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Questions 1-10
William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), who wrote under the pseudonym of ! "enry,
was #orn in $orth %arolina! "is only formal edu&ation was to attend his 'unt inas s&hool
until the a*e of fifteen, where he de+eloped his lifelon* lo+e of #oos! y 1881 he was a
Lin li&ensed pharma&ist! "owe+er, within a year, on the re&ommendation of a medi&al
e &ollea*ue of his .athers, Porter mo+ed to a Salle %ounty in /eas for two years herdin*
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sheep! urin* this time, We#sters na#rid*ed i&tionary was his &onstant &ompanion,
and Porter *ained a nowled*e of ran&h life that he later in&orporated into many of his
short stories! "e then mo+ed to 'ustin for three years, and durin* this time the first
re&orded use of his pseudonym appeared, alle*edly deri+ed from his ha#it of &allin* 3h,
"enry4 to a family &at! 5n 188, Porter married 'thol 7stes! "e wored as a draftsman,
(10) then as a #an teller for the .irst $ational an!
5n 189 Porter founded his own humor weely, the 3ollin* Stone4, a +enture that
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failed within a year, and later wrote a &olumn for the "ouston aily Post! 5n the meantime,
the .irst $ational an was eamined, and the su#se:uent indi&tment of 1886 stated that
Porter had em#e;;led funds! Porter then fled to $ew rleans, and later to "onduras,
(15) lea+in* his wife and &hild in 'ustin! "e returned in 189 #e&ause of his wifes &ontinued ill-
health, howe+er she died si months later! /hen, in 1898 Porter was found *uilty and
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senten&ed to fi+e years imprisonment in hio! 't the a*e of thirty fi+e, he entered prison
as a defeated man< he had lost his =o#, his home, his wife, and finally his freedom! "e
emer*ed from prison three years later, re#orn as ! "enry, the pseudonym he now used
(20) to hide his true identity! "e wrote at least twel+e stories in =ail, and after re-*ainin* his
freedom, went to $ew >or %ity, where he pu#lished more than ?00 stories and *ained
fame as 'meri&as fa+orite short Story writer! Porter married a*ain in 190, #ut after
months of poor health, he died in $ew >or %ity at the a*e of forty-ei*ht in 1910! !
"enrys stories ha+e #een translated all o+er the world!
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7. Porter lost all of the followin* when he went to prison 7B%7P/ his
(') home () wife (%) =o# () #oos
8. '&&ordin* to the author, how many stories did Porter write while in prison for three years@
(') more than ?00 () ?A (%) at least 12 () o+er 20
10. Where in the passa*e does the author mention a ha#it of Porter that was to #e&ome +ery useful for
him later@
(') lines 6-10 () lines 11-1A (%) lines 16-20 () lines 21-2A
Questions 11-21
/he first part of 3emo&ra&y in 'meri&a4 was written in 18?1-?2 and pu#lished in
18?A! ' hi*hly positi+e and optimisti& a&&ount of 'meri&an *o+ernment and so&iety, the
#oo was +ery well re&ei+ed! "e attempted to *et a *limpse of the essen&e of 'meri&an
(20) so&iety, all the while promotin* his own philosophyD the e:ualin* of the &lasses and the
ine+ita#le depth of aristo&rati& pri+ile*e! /he rest of the #oo he la#ored on for four years,
and in 180 the se&ond part was pu#lished! /his was su#stantially more pessimisti& than
the first, warnin* of the dan*ers despotism and *o+ernmental &entrali;ation, and applyin*
his ideas and &riti&isms more dire&tly to .ran&e! 's a result, it was not re&ei+ed as well as
(25) the first part, e&ept in 7n*land where it was a&&laimed hi*hly!
12. 'll of the followin* fields of professional interest and a&ti+ity are used to des&ri#e de /o&:ue+ille
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(') philosopher () author (%) politi&al s&ientist () politi&ian
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Hotel Santika Banyuwangi
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Pesan Sekarang
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Questions 22-31
/he study of the astronomi&al pra&ti&es, &elestial lore, mytholo*ies, reli*ions and
world-+iews of all an&ient &ultures is &alled ar&haeoastronomy! 5t is des&ri#ed, in essen&e,
as the Eanthropolo*y of astronomyE, to distin*uish it from the Ehistory of astronomyE! Cany
Lin of the *reat monuments and &eremonial &onstru&tions of early &i+ili;ations were
e astronomi&ally ali*ned, and two well-nown an&ient ar&haeolo*i&al sites seem to ha+e
(5) had an astronomi&al purpose! /he rion mystery, as it is du##ed, purports that the
*eometry and #ri*htness of the stars in the rion &onstellation are mirrored in the
ali*nment and si;e of the *reat pyramids of 7*ypt! While this &laim remains hypotheti&al,
it is ne+ertheless &lear that an&ient 7*yptians in&orporated astronomy with ar&hite&ture! 5n
the /emple of '#u Sim#el, for eample, sunli*ht penetrates a sa&red &ham#er to
(10) illuminate a statue of amses on &to#er 18, whi&h ushered in the start of the 7*yptian
&i+il year! 'stronomy did not eist on its own, howe+er, #ut as one lim# of a lar*er #ody
whose other lim#s in&luded a*ri&ulture and the after-life! 5n this sense, astronomy lined
the two themes humans are most o#sessed withD life and death!
'round the same period, another monument was ere&ted that &om#ines reli*ion,
(15) ar&hite&ture and astronomy! Stonehen*e was #uilt in three separate sta*es, startin* in
approimately ?000 !%! Costly it remains a mystery, #ut two &lues offer some
enli*htenment! ne is that the me*alithi& arran*ement is not random nor purely aestheti&
#ut astronomi&alD 5t mars the solsti&e and lunar phases! /he other is that ar&haeolo*i&al
e&a+ations ha+e re+ealed it was also used in reli*ious &eremonies! %hinese re&ords
(20) su**est their own astronomi&al o#ser+ations dated from the same period< 5ndian sa&red
#oos point to earlier o#ser+ations< and a#ylonian &lay ta#lets show %haldean priests
had #een o#ser+in* the sy (in&ludin* the motion of the +isi#le planets and of e&lipses)
shortly thereafter! ut the earliest physi&al +esti*e of an o#ser+atory in fa&t, lies in
southern 7*ypt! Surprisin*ly it is pro#a#ly not the produ&t of a Semiti& (Syrian or
(25) a#ylonian) peoples #ut rather su#-Saharan, as e+iden&ed #y analysis of a human
=aw#one found on site! /he $a#ta site is the 'fri&an e:ui+alent of Stonehen*e e&ept it
predates it #y some 1,A00 years!
25. Whi&h of the followin*, a&&ordin* to the passa*e, is true a#out the *reat pyramids of 7*ypt@
(') they were #uilt for purposes of astronomy
() they mar the solsti&e and lunar phases
(%) one of them &ontains a statue of amses in a sa&red &ham#er
() they are part of the rion mystery
31. 5n line 2, the word 3it4 refers to whi&h of the followin*@
(') Stonehen*e () the $a#ta site (%) 'fri&an () su#-Saharan
Questions 32-39
5n 180? the nited States ne*otiated the pur&hase of the ouisiana /erritory from
.ran&e for F1A million! With a stroe of a pen 'meri&a dou#led in si;e, main* it one of
the lar*est nations in the world! /he sale in&luded o+er 600 million a&res at a &ost of less
Lin than ? &ents an a&re in what today is the #etter part of 1? states #etween the Cississippi
e i+er and the o&y Countains! .or President /homas Gefferson it was a diplomati& and
(5) politi&al triumph! 5n one fell swoop the pur&hase of ouisiana ended the threat of war with
.ran&e and opened up the land west of the Cississippi to settlement! y any measure the
pur&hase of ouisiana was the most important a&tion of Geffersons two terms as
president! Gefferson new that a&:uirin* the +ery heart of the 'meri&an &ontinent would
pro+e to #e the ey to the future of the nited States!
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5nitially Gefferson sent his minister to .ran&e, o#ert i+in*ston, offered $apoleon
F2 million for a small tra&t of land on the lower Cississippi! /here, 'meri&ans &ould #uild
their own seaport! 5mpatient at the la& of news, Gefferson sent Games Conroe to Paris to
offer F10 million for $ew rleans and West .lorida! 'lmost at the same time, and
unnown to Gefferson, .ran&e had offered all of ouisiana to i+in*ston for F1A million!
(15) /hou*h the transa&tion was :ui&ly sealed, there were those who o#=e&ted to the
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pur&hase on the *rounds that the %onstitution did not pro+ide for pur&hasin* territory!
"owe+er, Gefferson temporarily set aside his idealism to tell his supporters in %on*ress
that Ewhat is pra&ti&a#le must often &ontrol what is pure theory!E /he ma=ority a*reed!
Gefferson later admitted that he had stret&hed his power Etill it &ra&edE in order to #uy
(20) ouisiana, the lar*est sin*le land pur&hase in 'meri&an history!
33. '&&ordin* to the passa*e, how mu&h was paid for ea&h a&re of land
(') less than ? &ents () 8 &ents
(%) 1A million dollars () o+er 600 million dollars
39. '&&ordin* to the passa*e, the word 3power4 in line 2? refers to Gefferson usin*
(') the ne*otiations () &onstitutional power
(%) his idealism () pra&ti&al power
Questions 40-50
7:uisite patterns and surfa&e ornamentation were an inte*ral part of the aestheti&s
of the late Hi&torian era! 5n 'meri&a, these de+elopments were in&orporated into the
themes of national epositions and artisti& mo+ements, as &otta*e industries *rew and
Lin produ&ti+ity in the de&orati+e arts flourished! /he last three de&ades of the 19th &entury
/his new attitude, with its fo&us on ornament and the de&orati+e, was later referred
to as the 'estheti& Co+ement, #ut it also en&ompassed the early 'rts and %rafts
Co+ement as well! /he purpose was to #rin* a refined sensi#ility and &omponents of
(15) 3*ood taste4 to the domesti& interior! 'rt and *ood taste not only denoted *ood &hara&ter,
#ut also &ould #e used to indu&e proper moral &ondu&t and a&tions, there#y &ontri#utin* to
the #etterment of so&iety! /his pla&ed a hea+y #urden on desi*nersIde&orators as well as
on women as eepers of the home! 'meri&ans drew inspiration from the writin* and wor
of 7n*lish artists! /his was a period of *reat e&le&ti&ism! /astes ran*ed from the Codern
(20) Jothi& throu*h the Persian, Jree and 5slami&, to the Gapanese, and with more than a nod
to Cother $ature! >et, re*ardless of the influen&e, surfa&e pattern rei*ned supreme!
7n*lish reformers di&tated that ornament should #e deri+ed from nature, and pattern
should #e flat and styli;ed! .orms were a&&entuated #y &olored outlines, or often with
tou&hes of *old! /he emphasis was on art and on de+elopment of a refined sensi#ility! 5t
(25) was all a matter of taste!
40. What is the main topi& of the passa*e@
(') definin* the 3'estheti& Co+ement4
() de&orati+e arts in late 19th &entury 'meri&a
(%) 7n*lish influen&es on 'meri&an de&orati+e arts in the late 19th &entury
() /he &han*e in tastes from 3o&&o and enaissan&e e+i+al4 to the K'estheti& Co+ement4 in
late 19th &entury 'meri&a
42. '&&ordin* to the passa*e, durin* the 'estheti& Co+ement popular &ar+in*s and deep modelin* of
earlier years
(') were popular () a*ain #e&ame popular
(%) disappeared () defined *ood taste
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47. Where in the passa*e does the author mention the influen&e of art and *ood taste on morals@
(') lines A-9 () lines 10-1 (%) lines 1A-20 () lines 20-2
49. '&&ordin* to the passa*e, whi&h of the followin* remained most important, re*ardless of influen&es
from other &ountries@
(') surfa&e pattern () 7n*lish opinions
(%) *ood taste () Proper moral &ondu&t and a&tions
50. Whi&h of the followin* is $/ mentioned as a feature of the 'estheti& Co+ement@
(') shapes #e&ame less flam#oyant () ornamentation #e&ame li*hter in
appearan&e
(%) forms were a&&entuated #y &olored lines () de&orations fo&used mainly on furniture
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