Latihan Soal Bahasa Inggris: Written Expression (Grammar)

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Hai semuanya.....

Selamat pagi, selamat siang, selamat malam ...... Bagaimana harimu? Menyenangkan tidak ? Saya harap tidak hanya harimu saja yang menyenangkan tetapi juga kehidupanmu ke depannya akan selalu menyenangkan. Aamiin.

Hari ini saya ada latihan soal yang isinya adalah written expression. Isinya semacam grammar gitu lah ya. Kamu harus melengkapi kalimat-kalimat yang rumpang dengan tata bahasa yang tepat. Perhatikan kesesuaian antara subjek dengan kata kerjanya atau dengan auxiliary nya ataupun antara predikat dengan kata keterangannya. 

Di bawah soal-soal ini nanti ada link kunci jawaban, silakan menikmati ..... Hakuna Matata...!

1. Geysers have often be compared to volcanoes _________ they both emit hot liquids from below the earth’s surface.

1.  due to

2.  because

3.  in spite of

4.  regardless of

2. Over the centuries, ________ that try to explain the origins of the university.

1. although many theories

2. many theories

3. have many theories been

4. there have been many theories

3. The planet Venus is almost exactly the same size and mass _______ Earth, with a similar interior, including a nickel-iron core.

1. to

2. as

3. is

4. than

4. George Washington Carver _________ international fame for revolutionizing agriculture research in the southern United States during the early twentieth century.

1. won

2. winning

3. who has won

4. the winner of

5. Constituting one of the earliest engineering techniques, ________ in Paleolithic time was done in order to extend natural caves.

1. tunnels were built

2. which built tunnels

3. the building of tunnels

4. tunnels whose building

6. The tulip tree is native to the eastern United States, _______ the tallest and largest broadleaf tree.

1. where

2. where it is

3. it is where

4. is where

7. Elementary schools at the United States provide formal education ______ arithmetic, science, social science, and communication skills that including reading, writing, spelling and speaking.

1. such subjects as basic in

2. as basic subjects in such

3. in such basic subjects as

4. as in such basic subjects

8. ________ land and money enabled construction of the Union Pacific railroad to begin from Council Bluffs, lowa, in 1865.

1. By the government granting of

2. Government grants of

3. For the government to grant

4. Government grants so that 

9. Appointments to the United States Supreme Court and all lower federal courts _____ be the President with the advice and consent of the Senate.

1. making

2. to make

3. are made

4. have made

10. The name “squirrel” is commonly used for those forms of the family Sciuridae that live in trees, _______ it is equally accurate for ground dwelling types.

1. whether

2. that

3. although

4. in spite of

11. Green plants combine ______ with water and carbon dioxide to make food.

1. energy derived from the light

2. energy, derived it from the light

3. energy is derived from the light

4. from light, and energy derived

12. From the archeologist’s perspective, understanding the past is vitally important and requires ________ of earlier culture.

1. the ruins examined

2. examining the ruins

3. of the ruins to be examined

4. that the examined ruins

13. The Texas legislature selected Vassar Miller ______ in 1982, and again in 1988.

1. was the state’s poet laureate

2. as the state’s poet laureate

3. the state’s poet laureate

4. become the state’s poet laureate

14. The distinguishing feature of a fluid, in contrast to a solid, is the ease ________

1. that a deformed fluid

2. to deform a fluid

3. when a fluid that is deformed

4. with which a fluid may be deformed 

15. Oxygen and nutrients reach the body’s tissues ___________ from the blood through the capillary wall.

1. Pass

2. By passing

3. To be passing

4. Have passed

16. _________important development of the Neolithic age was not in the manufacture of stone tools but in the production of food.

1. The most

2. Most

3. Most of 

4. Of the most

17. . _____ the demands of aerospace, medicine, and agriculture, engineers, are creating exotic new metallic substances.
        (A) Meet
        (B) Being met are
        (C) To meet
        (D) They are meeting

18.  _______ James A. Bland, “Carry Me Back to Old Virginia” was adopted is the state song of Virginia in 1940.
        (A) Was written by
        (B) His writing was 
        (C) He wrote the
        (D) Written by

19. Mary Garden, ______ the early 1900’s was considered one of the best singing actresses of her time.
        (A) a soprano was popular
        (B) in a popular soprano
        (C) was a popular soprano
        (D) a popular soprano in

20. In the realm of psychological theory Margaret F. Washburn was a dualist _____ that motor phenomena have an essential role in psychology.
        (A) who she believed
        (B) who believed
        (C) believed
        (D) who did she believe