ENGLISH TEST

There is no stopping rock and roll. Since its birth in the fofties, rock and roll has become
the liveliest force in popular culture. It was born as a chils of jazz, blues, and country music.
More recently, it has been influenced by movies, television, sex, drugs, art, literature, and
electronics. Since its birth, rock and roll has grouped and regrouped into an explosion of styles
folk rock, soul, Motown, hard rock, jazz style, themes, and stars. Two of the more successful
styles are rap and reggae.

One of the newer styles of rock and roll is rap. Rap is a form of dance music in which
singers-rappers- speak in rhythm and rhyme rather than sing. Rap first appeared in the mid-
seventies in the discos of New York city’s black neighborhoods. Disco DJs teamed up with
rappers to play songs for dancers at parties. At first, the role of the rapper was to keep the beat
going with hand claps while the DJ changed record. Soon, rappers added lyrics, slogan, rhymes,
and call- and- response exchanges with the audience. Early rap songs were mainly about
dancing, partying, and romantic adventures of the rappers, but politics became an important
theme in the late eighties and nineties. Although rap is primarily the music of young black males,
the first white rappers appeared in 1980, and a woman rapper, Queen Latifah, began her career in
1989. M.C. Hammer’s 1990 album, Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ’Em, has sold fifteen million
copies, making it the best-selling rap album of the decade.

Another style of rock and roll is reggae, which was born on the Caribbean island of
Jamaica in the sixties and spread throughout the world in the seventies. It developed from a kind
of Afro-Caribbean music called mento, which was sung and played on guitars and drum. Some
musician changed mento into a music style called ska by adding a hesitation beat. A few years
later, other musicians changed ska, and reggae was born. Reggae’s special sound comes from
reversing the role of the instruments: the guitars play the rhythm and the bass plays the melody.
An important influence on reggae music was the Rastafarian cult. The Rastafarians added
unusual sound mixes, extra-slow tempos, strange lyrics, and mystical-political themes. The best
known reggae musician in the United States is Bob Marley.

Rock and roll music is constantly changing. New styles are born, grow, change and
produce offshoots, which in turn grow, change, and produce offshoots. Some styles enjoy lasting
popularity, but others disappear rather quickly. However, all contribute to the power and
excitement of rock and roll music in our time.

1. Which of the following is true about rap?

A. Rappers do not sing at all but speak in rhythm
B. Rap was originally a form of dance of the 1970s
C. Rappers enjoy interacting with the audience
D. Rap music is confined to black neighborhoods
E. Themes of rap music are limited to casual things
2. A suitable title for the text is…..
A. The history of rap music
B. The origin of rock and roll music
C. The role of Jazz in Today’s music
D. Styles of rock and roll music
E. The young Black Male’s music
3. Rock and Roll music is mainly influenced by…..
A. Explosive style of music
B. Jazz, blues, and country music
C. Native popular culture
D. Mass media, sex, and drugs
E. Soul, Motown, and heavy metal
4. Which of the following is not a characteristic of reggae?
A. It is particularly used to convey political messages
B. It sung and played on guitars and drums
C. Its appearance was inspired by religious group
D. It has hesitation beat like mento and ska
E. Its instruments have to play different roles
5. 5. From the text above we may conclude that rock and roll music…..
A. Was born and developed among black people
B. Became popular when the first white rapper appeared
C. Is means to unite white and black people
D. Will grow and change into other forms of music
E. Is limited to adults because of its serious themes
6. For the last five months, he……of moving out because the area has become highly polluted
A. Thinks
B. Is thinking
C. Thought
D. Had thought
E. Has been thinking
7. The engine…….smoothly when it suddenly stopped
A. runs
B. running
C. has run
D. was running
E. is running
8. I can lend you the book next week because by that time I …..reading it
A. Will be finishing
B. Have fnished
C. Am finishing
D. Will have finished
 E. Will finish
9. The bus came after I …….for about twenty minutes
A. Have been waiting
B. Have waited
C. Am waiting
D. Have been waiting
E. Was waitin
10. Mr. Kelly said,”I believe I can fly”. Mr. Kelly said that…..
A. He believes I can fly
B. He believes he can fly
C. He doesn’t believe he can fly
D. He believes he could fly
E. He believed he could fly
11. “I don’t like to see that film,”Chairil Chandra told me. Chairil Chandra told me….that film
A. If he doesn’t like to see
B. That he doesn’t llike to see
C. That he didn’t like to see
D. Whenever he didn’t like to see
E. That he didn’t like to have seen
12. In our school, English …….by Mrs. Yenni every week
A. Was taught
B. Is taught
C. Are taught
D. Will be taught
E. Was teaching
13. My house……for two months
A. Have renovated
B. Has renovated
C. Have been renovated
D. Have been renovating
E. Has been renovated
14. The teacher………….bag was left in the teacher’s room talked to Mrs. Ida
A. Who
B. That
C. Where
D. Whom
E. whose
15. A rainbow……has beautiful stripes,appears in the sky after rain
A. Who
B. When
C. Why
 D. Where
E. which
16. The singers…..are Indonesians, performed at Jakarta Hilton Center last night
A. Some of whom
B. Many of them
C. Many of whom
D. There
E. They whom
17. If Agnes had had more time, she…..me
A. Will help
B. Would helped
C. Will have helped
D. Would have helped
E. Will be helping
18. We will die, if we…..enough food and water
A. Didn’t get
B. Got
C. Don’t get
D. Get
E. Have got
19. ……I would buy that big house
A. If I am rich
B. If I was a rich amn
C. If I am not a rich man
D. Were I a rich man
E. If I were not rich
20. I think this floor…..since last week
A. Has swept
B. Was swept
C. Is swept
D. Is being swept
E. Has not been swept
21. Don’t give up. Keep on….
A. To try
B. Try
C. Trying
D. To have tried
E. Be tried
22. Mr. Collin is not used to……a room with someone else in the dormitory
A. Share
B. Have shared
 C. Sharing
D. Be sharing
E. shared
23. Last month when I got my salary, I avoided….to the market
A. Go
B. Going
C. To go
D. To have gone
E. Went
24. Please stop …..me in the middle of a sentence
A. Interrupt
B. To interrupt
C. Interrupting
D. Being interrupted
E. Be interrupt
25. ……a new language can be very interesting
A. Learn
B. Learned
C. Learning
D. To learning
E. To be learning