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No Soal Pembahasan Jawaban
1 Cats also called the domestic cat or house cat
(with its scientific name: Felis silvestris catus or Felis
catus) is a type of carnivorous mammal of the family
Felidae. The word “cat” generally refers to a “cat” that
has been tamed, but can also refer to the “big cats”
such as lions and tigers.
Cats are considered as “perfect carnivore” with
teeth and particular digestive tract. The first premolar
and molar teeth form a pair of fangs on each side of
the mouth that works effectively as a pair of scissors
to tear the meat. Although these features also exist in
the Canidae or dog, but these traits are better
developed in cats.
Unlike other carnivores, cats eat almost non
vegetable substance. Bears and dogs sometimes eat
berries, roots, or honey as a supplement, while cats
only eat meat, usually freshly killed prey. In captivity,
cats cannot adapt to a vegetarian diet because they
cannot synthesize all the amino acids from plant
material; it is in contrast with domesticated dogs,
which commonly are fed a mixture of meat and
vegetables and sometimes they can adapt to a
completely vegetarian meal.
Cats have mingled with human life since at
least 6000 BC, from the skeleton of the cat found on
the island of Cyprus. The ancient Egyptians of 3500
BC have used cats to keep away the rats or other
rodents from the barn where the crops were
saved.Currently, the cat is one of the most popular
pets in the world. Cats that his lines are recorded
officially as a cat breeds or pure breed are Persian,
Siamese, Manx, and the Sphinx. These kinds of cat
are usually bred in official captivity animal. The
number of purebred cat is only 1% of all cats in the
world; the rest is a cat with mixed ancestry such as
wild cats or domestic cats.
(saintif.com)
“….., but these traits are better developed in
cats.” (Paragraph 2)
The word of traits could best be replaced by
…..
A. Tries

B. Trails

C. Trials

D. Characteristics

E. Characterized
2 Cats also called the domestic
cat or house cat (with its scientific
name: Felis silvestris catus or Felis
catus) is a type of carnivorous
mammal of the family Felidae. The
word “cat” generally refers to a “cat”
that has been tamed, but can also
refer to the “big cats” such as lions
and tigers.
Cats are considered as “perfect
carnivore” with teeth and particular
digestive tract. The first premolar and
molar teeth form a pair of fangs on
each side of the mouth that works
effectively as a pair of scissors to tear
the meat. Although these features
also exist in the Canidae or dog, but
these traits are better developed in
cats.
Unlike other carnivores, cats eat
almost non vegetable substance.
Bears and dogs sometimes eat
berries, roots, or honey as a
supplement, while cats only eat meat,
usually freshly killed prey. In captivity,
cats cannot adapt to a vegetarian diet
because they cannot synthesize all
the amino acids from plant material; it
is in contrast with domesticated dogs,
which commonly are fed a mixture of
meat and vegetables and sometimes
they can adapt to a completely
vegetarian meal.
Cats have mingled with human
life since at least 6000 BC, from the
skeleton of the cat found on the island
of Cyprus. The ancient Egyptians of
3500 BC have used cats to keep away
the rats or other rodents from the barn
where the crops were
saved.Currently, the cat is one of the
most popular pets in the world. Cats
that his lines are recorded officially as
a cat breeds or pure breed are
Persian, Siamese, Manx, and the
Sphinx. These kinds of cat are usually
bred in official captivity animal. The
number of purebred cat is only 1% of
all cats in the world; the rest is a cat
with mixed ancestry such as wild cats
or domestic cats.
(saintif.com)
These following statements are true,
except
…..
A. Cats are considered as “perfect
carnivore” with teeth and particular
digestive tract.

B. Cats eat almost non-

vegetable substance.

C. Cats cannot adapt to a vegetarian

diet because they cannot synthesize all
the amino acids that they need from
plant material.
 D. Cats have mingled with human life
since at least 600 BC.

E. The cat is one of the most popular pets

in the world.

3 The Burj Khalifa (or how it was called

until 2010, Burj Dubai) opened on
January 14th, 2010. Even before the
building construction was finished,
starting from 2007, it had become the
highest skyscraper in the world. Its exact
height is 2,722 feet, or 829,8 meters, and
it obviously can be seen from any point in
Dubai. The number of floors, however, is
a bit fewer than some might expects: Burj
Khalifa totals in 163 floors, which is 16’2”
(about 5 meters) for each floor.
Burj Khalifa looks like a stalagmite,
which means it resembles vertical
minerals growing from cave floors.
Stalagmites usually have a shape of a
cone, and so does Burj Khalifa; if you look
at it from a distance, it will remind you of a
gigantic sharp cone made of glass and
steel.
The most impressive aspect about
Burj Khalifa is that it had been planned to
be a “city within the city”; this means
inside the tower, you can find parks,
alleys, districts, fountains, and so on. The
glass of the tower’s surface always
shines, because it is washed every single
day, and the make of concrete of which
the tower was built from was invented
specifically for Burj Khalifa. There are
three entrances to the tower, because it is
so huge that one or two would not be
enough. At the foot of the skyscraper,
there is a big artificial lake that measures
up to 12 hectares.
Inside, the building is as magnificent
as it is from the outside. The interiors
were projected by famous designers—for
example, the interior of the Armani hotel,
located on the floors from first to 39th,
was designed by Giorgio Armani himself.
The air inside Burj Khalifa is conditioned
and flavored—it is said that the flavor was
also designed exclusively for the tower;
57 elevators work 24 hours each day to
transport visitors between floors.
(academichelp.net)
“Inside, the building is as magnificent as it
is
from the outside.” (paragraph 4)
Which one of the following words is
the antonym of magnificent?
A. Pretty

B. Beautiful

C. Great

D. Good

E. Execrable
4 The Burj Khalifa (or how it was called
until 2010, Burj Dubai) opened on
January 14th, 2010. Even before the
building
 construction was finished, starting from
2007, it had become the highest
skyscraper in the world. Its exact height is
2,722 feet, or 829,8 meters, and it
obviously can be seen from any point in
Dubai. The number of floors, however, is
a bit fewer than some might expects: Burj
Khalifa totals in 163 floors, which is 16’2”
(about 5 meters) for each floor.
Burj Khalifa looks like a stalagmite,
which means it resembles vertical
minerals growing from cave floors.
Stalagmites usually have a shape of a
cone, and so does Burj Khalifa; if you look
at it from a distance, it will remind you of a
gigantic sharp cone made of glass and
steel.
The most impressive aspect about
Burj Khalifa is that it had been planned to
be a “city within the city”; this means
inside the tower, you can find parks,
alleys, districts, fountains, and so on. The
glass of the tower’s surface always
shines, because it is washed every single
day, and the make of concrete of which
the tower was built from was invented
specifically for Burj Khalifa. There are
three entrances to the tower, because it is
so huge that one or two would not be
enough. At the foot of the skyscraper,
there is a big artificial lake that measures
up to 12 hectares.
Inside, the building is as magnificent
as it is from the outside. The interiors
were projected by famous designers—for
example, the interior of the Armani hotel,
located on the floors from first to 39th,
was designed by Giorgio Armani himself.
The air inside Burj Khalifa is conditioned
and flavored—it is said that the flavor was
also designed exclusively for the tower;
57 elevators work 24 hours each day to
transport visitors between floors.
(academichelp.net)
These following statements are true,
except
….
A. Burj Khalifa has 163 floors, which is 16’2”
(about 5 meters) for each floor.

B. There are four entrances to the tower of

Burj Khalifa.

C. There is a big artificial lake that

measures up to 12 hectares at Burj Khalifa.

D. The interior of the Armani hotel, located

on the floors from first to 39th, was
designed by Giorgio Armani himself.

E. 57 elevators work 24 hours each day

to transport visitors between floors at
Burj Khalifa.

5 We believe the Earth is about

4.6 billion years old. At percent we are
forced to look to other bodies in the
solar system for hints as to what the
early history of the Earth was like.
Studies of our moon, Mercury, Mars,
 and the large satellites of Jupiter and
Saturn have provided ample evidence
that all these large celestial bodies
had formed. This same bombardment
must have affected Earth as well. The
lunar record indicates that the rate of
impacts decreased to its present low
level about 4 billion years ago. On
Earth, subsequent erosion and crustal
motions have obliterated the craters
that must have formed during this
epoch.
Scientists estimate the Earth’s
age by measuring the ratios of various
radioactive elements in rocks. The
oldest Earth’s rocks tested thus far are
about 3 1/3 billion years old. But no
one knows whether these are the
oldest rocks on Earth. Tests on rocks
form the moon and on meteorites
show that these are about 4.6 billion
years old. Scientists believe that this
is the true age of the solar system and
probably the true age of the Earth.
(Source : bigbanktheories.com)
It can be inferred in the passage that the
age of the earth is estimated by?
A. By examining fossils and prehistoric

B. By showing the erosion

C. By researching about volcanic activity

D. By studying about the great sun and

moon

E. By measuring the ratios of various

radioactive elements in rocks

6 We believe the Earth is about

4.6 billion years old. At percent we are
forced to look to other bodies in the
solar system for hints as to what the
early history of the Earth was like.
Studies of our moon, Mercury, Mars,
and the large satellites of Jupiter and
Saturn have provided ample evidence
that all these large celestial bodies
had formed. This same bombardment
must have affected Earth as well. The
lunar record indicates that the rate of
impacts decreased to its present low
level about 4 billion years ago. On
Earth, subsequent erosion and crustal
motions have obliterated the craters
that must have formed during this
epoch.
Scientists estimate the Earth’s
age by measuring the ratios of various
radioactive elements in rocks. The
oldest Earth’s rocks tested thus far are
about 3 1/3 billion years old. But no
one knows whether these are the
oldest
rocks on Earth. Tests on rocks form
the moon and on meteorites show
that
 these are about 4.6 billion years old.
Scientists believe that this is the true
age of the solar system and probably
the true age of the Earth.
(Source : bigbanktheories.com)
“On Earth, subsequent erosion and crustal
motions have obliterated the
craters….,” paragraph
The underlined word above is
closest in meaning to?
A. Construct

B. Initiate

C. Build

D. Eliminated

E. Create

7 Long, long ago, when the gods and

goddesses used to mingle in the affairs of
mortals, there was a small kingdom on
the slope of Mount Wayang in West Java.
The King, named Sang Prabu, was a wise
man. He had an only daughter, called
Princess Teja Nirmala, who was famous
for her beauty but she was not married.
One day Sang Prabu made up his mind to
settle the matter by a show of strength.

After that, Prince of Blambangan, named

Raden Begawan had won the
competition. Unfortunately, the wicked
fairy, Princess Segara fell in love with
Raden Begawan and used magic power
to render him unconscious and he
forgot his wedding. When Sang Prabu
was searching, Raden Begawan saw him
and soon realized that he had been
enchanted by the wicked fairy. The fairy
could not accept this, so she killed Raden
Begawan. When Princess Teja Nirmala
heard this, she was very sad. So a nice
fairy took her to the Kahyangan.

Adapted from
(http://englishadmin.com)
What is the closest meaning to a word
mingle in paragraph 1?

A. Celebrate

B. Accelerate

C. Associate

D. Future

E. Compliment

8 Paris is the capital city of France. It is

one of the most beautiful cities in the
world. It is also one of the world’s most
crowded cities. Lovely gardens and
parks are found
throughout Paris. At night, many palaces
and
 statues are lit up. For this reason, Paris is
often called the city of light. Every year,
millions of people visit Paris. The most
popular place to visit is the Eiffel Tower.
This huge structure has become the
symbol of Paris. D’Louvre, one of the
world‘s largest art museums draws many
visitors. The Cathedral Notre Dame, a
famous church, is another favourite place
to visit.

Adapted from :
englishadmin.com.html
“At night, many palaces and statues are
lit up.”

The underlined word is closest in meaning

with?

A. Light up.

B. Beautiful

C. Strong

D. Fragile

E. Famous
9 Text 1
Television gives several programs for its
viewers. One kind of television program
is News Report. News Report is a
program that is reported all of the news
in the world. This is the factual program,
all of the news is a fact. A fact is
something that is true. Some of the news
program in television, namely Liputan 6
Siang, Dunia Dalam Berita, Fokus Siang,
and etc. Another program is an
infotainment program. Same as news
program this program is the factual
program and giving an information to
viewers.
Difference with news program, the
infotainment programme informs
the
celebrity’s news, for example Kisah
Seputar
Selebriti, Silent, Sinden Gossip, Hot Spot.
etc.

Adapted from :
(www.text.co.id)

“Same as news program this program is the

factual program and giving an information
to viewers”

What is the closest meaning of viewers?

A. Traveler

B. Spectator

C. Citizen

D. Presenter

E. Director
10 A Career is an individual’s journey
through learning, work and other aspects
of life. There are a number of ways to
define a career and the term is used in a
variety of ways.
 Everybody who have career exactly want
to advance their career.

If you want to advance your career, you

will have to make some careful decisions
about which jobs you take. Consider a job
offered for the value it has to your career.
It may mean sacrifices at first. You may
have to move to a different region or
country to get a job that is right for you.
You may have to work late hours, at least
temporarily. You might even have to take
a lower salary for a job that offers you the
experience that you need. But you should
never accept a job if it is not related to
your career goals.

Accepting a job that is not within your

career path will not give you the skill or
experience you need or want. You will
find yourself frustrated in such a position
and consequently will not perform your
best. This will have an effect on the
people around you, who will not feel as if
you are being part of the team. The best
advice is to think carefully before
accepting any position and make sure
that the job is one you to have.

Adapted :
www.sekolahbahasainggris.co.id

“You will find yourself frustrated in such a

position and consequently will not perform
your best.”

The underlined word has meaning with?

A. Cool

B. Stay calm

C. Depressed

D. Qualified

E. Strong

No Soal Tryout Pembahasan Tryout Jawaban

11 One of the modern world's intriguing sources of
mystery has been aeroplanes vanishing in mid
flight. One of the more famous of these was the
disappearance in 1937 of a pioneer woman
aviator, Amelia Earhart. On the second last stage
of an attempted round the world flight, she had
radioed her position as she and her navigator
searched desperately for their destination, a tiny
island in the Pacific.
The plane never arrived at Howland Island. Did it
crash and sink after running out of fuel? It had
been a long haul from New Guinea, a twenty
hour flight covering some four thousand
kilometres. Did Earhart have enough fuel to set
down on some other island on her radioed
course? Or did she end up somewhere else
altogether? One fanciful theory had her being
captured by the Japanese in the Marshall Islands
and later executed as an American spy; another
had her living out her days under an assumed
name as a housewife in New Jersey.
Seventy years after Earhart's disappearance,
'myth busters' continue to search for her. She was
the best- known American woman pilot in the
world. People were tracking her flight with great
interest when, suddenly, she vanished into thin
air. Aircraft had developed rapidly in
sophistication after World War One, with the 1920
s and 1930 s marked by an aeronautical record-
setting frenzy. Conquest of the air had become a
global obsession. While Earhart was making
headlines with her solo flights, other aviators like
high-altitude pioneer Wiley Post and industrialist
Howard Hughes were grabbing some glory of
their own. But only Earhart, the reserved tomboy
from Kansas who disappeared three weeks shy of
her 40 th birthday, still grips the public
imagination. Her disappearance has been the
subject of at least fifty books, countless magazine
and newspaper articles, and TV documentaries. It
is seen by journalists as the last great American
mystery. There are currently two main theories
about Amelia Earhart's fate.

There were reports of distress calls from the

Phoenix Islands made on Earhart's radio
frequency for days after she vanished. Some
say the plane could have broadcast only if it
were on land, not in the water.
The Coast Guard and later the Navy, believing
the distress calls were real, adjusted their
searches, and newspapers at the time reported
Earhart and her navigator were marooned on an
island. No-one was able to trace the calls at the
time, so whether Earhart was on land in the
Phoenix Islands or there was a hoaxer in the
Phoenix Islands using her radio remains a
mystery. Others dismiss the radio calls as bogus
and insist Earhart and her navigator ditched in
the water. An Earhart researcher, Elgen Long,
claims that Earhart's airplane ran out of gas
within fifty-two miles of the island and is sitting
somewhere in a 6,000- square-mile area, at a
depth of 17,000 feet. At that depth, the fuselage
would still be in shiny, pristine condition if ever
anyone were able to locate it. It would not even
be covered in a layer of silt. Those who
subscribe to this explanation claim that fuel
calculations, radio calls and other considerations
all show that the plane plunged into the sea
somewhere off Howland Island.

Whatever the explanation, the prospect of finding

the remains is unsettling to many. To recover
skeletal remains or personal effects would be a
grisly experience and an intrusion. They want to
know where Amelia Earhart is, but that's as far as
they would like to go. As one investigator has put
it, "I'm convinced that the mystery is part of what
keeps us interested. In part, we remember her
because she's our favourite missing person."
Source: https://www.education.vic.gov.au/
All the following are theories about Amelia's
fate EXCEPT:
A. She escaped incognito and lived under an
assumed name
B. She crashed somewhere on Howland Island
 C. She and the navigator were stranded on an
island
D. She was captured by the Japanese and
executed as a spy.
E. She ran out of gas
12 One of the modern world’s intriguing sources of
mystery has been aeroplanes vanishing in mid
flight. One of the more famous of these was the
disappearance in 1937 of a pioneer woman aviator,
Amelia Earhart. On the second last stage of an
attempted round the world flight, she had radioed
her position as she and her navigator searched
desperately for their destination, a tiny island in the
Pacific.

The plane never arrived at Howland Island. Did it

crash and sink after running out of fuel? It had been
a long haul from New Guinea, a twenty hour flight
covering some four thousand kilometres. Did
Earhart have enough fuel to set down on some
other island on her radioed course? Or did she end
up somewhere else altogether? One fanciful theory
had her being captured by the Japanese in the
Marshall Islands and later executed as an American
spy; another had her living out her days under an
assumed name as a housewife in New Jersey.

Seventy years after Earhart’s disappearance,

‘myth busters’ continue to search for her. She was
the best-known American woman pilot in the
world.
People were tracking her flight with great interest
when, suddenly, she vanished into thin air. Aircraft
had developed rapidly in sophistication after World
War One, with the 1920s and 1930s marked by an
aeronautical record-setting frenzy. Conquest of the
air had become a global obsession. While Earhart
was making headlines with her solo flights, other
aviators like high-altitude pioneer Wiley Post and
industrialist Howard Hughes were grabbing some
glory of their own. But only Earhart, the reserved
tomboy from Kansas who disappeared three weeks
shy of her 40th birthday, still grips the public
imagination. Her disappearance has been the
subject of at least fifty books, countless magazine
and newspaper articles, and TV documentaries. It
is seen by journalists as the last great American
mystery. There are currently two main theories
about Amelia Earhart’s fate.

There were reports of distress calls from the

Phoenix Islands made on Earhart’s radio frequency
for days after she vanished. Some say the plane
could have broadcast only if it were on land, not in
the water. The Coast Guard and later the Navy,
believing the distress calls were real, adjusted their
searches, and newspapers at the time reported
Earhart and her navigator were marooned on an
island. No-one was able to trace the calls at the
time, so whether Earhart was on land in the
Phoenix Islands or there was a hoaxer in the
Phoenix Islands using her radio remains a mystery.
Others dismiss the radio calls as bogus and insist
Earhart and her navigator ditched in the water. An
Earhart researcher, Elgen Long, claims that Earhart’s
airplane ran out of gas within fifty-two miles of the
island and is sitting somewhere in a 6,000-square-
mile area, at a depth of 17,000 feet. At that depth,
 the fuselage would still be in shiny, pristine
condition if ever anyone were able to locate it. It
would not even be covered in a layer of silt. Those
who subscribe to this explanation claim that fuel
calculations, radio calls and other considerations all
show that the plane plunged into the sea
somewhere off Howland Island.

Whatever the explanation, the prospect of finding

the remains is unsettling to many. To recover
skeletal remains or personal effects would be a
grisly experience and an intrusion. They want to
know where Amelia Earhart is, but that’s as far as
they would like to go. As one investigator has put it,
“I’m convinced that the mystery is part of what
keeps us interested. In part, we remember her
because she’s our favourite missing person.”

Source: https://www.education.vic.gov.au/

“Aircraft had developed rapidly in sophistication

after World War One.”

The underlined word above is best replaced by

A. Well

B. Apace

C. Moderate

D. Softly

E. Faintly
13 The struggle to obtain legal recognition of
aboriginal rights is a difficult one, and even if a right
is written into the law there is no guarantee that
the future will not bring changes to the law that
undermines the right. For this reason, the federal
government of Canada in 1982 extended
constitutional protection to those aboriginal rights
already recognized under the law. This protection
was extended to the Indian, Inuit, and Métis
peoples, the three groups generally thought to
comprise the aboriginal population in Canada. But
this decision has placed on provincial courts the
enormous burden of interpreting and translating
the necessarily general constitutional language into
specific rulings. The result has been inconsistent
recognition and establishment of aboriginal rights,
despite the continued efforts of aboriginal peoples
to raise issues concerning their rights.

Aboriginal rights in Canada are defined by the

constitution as aboriginal peoples’ rights to
ownership of land and its resources, the inherent
right of aboriginal societies to self-government, and
the right to legal recognition of indigenous customs.
But difficulties arise in applying these broadly
conceived rights. For example, while it might appear
straightforward to affirm legal recognition of
indigenous customs, the exact legal meaning of
“indigenous” is extremely difficult to interpret. The
intent of the constitutional protection is to
recognize only long-standing traditional customs,
not those of recent origin; provincial courts
therefore require aboriginal peoples to provide
 legal documentation that any customs they seek to
protect were practiced sufficiently long ago—a
criterion defined in practice to mean prior to the
establishment of British sovereignty over the
specific territory. However, this requirement makes
it difficult for aboriginal societies, which often relied
on oral tradition rather than written records, to
support their claims.

Furthermore, even if aboriginal peoples are

successful in convincing the courts that specific
rights should be recognized, it is frequently difficult
to determine exactly what these rights amount to.
Consider aboriginal land claims. Even when
aboriginal ownership of specific lands is fully
established, there remains the problem of
interpreting the meaning of that “ownership.” In a
1984 case in Ontario, an aboriginal group claimed
that its property rights should be interpreted as
full ownership in the contemporary sense of private
property, which allows for the sale of the land or its
resources. But the provincial court instead ruled
that the law had previously recognized only the
aboriginal right to use the land and therefore
granted property rights so minimal as to allow only
the bare survival of the community. Here, the
provincial court’s ruling was excessively
conservative in its assessment of the current law.
Regrettably, it appears that this group will not be
successful unless it is able to move its case from
the provincial courts into the Supreme Court of
Canada, which will be, one hopes, more insistent
upon a satisfactory application of the
constitutional reforms.

Sumber: https://www.lsac.org/

The following statements are true in the passage,

except?

A. The Canadian government has recognized

the rights of the aboriginal people and it is
written in the law.

B. Canada not only protects the rights of aborigines

but also other tribes.

C. The aborigines do not have a record of the

customs they protect

D. Aborigines have rights to land ownership and are

allowed to sell the land

E. The aborigines have not yet taken their case

to Canada's Supreme Court
14 The struggle to obtain legal recognition of
aboriginal rights is a difficult one, and even if a right
is written into the law there is no guarantee that
the future will not bring changes to the law that
undermines the right. For this reason, the federal
government of Canada in 1982 extended
constitutional protection to those aboriginal rights
already recognized under the law. This protection
was extended to the Indian, Inuit, and Métis
peoples, the three groups generally thought to
comprise the aboriginal population in Canada. But
this decision has placed on provincial courts the
enormous burden of interpreting and translating
the necessarily general constitutional language into
specific rulings. The result has been inconsistent
recognition and establishment of aboriginal rights,
despite the continued efforts of aboriginal peoples
to raise issues concerning their rights.

Aboriginal rights in Canada are defined by the

constitution as aboriginal peoples’ rights to
ownership of land and its resources, the inherent
right of aboriginal societies to self-government, and
the right to legal recognition of indigenous customs.
But difficulties arise in applying these broadly
conceived rights. For example, while it might appear
straightforward to affirm legal recognition of
indigenous customs, the exact legal meaning of
“indigenous” is extremely difficult to interpret. The
intent of the constitutional protection is to
recognize only long-standing traditional customs,
not those of recent origin; provincial courts
therefore require aboriginal peoples to provide
legal documentation that any customs they seek to
protect were practiced sufficiently long ago—a
criterion defined in practice to mean prior to the
establishment of British sovereignty over the
specific territory. However, this requirement makes
it difficult for aboriginal societies, which often relied
on oral tradition rather than written records, to
support their claims.

Furthermore, even if aboriginal peoples are

successful in convincing the courts that specific
rights should be recognized, it is frequently difficult
to determine exactly what these rights amount to.
Consider aboriginal land claims. Even when
aboriginal ownership of specific lands is fully
established, there remains the problem of
interpreting the meaning of that “ownership.” In a
1984 case in Ontario, an aboriginal group claimed
that its property rights should be interpreted as
full ownership in the contemporary sense of private
property, which allows for the sale of the land or its
resources. But the provincial court instead ruled
that the law had previously recognized only the
aboriginal right to use the land and therefore
granted property rights so minimal as to allow only
the bare survival of the community. Here, the
provincial court’s ruling was excessively
conservative in its assessment of the current law.
Regrettably, it appears that this group will not be
successful unless it is able to move its case from
the provincial courts into the Supreme Court of
Canada, which will be, one hopes, more insistent
upon a satisfactory application of the
constitutional reforms.

Sumber: https://www.lsac.org/

“aboriginal group claimed that its property rights

should be interpreted as full ownership ...”

The words ‘interpreted’ are closest in meaning to

A. Construed

B. Evident

C. Explicit
 D. Manifest

E. Spoken

15 The struggle to obtain legal recognition of

aboriginal rights is a difficult one, and even if a
right is written into the law there is no guarantee
that the future will not bring changes to the law
that undermines the right. For this reason, the
federal government of Canada in 1982 extended
constitutional protection to those aboriginal rights
already recognized under the law. This protection
was extended to the Indian, Inuit, and Métis
peoples, the three groups generally thought to
comprise the aboriginal population in Canada.
But this decision has placed on provincial courts
the enormous burden of interpreting and
translating the necessarily general constitutional
language into specific rulings. The result has
been inconsistent recognition and establishment
of aboriginal rights, despite the continued efforts
of aboriginal peoples to raise issues concerning
their rights.

Aboriginal rights in Canada are defined by the

constitution as aboriginal peoples' rights to
ownership of land and its resources, the inherent
right of aboriginal societies to selfgovernment,
and the right to legal recognition of indigenous
customs. But difficulties arise in applying these
broadly conceived rights. For example, while it
might appear straightforward to affirm legal
recognition of indigenous customs, the exact
legal meaning of "indigenous" is extremely
difficult to interpret. The intent of the constitutional
protection is to recognize only long-standing
traditional customs, not those of recent origin;
provincial courts therefore require aboriginal
peoples to provide legal documentation that any
customs they seek to protect were practiced
sufficiently long ago-a criterion defined in practice
to mean prior to the establishment of British
sovereignty over the specific territory. However,
this requirement makes it difficult for aboriginal
societies, which often relied on oral tradition
rather than written records, to support their
clamis.

"....that any customs they seek to protect were

practiced sufficiently long ago."

In the second pharagraph, what does the word

"they" refer to?

A. Canadian federal government

B. Provincial courts

C. Canadian society

D. Indian peoples

E. Aboriginal peoples
16 Before the grass has thickened on the roadside
verges and leaves have started growing on the
trees is a perfect time to look around and see just
how dirty Britain has become. The pavements are
stained with chewing gum that has been spat out
and the gutters are full of discarded fast food
cartons. Years ago I remember travelling abroad
and being saddened by the plastic bags, discarded
 bottles and soiled nappies at the edge of every
road. Nowadays, Britain seems to look at least as
bad. What has gone wrong?

The problem is that the rubbish created by our

increasingly mobile lives lasts a lot longer than
before. If it is not cleared up and properly thrown
away, it stays in the undergrowth for years; a semi-
permanent reminder of what a tatty little country
we have now.

Firstly, it is estimated that 10 billion plastic bags

have been given to shoppers. These will take
anything from 100 to 1,000 years to rot. However, it
is not as if there is no solution to this. A few years
ago, the Irish government introduced a tax on non-
recyclable carrier bags and in three months
reduced their use by 90%. When he was a
minister, Michael Meacher attempted to introduce
a similar arrangement in Britain. The plastics
industry protested, of course. However, they need
not have bothered; the idea was killed before it
could draw breath, leaving supermarkets free to
give away plastic bags.

What is clearly necessary right now is some sort of

combined initiative, both individual and collective,
before it is too late. The alternative is to continue
sliding downhill until we have a country that looks
like a vast municipal rubbish tip. We may well be at
the tipping point. Yet we know that people respond
to their environment. If things around them are
clean and tidy, people behave cleanly and tidily. If
they are surrounded by squalor, they behave
squalidly. Now, much of Britain looks pretty squalid.
What will it look like in five years?

https://mrnussbaum.com /

What is the closest meaning of the word “tatty” in

the second paragraph?

A. Seedy

B. Wrong

C. Ugly

D. Stingy

E. Greasy
17 Before the grass has thickened on the roadside
verges and leaves have started growing on the
trees is a perfect time to look around and see just
how dirty Britain has become. The pavements are
stained with chewing gum that has been spat out
and the gutters are full of discarded fast food
cartons. Years ago I remember travelling abroad
and being saddened by the plastic bags, discarded
bottles and soiled nappies at the edge of every
road. Nowadays, Britain seems to look at least as
bad. What has gone wrong?

The problem is that the rubbish created by our

increasingly mobile lives lasts a lot longer than
before. If it is not cleared up and properly thrown
away, it stays in the undergrowth for years; a semi-
 permanent reminder of what a tatty little country
we have now.

Firstly, it is estimated that 10 billion plastic bags

have been given to shoppers. These will take
anything from 100 to 1,000 years to rot. However, it
is not as if there is no solution to this. A few years
ago, the Irish government introduced a tax on non-
recyclable carrier bags and in three months
reduced their use by $90 \%$. When he was a
minister, Michael Meacher attempted to introduce a
similar arrangement in Britain. The plastics industry
protested, of course. However, they need not have
bothered; the idea was killed before it could draw
breath, leaving supermarkets free to give away
plastic bags.

What is clearly necessary right now is some sort of

combined initiative, both individual and collective,
before it is too late. The alternative is to continue
sliding downhill until we have a country that looks
like a vast municipal rubbish tip. We may well be at
the tipping point. Yet we know that people respond
to their environment. If things around them are
clean and tidy, people behave cleanly and tidily. If
they are surrounded by squalor, they behave
squalidly. Now, much of Britain looks pretty squalid.
What will it look like in five years?

What can we inferred about from the last

pharagraph?

A. People are squalid.

B. People behave according to what they

see around them.

C. People are clean and tidy.

D. People are like a vast municipal rubbish tip.

E. People today are behaving dirty

18 Siem Reap is a small town near the world famous
temple of Angkor Wat. The town is charming and
worth exploring, with some fine examples of Khmer
and French colonial architecture set among the
more modern developments. Nowadays, visitors
are flocking in, using it as a base for visits to the
nearby temples.

From the 9th to the 14th centuries, when Europe

was still struggling out of the Dark Ages, the
Cambodian Empire of Angkor covered most of
present-day Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and
Thailand. The heart of this empire during the 12th
century was the ancient capital of Angkor Thom,
near present day Siem Reap, the site of the world’s
largest temple complexes, which were
rediscovered in 1861.This spectacular city was built
over 30 years under the reign of King Suryavarman
II (1113-1150). The area covers about 400 square
kilometres and is full of the finest examples of
Khmer art and architecture. Tourists are always
amazed at the scale of the place.
 In Angkor Wat you will find more than 100 stone
monuments and temple buildings, each of which
contains countless statues, sculptures and reliefs
that have weathered extremely little over the last
800 years. To see the whole thing can take several
days. The most important temples to visit in the
area are Angkor Wat, especially at sunrise or
sunset; Angkor Thom, the remains of the capital; Ta
Prohm, a palace overgrown by jungle; and Bayon.

Visas are required to enter Cambodia. You can

obtain one on arrival at Siem Reap International
Airport for $20, and 1 passport photo is required
per person. You will also need another passport
photo for the Angkor Temple Entrance Pass.
Please ensure you take comfortable walking shoes,
light clothing and plenty of water to drink as it is
very hot there. The most commonly accepted
currency in Cambodia is the US dollar.

http://www.pearsonlongman.com/

What can be inferred about the “Cambodia”

according to the passage?

A. Siem Reap as the capital

B. It has Khmer, and Vietnamese architecture

C. It’s home of the world’s largest temple

complexes.

D. Near to Angkor Thom

E. Overgrown by jungle and Bayon.

19 Siem Reap is a small town near the world famous
temple of Angkor Wat. The town is charming and
worth exploring, with some fine examples of Khmer
and French colonial architecture set among the
more modern developments. Nowadays, visitors
are flocking in, using it as a base for visits to the
nearby temples.

From the 9th to the 14th centuries, when Europe

was still struggling out of the Dark Ages, the
Cambodian Empire of Angkor covered most of
present-day Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and
Thailand. The heart of this empire during the 12th
century was the ancient capital of Angkor Thom,
near present day Siem Reap, the site of the world’s
largest temple complexes, which were
rediscovered in 1861.This spectacular city was built
over 30 years under the reign of King Suryavarman
II (1113-1150). The area covers about 400 square
kilometres and is full of the finest examples of
Khmer art and architecture. Tourists are always
amazed at the scale of the place.

In Angkor Wat you will find more than 100 stone

monuments and temple buildings, each of which
contains countless statues, sculptures and reliefs
that have weathered extremely little over the last
800 years. To see the whole thing can take several
days. The most important temples to visit in the
area are Angkor Wat, especially at sunrise or
sunset; Angkor Thom, the remains of the capital; Ta
Prohm, a palace overgrown by jungle; and Bayon.
 Visas are required to enter Cambodia. You can
obtain one on arrival at Siem Reap International
Airport for $20, and 1 passport photo is required
per person. You will also need another passport
photo for the Angkor Temple Entrance Pass.
Please ensure you take comfortable walking shoes,
light clothing and plenty of water to drink as it is
very hot there. The most commonly accepted
currency in Cambodia is the US dollar.

http://www.pearsonlongman.com/

What is the closest meaning of the word “ensure” in

the last paragraph?

A. Undermine

B. Bring

C. Guarantee

D. Few

E. Satisfied
20 Siem Reap is a small town near the world famous .
temple of Angkor Wat. The town is charming and
worth exploring, with some fine examples of Khmer
and French colonial architecture set among the
more modern developments. Nowadays, visitors
are flocking in, using it as a base for visits to the
nearby temples.

From the 9th to the 14th centuries, when Europe

was still struggling out of the Dark Ages, the
Cambodian Empire of Angkor covered most of
present-day Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and
Thailand. The heart of this empire during the 12th
century was the ancient capital of Angkor Thom,
near present day Siem Reap, the site of the world’s
largest temple complexes, which were
rediscovered in 1861.This spectacular city was built
over 30 years under the reign of King Suryavarman
II (1113-1150). The area covers about 400 square
kilometres and is full of the finest examples of
Khmer art and architecture. Tourists are always
amazed at the scale of the place.

In Angkor Wat you will find more than 100 stone

monuments and temple buildings, each of which
contains countless statues, sculptures and reliefs
that have weathered extremely little over the last
800 years. To see the whole thing can take several
days. The most important temples to visit in the
area are Angkor Wat, especially at sunrise or
sunset; Angkor Thom, the remains of the capital; Ta
Prohm, a palace overgrown by jungle; and Bayon.

Visas are required to enter Cambodia. You can

obtain one on arrival at Siem Reap International
Airport for $20, and 1 passport photo is required
per person. You will also need another passport
photo for the Angkor Temple Entrance Pass.
Please ensure you take comfortable walking shoes,
light clothing and plenty of water to drink as it is
very hot there. The most commonly accepted
currency in Cambodia is the US dollar.

http://www.pearsonlongman.com/

The following statements are true in the passage,

except?
A. Most people visit Siem Reap because it is close
to temples.

B. Angkor Wat was the capital of the

Cambodian empire

C. Dawn and dusk are particularly good times to

visit Angkor Wat.

D. You will need a couple of passport photos.

E. The US dollar is widely accepted in Cambodia.