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Born and raised in Queens, New York City, Donald Trump received an economics degree from
the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. In 1971, he took charge of his family's
real estate and construction firm, Elizabeth Trump & Son, which was later renamed The Trump
Organization. During his business career, Trump has built, renovated, and managed numerous office
towers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. He owned the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants from
1996 to 2015, and has lent the use of his name in the branding of various products. From 2004 to 2015,
he hosted The Apprentice, a reality television series on NBC. As of 2016, Forbes listed him as the
324th wealthiest person in the world and 113th richest in the United States, with a net worth of
$4.5 billion.
Trump sought the Reform Party's presidential nomination in 2000, but withdrew before voting
began. He considered running as a Republican for the 2012 election, but ultimately decided against it.
In June 2015, he announced his candidacy for the 2016 election, and quickly emerged as the front-
runner among 17 contenders in the Republican primaries. His final opponents suspended their
campaigns in May 2016, and in July he was formally nominated at the Republican Convention along
with Mike Pence as his running mate. His campaign received unprecedented media coverage and
international attention. Many of his statements in interviews, on social media, and at campaign rallies
were controversial or false.
Trump won the presidential election on November 8, 2016, against Democratic rival Hillary
Clinton, and assumed office on January 20, 2017. Elected at age 70, he is the
oldest and wealthiest person to assume the presidency; the first without prior military or governmental
service; and the fifth elected with less than a plurality of the national popular vote.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump)

1. What is the writer's intention in writing the text?

A. Telling about American's election
B. Sharing about Donald Trump's real estate firm
C. Describing Donald Trump who won the election
D. Explaining about political view of Donald Trump
E. Admiring Donald Trump from his life achievement

2. Why did Donald Trump campaign get unprecedented media coverage?

A. Many of his statements were controversial.
B. He owned the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants.
C. Trump's platform emphasized renegotiating U.S.–China relations.
D. His campaign rallies showed his mocking expression to some people.
E. He advocates a largely non-interventionist approach to foreign policy.

3. His campaign received unprecedented media coverage and international attention.

The underlined word has the similar meaning to ....
A. ordinary
B. common
C. greatest
D. worst
E. large

Town Contaminated                
Moscow – A Russian journalist   has uncovered evidence of another Soviet nuclear catastrophe, which
killed 10 sailors and contaminated an entire town.   
Yelena Vazrshavskya is the first journalist to speak to people who witnessed the explosion of a nuclear
submarine at the naval base of Shkotovo – 22 near Vladivostock.     
 The accident, which occurred 13 months before the Chernobyl disaster, spread radioactive fallsout over
the base and nearby town, but was covered up by officials of the Soviet Union.  Residents were told the
explosion in the reactor of the Victor class submarine during a refit had been a ‘thermal’ and not a nuclear
explosion. And those involved in the cleanup operation to remove than 600 tons of contaminated material
were sworn to secrecy.
A board of investigators was later to describe it as the worst accident in the history of the Soviet
Navy.        
4. What is the text tells us about?  
A. The first journalist interviewed the people about the explosion of nuclear submarine.
B. Soviet nuclear catastrophe which killed 10 sailors and contaminated the entire town.
C. The reactor of the victor-class submarine had been a thermal.
D. Radioactive falls out over the base and nearby town.
E. The worst accident in the history of the Soviet Navy.  
                                                                         
5. What is the effect of Soviet nuclear catastrophe?
A. Covered up by the officials of the Soviet Union
B. Contaminated entire town and killed 10 sailors
C. Described as the worst accident in the Soviet Navy
D. Removed more than 600 tons contaminated material
E. Spread radioactive fell out over the base and nearby town

6. “......, but was covered up by officials of the Soviet Union.                              

The underlined words mean...       
A. hidden
B. packed  
C. blocked
D. included
E. protected

During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, European traders started to get involved in the Slave Trade.
European traders had previously been interested in African nations and kingdoms, such as Ghana and Mali, due
to their sophisticated trading networks. Traders then wanted to trade in human beings.
They took enslaved people from western Africa to Europe and the Americas. At first this was on quite a small
scale but the Slave Trade grew during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as European countries conquered
many of the Caribbean islands and much of North and South America.
Europeans who settled in the Americas were lured by the idea of owning their own land and were reluctant to
work for others. Convicts from Britain were sent to work on the plantations but there were never enough so, to
satisfy the tremendous demand for labor, planters purchased slaves.
They wanted the enslaved people to work in mines and on tobacco plantations in South America and on sugar
plantations in the West Indies. Millions of Africans were enslaved and forced across the Atlantic, to labor in
plantations in the Caribbean and America.
Slavery changed when Europeans became involved, as it led to generation after generation of peoples being
taken from their homelands and enslaved forever. It led to people being legally defined as chattel slaves.
A chattel slave is an enslaved person who is owned forever and whose children and children's children are
automatically enslaved. Chattel slaves are individuals treated as complete, property to be bought and sold. Chattel
slavery was supported and made legal by European governments and monarchs. This type of enslavement was
practiced in European colonies from the sixteenth century onwards.

6. What is the topic of the text?

A. Slavery in Europe
B. The abolition of slavery
C. C. Countries in which slaves were taken
D. Human beings trade committed by Europeans
E. Slaves in plantations in the Caribbean and America

7. We can conclude that … .

A. Chattel slavery occurred in Europe
B. Chattel slavery was against human right
C. Chattel slavery was applied by poor settlers
D. Chattel slavery only went to a slave’s children
E. Chattel slavery was caused by plantation and mine

8. At first this was on quite a small scale but the Slave Trade grew during the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, … European countries conquered many of the Caribbean islands and much of North and South
America.
A. Despite.
B. Because.
C. Although.
D. Therefore.
E. Moreover.

Singapore had the highest global average peak internet connection speed in the third quarter of this year,
and ranked third in the world in average internet connection speed, according to a new report.
South Korea and Hong Kong took the top spots in average connection speed at 26.3 megabytes per
second (Mbps) and 20.1 Mbps respectively, according to the Akamai State of the internet report for Q3,
released by Massachusetts-based content delivery network services provider Akamai.
Singapore came in third at 18.2 Mbps, but led the pack in average peak connection speed at 162 Mbps,
with Hong Kong and South Korea trailing behind at 116.2 Mbps and 114.2 Mbps respectively.
This is the fifth consecutive quarter for which Singapore has snagged the top spot.
To explain the difference between average connection speed and average peak connection speed,
executive director of Deloitte Consulting in South-east Asia Jan Wupperman used an analogy of a
highway, The Straits Times reported in July.
"When the highway is empty, your car can go at its maximum speed, or peak speed," he said. "But
when there are many cars on the highway - such as when everyone is using the same bandwidth for
streaming, surfing and downloading during peak hours - you end up with traffic jams, or a lower average
speed."
Connectivity has grown globally, with the average connection speed growing 2.3 per cent quarter-on-
quarter and increasing 21 per cent to 6.3 Mbps year-on-year, according to Akamai's report.
The global average peak connection speed increased 3.4 per cent quarter-on-quarter and 16 per cent
year-on-year to 37.2 Mbps.
In the Asia-Pacific region, India had the lowest average connection speed at 4.1 Mbps, and the lowest
average peak connection speed at 27.0 Mbps.

9. What topic is reported?

A. Internet connection speed in Asia.
B. Internet use in different countries.
C. Internet connection speed in Asean countries.
D. Internet connection speed in American region.
E. Internet connection speed in different countries.

10. Why does the speed of internet decrease?

A. Many people have access on internet.
B. A lot of people play games on internet.
C. Some people use high speed internet connection.
D. A lot of people use the same bandwidth at the same time.
E. People use internet for streaming, surfing and downloading.

11. It is implied that … .

A. People in Asean countries use internet faster than those in Hongkong
B. People in Korea use internet faster than those in Singapore.
C. People in Hongkong use internet faster than those in Korea.
D. People in Singapore use internet faster than those in Korea.
E. People in India use internet faster than those in Singapore.
Ability to speak in public is an asset and it comes with several benefits. It can not only boost some aspects of your
personal life, but your professional life as well.
Public speaking can contribute to the growth of knowledge. It helps you share whatever valuable ideas and
thoughts you might have, with a larger group of people. In return, you also learn a lot when those people challenge
your ideas and question your opinions. It allows you to develop a clearer picture of the subject.
Public speaking helps you develop the ability to persuade. When you speak confidently and convincingly to a
large group of people, persuading an individual to carry out a task becomes much easier.
Besides persuasion attempt and knowledge growth, public speaking can improve your critical thinking abilities.
When you sit and prepare a speech for a seminar or a workshop, you automatically tend to focus on the quality of
your work. You will be forced to do a lot of research in order to get the content right. It will help you develop
better ways to deliver your content and design it with relevance.
Your personal life also gains a lot from public speaking. The confidence you develop from public speaking can
support you with building more personal relationships. It becomes much easier to socialize and make new friends.
So, public speaking skills enhance your professional and personal lives. These will boost your personal quality
in connecting with people.

12. What is the topic of the text?

A. The use of public speaking
B. The effect of public speaking in cognitive process
C. The advantages of having public speaking skills
D. The importance of developing public speaking skills
E. The relation between public speaking skills and personal life.

13. What is mainly told in paragraph 3?

A. The benefit of a confident speaker
B. The development of public speaking
C. The effect of public speaking in communication
D. The benefit of public speaking in persuading people
E. The power of public speaking during communication

14. Regarding the positive effects of public speaking in professional life, what argument is given by the
writer?
A. People who speak in front of the public is knowledgeable.
B. Knowledge, persuasion skill, and critical thinking can be improved.
C. The chance to get knowledge, persuasion skill, and critical thinking is obvious.
D. We can use knowledge, persuasion skill, and critical thinking appropriately.
E. The contribution of knowledge for improving persuasion skill and critical thinking is apparent.

A developed country, industrialized country, or "more economically developed country" (MEDC), is a

sovereign state that has a highly developed economy and advanced technological infrastructure relative to
other less industrialized nations. Most commonly, the criteria for evaluating the degree of economic
development are gross domestic product (GDP), gross national product (GNP), the per capita income,
level of industrialization, amount of widespread infrastructure and general standard of living. Which
criteria are to be used and which countries can be classified as being developed are subjects of debate.
Developed countries have post-industrial economies, meaning the service sector provides more wealth
than the industrial sector. They are contrasted with developing countries, which are in the process of
industrialization, or undeveloped countries, which are pre-industrial and almost entirely agrarian. As of
2015, advanced economies comprise 60.8% of global GDP based on nominal values and 42.9% of global
GDP based on purchasing-power parity (PPP) according to the International Monetary Fund. In 2015, the
ten largest advanced economies by GDP in both nominal and PPP terms were Australia, Canada, France,
Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

15. What is the text mainly about?

A. Developed country
B. Gross domestic product
C. Gross national product
D. Purchasing-power parity
E. Criteria used as being developed

16. A country is considered to be developed when … .

A. its economy and technological infrastructure are developing
B. both its economy and infrastructure are sophisticated
C. its economy depends on industrialization
D. its gross national product is developed
E. its gross domestic product is high

17. What is mainly discussed in the second paragraph?

A. Developed countries
B. Undeveloped countries
C. Purchasing-power parity
D. Process of industrialization
E. International Monetary Fund

18. “ Most commonly, the criteria for evaluating the degree of economic development are gross
domestic product (GDP), gross national product (GNP), the per capita income, level of industrialization,
amount of widespread infrastructure and general standard of living.” (Paragraph 1)
What is the closest meaning of the underlined word?
A. Urgent.
B. Extensive.
C. Important.
D. Necessary.
E. Fundamental.

The most traditional American food may well be cornmeal. Cornmeal, as we know it today, began as a
Native American staple. The native Americans grew corn of six different colors- black, red, white,
yellow, blue, and multicolored. They ground the corn kernels into cornmeal and mixed it with salt and
water, then baked it. This recipe was introduced to the early colonists, who experimented with it and
developed their own uses for cornmeal. Succotash (a meat stew with cornmeal added) and mush
(leftover cornmeal porridge cut and fried) are two meals invented by early colonists.
Visitors can travel to the South and enjoy spoon bread, a smooth pudding-like dish, or to New England
for johnnycakes, kind of flat pancake. But probably the most common forms of cornmeal nationwide
are corn wide, cornbread, cornmeal muffins, and the “hush puppy”- a ball of cornmeal batter that is
fried in oil.

19. What is the text about?

A. Originally Cornmeal
B. Six different colors of cornmeal
C. The most common forms of cornmeal
D. Cornmeal as traditional American food
E. The colonist’s experimentation the uses of cornmeal.

20. It can be inferred from the text that cornmeal was originally used by…
A. Visitors
B. Native Americans
C. The early colonists
D. The New Englanders
E. The people in the South