PENILAIAN AKHIR SEMESTER (PAS) SEMESTER GENAP

TAHUN AJARAN 2018/2019

NAMA : ………………… MATA PELAJARAN : BAHASA INGGRIS

KELAS : XII (Duabelas) HARI/TANGGAL :

Text 1 is for questions number 1-5. the cold Labrador Current and carried
southward toward Newfound-land
Icebergs are mountains of freshwater ice On the way, most of the icebergs become
floating in the ocean. They are huge chunks grounded among the many islands and bays
broken off from the great masses of land ice along the Labrador coast. The others float on
called glaciers. toward the open sea. Off Newfoundland they
Almost all of Greenland and Antarctica are are caught by a warm current from the south
covered by glaciers the year round. Glaciers called the Gulf Stream. Icebergs that do not
also cover parts of Alaska. They are formed by ground and remain in the Labrador Current
layers of packed snow. Glacier may be often enter the lanes used by ships crossing the
thousands of meters thick. Their front ends, or Atlantic Ocean.
tongues, reach down to the sea. At the coast the An iceberg starts to break up almost as soon
tips of the tongues break off, plunge into the as it is afloat. Cracks appear and become filled
oceans, and become icebergs. This process is with water from ice that melts during the day.
called calving. When this melted water freezes at night, it
When calving occurs, a loud cracking noise expands and widens the cracks. The ice is
fills the air. Sometimes a low rumbling can be weakened, and pieces of iceberg break off and
heard for hours before the ice actually breaks float away. The iceberg becomes smaller and
away. People close enough can hear the hissing smaller. Most icebergs melt completely within
of air as it escapes from bubbles bursting in the a few days of entering the Gulf Stream
ice along the break.
Glaciers calve all year round. Just as many 1. What does the text tell us about?
icebergs break off in winter as in summer. But A. What calving is
in winter their passageway to open the sea is B. What glaciers cover
often jammed with masses of frozen seawater. C. How far glaciers cover
Icebergs pile up behind this jam of sea ice. In D. How icebergs exist
the spring, when the ice block is broken, a E. How iceberg is defined
whole fleet of icebergs may sail out toward the
open ocean. 2. In what paragraph is the definition of
Icebergs from the eastern coast of Greenland iceberg found?
drift southward. They are carried by the A. Paragraph 1
Greenland Current, which then swings them B. Paragraph 2
northward around the tip of the island. Part of C. Paragraph 3
the way up the coast the icebergs are caught in D. Paragraph 4
E. Paragraph 5
3. Calving is …. 8. The murder …. yet though people really
A. The loud cracking noise in the air hope the murderer …..
B. The process of becoming icebergs A. has not solved – catch
C. The coast tip falling down into the sea B. has not to solve – caught
D. The tongues of Glaciers reaching down C. has not to be solved – be caught
to the sea D. has not been solved – to be caught
E. The plunging process of a certain part of E. has not been solved – being caught
Glaciers
9. Eddy : This room …….every day. This
4. The purpose of this text is…. seems no dust on it. It’s so shiny
A. to describe Iceberg in detail Roy : I think so
B. to give readers the information of A. can be very clean
Iceberg B. may so clean
C. to tell about the area covered with huge C. will be cleaned
Icebergs D. must be cleaned
D. to explain the process of iceberg as a E. must be extremely clean
natural phenomena
E. to retell natural events for the purpose of Text 2 is for questions number 10-15.
informing or entertaining
My neighbor’s children love playing hide-
5. They are the huge chunks broken off from and-seek as all children do, but no one expected
the great masses of land ice called glaciers that a game they played last week would be
The bold word has the same meaning as …. reported in the local newspaper.
a) Gigantic One afternoon, they were playing in the
b) Strong street just outside the post office. Young Ian,
c) Tiny who is only five years old found the perfect
d) Wide place to hide. His sister, Janet, had shut her
e) hard eyes and was counting up to ten when Ian
noticed that the small metal door of the letter-
6. When you are driving a car …. your child at box had been left open.
the back of your own seat! The postman had just taken all the letters out
A. don’t forget to seat and had gone into the post office to see if there
B. I’d like to put a seat were any parcels. Ian climbed into the letter-
C. remember to sit down box and pulled the door from the inside so hard
D. I’d like you to have a seat that it locked. Soon realizing what he had done,
E. you are seated he became very frightened and started crying.
Meanwhile, Janet was looking for him
7. John : …… I completely forgot to bring everywhere but could not find him. It was lucky
your novel. …. she happened to stop outside the letter-box and
Cindy : It’s okay, you can return it hear her brother’s cries. She immediately ran to
Tomorrow tell the postman who hurried out to unlock the
A. I forgive you – you are very kind metal door.
B. I am really sorry – It’s very kind of you Ian was now free, but he had had such a bad
C. I give my apology – this won’t happen fright that he could not stop crying. The
again postman, however, soon found a way of making
D. I forgive you – this won’t happen again him laugh again. He told him that next time he
E. I am really sorry – this won’t happen wanted to hide in a letter-box; he should
again remember to stick a stamp on himself
10. What is the text about? B. To describe the way things look like
A. The most harmful event of game C. To inform readers about events of the day.
B. The writer’s neighbor’s children playing D. To describe particular participants, Ian and
game Janet
C. The game played by the writer’s E. To explain the processes involved in natural
neighbor children phenomena.
D. The dangerous game done by the
writer’s neighbor’s children 15. Ian climbed into the letter-box and pulled
E. The event of when the children of the the door from the inside so hard that it
writer’s neighbor’s were playing game* locked. Soon realizing what he had done, he
became very ….. and started crying.
11. Which one of the following does the story A. amused
tell? B. bored
A. Janet had already finished counting ten C. friendly
B. Ian locked himself purposefully in the D. panicky
letterbox E. delighted
C. Ian was able to unlock the letterbox
himself 16. Jean : ……
D. Janet was the one who told the postman Mr. Thomson : my pleasure. What can I
about the problem do for you?
E. The postman got such a fright that he Jean : I need to move this table
could open the letterbox to that corner.
A. Hi, help me !
12. “My neighbour’s children love playing B. Do you mind if I say something
hide-and-seek as all children do, but no one C. Excuse me, do you have the time?
expected that a game they played last week D. Sorry, I hate to interrupt but I have to.
would be reported in the local newspaper. E. I’d be very grateful if you’d do me a
One afternoon, they were playing in the favor
street just outside the post office.”
The above is the ……..of the text 17. Nanda : To tell you the truth, I am not
A. Thesis too bad to fix this radio
B. Description Cindy : Really? So it means I needn’t
C. Orientation have it repaired
D. Explanation In the dialogue, Nanda expresses his …. to
E. general classification do something
A. capability
13. “Soon realizing what he had done, B. badness
he became very frightened and started C. frankness
crying ” The underlined word in the D. feeling
sentence above can be classified into…. E. truth
A. verbal verb
B. mental verb Text 3 is for questions number 18-23
C. relational verb
D. existential verb Divorce May Mean Happier Lives for the
E. behavioral verb Children

14. What is the communicative purpose of the Divorce changes childhood but not
text? necessarily for the worse. Many children from
A. To retell a story for entertaining* broken homes go on establish loving
relationships with both their parents.It’s A. the parents
difficult for children to be party to any ongoing B. the children
dispute between parents. C. the mothers.
One child spoke of the “Bermuda Triangle” D. the readers
– the mythical space between the homes of her E. the writers
parents into which socks and schoolbooks,
game kit and pencil sharpeners always seemed 20. The first paragraph is the …. of the text.
to disappear. Another child complain bitterly A. orientation
that one mother refuse to let her on the B. general statement
weekends she spent with her dad. They hated C. issue
being told secrets and carrying messages to and D. thesis
from between their parents. Worrying about E. introduction
how kids will be affected by divorce often leads
parents into crooked thinking. 21. What makes parent worried about thinking
What matters is overcoming and dealing of getting divorce?
with those difficulties. In life we are always A. The affects to the children after the
going to face difficulties and that we should divorce*
never have problems is not a good way at B. The crooked thinking the parent s have
looking at childhood. C. The difficulty of caring of the children
Rather than wringing their hands about the D. The inability for the mother to sent them
harmful effects of splitting up, parents can be to school
positive and look at strategies for dealing with E. The fear the parents suffer after the
problems that might arise. As a proof, a lot of divorce
parents that we interviewed stayed together
longer than they have done though they were so 22. The good way to teach the children to see
worried about the effect of divorce on their the real world is that they should….
thinking that any kind of adolescent rebellion A. be happy every time.
was because of the divorce. B. keep studying for their future
What we are saying is that young people can C. let their father or mother remarry
strive under these circumstances and that it’s D. realize that each person must have their
the quality of the relationship that matter. own problem
Divorce might be a whole lot better than a E. be able to accept another partner to their
really grim family situation and children can father / mother.
often be extraordinarily happy and contented
after their parents’ divorce 23. Divorce might be a whole lot better than a
really grim family situation and children
18. The text discusses about …. can often be extraordinarily happy and
A. The broken home children contented after their parents’ divorce
B. The good possibility of divorce The similar meaning of the underlined word
C. The difficulty the children face is ….
D. The ongoing dispute between parents. A. unusually
E. The worse childhood because of the B. commonly
divorce. C. bitterly
D. absolutely
19. In life we are always going to face E. surely
difficulties and that we should never have
problems is not a good way at looking at 24. Jean : why did you look so different
childhood yesterday?
The word we in this sentence refers to…. Have I done something wrong to you?
Anny : yes, you are …. theyoung generation. The mass media
You told every one here my secret exploiting the pornography should beblamed
I’ll never tell you anything. No more for the moral degradation of the young
A. really the mistake generation.
B. accusing me a lot Jim : But, I think the government does not
C. the only person to blame * need to regulate this with a kind of
D. the fault in this problem Bill. It will limit the freedom of the press. It’s
E. blamed to do that thing exaggerating, I suppose.
Alya : Do you think so, Jim? How about in
25. Fred : I ….. a John M Echol’s your country, Jim?
dictionary Jim : Our government just requires the
Shop assistant : Yes. It’s over there. Let media and the press to give detail aboutthe
me take it for you. requirements to access the media. Say for
A. I want example: a certainmagazine is only for adults
B. I need to know and people can get it through a subscription.
C. I’ve got to see Alya : In that case, I think the condition is
D. I wish I could have quite different, Jim even though somepeople
E. What I really like is really disagree with this bill especially the
people making business from this field, even
26. (into – a – fish – an egg – of – the – though I think most of people here agreewith
development ) is a wonderful thing to this bill.
watch. Jim : Do you think so?
The correct arrangement is …. Alya : Perhaps the House members should
A. The fish of a development into an egg be clear about the bill and can assurethat the bill
B. An egg into a fish of the development will not be misused.
C. The development of a fish into an egg Jim : let’s wait and see
D. A fish into an egg of the development
E. The development of an egg into a fish* 27. The text mainly tells us about….
A. The sensitivity of the bad effect of
Text 4 is for questions number 27-31 pornography and porno act
B. The morality of young generation
Jim is an exchange student from England. He effected by pornography
stays with a family in Indonesia. He chatting C. The regulation the government should
with his friend, Alya at the veranda. make on the pornography
Alya : How are you D. The deliberation on pornography and
Jim : Fine thanks. How are you doing? porno act bill
Alya : Great thanks. You seem to like reading E. The requirement the media and the
newspaper press should fulfill
Jim : Well, it’s not that much but at least I
need to know what happens in your 28. The communicative purpose of the text
country so I can write to my friends about it. is….
Alya : What’s the headline today? A. to present (at least) two different points
Jim : The deliberation on pornography and of view about an issue
porn act bill B. to retell events with a humorous twist
I wonder why the people here give so much C. to explain about the important events in
attention to this issue the past
Alya : This is a sensitive thing here, Jim. It’s D. to inform readers about important
all about morality, people areconcerned about events of the day
the bad effect of pornography and porno act on
 E. to retell events for the purpose of
informing or entertaining

29. Which statement is not true according to

the text?
A. The topic talked about is written on the
headline
B. The pornography and porno act effect
on the young generation badly
C. The mass media, though only some,
exploit the pornography a lot
D. The points of view proposed are from
the perspective of the same country
E. The House Representatives should in
charge of making the regulation

30. Which one doesn’t match?

A. happen : take place
B. deliberation : reflection
C. issue : subject
D. degradation : dilapidation
E. exaggerating : complete disorder

ESSAY

31. What is Recount Text?

32. Mention and explain of Generic Structure in
Recount Text?
33. What is Narrative Text?
34. Mention 3 example in Narrative Text?
35. Tell about your self( your name, your
hobby, your family, your school and etc)!