UH 1 Semester 2

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LEMBAR SOAL
ULANGAN HARIAN I SEMESTER II
TAHUN PELAJARAN 2010/2011

MATA PELAJARAN : BAHASA INGGRIS
K E L A S : X (SEPULUH)

I. Choose one of the right answers!


The text for No.1 to 5
The Sumatran elephant’s habitat is in Sumatra, Indonesia. The average male elephant reaches eight feet high and weighs up to six tons. A baby elephant can weigh up to one ton. The males are always larger than the females. They are massive creatures.
Elephants have a trunk, two tusks, two eyes, two ears and two lumps on their head. They are known to be clever animals. When an elephant is hot, they fan themselves by flapping their ears back and forth. When an elephant herd wants to move they use their ears as a guide. Their hearing range is very large. Elephants hear some noises that cannot be heard by a human ear.
Sumatran elephants have enough strength to knock down a tree. They can also pick up a log using just their trunk and their tusks. Their trunk is their nose. They also use it like a hand. Just below their trunk they have their tusks. Only male Sumatran elephants have tusks. A baby elephants is called a calf; the females are called cows.

1. How do elephants guide each other to move in direction?
a. They use their head as a guide
b. They use their tusks as a guide
c. They use their trunk as a guide
d. They use their nose as a guide
e. They use their ears as a guide

2. What are the uses of an elephant’s trunk?
a. can be used as eyes and head
b. can be used as a nose and hand
c. can be used as legs and tail
d. can be used as a trunk and tusks
e. can be used as ears and hand

3. What do elephants use to pick up a log?
a. they use their eyes and head
b. they use their nose and hand
c. they use their legs and tail
d. they use their trunk and tusks
e. they use their ears and hand

4. What do you call a baby elephant?
a. a dog
b. a cow
c. a calf
d. a puppy
e. a cat

5. Where do you find the tusks?
a. under the nose
b. on the head
c. below the trunk
d. in the neck
e. on the back

The text for No. 6 to 10
Spider
Spiders are predatory invertebrate animals. They are not classified in the class of insect. A spider has eight legs while an insect never has more than six legs.
Spiders have a body with two main divisions, four legs and two other pairs of abdominal spinnerets for spinning threads of silk. This silk can be used to aid in climbing, build egg sacs and catch pray.
Spiders kill so many insects, but they never do the least harm to man’s belonging. Spiders are busy for at least half of the year killing insects. It is impossible to find out how many insects they kill, since they are hungry creature which cannot be content with only three meals a day.

6. The purpose of the text is to…
a. explain about spiders
b. tell a particular spiders in chronological order
c. describe an insect
d. persuade people about spiders
e. retell about spiders

7. Why can’t spider be classified in the class of insect?
a. Because spiders have more than six legs
b. Because spider’s bodies have two main divisions
c. Because they have walking legs
d. Because spiders kill many insects
e. Because spiders are hungry creature

8. Which sentences describe the behavior of spiders?
a. a spider has eight legs
b. a spider has a body with two main divisions
c. a spider has four pairs of walking legs and two pairs of abdominal spinnerets
d. a spider kills so many insects
e. a spider is a hungry creature

9. The following sentences are true about spiders, except
a. they belong to insect
b. they have eight legs
c. they eat many insects
d. they are not dangerous for people
e. they eat more than three meals a day

10. They never do the last harm to mans belonging’’
The underlined word has almost the same meaning as the word
a. useless
b. damage
c. bothering
d. intervention
e. relation

The text for No. 11 to 13
ANTS
Ants are small insect. The body of an ant is clearly divided into three sections; the head, the thorax, and the gaster. (The narrow waist is actually within the abdomen, so the part of the abdomen behind the waist is called the gaster.) The waist can be made up of one or two small segments, depending on the species.
Ants are social insects living in colonies comprised of one or a few queens, and many workers. The queen generally stays deep and safe within a nest. Most ants that you see are workers and these are all females. Depending on species, workers may be similar in size, or come in a range of sizes,
Ants tend to corne in dark or earth-tones. Different species are black, earth-tone reds, pale tens, and basic browns.
Queen of ants is for one colony.

11. The communicative purpose of the text is....
a. to amuse the reader.
b. to describe the way ants are
c. to persuade the reader.
d. to make the reader become familiar with ants
e. to describe the ants' life.

12. The first paragraph tells about…
a. how the colonies of ants work
b. the sections of ants' body
c. the function of ants abdomen
d. the classification of ants
e. many kinds of ant species

13. The text is focused on….
a. features appearance of ants
b. species of ants
c. social life of ants
d. size of ants
e. the body of ants

The text for No. 14 to 17
Polar Bear
The polar bear is a very big white bear. We call it the polar bear because it lives inside the Arctic Circle near the North Pole. There are no polar bear at the South Pole.
The polar bears live in the North Pole. There is only snow, ice and water. There is not any land.
These bears are three meters long and weight 450 kilos. They can stand up on their back legs because they have very wide feet. They can use their front legs like arms. The polar bears can swim very well. They can swim 120 kilometers out into the water. They catch fish and sea animals for food. They go into the sea when they are afraid.
People like to kill the polar bears for their beautiful white coats. The government of Canada, The United States, and Russia say that no one can kill polar bears now. They do not want all of these beautiful animals to die.

14. What does the passage mainly discus?
a. The size of polar bear
b. Where polar bears live
c. The habitats of polar bears.
d. Why people hunt polar bears
e. A brief description of polar bears

15. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?
a. Polar bears are very big animals
b. The polar bears are tame animals
c. Polar bears live at the North Pole
d. There are no polar bears at the South Pole
e. Polar bears are hunted because of the beautiful white coats.



16. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE about a polar bear?
a. A polar bear weighs 450 kilos
b. A polar bear is three meters long
c. A polar bear catches fish for food
d. A polar bear goes into the sea when it is angry
e. A polar bear can swim 120 kilometers out into the water

17. What is the generic structure of the text?
a. Orientation>Complication>Resolution>Re-orientation
b. Identification>Description
c. General Classification> Description
d. Orientation>Events>Reorientation
e. Orientation>Description

18. The bag : Rp 87.625,-
The watch : Rp 129.999,-
Choose the right sentence according to the chart above…
a. The bag is as expensive as the watch
b. The watch is cheaper than the bag
c. The watch is more expensive than the bag
d. The bag is more cheap the watch
e. The bag is expensiver than the watch

19. Cisadane river : 9.478 m
Citarum river : 6.231 m
Ciliwung river :13.238 m
Choose the right sentence to the chart above….
a. Cisadane river is deeper than Citarum river
b. Citarum river is the shortest of all
c. Cisadane river is lower than Citarum river
d. Cisadane river is the longest of all
e. Cisadane river is faster than Citarum river

20. Mount Krakatau : 3.471 m
Mount Merapi : 2.834 m
Mount Semeru : 1.934 m
Choose the sentence which is not true according to the chart above….
a. Mount Merapi is lower than mount Krakatau
b. Mount Krakatau is the highest of all
c. Mount Semeru is lower than mount Merapi
d. Mount Krakatau is the highest of all
e. Mount Merapi is higher than mount Krakatau

21. This exercise is not difficult. Its _____________________ I expected.
a. More difficult than
b. The most difficult
c. Easier than
d. The most easy
e. More easy than

22. John's results were bad. Fred's results were very poor. Fred's results were _______________ John's.
a. Worst
b. Bader than
c. The Best
d. Better than
e. Worse than

23. People say that Chinese is ____________________to learn than English.
a. More difficult than
b. The most difficult
c. Easier than
d. The most easy
e. More easy than

24. Money is great. But it’s not the…….thing in life
a. Most comfortable
b. Happiest
c. Most serious
d. Most important
e. Worst

25. I like the chicken sate near our school. It’s much ……..
a. Further
b. Tastier
c. Healthier
d. More expensive
e. Tastyier