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PKN – SEKOLAH TINGGI AKUNTANSI NEGARA

QUIZ 1

1. Parts of Speech, Aspects, and Tenses Review 25

2. Reading Comprehension 15

Total Items : 40 numbers

Time : 30 minutes
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STRUCTURE AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION

This section is designed to measure your ability to recognize language that is appropriate for
standard written English

Direction: questions 1-15 are incomplete sentences. Beneath each sentence you will see four
words or phrases, marked (A), (B), (C), or (D), choose the one word or phrases that best
complete the sentence.

PART A

1. The art of storytelling … almost as old as humanity.

(A) That (C) it is
(B) Is (D) being

2. The general public … a large number of computers now, because prices are beginning to
decrease.
(A) Must buy (C) must be buying
(B) Must have bought (D) must buying

3. Since more than 50% of all marriages in United States end in divorce, about half of the
children in America must … in single-parent homes
(A) Grow up (C) growing up
(B) To grow up (D) have grow up

4. Please … photocopies of copyrighted materials without the permission of the publisher.

(A) No make (C) not make
(B) Don’t make (D) not to make

5. When Jackqueline Kennedy was the first lady, she collected many beautiful antiques and
… them among the original pieces in the White House.
(A) Sat (C) sit
(B) Set (D) sits
6. The president usually … unless his press secretary approves it.
(A) Doesn’t do a statements (C) doesn’t statements
(B) Doesn’t make a statement (D) no statement

7. … a tomato plant from 75 to 85 days to develop into a mature plant with ripe fruit.
(A) It takes (D) that takes
(B) To take (by taking)
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8. R.M Barlett of Philadelpia … the first private business college in the United States in
1843
(A) Founding (C) was founded
(B) Founded (D) founds

9. Sarah Knight … a fascinating account of a journey she made from Boston to New York
in 1704
(A) Written (C) wrote
(B) Write (D) writing

10. The Canterburry Tales, written about 1386, is alive and … today as it was nearly 600
years ago.
(A) Appealed (C) appealing
(B) Appeal (D) the appeal of

11. If one suffering from psychosomatic illness, that is, a disease contributed to by mental
anxiety, one may still fell very …
(A) Badly (C) worsely
(B) Bad (D) worser

12. All animals … on other animals or plants.

(A) Feed (C) fed
(B) Feeds (D) feeding

13. Before the Angels and Saxons … to England, the Iberians had lived there.
(A) Coming (C) came
(B) Come (D) did come

14. … the dollar as its monetary until in 1878.

(A) Canada adopted (C) it was adopted by Canada
(B) Adopted by Canada (D) the Canadian adoption of

15. Every day the security officer at my school . . . . . . . around the building once every hour.
(A) Walks (C) to be walking
(B) Is walking (D) walking
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PART B
Direction: Decide which of the four underlined words or phrases (A), (B), (C) or (D) would not
be considered correct

16. To grow well, a tree must be well-suited to the area where is it planted
A B C D
17. The first bicycle race on record in the United States take place in 1883
A B C D
18. The Michigan Dune, located on Lake Michigan’s eastern shore, may to reach a height of
A B C D
200 feet.
19. The most important period of physical growth in human occurred during their first two
A B C D
year
20. A chemical react that absorbs heat is called endothermic
A B C D
21. The galaxy Andromeda is the most distance object visible to observers in the Northern
A B C D
Hemisphere
22. First specialization in industrial photography, Margaret Bourke-White later became a
A B
famous news photographer and editorial.
C D
23. The Black Hills of South Dakota are covered with densely pine forest.
A B C D
24. Corn played an important role in the cultural of the cliff-dwelling Indians of the
A B C D
Southwest
25. Bunsen burners are used to hot materials in a chemistry lab.
A B C D
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PART C
READING COMPREHENTION AND VOCABULARY

DIRECTIONS
In this section you will read several passages. Each one is followed by several questions about it.
For questions 26-40, you are to choose the one best answer, (A), (B), (C), or (D), to each
question. Answer all questions following a passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in
that passage.

Questions 26-30
A distinctively American architecture began with Frank Lloyd Wright, who had taken to heart
the admonition that form should follow function and who thought of buildings not as separate
architectural entities but as parts of an organic whole that included the land, the community, and
the society. In a very real way the houses of colonial New England and some of the southern
plantations had been functional, but Wright was the first architect to make functionalism the
authoritative principle for public as well as for domestic buildings. As early as 1906 he built the
Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois, the first of those churches that did so much to revolutionize
ecclesiastical architecture in the United States. Thereafter he turned his genius to such
miscellaneous structures as houses, schools, office buildings, and factories, among them the
famous Larkin Building in Buffalo, New York, and the Johnson Wax Company building in
Racine, Wisconsin.

26. The phrase “taken to heart” in line 1 is closest in meaning to which of the following?
(A)  Taken seriously (C) memorized
(B)  Criticized (D) taken offense

27. In what way did Wright’s public buildings differ from most of those built by earlier
architects?
(A)  They were built on a larger scale.
(B)  Their materials came from the southern United States.
(C)  They looked more like private homes.
(D)  Their designs were based on how they would be used.

28. The author mentions the Unity Temple because, it ….

(A)  was Wright’s first building
(B)  influenced the architecture of subsequent churches
(C)  demonstrated traditional ecclesiastical architecture
(D)  was the largest church Wright ever designed

29. The passage mentions that all of the following structures were built by Wright EXCEPT
….
(A)  factories (C) office
(B)  public buildings (D) southern plantations
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30. Which of the following statements best reflects one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural
principles?
(A)  Beautiful design is more important than utility.
(B)  Ecclesiastical architecture should be derived from traditional designs.
(C)  A building should fit into its surroundings. 10
(D)  The architecture of public buildings does not need to be revolutionary

Questions 31-40
There are two basic types of glaciers, those that flow outward in all directions with little regard 15
for any underlying terrain and those that are confined by terrain to a particular path.
The first category of glaciers includes those massive blankets that cover whole continents,
appropriately called ice sheets. There must be over 50,000 square kilometers of land covered
with ice for the glacier to qualify as an ice sheet. When portions of an ice sheet spread out over
the ocean, they form ice shelves. 20
About 20,000 years ago the Cordilleran Ice Sheet covered nearly all the mountains in southern
Alaska, western Canada, and the western United States. It was about 3 kilometers deep at its
thickest point in northern Alberta. Now there are only two sheets left on Earth, those covering
Greenland and Antarctica.
Any domelike body of ice that also flows out in all directions but covers less than 50,000 square
kilometers is called an ice cap. Although ice caps are rare nowadays, there are a number in
northeastern Canada, on Baffin Island, and on the Queen Elizabeth Islands.
The second category of glaciers includes those of a variety of shapes and sizes generally called
mountain or alpine glaciers. Mountain glaciers are typically identified by the landform that
controls their flow. One form of mountain glacier that resembles an ice cap in that it flows
outward in several directions is called an ice field. The difference between an ice field and an ice
cap is subtle. Essentially, the flow of an ice field is somewhat controlled by surrounding terrain
and thus does not have the domelike shape of a cap. There are several ice fields in the Wrangell.
St. Elias, and Chugach mountains of Alaska and northern British Columbia.
Less spectacular than large ice fields are the most common types of mountain glaciers: the cirque
and valley glaciers. Cirque glaciers are found in depressions in the surface of the land and have a
characteristic circular shape. The ice of valley glaciers, bound by terrain, flows down valleys,
curves around their corners, and falls over cliffs.
31. What does the passage mainly discuss?
(A)  Where major glaciers are located (C) how glaciers are formed
(B)  How glaciers shape the land (D) the different kinds of glaciers

32. The word “massive” in line 3 is closest in meaning to ….

(A)  huge (C) cold
(B)  strange (D) recent

33. It can be inferred that ice sheets are so named for which of the following reasons?
(A)  They are confined to mountain valleys.
(B)  They cover large areas of land.
(C)  They are thicker in some areas than in others.
(D)  They have a characteristic circular shape.
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34. According to the passage, ice shelves can be found

(A)  covering an entire continent (C) spreading into the ocean
(B)  buried within the mountains (D) filling deep valleys

35. According to the passage, where was the Cordilleran Ice Sheet thickest?
(A)  Alaska (C) Alberta
(B)  Greenland (D) Antartica

36. The word “rare” in line 12 is closest in meaning to ….

(A)  small (C) valuable
(B)  unusual (D) widespread

37. According to the passage (paragraph 5), ice fields resemble ice caps in which of the
following ways?
(A)  Their shape (C) their texture
(B)  Their flow (D) their location

38. The word “it” in line 16 refers to ….

(A)  glacier (C) difference
(B)  cap (D) terrain

39. The word “subtle” in line 18 is closest in meaning to …

(A)  slight (C) important
(B)  common (D) measureable

40. All of the following are alpine glaciers EXCEPT ….

(A)  cirque glaciers (C) valley glaciers
(B)  ice caps (D) ice fields

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