Latihan Soal Bahasa Inggris Untuk Ujian Sekolah dan UAS

What Causes Weather ?

Weather is the physical condition of the atmosphere at a particular time. It includes temperature, air pressure and water content. Weather is produced when air moves from place to place. This moving air is known as wind.  Winds are caused by warm air rising and cooler air moving to replace it. Warm air is usually less dense than cool air: therefore, it creates low air pressure.  Cool air is more dense and creates high air pressure.  Usually we have fine weather when the air pressure is high, and we will have clouds,rain and snow when air pressure drops

 

13. What does the text Explain ?

a. Moving air.

b. Air pressure.

c. Low air pressure.

d. Types of weather.

e. The formation of weather.

14. “ Warm air usually les dense than cool air …. ” The underlined word has the opposite meaning to …..

a. Sparse                                                          d. Heavy

b. Solid                                                             e. Compact

c. Thick

15. The second paragraph mainly tells us that ….

a. Warm and cool air create air pressure

b. Winds are caused by warm air rising

c. Weather is produced by moving car

d. The air moves from place to place

e. The moving air is called wind

 

The Review of American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neigborhoads

Author : Bonnie Tsui

Review by : Rebecca Steinitz

Bonnie Tsui grew up in suburban long island. However, Chinatown was the epicenter of her Chinese-American life. Chinatown was where her grandparents worked and shopped for groceries, where her extended family celebrated weddings and other occasions, and where, as an adult, she ate lunch and studied Chinese. Now Tsui has written American Chinatown: A people’s history of five neighborhoods, an engaging exploration of Chinatown’s history and culture.

Although the book includes hand-drawn maps, this is not your standard tourist guide. Tsui looks beyond the gift shops and dim sum restaurants to see Chinatown through the eyes of its residents. She talks to scholars and shop owners, activists and immigrants, even teens. The result is sharply drawn portrait of five Chinatown. In San Francisco, Tsui learns that Chinatown’s “authentic” architecture was designed after the 1906 earthquake by white architects hired by Chinese merchants to make Chinatown more ppealing to prejudiced white Americans. New York’s Chinatown was an economic powerhouse, employing recent immigrants and long time residents in New York’s garment and restaurant industries. The Los Angeles Chinatown grew up hand- in hand with Hollywood: its residents were hired for all kinds Asian movie roles, and the image of Chinatown as mysterious, exotic and dangerous emerged from the silver screen as much as anywhere else. In Honolulu, where cultural mixing is the norm, Chinatown is pan Asian, or in the local vernacular, ”Kapakahi, Hawaiian for all mixed up”. A developer built Las Vegas’ Chinatown in the 1990 as a commercial enterprise but it has since evolved into a real community.

These deverse Chinatowns also have many commonalities. Chinatown has always been a meeting point of tourism and ordinary life.

Indeed, American Chinatown: A people’s History of Five Neighborhoods helps us understand how Chinatown-complex, conflicted and buffeted by the same forces of globalization, commercialization and gentrification that are transforming the rest of the country-is itself profoundly American.

18. What is the book about?

a. Some diverse Chinatowns.

b. The Chinatown’s “authentic” architecture

c. An exploration of Chinatown’s history and culture

d. The Chinatown’s residents in America

e. The mysterious image of Chinatown

19. How many cities of Chinatown are mentioned in the text?

a. Six

b. Five

c. Four

d. Three

e. Two

20. “A developer built Las Vegas” Chinatown in the 1990 as a commercial enterprise ….” The

underlined word has the similar meaning to ….

a. company

b. performance

c. entertainment

d. project

e. show

 

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21. Who is the advertisement aimed at ?

a. People who are lonely.

b. People who dress well.

c. People who work short hors.

d. People who communicate a lot by phone.

e. People who need the newest model of phone.

22. According to the advertisement, why is it important to be in touch ?

a. To compete with your competitors.

b. To maintain good client relations.

c. To learn about your competirtors.

d. To work out a solution.

e. To use a fast modem.

23. “ It’s all digital, so your communication is secure.” ( Paragraph 2). The underlined word can be best replaced by ….

a. Comfortable

b. Easy

c. Safe

d. Nice

e. Free

IMPORTANT!

Dear all,

            Please be informed that our business has just grown abundant with orders from abroad. Consequently, all production staff are invited to work over time until 8 p.m every day, except  Saturday. Work will end at 6 p.m on Saturday. Dinner will be provided. This programme will end after work.

            Anyone with urgent business may skip work after receiving their supervisor or manager’s consent. Please keep your bodies fit and healthy.

            Let’s get to work for a prosperous living! Thank you.

Management

            Hendra                       

   Personnel Manager

43. What is the purpose of the announcement ?

A. To ask the production staff to work over time.

B. To inform about working hours being extended for all employees.

C. To inform that production staff salaries will be raised.

D. To explain that the factory will be expanded to over capacity.

E. To inform that the factory will be closed immediately due to lack of orders.

44. Based on the text we can conclude that ….

A. All employees have to work over time.

B. Working hours on Saturday will be the same as other days’

C. The production staff have to eat in the canteen.

D. Supervisors may permit employees to skip their jobs.

E. No production staff are allowed to skip their jobs.

Jl. Kenanga no. 78

Makassar

11^th January 2016

Zola Modern

Jl. Anggrek no.45

Makassar

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16. What does Rendra reserve ?

A. Furniture.

B. Farming tools.

C. Gardening tools.

D. Electrical appliances.

E. Household equipment.

17. Which of the following statements is TRUE ?

A. Rendra has transferred money.

B. The products are free of shipping charges.

C. Rendra knows about the product from his friend.

D. Rendra inserts his phone number for contact purposes.

E. Rendra orders three items.