SMA Bahasa Inggris: Pertanyaan, Jawaban, Latihan Soal & Pembahasan

Complete the following text with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets.

    Born in Semarang on February 29, 1936, Nurhayati Sri Hardini Siti Nukatin, affectionately known as NH Dini, had been interested in writing since her elementary school days. She often [1. pour] ____ her heart's contents into her school textbooks.

    Her mother, Kusaminah, [2. be] ____ the person who [3. introduce] ____ NH Dini to the world outside of school. Every night, she [4. tell] ____ her stories and [5. read] ____ from Javanese magazines such as Panji Wulung and Penyebar Semangat. Kusaminah also [6. introduce] ____ her daughter to tembang (Javanese songs) and the alphabet.

    Dini's father, Saljowidjojo [7. pass away] ____ when she was still at junior high school. The loss of her father [8. make] ____ her a loner who [9. learn] ____ to quietly express her feelings by writing. In 1953, Dini's short stories [10. begin] ____ to be published in various magazines like Mimbar Indonesia, Siasat, and Kisah.

    Dini [11. receive] ____ numerous accolades for her writing. Her short story, "Sarang lkan di Teluk Jakarta, " [12. win] ____  the nationwide French-language short story competition in Indonesia in 1988. A year later she [13. receive] ____ a literary award from the Education and Culture Ministry. In 1991, Dini was awarded the Upapradana Charter from the Province of Central Java.

    Following her 1984 separation from her husband Yves Coffin, whom she had married in Kobe, Japan in 1960, Dini [14. return] ____ to Indonesia, [15. reclaim] ____ her Indonesian citizenship and [16. reside] ____ in Kampung Sekayu, Semarang, where she [17. build] ____ Pondok Baca NH Dini (NH Dini's Reading Hut).

    At the time of her death she was living in an old-age home called Panti Wredha Langen Wedharsih in Ungaran, Semarang Regency. Dini still actively [18. participate] ____ in literary events, academic activities, thesis-guiding, and speaking in seminars until her final days.

    NH Dini [19. pass away] ____ on December 4, 2018 following a car crash. She [20. be] ____ 82 years old. The literary icon was survived by her two children, Marie-Claire Lintang and Pierre Louis Padang (a famous animator).

(Adopted from: https://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2018/12/05/obituary-nh-dini-indonesian-feminist-literary-figure.html (July 25, 2019))

Do the following tasks properly. Read the text and answer the questions that follow.

    Growing crop plants need several elements to make it stay alive. The most important elements for plantation are hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, phosphorus, nitrogen, sulfur, potassium, calcium, and magnesium.

    Crop plants obtain carbon and hydrogen dioxide from the atmosphere. While the other nutrients are taken up from the soiI. If the soil's nutrient is not enough, the crop plants will not maximally grow. It can affect the amount of production. So to avoid that case, farmers need to give additional nutrients or doing the soil treatment.

    Overall chemical analysis indicates that the total supply of nutrients in the soil is usually higher in comparison with the requirement of crop plants. Much of this potential supply bound tightly in forms that are not released to crops fast enough to give satisfactory growth. This will make farmers interested in measuring the available nutrient supply as contrasted to the total quantities.

Why do farmers prefer considering the only available nutrients to the total quantities of nutrient found in soil? 

Change the sentence into indirect speech.
 

"Put it in safe place", he told.

He told me ____

What do you feel after comprehending the song lyrics? 

Complete the blank space for number 7 using the words in the box.

    (1) ____  is a boy wizard who has taken over the world. He is everywhere. No one had heard of Harry Potter before (2) ____. That’s when J.K. Rowling published her first (3) ____. She’s the (4) ____ of Harry Potter. The first novel was called ‘Harry Potter and the (5) ____'  and it became an amazing success. Everyone was talking about it and Harry became an overnight (6) ____. Six more Harry Potter books followed and they all became best sellers. People went crazy over every new book. (7) ____ waited overnight outside a bookstore to make sure they got their copy of the (8) ____. My friends are 40 years old! Harry Potter is now a global industry, with (9) ____ and merchandise of all kinds. It’s (10) ____ how big he is. 

How about the ending story from the character in this song?

Look at the pictures.
Create suitable captions based on the pictures.

Imagine if you are in the following situations, what would you do?

If I could turn back time, I would ____

What kind of text is this?

Add the suitable verbs to make the correct phrasal verbs.

Mike's interest in practicing karate ____ off rather quickly and the boy started to look for a new hobby to take up.