Soal Bahasa Inggris USM STIS 2010

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Direction: B. It can‟t loo and touch at the
same time
The problem consist of four sections. C. Its brain does not function
Five words or phrases, marked A, B, C, D, very well
and E, are given beneath each sentence. D. The memory of what it has
You are to choose the one word or seen and touched is contained
phrase. Section 1: To answer each in separate areas
question (No: 1-10); Section 2: To E. Its brain used for visual
complete each sentence (No: 11-35); memories only
Section 3: To find each synonym the
underlined words (No: 36-50); Section 4: Question 4-6 refer to the following
To analyze each problem (No:51-60) passage

Section 1: Reading Comprehension Economic expansion continued in

May. Government reports showed gains
Question 1-3 refer to following passage in industrial production, personal
income, and housing starts. Housing
When used for studies of learning construction, however, remained
and memory, the Octopus is more sluggish, mainly because the cost of new
interesting subject than the squid. homes has risen much faster than
Unlike the free-swimming squid, which average incomes, but housing starts did
relies exclusively on its eyes to guide it show a small increase over those of April
to tasty fish or crab, the octopus often
feeds off the bottom of the sea. It use 4. The author‟s clais concerning
not only its eyes but its tentacles to economic expansion seem to be
identify a likely meal. The brain of the based on
octopus has two separate memory-
storage areas-one for visual memories A. Government data in three the
and one for tactile memories. areas
B. Government budgetary
1. How does the squid find its food? reports
C. The author‟s own research
A. Both by sight and by touch D. The author‟s personal insight
B. By touch only E. Industrial reports
C. By sight only
D. By tentacles only 5. According to the passage,
E. In onone of the ways housing construction is
described above recovering slowly because

2. The passage is mainly about A. The cost of a new home is

higher than the government‟s
A. A new way of feeding fish price guide lines
B. Biological differences between B. New homes are being built at
two animals a faster rate than needed
C. How to go deep-sea fishing C. New homes are selling faster
D. A warning to deep-sea divers than anticipated
E. How to squid getting food D. Personal income are growing
faster than new home prices
3. According to the passage, which E. Prices of new homes have
of the following can describe the been going up faster than
octopus? increases in people‟s incomes

A. Its brain is simpler than that of

the squid
 6. According to the passage, which
of the following is true of housing 9. Which of the following enterprise
starts? would most likely be interested in
using the instruments
A. They were slightly higher in mentioned?
May than in April
B. They were the same as in A. Sports equipment
previous month B. Sound-recording studios
C. They were much lower in May C. Sound instrument businesses
than in April D. Commercial fishing businesses
D. They were slightly lower in E. Shipbuilding yards
May than in April
E. They were much higher in 10. For what purpose was the
May than in April instrument originally designed?

Question 7-10 refer to the following A. Communicating with dives

passage B. Recording ocean depths
C. Locating ddeep-sea life
When, during the first quarter of D. Building schools for fish
the twentieth century echo sounding E. Detecting submarines
was developed to allow ships while
under way to record the depth of the 11. The … are conducting research on
bottom, probably no one suspected that juvenile delinquency.
it would also provide a means of
learning something about deep-sea life. A. Statistic
But operators of the new instruments B. Statistics
soon discovered that the sound waves, C. Statisticians
directed downward from the ship like a D. Statistician
beam of light, were reflected back from E. Statistical
any solid object they met. Answering
echoes were returned from intermediate 12. “Several hotels in region are
depths, presumably from school of fish, closing down.” That‟s because
whales, or submarines; then a second tourism itself … since last year.”
echo was received from the bottom.
A. is declining
7. The author writes about B. had declining
something that happened during C. was declining
which of the following periods of D. has been declining
time? E. declined

A. 1800-1850 13. He asked me where I had

B. 1850-1900 purchased that raincoat. The
C. 1900-1925 directed speech of this statement
D. 1925-1950 is…
E. 1950-1975
A. Where had you purchased this
8. Had did operators send down raincoat?
into the water? B. Where did you purchase this
raincoat?
A. Beams of flight C. Where would you purchase
B. Small, solid object this raincoat?
C. New instruments D. Where are purchasing this
D. Solid objects raincoat?
E. Sound waves
 E. Where were you purchasing A. caught
this raincoat? B. have been caught
C. be caught
14. He had died before his latest D. have caught
book… E. being caught

A. has been published 19. “At last, I finish typing this letter
B. were published and I wil get it copied soon
C. had been published before being mailed” means I‟ll …
D. would published before being mailed.
E. was published
A. copy the letter
15. I overslept this morning. Thus, I B. will have to type it
miss the quiz Prof. Hamid gave. I C. ask someone to copy it
wouldn‟t have missed it … D. have typed it
E. be typing it
A. had I not overslept
B. if I didn‟t overslept 20. You know, my father will retire
C. should I not overslept within the next few years. I hope
D. if I overslept that by time he retires, I … a job.
E. had overslept
A. get
16. Surabaya, … is more than three B. will get
and half million, is Indonesia‟s C. have got
second largest city situated in the D. will have got
eastern part of Java island. E. got

A. whom the population 21. Having sent his letter of inquiry,

B. that the population …
C. whether the population
D. the population of it A. The company was expected to
E. whose population get a quick reply
B. Andika expected to get a
17. Tommy: Terrible! This math quick reply
problem is so difficult that I C. A quick reply was expected
haven‟t found the answer yet. Can from the company
you help me? D. They expected the company
Rendi: I wish I knew about math. to send a quick reply
The underlined sentence means E. It was expected that the
that Rendi … about math. company would send a quick
reply
A. doesn‟t know
B. didn‟t know 22. “Have you considered … to a
C. hasn‟t know boarding house closer to tour
D. hadn‟t know school?”
E. wouldn‟t know
A. being moved
18. “Harry arrived home very late last B. to move
night, but he said he went C. moved
straight home from work.” D. moving
He must … in traffic jam. You E. move
know what Jakarta is like in terms
of traffic jam. 23. He asked me … had I turned up
to the meeting the dat before.
 village refused to get an injection
A. what did I talk about against it.
B. if I am going to talk about
C. what I talked about A. however
D. whether o have talked about B. inspite of
E. what I would have talked C. in as much as
about D. since
E. although
24. I had insufficient budget to
change my old car with the new 29. By the time I moved to Ujung
one and neither … he have extra Pandang about three years ago, I
money to lend me some. … in Jakarta for almost 10 years.

A. does A. had been living

B. had B. have lived
C. did C. lived
D. has D. will have lived
E. will E. had lived

25. Budi … part of the homework 30. The benefit … the study is that it
assigned. provides necessary information to
anyone who needs it.
A. did only
B. only did A. which
C. only does B. of
D. doing only C. that
E. only doing D. for
E. because
26. Customer: Excuse me. Could you
show me where the fitting room 31. “Have you ever taken part in
is? student exchange program?”
Shop assistant: Certaintly, it‟s over My teacher asked me … in
there. student exchange program.
Customer: …?
A. I have ever taken part
A. Can I have this one, please? B. whether I have ever taken part
B. Does this one suit me? C. had I ever taken part
C. Will you try this one on? D. if I have take part
D. Could I try this one? E. whether I had ever taken part
E. Could you tell me how much
its costs? 32. Psychology is as … as statistics.

27. It‟s often difficult for new A. interest

university students … themselves B. interests
to their new environment. C. interesting
D. same interested
A. they adopt E. interested
B. adopting
C. to adopt 33. … variety of flowers in the show,
D. being adopted from simple carnations to the
E. to be adopted most exquisite roses.

28. … three people have died of A. there was a wide

cholera, the old people of the B. a wide
 C. there were a wide
D. many A. delicious
E. was there B. damp
C. nutritious
34. There was never any talk of such D. appetizing
a thing … ? E. chewed

A. was it 40. Soaring rates of interest have

B. was it not recently made it difficult for
C. wasn‟t there young couples to buy their own
D. was there homes.
E. there was not
A. slowly rising
35. Some students have finished their B. very expensive
papers … haven‟t. C. rapidly rising
D. extremely painful
A. another E. very high
B. others
C. other 41. Formerly of interest to scientist in
D. the other relation to its salivary glands, the
E. the others fruitflyhas more recently been
important in studies of natural
Section 3 : vocabulary rhythms.

36. Neighboring states often sign A. previously

trade agreement with one B. originally
another. C. mainly
D. subsequently
A. peacefull E. primarily
B. friendly
C. developing 42. The author lived for years near
D. adjacent one of the many creeks flowing
E. faraway into that part of Bengawa Solo
River.
37. The company issues an annual
report every March. A. lakes
B. ponds
A. a yearly C. streams
B. a comprehensive D. swamps
C. a financial E. dams
D. a product
E. a completely 43. The ministers reiterated his
intention of resigning.
38. X-rays are basically a form of
radiation. A. refused
B. stated
A. rarely C. described
B. definitely D. reported
C. probably E. repeated
D. frequently
E. fundamentally 44. Experiment have shown that
exposure to acid rain can have a
39. Food must be moist in order to lethal effect on plants.
have a taste.
 A. an explosive 50. When he finally emerged from
B. a deadly the cave after the cave after
C. an immediate thirsty days, Gatoto was
D. a hideous startlingly pale
E. a fertile
A. extraordinarily
45. Blue-green algae grow B. frantically
abundantly in salt marshes. C. astonishingly
D. deceptively
A. primarly E. normally
B. slowly
C. on plants 51. Santi is three times old as Yanto,
D. in great number but 5 years ago, she was 5 times
E. quickly as old as he was. How old is Santi
now?
46. The ministers reiterated his
intention of resigning A. 10
B. 12
A. refused C. 24
B. repeated D. 30
C. described E. 36
D. reported
E. stated 52. If a + 2b = 14 and 5a + 4b = 16,
what is average (arithmetic mean)
47. The winners will be selected at of a and b?
random.
A. 1.5
A. by chance B. 2
B. by interviewing C. 2.5
C. by competition D. 3
D. by testing E. 3.5
E. by purpose
53. One day in STIS college, of the
48. Pilfering by company costs many students were absent, and of
businesses thousands of dollars
those present went on a field trip.
each year.
If the number of students styinng
in college that day 704, how
A. absenteeism
many students are enrolled in
B. tardiness
STIS?
C. ignorance
D. purchasing
A. 840
E. stealing
B. 960
C. 1080
49. The compact dictionaries
D. 1600
published in recent years are not
E. 3520
as unwieldy as some of the older
editions
54. If A=[1,2,3], B=[2,3,4], and C is the
set consisting of all the fractions
A. complete
whose numerators are in A and
B. tiresome
whose denominators are in B,
C. reliable
what is the product of all of the
D. cumbersome
number in C?
E. remarkable
 A. 1/64 D. 60%
B. 1/48 E. 65%
C. 1/24
D. 1/12 58. On a test consisting of 80%
E. ½ questions, Nina answered 75% of
the first 60 questions correctly.
55. The price of load bead was What percent of the other
increased by 20%. How many questions does she need to
loaves can be purchased for the answer correctly for her grade on
amount of money that used to the entire exam to be 80%?
by 300 loaves?
A. 100%
A. 360 B. 95%
B. 320 C. 90%
C. 250 D. 85%
D. 240 E. 80%
E. 225
59. If 80% of the applicants to a
56. Lestari bought a Rp 60.000 t-shirt program were rejected, what is
o sale at 10% off. How much did the ratio of the number accepted
she pay, including 10% sales tax? to the number rejected?

A. Rp. 55.150 A. ¼
B. Rp. 57.000 B. 1/5
C. Rp. 58.500 C. 2/5
D. Rp. 59.400 D. 4/5
E. Rp. 60.000 E. 4/1

57. There are twice as many girls as 60. Let M be the median and m the
boys in English class. If 30% of mode of the following set of
the girls and 45% of the boy have numbers: 10, 70, 20, 40, 70, 90.
already handed in their book What is the average (arithmetic
reports, what percent of the mean) of M and m?
students have not yet handed in
their reports? A. 50
B. 52.5
A. 25% C. 57.5
B. 35% D. 60
C. 50% E. 62.5