Reading Comprehension (1)

The three phases of human memory are the sensory memory, the short-term memory
and the long-term memory. This division of memory into phases is based on the
length of time of the memory. Sensory memory is instantaneous memory. It is an
image or memory that enters your mind only for a short period of time; it comes and
goes in under a second. The memory will not last longer than that unless the
information enters the short-term memory.

Information can be held in the short-term memory for about twenty seconds or as long
as you are actively using it. If you repeat a fact to yourself, that fact will stay in your
short-term memory as long as you keep repeating it. Once you stop repeating it, either
it is forgotten or it moves to long-term memory.

Long-term memory is a huge memory tank that can hold ideas and images for years
and years. Information can be added to your long-term memory when you actively try
to put it there through memorization or when an idea or image enters your mind on its
own.
1. The best title of this passage would be;

a. the difference between sensory and short-term memory.

b. how long it takes to memorize.

c. the stage of human memory.

d. human phases.

2. The three phases of memory discussed in the passage are differentiated according
to,

a. the location in the brain.

b. the period of time it takes to remember something.

c. how the senses are involved in the memory.

d. how long the memory lasts.

3. The expression ‘is based on’ in the line 3 could be replaced by,

a. is on the top of.

b. is at the foot of.

c. depends on.

d. is below.

4. According to the passage, which type of memory is the shortest?

a. sensory memory.

b. active memory.

c. short-term memory.

d. long-term memory.

5. According to the passage, when will the information stay in your short-term
memory?

a. for as long as twenty minutes.

b. as long as it is being used.

c. after you have repeated it many times.

d. when it has moved into long-term memory.

6. The word ‘keep’ in line 10 could be replaced by,

a. Hold.

b. Continue.

c. Retain.

d. Save.

Passage 1

Romantic Music of the nineteenth century differed greatly from the classical music of
the eighteenth century. Classical music was primarily concerned with strict form and
style. Romantic composers, however, wanted to express their feelings and thoughts
through music. Their music was less structured than the music of classicists; its goal
was to fill the listener with emotion, with thoughts of beauty, wonder, and nature, and
with poetry.

1. What is the topic of this passage?

(A). The characteristics of romantic music.
(B). Various types of music
(C). Popular music in the eighteenth century.
(D). A comparison of romantic and classical music (√)

2. The word ‘greatly’ in line 1 could be best replaced by which of the following?
(A). Famously
(B). Tremendously (√)
(C). Structurally
(D). Slightly

3. According to the passage, classical music …

(A). expresses feelings and thoughts
(B). was popular in the nineteenth century
(C). has rigid forms (√)
(D). is less structured than romantic music.

4. The word ‘form’ in line 2 is closest in meaning to ….

(A). structure (√)
(B). meter
(C). Meaning
(D). use
5. It can be inferred from the passage that romantic music …
(A). developed prior to the eighteenth century.
(B). did not have a strict form. (√)
(C). came before classical music.
(D). was more concerned with form than feeling.

6. The word ‘goal’ in line 4 is NOT close in meaning to which of the following?
(A). aim
(B). objective
(C). result (√)
(D). purpose

7. The word ‘emotion’ in line 5 is closest in meaning to …..

(A). feeling (√)
(B). logic
(C). sound
(D). movement

8. According to the passage, romantic music filled the listener with all of the
following …. EXCEPT
(A). thoughts of poetry
(B). thoughts of wonder
(C). thoughts of loveliness
(D). thoughts of strictness (√)

Passage 2

In American colonies, Benjamin Franklin worked as a printer; from his work, he

clearly understood how difficult and costly it was to make books. However, he and his
friends really enjoyed reading and wanted to get hold of as many books as they could.

One of Franklin’s good ideas, and he had many good ideas, was to set up a club where
people could share their books. The 50 members who joined the club when it was
started in 1732 donated books and also pooled their money to buy additional books.
Anyone who wanted to could stop in and read the books, club members were also
allowed to take the books home with them, provided they returned them on time. This
‘club’ became American’s first circulating library.

1. The passage mainly discusses _____

(A). the American colonies
(B). Benjamin Franklin’s work as a printer
(C). Franklin’s many good ideas.
(D). America’s first circulating library. (√)

2. A ‘printer’ is a person who ____

(A). works in a library
(B). runs a book club
(C). reads
(D). produces books and pamphlets (√)
3. The passage indicates that Franklin had _____
(A). no good ideas
(B). one good ideas
(C). few good ideas
(D). numerous good ideas. (√)

4. According to the passage, how many people were in the original club?
(A). 5
(B). 15
(C). 50 (√)
(D). 5000

5. The word ‘pool’ could be best replaced by _____

(A). watered
(B). swam
(C). earned
(D). shared (√)

6. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage as something that club
members did?
(A). They gave books to the club
(B). They started new clubs (√)
(C). They took books home.
(D). They helped buy additional books

7. It can be inferred from the passage that nonmembers of Franklin’s club could NOT
(A). enter the club
(B). look at the club’s book..
(C). read
(D). take books out of the club. (√)

1. A = earliest raw materials

2. C = than
3. B = In spite of
4. D = that express
5. A = The Hudson and Mohawk rivers originate
6. C = when the country
7. B = requiring
8. B = how the prices

9. butuh noun ambil B

10. B. that of (equal comparison)
11. C (butuh main verb)
12. C (variasi kalimat conditionals)
13. D (butuh noun)
14. B (butuh subjek)
15. B.

16. B (THE)

17. B (THE)

18. C (OPENING)

19. C. (MANUFACTURING)

20. B (THE)

21. C (MAY HAVE)

22. B (SHARE)

23. C (PYSYCHOGICAL)

24.

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1. The committee has met twice and ....

A. they reached a final decision
B. a final decision was reached
C. its decision was reached
D. it has reached a final decision

2. The manager won't be able to attend the shareholders' meeting tomorrow because....
A. he must to give a lecture
B. he will be giving a lecture
C. of he will give lecture
D. he will have giving a lecture

3. Brenda's score on the test is the highest in class.

 A. She should study hard last night.
B. She should have studied hard last night.
C. She must have studied hard last night.
D. She had to study hard last night

4. To answer accurately is more important than...

A. to finish quickly
B. a quick finish
C. you finish it quickly
D. quick finish

5. Having been served lunch,....

A. the problems were discussed by the participants.
B. the participants discuss the problems.
C. it was discussed by the participants.
D. A discussion of the problems were made by the participants.

6. East Kalimantan relies heavily on income from oil and natural gas, and....
A. Aceh province also.
B. Aceh province too.
C. Aceh province is as well.
D. so does Aceh province.

7. The participants have had some problems deciding....

A. when they should announce the result of the meeting.
B. when are they sgoing to announce the result of the meeting.
C. when should they announce the result of the meeting.
D. the time when the result of the meeting to announce.

8. This year will be more difficult for our organization because....

 A. we have less money and volunteers than last year.
B. there is a little money and volunteers than last year.
C. it has less money and fewer volunteers than it had last year.
D. it has fewer money and less volunteers than it had last year.
9. Professor Baker told his students that...
A. they can turn over their reports on Mondays.
B. the reports can turn over on Monday.
C. they could hand in their reports on Monday.
D. the reports they can hand in on Monday.

10. The adder is a venomous snake ... bite may prove fatal to humans.
A. its
B. whom its
C. that
D. whose

11. .... a bee colony gets, the more the queen's egglaying capability diminishers.
A. It is more overcrowded.
B. The more overcrowded.
C. More overcrowded than.
D. More than overcrowded.

12. The chairwoman requested that ....

A. the participants studied more careful the problem.
B. the participants study the problem more carefully.
C. the participants studied the problem with more careful.
D. the problem be studied more carefully.

13. Unlike the earth, which rotates once every twenty-four hours ... once every ten
hours.
A. the rotation of Jupiter
 B. Jupiter rotates
C. Jupiter rotation
D. Jupiter rotate

14. Jackson,... capital of Mississippi, is the largest city in the state.

A. the
B. it is the
C. is the
D. where the

15. The various types of bacteria are classified according to...shapes.

A. whose
B. how they are
C. have
D. their

KUNCI JAWABAN

1. D
2. B
3. C
4. A
5. B
6. D
7. C
8. C
9. C
10. D
11. B
12. B
13. B
14. A
15. D

(Man) : I am trying to find a book by author Sterling Watson. Do you know

where I should look?
(Woman) : He's a fiction writer, isn't he? Log on to this computer. Click on fiction,
and then search by author name. See? Oh, he has written quite a few books, although
I've never heard of him.
(Man) : His books were never in the top ten, but I like his style. I took a class from
him at the University of Florida.
Narrator : What does the man say about Sterling Watson?

Tulisan dalam buku test Anda:

A. He is required to read one of his books but does not like his writing.
B. He has never read any of his works previously.
C. He appreciates his writing style.
D. He learned about his books from a computer.

(Man) : I can't believe we have to read this entire book by Monday.

(Woman) : Some teachers think you have nothing else to do besides prepare for their
class.
(Man) : Well, my boss thinks the same thing about my job — that it's the only thing I
have to do.
(Woman) : Oh, I didn't know you were working. What do you do?
(Man) : I do bookkeeping work for a small company on Saturdays. This weekend, I
have to prepare end of the quarter reports to give to the accountant on Monday.
(Woman) : You'd better start reading soon.
Narrator : 1. What does the man imply about the assignment?
2. What does the man imply about some teachers?
3. What does the woman suggest that the man do?
4. What does the man say about his work?

Tulisan dalam buku test Anda:

1. A. It is too much to read in such a short time.
B. He has already read the material.
C. He can read at work.
D. The teacher knows that he has a job.
2. A. They are understanding.
B. They give thought-provoking assignments.
C. They act like taking their class is the only thing a student has to do.
 D. They are unprepared.
3. A. Skip work
B. Begin work on the assignment as soon as possible
C. Quit the class
D. Stay up all night
4. A. He does manual labor.
B. He dislikes his job.
C. His employer is very understanding.
D. He works with figures.

Script Suara Ceramah pada Part C

The reason we're meeting today is to introduce the plan for our new office layout.
Starting next month, instead of cubicles, we will have an open office. There will be no
cubicle walls or partitions. Instead, desks will be arranged in clusters for each
department. The desks in each department will be facing each other in clusters of four
or six. We feel this will facilitate better communication between workers in each
departments. It will also create a more welcoming environment for clients.
The department managers will still have their own offices, but each will have large
windows and glass doors, to make employees and clients feel welcome to come inside.
We're also going to paint the walls and put in new carpeting. The project will start on
the first of next month and should take about three weeks to complete. We will be
moving to the third floor during that period.

Script Suara Pertanyaan Narrator

1. What is the speaker mainly discussing ?
2. What does the speaker say about the new layout?
3. What is NOT true about plans for the office?

Tulisan dalam buku tes Anda:

1. A. An office renovation
B. Building construction
C. A marketing campaign
D. New carpeting
2. A. The desks will be facing away from each other.
B. Department managers will sit in cubicles.
C. It will increase the number of sales to clients.
D. It will improve employee communication.
3. A. The walls will be painted.
B. New carpeting will be installed.
C. Work will begin next year.
D. The work will take three weeks.

KUNCI JAWABAN :
1. C

1. A
2. C
3. B
4. D

1. A
2. D
3. C

1. _____ the demands of aerospace, medicine, and agriculture, aengineers, are

creating exotic new metallic substances.
(A) Meet
(B) Being met are
(C) To meet
(D) They are meeting

2. _______ James A. Bland, “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny” was adopted is the
state song of Virginia in 1940.
(A) Was written b
(B) His writing was
(C) He wrote the
(D) Written by

3. Mary Garden, ______ the early 1900’s was considered one of the best singing
actresses of her time.
(A) a soprano was popular
(B) in a popular soprano
(C) was a popular soprano
(D) a popular soprano in

4. In the realm of psychological theory Margaret F. Washburn was a dualist _____

that motor phenomena have an essential role in psychology.
(A) who she believed
(B) who believed
(C) believed
(D) who did she believe

16. On Ellesmere Island in the Arctic one fossil forest consist of a nearly hundred

A B
large stumps scattered on an exposed coal bed.
C D
17. The surface conditions on the planet Mars are the more like the Earth’s than are
A B
C
those of any other planet in the solar system.
D

18. The midnight sun is a phenomenon in which the Sun visible remains in the sky
A
B C
for twenty-four hours or longer.
D

19. The Humber River and its valley form a major salmon-fishing, lumbering, hunting,
A B C
and farmer region in western Newfoundland, Canada.
D

KUNCI JAWABAN

1. C
2. D
3. D
4. B

16. B
17. B
18. B
19. D

1. The first pizza restaurant _________ in New York City in 1895.

A. Opened
B. Opening
C. It opened
D. It was opening

2. The world’s largest deposits of asbestos have be located in the Appalachian

mountains.

3. Both Thomas Jefferson or John Adams died on the very same day, July 4, 1826.

4. _____ without a backbone is Atlantic squid.

A. For the largest creature
B. It is the largest creature
C. The largest creature
D. The largest creature is

5. Most tundra plant are mosses and lichens that hug the ground.
6. Virginia Dare, the first child born to English parents in the New World, was named
after the Virginia Colony where her was born.

7. Societies _________ to at least 1500 B.C made use of mold to treat superficial
infections.
A. They date back
B. The date is back
C. Dating back
D. Date back

8. Sound waves are produced when _________ quickly.

A. Objects vibrate
B. Vibrating objects
C. Objects to vibrate
D. The vibration of objects

9. All of the oceans of the world is home to members of the dolphin family.

1. Earth rotates on its axis and follows an elliptically orbit around the sun.

2. A genetic predisposition determines ________ is most likely to form freckles.

A. He
B. It
C. Who
D. When

3. Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to ride in a car, fly in an airplane, and
submerging in a submarine.

4. Cribbage is a card game in which points are tally by moving pegs on a board.

5. Characteristically, the dulcimer features three or four strings _________ along a

fingerboard.
A. Stretched
B. Are stretched
C. Stretched them
D. They are stretched

6. The constellation Aquarius was associated with the rainy seasons by a large
amount of ancient civilizations.

7. ________ Abraham Lincoln saved from Thanksgiving dinner became a beloved

family pet.
A. A turkey was
B. For a turkey
C. A turkey that
D. A turkey for

8. Only a small percentage of mined diamonds are actually suitably for use as
gemstones.

9. The flintlock pistol was popular as a weapon in the seventeenth century because
they could be fired one-handed by a rider on horseback.

10. Henry VIII ruled that people born on February 29 _________ their birthdays on
February 28 in non-leap years.
A. A celebrity
B. A celebration
C. Celebrating
D. Would celebrate

1. The Forces________ earthquakes are the same ones that build mountains.
a). unleash
b). unleashes
c). that unleash
d.) that unleashing

2. Under a microscope, ______of a computer chip looks like a network of aluminum

tracks.
a). the circuitry
b). with the circuitry
c). after the circuitry
d). it circulates

3. Dinosaurs became extinct 64 milion years_____first people ever appeared on earth.

a). prior to the
b) the preceding time
c) before the
d) the

4. In concrete poetry the primary consideration is the way that ____ in the poem.
a). words are arranged
b). the arrangement of words
c). arranging the words

5. Scientist are now only beginning to understand the factors_____cigarrete addiction.

a) cause
b) causing
c) they cause
d) causes

6. Agricultural ______largely responsible for the unfolding of nutritional knowledge

of vitamins and minerals early in the last century.
a) was
b) chemists
c) with chemists
d) chemists were

7. Each summer the Roanoke Historical Association sponsors a play that shows
______ about the fate of the early colony.
a) known
b) what is known
c) what knowing
d) is known

8. Agricultural requires a steady supply of water to keep the plants alive, so_______
in areas with a lot of rainfall.
a) naturally started
b) starting nature
c) it naturally started
d) its natural start

9. Even though _____ about $4,000 to fully train a hearing dog, these dogs are
generally given without charge to qualified candidates.
a) it costs
b) the cost of it
c) the cost
d) costs

10. The reactore core of a nuclear reactor is housed in a steel vessel ____ by a thick
layer of concrete.
a) is surrounded
b) it surrounds
c) surrounds
d) surrounded

11. The properties of every protein depend on how _____ are arranged in the
molecular chain.
a) all the amino acids
b) all of the amino acids
c) all of the aminos acidify
d) of all the amino acids

Ali often stays at home. Ali sometimes takes a walk.

we can also say____
a. Ali likes staying home than take a walk
b. Ali would rather staying home than taking a walk
c. Ali prefers staying home than taking a walk
d. Ali prefers to stay home to take a walk
e. Ali prefers staying home to taking a walk

Proponents of solar energy wonder _____ funded so few research projects

a. why the government has
b. has the government
c. why has the government
d. about the government
e. why the government was

She didn't say much, but her tone voice insinuated more
(synonim)
a. blamed
b. demanded
c. intervened
d. suggested
e. expected

His father insisted on _____ medicine because he thinks it will enable his son to help
many people
a. he is to study
b. having studied
c. his studying
d. that he studies
e. he is studying

1. …..team sports require cooperation

• Off all
• They are all
• All ( karena bentuknya plural)
• Why are all

2. Anyone who has ever pulled weeds from a garden …roots firmly anchor plants to
the soil
• Is well aware of
• Is well aware that
• Well aware
• Well aware that

2. Centuries of erosion have exposed …rock surface in the painted desert of northern
Arizona
• In colors of the rainbow
• Colored like a rainbow
• Rainbow colored
• A rainbow’s coloring

4. A person of…age my suffer from defect of vision

• Every
• Some
• Certain
• Any

5. …have settled, one of their first concerns has been to locate an adequate water
supply
• Wherever people
• There are people who
• Wheather people
• People

6. If a bar magnet is …., the two pieces form two complete magnets, each with a north
and south pole.
• Broken
• Broke
• Breaking (present continous tense)
• Break

7. The higher the temperature of a molecule,…

• The more energy it has
• Than it has more energy
• More energy has it
• It has more energy

8. The type of plant and animal life living in and around a pound depends on the soil
of the pound, …, and the pound’s location.
• What the quality of the water is
• How is he water quality
• The quality of the water
• What is the water quality

9. Frontier surgeon Ephraim MacDonald had to perform operations…anesthesia

• No
• Not having
• Without
• There wasn’t

10. …young, chimpanzess are easily trained

• When are
• When
• They are
• When they
.
11. Clifford Holland,…civil engineer was in charge of he construction of the first
tunnel under the Hudson River.
• He was a
•A
• Being a
• Who, as a

12. …parrots are native to tropical regions is untrue

• That all
• All
• Why all
• Since all

13. Rarely…seen far from water

• Spotted turtles
• Spotted turtles are
• Have spotted turtles
• Are spotted turtles

14. A major concern among archaeologists today is the preservation of archeological

sites,…are threatened by development.
• Of which many
• Many of them
• Which many
• Many of which

15. In 1775 Daniel Boone opened the Wilderness trail and made….the first
settlements in Kentucky.
• Possibly it was
• As possible
• Possible
• It possible

The various parts of the body require so different surgical skills that many surgical
specialties have developed.

Chemical engineering is based on the principles of physics, chemists, and

mathematics.

Ballet performers must be believable actors and actresses as well as experts dancers.

Venus, the second planet from the Sun, is exactly almost the same size as the Earth.

P. T. Barnum opened his own circus in 1871 and become the most famous showman
of his time.
The way a child plays with other children reveals a lots about the child’s emotional
development.

Sheep have been domesticated for over 5,000 years ago.

One reason birds have been so successful is because of their able to escape from
danger quickly.

Sharks can detect minute electrical discharges coming from its prey.

The fossil remains of much extinct mammals have been found in the tar pits at
Rancho La Brea in Los Angeles.

It was in a cave near Magdalena, New Mexico, when the oldest known ears of
cultivated corn were discovered.

The techniques of science and magic are quite different, but their basic aims–-to
understand and control nature–-they are very similar.
Perhaps mankind’s first important musical influence were the songs of birds.

The works of early American woodcarvers had many artistic qualities, but these
craftsmen probably did not think of them as artists.

The horses used play polo are not of any special breed or of any definite size.