Pada artikel sebelumnya kamu sudah mengerjakan soal Bahasa Inggris kelas 12 SMA mulai dari nomor 1 hingga 20. Sekarang waktunya kamu mengerjakan 20 soal lainnya sehingga total soal yang kamu kerjakan menjadi 40 soal. Seperti apa pertanyaannya? Mari simak di bawah ini!

(Kunci jawaban tertera di akhir soal. Jika ingin mengerjakan soal nomor 1-20, silakan klik disini)

Soal Bahasa Inggris Kelas 12 SMA (No. 21 – 40)

21. Baki: I love sailing on the lake, it’s so refreshing to feel the wind in my hair and the water on my face.

Bio: I guess I’d feel the same way if I could swim.

What can be inferred about Bio?

A. He is also excited about sailing

B. He is not sure how he feels about sailing

C. He prefers swimming to sailing

D. He doesn’t feel comfortable in water

 

22. I’m planning to go to a party tonight but it’s raining very hard now. I wish ……. raining now.

A. It stops 

B. It would stop

C. It had stopped

D. It has stopped

 

23. Baki has won a medal for swimming. I wish I ….  as good as she is.

A. Was

B. Am

C. Have

D. Can be

 

24. I’m sure he’s not the man in charge of the sales department, but now he…..

A. Acts as if he were the sales manager

B. Acts as if he is the sales manager

C. Is acting as if he would be the sales manager 

D. Would have acted as if he had been the sales manager

 

25. Being an outgoing person, Bio …. his time with friends on Saturday nights than stay at home.

A. Might be spending 

B. Would rather spend

C. Could have spent

D. Ought to have spent

 

26. In her letter my friend said that she was looking forward  …… from me again.

A. Hearing

B. To hearing

C. to hear

D. To being heard

 

27. The crowd has been waiting outside the hotel for hours just …… a glimpse of the famous singer.

A. For getting

B. Getting

C. They get

D. Get

 

28. Some workers were loading the containers into the van. 

The passive form of the above sentence is: The containers ….. into the van.

Were loaded

Are loaded

Are loading

Were being loaded

 

29. Mr. Dan : How long have you been a consultant for our firm?

Bio: Well, I ….. for this firm for 7 years next month.

A. Worked

B. Have been working

C. Am working

D. Will have worked

 

30. She realized she had lost her purse when she …… money to pay the conductor.

A. Was needing

B. Needed  

C. Have needed

D. Is needing

 

31. My brother, who was not used to …… a room with someone else l, was quite unhappy when he couldn’t have his own room in the dormitory. 

A. Share

B. Sharing

C. Be shared

D. Be sharing 

 

32. “My wallet, I don’t know where I ….. it!”

A. Have been putting it

B. Have put 

C. Had put

D. Am putting

 

33. “Sinta looks so unhappy because her father ….. his job”. 

A. Has been losing

B. Losing

C. Is losing

D. Has just lost 

 

34. I took the academic writing course last year after I ….. Composition II.

A. Completed

B. Had completed

C. Was completing

D. To complete

 

35. My train was delayed. Therefore when I arrived, the driver picking me up …… for more than an hour.

A. Had been waiting

B. Waited

C. Would wait

D. Was waiting

 

36. Bio: Where is Fred? I haven’t seen him.

Baki: Well, he ….. the reports when I arrived.

A. Was typing

B. Is typing

C. Had typed

D. Has typed

 

37. Baki: Can we postpone the class meeting until Friday?

Bio: I am afraid not. I ….. basketball on Friday.

A. Would play

B. Will have been playing

C. Have been playing

D. Always play

 

38. Baki: I think we’re going to be here for a while.

Bio: But we …… in line for almost an hour.

A. Have stood

B. Are standing

C. Stand 

D. Have been standing

 

39. Despite the road improvements of the turnpike era 1790-1830. Americans continued as in colonial times to depend wherever possible on water routes for travel and transportation. The larger rivers, especially the Mississippi and the Ohio, became increasingly useful as steamboats grew in number and improved in design.

River boats carried to New Orleans the corn and other crops of Northwestern farmers, the cotton and tobacco of southwestern planters. From New Orleans, ships took the cargoes on to Eastern seaports. 

Neither the farmers of the West nor the merchants of the East were completely satisfied with this pattern of trade. Farmers could get better prices for their crops if the alternative existed of sending them directly eastward to market and merchants could sell larger quantities of their manufactured goods if these could be transported more directly and more economically to the West. 

New waterways were needed. Sectional jealousies and constitutional scruples stood in the way of action by the federal government and necessary expenditures were too great for private enterprise. If extensive canals were to be dug, the job would be up to the various states. 

New York was the first act. It had the natural advantage of a comparatively level route between the Hudson River and Lake Erie, through the only break in the entire Appalachian Mountain chain. Yet the engineering tasks were imposing. The distance was more than 350 miles and there were ridges to cross and a wilderness of woods and swamps to penetrate. The Erie Canal begun in 1817 and completed in 1825 was by far the greatest construction job that Americans had ever undertaken.

It quickly proved a financial success as well. The prosperity of the Erie encouraged the state to enlarge its canal system by building several branches. The range of the New York canal system was still further extended when the states of Ohio and Indiana, inspired by the success of the Erie Canal, provided water connections between Lake Erie and Ohio River. 

What does the passage suggest was the principal route for transporting crops to the east prior in 1825?

A. River to road

B. Canal to river

C. Road to canal

D. River to ocean

 

40. It can be inferred from the passage that shipping cargo east by way of New Orleans was….. 

A. Not economical for farmers

B. Advantageous for manufactures

C. Inexpensive for merchants

D. Considered economical by the government

Jawaban Soal Bahasa Inggris Kelas 12 SMA  

1. He prefers swimming to sailing
2. It would stop, kalimat pada soal menunjukkan pengharapan dengan keterangan waktu nanti malam (tonight), maka kata kerja untuk subjunctive adalah would.
3. Was 
4. Acts as if he were the sales manager, kalimat pada soal menunjukkan pengharapan pada saat sekarang karena terdapat kata now, sehingga predikat yang digunakan adalah to be lampau.
5. Would rather spend, rumus preference untuk would rather adalah: would rather + verb 1 + than + verb 1.
6. To hearing, kata look forward selalu diikuti to + verb-ing.
7. For getting, pernyataan pada soal menunjukkan peristiwa yang belum terjadi maka kata kerja yang tepat menggunakan for + infinitive.
8. Were being loaded, jika verb-ing dipasifkan maka berubah menjadi being.
9. Have been working, pelajari Present Perfect Continuous Tense.
10. Needed, pelajari Simple Past Tense.
11. Sharing, ingat bahwa kata to be + used to selalu diikuti oleh verb-ing.
12. Have put, pelajari Present Perfect Tense.
13. Has just lost, peristiwa yang sudah terjadi tetapi efeknya masih terasa saat berbicara maka bisa dinyatakan dalam Present Perfect Tense (has + verb 3).  
14. Had completed, jika sebelum after terdapat verb 2 maka setelahnya diikuti Past Perfect Tense (had + verb 3)
15. Had been waiting, karena pernyataan tersebut membicarakan kegiatan yang sudah selesai dilakukan ketika pekerjaan lain sedang dilakukan, sehingga pola yang tepat untuk melengkapi kalimat tersebut adalah Past Perfect Continuous Tense: (had been + verb-ing)
16. Was typing, pelajari tentang Past Continuous Tense.
17. Always play, karena menunjukkan kebiasaan Bio bermain basket setiap hari Jum’at. Kalimat tersebut menggunakan Simple Present Tense.
18. Have been standing, kalimat ini menggunakan Present Perfect Continuous Tense.
19. River to ocean, penyebutan kedua alat transportasi kapal sungai dan perahu di paragraf pertama mengindikasikan bahwa rute yang ditempuh adalah dari sungai ke laut (river to ocean). Supaya lebih mahir mengerjakan tipe soal seperti ini, kamu bisa mengerjakan soal Reading Comprehension.
20. Not economical for farmers, biaya pengiriman cargo dapat disimpulkan sangat mahal sehingga perlu dicari alat transportasi alternatif agar petani mendapatkan harga yang lebih baik. Supaya lebih mahir mengerjakan tipe soal seperti ini, kamu bisa mengerjakan soal Reading Comprehension.

Itulah 40 contoh soal Bahasa Inggris kelas 12 SMA lengkap dengan jawabannya. Seperti yang kamu ketahui, dalam soal terdapat berbagai macam pertanyaan yang menguji pemahamanmu tentang grammar, tenses, hingga memahami bacaan bahasa Inggris (reading comprehension). 

Silakan tingkatkan intensitas belajarmu dengan cara memperbanyak baca dan latihan soal. Selain itu, kamu perlu memperkaya referensi belajar agar dapat mengerjakan berbagai tipe soal bahasa Inggris kelas 12 dengan baik. 

Tak kalah penting, kamu perlu berlatih mengerjakan soal structure dan written expression agar persiapanmu selangkah lebih maju. Jika butuh hiburan, tenang saja. Kamu bisa membaca beberapa contoh story telling yang telah kami ulas pada artikel sebelumnya. 

Dengan membaca teks story telling, kamu bisa belajar bahasa Inggris sekaligus menghibur diri. Menariknya, cerita-cerita tersebut sarat dengan pesan moral lho. Jadi kamu bisa mengambil pelajaran berharga didalamnya. Yuk tunggu apalagi?