English Class High School

Many thousands of children have accidents in their houses. As a result some children die.

The most common accidents are with fire and hot water. Small children often touch pots of boiling water on the stove. The pots fall over and the hot water falls on the children and burns 'them. Some children like to play with fire. They enjoy striking matches or throwing things on a fire to make it burn brightly. If a fire gets too big, it gets out of control. Then the house catches fire. It is very dangerous to play with matches. When a child strikes a match, the blame soon burns near his fingers. Then he drops the match on the floor. Many houses catch fire in this way,

Some kinds of clothing burn very easily. Many children have been badly burned because they have stood too near a fire and their clothing has suddenly caught fire.

Although fire and hot water cause most accidents in their home, many children cut themselves with knives. Other yet an electric shock.

Some children are made very ill from taking their parents' medicine. Many small children have to go to hospital every year because they thought a box of medicine was a box of sweets.

Question: What causes most accidents?

• Fire and hot water

• Big fires which get out of control

• Pots of boiling water and fat

• Fire and matches

Between the months of November and Maya wind blows from the west in most parts of Indonesia. It comes from the ocean and carries rain. Clouds build up around the mountains, and every afternoon rain falls. The rain is always heavy, and rivers can be walked across in the dry season now become dangerous. When it rains the whole day. they may suddenly overflow and cause great damage to the land.

Most farmers are glad when the wet season begins. There is water for their fields and they can again start growing rice. But people in town are not so glad for the streets soon get muddy and dirty. They prefer the dry seasons when they can sit outside and enjoy the cool evenings.

Question: ​ When is the wet season?

• From May to November

• From November to May

• In November

• In may

Bison have not always lived in North America. They are relative newcomers. They belong to the Bodidae family, like domestic cattle and the wild buffalo of Africa and Asia. The oldest known bison fossils have been found in China and Hymalayan foothills, where an animal with all the essential features of the genus lived a million years ago. They evolved rapidly and spread over most of the northern hemisphere in Europe and Siberia. During one of the Ice Ages, the faunas of Asia and North America began intermingle. Very early, the steppe bison moved eastward to the North America continent. Much later, men followed the same route.

Question: ​ Which of the following would be the most appropriate title for the passage?

• An introduction to the North America bison

• An analysis of the bison genus in the Bovidae family

• A hypothesis of the evolution of the bison

• The classification of Asian and North America fauna

Television is one of man's most important means of communication. It brings events and sounds from around the world into millions of homes. A person with a television set can sit in his house and watch the President making a speech or visit a foreign country. He cap see a war being fought and watch statesmen try to bring about peace. Through television, home viewers can see and learn about people, places, and things in faraway lands. TV even takes its viewers out of this world. It brings them coverage of America's astronauts as the astronauts explore outer space.

In addition to all these things, television brings its viewers a steady stream of programs that are designed to entertain. In fact, TV provides many more entertainment programs than any other kind. The programs include action-packed dramas, light comedies, sporting events and motion pictures.

Question: ​ What does television bring us?

• president making a speech

• man's most important means of talking

• noise from around the earth.

• events and sound around our globe.

Elizabeth Blackwell

Elizabeth Blackwell was born in England in 1821, and emigrated to New York City when she was ten years old. One day she decided that she wanted to become a doctor. That was nearly impossible for a woman in the middle of the nineteenth century. After writing many letters seeking admission to the medical schools, she was finally accepted by a doctor in Philadelphia. So determined was she that she save music lessons to earn money for her tuition.

In 1849, after graduation from medical school, she decided to further her education in Paris. She wanted to be a surgeon, but a serious eye infection forced her to abandon the idea.

Upon returning to the United States, she found it difficult to start her own practice because she was a woman. By 1857 Elizabeth and her sister, also a doctor along with another female doctor, managed to open a new hospital, the first for women and children. Besides being the first female physician and founding her own hospital, she also established the first medical school for women.

Question: Why couldn't Elizabeth realize her dream of becoming a surgeon?

• She decided to further her education in Paris.

• She couldn't get admitted to medical school

• It was difficult for her to start practice in the U.S.

• A serious eye infection prevented her.

My classroom is very big. There are twenty classroom and forty chairs for students. The teacher’s table is in front of the classroom. The teacher sit behind the table. Behind her is the whiteboard. Beside the whiteboard is a map of Indonesian archipelago. Under the map, there is a bookshelf. There are two windows in the room. Between the windows is a picture of Prambanan temple. I like my classroom very much.

“My classroom is very big “. The underlined word ..

• Large

• Great

• Fat

• Clean

• Dirty

The text above means you are . . . . . the artefacts.

• Unable to reach

• Permitted to touch

• Not allowed to hold

• Prohibited to take picture of

What is the purpose of the text?

• To ask people to support Octari

• To motivate Octari to be a professional singer

• To congratulate Octari on her success

• To inform people about the best singer

What does the text tell us about?

• Riding a huge animal

• Octari’s holiday experience

• Tourist destination in Lampung

• Watching elephants attractions

• The man should watch the program too.

• The man should leave the television on.

• The program will be over soon.

• She’ll watch television later.