Bahasa Inggris (Kelas D)

Dosen: Ir. Hj. Setyawati Yani, ST MT PhD IPM ASEANEng

Waktu: 60 menit

Part 1. READING

Please read carefully the following paragraphs and answer questions 1-10.

Communication has a very important place in any profession. It is almost impossible to handle any
profession in the world in the absence of communication. In all kinds of professions, communication
plays a vital role. Success depends greatly on the communication skills of the professionals. In
today’s competitive and globalized world, communication has become an essential tool for everyone,
be they students, academics or professionals. For the professionals, effective communicative skill is of
prime importance. It is the basic requirement for them. For technocrats and professionals, it becomes
all the more necessary to acquire good communication skills as they have to communicate effectively
with all their business and professional colleagues.

The professionals spend a great deal of their time communicating with their partners, employees,
clients and colleagues. In a professional world, what professionals do most of the time is to
communicate. It is the communication that determines the success and failure of any profession.
Those companies and organizations which have the employees possessing good communication skills
can perform better. In the absence of proper kind of communication skills in the professionals, it is
difficult for any organization to survive. It is communication that propels the management process
and serves as the lubricant for its smooth operation”

Questions:
1. Please suggest a title for the passage!
2. What is the synonym for the word ‘vital’ in ‘vital role’?
3. Communication has become an essential tool for everyone. According to the passage, who is
everyone?
4. The word ‘them’ in line 6 of paragraph 1 refers to …..
5. Whom are communicating with professionals?
6. What will happen to the company if the employees could not communicate well?
7. What will happen to the company if the employess have good communication skills?
8. What is the propeller of management process?
9. What is the lubricant of services in the organizations?
10. Please list 4 keywords from the passage!

B. Writing
Please write a draft of an email to Professor Daeng Kulle who offers a scholarship for year
one students.The scholarship will be given to students who have communicative,
leadership and collaborative skills. He will be happy to hear students who could introduce
themselve briefly and could explain how to spend the funding of the scholarship. The email
should be written to d.kulle@umi.ac.id, cc the email to englfti@yahoo.com and bcc to your
email. The email should have a SUBJECT (choose your own subject) and an email content.
The content of the email must include: opening, body of email, closing and your signature.