Program: IX SMP – TP 2016/2017 Kode: 103

STANDARDISASI KOMPETENSI MATERI PENGAJAR

POLA US – SMP

Bidang Studi : Bahasa Inggris Kode : ZA0014

Keterangan : Durasi Total 90 Menit Nomor 1 sampai dengan nomor 15

Penilaian jawaban benar diberi skor +1,
kosong diberi skor 0 dan salah diberi skor 0.

Petunjuk A dipergunakan untuk menjawab soal nomor 1 sampai dengan nomor 15

Questions 1 and 2 refer to the following text.

Film Lovers Earnestly Needed

The Starburst Film Festival is a 15-day event held every year during the second week of February.
This year we are holding it from February 14-28, 2010. This festival is run entirely by volunteers. We
urge you to share your time and talent for this event by joining many of Louisiana’s film-loving
people!
Pre-festival activities
From January 3 to 17, we need volunteers for the following committees: research of relevant films,
film selection and classification, and sourcing of film material. From January 18 to 30, we need
volunteers to preview the preselected films, organize the sequence of film showings, plan advertising
and publicity for the film festival, and do the actual executions of festival advertising and publicity.
Festival proper
During the festival proper, we need volunteers for these committees: registration, welcoming of guests
and festival attendees, and day-by-day coordination of the film festival activities.
Post-festival activities
After the festival, we need volunteers for these committees: return of films to their owners, and
preparation of the festival’s income-and-loss statement.
Volunteer registration
Volunteers are requested to register with the Starburst Film Festival, Tel. 800-365-2800 no later than
January 2, 2010
Taken from https://www.examenglish.com/TOEIC/toeic_reading7.htm

1. When is the first day of the film festival? 2. What is the purpose of the announcement?
(A) January 2. (A) To solicit sponsorships.
(B) January 3. (B) To get film exhibitors.
(C) February 14. (C) To invite volunteers.
(D) February 28. (D) To publicize an event.

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Question 3 refers to the following text.

How We Become What We Are”

A Seminar on Human Genetics

The seminar will be held on Tuesday, November 26, 2019, 9:00-12:00 noon, at the Conference
Hall of the Carl Hogan Science Building, 202 University Road, Stanford, Northern California. Our
guest speaker will be Dr. Amelia Lockhart from the Department of Biological Sciences, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. For reservations, call the Administration Office of Stanford
University at 465-27-29 before November 19. There is no registration fee but reservation is a must.
Snacks will be served. Check our website at www.geneticsseminar@suadmin.org.
Adapted from https://www.examenglish.com/TOEIC/toeic_reading7.htm

3. Where will the seminar be held? 4. The drug may not be used
(A) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (A) before fifteenth August two thousand
(B) Cambridge University. and twenty-three.
(C) Cornell University. (B) after fifteenth August two thousand
(D) Stanford University. and twenty-three.
(C) before fifth August two thousand and
Question 4 refers to the following text. twenty-three.
(D) after eighth August two thousand and
twenty-three.

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Questions 5 to 7 refer to the following text.

Dorothy Hodgkin was a British chemist. She was born on May 12. 1910, in Cairo, Egypt. Her
determination of the structure of penicillin and vitamin B12 brought her the 1964 Nobel Prize for
Chemistry. Her work on critical discoveries of the structure of both penicillin and later insulin led to
significant improvements in health care.
Dorothy Hodgkin was the eldest of four sisters whose parents, John and Molly Crowfoot, worked
in North Africa and the Middle East in colonial administration and later as archaeologists. Sent
to England for their education, the girls spent much of their childhood apart from their parents. But it
was their mother who especially encouraged her to pursue the passionate interest in crystals that she
first displayed at age 10.
Educated at a coeducational, state-funded secondary school in the small town of Beccles,
Suffolk, Dorothy fought to be allowed to study science along with the boys. She succeeded and was
accepted in 1928 to read for a degree in chemistry at Somerville College, University of Oxford. As an
undergraduate, she was one of the first to study the structure of an organic compound by using X-ray
crystallography.
Her insulin research was put to one side in 1939 when Australian pathologist Howard Florey,
who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology on medicine with Alexander Flemming and his colleagues at
Oxford, succeeded in isolating penicillin and asked Hodgkin to solve its structure. By 1945 she had
succeeded, describing the arrangement of its atoms in three dimensions. Penicillin was at that time the
largest molecule to have succumbed to X-ray methods; moreover, the technique had resolved a dispute
between eminent organic chemists about its structure. Hodgkin’s work on penicillin was recognized by
her election to the Royal Society, Britain’s premier scientific academy, in 1947, only two years after a
woman had been elected for the first time.
Adapted from https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dorothy-Hodgkin

5. What was Dorothy Hodgkin’s invention that 7. “But it was their mother who especially
brought her to get the Nobel Prize? encouraged her to pursue the passionate
(A) Living away from her parents with her interest …”
sisters on her childhood. The underlined word is closest in meaning
(B) Solving the structure of penicillin and to
vitamin. (A) supported. (C) insisted.
(C) Working on the structure of an organic (B) inspired. (D) empowered.
compound.
(D) Studying crystals she displayed at age
10.

6. “… and asked Hodgkin to solve its

structure.” (Paragraph 4)
What does the underlined word refer to?
(A) Penicilin.
(B) Organic compound.
(C) X-ray crystallography.
(D) Crystal.

Questions 8 to 10 refer to the following text.

Healthy sleep habits can make a big difference in your quality of life. Having healthy sleep habits
is often referred to as having good sleep hygiene. Try to keep the following sleep practices on a
consistent basis:
1. Stick to a sleep schedule of the same bedtime and wake up time, even on the weekends. This
helps to regulate your body's clock and could help you fall asleep and stay asleep for the night.
2. Practice a relaxing bedtime ritual. A relaxing, routine activity right before bedtime conducted
away from bright lights helps separate your sleep time from activities that can cause excitement,

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stress or anxiety which can make it more difficult to fall asleep, get sound and deep sleep or remain
asleep.
3. If you have trouble sleeping, avoid naps, especially in the afternoon. Power napping may help
you get through the day, but if you find that you can't fall asleep at bedtime, eliminating even short
catnaps may help.
4. Exercise daily. Vigorous exercise is best, but even light exercise is better than no activity. Exercise
at any time of day, but not at the expense of your sleep.
5. Evaluate your room. Design your sleep environment to establish the conditions you need for sleep.
Your bedroom should be cool – between 60 and 67 degrees. Your bedroom should also be free from
any noise that can disturb your sleep. Finally, your bedroom should be free from any light. Check
your room for noises or other distractions. This includes a bed partner's sleep disruptions such as
snoring. Consider using blackout curtains, eye shades, ear plugs, "white noise" machines,
humidifiers, fans and other devices.
6. Sleep on a comfortable mattress and pillows. Make sure your mattress is comfortable and
supportive. The one you have been using for years may have exceeded its life expectancy – about 9
or 10 years for most good quality mattresses. Have comfortable pillows and make the room
attractive and inviting for sleep but also free of allergens that might affect you and objects that might
cause you to slip or fall if you have to get up

Adapted from https:// www.sleepfoundation.org/sleep-tools-tips/healthy-sleep-tips

8. What is the purpose of the text? 10. "The one you have been using for years
(A) To explain how to sleep comfortably. may have exceeded its life expectancy."
(B) To give some tips to have healthy What does the underlined word refer to?
sleep. (A) The pillows. (C) The room.
(C) To describe how to sleep on (B) The mattress. (D) The light.
comfortable mattress and pillows.
(D) To practice a relaxing bedtime ritual.

9. Why it is suggested to stick to a sleep

schedule of the same bedtime and wake up
time, even on the weekends?
(A) To regulate your body's clock.
(B) To give the excitement.
(C) To help separate your sleep time from
other activities.
(D) To avoid sleep disruptions.

Questions 11 to 13 refer to the following text.

Flying fish can be seen jumping out of warm ocean waters worldwide. Their streamlined torpedo
shape helps them gather enough underwater speed to break the surface, and their large, wing-like
pectoral fins get them airborne.
Flying fish are thought to have evolved this remarkable gliding ability to escape from predators, of
which they have many. Their pursuers include mackerel, tuna, swordfish, marlin, and other larger fish.
For their sustenance, flying fish feed on a variety of foods, including plankton.
There are at least 40 known species of flying fish. Beyond their useful pectoral fins, all have
unevenly forked tails, with the lower lobe longer than the upper lobe. Many species have enlarged
pelvic fins as well and are known as four-winged flying fish.
The process of taking flight, or gliding, begins by gaining great velocity underwater, about 37
miles per hour. Angling upward, the four-winged flying fish breaks the surface and begins to taxi by
rapidly beating its tail while it is still beneath the surface. It then takes to the air, sometimes reaching

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heights over 4 feet and gliding long distances, up to 655 feet. Once it nears the surface again, it can flap
its tail and taxi without fully returning to the water. Capable of continuing its flight in such a manner,
flying fish have been recorded stretching out their flights with consecutive glides spanning distances up
to 1,312 feet.
Flying fish are attracted to light, like a number of sea creatures, and fishermen take advantage of
this with substantial results. Canoes, filled with enough water to sustain fish, but not enough to allow
them to propel themselves out, are affixed with a luring light at night to capture flying fish by the
dozens. There is currently no protection status on these animals.
Taken from: http://animals.nationalgeographic.com

11. From the text we know that
(A) flying fish are endangered species.
(B) plankton are flying fish’s main food.
(C) all flying fish have four wing-like
fins.
(D) flying fish have many predators.
13. Why do fishermen catch flying fish using
light?
(A) To attract other sea creatures.
(B) To calm the fish.
(C) To make the fish more active.
(D) To make the fish easy to catch.

12. Flying fish jump and glide above the 14. Paul is eight years old, Tom is nine, and
ocean to John is ten. John is the
(A) hunt for fish and plankton. (A) oldest. (C) old.
(B) older. (D) more old.
(B) save themselves from predators.
(C) attract their opposite sexes. 15. Rania ... using public transportation for
(D) reach their destinations quickly. years.
(A) have been (C) had been
(B) has been (D) have had

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