LITERASI MEMBACA (UMPTKIN 2025)

I'm going to tell you about my sister-in-law, Mariam. She's a cardiac surgeon, so she operates on people with heart problems. She works really long hours, and she also often has to get up in the middle of the night if a patient of hers has got worse or something. She works in one of the big London hospitals, and she also has a private clinic. I'm not sure what her salary is as we don't talk about things like that, but I imagine it's quite high.

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She loves her job in spite of all the downsides. It took her years and years of studying and exams to get to where she is now, and she's passionately interested in what she does. She also spends ages reading articles and keeping up to date, and I think she does some teaching too. Probably her only complaint would be that she doesn't have enough time for her son. He's seven years old and of course she has very little free time for him or for herself. (Source: Oxenden, Clive, et.al, New English File, 2010: 78)

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The main topic of whole text is about Mariam's ...

• Physical appearance

• Commitment to do her job

• Duties as a cardiac surgeon

• Ages of studying and exams

I'm going to tell you about my sister-in-law, Mariam. She's a cardiac surgeon, so she operates on people with heart problems. She works really long hours, and she also often has to get up in the middle of the night if a patient of hers has got worse or something. She works in one of the big London hospitals, and she also has a private clinic. I'm not sure what her salary is as we don't talk about things like that, but I imagine it's quite high.

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She loves her job in spite of all the downsides. It took her years and years of studying and exams to get to where she is now, and she's passionately interested in what she does. She also spends ages reading articles and keeping up to date, and I think she does some teaching too. Probably her only complaint would be that she doesn't have enough time for her son. He's seven years old and of course she has very little free time for him or for herself. (Source: Oxenden, Clive, et.al, New English File, 2010: 78)

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From the passage above, we can infer that to be professional in certain jobs needs...

• To keep in touch with others

• Very instant process of learning

• More money for books and tools

• More times to study and practice

I'm going to tell you about my sister-in-law, Mariam. She's a cardiac surgeon, so she operates on people with heart problems. She works really long hours, and she also often has to get up in the middle of the night if a patient of hers has got worse or something. She works in one of the big London hospitals, and she also has a private clinic. I'm not sure what her salary is as we don't talk about things like that, but I imagine it's quite high.

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She loves her job in spite of all the downsides. It took her years and years of studying and exams to get to where she is now, and she's passionately interested in what she does. She also spends ages reading articles and keeping up to date, and I think she does some teaching too. Probably her only complaint would be that she doesn't have enough time for her son. He's seven years old and of course she has very little free time for him or for herself. (Source: Oxenden, Clive, et.al, New English File, 2010: 78)

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The word 'downsides' in She loves her job in spite of all the downsides is closest in meaning to...

• Obstacles

• Allowance

• Weaknesses

• Disadvantages

Last month, I attended a reunion of students who were on the same course as me at university ten years earlier. When I left university, I did not keep in touch with many people, so I did not know who to expect. When I arrived at the hotel, most of the, guests had already arrived. They were chatting in small groups. Everyone seemed to have someone to talk to except me. I made, my way to the bar and stood patiently waiting for the barman to notice me. Then, I was tapped on the shoulder and someone shouted, 'I do not believe it!

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I turned round quickly and faced with a man of about my age that I did not recognize at all. He seemed to know me though, and continued, 'How are you? What did you do?' Instead of explaining that I didn't know him, I found myself replying, 'I'm fine. I work in computing now. For the next hour, this man told me his whole life story while I was desperately searching for someone that I knew. I managed to talk to a couple of my old lecturers, but my strongest memory of the evening was that I had a reunion with someone that I didn't even know! (Source: Marris, Amanda, New Headway, Upper Intermediate Test, 1998: 13)

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The writer's main intention in writing the above text is to explain the readers about...

• The guests' happiness to meet each other

• Someone's tapping on the writer's shoulders

• Chatting each other in small groups of guests

• The writer's attendance to the university reunion

Last month, I attended a reunion of students who were on the same course as me at university ten years earlier. When I left university, I did not keep in touch with many people, so I did not know who to expect. When I arrived at the hotel, most of the, guests had already arrived. They were chatting in small groups. Everyone seemed to have someone to talk to except me. I made, my way to the bar and stood patiently waiting for the barman to notice me. Then, I was tapped on the shoulder and someone shouted, 'I do not believe it!

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I turned round quickly and faced with a man of about my age that I did not recognize at all. He seemed to know me though, and continued, 'How are you? What did you do?' Instead of explaining that I didn't know him, I found myself replying, 'I'm fine. I work in computing now. For the next hour, this man told me his whole life story while I was desperately searching for someone that I knew. I managed to talk to a couple of my old lecturers, but my strongest memory of the evening was that I had a reunion with someone that I didn't even know! (Source: Marris, Amanda, New Headway, Upper Intermediate Test, 1998: 13)

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From the passage above, we can infer that...

• All guests did not spend their time chatting each other

• The writer does not have a good relation with his friends

• The barman served the writer with the beverage to drink

• The writer arrived in the hotel earlier than the other guests

Last month, I attended a reunion of students who were on the same course as me at university ten years earlier. When I left university, I did not keep in touch with many people, so I did not know who to expect. When I arrived at the hotel, most of the, guests had already arrived. They were chatting in small groups. Everyone seemed to have someone to talk to except me. I made, my way to the bar and stood patiently waiting for the barman to notice me. Then, I was tapped on the shoulder and someone shouted, 'I do not believe it!

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I turned round quickly and faced with a man of about my age that I did not recognize at all. He seemed to know me though, and continued, 'How are you? What did you do?' Instead of explaining that I didn't know him, I found myself replying, 'I'm fine. I work in computing now. For the next hour, this man told me his whole life story while I was desperately searching for someone that I knew. I managed to talk to a couple of my old lecturers, but my strongest memory of the evening was that I had a reunion with someone that I didn't even know! (Source: Marris, Amanda, New Headway, Upper Intermediate Test, 1998: 13)

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The word 'desperately' in ... while I was desperately searching for someone that knew is closest in meaning to…

• Lazily

• Quickly

• Curiously

• Hopelessly

Bruno : ….?

Bambang : Yes, I have.

Bruno: When did you go there?

Bambang : Last year.

• Are you going there?

• Did you go there?

• Have you go there?

• Have you ever gone to New York?

… this text several times but I still confused.

• have read

• read

• have been reading

• was reading

Our teacher never… England.

• visits

• visited

• has visited

• had visited

Haidar … an accident when they had been in Italy.

• gets

• got

• has got

• had got