PENGUATAN BHS INGGRIS PAKET 3 / 2022

We are pleased to announce that the winter of our fall sales contest is Jane Doe.
Congratulations, Jane!
Jane was successful in securing 50 new clients in the month of November, which breaks
impressive since it happened in a month that is generally considered slow, showing once
again that it can be done.For her outstanding work she will receive a trip for two to Honolulu,
Hawaii. We wish her and her husband bon voyage.
Our next contest begins in January. Get ready, the next winner may be you.
1. What is the topic of the text above?
A. The description of Jane Doe‟s job.
B. Jane will have trip to Honolulu, Hawaii.
C. Congratulation to the winner of the best sales contest.
D. The announcement of award given to Jane Doe about her achievement.
E. Announcement of the outstanding work that has been done by the sales contest.

2. How can Jane Doe get ticket to a trip to Honolulu, Hawaii?

A. She got a lottery.
B. She wins the fall sales contest.
C. John breaks the record last January.
D. Her husband bought her the tickets.
E. She can get 55 new clients in the month of November.

TEXT 2
This text is for questions 3 to 7.
The elephant is one of the largest and strongest animals. It is a strange looking animal
with its thick legs, huge sides and backs, large hanging ears, a small tail, little eyes, long
white tusks and above all its long nose, the trunk.
The trunk is the elephant‟s peculiar feature, and it has various uses. The elephant
draws up water with its trunk and can squirt it all over its body like a shower. It can also lift
leaves and put them into its mouth. In fact, the trunk serves the elephant as a long arm and
hand. An elephant looks very clumsy and heavy, and yet it can move very quickly.
The elephant is a very intelligent animal. Its intelligence combined with its great
strength makes it a very useful servant to humankind and it can be trained to serve in various
ways such as carrying heavy loads, hunting for tigers and even fighting.

3. The third paragraph is mainly about the fact that ______.

A. Elephants are strong
B. Elephants can lift logs
C. Elephants are servants
D. Elephants are bery useful
E. Elephants must be trained
4. Which of the following is NOT the characteristics of an elephant described in the first
paragraph?
A. It looks strange. B. It is heavy. C. It is wild. D. It has a trunk.
E. It has a small tail

5. It is stated in the text that the elephant uses the trunk to do the following,
except ______.
A. To eat
B. To push
C. To drink
D. To carry things
E. To squirt water over the body

6. “The trunk is the elephant‟s peculiar feature . . . .” (Paragraph 2)

The underlined word is close in meaning to ______.
A. large B. Strange C. tough D. smooth E. long

7. “The elephant draws up water with its trunk and can squirt it all over its body
like a shower.” (Paragraph 2) What does the word in bold refer to?
A. Water.
B. The elephant.
C. The elephant‟s trunk.
D. The elephant‟s body.
E. Shower bath.

TEXT 3
JAKARTA – The Indonesia House of Representative had decided to end direct provincial
and local election.
On Friday morning (26/9/2014), The House of Representative passed a bill related to
indirect election in choosing the local leaders. It was ratified after 226 voters supported the
bill against 135 other voters with 129 voters from Democratic Party, walking out from the
plenary before the voting.
The bill has led to many critics from various parties. Indonesian Survey Circle showed
that 81% of Indonesians favored a direct election. They believed that the election of
governors, mayors and district chiefs by the House of Representative will structurally
increase the amount of corruption and nepotism. “It is a step backwards to democracy. said
Joko Widodo, the recent elected president. Musician Viddy Supit, also in support of direct
election, said that voicing in direct elections surely improves the democracy of the country.

8. What is the main idea of the text?

A. Direct general elections D. Direct regional leaders‟ elections
B. Direct presidential elections E. Indirect local leaders‟ elections
C. Indirect parliament elections

9. How many Indonesians support indirect elections?

A. 19% B. 49% C. 51% D. 81% E. 100%
10. The Indonesia House of Representative had decided to end direct provincial and local
election.
The word “end” has similar meaning with …
A. scrap B. birth C. start D. set up E. construct

TEXT 4
Lightning has been a mystery since early times. People of ancient believed angry
Gods threw lightning bolts from the sky. Nobody understood that lightning resulted from
electricity until Ben Franklin flew a kite with a key dangling from the string and it was struck
by lightning.
In currents times, it is known that lightning has a very scientific cause. Generally
within a storm creates a negative charge at the bottom of the cloud. When that charge grows
too great for the air to hold it back, it is united with a positive charge from the earth, creating
a channel of electricity that flows between the two points. The charge remains invisible as it
moves towards the ground until it meets the charge rising from the ground. Once they
thunder. In fact, very recently it has been discovered that occasionally the positive charges
appear at the bottom of the cloud, which are then met by negative charges from the earth.
Generally, people are injured by lightning when they are in the open, near or in water,
or near tail structure like trees. Golfers, swimmers, beach-goers, and outdoor workers are in
the greatest number of victims are males, but it is believed that this is because males are more
likely to be in the places where lightning strikes. When lightning is about to strike one feels
an odd, tingling sensation, and one‟s hair stand on end. Of couse, there is little chance to do
anything about it, because the full blow will occur within a second and be over in a couple of
seconds. The victim may be trown, lose counsciousness, be burned, die, or suffer permanent
injury. Some people recover completely, but others do not.

11.The main information of the text is ...

A. the history of lightning
B. Benyamin Franklin‟s discovery
C. the ancient civilization‟s belief
D. the cause of lightning
E. the mystery of lightning

12. The following are about the process of the cause of lightning, EXCEPT ....
A. it starts with the negative charge at the bottom of the cloud
B. the craetion of channel of electricity happen in the air
C. the flow of electricity within the channel cannot be seen
D. the charge within the channel moves freely towards the ground
E. an explosion occurs when positive charges meet negative charges

13. People understood that lightning was electricity because ....

A. the key on Franklin‟s kite attacked the lightning
B. electricity came out from the string of Franklin‟s kite
C. a dangling key on a string could generate fire
D. ancient gods were angry and made thunderstorms
E. people could get struck by lightning bolts and die

14. Lightning may strike people and endanger them when they are ....
A. doing tiny kind of sport
 B. walking along the beach
C. outdoors in the cars
D. swimming indoors in pools
E. inside a tall structure

15. ... because the full blow will occur within a second and be over in a couple of seconds.
The word “occur” can be best replaced by ....
A. take after
B. take away
C. take place
D. take down
E. take over

TEXT 5

Job trends of the future emphasize careers in sales and marketing. Most of the growth
will come in those areas which can take advantage of modern technology, such as
electronic marketing and computerized inventory management. Advertising and market
research will show significant growth as the electronic exchange of information becomes
common.
As worldwide competition accelerates, the successful marketers must find new avenues
to increase consumer awareness of their products. The sales and marketing personnel of the
future will have to be familiar with marketing resources available in computer networks
and be able to use them effectively. The marketers of the future will also have to be
inventive. They must be able to devise new strategies to reach the consumer as the
technology continues to change.

16. As worldwide competition accelerates, the successful marketers must find new avenues to
increase consumer awareness of their products. The word “increase” can be best
replaced by .....
A. improve C. enhance E. add
B. introduce D. expand
17. Why are these careers increasing in importance?
A. There are more people in the world
B. They pay well
C. They can use modern technology
D. They are easy to learn
E. They grow fast

18. We can conclude that the marketer of the future will employ ....
A.Customers strategies D. Country-specific strategies
B. Traditional strategies E. Consumer – generated strategies
C. Innovative strategies

TEXT 6
 The food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and MasterCard
are joining forces to create an innovative new alliance against hunger. A new partnership
agreement, signed today by FAO
Director – General Jose Grazianoda Silva and Walt Macnee, Vice Chairman of Mastercard,
at FAO headquarters, paves the way for a collaborative effort that will develop inclusive
payment systems to support small-scale farmers and poor families. Among other activities,
the collaboration will explore ways to provide credit or money to households for purchases of
basic needs and farming inputs on local markets, thereby supporting local economies and
putting financial tools in the hands of economically marginalized communities. The effort
will benefit from the complementary strengths of each organization: Mastercard‟s expertise
in payments technology and FAO‟s global reach and track record in combating hunger and
malnutrition.
The partners‟ first join effort will be in the Kakuma refugee camp, in Turkana
county, Kenya, currently home to 170,000 refigees who have fled wars and violence in
neighboring countries. Camp residents will be provided with prepaid cards that will permit
them to buy charcoal produced locally by the house community charcoal thah has been
certified as being produced in a sustainable, environmentally friendly way. The sheme is
designed to improve incomes of Turkana residents, reduce social tensions between those
residents and the refugees, and relieve pressure on the environment.
MasterCard will provide its technology expertise and a meaningful financial
contribution, to kick-tart the business chain by prviding 1,240 host-community households
with improved charcoal making kilns and 7,000 refugee households with energy efficient
stoves and credit to purchase 25 percent of their annual charcoal needs. “This partnership
truly shows that the private sector is a key ally in global effort to build a world with zero
hunger. FAO is extremely proud of this collaboration with MasterCard that will support
smallscale farmers to become economically independent by advancing financial inclusion.”
said FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva.
MasterCard‟s Walt Macnee said:”By signing this important agreement with FAO,
MasterCard furthet builds on our commitment to establish meaningful partnerships that will
enable us to leverage global technology and insights to drive a more empowered, inclusive
planet where pople -regardless of where they live or their current economic status – are able
to better build more self determined lives. Together with FAO we look forward to delivering
against this vision.

19. What is the topic about?

A. Refugee camp in Turkana County,Kenya.
B. Americans and United Nation invasion in Africa.
C. Join venture between United Nation and Kenya Governments.
D. FAO and MasterCard new partnership
E. FAO and MasterCard new business

20. What will they do in Kenya?

A. Giving local people many foods to against huger
B. Support small-scale farmers and poor families.
C. Giving local people with prepaid cards to buy charcoal.
D. Support the marginalized communities.
E. Giving local people the newest payments technology.

21. Which of the following is synonym the word paves (par.1)?

A. sealed B. opens C. spreads D. creates E. covers
22. From the speech of FAO‟s director in par.3, we know the aim of their partnership is .....
A. to build a world with zero hunger
B. to build a world in ally of private sector
C. to improve charcoal making kilns
D. to improve incomes of Kukuma residents
E. to reduce social tensions from wars

TEXT 7

School uniform is special clothes worn by all students of a particular school. The uniform of
a school may differ from others. Why should schools use uniforms? Below are some reasons.

First of all, Notre Dame‟s Department of Sociology produced a study in 1998 concerning
school uniforms. Their findings using 10th grade students showed that uniforms have no
direct effect on “substance abuse, behavioral problems or attendance.” It also claimed a
negative effect on student achievements for those students considered „pro-school‟.

Secondly, uniform helps to create a strong sense school ethos and a sense of belonging to a
particular community. As such it promotes discipline and helps to drive up academic
standards, which is why a uniform is often adopted by schools which are being reopened with
a fresh start after being classified as failing.

Finally, uniform acts as a social leveler, under which all students are equal in the eyes of the
school and of each other. In institutions without uniform students are often competitive and
worry endlessly about their appearance and the clothes they should wear. Pupils without
expensive designer clothes and trainers may be singled out as social outcasts, or stigmatized
as being from poor backgrounds. For these reasons many parents prefer uniforms as they save
them money on buying clothes for school wear.

Considering the findings, schools should implement the uniform as their identity. The
government should also publish some kind of rule which makes uniform compulsory for
schools.

23. In institutions without uniform students, one will be regarded poor because he/she
………..
A. does not wear a school uniform
B. cannot afford to buy a school uniform
C. wears no expensive designer clothes
D. posses a bad academic record
E. has a bad attitude at school

24. “As such it promotes discipline and helps to drive up academic standards ……
(Paragraph 3). What does the it word refer?
A. Community B. School ethos C. Research finding D. A study E. Uniform
25. “…. Substance abuse, behavioral problems or attendance.” (Paragraph 2). The antonym
of “attendance” word is …….
A. arrival B. come up C. appearance D. presence E. absence

26. Arrange these jumbled paragraphs into the correct order.

a. Those who want to penalise older, leaded petrol vehicles and their owners don‟t seem to
appreciate that, in the country, there is no public transport to fall back upon and one‟s own
vehicle is the only way to get about.
b. In all the discussion over the removal of lead from petrol there doesn‟t seem to have been
any mention of difference between driving in the city and the country.
c. While I realise my leaded petrol car is polluting the air wherever I drive, I feel that when
you travel through the country, where you only see another car every five to ten minutes,
the problem is not as severe as when traffic is concentrated on city roads.
d. I feel that country people, who often have to travel huge distances to the nearest town and
who already spend a great deal of money on petrol, should be treated differently to the
people who live in the city.

A. a-b-c-d
B. b-c-d-e
C. d-a-b-e
D. c-d-e-a
E. b-c-a-d

27. In order to be issued a passport, one must either present legal documents or call a witness
to give evidence concerning one‟s identity.
A. testify B. Investigate C. Falsify D. Evaluate

28. All people ... in the event are given notebooks for souvenirs.
A. that participated C. Participate
B. which participating D. Participating

29. Kate and her children ... when the police told her that her husband had died of car crash.
A. broke down C. Broke up
B. broke out D. Broke in

30. ....about Mr. Ron‟s behaviour sooner, I would have fired him immediately.
A. Had be known C. Knowing
B. Had I known D. If I knew