SOAL UTS BAHASA INGGRIS

KELAS X
SEMESTER 2
TAHUN PEALAJARAN 2019-2020

1. Which sentence is correct for simple past tense? 

a. Is she write a letter to him?   
b. Does she writing a letter to him?   
c. Did she writing a letter to him?   
d. Did she write a letter to him?
e. Do you like ice cream?

2. Tuti : Where did you go yesterday, Rani?

Rani: I ……. to Bandung with my mother.
Tuti : How did you go there?
Rani: By bus.   
a. ago       
b. went     
c. have gone         
d. am going
e. gone

3. Roro : Did Roni …… Tom and Jerry  show last night?

Jongrang : Yes, he did.   
a. watched   
b. watch     
c. watches       
d. watching
e. has watched

4. Lina : Did the boys study after class?

          Rudi : No.
          Lina : What did they do?
          Rudi : They…..football.
a. play     
b. plays     
c. played       
d. will play
e. playing

5. Budi : What did you buy last night on a big sale?

          Jojo : ……………….
a. I buy a jacket.     
b. I will buy a jacket.   
c. I bought a jacket.     
d. I am buying a jacket.
e. I have bought a jacket

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 6. Pio : Where did you go last night?
Jes : …………………………….
a. I do not go anywhere. I stay at home.
b. I do not go anywhere. I stay at home.
c. I will not go anywhere. I’ll stay at home.
d. I’m not going anywhere. I’m staying at home.
e. I did not go anywhere. I stayed at home.

7. Bagas : You look so unhappy, Nata. What’s the problem?

     Nata   : My father . . . . . his job.
a. Has just lost
b. Have just lost
c. Losing
d. Loses
e. Have lost

8. Ana :What have you just done?

Elsa : I’ve just ….. a letter.
a. Written
b. Is writing
c. Writing
d. Am writing
e. Writes

9. Andy : …… the new Walt Disney movie yet?

      Rully : Yes, i have. I watched it yesterday.
a. Has you watched     
b. Were you watched   
c. Have you watched       
d. Do you watch
e. Do you watching

10. Miss Rina…….. us English since 2004.

a. was teaching     
b. has taught     
c. is going to teach           
d. taught
e. teaching

Read the following text to answer questions number 11 to 13.

The Bear and the Two Friends

Once, two friends were walking through the forest. They knew that anything dangerous can
happen to them at any time in the forest. So they promised each other that they would remain
united in case of danger.

Suddenly, they saw a large bear approaching tern. One of the friends at once climbed a
nearby tree. But the other one did not know how to climb. So being led by his common sense,
he lay down on the ground breathless, pretending to be a dead man.
The bear came near the man lying on the ground. It smelt his ears and slowly left the place.
Because the bear did not touch him, the friend on the tree came down and asked his friend on
the ground, "Friend, what did the bear tell you into your ears?"The other friend replied, "He
advised me not to believe a false friend.

11. What can we get from the story?

a. We have to save ourselves
b. We have to learn how to climb
c. Bear will not harm a dead man
d. We must be patient
e. True friend always stand by us in ups and downs

12. "He advised me not to believe a false friend." (Paragraph 3) The underlined word
refers to.
a. The bear
b. The dead man
c. The friend who cannot climb
d. The friend who climb the tree
e. The writer

13. Where do you think the story happened?

a. In the river
b. In the park
c. In the forest
d. In the yard
e. In the zoo

The following text is for questions 14 and 15.

Once, a cap seller was passing through a jungle. He was dead tired and needed to rest.
Then, he stopped spread a cloth under a tree. He placed his bag of caps near him and lay
down with his cap on his head.

The cap seller had a sound sleep for one hour. When he got up, the first thing he did was to
look into his bag. He was startled when he found all his caps were not there. He was
wondering where they could have gone. Indeed, he was greatly puzzled.

When he looked up sky, he was very surprised to see monkeys sitting on the branches of a
tree, each wearing a cap on his head. They had evidently done it to imitate him.

He decided to get his caps back by making a humble request to the monkeys. In return, the
monkeys only made faces of him. When he began to make gestures, even when he raised his
fist towards them to threaten them, they also imitated him.

At last he hit upon a clever idea. “Monkeys are a great imitator,” he thought. So he took off
his own cap and threw it down on the ground. As he had expected, all the monkeys took off
the caps threw them down on the ground. Quickly he stood up and collected the caps, put
them back into his bag and went away.
 14. Why was each monkey wearing a cap on their head?
a. They liked them
b. They liked wearing caps
c. They were imitating the cap seller
d. They were teasing the cap seller
e. They had stolen the caps

15. What is the end of the story?

a. Monkeys gave the caps to the cap seller
b. Put your belongings in a safe place
c. Kindness must be possessed by everyone
d. He collected the caps, put them back into his bag and went away
e. He ran without his caps

The following text is for questions 16 to 20.

Once upon a time there was a girl name Cinderella. She lived with her bad step-
mother and two step-sisters. She had to do all the household chores.
One day the king invited all the ladies in the kingdom to go to a ball in the palace. He
wanted to find the Crown Prince a wife.
The step sisters went to the ball that night with their mother. Cinderella was left alone.
She cried because she actually wanted to go to the ball, too.
Just then a fairy godmother came. With her magic wand, she gave Cinderella a coach
(kereta), two horses and footmen. She also gave Cinderella a lovely dress to wear the ball and
a pair of glass slippers. She told Cinderella to come home before midnight.
At the ball, Cinderella danced all night with the Prince. The Prince fell in love with
her. At midnight, Cinderella ran home. Unfortunately, one of her slippers slipped off at the
door. She did not have time to put it back on. The Prince was sad as he could not find
Cinderella again that night.
The next day, the Prince and his men brought along the glass slipper. They went all over the
Kingdom to search for the owner.
After searching for a long time, finally, they came to Cinderella’s house. The slipper
fit her. The prince was very happy to find Cinderella again. They got married and lived ever
after.

16. What is the purpose of the text above?

a. To tell us how to write a story
b. To inform what happened in the past
c. To give a description of a beautiful girl
d. To retell about Cinderella’s experience/memory
e. To entertain readers

17. What was there at the palace one day?

a. A game
b. A ball
c. A birthday party
d. Crown part
e. Glass slippers

18. Why did the king hold the event at his palace?
 a. To celebrate his birthday
b. To celebrate his birthday
c. To find his crown prince a wife
d. To entertain his people
e. To show give amusement to his guests.

19. How was the end of the story?

a. The prince married Cinderella.
b. Cinderella was killed by her step mother
c. The prince turned into a horse forever.
d. The king gave the kingdom to Cinderella.
e. Cinderella was betrayed by the king.

20. What is the generic structure of the text above?

a. Orientation-events
b. Orientation-event-reorientation
c. Orientation-complication-resolution
d. Orientation-event-complication
e. Orientation-complication

The following text is for questions 21 to 23.

The Lion and the Mouse

Once when a lion was asleep, a little mouse began running up and down upon him;
this soon awoke the lion, who placed his huge paw upon him, and open his big jaws to
swallow him. “Pardon, O king,” cried the little mouse, “Forgive me this time, I shall never
forget it; perhaps I may be able to do you a good turn some of these days.”
The lion was so tickled at the idea of the mouse being able to help him. Then, he lifted
up his paw and let him go.
After the lion was catch in trap. Some hunters, who wanted to carry him alive to the King,
tied him to a tree while they went in search of a wagon to carry him in. Just then, the little
mouse happened to pass by and see the sad plight in which the lion was. The little mouse
went up to him and soon gnawed away the ropes that bounded the king of the beasts. Soon
after the little mouse had finished gnawing away the ropes, he asked the lion to run away.

21. What is the purpose of the text?

a. To entertain the readers
b. To persuade the readers that something should or should not be the case
c. To inform the readers about the events of the day which are considered
newsworthy
d. To explain something
e. To present at least two points of view about an issue
22. What kind of the text above….
a. Recount
b. Narrative
c. Descriptive
d. Procedure
e. Report
 23. Paragraph three mainly tells us that ……
a. The little mouse asked for forgiveness
b. The hunters carried the lion alive to the King
c. The lion was tied to a tree by the hunters
d. The little mouse could prove that he could help the lion
e. From the first, the lion believed in what the little mouse said

The following text is for questions 24 to 32.

On Saturday night, we went to the Town Hall. It was the last day of the year and a
large crowd of people had gathered under the Town Hall clock. It would strike twelve in
twenty minutes’ time. Fifteen minutes passed and then, at five to twelve, the clock stopped.
The big minute hand did not move. We waited and waited, but nothing happened. Suddenly
someone shouted,”It’s two minutes past twelve! The clock has stopped!”
I looked at my watch. It was true. The big clock refused to welcome the New Year. At that
moment, everybody began to laugh and sing.

24. When did the clock stopped?

a. At 5.12                                                      
b. At 11.55
c. At 12.00                        
d. At 12.02
e. At 12.05

25. Why did the people gather under the Town Hall clock?
a. To welcome the New Year                                   
b. To see the newly bought clock
c. To strike the laughing people                     
d. To stop people who shouted
e. To see the Town Hall clock

26. Based on the text, where was the writer?

a. At the center of the town
b. At home
c. AT the beach
d. At the market
e. At the office

27. When did the event happen?

a. in the middle of the year
b. the end of the year
c. Christmas celebration
d. at the weekend as usual
e. in the Town

28. What probably happened when someone shouted that the clock stopped?
a. Everybody directly celebrated the New Year
b. everybody sings and laugh.
c. everybody cried
d. Everybody shouted too.
 e. Everybody came back home
29. What does the first sentence tell you?
a. The problem that the writer met
b. The funny thing in the story
c. The opening of the story                           
d. The past event
e. The end of the story

30. “It would strike twelve in twenty minutes’ time.”

The underlined word refers to …
a. the clock
b. author’s watch
c. the town
d. the place
e. the author
31. What kind of the text above….
a. Recount
b. Narrative
c. Descriptive
d. Procedure
e. Report

32. “The big clock refused to welcome the New Year”

What is the synonym of the word ….
a. Reject
b. Accept
c. Admit
d. Hate
e. follow
Read the following text to answer questions number 33 to 35.
A Trip to the Zoo

Yesterday my family and I went to the zoo to see the elephant. When we got to the
zoo, we went to the shop to buy some food to give to the animals.
After getting the food, we went to the nocturnal house where we saw birds and
reptiles which only come out at night.
Before having lunch, we went for a ride on the elephant. It was a thrill to ride it. Dad
fell off when he let go off the rope, but he was ok.
During the lunch we fed some birds in the park. In the afternoon we saw the animals
being fed. When we returned home we were very tired but happy. It was because we
had so much fun activities at many places at the zoo.  

33. What happened to the writer's dad when he rode an elephant?

a. He felt a thrill
b. He felt fun
c. He fell off
d. He failed
e. He was ok

34. Why did the writer and his family feel very tired after having a trip to the zoo?
 a. They had to visit many places in the zoo
b. They took a long time to reach the zoo area
c. They had to feed a lot of animals in the zoo
d. They had no time to take a rest in the zoo
e. The had not activities in the zoo

35. ... our family felt tired after visiting the zoo, we were still happy.
a. Since
b. Because
c. Although
d. Nevertheless
e. But

Read the following text to answer questions number 36 to 40.

Last weekend, I visited my pen pal's house. His Name is Anto. There were
many activities I did there. In the morning, Anto and I had breakfast. We had
traditional food. I liked it very much.

After breakfast, he took me to the garden behind his house. The garden was very big
and beautiful. There is a big bird cage in the garden. There were many kinds of birds
in that cage. I spent a long time feeding the birds. I also took pictures with those
beautiful birds.

After visiting the bird cage, Anto and I went to the flower garden not far from his
house. We took a rest and had lunch under a big tree and watch butterflies flying
above colourful flowers. In the afternoon, we swam in the pool in the backyard. It was
so fun. I really enjoyed my time with Anto. 

36. The text above tells us about ....

a. A holiday at a friend's place
b. A picture of bird
c. A big bird cage
d. A big garden
e. His friend’s bird
37. What is the last paragraph about?
a. Anto had butterflies as his pet
b. The writer's friend is a good swimmer
c. There are a lot of flowers in Anto's house
d. The writer had a good time with his friend
e. The writer visited his pen pal’s house
38. Where did the writer spend his afternoon?
a. Under a tree
b. inside big bird cage
c. In the flower garden
d. In the swimming poo
e. In the home
39. What is the generic structure of the text above?
a. Orientation-events
b. Orientation-event-reorientation
c. Orientation-complication-resolution
 d. Orientation-event-complication
e. Orientation-complication
40. Was he happy in his pen’s pal house?
a. yes he is
b. yes he was
c. no he wasn’t
d. no he was
e. yes he wasn’t