This document contains a reading passage and questions about the passage. The passage discusses how more children are now driven to school by their parents instead of walking or riding bikes like previous generations. It notes that while safety is a concern, this lack of active transport means children may be missing out on important exercise and life skills. An expert is quoted saying that in other countries where children are more actively involved in everyday life through walking and cycling, they get enough physical activity without needing to participate in organized sports.
This document contains a reading passage and questions about the passage. The passage discusses how more children are now driven to school by their parents instead of walking or riding bikes like previous generations. It notes that while safety is a concern, this lack of active transport means children may be missing out on important exercise and life skills. An expert is quoted saying that in other countries where children are more actively involved in everyday life through walking and cycling, they get enough physical activity without needing to participate in organized sports.
This document contains a reading passage and questions about the passage. The passage discusses how more children are now driven to school by their parents instead of walking or riding bikes like previous generations. It notes that while safety is a concern, this lack of active transport means children may be missing out on important exercise and life skills. An expert is quoted saying that in other countries where children are more actively involved in everyday life through walking and cycling, they get enough physical activity without needing to participate in organized sports.
This document contains a reading passage and questions about the passage. The passage discusses how more children are now driven to school by their parents instead of walking or riding bikes like previous generations. It notes that while safety is a concern, this lack of active transport means children may be missing out on important exercise and life skills. An expert is quoted saying that in other countries where children are more actively involved in everyday life through walking and cycling, they get enough physical activity without needing to participate in organized sports.
Fill in the blank by using past continuous or simple past c. I was still reading it 1. It … when I left the house in the morning, so I opened d. I still have to read it my umbrella e. I am still reading it a. Rained 8. I … all over the place for my dictionary when I b. Had rained suddenly remembered that my sister had borrowed c. Is raining d. Was raining it e. Will be raining a. Have looked 2. The sun … when we went out b. Was looking a. Was shining c. Looked b. Was shone d. Am looking c. Shining e. Have been looking d. Shines 9. Susan: I went to your house at 7 p.m. last night, but e. Shone you weren‟t home. Where were you? 3. I walked slowly through the market. People … all kinds Ruly: oh. I … for a new dictionary at the bookstore of fruits and vegetables. I studied the prices carefully then. before I decided what to buy. a. Look a. Have sold b. Sell b. Will look c. Had sold c. Looked d. Was selling d. Was looking e. Were selling e. Have looked 4. We … at hotel in Pangandaran when the hurricane 10. A: so, you have finished typing those letters! hit southern Ciamis last month. As soon as the When did you do it? hurricane moved out the area, we left and we went B: when you … meeting back home. a. Were attending a. Had stayed b. Attend b. Stay c. Have attended c. Were staying d. Attended d. Stayed e. Had attended e. Are staying PART B 5. A: you were supposed to be here ten minutes ago. Choose the most Appropriate Alternative Where were you? This Passage is for number 11-13 B: I … for a place to park Over this decade, employment in jobs requiring a. Am looking education beyond a high school diploma will grow more b. Looked rapidly than employment in jobs that do not; of the 30 c. Have looked fastest growing occupations, more than half require post- d. Look secondary education. With the average earnings of e. Was looking college graduates at a level that is twice as high as that of 6. Nindy: when did you get these cassettes? workers with only a high school diploma, higher Lia : Yesterday, when I … home, a boy asked me education is now the clearest … (11) into the middle to give it to you class. a. Walk In higher education, the U.S. has been outpaced b. Walked internationally. While the United States ranks ninth in c. Walking the world in the proportion of young adults enrolled in d. Has been walking college, we have fallen to the 16th in the world in our e. Was walking share of certificates and degrees awarded to adults ages 7. Sister: why did you lend him that book? … 25-34 lagging behind Korea, Canada, Japan, and other Brother: I am sorry. I didn‟t know nations. While more than half of college students a. I still read it graduate within six years, the … (12) for low-income Research suggests at least a third of Australian students is around 25 percent. children aged 9-16 years are not getting the amount of Acknowledging these factors early in his daily physical activity recommended in national administration, President Obama challenged every guidelines. However, this is not because children American to commit to at least one year of higher participation in leisure or sporting activities has dropped education or post-secondary training. … (13) that off, says Dr. Jan Garrard. Participation in these activities America would once again have the highest proportion has not altered much over the years, Garrard says but of college graduates in the world by 2020. what has changed is the level of incidental activity (source: www.whitehouse.gov) children do. “when you look at countries where children 11. The option that the best completes (11) is… are just active as part of everyday life, they do not have a. Effort to be sporty. All they have to do is to get around the way b. Position the community gets around by walking and cycling, and c. Beginning they get enough physical activity.” d. Advantage 14. The author develops some ideas in paragraph 2 e. Pathway by… 12. The option that the best completes (12) is… a. Describing parents‟ chauffeuring followed by its a. Learning achievement effects b. Academic capacity b. Explaining reasons for chauffeuring and their c. Completion rate advantages d. Logical understanding c. Discussing the function of chauffeuring and the e. Intellectual development impacts 13. The option that the best completes (13) is… d. Arguing for chauffeuring practices for a. Americans will deserve higher education for children‟s safety their future e. Exposing how parents chauffeur and its b. Middle class Americans are invited to provide drawbacks financial aids 15. By writing the sentence “… chauffeuring your c. American students are suggested that they take kids to school every day could mean they are entrepreneurial skills missing out on much-needed exercise and other life d. The President has set up a new educational goal skills.” (paragraph 2, lines 3-6) the author implies for the country that… e. The government recommends Americans for a. Taking kids to school makes them deprived college education individuals when they grow up This Passage is for number 14 to 17 b. Kids given a lift to school likely lose vital social Did you ride your bike to school when you were a and physical advantages kid? A generation ago most of kids rode, walked, or c. Schooling means not only learning in classes caught a bus to school; very few of us were dropped off but also socializing with others by our parents at the school gate. These days most of us d. Parents spoil their kind‟s future social and have experienced the daily traffic jams around school at physical life by giving them a lift drop-off and pick-up times, as parents drive their e. When a child needs physical and social training, children to the school gate. While there is no national parents should facilitate them. data on the number of children who walk or ride to 16. Dr. Garrard‟s statement “… where children are school, a recent Victorian survey found nearly half of all just active as part of everyday life, they do not children are driven to school every day. have to be sporty…” (paragraph 3 line 11-12), may Parents choose to drop their kids at school for a be best restated that… number of reasons – mostly to do with safety and a. Children who are active do not automatically convenience. However, experts say chauffeuring your mean they will be good at sport kids to school every day could mean they are missing out b. Being muscular should not be the aim of on much needed exercise and other life skills. children who are naturally active c. Children‟s physical fitness is not closely related paid to the traditional farming knowledge of indigenous with their daily activities populations. North American and European uses of the d. Activeness in children does not mean to make term sometimes avoid the inclusion of such overtly these children physically fit political goals. In these cases, agroecology is seen more e. When naturally active, children need no more strictly as a scientific discipline with less specific social scheduled sports activities goals. 17. The part following the passage above most likely Source: www.dostoc.com contains information on… 18. The points provided in paragraph 3 of the passage a. Advice parents for their children to have explain that enough physical activities a. Different places tend to define agroecology b. The decreasing trend of children to do physical scientifically activities at their will b. Interpreting agroecology needs to include c. Parental motives behind chauffeuring their political side children to school c. Agroecology is associated geographically and d. Reasons for children not to do fun and politically incidental activities d. People‟s aspiration of agroecology differs e. Effects of having children not to be given a lift significantly to school e. Nobody can define agroecology with scientific This following text is for number 18-21 precision Agroecologists do not always agree about what 19. Ideas in paragraph 2 and 3 define agroecology as agroecology be in the long – term. Different definitions shown in the consecutive relation as… of the term agroecology can be distinguished largely by a. Political and interactive approaches the specificity with which one defines the term b. General and cross – authoritative sides “ecology” as well as the term‟s potential political c. Multidisciplinary and restricted angles connotations. Definitions of agroecology, therefore, may d. Ecological and socioeconomic viewpoints be first grouped according to the specific context within e. Agricultural and sociocultural perspectives which they situate agriculture. Agroecology is defined as 20. Based on the passage above, if someone is a “the study of the relation of agricultural crops and genuine agroecologist, he/she will likely… environment.” This definition refers to the “ecology” a. Examine social, cultural and economic part of “agroecology” narrowly as the natural aspects environment. Following this definition, an agroecologist b. Do research on environmental and political would study agriculture‟s various relationships with soil loads health, water quality, air quality, meso – and microfauna, c. Include scientific methodology in his/her surrounding flora, environmental toxins, and other approach environmental contexts. d. Put aside social aspects in his/her ecological A more common definition of the word can be taken studies from Delgaard et al., who refer to agroecology as the e. Make use of multidisciplinary analysis in study of the interactions between plants, animals, his/her inquiry humans and the environment within agricultural systems. 21. Regarding the definition of agroecology, the Consequently, agroecology is inherently author assumes that it… multidisciplinary, including factors from agronomy, a. Tends to denote scientific loads ecology, sociology, economics and related disciplines. In b. May be understood this case, the “-ecology” portion of “agroecology” is c. Has universal underlying values defined broadly to include social, cultural, and economic d. Can be interpreted differently contexts as well. e. Should be exclusively situated In the global south, the term often carries overtly This following text is for number 22-25 political connotations. Such political definitions of the Passage 1 term usually ascribe to it the goals of social and People still collect books as valuable antiques or for economic justice; special attention, in this case, is often a hobby, but you get virtually all the information you need from the view screen of your home computer b. People still dream of using libraries in spite of system. The computer is linked to a library – not a time and space library of books but an electronic library where c. Access to information in an e – library requires information on every subject is stored in computer a good IT system memory banks. d. Libraries provide quick access to free e – Having this service at your fingertips is like having a books and newspaper huge brand – new encyclopedia in your homes at all e. The role of library changes fast due to times. The computer can tell you anything you want to advanced IT technology know, and the information is always the very latest 24. Based on the information in both passages, it can available. There need be only one central library to be hypothesized that… which computers in homes, office schools, and colleges a. Conventional libraries will continue despite are connected. At the library experts are constantly busy, the threats feeding in the very latest information as they receive it. b. Policies should be made to conserve common In theory one huge electronic library could serve the libraries whole world! c. Threats to book publishers become more Source: blogs.smithsonianmag.com serious Passage 2 d. Electronic libraries will gain much popularity E - books have not spelled the demise of the local e. Unpopularity of ordinary libraries is obvious library in New York. In fact, according to a new report 25. The topic discussed in both passages is… from the center for an Urban Future, 40.5 million people a. The electronic library establishment in the visited the city‟s public libraries, more than all of the digital era city‟s professional sports terms and major cultural b. The importance of libraries in the computer institutions combined. era The report “Branches of Opportunity” looks at the c. The preference to choosing public libraries changing role of the city‟s libraries in the digital age. It d. The advanced technology in managing finds that while public libraries are serving more New libraries Yorkers than ever, they are undervalued by policymakers e. The number of Public Library visitors in New and face growing threats. New York City‟s library York system is a unique hybrid. Three organizations – the PART C New York Public Library, along with the Brooklyn and Complete the sentences into Conditional Sentence Queens Libraries – operate 206 local branches trough out form! the five boroughs. 26. If you are going to participate in a big athletic or Source: www.wnyc.org give an important business presentation, you … 22. Which idea in Passage 1 is different from that in the same way. passage 2? a. Feel a. E – libraries require sophisticated IT expertise b. Would feel b. Access to information in e – libraries is c. Felt unlimited d. Had felt c. Collections of e – libraries are regularly e. Feels updated 27. X: what if your father asks you about the scratch d. E – libraries function as a huge information on his new car bank Y: I … that it‟s my fault e. In really most people are still e – library a. Simply told him illiterate b. Am simply telling him 23. Which of the following statements is true c. Will simply tell him according to both passages? d. Would simply told him a. People would rather go to the library than e. Would simply have told him watch sporting events 28. If you use a city map, you … your way a. Are not losing b. Will not lose 34. if the earth could be squeezed enough to become c. Would not lose a black hole, it … the size of a marble d. Did not lose a. were e. Have not lose b. has been 29. „if all the students pass their final examination, c. would be the teacher will give a party for them at his d. would have been house.‟ e. will be This means that … at the teacher‟s house 35. Rieka: what would you give me if you were sent a. There will possibly a party abroad? b. There is no party Reza: if I were sent abroad, I … a dictionary for c. There has to be party you d. There was a party a. Bought e. There has been a party b. Will buy 30. A: can I go with you to the pop concert tonight? c. Would buy B: … d. Will have bought a. If you want to go, you will have to buy your e. Would have bought own ticket 36. Sue: I know you got a bad mark for the English b. If you had gone, you would have bought your test. What‟s wrong with you? own ticket Chris: if I … that there was a test, I would have c. Had you gone, I would have bought you a prepared for it well ticket a. Know d. You would have been able to go if you had b. Knew bought your own ticket c. Had known e. You could have gone if you had a ticket d. Have known 31. If he prepared his lesson, he … his examinations e. Would know a. Passed 37. A: did Paul get his work done? b. Would have passed B: he … if his computer had not broken down. c. Had passed a. Could d. Would be passed b. Could be e. Would pass c. Could not 32. My younger brother thinks that everybody can d. Could have become an astronaut. He often asks himself e. Could not have “what … if I were an astronaut” 38. I could never have finished my work if my a. Do I do brother … me b. Will I do a. Didn‟t help c. Would I do b. Hasn‟t helped d. Am I doing c. Hadn‟t helped e. Am I going to do d. Doesn‟t help 33. A: why don‟t you try to find a job in factory? e. Wasn‟t helping With the money you earn, you can buy things you 39. He … if I had not reminded him need. a. May forget B: if I worked in a factory, I wouldn‟t have much b. Should forget time to study c. Must forget What does the underlined sentence mean? d. Might have forgotten a. B woks hard in a factory e. May forgot b. A allows B to work in a factory 40. I‟ve finished cleaning the houses, but if Ratu had c. B didn‟t work in a factory not helped me, I … it so quickly d. B worked in a factory a. Could never have done e. B doesn‟t work in a factory b. Could never do c. Have never done c. Would have endangered d. Can never do d. Endangers e. Can never have done e. Would endanger PART D 47. X: could you tell your brother to meet me at the Change the sentence into good simple future tense! library tomorrow 41. In the developed world, where more than 70% of Y: sure, I … him citizens already live in cities, urbanization is a. Am telling spread evenly, and population growth… b. Will tell a. Has slowed c. Be telling him b. Slowed d. Will be telling c. Will slow e. Would have told d. Would slow 48. A: what is your plan for this weekend? e. Had slowed B: I … my brother 42. A: have you already decided where to go for a. Will have visited holidays? b. Have visited B: certainly, we … to Italy c. Will have been visiting a. Go d. Visited b. Have gone e. Will visit c. Will have gone 49. When you arrive on the sixth floor, give this note d. Are going to go to the secretary; and she … you to my office. e. Will have been going a. Directs 43. Rifaldi: I … the students exchange program next b. To direct year c. Directing Rabbani: that‟s a good idea d. Directed a. Join e. Will direct b. Joined 50. A: I forgot to return this book to the library c. Will join B: well, I am afraid you … a fine when you d. Have joined return it e. Have been joining a. Had to pay 44. By the time we get to the party, all the others will b. Having to pay have eaten, and … no food left for us c. Have had to pay a. Will be d. Will have to pay b. Will have been e. Had had to pay c. It is going to be d. There is e. There will be 45. A: what are you planning to do with these paintings? B: I … them in the cultural center next month a. To be exhibiting b. To exhibit c. Am going to exhibit d. Be exhibiting e. We exhibit 46. A: don‟t you think the bus driver is speeding? B: yes, I‟m afraid he … the lives of the passengers a. Endangered b. Will endanger