SOAL BAHASA INGGRIS BINTARA

 SOAL BAHASA INGGRIS

THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM

When you're hungry and you smell dinner, your mouth waters. This is the first step in changing the food you eat into the kind of food that cells can use. This change is called digestion, and it begins in the mouth.

Suppose you are eating sandwich. Your front teeth cut and tear the sandwich. The molars grind it. Saliva, the juice in the mouth, gets everything moist. Saliva also contains a type of chemical called an enzyme. It starts breaking down the starch of the bread into sugar. 

The moist ball of the food is carried to the back of the mouth by the tongue. Muscles force the food into the esophagus, a narrow tube behind the windpipe. Other muscles force the food down the esophagus. They do their work so well that the food would travel along even if the person were doing a headstand.

1.Changing the food that we eat into the kind of liquid that cells can use is called ...

(A)processing

(B)digestion

(C)cutting or tearing

(D) grinding

(E) eating

2.When you eat a piece of meat or an apple, the use of your front teeth is for ... them.

(A)tasting

(B)tearing

(C)grinding

(D) chewing

(E) breaking

3.What substance makes the food in the mouth moist?

(A)The juice

(B)The milk

(C)The starch

(D) The water

(E) The saliva

The following text is for questions 4 and 5.

INVITATION TO THE PREQUALIFICATION TECHNICAL SERVICES CONTRACT

Total E&P Indonesie, acting as a Production Sharing Contractor of BPMIGAS, hereby invites companies to register and participate for pre-qualification prior to the start of the tendering process for the above mentioned contract.

Prequalification requirements

In order to participate in the prequalification process, potential tenderers shall submit prequalification valid documents as set out below:

a.Expression of Interest letter on potential tenderer’s letterhead signed by his authorized person.

b.Copy of business certificate issued by the authorized government (SIUP), Qualification: Usaha Besar (UB).

c.Statement of confirmation that potential tenderer will be able to meet the minimum, domestic content requirement of 35%.

d.Copy of NPWP.

e.Copy of the latest fiscal year balance sheet, which has been audited by public accountants.

f.Copy of the latest fiscal year report (SPT 1771/pph Badan) and proven payment of Income Tax (SSP).

g.Copy of Certificate issued by the Applicable Accredited Association which clearly indicate potential tenderer’s classification of business field/sub field and qualification of expertise.

4.The latest fiscal year balance sheet must be audited by.....

(A)public lawyer

(B)public relation

(C)public accountant

(D)tax account officer

(E)an authorized government

5.The certificates indicating potential tenderer’s classification of business field and qualification of expertise must be issued by.....

(A)the accredited government staff

(B)the applicable accredited alliance

(C)the applicable goverment association

(D)the government accountant association

(E)the applicable accredited government staff

Indonesia, having the world's fifth largest populations and endowed with extensive and varied natural resources, has the potential to become a great and prosperous power. But for the time being she is facing four main problems; how to cope with her population's growth, how to produce enough food, how to provide people with jobs and how to organize enough exports so that the country can pay her way in the world. Indonesia's most valuable resource is her people. But for Indonesia, as with other developing countries, the possession of this particular kind of resource can prove to be a serve impediment to economic development. 

The Government is endeavoring to cope with the population problem in two ways: on the one hand by encouraging people to move, either spontaneously or under the official transmigration programme from densely-populated Java, Madura and Bali to the wider open spaces of the outer islands of Sumatera, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, and Irian Jaya, and on other hand by fostering family planning. Transmigration is more than a response to population growth; it also carries profound implications for balanced national development and for national security.

In its response to the population growth however, Indonesia must continue to rely upon family planning objectives, the establishment of happy and prosperous small families and the reduction of the population growth to 1%. The country's family planning can indeed offer valuable lessons for other parts of the world-in terms not only of results achieved but also of the democratic way in which they have been achieved. Indonesia's family planning programme has become one of the most remarkable of all attempts to institute birth control on a mass scale.

6.There are only ... countries in the world that have more population than Indonesia.

(A)one

(B)two

(C)three

(D) four

(E) five

7.What can help Indonesia to make a great and prosperous nation?

(A)The availability of many jobs

(B)The rapid economic development

(C)The production of enough food

(D)The export which is bigger than import

(E)Many kinds of natural resources and its people

8.The government attempts to overcome the problem of population growth by ...

(A)encouraging people to move to urban areas

(B)organizing enough exports

(C)carrying out family planning programme

(D)forcing people to have more children

(E)providing people with jobs

9.The success of family planning program in Indonesia seems to be valuable lesson for other countries. The idea is found in paragraph ...

(A)one

(B)two

(C)three

(D) one and two

(E) two and three

10.In its response to the population's growth, however, Indonesia must continue to rely upon family planning objectives. (Paragraph 3).

The word "its" refers to...

(A) Indonesia         

(B) family planning

(C) family planning objectives        

(D) national security

(E) national development

11.The government is endeavoring to cope with the population problem.

The underlined word means ...

(A)endowing

(B)enforcing

(C)endorsing

(D) attaining

(E) attempting

SPACECRAFT

People had thought of building spacecraft several hundred years ago. They had thought of going to the moon and many other planets. Papers on spacecraft can be found among the papers of famous scientist who lived centuries ago. However, the craft could not be built until after World War II.

It is not easy to build a spacecraft. A spacecraft needs a good rocket that is strong enough to send it to outer space. Such a motor was not developed until 1944.

A spacecraft also needs as many as ten million very sophisticated parts. These parts are needed so that the craft can function well when it is flying far away from earth. These parts must have very high precision elements. Each of them must have the right shape and the right size. Such parts could not be mode until after 1940.

Today, spacecraft are being made all the time. They have to be enough to carry astronauts into outer space. What does a spacecraft look like? A spacecraft usually consists of three rockets that are joined together. The three rockets are called stages. The first stage takes the spacecraft to a certain speed and then falls away. The second stage takes it to speed twice as great as the first, and then it also falls away. The third stage takes the spacecraft to its top speed of more than 38,600 kilometers per hour.

Where is the place for the astronauts? It is at the top of the spacecraft. In the nose of the third stage, there is a capsule. In this capsule are the astronauts and the instrument package. This capsule is actually the smallest part of the ship. But all sorts of very sophisticated instruments are found into this capsule. This little capsule is the most important part of the ship.

12.Each spacecraft usually has three rockets that are called.....

(A)motor

(B)stages

(C)capsules

(D) elements

(E) packages

13.The function of the rockets is found in paragraph ...

(A) 1

(B) 2

(C) 3

(D) 4

(E) 5

14.Which of the following statement is right?

(A)Spacecraft have been built since 1994

(B)All the three stages have the same speed

(C)Out of the three stages, the first it the fastest

(D)The first rocket falls away as soon as it is air bone

(E)The most important part of the craft is where the astronauts are

15.How fast is the second rocket? It is ...

(A)half of the first

(B)faster than the third

(C)as fast as the first

(D)double the speed of the first

(E)the fastest of the three rockets

16.A pacecraft also needs as many as ten million very sophisticated parts. The underlined word means ...

(A) big

(B) good

(C) strong

(D) simple

(E) complex

NOISE

Noise can be defined as sound that we do not want. This definition is a subjective one, however, because what is unwanted sound to some people may be desirable sound to other. Noise is subjective.

That noise is subjective may mean that people receive it at different levels. This two people will not agree that the loud music from a neighbor's house, for example, is noise! To one of them, however, it is tolerable, noise while to the others it is annoying noise. This difference in the levels of reception between two people may be due to the fact the former is a patience person, while the latter is not. It may also be due to the fact that the former is used to having loud music, while the latter is not.

To borrow a term from psychology, the person who can tolerate the loud music is said to have been conditioned, while the person who is annoyed by it is said not to have been conditioned by the noise.

In addition to the tolerance and annoyance levels, there is yet another level of noise reception. This is what might be called the damage level, where the noise is so loud that it damages the eardrum. The damage may be temporary, and in this case the person concerned may be only temporarily deafened. It may be also be that the damage is permanent. When this occurs the person become permanently deaf.

Very often however, deafness does not occur right away but comes gradually as a result of a long period of exposure to the same source of loud noise. The person concerned may tolerate that noise because he has been conditioned by it, but damage is done. The damaging noise will accelerate his gradual loss of hearing due to growing age.

17.What is meant by noise?

(A)The desirable sound.

(B)The unwanted sound.

(C)The pleasant sound.

(D)The explosive sound.

(E)The booming voice

18.Why is the definition of sound subjective? Because ...

(A)The reception of sound is not the same for everyone.

(B)The sound which is received by some people is the same.

(C)For some people sound can cause the damage of eardrum.

(D)The reception of sound can make someone enjoy.

(E)The sound is difficult to be classified.

19.Which of the statements is true according to the text?

(A)The damaging noise will damage the ear.

(B)The tolerable noise will cause the temporary deaf.

(C)The soothing and loud music can cause the person to be deaf.

(D)The tolerable noise will accelerate the hard of hearing.

(E)The damaging noise will accelerate the person's loss hearing;

20."The levels of noise reception have the subjective value". This is the idea of …

(A)Paragraph 1.

(B)Paragraph 2.

(C)Paragraph 3.

(D) Paragraph 4

(E) Paragraph 5.