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Latihan Soal UN 2013
Latihan Soal UN 2013
Dear Farah,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
With each year I'll love you more.
Remember that your best years are still
a head of you and I'll be there every ups,
down and in between.
Love Mom
Once there lived a rich couple, Mang Dondong and Aling Iska who had a twelve-year-old
daughter named Maria. Being dutiful, obedient, and kind, Maria was loved by everyone. But
shyness was one of her distinct features; she used to lock herself in her room. Maria had a
beautiful flower garden which was well-known all over town. She took care of her plants
tenderly and patiently as the plants were her source of happiness and enjoyment.
One day a group of bandits raided the village and killed every man they found for money.
When Mang Dondong noticed the arrival of the bandits, fearing his daughter’s safety, he decided
to hide Maria in the garden. Aling Iska hide herself in the house. She trembled with fear and
prayed,” Oh My God! Save my daughter.” Then suddenly the door opened and the bandits
entered the house. They hit Mang Dondong on the head and his soon fell to the ground. Aling
Iska tried to escape but was also hit by them on the head. The bandits pillaged the house and took
away the money and jewelry. The bandits left the house to plunder some other village.
When Mang Dondong and Aling Iska regained sonsciousness they ran to the garden to
took for Maria but she was not there. They searched again and again but Maria could not be
found. Then suddenly something pricked Mang Dondong’s feet and he saw a tiny plant closing
its leaves. Both Mang Dondong and Aling Iska knelt at their knees and took a closer look at the
plant. After looking at the plant for a long time, they realized that the plant was their daughter
Maria. Indeed, to save her from the bandits God transformed into a small flower of the new plant
that they found in the garden.
After that Mang Dondong and Aling Iska tended to the plant with immense care, as they
knew that in reality the plant was their child Maria. The plant was as shy as Maria and so they
named it “Makahiya”, which in Tagalog means shyness
At the age of one, William Shakespeare was lucky to be alive. After he was born, a
deadly disease came to England. It was called the plague. It killed thousands of people. But
William Shakespeare lived.
Shakespeare grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. He went to school nine hours a
day, six days a week. In 1582, at age 18, he married Anne Hathaway, a farmer’s daughter. She
was eight years older than he was. Their first child was a daughter. Later they had twins. In 1585,
Shakespeare left Stratford-Upon-Avon. His wife and children stayed behind. No one knows why
he left or what he did between 1585-1592.
In 1592, Shakespeare lived in London. He rented rooms or lived with friends. He visited
his wife and family once a year. Shakespeare became an actor, and he also wrote plays. He
usually acted in his own plays. Some of his most famous plays were Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet,
and Macbeth. He wrote 37 plays in all. They are still popular today.
Then the plague came again. Many people died. The theater closed for two years.
Shakespeare could not write plays, so he wrote poems. When the theaters opened, Shakespeare
wrote plays again. Shakerspeare had a theater group. It was the most successful group of that
time. Shakespeare earned almost no money from his writing. But he made a lot of money from
acting. With this money he bought a large house in Stratford-Upon-Avon for his family. He was
friendly with the richest people in town. He was a gentleman- a man of high class who didn’t
have to work.
At age 49, Shakespeare retired and went to live in Stratford-upon-Avon. He died at 52.
He left money to his family. He left his genius to the world.
(from: What a life ! Stories of amazing people by Milada Broukal)
My grandfather had a small farm where he raised beef and some grain for feed. He also
worked diligently as a factory laborer. He was a good neighbor and well-respected for honoring
his word.
When harvesttime came, he would piece together his old corn picker and oil it up for the
season. He pulled it behind a little tractor with a wagon hooked on the back. It was a noisy
contraption unlike the modern machines you see these days.
His whole operation was like that; basic. In fact, his life was like that, too. He worked
hard, helped others, and you could count on him to keep his promises even when it was too hard
for him to do it.
One autumn, he had promised to harvest a few ribbons of corn that wound around the
hills on his friend’s farm; however, after harvesting his own corn, Grandpa’s corn picker
coughed sputtered and quitted. It could not function until a particular part could be ordered, but it
would be too late to be able to help his friend. What was worse, the factory where grandpa
worked required him to work overtime. In order to keep his job there he had to leave the farm
before dawn and didn’t get home until well after sunset.
One autum night, while harvest time was running out, grandpa and grandma sat at the
kitchen table trying to figure a way out of their dilemma.
“there’s nothing you can do,” sais my grandma. “You will have to tell him that you can’t
help with the corn this year.”
“well that just doesn’t fit me,” said my grandpa. “ My friend is depending on me. I can’t
let his harvest rot in the field, can I ?”
“If you don’t have equipment, you just can’t do it,” she said.
“Well, I could do it the way we used to do it. I could harvest it by hand,” he said.
“When do you think you’d have time to do it? She asked. “ With the overtime you’ve
been working you’d be up all night…besides it’d be too dark.”
“ I know of one night that I could do it! There’s still one more full moon in October “he
said.
As it happened, the harvest moon had yet to pass. It’s called the harvest moon because it gives
farmers more light and more time to collect their crops. “If the Lord gives us clear weather, I
think I can do it,” he continued.
And so a few days later, after a long shift at the factory, my grandpa made his way to the
field where my grandma met him in the truck with dinner and a steaming thermos of strong,
black coffee. The weather was cold but clear, and the moon was brilliant. He worked through the
night to keep his word.
(Adapted from : harvest Moon by Kenneth L.Pierpont)
33. How has dried ground peer been used since ancient times?
a. for its flavor
b. as a medicine
c. for trading
d. for both its flavor and as a medicine
35. What does the word them in paragraph one refer to?
a. seeds
b. fruits
c. peppercorns
d. black pepper
37. How many kinds of materials do we need to make a plastic cup telephone?
a. one
b. two
c. three
d. four
For questions 43-45, choose suitable words to complete the text below.
One Friday night I fell asleep early. I put my favorite doll next to me. It was a Barbie
doll. But something strange happened. I couldn’t….(43)….the doll when I woke up in the middle
of the night. I thought it was my mom or dad who put it away. I looked for her and found the doll
in my toy box. I then went on playing with her since it was still dark. Then I went back to bed
and laid the doll beside me….(44)…I felt something touching my leg and moving up and down. I
pulled my blanket off and screamed “My doll’s legs are moving on mine!”. Both of my parents
got up and rushed to my room. I told them what had happened but they didn’t believe it. It was a
horrible….(45)….that I’ll never forget in my life.
For questions 46-48, choose suitable words to complete the text below
I have a very old wallet that my friend told me I should throw away. Yet, I really love my
wallet and I won’t part with it because of several….(46)…First of all, it has my name on its side.
When my father bought the wallet for my twelth birthday, he asked the leather worker to stitsh
my name, Heracio. Second, I should keep the wallet forever. Once I went fishing and I dropped
the wallet into the water. I thought it would sink, but it floated. Then a guy with a net rescued it
for me.Finally, the wallet is a style of leatherwork from my hometown in Mexico. It was
very…..(47)…. I left six years ago and haven’t been back since. With my wallet, I ….(48)…
have something from home by my side.
a. 179382451
b. 179384265
c. 652481793
d. 652481739
a. 6241735
b. 5624137
c. 5624173
d. 6241753