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Read the following text carefully and then answer the questions no 1 - 3!

Bees are useful insects. There are about 20.000 kinds of bees, but only honey bees make honey.
Honey bees live in groups called colonies. Each colony has one-female queen bee, tens of thousands
of worker bees, and a few hundred males, or drones. Honey bees live in hives. Inside their hive, the bees
make a honey comb of wax. The honeycomb is a kind of bee apartment building full of six-sided rooms in
which the bees raise young and store food.
The queen lays thousands of eggs. Worms look like larvae batch from the eggs. Each larva becomes
a pupa, which looks partly like a larva and partly like an adult bee. The pupa then becomes and adult bee.
Worker bees feed the young, clean and guard the hive, and fly to and from flowers. They collect tiny grains
of pollen and a sweet liquid called nectar for food. The pollen is food for young bees. Worker bees use the
nectar to make honey. Without bees bringing pollen from flower to flower; many plants could not make
seeds.
Queen bees and worker bees have stings .Workers use their stings to defend themselves and their
hive. A queen uses their stings to kill other queens.
Most other kinds of bees live alone instead of in a colony. These bees make tunnels in wood or in
the ground. The queen makes her own nest.
People admire bees for their busy ways. People called beekeepers keep bees for honey and for the
beeswax the bees use to build their honeycombs.
1.
What does the text tell us about ?
3.
The collect tiny grains of pollen and a sweet
a.
Honey bees
liquid called nectar. The most suitable
b.
Queen bees
synonym of the underlined word is ....
c.
Pollen bees
a.
bits
d.
Worker bees
b.
parts
e.
Honey comb
c.
seeds
2.
The main idea of paragraph 2 is ....
d.
sections
a.
Bees are useful insect
e.
divisions
b.
Honey bees live in hives
c.
Honey bees live in groups
d.
A honey comb is a bee apartment
e.
Colony consists of a-queen bee, worker;
drones.
Read the following text carefully and then answer the questions no 4 - 8!
Fox is the smallest member of the dog family, which also includes wolves, coyotes, jackals, and dogs.
Foxes are characterized by short legs, an elongated narrow muzzle, erect triangular ears, thick fur, and a
long bushy tail. Foxes are found throughout the Americas, Eurasia, and Africa, inhabiting mostly forest,
chaparral, and desert regions. Most of the ten species of the genus to which the red fox belongs can adapt
to diverse climates and habitats.
Most foxes feed on mice, voles, rabbits, birds eggs, fruit, large insects, and carrion. Because their
prey is small, foxes are solitary rather than pack hunters. They generally work territories of less than 8 sq
km (less than 3 sq mi), which they defend from other foxes. They are swift, agile runners; the red fox can
reach a speed of 48 km/h (30 mph).
There are some types of foxes. The red fox is by far the most common species of fox. It is 90 to 105
cm (36 to 42 in) long, not including the tail, weighs about 7 kg (about 15 lb), and is distinguished by black
ears and feet and a white tip on the tail. The coat is usually some shade of rusty-red or reddish-brown,
sprinkled with light-tipped hairs. The red fox ranges across Eurasia and North Africa and from northern
Mexico to the Arctic. Within these vast zones diverse variations of the red fox have developed; those of
the south are smaller and have lighter-colored coats, and those of the north are larger, with thicker and
darker coats. The silver fox, valued for its black, frosted fur, is simply a variant of the red fox. The second
type of fox is the gray fox. It is a little smaller than the red fox, and its coat of course, pepper-and-salt
gray hair is of far less commercial value. It ranges from southern Canada to northern South America and
inhabits mostly forests and arid bush country. The next type of fox is the swift fox. It is a shy, fast-running,
nocturnal animal that lives in the Great Plains of southern Canada and the northern United States. Only
about two-thirds the size of the red fox, the swift fox is also called a kit fox. Another small fox, the longeared kit fox, lives in arid regions of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.
4.
Which of the following is the characteristic of
5.
To which area does the gray fox inhabit?
the foxes?
a.
Southern South America
a.
Strong legs
b.
Northern United States
b.
Long heavy tail
c.
Southern Canada
c.
Wide muzzle
d.
Southern United States
d.
Erect quadruple ears
e.
Northern Canada
e.
Thin fur
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6.

7.

What does the word agile mean?

a.
Very quick
b.
Average
c.
Stable
d.
Slow motion
e.
Irresponsive
How many types of foxes are there mentioned
in the text?
a.
Two
b.
Three
c.
Four
d.
Five
e.
Six

8.

Which of the following is TRUE about the red

fox?
a.
The red foxes inhabit from northern
Mexico to the Arctic
b.
The silver fox is the truly different
species of the red fox
c.
Its length is 36 to 42 inch with its tail
d.
The red foxes in the South have thicker
and darker coats
e.
The red foxes in the North have lightercolored coats

Read the following text carefully and then answer the questions no 9 - 11!

Platinum whose symbol is Pt is relatively rare. It chemically inert metallic element that is more
valuable than gold. The atomic number of platinum is 78. The element is one of the transition elements in
group 10 (or VIIIb) of the periodic table (see Periodic Law).
Because of its chemical inertness and high fusing point, platinum is valuable for laboratory apparatus,
such as crucibles, tongs, funnels, combustion boats, and evaporating dishes. Small amounts of iridium are
usually added to increase its hardness and durability. Platinum is also used for contact points in electrical
apparatus and in instruments used for measuring high temperatures. Finely divided platinum in the form
of platinum sponge or platinum black is used extensively as a catalyst in the chemical industry. A
considerable amount of the platinum used in the United States goes into jewelry, in which it is often alloyed
with gold. It is also used for dental fillings.
Platinum is mined all over the world; in the early 2000s South Africa and Russia were the leading
producers. Canada, with mines in Ontario, where platinum is associated with nickel ore, ranked third in
world production.
9.
How many important usages of Platinum
11. Which of the following is TRUE about
are mentioned in the text above?
Platinum?
A. 2 uses
A. Gold equalizes Platinum in its value
B. 3 uses
B. Iridium is the additive to gain Platinum
C. 4 uses
durability
D. 5 uses
C. Platinum black is marketed as jewelry
E. 6 uses
D. Platinum used as esthetic filled in
10. What is the closest meaning toward the
teeth
word inertness in the text above?
E. Platinum is easily evaporated
A. Dissolve
B. Permanence
C. Inconsistency
D. Melt
E. Evaporation
Read the following text carefully and then answer the questions no 12-16!

Seahorses are truly unique, and not just because of their unusual equine shape. Unlike most other fish,
they are monogamous and mate for life. Rarer still, they are among the only animal species on Earth in which
the male bears the unborn young.
Found in shallow tropical and temperate waters throughout the world, these upright-swimming relatives
of the pipefish can range in size from 0.6 inches (1.5 centimeters) to 14 inches (35 centimeters) long.
Male seahorses are equipped with a brood pouch on their ventral, or front-facing, side. When mating, the
female deposits her eggs into his pouch, and the male fertilizes them internally. He carries the eggs in his pouch
until they hatch, then releases fully formed, miniature seahorses into the water.
Because of their body shape, seahorses are rather inept swimmers and can easily die of exhaustion when
caught in storm-roiled seas. They propel themselves by using a small fin on their back that flutters up to 35
times per second. Even smaller pectoral fins located near the back of the head are used for steering.
They anchor themselves with their prehensile tails to sea grasses and corals, using their elongated snouts
to suck in plankton and small crustaceans that drift by. Voracious eaters, they graze continually and can
consume 3,000 or more brine shrimp per day.

12. The text is mainly about

A. the body shape of seahorses
B. the behavior of seahorses
C. the mating of seahorses
D. the nature of seahorses
E. the prey of seahorses

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13. Why can seahorses easily die of exhaustion

when caught in storm-roiled seas?
A. The smaller pectoral fins are located near
the back of the head
B. They are rather inept swimmers
C. They are among the only animal species
on Earth
D. They propel themselves by using a small
fin
E. They have equine body shape
14. Seahorses are rather inept swimmers
and can easily die (par 4) The underlined
word means
A. weak
B. skillful
C. unskillful
D. powerful
E. dreadful

15. What is the main idea of paragraph 3?

A. The male seahorses which take care of
the eggs until they hatch.
B. Male seahorses equipped with a brood
pouch.
C. The eggs carried in his pouch until they
hatch.
D. A brood pouch on their ventral or frontfacing side.
E. The female which deposits her eggs into
males pouch.
16. Which of the following statement is TRUE
about seahorses?
A. They can consume 3,000 and more brine
shrimp per week
B. They release their offspring into the
water in any forms
C. Depositing eggs into water, the female
helps the mate in storing eggs in a saver
place
D. A small fin on their back can flutter up to
105 times within three seconds
E. They fertilize the eggs externally

Read the following text carefully and then answer the questions no 17-21!

There are some 2,000 species of sea star living in all the worlds oceans, from tropical habitats to the
cold seafloor. The five-arm varieties are the most common, hence their name, but species with 10, 20, and
even 40 arms exist.
They have bony, calcified skin, which protects them from most predators, and many wear striking
colors that camouflage them or scare off potential attackers. Purely marine animals, there are no
freshwater sea stars, and only a few live in brackish water.
Beyond their distinctive shape, sea stars are famous for their ability to regenerate limbs, and in some
cases, entire bodies. They accomplish this by housing most or all of their vital organs in their arms. Some
require the central body to be intact to regenerate, but a few species can grow an entirely new sea star
just from a portion of a severed limb.
Most sea stars also have the remarkable ability to consume prey outside their bodies. Using tiny,
suction-cupped tube feet, they pry open clams or oysters, and their sack-like cardiac stomach emerges
from their mouth and oozes inside the shell. The stomach then envelops the prey to digest it, and finally
withdraws back into the body.
17. What is the text about?
A. the prey of sea stars
B. How sea stars live
C. the way sea stars survive
D. the process of sea stars camouflage
E. Sea stars in its nature
18. There are many varieties of sea star living in all
the worlds ocean and the most common are
.
A. five-arm varieties
B. ten-arm varieties
C. twenty-arm varieties
D. thirty-arm varieties
E. forty-arm varieties
19. Most sea stars also have the remarkable
ability to consume (par 4) The underlined
word is closest in meaning to
A. usual
B. unusual
C. exception
D. ridiculous
E. distinguished

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20. Paragraph 3 mainly discusses about

A. sea stars vital organs
B. sea stars entire bodies
C. sea stars ability to regenerate limbs
D. sea stars central body to be intact
E. sea stars distinctive shape
21. What does sea star use for their defense from
predators?
A. Poisonous tip part of its entire body
B. A sudden emergence of muscular part of
body
C. A release of musty smell from its body
D. Noticeable color changes that enable it to
camouflage
E. Spiky skin when it is endangered

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Read the following text to answer questions number 22-25!

Many people call platypus duckbill because this animal has a bill like duckbill. Platypus is classified as
Ornithorhynchus anatinus. Platypus is a native Tasmania and southern and eastern Australia.
The bill of the platypus is the most visible feature of its small head and measures about 6 cm (about
2.5 in) long and 5 cm (2 in) wide. The bill is actually a lengthened snout covered with soft, moist, leathery
skin. It contains specialized sense organs called electroreceptor that can sense weak electric fields. Using its
bill, the platypus stirs up mud at the bottom of rivers or lakes to detect and discover the insects, worms, or
snails on which it feeds. Platypuses also eat frogs, small fish, and crustaceans.
As in most aquatic mammals, the legs of the platypus are short. All four feet are webbed, but the
webbing on the front feet extends beyond the sides of the five toes and the ends of the claws, forming fanshaped paddles. Unlike most aquatic mammals, the platypus pushes forward itself mainly with its front feet
rather than with its hind feet. Adult males have a hollow, horny spur on the inner side of each hind foot. The
spur connects to a gland at its base containing a poisonous secretion that the animal may use to defend itself.
The platypus is one of only a few poisonous mammals.
Platypuses are shy animals and seldom observed, even in areas where they grow well. They are active
only during the early morning and late evening. The call of the platypus is a low throaty growl. They are
excellent swimmers and divers and live in long, winding burrows, which are usually dug by the females in the
banks of rivers or streams. The burrows are blocked with earth in several places as building of defenses
against intruders and flooding.
22. How does platypus defend itself?
24. , but the webbing on the front feet extends
a.
Secreting electric charge
beyond the sides of the five toes and
b.
Secreting poison from its spur
(Paragraph 3). What does the word extends
c.
Scratching its claws to the intruders
best mean?
d.
Stirring up the mud at the bottom of
a.
fosters
rivers
b.
arises
e.
Spitting the poisonous moisture from its
c.
enriches
bill
d.
enlarges
23. How does platypus move itself in the water?
e.
heightens
a.
Weaving itself with its back legs
25. What is the communicative purpose of the text
b.
Pushes forward itself with both front and
above?
back legs
a.
To explain the natural phenomena in
c.
Pushes forward itself more on rear rather
southern and eastern Australia
than front feet
b.
To inform about the certain mammal in
d.
Weaving itself more on front rather than
southern and eastern Australia
back feet
c.
To describe one of the duckbills in
e.
Moving just like any other mammal
southern and eastern Australia
d.
To present the specific data about the
certain mammal in southern and eastern
Australia
e.
To discuss the different kinds of animals
with bill in southern and eastern Australia
Read the following text to answer questions number 26-30!
The rattlesnake has a reputation as a dangerous and deadly snake with a fierce hatred for humanity.
Although the rattlesnake is indeed a venomous snake capable of killing a human, its nature has perhaps been
somewhat exaggerated in myth and folklore.
The rattlesnake is not inherently aggressive and generally strikes only when it has been put on the
defensive. In its defensive posture, the rattlesnake raises the front part of its body off the ground and assumes
an S-shaped form and in preparation for a lunge forward. At the end of a forward thrust, the rattlesnake
pushes its fangs into a victim thereby injecting its venom.
There are more than 30 species of rattlesnakes, varying in length from 20 inches to 6 feet and also
varying in toxicity of venom. In the United States there are only a few deaths annually from rattlesnakes, with
a mortality rate of less-than 2 percent of those attacked.
26. What is the main idea of paragraph 2?
27. Which of the following is TRUE about the
A. How the rattlesnake secretes its venom
rattlesnake?
B. The main function of the rattlesnakes fang
A. The S shaped form of the rattlesnake
C. The way the rattlesnake adapts to its
happens when it mates
environment
B. The rattlesnake mainly uses its fangs to kill
D. How the rattlesnake is away from its
its prey
predator
C. Some rattlesnakes are more than 20 feet in
E. How the rattlesnake responds toward the
length
danger
D. United States is the country with the biggest
victim due to the rattlesnakes
E. Rattlesnakes mostly attack when they feel
endangered
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28. its nature has perhaps been somewhat

exaggerated in myth and folklore. What does
the word exaggerated mean?
A. Enlarged
B. Inaugurated
C. Proclaimed
D. Declared
E. Unlisted
29. How does the rattlesnake kill its victim?
A. By biting its victim with its fangs
B. By injecting the toxic to its victim through its
fangs
C. By tightening its victim harder and harder
D. By spitting toxic to its victim from distance
E. By swallowing its victim alive to its entire
body

30. What can we infer about the rattlesnake?

A. The fang is the most dangerous part of the
rattlesnakes
B. The mortality rates from rattlesnakes
attacks is indeed significant in United States
C. All rattlesnakes always secrete the same
quality of poisons
D. The capability of rattlesnake to kill human
only happens in myths and folklore
E. The movement of rattlesnakes body off the
ground is the determinant to its attacking
process

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