Soal Ulangan Harian 1 (Report Text) kelas XI SMA

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ULANGAN HARIAN I

Mata Pelajaran : Bahasa Inggris

Kelas               : XI (IPA / IPS)                                                                  

Guru                : M. Nashruddin Akhyar, S. Pd.

 

REPORT TEXT COMPETENCY TEST GRADE XI SEMESTER 1/ 2013

      A.     Answer the questions by choosing the correct options A, B, C, D or E for each question!

Text 1

            An elephant is the largest and strongest animals. It is a strange looking animal with its thick legs, huge sides and backs, large hanging ears, a small tall, little eyes, long white tusks and above all it has a long noise, the trunk.

            The trunk is the elephant’s peculiar feature, and it has various uses. The elephant draws up water by its trunk and can squirt it all over its body like a shower bath. It can also lift leaves and puts them into its mouth. In fact the trunk serves the elephant as a long am and hand. An elephant looks very clumsy and heavy and yet it can move very quickly.

            The elephant is a very intelligent animal. Its intelligence combined with its great strength makes it a very useful servant to man and it can be trained to serve in various ways such as carry heavy loads, hunt for tigers and even fight.

1. The text tells us about….

            (A). the Elephant’s peculiar feature                     

            (B). useful servant

            (C). strange looking animal                                 

            (D). an elephant

            (E). elephant looks very clumsy.

2. The third paragraph is mainly about the fact that....
            (A) elephants are strong
            (B) elephants can lift logs
            (C) elephants are servants
            (D) elephant are very useful
            (E) elephant must be trained

3.  The most distinguishing characteristic of an elephant is.....

            (A). its clumsiness                  

            (B). its thick legs

            (C). its large body                  

            (D). its long nose

            (E). its large ears

4. Which of the following is NOT part of the elephant described in the first paragraph?
            (A) It looks strange 
            (B) It is heavy
            (C) It is wild
            (D) It has a trunk
            (E) It has a small tail

5. The elephant draws up water by its trunk and can squirt it all over its body like a shower bath (paragraph 2)

   The underlined word refers to….

            (A). a shower bath    

            (B). elephant’s body

            (C). a shower                  

            (D). water

            (E). elephant’s trunk

6. It is stated in the text that the elephant uses the trunk to do the following, EXCEPT....
            (A) to eat
            (B) to push
            (C) to drink
            (D) to carry things
            (E) to squirt water over the body.

7. “The trunk is the elephant’s peculiar feature....(Paragraph2)
The underline word close in meaning to ....
            (A) large                                  (D) smooth
            (B) strange                               (E) king
            (C) tough

8. The text above is in the form of…

            (A). Analytical Exposition                        

            (B). Narrative

            (C). Recount 

            (D). Report

            (E.)  Spoof

Text 2

Comparison of unweathered (left) and weathered (right) limestone. (Wikipedia).

            Every single rock on the surface of the Earth-whether it is gravestone, a piece of solidified lava from a volcano or a boulder that has broken from a cliff or mountain-is slowly being broken down. This breaking down of rocks at or near the Earth’s surface is called weathering. The word is used because the weather is mainly responsible. Weathering turns solid rock into soft materials that may eventually form soil.
            Air and water are the cause of most weathering. Sometimes they change the chemical in the rocks, and sometimes they just break apart the rock physically. If water seeps into the cracks in the rocks, for example, it may later freeze if the temperature falls below 0 degrees Celsius. As the water turns to ice, it expands, pushing against the sides of the rock with a pressure believe to be as much as 2,100 kilograms per square centimetre. This forces the cracks open. Repeated freezing and thawing causes the fragments to break away from the original rock, these may slide down a cliff or mountain and form a sloping mass of fragments at the bottom, called scree.

9. According to the text,....
            A. there are two kinds of rock, gravestone and a boulder
            B. soft materials will turn to solidified lava through weathering
            C. chemical in the rocks causes weathering in every single rock-
            D. a cliff or mountain may slide down because of the water in the rocks
            E. cracks in the rocks will turn water into ice at the temperature below 0 degrees Celsius

10. The first paragraph is about....
            A. the materials of weathering
            B. the process of weathering
            C. the impact of weathering
            D. the definition of weathering
            E. the result of weathering

11. We know from the text that....
            A. very solid rock is impossible to break down
            B. solid rock can turns into soil because of air and water
            C. soft materials harders to eventually become rock
            D. the weather can turn lava into gravestone
            E. air and water are the main elements of the weather

12. What is the communicative purpose text 2?

            A. To inform the readers about weathering.

            B. To inform the readers about different types of stone.

            C. To inform the readers about different types of rock.

            D. To inform the readers about different types of air.

            E. To inform the readers about the different type of water.

Text 3

            Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon, without making physical contact with the object. In modern usage, the term generally refers to the use of aerial sensor technology to detect and classify objects on Earth (both on the surface, and in the atmosphere and ocean) by means of propagated signals (e.g. electromagnetic radiation emitted from aircraft or satellites).
           

            There are two main types or remote sensing: passive remote sensing and active remote sensing. Passive sensors detect natural radiation that is emitted or reflected by the objects or surrounding area being observed. Reflected sunlight is the most common source of radiation measured by passive censors. Examples of passive remote sensors include film photography, infra-red, charge-coupled devices, and radiometers. Active collection, on the other hand, emits energy in order to scan objects and areas whereupon a sensor then detects and measures the radiation that is reflected or backscattered from the target. RADAR and LIDAR are examples of active remote sensing where the time delay between emission and return is measured, stabilizing the location, height, speed and direction of an object.

13. From the text we know that remote sensing…
            A. Is a way to obtain information about an object or phenomenon
            B. Does not difficult to do

            C. Makes physical contact with the object
            D. Does not make use of censors
            E. Does not make use propagated signals

14. What is the main idea of the second paragraph?
            A. Active sensing is better than passive sensing
            B. The energy in sunlight is important for remote sensing
            C. Passive sensing is not as strong as active sensing
            D. The source of energy radiated for sensing determines whether it is the active or passive type
            E. Active remote sensing and passive remote sensing are equally useful for the development of   

                 knowledge and technology

15. Based on the text we can say that…
            A. Remote sensing is expensive technology
            B. Remote sensing is useful for transportation
            C. We can apply the technology to study animals
            D. Medical science can be improved through remote sensing
            E. Remote sensing make it possible to collect information of an object in a dangerous area 

Text 4

            Antibiotic is a drug produced by certain microbes. Antibiotics destroy other microbes that damage human tissues. They are used to treat a wide variety of diseases, including gonorrhea, tonsillitis and tuberculosis. Antibiotics are sometimes called ‘wonder drugs’ because they can cure diseases such as meningitis, pneumonia and scarlet fever. But when the antibiotics are overused, or misused, these drugs make a person sensitive being attacked by a superbug.

            Antibiotics do not always distinguish between harmless and dangerous microbes. If a drug destroys too many harmless micro-organism, the pathogenic ones -the dangerous microbes- will have a greater chance to multiply. This situation often leads to the development of a new infection called superinfection. Extensive use of some antibiotics may damage organs and tissues. For example, streptomycin, which is used to treat tuberculosis, has caused kidney damage and deafness.

            Resistance to antibiotics may be acquired by pathogenic microbes. The resistant microbes transfer genetic material to non-resistant microbes and cause them to become resistant. During antibiotic treatment, non-resistant microbes  are destroyed, but resistant types survive and multiply.

            To avoid the side effect of antibiotics, you'd better not urge your doctor to prescribe antibiotics. Keep in mind that antibiotics are only useful for bacterial infections and have no effect on viruses, so they cannot be used for children pox, measles, and other viral diseases.

16. Which diseases cannot be cured by antibiotics?

            A. Tonsillitis
            B. Meningitis
            C. Chicken pox
            D. Tuberculosis
            E. Scarlet fever

17. What are discussed in paragraph two and four?

            A. Both paragraphs describe how antibiotics work.
            B. Both paragraphs tell about the effects of misusing antibiotics.
            C. Both paragraphs explain how antibiotics damage organs and tissue.
            D. Paragraph two tells what causes the pathogenic microbes multiply and paragraph four tells

                 how un-resistant microbes become resistant.
            E. Paragraph two tells how antibiotics destroy harmless microbes and paragraph four describes

                 how thepathogenic microbes transfer genetic material to non-resistant microbes.

18. Choose one from the following which is not the effect of using antibiotics improperly?

            A. Organs and tissues are damaged.
            B. The pathogenic microbes multiply.
            C. Harmless micro-organism are destroyed.
            D. Pathogenic microbes become non-resistant.
            E. New infection which is called superinfection develops.

19. Antibiotics do not always distinguish between harmless and dangerous microbes.” (paragraph 2)
The underlined word means…

            A. Vary
            B. Compare
            C. Correlate
            D. Contradict
            E. Differentiate

20. The best title for text 4 is….

            A. Antibiotics

            B. The use of Antibiotics

            C. The Effects of Antibiotics

            D. The Resistance to Antibiotics

            E. The Danger of Antibiotics

21. Yahoo! Messenger along with other networks such as Windows Live Messenger and AOL instant Messenger … often used as a vector for delivering viruses.

            A. is                 B. was              C. are               D. were            E. been

22. Discipline, hardworking and commitment are the keys of ….

            A. success        B. successful   C. succeed       D. successfully            E. successor

23. Don’t be arrogant … you can prove that you are smart.

            A. when           B. before         C. after                        D. while           E. so that

24. I felt … satisfied when I won the debate.

            A. quiet            B. quite            C. quietly         D. quick           E. quickly

25. Madam Wong drives to work by ….

            A. myself         B. yourself       C. herself         D. himself        themselves

26. There are two kinds of students in the classroom, discipline students and lazy ones. … do you belong to?

            A. where          B. who             C. what            D. which          E. whom

27. What is the definition of depot?

            A. A school for higher learning

            B. A place where young plants are grown

            C. A place where fish are kept

            D. A  place where buses are kept when not in use

            E. A place for loading and unloading of ships

28. Although the sun has also gathered warmth for human, a man still makes his own ….

            A. cook            B. exist            C. light D. heat             E. warmth

29. Air pollution consists of … matter that modifies the characteristics of the atmosphere.

            A. undergo       B. acidity         C. industrial     D. acid rain      E. effects

           

30. We can find many report texts in the following sources except….

            A. reference books

            B. science reports

            C. weather report

            D.Science journals

            E. Imaginative stories

B.     Answer the following questions correctly!

31. What are the communicative purpose of :

a. Text 1

b. text 3

c. text 4

32. What is the text organization of report text?

33. What is the tense mostly used in the text? How do you know?

34. Write 5 verb 1 from the text 4!

35. What is the difference between Report and Description?

36. Write a quantifier that you can find in text 4!

37. Write the adjectives that you can find in text 2!

38. Write the Adverbs that you can find in text 2!

39. Write the time/purpose connectors from text 4!

40. Write a complex sentence from text 4!