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LISTENING COMPREHENSION

▪ TYPE OF QUESTION

▪ • What does the man/woman mean?

▪ • What are the man & woman discussing?

▪ • What are the man & woman talking about?

▪ • What is the main subject of the conversation?

▪ • What is the purpose of the conversation?

▪ • What do we know about …?

▪ • What do we learn about …?

▪ • What did the man/woman do?

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LISTENING COMPREHENSION

▪ TYPE OF QUESTION

▪ • What does the man/woman prefer to do?

▪ • What does the man/woman need to do?

▪ • What does the man/woman probably want to do?

▪ • What will the man/woman probably do next?

▪ • What is the man/woman problem?

▪ • What is the man/woman excuse?

▪ • What does the man/woman suggest the woman/man to do?

▪ • What does the man/woman imply?

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LISTENING COMPREHENSION

▪ TYPE OF QUESTION

▪ • What had the man/woman thought?

▪ • What should the man/woman have done?

▪ • What has the man/woman assumed?

▪ • Where does the conversation take place?

▪ • When does the conversation take place?

▪ • Who is the man/woman in this conversation?

▪ • Why does the man/woman have problem?

▪ • How does the man/woman feel?

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LISTENING COMPREHENSION

▪ SOME QUICK TIPS

▪ 1. Avoid choosing the similar sound

▪ 2. Be careful with the possibilities

▪ 3. Antonym

▪ 4. Synonym

▪ 5. Assumption (stressed word as clue)

▪ 6. Conditional sentence (contrast)

▪ 7. Idiom showing agreement

▪ 8. The most important is to focus on the second speaker

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No. 1

1. Nomor 16 dalam audio

a. She gave Tom money to pay the rent
b. She was given money for the rent
c. Tom borrowed money for the rent
d. She had some money to lend

Keyword= He lent me enough money to pay the rent

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No. 2

1. Nomor 17 dalam audio

a. The cake is extremely good
b. He never tasted the cake
c. He wished he didn’t taste the cake
d. The cake has never been very good

Keyword= never have I tasted such delicious cake!

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No. 3

1. Nomor 18 dalam audio

a. At the corner she ran into another car
b. She ran to Carl because she cared
c. She unexpectedly met one of her relatives
d. Carl was running from place to place

Keyword= Oh, I ran into my cousin carl, and we stayed and talked
for a while
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No. 4

1. Nomor 19 dalam audio

a. She shouldn’t leave her purse here
b. She’s probably in the apartment
c. Her purse must not be in the apartment
d. She left without taking the purse

Keyword= Her purse is still here, so she must still be in the

apartment
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No. 5

1. Nomor 20 dalam audio

a. The landford failed to collect rent on the first of last month
b. The tenants absolutely must pay rent at the beginning of the month
c. The landford will not fail to collect your rent on the first of next month
d. It is important to call the landford about rent on the first of the month

Keyword= The landlord collects it on the first of the month,

without fail
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No. 6

1. Nomor 21 dalam audio

a. Taking the car out for a test drive
b. Listening to the noises
c. Fixing the car herself
d. Getting the car repaired

Keyword= Why not take it to a mechanic?

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No. 7

1. Nomor 22 dalam audio

a. Martha’s jobs are easy
b. It’s easy to hold two jobs
c. It’s better for Martha to have two jobs
d. Martha should slow down

Keyword= She’d better take it easy

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No. 8

1. Nomor 23 dalam audio

a. The plane took off just after he arrived
b. He arrived just after the plane took off
c. He wasn’t in time to catch the plane
d. He arrived too late to catch the plane

Keyword= there was scarcely enough time to get there

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No. 9

1. Nomor 24 dalam audio

a. He agrees with the woman’s suggestion
b. Parking is not free on the weekend
c. It is not necessary for them to park
d. He thinks they don’t have to pay

Keyword= parking fess aren’t necessary on the weekend, are

they?
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No. 10

1. Nomor 25 dalam audio

a. He is eager to leave his job
b. He is unhappy at the thought of retiring
c. He couldn’t be unhappier about retiring
d. He is retiring too soon

Keyword= oh, he isn’t too unhappy to be retiring.

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No. 11

1. Nomor 26 dalam audio

a. He got the car he really wanted
b. He didn’t get a new car
c. The car that he got was not his first choice
d. He didn’t really want a new car

Keyword= I wish I had been able to buy the car I really wanted
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No. 12

1. Nomor 27 dalam audio

a. Mr. Drew pointedly asked the president about the committee
b. The president pointed to mr. Drew’s head
c. Mr. Drew became head of the new commission
d. Mr. Drew was committed to the president’s appointments.

Keyword = yes, the president appointed Mr. Drew head of the

newly formed commission
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No. 13

1. Nomor 35 dalam audio

a. Trash orbiting Earth
b. A trip by an astronaut to the moon
c. The overabundance of garbage on Earth
d. Becoming space scientists

Keyword= have you ever thought about all the tons of garbage
that’s out in space circling the Earth?
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No. 14

1. Nomor 36 dalam audio

a. From a lecture
b. In a magazine article
c. In a book
d. On a television program

Keyword= I saw a television program

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No. 15

1. Nomor 37 dalam audio

a. 17,000 pounds
b. 3,000 tons
c. 3,000 pounds
d. 300 tons

Keyword= there’s about 3000 tons of metal out there in space

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No. 16

1. Nomor 38 dalam audio

a. She will be able to travel in space
b. The problem will take care of itself
c. Scientists will find solutions to the problem
d. The junk will fall to earth

Keyword= I know that right now the problem is being studied by

numerous scientists; hopefully, they’ll be able to find solutions
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No. 17

1. Nomor 43 dalam audio

a. In winter
b. In spring
c. In summer
d. In fall

Keyword= this is the average daily temperature in the springtime

(26 degrees Celsius or 80 degrees Fahrenheit)
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No. 18

1. Nomor 44 dalam audio

a. Seasonable, with the summers and cold winters
b. Fairly constant and moderate
c. Very humid
d. Extremely hot year-round

Keyword= one important factor that keeps the temperature so

constant and moderate in Hawaii is the trade winds
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No. 19

1. Nomor 45 dalam audio

a. They come from the Southwest
b. They come most days of the year
c. They are the hardest during the night
d. They increase the humidity

Keyword= the trade winds blow through the islands an

average of slightly more than 300 days per year
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No. 20

1. Nomor 46 dalam audio

a. Preparing for a trip
b. Writing a report about the weather
c. Beginning a study of the weather
d. Buying a warm clothes for a trip

Keyword= it should also help you decide what types of

clothes you should be packing for your trip
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Structure and Written Expression
▪ Quick Tips: We don’t need to translate word by word, All we need to do is to find out the
Verb.

▪ Be sure that the subject and the verb agree each other.

▪ Conjunction, 1 conj.= 2 verbs, 2 conj.= 3 verbs, etc.

▪ Know Active and Passive Meaning

▪ 1 no = 30 seconds

Langsung baca pilihan jawaban, baca kiri kanan pilihan jawaban, apakah mereka agree each
other atau tidak

The mango is eating by me

Kelas Kata

Noun, adverb, adjective, verb

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Structure and Written Expression

21. The attorney told his client that _________________________

A. They had little chance of winning the case.
B. The case was of a small chance to win
C. It was nearly impossible to win him the case.
D. The case had a minimum chance to be won by him.

Quick Tip: Membutuhkan subj + verb. They refers to his client

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No. 22

1. One of the professor’s greatest attributes is _______________

A. when he gives lectures
B. how in the manner that he lectures
C. the way to give lectures
D. his ability to lecture
Quick Tips : butuh object, attribute yang dimaksud adalah
kemampuan dalam mengajar/memberi kuliah
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No. 23

1. The bank sent a notice to its customers which contained

_______________
A. a remembrance that interest rate were to raise the following month
2. B. a reminder that a raise in interest rates was the month following
C. to remember that interest rates were going up next month
D. a reminder that interest rates would rise the following month.

Quick Tip: butuh noun setelah contained, lalu dilanjutkan

dengan connector (that) lalu diikuti subj (interest rates) dan
verb (would rise)
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No. 24

1. ______________ was the day before yesterday.

A. The France’s Independence Day
B. The day of the French independence
C. French’s Independence Day
D. France’s Independence Day
Quick Tip: Kemerdekaan Negara Perancis, jika diterjemahkan
hanya bagian D benar. A bisa saja benar tapi setelah was ada kata
the yang sudah mewakili France’s independence day.
France = negara perancis
French = orang atau bahasa perancis
China = negara cina
Chinese = orang atau bahasa cina
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No. 25

1. It was not until she had arrived home ______________ remembered her
appointment with the doctor.
A. when she
B. that she
C. and she
D. she

Quick tip: membutuhkan connector dan subject

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No. 26

1. George would certainly have attended the proceedings ________________

A. if he didn’t get a flat tire
B. if the flat tire hadn’t happended.
C. had he not had a flat tire
D. had the tire not flattened itself.
Quick Tip: inverted type 2. Kalimat sebelum diinversi (if he
had not had a flat tire).
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1. _______________ received law degrees as today.

A. Never so many women have
B. Never have so many women
C. The women aren’t ever
D. Women who have never

Quick Tips: Inverted (negative expression). Never + aux verb +

subj + verb
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No. 28

1. The students liked that professor’s course because

_____________________
A. there was few if any homework
B. not a lot of homework
C. of there wasn’t a great amount of homework
D. there was little or no homework.
Pembahasan: membutuhkan subject dan verb setelah connector
(because). Bagian D yang benar secara structure dan meaning
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No. 29

1. George ______________ he could improve his test scores, but he didn’t have enough
time to study.
A. knew to
B. knew how
C. knew how that
D. knew how to

Pembahasan: Past tense, setelah knew, how berfungsi sebagai connector yang diikuti
oleh subj dan verb (he could improve)
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No. 30

1._________________ he would have come to class.

A. If Mike is able to finish his homework
B. Would Mike be able to finish his homework
C. If Mike could finish his homework
D. If Mike had been able to finish his homework.
Pembahasan: Conditional sentence type 3. If subj + had, subj + would
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No. 31

1. Lee contributed fifty dollars, but he wishes he could contribute _______________

A. one other fifty dollars
B. the same amount also
C. another fifty
D. more fifty dollars

Pembahasan: Bagian C merupakan satu2nya yang benar secara structure and meaning
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No. 32

1. The people at the party were worried about Janet because no one was aware
_____________ she had gone.
A. where that
B. of where
C. of the place where
D. the place
Pembahasan: Aware berpasangan dengan of
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No. 33

1. The community of Bethesda, Maryland, was previous known as Darcy’s Store.

▪ A B C D

Quick Tip: Harusnya previously (adverb)

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No. 34

1. Alloys of gold and copper have been widely using in various types of coins.
▪ A B C D

Quick Tips: Harusnya used (passive voice)

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No. 35

1. J. H. Pratt used group therapy early in this century when he brought

▪ A B C
▪ tuberculosis patients together to discuss its disease.
▪ D

Quick Tip: Harusnya his (refers to J.H. Pratt)

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No. 36

1. The United States has import all carpet wools in recent

▪ A B
▪ years because domestic wools are too fine and soft for carpets.

▪ C D

Quick Tip: has + v3 (harusnya imported)

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No. 37

1. The outer layer of the heart, called the pericardium, forms a sac in what the
▪ A B C D
▪ heart lies.

Di soal tersebut terdapat kata ‘in’ yang menunjukkan kata tempat, akan tetapi selanjutnya
diikuti oleh ‘what’ yang menjelaskan sesuatu, bukan tempat. Kata yang harusnya
digunakan selain ‘what’ adalah ‘where’. Oleh karena itu, jawabannya adalah (D) what.
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No. 38

1. Wood from the ash tree becomes extremely flexibly when it is exposed to
▪ A B C D
▪ steam.

Quick Tip: double adverb (Harusnya flexible )

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No. 39

1. The ability to talk is one of the skill that make humans different from the rest
▪ A B C
▪ of the animal world.

▪ D

Quick Tip: one of + plural noun (skills)

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No. 40

1. In plane geometry, the sum of the internal angles of any triangle has always
▪ A B C D
▪ equal to 180 degrees.

Untuk soal ini, kita diminta untuk menggunakan variasi dari ‘present tense’ dengan baik dan
benar. Oleh karena itu, kita tidak diperbolehkan menggunakan kata ‘has’ yang merupakan
bagian dari ‘perfect tense’ untuk mendeskripsikan hal-hal dalam ‘present tense’. Bagaimana
kita bisa mengetahui ini merupakan ‘simple present tense’ karena hal ini tidak terjadi pada
waktu yang lalu, melainkan hal yang umum diketahui. Oleh karena itu, kita harus
menggunakan’simple present tense’. Karena itu, jawabannya adalah (D) has - Is
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Reading Section

▪ Be familiar with the directions

▪ Don’t spend your time on reading the passages

▪ Don’t worry if you’re not familiar with the passages

▪ Don’t spend much time on your question that you are unsure of

▪ Be sure you fill all the answers

▪ Read as much as possible

▪ Learning the new vocabs from the passages that you don’t know
before
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No. 41

1. Who currently controls the Panama Canal?

A. France B. United States C. Panama D. Canal Zone
Soal ini mempertanyakan siapa yang mengontrol Panamal Canal untuk
sekarang saat ini. Hal ini dibahas pada paragraf dua, pada kalimat: The
latter will control it until the end of the twentieth century .... Kata the
latter merujuk kepada subject "united states." Jadi jawaban yang tepat
yaitu jawaban B (united States). Anda perlu mengetahui terkait kata
the latter. Pasangan kata the latter yaitu the former. The latter
bermkana the second sementara teh former bermakna the first. Dalam
paragraf dua kita lihat bahwa ada dua subjek yang disebutkan di awal
kalimat yaitu the french dan the uinted stated. Jadi the former
mengarah ke the french sementara the latter mengarah ke the united
states.
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No. 42

1. The word ‘locks’ in line 6 is closest in meaning to

▪ A. Securities B. latches C. lakes D. canal gates

Lock bisa bermakna pintu jadi dalam kalimat ini yang dikatkan sebagai pintu
yaitu canal gates.
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No. 43

1. On the average, how much would it cost a ship to travel around Cape Horn?
A. $1,500 B. $15,000 C. $150,000 D. $1,500,000

Paragraf pertama pada reading di atas menjelaskan bahwa untuk complete the
trip through the canal menghabiskan biaya sebanyak fifteen thousand dollars
($15, 000) dan untuk trip hanya di Horn berbiaya one tenth (1/10) dari biaya
untuk complete the trip through the canal ($15, 000).$15, 000 X 1/10 = $1, 500.
Jadi jawaban yang benar yaitu jawaban A ($1, 500).
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No. 44

1. In what year was construction begun on the canal?

A. 1881 B. 1920 C. 1939 D. 1999

Soal ini menanyakan kapan dimulainya pembangunan canal yang dimkasud

dalam bacaan. Kita lihat bahwa canal itu resmi dibuka pada tahun 1920 stelah
39 tahun lamanya. Jadi 1920-39 = 1881. Jawaban yang benar yaitu jawaban A
1881.
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No. 45

1. It can be inferred from this passage that

A. The canal is costly project which should be reevaluated
B. Despite all the problems involved, the project is beneficial
C. Many captains prefer to sail around Cape Horn because it is less expensive
D. Problems have made it necessary for these governments to control the canal
over the years

Di antara pilihan jawaban, hanya pilihan jawaban B yang agaks sesuai dengan
bacaan.
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No. 46

1. In line 2, the word ‘linking’ is closest in meaning to

A. Controlling B. dispersing C. detaching D. joining

Linking merupakan sinonim dari joining.

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No. 47

1. In paragraph 2, ‘initiated’ is nearest in meaning to

A. Purchased B. Launched C. forfeited D. forced

Initiated bermakna commenced / launched.

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No. 48

1. All of the following are true EXCEPT

A. it cost so much to pass through the locks because very few ships use them
B. the United State received the rights to the canal from the French
C. ship can pass through the canal in only eight hours
D. passing through the canal saves thousands of miles of travel time around
Cape Horn.

Pilihan jawaban yang tidak sesuai bacaan yaitu jawaban A. Jawaban A

mengatakan bahwa very few use them (locks). Very few bermkana jampir
tidak ada atau sangat sedikit .Sementara pada bacaa menagtakan bahwa
fifteen thousan ships melewati locks.
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