The following text is
for questions 1 to 3.
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During the fifteenth and sixteenth
centuries, European traders started to get involved in the Slave Trade.
European traders had previously been interested in African nations and
kingdoms, such as Ghana and Mali, due to their sophisticated trading networks.
Traders then wanted to trade in human beings.
They took enslaved people from western Africa to Europe and the
Americas. At first this was on quite a small scale but the Slave Trade grew
during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as European countries
conquered many of the Caribbean islands and much of North and South America.
Europeans who settled in the Americas were lured by the
idea of owning their own land and were reluctant to work for others. Convicts
from Britain were sent to work on the plantations but there were never enough so, to satisfy the tremendous
demand for labor, planters purchased slaves.
They wanted the enslaved people to work in mines and on tobacco
plantations in South America and on sugar plantations in the West Indies.
Millions of Africans were enslaved and forced across the Atlantic, to labor
in plantations in the Caribbean and America.
Slavery changed when Europeans became involved, as it led to
generation after generation of peoples being taken from their homelands and
enslaved forever. It led to people being legally defined as chattel slaves.
A chattel slave is an enslaved person who is owned forever and whose
children and children's children are automatically enslaved. Chattel slaves
are individuals treated as complete, property to be bought and sold. Chattel
slavery was supported and made legal by European governments and monarchs.
This type of enslavement was practiced in European colonies from the
sixteenth century onwards.
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1. What is the topic of the text?
A. Slavery in Europe
B. The abolition of slavery
C. Countries in which slaves were taken
D. Human beings trade committed by Europeans
E. Slaves in plantations in the Caribbean and America
2. We can conclude that … .
A. Chattel slavery occurred in Europe
B. Chattel slavery was against human right
C. Chattel slavery was applied by poor settlers
D. Chattel slavery only went to a slave’s children
E. Chattel slavery was caused by plantation and mine
3. At first this was on quite a small scale but the Slave Trade grew during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, ..… European countries conquered many of the Caribbean islands and much of North and South America.
A. Despite.
B. Because.
C. Although.
D. Therefore.
E. Moreover.
This text is for questions 4 to 7.
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Singapore had the highest
global average peak internet connection speed in the third quarter of this
year, and ranked third in the world in average internet connection speed,
according to a new report.
South Korea and Hong Kong took the top
spots in average connection speed at 26.3 megabytes per second (Mbps) and
20.1 Mbps respectively, according to the Akamai State of the internet report
for Q3, released by Massachusetts-based content delivery network services
provider Akamai.
Singapore came in third at 18.2 Mbps,
but led the pack in average peak connection speed at 162 Mbps, with Hong Kong
and South Korea trailing behind at 116.2 Mbps and 114.2 Mbps respectively.
This is the fifth consecutive quarter for
which Singapore has snagged the top spot.
To explain the difference between average
connection speed and average peak connection speed, executive director of
Deloitte Consulting in South-east Asia Jan Wupperman used an analogy of a
highway, The Straits Times reported in July.
"When the highway is empty, your car
can go at its maximum speed, or peak speed," he said. "But when
there are many cars on the highway - such as when everyone is using the same
bandwidth for streaming, surfing and downloading during peak hours - you end
up with traffic jams, or a lower average speed."
Connectivity has grown globally, with the
average connection speed growing 2.3 per cent quarter-on-quarter and
increasing 21 per cent to 6.3 Mbps year-on-year, according to Akamai's
report.
The global average peak connection speed
increased 3.4 per cent quarter-on-quarter and 16 per cent year-on-year to
37.2 Mbps.
In the Asia-Pacific region, India had
the lowest average connection speed at 4.1 Mbps, and the lowest average peak
connection speed at 27.0 Mbps.
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4. What topic is reported?
A. Internet connection speed in Asia.
B. Internet use in different countries.
C. Internet connection speed in Asean countries.
D. Internet connection speed in American region.
E. Internet connection speed in different countries.
5. Why does the speed of internet decrease?
A. Many people have access on internet.
B. A lot of people play games on internet.
C. Some people use high speed internet connection.
D. A lot of people use the same bandwidth at the same time.
E. People use internet for streaming, surfing and downloading.
6. It is implied that … .
A. People in Asean countries use internet faster than those in Hongkong
B. People in Korea use internet faster than those in Singapore.
C. People in Hongkong use internet faster than those in Korea.
D. People in Singapore use internet faster than those in Korea.
E. People in India use internet faster than those in Singapore.
7. People can use it at maximum speed …”the highway” of internet connection is “empty”,
A. As.
B. Before.
C. Although.
D. Meanwhile.
E. Furthermore.
This text is for
questions 8 to 11.
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Ability to speak in public is an
asset and it comes with several benefits. It can not only boost some aspects
of your personal life, but your professional life as well.
Public speaking can contribute to the growth of knowledge. It helps
you share whatever valuable ideas and thoughts you might have, with a larger
group of people. In return, you also learn a lot when those people challenge
your ideas and question your opinions. It allows you to develop a clearer
picture of the subject.
Public speaking helps you develop the ability to persuade. When you
speak confidently and convincingly to a large group of people, persuading an
individual to carry out a task becomes much easier.
Besides persuasion attempt and knowledge growth, public speaking
can improve your critical thinking
abilities. When you sit and prepare a speech for a seminar or a workshop, you
automatically tend to focus on the quality of your work. You will be forced
to do a lot of research in order to get the content right. It will help you
develop better ways to deliver your content and design it with relevance.
Your personal life also gains a lot from public speaking. The
confidence you develop from public speaking can support you with building
more personal relationships. It becomes much easier to socialize and make new
friends.
So, public speaking skills enhance your professional and personal
lives. These will boost your personal quality in connecting with people.
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8. What is the topic of the text?
A. The use of public speaking
B. The effect of public speaking in cognitive process
C. The advantages of having public speaking skills
D. The importance of developing public speaking skills
E. The relation between public speaking skills and personal life.
9. What is mainly told in paragraph 3?
A. The benefit of a confident speaker
B. The development of public speaking
C. The effect of public speaking in communication
D. The benefit of public speaking in persuading people
E. The power of public speaking during communication
10. Regarding the positive effects of public speaking in professional life, what argument is given by the writer?
A. People who speak in front of the public is knowledgeable.
B. Knowledge, persuasion skill, and critical thinking can be improved.
C. The chance to get knowledge, persuasion skill, and critical thinking is obvious.
D. We can use knowledge, persuasion skill, and critical thinking appropriately.
E. The contribution of knowledge for improving persuasion skill and critical thinking is apparent.
11. …... persuasion attempt and knowledge growth, public speaking can improve your critical thinking abilities.
A. When.
B. Because.
C. Although.
D. Therefore.
E. A part from.
This text is for
questions 12 to 15.
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A developed country, industrialized
country, or "more
economically developed country" (MEDC), is a sovereign state
that has a highly developed economy and advanced technological infrastructure
relative to other less industrialized nations. Most commonly, the criteria
for evaluating the degree of economic development are gross domestic product (GDP), gross national product (GNP), the per capita income, level of industrialization, amount
of widespread infrastructure and general standard of living. Which criteria
are to be used and which countries can be classified as being developed are
subjects of debate.
Developed countries have post-industrial economies, meaning the service sector
provides more wealth than the industrial sector. They are contrasted with developing countries, which are in the process of industrialization, or undeveloped countries, which
are pre-industrial and almost entirely agrarian. As
of 2015, advanced economies comprise 60.8% of global GDP based on nominal values
and 42.9% of global GDP based on purchasing-power parity (PPP) according to the International Monetary Fund. In 2015, the ten largest advanced
economies by GDP in both nominal and PPP terms were Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain, the United Kingdom,
and the United States.
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12. What is the text mainly about?
A. Developed country
B. Gross domestic product
C. Gross national product
D. Purchasing-power parity
E. Criteria used as being developed
13. A country is considered to be developed when … .
A. its economy and technological infrastructure are developing
B. both its economy and infrastructure are sophisticated
C. its economy depends on industrialization
D. its gross national product is developed
E. its gross domestic product is high
14. What is mainly discussed in the second paragraph?
A. Developed countries
B. Undeveloped countries
C. Purchasing-power parity
D. Process of industrialization
E. International Monetary Fund
15. “Most commonly, the criteria for evaluating the degree of economic development are gross domestic product (GDP), gross national product (GNP), the per capita income, level of industrialization, amount of widespread infrastructure and general standard of living.” (Paragraph 1)
What is the closest meaning of the underlined word?
A. Urgent.
B. Extensive.
C. Important.
D. Necessary.
E. Fundamental.
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