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English Try Out I2016 – package 1
This text is for questions number 1-3.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Book Fair
So many good books to choose from!
When : May 3 and 4, 10 A.M. to 5 P.M.
Where : School cafeteria
Why : All money from the sale will be used to support the school orchestra. We are preparing to
change the musical instruments with the new ones. Therefore many school events are held to
collect the fund. The team will participate in the national contest 2017 next year at Jakarta
Convention Centre.
SMP Anak Bangsa Students affair
1. The school orchestra needs a lot of money because ... .
A. they hold the Book Fair
B. many school events are held
C. they have to pay to the contest
D. they want to buy musical instruments
2. Where will the Book Fair be held?
A. In a book store.
B. At a school cafeteria.
C. At Jakarta convention Centre.
D. At SMP Anak Bangsa's cafeteria.
3. "... the team will participate ..."
The underlined word is closest in meaning to ...
A. act
B. join
C. work
D. perform
This text for questions number 4-5.
Dear Aldy,
Long time no see, how are you today? I hope you are alright.
Last holiday, my family and I spent one night in the countryside. It is not far from our city and it is
not a crowded place. We stayed in a rented wooden house. It was really nice.
At night, we made a small fire in front of the house and sang together. We were very happy.
We woke up very late the next morning because we stayed up late. After lunch my father drove
us home.
It was a great holiday. Will you join us next time?
See you soon
Your best friend,
Sandi
4. why did Sandy and his family spend the holiday in the countryside?
A. It was located nearby .
B. They liked crowded place.
C. It was not far from their city.
D. Many people visited the place.
5. From the text we know that Sandy and his family go to the countryside by….
A. train
B. ship
C. bus
D. car
This text is for questions number 6-7
To Anne
The next national examination is coming in a few weeks. Please study hard and
prepare yourself well. I will be ready to give you an extra lesson every Sunday and
Thursday night. Confirm me as soon as possible
Mr. Jhonny
6. How often will Mr Johnny teach Anne in a week ?
A. Once
B. Twice
C. Three times
D. Four times

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7. “....give you an extra lesson every Sunday and Thursday night”.
The underlined word has the same meaning as.............
A. additional
B. Super
C. Inter
D. Possible
This text is for number 8 - 9
8. How many days does the sale
last?
A. 11 days
B. 12 days
C. 13 days
D. 14 days
9. Where can you buy the LCD
TV’s and DVD Players?
A. At Prestigious Trade
B. At a Genuine Store
C. At 10th floor GMT Building
D. At March 15th – 27th
This text is for number 10 – 12.
Tomorrow our school will celebrate HARDIKNAS. There will be no lesson. However we will hold a
flag ceremony and also some contests. One of them is the contest of the best classroom.
Decorate your classroom as creatively as possible. Some juries will score your class randomly.
The observation will last for a week. All class captains have to cooperate with their class teacher
and their own classmates. For more information please contact Mr. Luhur.
10. From the text we know that … .
A. Celebration of HARDIKNAS will be held on tomorrow
B. The classroom will be scored for seven days.
C. We can’t call Mr. Luhur to know more information.
D. The school will hold flag ceremony
11. Who has to cooperate with their class teacher?
A. Class teacher
B. Class captain
C. Classmates
D. Mr. Luhur
12. One of them is the contest of....
The underline word has similar meaning with...
a. Competition
b. Champion
c. Exhibition
d. Position
13. The meeting will discuss about …
A. The wall magazine in the classroom
B. Preparation of making wall magazine
C. The committee of Wall magazine competition 2016
D. Final preparation for wall magazine competition 2016
14. From the text above, we know that the meeting will be held ….
A. In the morning
B. in the evening
C. In the afternoon
D. at night

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This text is for no 15– 16.
To: Dewi
I've got news that my grandmother is sick and hospitalized, so my family and I have to visit
her immediately. Therefore, I cannot attend the class tomorrow. Would you mind submitting my
report to Mr. Joe? ( it will due to tomorrow). Thanks for your kindness.
Aldi
15. ….. I have to visit her immediately.
The underlined word refers to …..
A. Dewi
B. Dewi’s friend
C. Dewi’s teacher
D. Dewi’s grandmother
16. I have to visit her immediately.
The closest meaning of the underlined word is….
A. quickly
B. fast
C. slowly
D. quietly
This text is for number 17– 19.
Last year my family had a trip to Bali. My parents, my elder sister and I spent three days. We had a flight
to Bali.
We arrived there at 9 a.m. Then, we checked in the hotel. It was not big, but comfortable. After taking a
rest and having a shower, we had a lunch in the restaurant of the hotel. In the afternoon, we went to Sanur
beach. There were a lot of tourists enjoying the beautiful beach. Some of domestic and foreign tourists surfed
on the beach. They really enjoyed it. My sister and I played the sand. We built a castle from the sand.
On the second day, we had a shopping in the traditional market near the hotel. My mother bought a new
dress, while my father chose a leather jacket. My sister bought a pair of unique glasses and a cap. While I
liked having T-shirts.
On the last day, we checked out the hotel. We left the hotel at 8 a.m.
It was really an amazing holiday.
17. The main idea of the second paragraph is that the writer ... .
A. went to Bali by plane.
B. checked out from the hotel.
C. met some domestic tourists.
D. enjoyed his first day of his holiday.
18. What did the writer buy in the traditional market ?
A. T – shirts.
B. A new dress.
C. A leather jacket.
D. A pair of glasses and a cap.
19. From the text we know that ... .
A. The family had lunch in the hotel.
B. The tourists played sand castle on the beach.
C. The writer and his family stayed in a big hotel.
D. They checked out from the hotel in the afternoon.
This text is for number 20– 23.
Have you ever wondered how beautiful Japanese scenes are? Most of them are seen and
dominated by the beauty of cherry blossom. Cherry blossom has scientific name as Genus Prenus. It has
been called as Sakura in Japan. Cherry blossom belongs to the Rosacea family.
Nowadays, Cherry blossom is seen in some varieties such as; Yama Sakura, Oshima Sakura,
American Sakura and many others.
The main characteristic of cherry blossom is on the way it grows. The flower grows earlier than the
leaves. Cherry blossom have many colors. There are white, little pink, and red.
Mostly cherry blossoms grow in moist low and highland. A place with a little bit moist and is protected from
sunlight is best for its natural habitat.
20. What color is cherry blossom?
A. blue
B. black
C. red
D. purple

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21. What is the main idea of paragraph 2?
A. cherry blossoms’ variety
B. the way of cherry blossoms grow
C. cherry blossom is native of Japan
D. cherry blossom’s color
22. A place with a little bit moist… (par 3).
What is the closest meaning to the word moist?
A. dry
B. wet
C. drought
D. windy
23. From the text we know that cherry blossom is a … flower.
A. colorful
B. cheerful
C. harmful
D. careful
The following text is for question 24 - 27
How to Treat Insect Bite or Sting
 Remove the sting. Use tweezers or scrape it off with your fingernail, or a credit card. Do not attempt to
press out the sting, as this will only help the poison spread under the skin.
 Clean the bite with soap and water.
 Cool off the skin with ice cubes or an ice-pack that has been wrapped in a cloth or thin towel.
 Rest the affected area and elevate it if possible to prevent excessive swelling.
 Get medical help when the victims get fever.
24. Why mustn’t we press out the sting?
A. It can damage the skin tissue.
B. It will spread the poisson.
C. It might hurt your fingers.
D. It will push the sting out
25. What is the function of ice cubes or ice pack?
A. To cool off the skin.
B. To reduce the pain.
C. To protect the poisson.
D. To rest the affected area.
26. “ ... elevate it if possible to prevent excessive swelling.”
What does the underlined word refer to?
A. The ice pack.
B. The thin towel.
C. The affected area
D. The excessive swelling
27. “ Clean the bite with soap and water.”
The underlined word is closest in meaning to ....
A. pour
B. wash
C. water
D. drain

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Once upon a time there lived a very big, lazy and old lion in the jungle. Being the King of the jungle,
the lion called all the animals and ordered them,
"Everyday one of you should come by yourself as my prey, otherwise I will destroy the whole jungle."
The animals were too scared of the lion and agreed to obey his order. The lazy lion was happy with his easy
prey. Days went by.
One day, it was the turn of the rabbits. A little rabbit voluntarily agreed to go to the lion's den. The
little rabbit reached the lion's den very late. The angry lion roared at the little rabbit and asked, "Why are you
late?" The rabbit acted wisely and told the king that, "I met another lion on the way, which is bigger than you.
It threatened to eat me." The lion angrily asked the rabbit "Do you know where he lives?" The rabbit replied
'Yes' and asked the king to follow him.
The rabbit reached an old well and said the King, "That lion lives in this well." The foolish lion peeped
into the well and mistook his own reflection as another lion and roared loudly. Hearing the echo of his own,
the lion got angry and jumped into the well and drowned.
That was the end of the lion and all animals lived happily in the jungle.
28. Why didthe animalsagree toobey the lion’sorder?
A. The lion had many friends.
B. They are the lion’s good friends.
C. Theywere tooscared of the lion.
D. The lion was verybig,lazyandold.
29. Where did the lion find his rival?
A. in the forest
B. behind a hill
C. in a deep well
D. in the mountain
30. What is the moral value of the story?
A. The strongest wins, the weaker loses.
B. Intelligence wins over might.
C. Don’t be a weak rabbit.
D. Be a strong lion.
Butterflies are insects belonging to the order Lepidoptera or “winged insect scales”. The butterfly can be
found in the tropics. Butterflies breathe with trachea. Butterfly undergo complete metamorphosis as an egg,
caterpillar, chrysalis until butterfly.
Butterflies are noted for their wings, which are colorful and bright. Butterfly wings are a bit like bird wings.
bird wings are made of feathers, but butterfly wings are made of tiny overlapping scales. The wings are
colored in various patterns. Some butterfly wings look iridescent (changing rainbow colors, depending on the
light) because of the way light hits the scales.
Butterflies have an interesting life cycle. They start as eggs. When they are born, they are what we called
caterpillars. This is the larval stage for the caterpillar. The caterpillars then move into a cocoon, becoming
what we called a chrysalis. This is the pupal stage. When the insect comes out of the cocoon, we call it
butterfly. This is the adult stage for the caterpillar. These clear stages of changing on the way to adulthood
are called metamorphosis. Many animals go through metamorphosis, but the butterfly's changes are more
dramatic than most. Butterflies can be found almost all over the world. there may be as many as twenty
thousand different species of butterflies. Butterflies usually eat flower nectar. Because of this, they are
important to the life cycle of many flowers. Butterflies also need minerals, which they usually get from water
found in dirt and sand.
31. What is the topic of the text above?
A. Beautiful insect
B. Life cycle of insect
C. Butterfly’s life cycle
D. Caterpillar’s metamorphosis
32. What is the stage of butterfly’s metamorphosis?
A. eggs, chrysalis,cocoon, butterfly
B. caterpillar, cocoon, eggs, butterfly
C. eggs, caterpillar, cocoon, butterfly
D. Caterpillar, butterfly, eggs, cocoon
33. Where can we find Butterflies?
A. At artics continent
B. All over the world
C. At tropics area
D. At America continent
34. ….‘Butterflies usually eat flower nectar” (The last paragraph)
The underlined word has similar in meaning with....
A. liquid from insect
B. The product of bees

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C. mixing of water and sugar
D. sweet liquid collected by bees from plants
This text is for number 35 to 37
His name is Cristiano Ronaldo. We can call him as Ronaldo. But, Madridista (Real Madrid's fans)
often calls him CR7. CR is the abbreviation of Cristiano Ronaldo, and 7 is his shirt number when playing for
both Manchester United and Real Madrid.
Ronaldo was born in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal on 5 February 1985. His father's name is Jose
DinisAveiro. His mother's name is Maria Dolores Dos Santos Aveiro. He has one brother, Hugo, and two
sisters, Elma and LilianaCatia.
Cristiano Ronaldo is a famous footballer. He is from Portugal, a country in Europe. Before playing for
Real Madrid, he has played for Sporting Lisbon and Manchester United.
People knows Cristiano Ronaldo is a good football player. He can run fast and dribble well. As a
striker, he becomes a goal getter for Manchester United and Real Madrid along his career. He can get more
than 30 goals every season.
35. What is paragraph 4 mainly about ? It is about …
A. Real Madrid fans
B. when Ronaldo was born
C. his brother, Hugo
D. how people know about Ronaldo.
36. Which statement is true according to the text ?
A. Jose DinisAveiro has three children.
B. Ronaldo was thirty one years old in 2014.
C. Ronaldo ever played for Sporting Lisbon.
D. Ronaldo gets only thirty goals each season.
37. Who is Elma ? She is …
a. Ronaldo’s fan
b. Ronaldo’s sister
c. Ronaldo’s mother
d. Ronaldo’s daughter
The following text is for number 38 – 40
Mulan
Long, long ago, the Emperor of China ordered that a great wall be built to protect his empire from the
evil Huns. In those days, the Huns invaded China.
A man called Chi Fu worked for the government. He announced, "By order of the Emperor, one man
from every family must serve in the Imperial Army!" Mulan's family her parents didn't have any sons.
Her father was very old. In his youth, he had been a great soldier. But age and an old war wound had dulled
his fighting ability. Mulan secretly watched her father. Her heart filled with sadness. Mulan knew that he could
not survive another battle. So she came up with a plan to save his life.
That night, Mulan quietly sneaked into her parents' bedroom. Carefully, she took the scroll calling her
father to war. In its place, she took her father's sword and cut her long beautiful hair. Mulan put on her
father's combat uniform and left the house. She looked like a young soldier going to war. For this was her
plan to pretend to be a boy and take her father's place in the army.
Later that night, Mulan's parents discovered what she had done. They were shocked. Impersonating
a soldier was a crime, and if Mulan were caught, she would be killed. But Mulan was a brave soldier. On the
battlefield she saved the life of the Emperor and also the Emperor said Mulan had saved China. In the
battlefield nobody knew Mulan was a woman. They thought she was the same as everybody. She was very
brave. At that time she was injured the doctor checked her body and found out she was a woman. Finally,
everybody found out that she was a woman. Mulan brought honor to her family. She was a hero in China.
Chinese all know about her story. Some poets wrote poems for her.
38. What is the main idea of the second paragraph ?
A. Mulan’s father put on his combat uniform and quietly left his bedroom.
B. Mulan pretended to be his father and took his father place in the army.
C. Mulan’s father took his sword and cut her long beautiful hair at night.
D. Mulan planned to sneaked into her father’s room and took the scrolled
39. Why did Mulan’s heart fill with sadnes ? Bacause . . .
A. Her parent didn’t have any sons.
B. Her father didn’t have fighting ability on war
C. She knew that his father coldn’t survive another battle
D. An old war wound had dulled his father’s fighting ability.
40. From paragraph 4, we can conclude that . . .
A. Mulan would be killed because she wasn’t a brave soldier.
B. The emperor knew that Mulan was awoman when she saved his life.
C. Mulan was impersonating a soldier then she was caught and killed.
D. If Mulan hadn’t been injured, nobody knew that she was actualy a woman

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This text is for number 41 – 43.
Do you know a bat ? A bat has fur or hair on its body. A baby bat is born live. The babies nurse from
their mom. Bats have arms, hands and feet. They are warm blooded.
Bats are very (41)_____ animals. They help farmers to control the insect population and reseed cut
the forest. Bats (42)_____high pitched sounds. These sounds can not be heard by humans or other animals.
The sound waves bounce off the food they hunt, such as insects then back to the bats, telling the bats where
the food is.
Most of (43)____sleep during the day, hanging upside down in caves or other dark places.Some
actually live under big leaves.
41. 42. 43.
A. used
B. useful
C. usable
D. useless
A. produce
B. produces
C. produced
D. is produced
A. they
B. their
C. them
D. theirs
This text is for number 44 – 46.
Yesterday was a (44)_________ day for me. I woke up late. So I went to school in a hurry. I rode my
bike as fast as possible.
When the teacher asked the students (45) _________ submit our homework, I remembered that I left
mine at home. To prove I did the homework the teacher asked me to (46) _________ the homework
immediately after school. so when the bell rang, I went back home to fetch my homework.
44. 45. 46
A. terrible
B. wonderful
C. happy
D. pleasant
A. in
B. on
C. at
D. to
A. finish
B. do
C. submit
D. make
47. Arrange the following words into a meaningful sentence.
Washing while the phone I rang was my clothes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
A. 2 – 7 – 5 – 4 – 3 – 1 – 6
B. 2 – 4 – 6 – 1 – 7 – 3 – 5
C. 2 – 4 – 5 – 3 – 6 – 1 – 7
D. 2 – 6 – 3 – 5 – 4 – 1 – 7
48. Arrange the following words into a meaningful sentence.
she Sheila enough money to buy but have a new laptop doesn’t wants
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
A. 2-9-4-7-5-1-8-6-3
B. 2-1-9-4-7-5-6-8-3
C. 4-9-8-7-5-3-6-2-1
D. 5-7-9-8-3-4-2-1-6
49. Arrange the jumbled sentences into a correct paragraph.
1. The other flowers, called imperfect flowers,have only male reproductive organs (stamens) or only
female reproductive organs (ovary, style, and stigma)
2. Flowers usually have carpals, petals, sepals and stamens.
3. A flower is the reproductive unit of angiosperms.
4. Furthermore, some plants have both male and female flowers in one plant, while others have males
on one plant and females on another
5. Some flowers, called perfect flowers, have both male and female reproductive organs.
A. 3 – 2 – 5 – 1 – 4
B. 3 – 2 – 4 – 1 – 5
C. 3 – 2 – 1 – 4 – 5
D. 3 – 2 – 1 – 5 – 4
50. Arrange the jumbled sentences into a correct order.
1. After that, press the power button
2. Press the red button to release the dust bag
3. First, connect the plug to the socket
4. Next, move the vacum back on the machine
5. Empty the dust bag and attach it back on the machine
6. When you have finished cleaning the floor, turn of the power
A. 3 – 1 – 4 – 6 – 5 – 2
B. 3 – 1 – 6 – 4 – 2 – 5
C. 3 – 1 – 4 – 6 – 2 – 5
D. 3 – 1 – 4 – 2 – 5 – 6