May 27, 2006, was a day that I will never forget, it was the day I experienced my first earthquake. I had just…(154) home from masque and was lying on the living room sofa watching the news on TV. My little brother was in my room playing, and my older sister was in the kitchen preparing our breakfast our parents were still sleeping.
At exactly 5.49 a.m., the earthquake…(155)….my country. Our house started …..(156)….violently as it ….(157)…a small wooden boat being tossed by giant waves in the ocean. At first, none realized what was happening. Then my sister yelled, “Earthquakel Get under something!” I was too stunned to move, but the shaking was so strong that I soon fell off the sofa onto the floor. I half rolled, half crawled across the floor to the dining table and got under it. My sister was sitting on the floor in the kitchen. Holding her arms…(158)…her head to protect it from falling dishes. She yelled at my little brother to get under his desk, but he wanted to be near us. He tried to get out of my room, but he kept falling down. The earthquake lasted less than a minute, but it seemed like a year to us.

154. a. getting
b. gotten
c. got
d. get

155.a. stricked
b. striking
c. strike
d. struck

156.a. sheking
b. to shake
c. shaken
d. a and b are correct

157.a. was
b. were
c. is
d. had been

158. a. through
b. over
c. on
d. in

159. All of my time ….in the library
a. has spending
b. is spent
c. are spent
d. spending

160. “Tokyo is crowded and noisy just like New York.”
The same structure with the sentence above is …
a. Tokyo is crowded and noisy just us New York is.
b. Tokyo is crowded and noisy alike New York
c. Tokyo is crowded and noisy just us New York
d. Tokyo is crowded and noisy as New York

161. I started school when I was five years old. I …a student for seventeen years now.
a. am to be
b. am
c. am being
d. have been

162. I was scared, ……I was also curious about the old lady.
a. yet
b. but
c. instead
d. and






163. Because the river ….steadily since Sunday, the residents of the area have been advised to prepare for flood conditions.
a. has been ris
b. rose
c. had risen
is rising

164. The best diamonds are transparent and colorless, but they actually …..in color from clear to black,
a. have been ranging
b. range
c. are ranging
d. ranged

165. …..certain molds and fungi to multiply very rapidly
a. Tripical weather causes
b. A tropical weather causes
c. Tropical weather causes
d. The tropical weather causes

166. No one knowa where Tony is living now. The last time that I ran ….was about four years ago.
a. into him
b. him down
c. down him
d. him into

167. It is generally considered unwise to give a child …he or she wants.
a. whatever that
b. whatever is it
c. whatever
d. that

168 Response : I used to, but I resigned my membership
a. wouldn’t you have belonged to the English club ?
b. Didn’t you use to belong to the English Club ?
c. Wouldn’t you belong to the English club /
d. Won’t you belong to the English club ?

169. The proposal ….discussed when I called the office this morning
a. been
b. being
c. have been
d. was being

170. Armansyah seems …the point you were making.
a. misunderstanding
b. having misunderstood
c. to have misunderstood
d. misunderstood

171. Not only ……a good thing : he did the right thing
a. will sam do
b. Sam did
c. Sam do
d. Did Sam do

172. Soekarno, …..one of the strongest Indonesian President, served from 1945 to 1965.
a. considering
b. considered
c. is considered
d was considered

173. In the view of the STAN lecturers’union, it is essential that discipline …..maintained in the classroom.
a. is to be
b. is
c. was
d. be

174. Ditto …Indonesia before he came to Jakarta to study in the international student program.
a. had never visited
b. has never visited
c. never visited
d. would never visited

175. Thomas Alfa Edison invented …..
a. the electric lights
b. an electric light
c. electric light
d. electric lights


IDENTIFYING THE ERROR

176. When a bone is broke into several pieces,
A B
doctors my pin the pieces together for proper
C
healing
D
177. I have spent three weeks in Germany last July.
A B C D
178. The Hammerhead shark is usual found in warm A B
temperate waters
C D
179. We would spend a week on the beach at parang
A B
teritis, but we changed our minds
C D
180. As one climbs high up a mountain, the air
A
becomes both colder or thinner
B C D