SOAL EHB2KS BAHASA INGGRIS UMUM

PAKET 4

A. MULTIPLE CHOICE

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

The underlined word has the similar meaning to .... never having happened before, or never having
happened so much

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.                                                                             
3. 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
 4. “......, but was covered up by officials of the Soviet Union.                              
The underlined wordsmeans...       
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. 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

7. 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.
8. 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.

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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.

9. 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.

10. 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

11. “ 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.

12. 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

B. SHORT ANSWER
Text 1
We have all heard it many times before - regular exercise is good for you, and it can help you lose weight.
But if you are busy, it's never too late to start. You can start slowly, and find ways to fit more physical
activity into your life. To get the most benefit, you should try to get the recommended amount of exercise
for your age. If you can do it, the payoff is that you will feel better, help prevent or control many diseases,
and likely even live longer. What are the health benefits of exercise?
Regular exercise and physical activity may help you control your weight. Along with diet, exercise plays
an important role in controlling your weight and preventing obesity. To maintain your weight, the calories
you eat and drink must equal the energy you burn. To lose weight, you must use more calories than you
eat and drink.
They reduce your risk of heart diseases. Exercise strengthens your heart and improves your circulation.
The increased blood flow raises the oxygen levels in your body. This helps lower your risk of heart
diseases such as high cholesterol, coronary artery disease, and heart attack. Regular exercise can also
lower your blood pressure and triglyceride levels.
They help your body manage blood sugar and insulin levels. Exercise can lower your blood sugar level
and help your insulin work well. This can cut down your risk for metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes.
If you already have one of those diseases, exercise can help you to manage it.
In conclusion, doing exercise regularly can give benefits to your body. Enjoy having controlled weight
and low blood pressure and sugar level by exercising.

a. What is the topic of the text above? The benefits of doing exercise regularly
b. What may happen if the energy we burn less than the calories we consume? It is difficult for us to
lose weight

Text 2
According to research by the Greenpeace organization, there is evidence of extensive deforestation being
carried out in Indonesia and other tropical countries around the world. These forests are used to grow
crops like palm sugar, palm oil, and coffee. The impact of climate change is noticeable throughout Asia
Pacific, either during hot days or too much rain accompanied by wind and thunderstorm. This has started
to affect the economy as well.

The main idea of the paragraph is ...

The evidence of deforestation in most of the tropical countries

C. TRUE FALSE
Text 1
Nine traditional Balinese dances have been recognized as part of the world’s intangible cultural heritage
following a UNESCO session in Namibia on Wednesday.
Balinese dances included on the list were the Barong Ket, Joged Bumbung, Legong Keraton, Topeng
Sidhakarya, Baris Upacara, Sanghyang Dedari and Rejang dances, as well as the Wayang Wong and
Gambuh dance dramas.
“We are very pleased with the recognition; it enables Bali to receive protection in terms of traditional
dance preservation as well as economic benefits in the future,” said Bali Cultural Agency head Dewa Putu
Beratha on Wednesday night as quoted by Antara news agency.
During the UNESCO session, Indonesia’s proposal regarding the dances reportedly ranked 18th among a
total of 35 countries. “The nine dances represent Balinese dance as a whole based on their historical
concept, function and style,” said Dewa.
According to Dewa, the Rejang, Sanghyang Dedari and Baris Upacara dances represented the Wali dance,
which is usually performed during processions. Meanwhile, the Topeng Sidhakarya dance and Gambuh
and Wayang Wong dance dramas are part of the Bebali dance, known as a semi-sacred and ceremonial
dancE. The Legong Keraton, Joged Bumbung and Barong Ket dances are a representation of the Balih-
Balihan dance that serves social and entertainment purposes.
The Wali dance is said to have originated between the eighth and 14th centuries. The Bebali dance and
Balih-Balihan dances are believed to have come from the 14th-19th century and 19th centuries,
respectively.
“The community has actively played an important role in preserving these traditional dances, especially
the Wali dancE. Meanwhile, the Bali provincial administration and its city and regency administrations
should increase their role in preserving the Bebali and Balih-Balihan dances during tourist events,” said
Dewa.

Statements True False

The UNESCO recognition on the nine Balinese dances will be v
economic advantages for Bali.
All Balinese dances represent the same purposes and processions v
It was said that the community has played no role in preserving v
these traditional dances

Text 2
Human body is made up of countless millions of cells. Food is needed to build up new cells and replace
the worn out cells. However, the food that we take must be changed into substances that can be carried in
the blood to the places where they are needed. This process is called digestion.
The first digestive process takes place in the mouth. The food we eat is broken up into small pieces by the
action of teeth, mixed with saliva, a juice secreted by glands in the mouth. Saliva contains digestive juice
which moisten the food, so it can be swallowed easily.
From the mouth, food passes through the esophagus (the food passage) into the stomach. Here, the food is
mixed with the juices secreted by the cells in the stomach for several hours. Then the food enters the
small intestine. All the time the muscular walls of the intestine are squeezing, mixing and moving the
food onwards.
In a few hours, the food changes into acids. These are soon absorbed by the villi (microscopic branch
projections from the intestine walls) and passed into the bloodstream.

Statements True False

The text mostly tells us about cells in our body. v
Human’s saliva plays an important role in swallowing foods. v
The final process explains how the food is digested in the intestine. v

D. LONG ANSWER
Read and observe this letter!

Room 354, Block 6 20 November 2015

Model Village North Point Hong Kong
Phone: 24862893 Mobile: 95427415
E-mail: [email protected]

Mr William Chan
Personnel Manager
Wong And Lim Consulting
PO Box 583
Kwai Chung
Kowloon

Dear Mr Chan,

I am writing to apply for the post of Management Trainee, which was advertised on the Student Affairs
Office notice board of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University on 20 November 2015.
My working experience at Lucky Star Garment Manufactory Limited improved my leadership skills,
communication skills and ability to work in a team environment. I have fluent spoken and written
English. I also have fluent spoken and written Mandarin, and can therefore work in mainland China.

Currently I’m studying a B.A. in Management at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, graduating in
2016. Subjects which I’m studying that are relevant to the post of Management Trainee include
Operations Management, Human Resources Management, Accounting, Marketing and Strategic
Management.

My final year project is entitled Knowledge Management Practices in HK. Carrying out this project has
improved my communication skills, my leadership skills and my ability to lead and supervise
subordinates effectively. I have also learned how to run a project from the planning stage to its
completion.

During my studies I’ve held the post of Executive in the Management Society. While leading and
organizing Management Society activities I have improved my ability to lead and supervise subordinates
effectively, ability to work under pressure and ability to work in a team environment.

Working for Wong A Lim Consulting appeals to me because it has a good reputation and it provides
excellent training. Your organization produces a high-quality service, and I can contribute to this with my
leadership skills and my ability to work under pressure.

I am available for interview at any time. I can be contacted most easily on the mobile phone number
given above. I look forward to meeting you.

Yours sincerely

Wong Wai Man Wilfred

After reading the letter above, answer the following question.

a. How can you tell that the above letter is not a formal one? Mention 3 proofs and explain each of
then briefly.