Persiapan H-7 TKA Bahasa Inggris SMA: Fokus Materi Nilai Tinggi

This text questions number 25-28

Nobody likes paying taxes. Even those who know that taxation is necessary and just are reluctant to pay taxes. It is not pleasant to see part of your monthly income taken away from you in income tax. Ignorant people think this is an injustice and make a grievance of it; so it is just as well that we should know why we are taxed, so that we can see the fairness of the system.

Every country must have a government of some sort. or life would be impossible. The primary duties of a government are to ‘protect the life an property of the citizens, to maintain law and order and settle dispute between citizens in a just and orderly way through the law-courts, to defend the country from foreign foes, and to maintain the roads and highways. Besides, may governments maintain and direct public duties need money: an army and navy have to. be kept up, the police force and the judges have to be paid, schools have to be provided and teachers supported, expert health-officers and sanitary engineers have to be employed. Now where is all the money needed for these public service to come from? The question in answered by another. For whose benefit are all these service maintained? The answer is, for the benefits of the public. It is the people as a whole, rich and poor, that benefit by security of life and property, by the sound administration of justice, by the maintenance of roads, by the public hospital, public schools, and good sanitation. Therefore it is only right that the public, the individual citizens of the country should contribute the money needed; for the money they give comes back to them in the shape of these public benefits which all enjoy.

So long, therefore, as we have a good and efficient government, so long as our money is being used in the right way, and so long as the burden of taxation is distributed fairly, as different classes can bear it, we have no right to grumble at having to pay our share of the taxes.

Soal 25

Which one of these titles is the most suitable for the text above?

A. Objections to Taxes

B. Why citizens are Taxed

C. The Burden of Taxation

D. Taxation is a Necessity

E. Income Taxes

Soal 26

The topic of paragraph \( 2 \) is ...

A. the reasons of taxation

B. the right of citizens

C. the expenses of public duties

D. the duties of a government

E. the types of public services

Soal 27

Why do the people have to pay incomes tax? Because ...

A. they have to pay tax for the things they need

B. they have to pay tax whether they are rich of poor

C. the tax is needed to carry out the government's public duties

D. they have to pay tax or the things they but or sell

E. they have to pay tax for the government benefit

Soal 28

According to the text the following statements are true, except ...

A. Everyone knows that taxation is necessary.

B. The public must bear their shares of public expense.

C. It is the government's duty to provide hospitals for the sick.

D. The same amount of income tax is imposed on the rich and the poor.

E. The taxpayers enjoy public services provided by the government.

Soal 29

Journalist : some of our forests in Kalimantan and Sumatra were destroyed in the forest fire.

Official : It’s a pity. The destruction of the rainforest could also bring about the extinction of orang utan.

The underlined word means ...

A. act of putting out

B. act of preserving

C. no longer in existence

D. prevention of loss

E. keep something for special purpose

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