Materi Direct & Indirect Speech: Kunci Kalimat Padu di Soal TKA

Text 4 (for Questions 8 to 11)

The Hen with Silver Eggs

One day, in an Arabian city, a woman went to the market and bought a beautiful hen. A few days later to her surprise the hen she had laid a silver egg. If the hen could only be persuaded to lay more than one egg each day, the woman was sure she would never have to work again.

So the woman decided to make the hen eat more, so that it could lay more eggs. But the only result was that the hen died of indigestion and did not lay more eggs at all.

Soal 8

Paragraph \( 3 \) mostly discusses about …

A. the hen's eggs

B. what the woman did to her hen

C. what the hen did for the woman

D. what the hen eats to lay more eggs

E. why the woman wanted to get more eggs

Soal 9

The hen died because it …

A. ate nothing

B. ate too much

C. laid more eggs

D. was badly injured

E. was forced to lay eggs

Soal 10

From the text we may conclude that the woman was …

A. active

B. miserly

C. greedy

D. furious

E. dangerous

Soal 11

“If the hen could only be persuaded …” (Paragraph \( 2 \))

The underlined word means …

A. commanded

B. influenced

C. dangerous

D. brought

E. told

Latihan Soal Bahasa Inggris SMA/MA

• Latihan Soal Bahasa Inggris SMA/MA - Paket 1
• Latihan Soal Bahasa Inggris SMA/MA - Paket 2
• Latihan Soal Bahasa Inggris SMA/MA - Paket 3
• Latihan Soal Bahasa Inggris SMA/MA - Paket 4
• Latihan Soal Bahasa Inggris SMA/MA - Paket 5
• Latihan Soal Bahasa Inggris SMA/MA - Paket 6
• Latihan Soal Bahasa Inggris SMA/MA - Paket 7
• Latihan Soal Bahasa Inggris SMA/MA - Paket 8