-5-10-1-2-6-7-8-3 D. 4-9-5-1-10-2-7-8-3-6
We should take good care of our teeth because it makes our body healthy. We should take a good rest and sleep well at a right time for it makes us look good. We should do walking as a sort of exercise if we don't like to go to gym,…………………………………………
48. The best sentence to finish the paragraph is …………
A. it will waste your time C. it makes our body in good shape
B. It makes our mouth healthy D. It is not easy reall
49. Raflesia Arnoldi – flower – in – the largest – is – the world
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6
a. 4 – 2 – 5 – 1 – 3 – 6
b. 4 – 2 – 1 – 5 – 3 – 6
c. 4 – 2 – 3 – 6 – 5 – 1
d. 4 – 2 – 3 – 5 – 6 – 1
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6
a. 4 – 2 – 5 – 1 – 3 – 6
b. 4 – 2 – 1 – 5 – 3 – 6
c. 4 – 2 – 3 – 6 – 5 – 1
d. 4 – 2 – 3 – 5 – 6 – 1
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5
a. 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5
b. 1 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 2
c. 1 – 5 – 2 – 4 – 3
d. 1 – 4 – 3 – 2 – 5
