Contoh Soal Grammar Review , Modal Auxiliary
Contoh Soal Grammar Review , Modal Auxiliary - Do you recognize him? What do you know about him? All Indonesian people must be able to acknowledge the figure. He is our former president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. The following text will give you a brief insight about him. Read carefully and decide what genre it belongs.
Widely known by his initials “SBY,” Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was born on September 9, 1949, in Pacitan, East Java, Indonesia. He was born into an aristocratic family so he must be well-educated. He entered Indonesian military in 1973 and rose through the army ranks since then.
In 1999 SBY was appointed Mining and Energy Minister, and at the same time, he ended his military career though he could manage to be in military as well as politics. In 2002, he was nominated as a presidential candidate and won the election by more than 60 percent of the vote.
In the next presidential election in 2009, SBY once again took part as the incumbent candidate and won a second term in office. Because of term limits -since the Constitution of Indonesia limits presidents to two terms of office- SBY could not be able to run for a third term and left the president position, succeeded by Joko Widodo.
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The text tells the life story of SBY though it focuses only on SBY’s work experience involving his military and political life. It is the profile of SBY written for some magazines, and profile is the most ordinary example of biography.
Biography tells in detail about someone’s aspects of life involving personality, education, work, experience, and relationships. Biography does not always describe famous people in the past, since lots of well-known living figures have a biography of themselves. Biography usually functions as a description of someone historically important.
Authoring biography is never easy. It has to base on research that involves some archival study of documents, eye-witness accounts, interviews, and documentation.
Biography is mostly presented in narrative though it is about describing people and establishing a kind of recount text. Moreover, biography is considered the independent genre of text.
SOAL 1
You are given the following situation:
You want to borrow you teacher’s biography book of B.J. Habibie.
The most polite statement to ask for permission to your teacher is….
SOAL 2
“Look at how good he is in playing the piano! I am sure that he is a gifted pianist.”
Define the statement that has similar meaning with the underlined word.
SOAL 3
After practicing for months, now I ... play piano even just a little.
Choose the suitable modal auxiliary to complete the statement.
SOAL 4
Read the following text and answer the question.
Originally named Kusnasosro, Soekarno was born on June 6, 1901, in Surabaya. Spending most of his time with S. Tjokroaminoto, Soekarno grew to be a prominent and bright young man. He was able to master Javanese, Sundanese, Balinese, modern Indonesia, English, Arabic, Dutch, German, French, and Japanese language. Gifted with radiant personality, good self-confidence, and lots of leadership ability, young Soekarno turned to be a man of charisma. He was well-known for his great oratory. It also made Soekarno famous for his inspirational quotes.
The text above mainly tells about ....
SOAL 5
Read the following text and answer the question.
Originally named Kusnasosro, Soekarno was born on June 6, 1901, in Surabaya. Spending most of his time with S. Tjokroaminoto, Soekarno grew to be a prominent and bright young man. He was able to master Javanese, Sundanese, Balinese, modern Indonesia, English, Arabic, Dutch, German, French, and Japanese language. Gifted with radiant personality, good self-confidence, and lots of leadership ability, young Soekarno turned to be a man of charisma. He was well-known for his great oratory. It also made Soekarno famous for his inspirational quotes.
The word it in the last sentence refers to ….
SOAL 6
Read the following text and answer the question.
Originally named Kusnasosro, Soekarno was born on June 6, 1901, in Surabaya. Spending most of his time with S. Tjokroaminoto, Soekarno grew to be a prominent and bright young man. He was able to master Javanese, Sundanese, Balinese, modern Indonesia, English, Arabic, Dutch, German, French, and Japanese language. Gifted with radiant personality, good self-confidence, and lots of leadership ability, young Soekarno turned to be a man of charisma. He was well-known for his great oratory. It also made Soekarno famous for his inspirational quotes.
Define the best sentence to complete the text.
SOAL 7
He was able to master Javanese, Sundanese, Balinese, modern Indonesia, English, Arabic, Dutch, German, French, and Japanese language.
The sentence above can be rephrased by using modal auxiliary. Choose the sentence that does not change the meaning.
SOAL 8
Complete the following sentences with the correct modal auxiliaries.
The assignment is optional. The teacher said that we ... do it to if wee need additional score, but we ... do it if we don't want to.
SOAL 9
“Before the era of technology, biography is documented in books. In this digital era, lots of biography of famous people could be presented in forms of films.”
The modal auxiliary in the statement functions to ....
SOAL 10
Read the text below, then answer the question.
B.J. Habibie should have remained in West Germany as honorable academician and researcher, but he came back to Indonesia. He helped President Soeharto to build advanced industries. However after years, he withdrew from politics. He must devote the rest of his life to his scientific researches .
The modal auxiliaries in the text are not appropriate. The best pair to replace them are ....