sincere sympathy.

SOAL PENILAIAN AKHIR SEMESTER (PAS) GENAP

TAHUN PELAJARAN 2022/2023

Mata Pelajaran : Bahasa Inggris Hari, tanggal : Kamis, 08 Juni 2023

Kelas : XI ( Sebelas) Waktu : 90 Menit
PETUNJUK UMUM
1. Berdoa terlebih dahulu sebelum mengerjakan
2. Tulislah nama dan nomor peserta pada lembar jawaban yang telah disediakan menggunakan pensil.
3. Periksa dan bacalah soal-soal dengan teliti sebelum menjawab.
4. Periksalah kembali jawaban anda sebelum diserahkan kepada pengawas ujian

A. Pilihan Ganda

For questions No. 1 – 2

Apt BLK 30, Eunos St. #05 – 116
Singapore 1441 Words, I know, are poor comforters. “The heart knows
2nd April 2009 its own sorrow”, and in such sorrows we are always alone.
However, it is not mere words when I say that I feel with you
Dear Liza, in your sorrow.

I have received you letter asking me to meet you at your house Your sincere friends,
this Sunday to discuss the urgent matter you have. I regret
however to say that it will not be possible for me to see you on Jack
Sunday as I already have a previous appointment . I shall see
you on Monday next week at 5 p.m . Hoping the change of 3. What is the possible relation between the sender and the
date will be convenient to you recipient?
A. Relatives. D. Siblings.
Your sincerely B. Employers. E. Employees.
C. Friends.
Daisy
4. From the letter we know that .....
1. What does the letter tell about ..... A. Fred’s mother was not ill before her death.
A. Liza’s problem B. Jack sent letter to Fred several weeks ago.
B. Liza’s appointment C. Jack was very sorrowful to send the letter to his mother.
C. Daisy’s previous letter to Liza D. Jack had known Fred’s mother before.
D. Daisy’s regret for not being able to come E. Fred is the only child in his family.
E. A meeting held at Liza’s house
5. “You have my sincere and heartfelt sympathy, my dear
2. Why did Liza ask Daisy to come to her house ..... fellow, in your sorrow.” What is the closest meaning of the
A. Liza wanted Daisy to solve her problem underlined word?
B. Daisy would discuss her problem with Liza A. Real. D. Honest.
C. Liza persuaded Daisy to go somewhere B. Caring. E. Curious
D. Daisy wanted to meet Liza’s family C. Generous.
E. Liza wanted to chat with Daisy
For questions No. 6 – 8
To,
For questions No. 3 – 5
Tumer and family,
Jl. Jambu 129
D-14, Galaxy apartments,
Bandung, 30th Januari 2017
Manhattan.
Dear Fred,
Dear Tumers.
It was a real sorrow that I heard this morning of your
great loss. I knew your mother was ill. For your brother told
Tht’s looks really bizarre to make a communication In
me several weeks ago. However, as he at that time did not
race or this letter with neighbors. However, the occasion
seem to think. The illness was very serious, the news of your
makes this letter imminent. This letter marks the end or a very
mother’s death came to me as a shock. You have my sincere
comfortable and desirable first year In this apartment. And, we
and heartfelt sympathy, my dear fellow, in your sorrow. I
have been proud aswell as blessed to have a neighbor like you
know you will feel it deeply, for you always thought so much
all. The moment when we moved into this place, it was very
of your mother and loved her so truly. I feel it also as a
awkward for us to adjust in this new ambience. Should your
personal loss to myself for your mother was always very kind
neighborhood been absent, then the awkward situation would
to me. I admired her a good and noble woman. Her death must
never have been overcome.
be a terrible grief to your father too. Please assure him of my
 In all the tomes, whether being the festive tomes or
during the testing times, you have always backed us on all our
decision. You made us acknowledge the fact that,neighbors
are the rnt locome to helpin any situat on and all the relmives,
friends come laler. I would like to exploit this opportunity to
appreciate your presence all with us.Thanking you.
Yours sincerely.
Robert Morgan
6. What is the purpose of the letter?
A. To invite a neighbor.
B. To introduce a neighbor.
C. To celebrate a neighbor.
D. To describe a neighbor.
E. To thank to a neighbor.
7. “However, the occasion makes this letter imminent.”
The underlined word has the closest meaning to…
A. The writer’s neighbor is a weird person.
B. The writer’s neighbor is a stubborn person.
C. The writer’s neighbor is an arrogant person.
D. The wirter’s neighbor is a very bad person.
E. The writer’s neighbor is a very helpful person
8. Who Is Sent the Letter
A. Robert Morgen D. Galaxy
B. Tumer E. Manhattan
C. Family
For questions No. 9 – 10!
Oktober, 26th, 2020
Dear Mamad
I received your letter explaining your inability to come
here yesterday. As you know, I celebrated my birthday on
October 23td without you. It was truly a great momen for me.
The birthday party was arranged at our residence at 7pm.
My home was beautifully decorated by our friends.
New curtains, flower-pots, some paintings, and posters looked
so cool. I bought all I need for the party from the market. I
invited all our close friends and relatives.
Oh!, Do you know how I missed you on that day? But
you had to be busy with your compulsions. Anyway, please
convey my regards to your parents and thanks for your
birthday card and gift you have send to me.
Best regard,
Prabu
9. Why did Prabu write the letter?
A. To explain her friend his inability to come to her
birthday party
B. To invite her friend to come to her birthday party
C. To thank her friend for his birthday’s card and present
D. To tell her happiness during her birthday party
E. To describe the celebration of her birthday
10. What was the writer’s problem?
A. The writer could not see Mamad on her birthday’s
celebration
B. The beautiful decoration was not arranged by all of her
friends
C. The writer did not celebrate her birthday luxuriously
D. The writer’s friends did not give her any present
E. The writer did not convey her regards to Mamad’s
parents
11. The heat causes deeper water to boil much more violently.
The heat creates jets of steam and fountains of hot water.
-----------------
The appropriate conjunction to combine the sentences is .....
A. but D. either
B. and E. unless
C. so that
12. Read the following sentences.
Many species of wildlife are becoming extinct, __________
the rain forests are being destroyed
A. therefore D. consequently
B. since E. as a result
C. so
13. READ THE TEXT AND ANSWER THE FOLLOWING
QUESTION
Jessy : Well it’s an amazing Sunday, isn’t it?
Justin : Yeahh it’s true, and this weekend will be our last
amazing weekend.
Jessy : Why?
Justin : Because next week we gonna have a final exam.
Haa. I am afraid if I can’t pass the exam.
Jessy : No, you will. If you study with all of your effort,
you will definitely pass the exam.
Justin : Hahaha ..... yaah I know, I can get best score
because of my effort.
From the dialogue, we know that .....
A. Justin has already passed because he studied hard.
B. Jessy will study with Justin because they are friends.
C. Justin will pass the exam if he studies hard.
D. Jessy will help Justin if he needs her.
E. Justin and Jessy will pass if they answer the exam
14. Next Week, we gonna have a final Exam.
What tense using at the sentence above ?
A. Simple Present Tense
B. Present tense
C. Future Tense
D. Past Tense
E. Perfect Tense
For questions No. 15 – 17!
Read the dialog below. And answer the following questions
Anna : Hey, can I get my book back, please? The
one that you borrowed from me last week?
I need it.
Bryan : Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot to bring it because of
my little brother. He made such a fuss this
morning. Thanks to the new nanny who
could finally handle him.
Anna : It's ok. Can you bring it back tomorrow? I
need to read that book due to my
assignments.
Bryan : Sure. I’ll bring it tomorrow.
Adapted from: https://brainly.co.id/tugas
15. From the dialogue, we know that .....
A. Bryan need Anna’s book for his assignments
B. Anna made such a fuss this morning
C. Bryan little brother need to read Anna’s book
D. Bryan borrow the book for tomorrow
E. Bryan borrowed Anna’s book but he forgot to bring it
16. Why Bryan forgot to bring Anna’s book?
A. Because of his little brother made such a fuss
B. Because the new Nanny read that book
 C. Because of the new Nanny times. When they are fully grown, they stop eating ant turn
D. Because his little brother made such a fuss into pupas, hanging under branches, leaver or other hidden
E. Because of Anna’s book areas. Inside the pupas, the cells of caterpillars turn into parts
of butterflies’ bodies. When the caterpillars come out their
17. The connectors of cause and effect on the dialog are ..... pupas, they have already transformed into butterflies. They
A. because, because of, due to have compound eyes and long antennae, and legs and wings.
B. because of, thanks to, due to At the final stage of their life cycle, the jobs of butterflies are
C. thanks to, due to, because mating, and laying eggs to become the next caterpillars.
D. because, thanks to, since
E. due to, because of, so 23. The purpose of the text is .....
A. to amuse readers with a text about butterflies
18. I love living in Australia ..... the weather. B. to persuade readers to like butterflies
A. Because D. Since C. to present opinions about butterflies
B. As E. Because of D. to tell the life cycle of butterflies
C. Due E. to help readers catch butterflies

19. “He got to work really, really late “Cos he missed his train”. 24. “Adult female butterflies lay many almost-invisble eggs at
Which cause and effect word is ‘Cos short for? once on plants.”
A. Due to D. Because
B. As E. Since (Paragraph 2) . The undelined word means .....
C. Neither A. cannot be destroyed
B. cannot be hatched
20. I prefer driving ..... I am afraid of flying. C. cannot be seen
A. Before D. After D. cannot be laid
B. In order to E. So that E. cannot fly
C. Because
For questions No. 25 – 27!
21. How a Geyser Forms A natural disaster is a terrible accident, e.g. a great
A geyser field is usually located in an area where there has flood, a big fire or an earthquake. It usually causes great
been recent volcanic activity. There can be hundreds of suffering and loss of a large sum of money. The casualties are
geysers in a geyser field. Their positions depend on the injured or died. Some people are homeless and need medical
system of channels underground. care.

Cold surface water seeps underground. It flows through Floods occur when the water of rivers, lakes, or
cracks in nonporous rock (rock that does not soak up water) streams overflow their banks and pour onto the surrounding
and collects in channels of porous rock (rock that soaks up land. Floods are caused by many different things. Often heavy
water). The water is heated by hot rock, and it begins to rainstorms that last for a brief can cause a flood. But not all
expand and boil. Water at the top boils off or spills over. heavy storms are followed by flooding. If the surrounding
This reduces the pressure and causes deeper water to boil land is flat and can absorb the water, no flooding will occur.
much more violently, creating jets of steam and fountains of If, however, the land is hard and rocky, heavy rain cannot be
hot water. absorbed. Where the banks are low, a river may overflow and
flood adjacent lowland.
Tense that are used in the text above is .....
A. past tense In many part of the world flood are caused by tropical
B. future tense storms called hurricanes or typhoons. They bring destructive
C. present perfect winds of high speed, torrents of rain, and flooding. When a
D. present tense flood occurs, the destruction to surrounding land can be
E. present continuous tense severe. Whole villages and towns are sometimes swept away
by water pouring swiftly over the land. Railroad track blocked
and uprooted from their beds. Highways are washed away.
22. The water is heated by hot rock, and it begins to expand and
boil.
When a building caught fire, the firemen pitched in to
help battle the blaze. Before the pumps were invented, people
The underlined word has similar meaning with..... formed bucket brigades to fight fires. Standing side by side,
A. achieve D. reduce they formed a human chain from the fire to nearby well or
B. develop E. enlarge river. They passed buckets of water from to hand to be poured
C. induce on the flames.

For questions No. 23 – 24!
Butterflies are insects undergo a complete
methamorphosis during their life cyrcle. They are born as eggs
that hatch into larvae and then grow into pupas, before
transforming into adults which are butterflies.
The damage of the fire did depend a great deal on
where it happened. In the country or a small village, only a
single house might burn down. But in crowded cities, fire
often destroyed whole blocks and neighborhoods before being
controlled.

Adult female butterflies lay many almost-invisible eggs 25. What can possibly prevent rivers and lakes from
simulataneously on plants. These plants, later, will become a overflowing?
source food for the hatching eggs, called larvae. At the stage A. An absorbent bed.
of larvae, the hatching eggs do not look like butterflies. The B. A rocky surrounding
larvae of butterflies are called caterpillars. The only thing C. A low land.
caterpillars do is eat. The food they eat will be stored and used D. A high road
when they become butterflies. During their growth before E. A high road
turning into pupas called chrysalises, they shed skin 4 to 5
26. We know from the text that .....
A. River can sweep heavy flood
B. People can make money from flood
C. The destruction by flood is always less severe
D. Water flood is absorbed by land
E. Typhoons caused heavy flood
27. We know from the text that .....
A. The pump is the only tool used by fire fighters now
B. The pump helps people to fight fires more efficiently
C. Fires in big cities are always very big
D. People no longer use buckets to control fire
E. Only firemen can control fires in crowded cities
cell phone for their communication. Even nowadays, people
use cell phones to communicate in voice, written and data.
Alexander Graham Bell is the person who make great change
in the way people communicate to each other. He invented a
telephone in 1876. While wireless radio was
formally known in 18994 presented by Guglielmo Marconi.
By these two technologies, then a cell phone was born.
However do you know how actually cell phones work?
This short explanation on how a cell phone work is
really wonderful. A cell phone or in long term “cellular
telephone’ works by transmitting signals of radio to towers of
cellular.

For questions No. 28 – 30! The towers are networked to a central switching
Human body is made up of countless millions of cells. station. The connection usually uses wire, fiber optic-cables,
Food is needed to built up new cells and replace the worn out or microwave.
cells. However, the food that we take must be changed into
substances that can be carried in the blood to the places where Then the central switching station which handles calls
they are needed. This process is called digestion. in certain given area is directed connected to the wire-based
telephone system. Cellulars are pick up by the towers and
The first digestive process takes place in the mouth. relayed to another cellular telephone user or the user of wire-
The food we eat is broken up into small pieces by the action of based telephone network. The towers vary in the capacity and
teeth, mixed with saliva, a juice secreted by glands in the capability to receive signals. Some can receive the signal from
mouth. Saliva contains digestive juice which moisten the food, short distance and the others can receive more distance.
so it can be swallowed easily. However, there are usually more than one tower in certain
given area so that the system can handle the increasing
From the mouth, food passes through the esophagus telephone traffic
(the food passage) into the stomach. Here, the food is mixed
with the juices secreted by the cells in the stomach for several 31. What the text about .....
hours. Then the food enters the small intestine. All the time A. The telephone founder
the muscular walls of the intestine are squeezing, mixing and B. The part of telephone
moving the food onwards. C. The history of telephone
D. How telephone work
In a few hours, the food changes into acids. These are E. How much the telephone
soon absorbed by the villi (microscopic branch projections
from the intestine walls) and passed into the bloodstream. 32. What the main idea of paragraph three .....
A. How to use the telephone
28. What is the text about? B. The founder of telephone
A. The digestive system C. The part of telephone
B. The digestive juice D. Function of telephone
C. The method of the digestive system E. How to make the telephone
D. The process of intestine work
E. The food substances For questions No. 33 – 34!
HEAL THE WORLD
29. From the text above, we imply that .....
A. a good process of digestive system will help our body There’s a place in your heart
becoming healthier. And I know that it is love
B. no one concerned with the process of digestive system And this place could be much
for their health. Brighter than tomorrow
C. the digestive system is needed if we are eating the food
instantly. And if you really try
D. every body must conduct the processes of digestive You’ll find there’s no need to cry
system well. In this place you’ll feel
E. the better we digest the food we eat, the healthier we There’s no hurt or sorrow
will be
There are ways to get there
30. Human body is made up of countless millions of cells. If you care enough for the living
(Paragraph 1) Make a little space
Make a better place
The phrase made up means .....
A. Produced Heal the world, make a better place
B. Managed For you and for me, and the entire human race
C. Arranged There are people dying
D. Completed If you care enough for the living
E. Constructed Make it a better place, for you and for me
.....
For questions No. 31 – 32!
A cell phone is a great gadget in this modern world. 33. The main idea of the song lyric above is .....
What is a cell phone? A cell phone is actually a radio in A. love and hurt D. love and peace
certain way. Like a radio, by a cell phone we can B. pain and peace E. love and sorrow
communicate to other people in real time. Million people use C. peace and harm
 40. “Smile and maybe tomorrow“ means that .....
34. Language features of the song lyric “Heal the World” can A. Life is always changing
classied into ..... B. Smile is just for you feel happy
A. noun, verb, present tense, future tense, imperative, C. Life needs people to smile forever
adjective D. Smile is everything for us
B. verb, present tense, future tense, imperative, adjective E. Smile is easy to do
C. present tense, imperative, adjective
D. verb, present tense, imperative, adjective
E. future tense, imperative, adjective

For questions No. 35 – 36! II. Jawablah pertanyaan di bawah ini dengan benar!
Don’t Cry For Me Argentina
Don't cry for me Argentina My Firs Love by Nikka Costa
The truth is I never left you
All through my wild days Everyone can see
My mad existence There's a change in me
I kept my promise The all say I'm not the same
Don't keep your distance Kid I used to be
Don't go out and play
I'll just dream all day
35. The song is about ..... They don't know what's wrong with me
A. lovers D. woman’s right And I'm too shy to say
B. freedom E. world peace It's my first love
C. nationality What I'm dreaming of
When I go to bed
36. The message of the song is ..... When I lay my head upon my pillow
A. The people of Argentina do not mourn their leader’s Don't know what to do
dead. My First love
B. The song writer doesn’t want to cry. He thinks that I'm too young
C. People in argentina have to keep their promise. He doesn't even know
D. The people should not keep the distance. Wish that I could show him what I'm feeling
E. People should be happy of their leader’s dead. Cause I'm feeling my first love
Mirror on the wall
37. Even when it’s rainy all you ever do is shine Does he care at all
You on fire, you a star just like Mariah Will he ever notice me
-------------------- Could he ever fall
Tell me Teddy Bear
This sentence means that ..... Why love is so unfair?
A. The writer thinks that he wants to be superstar. Will I ever find a way
B. Being superstar is his dream to be And answer to my pray
C. The writer tells that his lover is very important for him.
D. Mariah is a star that always shines. 41. Who Is The Singer of the Song ?
E. The writer can’t live with Mariah 42. “Don’t Know What To do”
From The line above, the lyrics tell about ?
38. Read this lyric! 43. From The song above what is felt by the composer ?
Cause you only need the light if it's burning low 44. The Repeating Verse in a song is called the …
45. Have You Ever felt like in the song ?
What do the lyrics remind of ?
A. Everything must be everlasting
B. Everything must be defended
C. Everything is needed as it is
D. No one can’t live forever
E. Always ready for losing anything

For questions No. 39 – 40!

Read the Song Lyric Below
Sung by Nat King Cole

Smile though your heart is aching

Smile even though it's breaking
When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by
If you smile through your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You'll see the sun come shining through for you

39. The message of the song is .....

A. Be happy and smile
B. Don’t hide your problem by smiling
C. Life is not easy to live
D. The smile brings both joy and sorrow
E. Smiling makes our life easy