Text Listening

Tahun 2008/2009

You will hear:

Man : Sally, I lose my wallet. May I borrow fifty thousand rupiahs?
Woman : Sure. Here you are.
You will also hear :
Narrator : What will the woman do?

You will read in your text book:

A. Leave the man alone.
B. Drive the man home.
C. Find the lost wallet.
D. Borrow the man’s wallet.
The best answer to the question is “Lend the man money.”
Therefore, you should choose answer (D).

1. Dialog yang diperdengarkan:

Man : Nina, you look so pale. What’s wrong with you?
Woman : My asthma flared up again.
Man : Poor you! Was it troublesome for you?
Woman : It was. Last night I could hardly sleep.
Narrator : What are the speakers talking about?

2. Dialog yang diperdengarkan:

Woman : Steve, what seems to be the problem?
Man : Well, I had a very bad cold, and the doctor gave me some medicine.
Woman : Listen! Forget about that medicines, try this verbal one.
Man : Oh, no thanks.
Narrator :What does the woman offer?

3. Dialog yang diperdengarkan:

Man : I’m going to do my office assigment.
Woman : But it’s lovely day, dear! Why don’t we go for a walk?
Man : Can you wait for a few minutes? I have to finish the letter.
Woman : Don’t take too long!
Narrator : What is the woman suggesting?

4. Dialog yang diperdengarkan:

Man : Whose book is this?
Woman : It is mine.
Man : May I borrow it? I do reakky want to read it.
Narrator :What is the man interested in?

5. Dialog yang diperdengarkan:

Man : What can I do for you, Ma’am?
Woman : I am looking for a science book. Do you have one about chemistry?
Man : Well, you’d better check in this catalogue.
Woman : Thanks.

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 Narrator : Which picture goes with the conversation?

Part II
Question: 6 to 10.
Direction:
In this part of the test you will hear some dialogues and questions spoken in English, followed
by four responses, also spoken in English. The dialogues and question and the responses will
be spoken two times. They will not be printed in your text book, so you must listen carefully
to understand what the speakers say. You have to choose the best response to each question or
statement.
Now listen to a sample question:
Man : I got a bad result in my test.
Woman : What! You failed again?
Man : ....
A. Let me try again.
B. I am fine, thank you.
C. Don’t worry, i’ll move.
D. Sorry, i’ve disappointed you.
The best answer to the question “You failed again?” is choice D.”Sorry, I’ve disappointed
you.”
Therefore, you should choose answer (D).

6. Dialog yang diperdengarkan:

Woman : Why do you look so upset?
Man : It has been a hard day today. It was raining when I went to school. It was
difficult to get a school bus. I had to wait for twenty minutes before the bus came.
Woman : ....

7. Dialog yang diperdengarkan:

Man : We went to Bandung yesterday. We spent our time to shopping.
Woman : So, what do you think about Bandung?
Man : ....

8. Dialog yang diperdengarkan:

Man : It seems that you need something.
Woman : My computer doesn’t work well. May I use this computer?
Man : ....

9. Dialog yang diperdengarkan:

Man : Maria, did you type this letter?
Woman : Yes, sir. Anything wrong with it, sir?
Man : Yes, you did it very carelessly this time.
Woman : I really apologize, sir! Let me retype the letter!

10. Dialog yang diperdengarkan:

Woman : Hello, John! What news with you?
Man : Brenda, my friend and I are going skiing this weekend. Would you care to
join with us?
Woman : ....

Part III
Question: 11 to 15.
Directions:
In this part of test, you will hear several monologues. Each monologue will be spoken two
times. They will not be printed in your text book, so you must listen carefully to understand

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what the speakers say. After you hear a monologue and the question about it, read the five
possible answers and decide which one would be the best answer to the questions you have
heard.

11. Monolog yang diperdengarkan:

Woman : One of my favourite actors is in this picture. He is in his twenties. He is
white, he’s medium height, and quite well-built. He’s got quite dark eyebrows and short
brown hair. In this photo, he has got a beard and moustache.
Narrator : Which picture goes with the description you’ve just heard?

Monologue for Question: 12 to 13.

Monolog yang diperdengarkan:
Man : There was once a poor woman who wished very much to have a little child.
She went to a fairy god mother who lived near the green meadow in a valley. The woman
received a barleycorn seed from the fairy. She went home and planed it in the flower pot.
Several days later, the seed grew up into a large beautiful flower. Surprisingly, the woman
saw a little girl inside the flower. The sweet little girl was a long as a thumb. The woman gave
her the name of Thumbelina because she was so small.

12. Narrator: What is the story about?

13. Narrator: Where was the barleycorn seed planted?

Monologue for Question: 14 to 15.

Monolog yang diperdengarkan:
Woman: The polar bear is a bear native to the Artic Ocean and its surrounding seas. An adult
male weights about four hundred to six hundred and eighty kilograms, while an adult female
is about half that size. Althought it is closely related to the brown bear, it has paws to occupy
a narrow ecological niche with many bony characteristics adapted to for cold temperatures,
for moving across the snow, ice, open the water, and for hunting seals which make up most of
its diets. Althought most of polar bears born on the land, it spends most of its time at sea,
hence its name meaning maritime bear and can hunt consistenly onlu from sea ice. It spends
much of the year on frozen sea.

14. Narrator: What does the adult male bear weight?

15. Narrator: Where did the animal live?

This is the end of the listening section.

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