KODIFIKASI WEDA DALAM AGAMA HINDU kelas 8

SOAL BAHASA INGGRIS KELAS 9 SEMESTER 2  K 13

The following text is for questions 1 to 3.

The king of the mice lived inside a banyan tree in a forest. One day, a poor man was cutting down some trees. As he started to cut down the banyan tree, the king of the mice grew frightened.

“Please leave the tree standing and I’ll give you a piece of gold every day.”

The woodcutter agreed. So every evening the king of the mice took out a piece of gold and under the roots of the tree and gave it to the woodcutter. The woodcutter took the gold home and showed them to his wife.

After a few days, his wife asked him, “Where does the gold come from?”

“Don’t worry about that, just keep it.”, he said.

A few days later she asked him again, but he did not tell her.

“If you don’t tell me, I’ll go and tell the government or even the king that you’re a robber”

The woodcutter was frightened of his wife when she was angry. So he said, “Every evening the king of the mice gives me piece of gold from under the roots of the tree.”

“Oh, you are stupid! You’ve been tricked by a mouse. He gives you one piece of gold every evening but the rest of the gold is under the tree all the time. Why don’t you cut down the tree and take it all away?”

1.      What is the purpose of the text?

A.     To describe the king of the mice who lived inside a banyan tree in a forest.

B.     To present information about the woodcutter and the king of the mice.

C.     To entertain readers about the story of the woodcutter and the king of the mice.

D.     To tell the readers that the woodcutter was a poor man at the end of the story.

2.      Why did the wood cutter cut down the tree?

A.     He wanted to get more gold.                            C. The king of the mice lived inside a banyan tree.

B.      He was afraid of the king of the mice.            D. The king of the mice never gave the gold to the poor.

3.      What can we learn from the story above?

A.     The greedy person would never satisfy himself.       
C. The lazy person will never success

B.     The tricky person will get a problem.            D. The poor person must work hard.

4.      “ … the king of the mice grew frightened.” The underlined word is closest in meaning to ….

A.     brave                           
B. pleasant                   
C. scared                      
D. confused

The following text is for questions no.5 to 8.

            Many years ago, the sea tasted like ordinary rainwater so it was tasteless. The people living in the islands did not have salt for their food, but luckily they knew about a friendly giant who kept mounds of salt in his cave. People would cross the ocean with their boats to reach the giant’s island, and that was how they were able to bring salt back to their villages in order to prepare more delicious meals.

            One day the ocean was quite rough for several days so they could not sail out to gather salt. They eventually ran out of salt and the villagers could no longer enjoy their tasteless meals. They wondered how they could get salt again. A child suggested them to ask the giant to stretch out his legs over the ocean so that they could walk on his legs to his island. The kind-hearted giant agreed and the villagers with empty salt sacks walked along the giant’s legs.

            Unfortunately, the giant’s leg landed on an ant hill, and the dangerous red ants started biting his enormous legs. The giant felt hurt, but they still managed to arrive at the giant’s island to get the salt. On their way back home, the giant asked the people to hurry up, but the heavy salt sacks sowed them down.

5.      What does the text tell us about?
A.     Why a giant is friendly to people.                  
C. How to get salt from the sea.
B.     Who the native of the sea was.                                   
D. Why the sea is salty.

6.      What is the main idea of paragraph 4?

A.     The villagers dropped the salt into the sea.
C. The giant could no longer stand the ants’ bite
B.      The dropping of the salt into the sea made water salty.
D. The giant saved the people but not their salt sacks.

7.      Why did the giant pull his foot off and put it into the ocean?

A.     His feet was full of villagers.                           C. His feet was bitten by dangerous ants.

B.     His feet was loaded with sacks of salt.      
D. His felt tired of stretching out his feet.

8.      “ … started biting his enormous legs.” The synonym of the underlined word is ….
A.     huge                             
B. narrow                     
C. strong                      
D. heavy

The following text is for questions no.9 to 11.

            A countryman’s son stepped on a snake’s tail accidentally. The tail suddenly turned and hit him so that he died. The father was very angry so that he cut off part of the snake’s tail. Then, the snake in revenge stung several of the farmer’s cattle. It caused him great loss. However, the farmer decided to stop the fight with the snake. He brought food and honey to the mouth of its lair, and said to it, “ Let’s forget and forgive. Perhaps you were right to punish my son, and take revenge on my cattle, but surely I was right in trying to revenge him. Now that we are both satisfied, why should not we be friends again? “No, no” said the snake. Take away your gifts. You can never forget the death of your son, nor I loss of my tail. Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.”

9.      What is the snake’s revenge upon the farmer’s father?

A.     Eat the father’s cattle                             
C. Swarm the village with other snakes

B.     Kill another kid                                              
D. Give a father a gift

10.  Why can’t the snake the gift?

A. Because he won’t forget the father      
C. Because everything had been forgotten

B.  Because the pain cannot be forgotten  
D. Because the snake was aware of the father’s bad intention

11.  The snake’s characteristic is ….

A.     boastful                                   
B. full of pride             
C. full of revenge                    
D. cunning

The following text is for questions no.12 to 15.

Geckos are small to middle size lizards. Lizards are reptiles. There are 1196 different kinds of geckos. They live in many warm countries. Some kinds of geckos go into people's houses. People are often happy to have them because geckos eat 38 many insects.

Unlike most lizards, geckos have voices. A gecko sounds a little like a bird or a frog. In some languages these lizards have names that sound like their calls, for example, both English and Indonesian call one kind gecko (gek KO) and tokay (to-KAY). Another kind of gecko, with a different sound, is called chicak (CHEE chak).

Geckos have no eyelids. Instead, they have a clear membrane (skin) over their eyes. They lick the membrane clean with their tongues. Like most lizards, they can

regenerate their tail if they need to.

Many kinds of geckos can walk on walls, windows and ceilings. They can do this because they have special toe pads. A microscope can show that each toe pad is made of thousands of hair-like structures. Each of these structures branches into many smaller ends.

12.  What does the text mostly talk about?

A. Geckos                          
B. Lizards                    
C. Reptiles.                             
D. Insects.

13.  The main idea of the second paragraph is that geckos ....

A. can walk on walls         
B. have no eyelids       
C. have voices                        
D. are small

14.  “They can do this because they have special toe pads” (Paragraph 4).

What does the underlined word refer to?
A. To eat many insects.                                     

C. To walk on walls, windows and ceilings.

B. To regenerate their tail if they need to
D. To lick the membranes clean with their tongues.

15. Why do some people like to have geckos at their home?
A. Because they eat many insects.                  
C. Because they have different voices.
B. Because they can walk on walls.                  
D. Because their tails can be regenerated.

The following text is for questions no.16 to 20.

            Picasso was one of the most outstanding and important artists of the 1900’s. he is best known for his paintings. Almost every style in modern art is represented in Picasso’s works.

            Picasso was born in 1881 in Malaga, Spain as the son of an art teacher. He studied painting from his father and his college level course of study at the academy of arts in Madrid.

From about 1895 to 1901, he painted realistic works in a traditional style. He, then entered what was called the Blue Period. During this time, he only uses shades of blue in his paintings to show the poverty he saw in Barcelona. After 1908, he entered into the style of cubism. Among, his well-known cubist paintings are “Three Musicians” and “Man with a Guitar”. Picasso died in Moughins, France in 1973. He was really great artist.

16. Why did Picasso become so popular? Because ….
A. he was the most outstanding artist in 1990’s     C. he painted in traditional style
B. he was known for his great paintings             
D. he was son of an art teacher

17. According to the text, Picasso ….
A. died in Spain, 1973                                     
C. was born in Malaga, Italy.
B. was famous for his painting style                    
D. had a father who worked as an art teacher

18. What can be inferred from the text?
A. Picasso’s father was not good at art                 
C. Picasso was unpopular artist of 1990’s
B. Picasso passed away at the age of 92               
D. Blue Period shows the prosperity in Barcelona

19. Picasso’s most famous thing is ….
A. He is the prominent of cubism style                
C. He drew his influence on Van Gogh
B. He is the most famous expressionism             
D. He cannot draw property

20. How long did he paint in a realistic style?
A. 5 years                          
B. 6 years                    
C. 7 years                    
D. 8 years




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