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

Mr. Tucker is my math teacher at school. He teaches us at class IX.  He is smart teacher. He can teach us very well. He is a strict teacher. He doesn’t like his students came late at class. He will be angry. Besides that he doesn’t like us cheating in the test. He always tells us to be honest. His students must pay attention to his explanation

A kangaroo is an animal found only in Australia. It has a small relative called a wallaby, that lives in Tasmania and New Guinea. Kangaroos eat grass and plants. They have short front legs, long and strong back legs, and a tail. These are used to sit up and jump. Kangaroos are well known for their 8-meter forward jumps and more than 3-meters high leap across fences. They can also run at the speed of over 45 kilometers per hour. The largest kangaroos are the Great Grey Kangaroos and Red Kangaroos. Adult kangaroos grow to a meter in length and 90 kilos in weight. Kangaroos are marsupials. This means that the female kangaroo has an external pouch on the front of her body. The baby kangaroo is very tiny when it was born. It right away crawls into its mother's pouch where it spends the first five months of its life.                                                                                      Adapted from Peter Haddock Ltd, Ref.083

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If someone is having a nosebleed, your priority is to control the bleeding and keep their airway open. Get them to sit down (not lie down) as keeping the nose above the heart will reduce bleeding. Get them to lean forward (not backward), to make sure the blood drains out through their pause every ten minutes until the bleeding stops. Encourage them not to speak, swallow, cough, spit or sniff because this may break blood clots that may have started to form in the nose. If the bleeding is severe, or if it lasts more than 30 minutes, call for medical help.

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What is the benefit of tourism for local people? Well, tourism is now a huge contributor to the economics of most countries. Tourism industries can bring money, job vacancy and advancement of foreign investors, and only benefits for local people.

Tourism industries will not give much benefit to local people if, for example, multinational chains don’t care about the surrounding nature when they build new hotels this can cause many social, culture and geographical problems. Some local people may get job and money from that international hotel chain.

However in case of missing that opportunity, some of them still have their own environment.

Moreover, some facts show that tourists tend to go, visit and spend their money in restaurants, bars and even luxury hotels of that multinational chains, they less go to such places; restaurant, bars, hotel, which are owned by local people’s business from become even larger.

Most important thing, tours or excursions of tourism have little effect on nature, even it can disrupt or destroy ecosystems, and environment, and if it does, the local people will get the risk.

So the local government policies should be put in place to ensure that tourism will make the benefit spreading widely, the policies should guarantee that tourism will not cause any harm to any local people or places.

 

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Beggars have become a big problem for us today. They come as street musicians, street boys, "Sick people, "lost people, or just beggars. As their number is getting bigger, the municipal government feels the need to set regulation to ban beggars. Many people support this.

They say that begging makes people lazy and bad survivors. They are like parasites. Criminals take advantage of their existence. Car drivers are strong-armed in crossroads, motorbikes are seized, trucks are hijacked, etc. A man in a rural area takes them to the city with his truck in the morning and pick them up in the afternoon. They have made an agreement to share what they get. Some children are reported to have been kidnapped not for ransom. They are forced to be beggars.

Some people, however, say that we must help beggars. They become beggars because they have no choice. What they get everyday is only enough for buying food. Being a beggar is better than being a thief or a robber. So it is a high time to apply their religious teaching to care for others. In addition, what they do is to help the government to check crime-rates.

Despite the controversy of their existence, beggars continue to color the life of urban people.

 

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Dear Mr. Thompson

 

I recently received a letter from Mr. Robinson, a valued customer of ours. He purchased an Italian coffee table and four French dining room chairs from which your company delivered to his residence.

 

He has written a complaint that the purchases arrived damaged. We pride ourselves in the quality of our product and would like an explanation as to how this mishap occurred. Even though the items are insured our reputation is at stake. I would be most grateful if you would reply as soon as possible so that this matter can be resolved to everyone's satisfaction.

 

Sincerely,

 

Jackie Middleton
Customer Services Manager

 

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Venus Ebony Starr Williams (born June 17, 1980) is an American professional tennis player who is a former World No. 1 in singles by the Women’s Tennis Association on three separate occasions. She became the World No. 1 for the first time on February 25, 2002, becoming the first black woman to achieve this feat during the Open Era. She is credited as changing the women’s game and ushering a new, modem era of power and athleticism on the women’s professional tennis tour. She is also regarded as the best grass court player of her generation and she is widely considered as one of all-time greats of women’s tennis.

 

Her seven Grand Slam single titles tie her for twelfth on the all time list, and are more than any other active female player except for her younger sister Serena Williams. Her 22 overall Grand Slam titles consist of seven in singles, thirteen in women’s double, and two in mixed doubles. Her five Wimbledon singles titles tie her with two other women for eighth place on the all-time list. Venus Williams is one of only four women in the open era to have won five or more Wimbledon single titles. Between the 2000 Wimbledon Championship to the 2001 US Open, Williams won four of the six Grand Slam singles tournaments held. She is one of only five women in the open era to win 200 or more main draw Grand Slam singles matches.

 

Williams has won four olympic gold medals, one in singles and three in women’s doubles. She and her sister Serena have won more Olympic gold medals than any other female tennis players. At the 2000 Sydney Olympic, Williams became only the second player to win Olympic gold medals in both singles and doubles at the same Olympic Games, after Helen Wills Moody in 1924.

 

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Venus Ebony Starr Williams (born June 17, 1980) is an American professional tennis player who is a former World No. 1 in singles by the Women’s Tennis Association on three separate occasions. She became the World No. 1 for the first time on February 25, 2002, becoming the first black woman to achieve this feat during the Open Era. She is credited as changing the women’s game and ushering a new, modem era of power and athleticism on the women’s professional tennis tour. She is also regarded as the best grass court player of her generation and she is widely considered as one of all-time greats of women’s tennis.

 

Her seven Grand Slam single titles tie her for twelfth on the all time list, and are more than any other active female player except for her younger sister Serena Williams. Her 22 overall Grand Slam titles consist of seven in singles, thirteen in women’s double, and two in mixed doubles. Her five Wimbledon singles titles tie her with two other women for eighth place on the all-time list. Venus Williams is one of only four women in the open era to have won five or more Wimbledon single titles. Between the 2000 Wimbledon Championship to the 2001 US Open, Williams won four of the six Grand Slam singles tournaments held. She is one of only five women in the open era to win 200 or more main draw Grand Slam singles matches.

 

Williams has won four olympic gold medals, one in singles and three in women’s doubles. She and her sister Serena have won more Olympic gold medals than any other female tennis players. At the 2000 Sydney Olympic, Williams became only the second player to win Olympic gold medals in both singles and doubles at the same Olympic Games, after Helen Wills Moody in 1924.

 

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Simatupang and Partners Law Firm

is pleased to announce that they have opened their law practice on September 1, 2012 in 4 different cities

New Clients are welcome

A law firm for all family matters :

real estate, estate planning & administration, traffic, personal injury divorce/custody/support, wills/trust, adoption, and home visits

Main office  :Jalan Kebayoran 5 Bandung 

Brancesh   : Jalan Angsana Timur 456 Jakarta

                   Jalan Agiwiyata 688  Surabaya

                  Jalan Surabaya 343 Bogor

A new branch office in Semarang will open next month.

 

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The Man and The Monster

Once upon a time there lived a young man, named Nazar. He lived a very poor life. One day, Nazar went to town to look for a job. He had to climb up the hill and (29)... a thick jungle to get to a nearest town. Suddenly, he heard (30)... from a bush. When he approached, he found some people gathering around a big tree. Nazar relized that the people were doing against God order. Then he took out a big (31)... axe and planned to eat down the tree.