Paket Soal Bahasa Inggris
1. I have the homework…
a. doing
b. done
c. does
d. did
e. do
Pembahasan:
b. done
I have the homework….
Kalimat di atas menggunakan
causative verb, yaitu sebuah kalimat yang menyebabkan orang lain
melakukan suatu hal.
Pola causative verb: Subject
+ have/get/make + object + Verb III
Jadi, kata yang tepat untuk
melengkapi kalimat diatas adalah Done.
2. Ali : Who is Ismail
Marzuki?
Teacher : He is the composer
… people consider one of the greatest in Indonesia.
a. with whom
b. tof whom
c. to whom
d. who
e. whom
Pembahasan:
e. whom
Kata yang tepat untuk mengisi
titik di atas adalah Whom.
Whom digunakan untuk orang
sebagai obyek.
Frasa “the composer”
merupakan frasa orang, dan jika dilihat kedudukannya pada klausa ‘people
consider (him) one of the
greatest in Indonesia’ adalah sebagai objek. Oleh karena itu, relative pronoun
‘whom’ digunakan dalam
kalimat ‘He is the composer … people consider one of the greatest in
Indonesia’.
3. Anto likes watermelons and
potatos, but he likes watermelons more.
Change the sentence above
using preferences!
a. Anto likes watermelons
better than potatos
b. Anto likes watermelon and
potato
c. Anto likes potatos better
than watermelons
d. Anto prefer potatos to
watermelons
e. Anto would rather like
potatos than watermelons
Pembahasan:
a. Anto likes watermelons
better than potatos
Preference adalah bentuk
ungkapan kalimat yang menyatakan suatu hal yang lebih disukai daripada hal
lain. Ada tiga bentuk
preference, yaitu:
-
-
Like
… better than …
Prefer
… to …
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-
Would
rather … than …
Karena Anto lebih menyukai
watermelon (semangka) maka kalimat yang tepat adalah “Anto likes
watermelons better than
potatos”.
4. Barrack Obama worked as a
community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney before
serving in the Illionis
Senate.
Find the synonym of the
underlined word!
a. advisor
b. teacher
c. advocate
d. senator
e. consultant
Pembahasan:
c. advocate
Attorney ialah ahli
hukum/pengacara. Kata yang tepat sebagai sinonim dari Attorney adalah advocate
(pengacara).
5. Dimas : … did the plane
arrive?
Rama : The plane arrived
about fifteen minutes ago.
a. where
b. why
c. what
d. when
e. how
Pembahasan:
d. when
Jawaban “Fifteen minutes ago”
menunjukkan keterangan waktu. Jadi, kata yang tepat untuk
menanyakan keterangan waktu
dalam bahasa Inggris adalah ‘When’.
6. Customer: Is my car ready?
Mechanic: I’m sorry, …
because we didn’t get the spareparts until today.
a. It is still being fixed
b. we still fixed it
c. we have fixed it
d. it is still fixing
e. still being fixed
Pembahasan:
a. It is still being fixed
I’m sorry, … because we
didn’t get the spareparts until today.
Kalimat di atas merupakan
kalimat penyesalan dikarenakan hingga saat ini mekanik tersebut belum juga
mendapatkan suku cadang yang
dibutuhkan (because we didn’t get the spareparts until today). Hal ini
menunjukkan bahwa proses
perbaikan mobil masih dalam proses atau belum selesai (it is still being
fixed.
Untuk menyatakan suatu
kejadian yang masih berlangsung pada saat bicara menggunakan Present
Continuous Tense, dengan pola
sebagai berikut;
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Untuk pola aktif : Subject +
am/is/are + V-ing
Untuk pola pasif : Subject +
am/is/are + not + V-ing
7. Jaka : Television says
that most of the streets in Jakarta are flooded at the moment.
Ari : I’m not surprised, we …
so much rain for a week now.
a. are having
b. have
c. had
d. had had
e. have had
Pembahasan;
e. have had
Di dalam percakapan tersebut
terdapat keterangan waktu ‘for a week now’ yang artinya adalah selama
seminggu ini. Hal itu
menunjukkan suatu peristiwa yang telah berlangsung sejak minggu lalu hingga
saat
ini. Kalimat seperti ini
menggunakan present perfect (Subject + have/has + V3).
Jadi, kalimat yang tepat
adalah:
I’m not surprised, we have
had so much rain for a week now.
Have + V3
Read the following text to
answer questions number 8 and 9!
Text 1
Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi was born on
October 2nd, 1869, in Porbandar, India.
He studied law in London, and
then lived with his family in
Johannesburg, South Africa, where he practiced law. He became famous for
nonviolence and civil
disobedience when trying to improve the situations of Indians living in South
Africa. He was both political
and religious leader. He led the Nationalist movement against British rule in
India. Gandhi was
assassinated in 1948. He will always be remembered for his spirituality and
concern
for peace.
8. From the text above, we
know that Gandhi was born on ….
a. 140 years ago
b. October 3, 1869
c. October 3, 1868
d. October 2, 1869
e. 13 years ago
Pembahasan:
d. October 2, 1869
9. Gandhi was assassinated
in 1948.
The underlined word means…
a. Killed
b. Died
c. Elected
d. Isolated
e. Studied
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Pembahasan:
a. Killed
Kata assassinated berasal
dari kata dasar assassinate yang berarti dibunuh. Kata lain yang memiliki arti
dibunuh adalah killed.
Killed = Dibunuh
Died = Meninggal
Elected = Dipilih
Isolated = Diasingkan
Studied = Belajar
Read the following text to
answer the questions number 10-12!
Text 2
Last Sunday two cars were
going along Blue Street. A teacher was driving a Honda and a young man was
driving a Lancer. The teacher
was driving slowly and carefully. The young man wasn’t driving carefully –
he was looking at a girl
walking along the street. He was still looking at the girl when suddenly a boy
came out of a side road. He
couldn’t stop his car and so he hit the boy.
The boy was seriously injured
and the teacher went out of his car and helped the boy. The teacher was
bandaging the boy’s head when
the police arrived. The teacher called an ambulance and take the boy to
the hospital.
10. Text above tells us
about…
a. An accident
b. A boy sudden came out of a
side road
c. A young man was looking at
a girl
d. A teacher and a young man
e. A young man couldn’t stop
his car
Pembahasan:
a. An accident
Teks tersebut menceritakan
mengenai sebuah kecelakaan, yang dalam bahasa Inggris berarti an
accident.
11. When did the accident
happen?
a. last night
b. yesterday
c. last Sunday
d. two days ago
e. last Monday
Pembahasan:
c. last Sunday
Kalimat yang menjelaskan
waktu kecelakaan tersebut adalah pada alinea pertama, kalimat pertama.
12. What sort of car did hit
the boy?
a. Honda
b. VW
c. A teacher
d. young man
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e. Lancer
Pembahasan:
e. Lancer
What sort of car was hit the
boy?
Apa merek mobil yang telah
menabrak anak laki-laki?
Pengemudi yang menabrak anak
laki-laki tersebut mengendarai mobil Lancer (a young man was driving
a Lancer), yang terdapat pada
paragraph pertama kalimat kedua.
13. Mr. Barry is a successful
and well-paid manager. His family is full of…
a. Sorrow
b. Painful
c. Fear
d. Confuse
e. Joy
Pembahasan:
e. Joy
Mr. Barry is a successful and
well-paid manager. His family is full of…
Tuan Barry adalah seorang
manager yang sukses dan berpenghasilan baik. Keluarganya penuh dengan…
Sorrow = penderitaan
Painful = sakit
Fear = takut
Confuse = bingung
Joy = kegembiraan
Kata yang tepat untuk
melengkapi kalimat di atas adalah ‘Joy’ yang menggambarkan kesenangan karena
Mr. Barry berpenghasilan
bagus dengan jabatan yang baik pula.
14. I have … pets in my
house.
a. so
b. much
c. many
d. a
e. an
Pembahasan:
c. many
I have many pets in my
house.
Saya mempunyai banyak hewan
peliharaan di rumah.
Many memiliki arti ‘banyak’
dan diikuti oleh countable noun (benda yang dapat dihitung). Sedangkan
much juga memiliki arti
‘banyak’ dan diikuti oleh accountable noun (benda yang tidak dapat
dihitung),
seperti water (air), milk
(susu), money (uang), dan sebagainya.
15. Rearrange the following
cues in proper word order to make a complete sentence.
Bill entrepreneurs is one of
the personal best-known computer revolution of the Gates .
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10
11 12
a. 1 – 13 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 8
– 2 – 11 – 12 – 7 – 9 – 10
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b. 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 1 – 13
– 7 – 8 – 11 – 12 – 9 – 10
c. 1 – 13 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7
– 8 – 2 – 11 – 12 – 9 – 10
d. 6 – 7 – 8 – 9 – 5 – 2 – 3
– 4 – 1 – 13 – 11 – 12 – 10
e. 1 – 13 – 11 – 12 – 2 – 3 –
4 – 7 – 5 – 6 – 8 – 9 – 10
Pembahasan:
a. 1 – 13 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 8
– 2 – 11 – 12 – 7 – 9 – 10
Kalimat yang tepat adalah:
Bill Gates is one of the
best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution.
Bill Gates adalah salah
seorang pengusaha terkenal dari revolusi computer.
16. None of my friends …
ugly.
a. was
b. they are
c. are
d. is
e. were
Pembahasan:
d. is
None of my friends … ugly.
Tidak seorangpun teman saya
yang jelek
None lebih sering digunakan
dengan kata kerja tunggal sehingga kalimat diatas menjadi ‘none of my
friends is (bukan are) ugly’.
17. Andi : I heard that the
thieves managed to take your electronics
Hadi : Well, not only the
electronics ….
a. but they took my precious
jewelry too
b. but also my precious
jewelry
c. and also my precious
jewelry
d. as well as my precious
jewelry too
e. And they took my precious
jewelry
Pembahasan:
b. but also my precious
jewelry
Well, not only the
electronics ….
Kalimat diatas menggunakan
pola ‘ not only … but also …’ (bukan hanya … tetapi juga …). Dari pola ini
didapatlah jawaban yang
paling tepat adalah b, yaitu but also my precious jewelry.
18. Hetty: At what time will
you leave Jakarta?
Roni : At eight o’clock.
Hetty: Do you want me to
phone a taxi?
Roni : … My friend will pick
me up.
a. That’s good idea
b. No, thank you
c. You’re right
d. Yes, thank you
e. Yes, please
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Pembahasan:
b. No, thank you
Berdasarkan dialog di atas,
dapat diketahui bahwa Roni menolak tawaran Hetty. Hal tersebut dapat
dilihat dari kata-kata Roni,
yaitu ‘My Friend will pick me up’ (teman saya akan menjemput saya). Dari
kata-kata tersebut dapat
disimpulkan bahwa kata-kata yang tepat untuk menolak tawaran adalah ‘No,
thank you’ (tidak, terima kasih).
19. Rewrite the words in
bracket into adjectives and adverb correctly!
It was very ... (quiet) last
night. I guessed you could hear the sound ... (clear).
a. Quiet, clear
b. Quietly, clear
c. Quietly, clearly
d. Quiet, clearly
e. Quietly, so clear
Pembahasan:
d. quiet, clearly
It was very ... (quiet) last
night. I guessed you could hear the sound ... (clear).
Tadi malam sangat ...
(sunyi). Saya pikir kamu dapat mendengar suara ... (jelas).
Kata yang tepat untuk merubah
kata sifat dan kata keterangan di dalam kurung ialah quiet (sunyi) dan
clearly (dengan jelas).
20. Joni : What are you going
to do this evening, Sarah?
Sarah : I ... to the laundry.
Can you take me there?
Joni : Of course, I can.
Sarah : Thanks a lot.
a. Will
b. Go
c. Have gone
d. Went
e. Am going
Pembahasan:
e. Am going
Dalam dialog di atas, kalimat
yang digunakan adalah kata kerja simple future tense dengan adanya
penunjuk waktu this
evening (nanti malam). Pola simple future tense ialah:
S + shall/will + verb 1, atau
S + am/is/are + going to + verb 1
21. Your name is Harry, ...?
a. don’t you
b. isn’t it
c. it is
d. aren’t you
e. do you
Pembahasan:
b. isn’t it
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Your name is Harry, ...?
Nama kamu Harry, kan?
Kalimat di atas menggunakan
question tag, yaitu sebuah pertanyaan singkat yang mendapat tambahan
pada akhir sebuah pernyataan
positif atau negatif untuk meminta penegasan.
Kalimat di atas berbentuk
positif dengan kata kerja to be (is). Kata ganti name adalah
it sehingga tag-nya
adalah isn’t it.
22. Tono : How many students
will join the trip to Borobudur?
Rina : ... students. No one
wants to miss the trip.
a. All
b. Most
c. Many
d. Both
e. Each
Pembahasan:
a. All
Tono : How many students will
join the trip to Borobudur?
Tono : Berapa banyak siswa
yang ikut dalam perjalanan ke Borobudur?
Rina : ... students. No one
wants to miss the trip.
Rina : ... murid. Tak
seorangpun melewatkannya.
Di dalam kalimat tersebut
tidak ada siswa yang mau melewatkan perjalanan wisata ke Borobudur. Hal ini
berarti semua siswa akan
turut serta sehingga jawaban yang paling tepat adalah All.
23. In summer you can
escape from the crowds and relax at Taman Safari.
The underlined phrase
means...
a. Avoid
b. Find
c. Loose
d. Release
e. Keep
Pembahasan:
a. avoid
Kata “escape from” memiliki
arti meloloskandiri dari/menghindar.
Avoid berarti menghindar
Find berarti menemukan
Loose berarti melonggarkan
Release berarti
membebaskan/melepaskan
Keep berarti menjaga
Dari kelima arti kata yang
menjadi pilihan atau jawaban paling tepat untuk sinonim dari “escape from”
adalah avoid.
Text 3
Alfred Bernhard Nobel
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Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a
Swedish. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden on October 21, 1833. He was
a chemist, engineer,
armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite.
The foundations of the Nobel
Prize were laid in 1895 when Alfred Nobel wrote his last will, leaving much
of his wealth for its
establishment. Since 1901, the prize has honored men and women for outstanding
achivements. Originally,
there was six classifications for outstanding contributions designated in
Nobel’s
will including chemistry,
physics, physiology or medicine, literature, and international peace. The
prizes
are administered by the Nobel
Foundation in Stockholm
Alfred was died in San Remo,
Italy on December 10, 1896. In 1901, the first Nobel in physics, chemistry,
literature, physiology, and
medicine presented in Stockholm and Nobel’s International Peace in Kristiana
(now Oslo, Norwegia).
24. In which categories are
the Nobel prizes awarded?
a. Physics, Chemistry,
Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace
b. Physics, Physiology or
Medicine, Chemistry, Peace, and Literature
c. Chemistry, Physics, Physiology
or Medicine, Literature, and Peace
d. Peace, Physics, Physiology
or Medicine, Literature, and Chemistry
e. Physics, Chemistry,
Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Armament
Pembahasan:
a. Physics, Chemistry,
Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace
Jawaban tersebut ada di dalam
paragraf kedua aline ketiga.
Originally, there was six
classifications for outstanding contributions designated in Nobel’s will
including
chemistry, physics,
physiology or medicine, literature, and international peace.
25. Where did Alfred Nobel
die?
a. Swedia
b. San Remo, Swedia
c. San Remo, Italy
d. Oslo, Norwegia
e. In Stockholm
Pembahasan:
c. San Remo, Italy
Penjelasan mengenai kematian
serta tempat dimana Alfred Nobel meninggal terdapat pada alinea
ketiga kalimat pertama, yang
berbunyi:
Alfred was died in San Remo,
Italy on December 10, 1896.
26. What is the main idea of
the text?
a. Alfred Bernhard Nobel is
an inventor of dynamite
b. Nobel prizes
c. The first Nobel
d. Nobel Foundation in
Stockholm
e. Alfred was died in San
Remo, Italy
Pembahasan:
b. Nobel prizes
Teks di atas memiliki pokok
utama mengenai “Nobel Prizes” (penghargaan Nobel).
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27. Hana : Have you read a
letter from Harry?
Wati : Yes, I read it last
night.
Hana : What did he say?
Wati : He ... that he was
travelled all over Bangka Island.
Choose the correct answer to
fill the blank!
a. Has to say
b. Says
c. Will say
d. Is saying
e. Said
Pembahasan:
e. said
Kalimat percakapan di atas
menggunakan pola simple past tense (kata kerja lampau). Pola ini dapat
dikenali dengan adanya
penunjuk waktu last night (tadi malam) serta penggunaan kata-kata,
seperti did
dan was yang
menunjukkan bahwa peristiwa tersebut terjadi pada masa lampau.
Simple past tense menggunakan
pola sebagai berikut.
Subject + Verb 2 + Adverb
Jadi, pilihan kata yang tepat
untuk melengkapi percakapan di atas adalah said, yaitu Verb 2 untuk
say.
28. Jono : If the driver in
front hadn’t stopped so suddenly, I would have been able to avoid the accident.
Karina : Well, it’s over. Let
me take you to the hospital. You are seriously hurt.
From the underlined expresses
we know that Jono ...
a. Could push his brake pedal
on time
b. Could not avoid the
accident
c. Was hit by the car in front of him
d. Was able to stop his car
on time
e. Did not hit the car in
front of him
Pembahasan:
b. could not avoid the
accident
If the driver in front hadn’t
stopped so suddenly, I would have been able to avoid the accident.
Jika pengemudi di depan tidak
berhenti tiba-tiba, saya akan dapat menghindari kecelakaan itu.
Kalimat tersebut di atas
menggunakan pola Future Past Tense, dimana pola ini sering digunakan
dalam
conditional sentence (kalimat pengandaian).
Secara lebih rinci, kalimat
di atas dapat diuraikan menjadi:
Jika pengemudi di depan tidak
berhenti tiba-tiba, maka Jono dapat menghindari kecelakaan.
Sehingga dari kalimat
pengandaian di atas, dapat disimpulkan bahwa Jono tidak dapat menghindari
kecelakaan (could not
avoid the accident).
Pola Future Past Tense adalah
sebagai berikut.
Subject + should/would + have
+ verb 3
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29.
Sarah Ali Rina
From the picture above we
know that ...
a. Rina is shorter than Sarah
and Ali
b. Ali is more taller than
Sarah and Rina
c. Ali is tall as Sarah
d. Ali is tallest than Sarah
and Rina
e. Sarah is short than Ali
and Rina
Pembahasan:
d. Ali is tallest than Sarah
and Rina
Sesuai gambar yang diberikan,
dapat kita lihat bahwa Ali adalah yang paling tinggi dibandingkan dengan
Sarah dan Rina. Pada
perbandingan kata sifat dalam bahasa Inggris digunakan imbuhan –est untuk kata
paling, sehingga pada pertanyaan
diatas, jawaban yang paling benar adalah kalimat yang menggunakan
tallest (paling tinggi).
30. The sun rises in the
east. The sun ... in the west.
a. shows
b. left
c. arises
d. drowns
e. sets
Pembahasan:
e. Sets
The sun rises in the east.
The sun ... in the west.
Matahari terbit di sebelah
timur. Matahari ... di sebelah barat.
Kalimat tersebut di atas
menggunakan pola simple present tense, yaitu sebuah pola kalimat yang
digunakan untuk menyatakan
kebiasaan. Sedangkan matahari merupakan sebuah kata benda tunggal.
Pola simple present tense
untuk kata benda tunggal adalah sebagai berikut.
S + V1 + s/es
Jadi, kata yang tepat untuk
menunjukkan terbenamnya matahari adalah sets.
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