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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 through a
show of strength.

After that, the Prince of Blambangan, named Raden Begawan 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.

1. Which one of the following statements is false about Sang Prabu?

A. Sang Prabu was the father of his only daughter.

B. Sang Prabu was a king of a kingdom in West Java.

C. Sang Prabu was taken to Kahyangan by a wicked fairy.

D. Sang Prabu was a wise man.

2. Why the wicked fairy did use her magic to make Raden Begawan unconscious?

A. She didn't like Raden Begawan.

B. She didn't want Raden Prabu to marry the princess.

C. She wanted Teja Nirmala to forget about her wedding.

D. She didn't want the prince of Blambangan to marry the princess.

3. What do you think will happen if gods or goddesses cannot mingle in the affairs of
people on earth at that time?

A. Princess Segara will have married Raden Begawan.

B. Sang Prabu will not hold a strength competition.

C. Raden Begawan will not die.


D. Wicked Fairy will not take Raden Begawan's life.

4. So a nice fairy took her to the Kahyangan. (Paragraph 2) The word here in the sentence
refers to ...

A. The wicked fairy

B. The nice fairy

C. Princess Nirmala

D. Prince Teja

5. The similarity between fairies and humans according to the text.

A. The place they live.

B. The jealousy that they possess.

C. The way they don't feel love.

D. The strength they have.

Once upon a time there was a wife of a rich man fell sick, and soon she closed her eyes and
departed. Every day, Cinderella went out to her mother’s grave, and wept, and she remained
pious and good. When, winter came, the snow spread a white sheet over the grave, and by
the time the spring sun had drawn it off again, the man had taken another wife. The woman
had brought with her into the house two daughters, who were beautiful and fairy of face but
vile and black of heart. Since then, a bad time for the poor step-child began.
One day the King gave orders for a festival and all the beautiful young girls in the country
were invited, in order that his son might choose himself a bride. When the two step-sisters
heard that they were to appear among the number, they were delighted, called Cinderella
and made to help them grooming, Cinderella obeyed, but wept, because she too would have
liked to go with them to dance, and begged her step-mother said” you cannot go with us,
you have no clothes and cannot dance.

When the step-mother and her daughters had gone away, Cinderella went to her mother’s
grave and cried, Shiver and Quiver, my little tree, silver and gold throw down over me.”
Suddenly a bird threw down a magnificent gold and silver dress to her, and were golden too.
At the party her step-sister and the step-mother however did not recognize her, and thought
she must be a foreign princess, for she looked so beautiful in the golden dress.

1. The story above tells about


a. Snow White
b. Sleeping Beauty
c. Dwarfs
d. Cinderella
e. Princess

2. The first paragraph is the………… of the story


a. complication
b. reorientation
c. orientation
d. resolution
e. coda

3. Why does Cinderella’s mother dead ? Because she………


a. fell sick
b. fell injured
c. fell disappointed
d. fell ill
e. fell wounded

4. The genre of the text is…….


a. recount
b. procedure
c. narrative
d. legend
e. news item

5. When the winter came, the snow……


a. spread a white sheet
b. spread a white shout
c. spread a shout
b. spread a white sheets
e. spreading white sheet

6. Cinderella lived with her


a. two step-mother
b. her mother
c. two step-sister and step-mother
d. her sisters
e. two step-sister

7. How did her step-mother treat Cinderella ?


a. she allowed go any where
b. she doesn’t her to allow
c. she allows goes every where
d. she didn’t go any where
e. she didn’t allow her go

8. Why couldn’t Cinderella go to the festival?


a. she doesn’t dance
e. she has dance
c. she didn’t dance
c. she didn’t have clothes and couldn’t dance
b. she couldn’t dance
9. The last story called …
a. complication
b. orientation
c. coda
d. resolution
e. twist

10. The step-mother however did not “recognize” her. The same meaning of the word
“recognize” is…
a. to see
b. to know
c. to told
d. to talk
e. to tell

11. Orientation of the story means …


a. to begin the story
b. to amuse the reader
c. to finish the story
d. to tell the people
e. to end the story

12. The purpose of the author to write the story is …


a. to tell the reader
b. to entertain the reader
c. to told the reader
d. to explain the reader
e. to describe the reader

13. What orientation of the third paragraph ?


a. step-mother gone away
b. step-mother and her daughter had gone away
c. step-mother passed away
d. step-mother and her daughter
e. her daughter had gone away

14. Finally Cinderella must be a foreign


a. princess
b. daughter
c. cousin
d. queen
e. sister

15. The two step-sister always feels….


a. upset
b. jealous
e. wonder
d. regret
e. angry

16. The story of Cinderella talks about


a. rich girl
b. clever girl
c. lazy girl
d. proud girl
e. beautiful girl

17. The daughter of the King is…..


a. prince
b. witch
c. princess
d. dwarf
e. queen

18. Cinderella’s story expresses about


a. beautiful girl
b. poor girl
c. dwarf
d. little girl
e. rich girl
19. Cinderella looked so beautiful in the golden dress. The antonym of “beautiful” is……
a. handsome
b. smart
c. ugly
d. wonderful
e. nice

20. The complication stated in paragraph ….


a. one
b. two
c. second
d. three
e. first

Soal Narrative Text SNOW WHITE


Once upon a time there lived a little girl named Snow White. She lived with her aunt and
uncle because her parents were dead.
One day she heard her uncle and aunt talking about leaving Snow White in the Castle
because they both wanted to go to town and they didn’t have enough money to take Snow
White. Snow white did not want her uncle and aunt to do this so she decided it would be
best if she ran away. The next morning she ran away from home when her aunt and uncle
were having breakfast. She ran away into the woods.
She was very tired and hungry. Then she saw this little Cottage . She knocked out but no
one answered so she went inside and fell asleep. Meanwhile, the seven dwarfs were coming
home from work. They went inside. There they found Snow White sleeping. Then Snow
White woke up. She saw the dwarfs. The dwarfs said, “what is your name ?” Snow white
said, “My name is Snow White.” Then Snow White told the dwarfs the whole story and the
seven dwarfs lived happily ever after.

21. The main character of the story is…


a. Princess
b. Snow White
c. Aunt
d. Dwarfs
e. Cinderella

22. After Snow White heard her aunt and uncle talked about her
a. Snow White sleep in the castle
b. she fell asleep
c. she angry with their aunt and uncle
d. she ran away into the woods
e. she likes her aunt and uncle

23. Snow White ran away from home


a. in the afternoon
b. in the morning
c. in the evening
d. at noon
e. at night

24. When did Snow White run away into the woods?
a. after breakfast
b. at noon
c. mid day
d. in the morning
e. at night

25. The purpose of the text is……


a. to entertain the reader about Snow white
b. to tell the reader
c. to amuse the people
d. to explain the reader
e. to inform the reader

26. The genre of the text is….


a. recount
b. narrative
c. news item
d. legend
e. procedure

27. How many paragraph in the text, there are……


a. 6
b. 3
c. 7
d. 2
e. 5

28. The generic structure of the text


a. complication-orientation-resolution
b. orientation-reorientation-coda
c. coda-twist-complication
d. resolution-complication-event
e. orientation-complication-resolution
29. The third paragraph take place in the….
a. little house
b. in the castle
c. in the woods
d. little cottage
e. in the palace

30. The same meaning of orientation


a. the begin of the story
b. the end of the story
c. to finish the story
d. the part of the story
e. the whole story
Soal Narative Text THE UGLY DUCKLING
It was bight summer day. The wheat fields had turned golden in the warm sun. Around the
wheat fields, there were meadow of green grass. In the midst of the meadows and fields,
stood a farm house. A stream of clean water flowed past the house. In one of those shady
spots on the bank the stream, among a cluster of shrubs and plants, a mother duck sat on
her eggs to hatch them.
After a few days the shall began to crack and out game five little duckling looked very pretty.
The mother duck was very happy. She stood up to see if the all eggs were hatched. No,
there was one large egg-the sixth one that remained unhatched. It’s shell was harder . But
mother was determined to bring every one of her brood into this world.
What a shock she got when the last egg finally cracked . The new bird was very ugly and
much bigger than the others. “It cannot my baby” shouted the mother duck “ I wonder of
he is a turkey !”soon, it seemed that nobody like this duckling. They named him ”Ugly
Duckling”. The mother duck never approved of this rude and treatment.
His bad days had suddenly ended. He was not an ugly duckling after all. Now he changes a
beautiful white swan.

31. The topic of the text is……


a. the turkey
b. ugly duckling
c. the bird
d. the swan
e. the goat

32. The situation of the first paragraph as living


a. in the country
b. in the village
c. in the woods
d. in the city
e. in the forest

33. The genre of this text is………


a. recount
b. news item
c. fable
d. procedure
e. spoof

34. In the last story ugly duckling changes to be


a. swan
b. duck
c. bird
d. goose
e. turkey

35. A mother duck began to crack her eggs in the


a. first paragraph
b. last paragraph
c. the fourth paragraph
d. second paragraph
e. the third paragraph

Soal Short Conversation dan Grammar


36. Indra: I don’t have a pen. Would you mind……me yours ?
Andri: Here you are
a. to lend
b. lending
c. lent
d. lend
e. lends

37. Santi: ……… It’s too loud !


Lucki: Sure. No problem
a. would you mind selling your radio ?
b. would you mind turning down the radio ?
c. would you mind living your radio ?
d. would you mind putting your radio ?
e. would you mind lending your radio ?

38. She always…….. TV in the Morning


a. have watched
b. watched
c. watching
d. watch
e. watches

39. She……… ill last Sunday


a. was
b. has
c. be
d. is
e. had

40. He was sleeping when a thief……… into the room


a. has broken
b. broke
c. breaking
d. break
e. broken

41. X : What are you doing ?


Y : ……….
a. I was standing now
b. I am stands now
c. I am stand
d. I am standing now
e. I am stand now

42. Which is adverb of time for past tense ?


a. tomorrow
b. next month
c. at moment
d. next year
e. several days ago

43. Dany and Mary……. to the office together now


a. is going
b. are going
c. were going
d. am going
e. was going

44. X : Hi, what’s going on ? Why do you look so sad ?


Y : Hm. I’ve lost my money
X : …….
a. It’s my pleasure
b. Oh, it’s great
c. don’t mention it
d. I am sorry to hear that
e. forget it

45. What do you say when you come late ?


a. Thank you
b. I’m very sorry
e. Don’t mention it
d. It’s very nice
e. Not at all

46. Doni and Maria……. Happy on their vacation last time


a. are
c. were
c. be
d. was
e. been

47. Ando: Is she …. a love story now?


Buso: Yes, she is.
a. reading
c. been read
c. have reading
d. reads
e. read
48. I spoke to the man …. wife had been admitted to hospital
a. who
b. whom
c. in which
d. whose
e. which

49. He introduced me to the lady …. I met at the station


a. whom
b. which
c. where
d. whose
e. with

50. You can use what is called Anglo. The word “can” means ….
a. possibility
b. wanna
c. may
d. ability
e. mean to

A fox fell into a well and couldn’t get out. By and by a thirsty goat came along. Seeing the
fox in the well it asked if the water was good. “Good”, said the fox. “It’s the best water I’ve
tasted in all my life. Come down and try it yourself. “The goat thought of nothing but how
thirsty he was. So he jumped into the well. When he had drunk enough he looked around
but there was no way to get out. Then the fox said, “I have a good idea. You stand on your
hind legs and put your forelegs against the side of the well. Then I’ll climb on your back,
from there I’ll step on your horns, and I can get out. And when I’m out I’ll help you out of
the well.” The goat did as he was asked and the fox got on his back and so out of the well.
Then he coolly walked away. The goat called out loudly after him out. The fox merely turned
to him and said, “If you only has as much sense in your head as you have hairs in your
beard you wouldn’t have jumped into the well without making sure that you could get out
again.

2.Why did the goat jump into the well? because...

a.It was hungry

b. It was sad

c. It was lazy

d. It was good

e. It was thirsty
[08.02, 8/5/2023] Yohana: What is the type of the previous text ?

a. Myth

b. Play

c. legend
d. Fairy tale

e. Fable

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.

1. Which one of the following statements is false about Sang Prabu?


[08.05, 8/5/2023] Yohana: Princess Segara will have married with Raden Begawan
B. Sang Prabu will not hold strength competition
C. Raden Begawan will not die
D. Teja Nirmala will stay in the Kahyangan
E. Wicked Fairy will not take Raden Begawan’s life

4. So a nice fairy took her to the Kahyangan. (Paragraph 2) The word her in the sentence
refers to…

A. The wicked fairy


B. The nice fairy
C. Princess Nirmala
D. Prince Teja
E. The prince of Blambangan
The similarity between fairy and human according to the text.

A. The place they live


B. The jealousy that they posses
C. The way they don’t feel a love
D. The strength they have
E. Their life that is immortal

Once upon a time there were four little rabbits. Their names were Flopsy,
Mopsy, Cotton-tail and Peter. One morning they were allowed to play outside.
Their mother reminded them not to go to Mr. Mc gregor’s garden because
their father had an accident there.
Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail were good little rabbits. They went down the
lane to pick blackberries. But Peter was naughty. He ran straight away to Mr. Mc
gregor’s garden. He ate some lettuces, French beans, and radishes. Suddenly,
he met Mr. McGregor. Peter was very frightened and rushed away as fast as he
could. He lost a pair of shoes and a jacket while he was running. Peter never
stopped running or looked behind him till he got home. During the evening, he
was sick because he was so tired. He had to drink some medicine while three of
his brothers had bread, mild and blackberries for supper.

18. What did Peter lose while he was running?


a. one of his shoes
b. a pair of shoes
c. book
d. vegetable
e. medicine

Once upon a time there were four little rabbits. Their names were Flopsy,
Mopsy, Cotton-tail and Peter. One morning they were allowed to play outside.
Their mother reminded them not to go to Mr. McGregor’s garden because their
father had an accident there.
Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail were good little rabbits. They went down the
lane to pick blackberries. But Peter was naughty. He ran straight away to Mr.
McGregor’s garden. He ate some lettuces, French beans, and radishes.
Suddenly, he met Mr. McGregor. Peter was very frightened and rushed away as
fast as he could. He lost a pair of shoes and a jacket while he was running. Peter
never stopped running or looked behind him till he got home. During the
evening, he was sick because he was so tired. He had to drink some medicine
while three of his brother had bread, mild and blackberries for supper.
Why did Peter get sick? Because ….
a. he caught a cold
b. he was exhausted
c. he didi not eat
d. he was naughty
e. he was eating so much
Once upon a time there were four little rabbits. Their names were Flopsy, Mopsy,
Cotton-tail and Peter. One morning they were allowed to play outside. Their mother
reminded them not to go to Mr. Mc Gregor’s garden because their father had an
accident there.
Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail were good little rabbits. They went down the lane to
pick blackberries. But Peter was naughty. He ran straight away to Mr. McGregor’s
garden. He ate some lettuces, French beans, and radishes. Suddenly, he met Mr.
McGregor. Peter was very frightened and rushed away as fast as he could. He lost a
pair of shoes and a jacket while he was running. Peter never stopped running or
looked behind him till he got home. During the evening, he was sick because he was
so tired. He had to drink some medicine while three of his brothers had bread, mild
and blackberries for supper.
What moral lesson did you get from the previous story?
a. We must obey what our parents' words
b. We must be brave
c. We must be strong
d. We must help each other
e. Don't be greedy

One day a man stopped at a flower shop to order some flowers. He wanted to send it to his
mother who lived far in another town through a delivery company. Meanwhile he was
looking at sad young girl who was sitting in front of the flower shop. He asked her what was
wrong and she replied, “I wanted to buy a red rose for my mother but my money is not
enough”. The man smiled and said, “Come on in with me I’ll buy you a rose.” He bought the
little girl a rose and he ordered for his own mother flowers too.
After buying a rose flower for the girl the man offered the girl a ride to her home. She said”
yes please! You can take me to my mother. She directed him to a cemetery. The girl placed
the rose on her mother’s fresh grave. Knowing the girl’s mother had died the man realized
that he must show his love to his mother while she was still alive. Then the man returned to
the flower shop. He cancelled the flower delivery order picked up the rose flower and drove
to reach his mother’s house.

We can learn that we have to ….

A. Show our loves to our mother


B. Buy flowers for our mothers
C. Keep our mother alive
D. Obey to our mother

16. What did the man do after buying the girl a red rose?

A. He gave her a ride to her home


B. He took the girl to her mother’s cemetery
C. He went to his own home
D. He placed the rose on his mother’s grave

A Milkmaid had been in the meadow to milk her cows. Now she was returning
home with a pail of milk on her hand.
She thought, "I will make cream and butter out of this milk. Then after selling
them, I will buy eggs. And when they hatch, I shall have a good poultry farm".
She further thought, "I shall sell some of my chickens and buy a fine dress.
Seeing it on my body at the party, all the boys will admire me. But I will turn
them away".
She went on day dreaming; she forgot about the pail on her head. She moved
her head suddenly and the pail of milk came tumbling down. It was broken and
all the milk split.
"Dear, 0 dear!" she cried, "I have lost mine all".
What did the milk-maid carry on her hand?

A. Some cream
B. Some butter
C. A pail of milk
D. A pail of eggs
What does the text tell us about?

A. Spilt milk
B. A pail of milk
C. A hardworking girl
D. A day dreaming milk-maid

20. What can we learn from the story above?

A. Don't cry over the split milk


B. Don't cry before you are hurt
C. Don't dream when you sleep
D. Don't count your chickens before they are hatched

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