1. CLOZE TEST

Cloze Test is a test of comprehension and grammar in which a language student supplies appropriate missing words omitted from a text.

What kind of text to be completed for the coming exam? The following are possible to be completed:

Short Functional Text:

• Letter/ Email

• Invitation

• Announcement

• Advertisement

• Etc.

Essay:

• Descriptive

• Narrative

• Report

• Procedure

• Recount

Words chosen to complete the text:

• Pronoun(s) àas subject or object

• Noun (s)à as singular or plural

• Verb(s) àpast tense, etc,

• Adverb(s)àmanner, time, place

• Conjunction(s)àordinate, subordinat

• Adjective

• Preposition

• Etc.

• Kalimat / ungkapan

Cara mengerjakan soal:

Untuk mengerjakan soal writing yang mengisi kalimat rumpang, diperlukan strategi khusus, yaitu:

1. Baca dengan seksama teks secara menyeluruh, kalimat pertama dan terakhir biasanya lengkap, untuk memberi gambaran tentang isi teks.

2. Baca kalimat yang memuat rumpang, dan pahami konteknya.

3. Baca pilihan yang tersedia, cobalah satu persatu, lalu coba masukan dalam rumpang, amati kemungkinannya.

4. Tentukan pilihan yang paling cocok/memungkinkan.

For questions 1 to 3 choose the best words to complete the text.

Yogyakarta is a buyer’s paradise for artwork because well-known artists come from here. These … (1) artists have influenced local artisans in silver, leather, batik and other branches of craft.

Even from wood, rattan and bamboo, very attractive craft items can be … (2), not only for interior home decoration, but also used in international hotels. One can find in Yogyakarta attractive furniture such as living room, dining room or bedroom sets or room dividers.

Other items made from bamboo or rattan include graceful lampshades, fruit basket and decorative shopping bags in various shapes. One can find these items … (3) in several stores along Malioboro street, the main street of Yogyakarta.

1. a. unknown b. famous c. common d. ordinary

2. a. made b. shown c. sold d. used

3. a. attractively b. slowly c. cheaply d. easily

For questions 4 to 6 choose the best words to complete the text.

The biggest dolphins are killer whales (also called orcas). A killer whale can …(4) to 32 feet (9.8 meters) long and weigh more than 12,000 pounds (5,400 kilograms). The … (5) is the tucuxi dolphin, which grows about 4 feet (1.2 meters) long and weighs about 110 pounds (50 kilograms).

Common dolphins and bottlenose dolphins are the kinds of dolphins you might see at a zoo or aquarium. Out in the ocean, spinner dolphins do flips and spins as … (6) leap through the air.

Most dolphins live in oceans and seas all over the world. A few kinds of dolphins, called river dolphins, live in the fresh water of rivers.

4. a. develop b. grow c. raise d. go

5. a. biggest b. widest c. longest d. smallest

6. a. i t b. its c. they d. them

For question 7 choose the best words to complete the text.

Hi Farah,

Here are directions to my house. First, get the 75 bus from Devon bus station to the Cimall. Cross the road and then turn right. Go past the market. Then turn left into Metro road. My house is number (7 ) ... .

C.u. then on Saturday,

Nisa

a. Wish me luck then

b. Please be on time

c. You won’t miss it

d. Thank you so much

For questions 8 to 10 choose the best words to complete the passage.

Attar of rose is the steam-extracted (8) … oil from rose flowers that has been used in perfumes for centuries. Rose water, made from the rose oil, is (9) … used in Asian and Middle Eastern cuisine. Rose hips are occasionally made into jam, jelly, (10) … marmalade, or are brewed for tea, primarily for their high Vitamin C content.

8. a. terrible b. essential c. dreadful d. dangerous

9. a. carefully b. patiently c. slowly d. widely

10. a. or b. so c. and d. while

For questions 11 to 13, complete the text with the suitable words.

A story tells that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and the first man slapped the second one in the face. The second one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, 11) ... in the sand: "TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE."

They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The second man, who had been slapped, got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the first friend saved 12) ... After the friend recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone: "TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE."

The first man asked the second one 13) ... he did it. The other friend replied: "When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it."

11. A. write

B. wrote

C. writes

D. is writing

12. A. it

B. her

C. them

D. him

13. A. why

B. how

C. what

D. where

For questions 14 to 16, complete the text with the suitable words.

A PEACOCK spreading 14) ... gorgeous tail mocked a Crane that passed by, ridiculing the ashen hue of its plumage and saying, "I am robed, like a king, in gold and purple and all the colors of the rainbow; while you have not a bit of color on your wings." "True," 15) ... the Crane; "but I 16) ... to the heights of heaven and lift up my voice to the stars, while you walk below, like a cock, among the birds of the dunghill."

14. A. it

B. its

C. their

D. he

15. A. replied

B. replies

C. is replying

D. has replied

16. A. swim

B. run

C. fall

D. soar

Complete the text below with the words from the box.

Once upon a time, there was a king who ruled a A) ... country. One day, he went for B) ... to some distant areas of his country. When he was back to his palace, he complained that his feet were very painful, because it was the first time that he went for such a long trip, and the road that he went through was very C) ... and stony. He then ordered his people to cover every road of the entire country with leather. Definitely, this would need thousands of cows’ skin, and would cost a huge amount of money. Then one of his wise servants D) ... himself to tell the king, “Why do you have to spend that unnecessary amount of money? Why don’t you just cut a little piece of leather to cover your feet?” The king was surprised, but he later agreed to his suggestion, to make a “shoe” for E) ... .