PEMERINTAH KABUPATEN BLITAR
DINAS PENDIDIKAN
DAERAH
SMA N 1 SRENGAT
ULANGAN HARIAN 3 SEMESTER 1
TAHUN PELAJARAN 2012-2013
SUBJECT : ENGLISH QUESTION : 25
GRADE : TWELFTH TIME ALLOTMENT : 50 MINUTES
DIRECTIONS:
Read each question carefully!
Choose the best answer!
Text 1:
Should
People Who Live in the City be Allowed to Keep Dogs?
There are many reasons for keeping dogs as a
pet in the city. But, there also many people who do not agree with this idea.
People who agree with this idea said that,
dogs could be a good playmate. It can entertain us with its funny movements,
behavior, etc. and as a good owner, we should not only play with it, but also
train, feed, and care for it. A good trained dog could be a loyal and a tough
guardian it could take good care of our property.
On the other hand, dogs are often treated
unproperly. They are only kept in a small back yard all day without any
attention or treatment from the owner. No wonder these dos bark and disturb the
neighbours and become nuisance to the community.
After looking at the different point of view I think it is
appropriate for the people who live in the city to keep dogs.
01. The
text above generally talks about……
A Why people keep dogs as pets
B. How people keep dogs as pets
C. The
different opinion about whether keeping dogs as pets is allowed or not
D. the
proper ways of keeping dogs as pets
E Dogs
as means of entertainment
02. For the people who agree to keeping dogs as
pets, dogs can be trained to be…….guardian
A. wild D. helpful
B. cruel E. careful
C. harmful
03. The barking dogs could be …….the neighbours if
they do not get any attention and treatment from the owner.
A. protecting D. helping
B. guarding E. looking after
C. disturbing
04. After looking at the different point of view …….(paragraph 4)
The synonym of the underlined words is….
A. opinion D. understanding
B the way of seeing E. attention
C feeling
Text 2:
Most people agree that some form of family limitation or spacing is desirable
for the good of the family and society. But individuals and group-especially
religious group-differ sharply on the methods of birth control that they
consider moral and acceptable.
Couple
that practice birth control do so for various reasons. They may want to limit
or space their children or to have no children at all. Young couples often
postpone having children so that both partners can work full-time. Other
couples space their children so they can give each child as much attention as possible.
Some women are advised by their doctors to avoid pregnancy for health reasons.
In many countries with rapidly growing population. The government encourages
couples to limit the size of their families.
Even
though birth control has gained in acceptance, opposition to the practice is
continuous. Some people fear that birth control encourages sexual relations
outside marriage or that government might impose birth control. Some religious
groups oppose birth control on moral grounds.
Some
religious groups teach that artificial methods of birth control are immoral
because they separate the two purpose of intercourse in marriage conjugal love
and the procreation of children. Although they oppose all artificial birth
control, they consider natural family planning acceptable.
05. What does the text mainly tell us about?
A. The government
B. The family
C. Birth control
D. Marriage
E. Pregnancy
06. Why do young couple postpone having children?
A. Because the methods of birth
control are immoral.
B. In order that both partners can work
full-time.
C. Because they consider it is too young to
have babies.
D. Because they want to have more children
later.
E. In order that they can control the
government.
07. Which statement is right according to the text?
A. In many countries the government
encourages couple to have more children.
B. Most people consider birth control
encourages sexual relations inside marriage
C. To give as much attention as possible,
most couple oppose birth control.
D.
The religious groups consider the
methods of birth control are immoral.
E. Some women advised doctors to avoid
pregnancy for health reasons.
08. After reading the text we can draw conclusion that
A. family limitation is desirable for the
good of individuals and society.
B. young couple tend to have children
directly.
C. religious groups oppose all methods of
family limitation.
D. there is no relationship between sexual
relation outside marriage and birth control.
E. every couple postpone having children.
09. “Although
they oppose all artificial birth control, they consider natural family planning acceptable.”
The
antonym of the word ‘artificial’ is
A. man-made D. possible
B. natural E. immoral
C. acceptable
Text 3
Nuclear
Energy is commonly offered as an alternative to overcome the crisis of energy.
The debate whether the use of nuclear energy is an appropriate choice has not
come to an end. Some people agree with the utilization of it because its
benefits. Some others, however, disagree because if its risk to environment.
Those
who agree with the operation of nuclear reactors usually argue that nuclear
energy is the only feasible choice to answer the ever-increasing energy needs.
According
to them, the other sources of energy: oil, coal, and Liquid Natural Gas are not
renewable and safe, while nuclear energy can be sustain ably produced in a safe
way.
However,
people who disagree with the use of nuclear energy point out the waste of
nuclear products completely destroy environment and human lives.
A
meltdown in a reactor, for example, results in a contamination of soil and
water. Take for an example, the blow up of the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl
nuclear power station in Russia twenty years ago. A serious contamination
imperiled people and environment severely.
It
is obvious that nuclear energy should be avoided because it really endangers
environment but what about the less polluted energy instead of nuclear energy?
Is there any alternative to overcome the crisis of energy?
10. What is the
topic the text?
A. Energy
B. Nuclear energy
C. The strength and the weaknesses of the
alternative energy
D. The advantage of nuclear energy
E. The disadvantage of nuclear energy
11. What is the main idea of the
third paragraph?
A. Nuclear energy is beneficial to our
environment.
B. Nuclear energy is harmful to our
environment.
C. Nuclear energy is harmless to our environment .
D. Nuclear energy is renewable and safe to our
environment.
E. Nuclear energy is the best solution to the
energy crisis
12. Which statement is true according to the
text?
A. Some people disagree to the use of nuclear
energy because it is beneficial.
B. Some people agree to the use of nuclear
energy because it has less effect on us.
C. A melt down in a nuclear reactor does not
result in the contamination of soil and water.
D. Nuclear energy is safer and more practical
than other sources of energy.
E. The use of nuclear energy can fulfill the
ever-increasing energy needs.
13. Paragraph 5: “A serious contamination imperiled
people and environment severely.
The word …… would best replace
the word.
A. mixed
B. treated
C. caused
D. endangered
E. resulted in
14. Although nuclear energy can be produced in a
safe way, its waste products can destroy environment and human lives.
It means:
A. Nuclear energy is always harmless to
environment.
B. Nuclear energy can threaten environment
C. Nuclear energy must be harmless to
environment
D. Nuclear energy cannot threaten environment
E. Nuclear energy does not endanger environment
15. What is the
social function of the text?
A. to persuade the reader to do something.
B. to persuade the reader that something is the
case.
C. to describe particular thing
D. to present information in two or more different points of view.
E. to entertain or to amuse the reader with
imaginary stories, such as myth, legend, etc.
Text 4
Students can
you show me your hands? Right! And can you show me your head? Excellent! But
can you show me your stomach? Hm…Can you show me your lungs? No…..? Why? Yeah,
you are right. Because there are inside our body. So what do you think, how can
we see the internal parts of our body? Yes. We use X-Ray. So what is X-Ray?
Does any body know? No…..? Well, X-Ray is a spectrum of light. It is radiated
to our body. It is use for detecting our internal body organs. Do I make myself
clear? Well, let me continue, where can you find X-Ray? Yes, that’s. It is in
hospital. And do you know invented X-Ray? Does anybody know? No? oh come on… nobody remembers the
name? Well, X-Ray was invented by a German scientist, William Conrad Rontgen.
Where was I? Oh, O.K. Hm… when do people use X-Ray?
Correct. When
they are ill. I mean when there is something wrong in their internal parts of
the body. Can you give the example of illnesses? When people suffer these
diseases they need X-Ray to check. Yes, cancer,…kidney trouble,…heart
trouble,…tumor, etc.
Students do
you know many opinions argue about the use of X-Ray in hospital and other agree
about the use of X-Ray?
Well, look at
the diagram! 60% people agree that X-Ray examination is beneficial.
They say that
doctors should use X-Ray in examining a severe illness. If doctors don’t use
the X-Ray, they will miss some important information which is very useful in
making a diagnose on the patient’s disease. And this will sometimes cause the
doctor inaccurate in prescribing the medicine to cure the illness.
Not all
patients agree with the use of X-Ray examination, however. Look at the diagram
again, 10% disagree with the use of X-Ray examination.
Do you know
why? Guess what?
They think
that using X-Ray examination cost them a lot of money. I’m not surprised.
Another reason is the radiation of X-Ray has some risks to the body tissues.
While the rest of the patients or 30% patients remain silent because they have
no idea whether the use of X-Ray examination is really beneficial or not?
Well, as a
result of this controversy, many people are planning a traditional health cure
to avoid the high cost of hospital care. While hospitals insist on having X-Ray
examination on patients to get an accurate diagnose altough the cost is very
high.
16. These
illnesses need X-ray examination, except….
A. Cancer
B. Cough
C. Tumor
D. Kidney trouble
E. Heart trouble
17. Many people choose traditional cure because
…..
A. X-ray examination is very cheap
B. they have enough money
C. doctors always tell them to have X-ray
examination
D. X-ray examination cannot give accurate
results
E. it costs cheaper than the hospital one.
18. Who mostly objects to an X-ray examination?
A. The diseases
B. The patients
C. The doctors
D. The nurses
E. The assistants
19. Which
statement is right according to the text?
A. Fewer people support the use of X-ray
examination.
B. More people refuse the use of X-ray
examination.
C. More people support the use of X-ray
examination.
D. More people neither support nor refuse the
use of X-ray examination.
E. Fewer people both support and refuse the use of X-ray examination.
20 Which
statement is true?
A. Not all patients agree to the use of X- ray.
B. 30 % patients agree that X- ray examination
is beneficial.
C. 60 % people disagree that X-ray examination
should be used to cure diseases.
D. 10 % people know accurately that X- ray
examination is beneficial.
E. Many people think that using X-ray
examination will cost them a few money.
Text 5
First of all, I
would like to thank to the organizing committee for giving me the opportunity
to say a few words at this seminar. In this occasion I’d like to speak about
“Abortion: pro and contra”
As you see,
there has been a great deal of discussion on the problem of abortion in this
country and abroad. The discussion includes: is abortion legal or illegal?, is
abortion morally justified or not? But in this discussion I would like to talk
from another side.
To begin with,
let me say that abortion on of the method of birth control.
Let’s see the
fact about the population problem in a country. When a country faces the
problems of population explosion, the
government should find methods to solve it. But since no methods of
contraception is one hundred percent effective and successful, abortion becomes
the only way out prevention fails.
On the other
hand, abortion may cause many negative effects for women’s health.
Women risk
their health and lives in bearing the weight of the operation and its
consequences. The most common complications are inflammation, interruption of
menstrual patterns, infertility, endometriosis, myoma of the uterus and many
other kinds of ovary illnesses.
So far,
abortion becomes of dilemma for countries with a large number citizens. On the
one hand, it can control the birthrate but on the other hand, it brings
terrible consequences, especially for the women’s health.
21. What is the
topic of the text ?
A. Family planning
B. Seminar
C. The method of birth control
D. Abortion
E. Population explosion
22. Paragraph 6
tells us about …..
A. the advantage of abortion
B. the disadvantage of abortion
C. the reason why abortion is done
D. the way how abortion is done
E. the method of abortion
23. Which
statement is not true according to the text/
A. Abortion becomes the only way out when
prevention fails.
B. Population explosion becomes a problem of
our country.
C. Contraception is one of the methods of birth
control.
D. No contraception can prevent pregnancy
absolutely.
E. Contraception is one hundred percent
effective and successful
24. Paragraph 5: “…, the government should find
methods to solve it.”
What does ‘it’
refer to?
A. Abortion D. Contraception
B. Country E. the government
C. Population problem
25. How is the attitude of the writer toward
abortion.
A. Partial D. Unfair
B. Impartial E. Tend to
C. Imbalance
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