Inilah rahasia pernikahan yang disampaikan oleh Ustadz Firanda hafidzahullah, ‘Suami suka dihormati, istri suka dipuji’. Istri harus pandai bermanja dan jangan terlihat ‘jantan’ dihadapan suami. Sifat istri hendaknya ‘tunduk’ kepada pimpinan. Muliakan suami dan berkhidmat kepada suami. Nah, ini bisa membuat suami merasa menjadi ‘besar’ dihadapan istri sehingga suami akan merasa ia harus mengayomi istri yang ‘lemah’.
Suami Pandai Memuji
Menjadi ‘bawahan’ itu tidak mudah. Taat kepada aturan yang dibuat oleh pimpinan itu tidak gampang. Agar terasa mudah, suami harus pandai bertutur kata lembut sehingga istri merasa disayang banget. Merasa disayang ini membuatnya mudah menyayangi suaminya. Tanpa diminta ia akan mencari tahu apa yang disukai oleh suaminya. Tanpa diminta ia akan melakukan kejutan-kejutan kecil yang membuat suami menjadi klepek-klepek di kaki istrinya.
Tidak meski merayu dengan kata-kata gombal. Terkadang hanya dengan menjadi seperti pendengar radio yang setia sudah membuat istri menjadi seperti diperhatikan. Tidak harus memberikan komentar setiap saat pada apa yang diceritakan istri. Diam saja sambil memandang istrinya dengan sayang atau sambil mengelus rambut istri. Entah ke mana pikiran suami, kalau matanya menatap istri dan tangannya mengelus rambut, ini sudah membuat istri senang.
Apa Kata Ali bin Abi Thalib radiallahu ‘anhu Tentang Wanita Cerdas dan Laki-Laki Tampan?
‘Kecerdasan wanita terletak pada kepandaiannya mempercantik dirinya. Sedangkan ketampanan seorang laki-laki terletak pada kecerdasan nalarnya’.
Ustadz Muhammad Arifin Badri hafidzahullah memaparkan kata-kata nasihat ini dalam status FB-nya dengan santai. Beliau mengatakan bahwa seorang istri itu harus bisa membuat suaminya klepek-klepek hingga tak berdaya sehingga tak mampu berjauhan dengan sang istri. Sedangkan suami yang cerdas adalah suami yang tiada pernah kehilangan akal membawa keluarganya ke jalan menuju surga.
Semoga nasihat dari ustadz Firanda ‘Suami suka dihormati, istri suka dipuji’ dan pesan yang disampaikan oleh Ustadz Muhammad Arifin Badri ini menambah cinta kasih antara suami dan istri. Semoga Allah Ta’ala menjaga hati keduanya untuk bersama menuju surga.
1. From 1949 onward, the artist
Georgia O’Keeffe made New
Mexico ______.
(A)her permanent residence was
(B) where her permanent
residence
(C) permanent residence for her
(D)her permanent residence
2. Just as remote-controlled satellites
can be employed to explore outer
space, _______employed to
investigate the deep sea.
(A) can be robots
(B) robots can be
(C) can robots
(D) can robots that are
3. In ______ people, the areas of
the brain that control speech are
located in the left hemisphere.
(A)mostly of
(B) most
(C) almost the
(D)the most of
4. Stars shine because of _______
produced by the nuclear reactions
taking place within them.
(A)the amount of light and heat is
(B) which the amount of light
and heat
(C) the amount of light and heat
that it is
(D)the amount of light and heat
5. ________ is not clear to researchers.
(A)Why dinosaurs having
become extinct
(B) Why dinosaurs became extinct
(C) Did dinosaurs become extinct
(D)Dinosaurs became extinct
6. Although many people use the
word “milk” to refer cow’s milk,
_______ to milk from any animal,
including human milk and goat’s
milk.
(A) applying it also
(B) applies also
(C) it also applies
(D)but it also applies
7. The first transatlantic telephone
cable system was not established
_______ 1956.
(A)while
(B) until
(C) on
(D)when
8. _______ no two people think
exactly alike, there will always
be disagreement, but disagreement
should not always be avoided; it
can be healthy if handled
creatively.
(A)There are
(B) Why
(C) That
(D)Because
9. Drinking water ________ excessive
amounts of fluorides may leave
a stained or mottled effect on
the enamel of teeth.
(A) containing
(B) in which containing
(C) contains
(D)that contain
10. In the 1820’s physical education
became _______ of the curriculum
of Harvard and Yale Universities.
(A)to be part
(B) which was part
(C) was part
(D)part
11. Pewter, _______ for eating and
drinking utensils in colonial
America, is about ninety percent
tin, which copper or bismuth added
for hardness.
(A)was widely used
(B) widely used it
(C) widely used
(D)which widely used
12. A moth possesses two pairs of
wings _________as a single pair
and are covered with dustlike scales.
(A)function
(B) are functioning
(C) that function
(D)but functions
13. Soap operas, a type of television
drama series, are so called because
at first, they were ________.
(A)often which soap
manufacturers sponsored
(B)sponsored often soap
manufacturers
(C) often sponsored by soap
manufacturers
(D)soap manufacturers often
sponsored them
14. The Woolworth Building in New
York was the highest in America
when _______ in 1943 and was
famous for its use of Gothic
decorative detail.
(A)built
(B) it built
(C) was built
(D)built it
15. Humans, ________, interact through communicative behavior by means
of signs or symbols used
conventionally.
(A)like other animals
(B) how other animals
(C) other animals that
(D)do other animals
16. More and 90 percent of the calcium in the human body is in the skeleton.
17. Perhaps the most popular film in movie history, Star Wars was written and direction
by George Lucas.
18. Some animal activities, such as mating, migration, and hibernate have a yearly
cycle.
19. Geographers were once concerned largely with exploring areas unknown to them
and from describing distinctive features of individual places.
20. In his animated films, Walt Disney created animals that talk and act like people
while retaining its animal traits.
21. The first city in the United States that put into effect major plan for the clustering, of
government buildings was Washington, D.C.
22. In a microwave oven, radiation penetrates food and is then absorbed primarily by
water molecules, caused heat to spread through the food.
23. The cultures early of the genus Homo were generally distinguished by regular use of
stone tools and by a hunting and gathering economy.
24. Dolphins are sleek and powerful swimmers that found in all seas and unlike
porpoises, have well defined, beak like snouts and conical teeth.
25. The velocity of a river is river is controlled by the slope, the depth, and the tough
of the riverbed.
26. The phonograph record was the first successful medium for capturing, preservation
and reproducing sound.
27. Generally, the pattern of open space in urban areas has shaped by commercial
systems, governmental actions, and cultural traditions.
28. A liquid that might be a poor conductor when pure is often used to make solutions that readily transmits electricity.
29. The initial discovery by humans almost 10,000 years ago that they could exploit
metallic mineral deposits was an important milestone in the development civilization.
30. In 1989 Tillic Fowler a Republican, because the first member of her party to serving as president of the city council of Jacksonville, Florida.
31. General anesthesia, which is usually used for major surgery, involves a complete
loss of consciousness and a relaxed of the muscles.
32. After first establishment subsistence farms along the Atlantic seaboard, European
settlers in North America developed a maritime and shipbuilding industry.
33. The legs of a roadrunner are enough strong that it can run up to 24 kilometers per
hour to catch lizards and small rodents.
34. For the immune system of a newborn mammal to develop properly, the presence of
the thymus gland is essentially.
35. Physicians working in the field of public health are mainly concerned with the
environmental causes of ill and how to eliminate them.
36. By 1850, immigration from distance shores, as well as migration from the
countryside, had caused New York City’s population to swell.
37. By identifying similar words or structures in different languages, we find evidence
that those languages are related and may be derived from same ancestor.
38. Astronomers use photography and sighting telescopes to study the motions of all of
the bright stars and many of the faint one.
39. In the nineteenth century a number of Native American tribe, such as the
Comanche, lived a nomadic existence hunting buffalo.
40. The average elevation of West Virginia is about 1,500 foot above sea level.
SAMPLE LISTENING QUESTIONS:
1. (A) He can have more than four guests at his graduation.
(B) His brother isn’t going to graduate this semester.
(C) He didn’t know that Jane wanted to be invited.
(D) He’s going to invite Jane.
2. (A) Listen to the traffic report on the radio
(B) Take a later train.
(C) Ron to catch the next train.
(D) Check the weekend schedule.
3. (A) Pelivet the notebook to Kathy.
(B) find out where Kathy put the notebook.
(C) Ask Kathy to explain the chemistry notes.
(D) Ask Kathy for the man’s notebook.
4. (A) The walk is shorter than the woman thinks it
is.
(B) The lecture has already started.
(C) They won’t have a problem getting seats.
(D) The lecture may be canceled.
5. (A) The woman should have studied French in
Paris.
(B) He didn’t study French in high school.
(C) Living in Paris helped improve the woman’s
language skills.
(D) The woman must have had a good French
teacher.
6. (A) Apologize to his roommate.
(B) Give the notes to the woman.
(C) Call the woman tonight.
(D) Take the woman’s notes to his roommate.
7. (A) She doesn’t have time to talk to Dr. Foster.
(B) She needs the additional time to finish her
paper.
(C) Dr. Foster hasn’t finished grading the
papers.
(D) She wants the man to help her with her
paper.
8. (A) Phone the Cliffside Inn for a reservation.
(B) Ask her parents to come a different
weekend.
(C) Call local hotels again in a few days.
(D) Find a hotel again in a few days.
9. (A) Main her some information about the
conference.
(B) Drive her to the conference.
(C) Attend the conference in her place.
(D) Collect her main while she’s at the
conference.
10. (A)The man should stop by the bookstore on
the way to class.
(B) The man can return the books he doesn’t
need.
(C) The man should have bought his books
earlier.
(D) The man won’t need books on the first day
of class.
11. (A) Help the man with his essay.
(B) Ask Sue to rehearse with her.
(C) Wait to rehearse until the man has finished
his essay.
(D) Meinerize her lines by herself.
12. (A) Show her the newspaper that he’s talking
about.
(B) Think about getting an internship at
another place.
(C) Sign up for more than one journalism class.
(D) Call The Times about the internship.
13. (A)He isn’t as good a tennis player as he used
to be.
(B) He hasn’t had time to play tennis recently.
(C) He caught a cold shortly after the
tournament.
(D) He think he’s more important than he is.
14. (A)He’ll graduate before the woman.
(B) He hopes to graduate before the summer.
(C) He doesn’t want to attend school
year-round.
(D) The woman won’t be able to keep up the
pace.
15. (A) It’s too late to buy the morning newspaper.
(B) He doesn’t want to go to the concert.
(C) The box office is closed today.
(D) All of the tickets have been sold.
16. (A) The woman swims as well as he does.
(B) He doesn’t have time to teach the woman
to swim.
(C) He doesn’t enjoy swimming.
(D) He learned to swim at a young age.
17. (A) She has already started working on her
research project.
(B) She can’t decide on a research topic.
(C) She’d like to discuss her research with the
man.
(D) She has to change the subject of her
research.
18. (A) Introduce the woman to his neighbor.
(B) Get a key from his neighbor.
(C) Study in his neighbor’s apartment.
(D) Borrow some books from his neighbor.
19. (A) The man shouldn’t hire the same tutor that
she had.
(B) She isn’t prepared for the midterm exam
either.
(C) It’s too late to find a tutor.
(D) The man should hire a tutor before the
midterm exam
20. (A) Stay in the hotel for at least two nights.
(B) Leave the hotel the next morning.
(C) Ask the hotel clerk for her room key.
(D) Complain to the manager about the extra
charges.
21. (A) He doesn’t recommend going to Central
Mountain.
(B) He doesn’t plan to go skiing during spring
break.
(C) He has never been to Central Mountain.
(D) He isn’t an experienced skier.
22. (A) She knows who the top history student is.
(B) She hasn’t read the campus newspaper
today.
(C) The man is mistaken.
(D) It’s surprising that her roommate likes
history.
23. (A) He’s not qualified to proofread the
woman’s report.
(B) He’ll be able to talk to the woman in a few
minutes.
(C) He hadn’t noticed a lot of the woman’s
mistakes.
(D) He thinks the woman should have asked
him sooner.
24. (A) Practice her presentation in front of him.
(B) Find out who her audience will be
tomorrow.
(C) Try not to think about her audience.
(D) Watch him make his presentation.
25. (A) She’s also curious about who won the
game.
(B) She didn’t go to the game.
(C) She was sitting right behind the man at the
game.
(D) She also left the game early.
26. (A) Make a shopping list.
(B) Buy some groceries.
(C) Finish making the salad.
(D) Wait for the woman to return.
27. (A) He finds the dictionary very useful.
(B) He knows where the woman put the
dictionary.
(C) he doesn’t expect the woman to replace the
dictionary.
(D) The woman should buy her own dictionary.
28. (A) She plans to miss soccer practice.
(B) She’ll arrive at the party after
(C) Soccer practice will end later than usual.
(D) She’ll go to soccer practice after the party.
29. (A) Dr. Smith told her something important.
(B) Dr. Smith didn’t understand what she said.
(C) She wanted to protect Dr. Smith’s feelings.
(D) She didn’t intend to say what she said.
30. (A) He sells paint supplies.
(B) He plans to take an art class with the
woman.
(C) He works as an artist.
(D)He works in an art museum.
31. (A) The cost of meals in the cafeteria.
(B) The size of the cafeteria.
(C) Career opportunities in cafeterias.
(D) The food served in the cafeteria.
32. (A) Giving advice on nutrition.
(B) Cooking food for the students.
(C) Listening to complaints about service.
(D) Serving food to the students.
33. (A) Find other students who will work in the
cafeteria.
(B) Collect students’ opinions about meals.
(C) As students to try a new dish he has made.
(D) Teach students about the disadvantages of
frying food.
34. (A) Stop serving hamburgers and fried
chicken.
(B) Use less sauce on the food.
(C) Make some of the meals less fattening.
(D) Buy less expensive food.
35. (A) Somewhat curious.
(B) Very skeptical.
(C) Quite irritated.
(D) Not at all interested.
36. (A) That he’ll be performing in a concert.
(B) That he had a conversation with the
director of a choir.
(C) That he heard a new musical composition
by Barbara Johnson.
(D) That he’s been translating some Latin
poems for a class.
37. (A) They’re members of the Latin club on
campus.
(B) They work as editors.
(C) They attended the same concert.
(D) Music is their major field of study.
38. (A) She was upset.
(B) She was confused.
(C) She was amused.
(D) She was grateful.
39. (A) Some photographs that he took of her
during the concert.
(B) A tape recording that he made of the
concert.
(C) A review of the concert that he wrote for
the campus paper.
(D) The corrected text from the program of the
concert.
40. (A) The skills cowboys learned on the range.
(B) The evolution of rodeos.
(C) The recent decline in the popularity of
rodeos.
(D) The growth of the cattle industry.
41. (A) They were small informal events.
(B) Competitors were awarded large prizes.
(C) Large audiences attended them.
(D) There were standard rules for judging
events.
42. (A) It is the only traveling rodeo.
(B) it is the largest agricultural fair.
(C) It is the oldest annual rodeo.
(D) It was the first rodeo to charge admission.
43. (A) How animals react to frightening
situations.
(B) Why mice are particularly fearful animals.
(C) Whether fearfulness is a genetic trait.
(D) Why certain animals are feared by humans.
44. (A) They fought with the other mice.
(B) They stayed close to their mothers.
(C) They ran back and forth constantly.
(D) They remained close to one wall.
45. (A) The extent of damage to the nervous
system.
(B) The presence or absence of certain
nerve-cell receptors.
(C) The size of nerve-cell receptors in the
brain.
(D) The level of danger in the mammal’s
environment.
46. (A) To show the relationship between
fearfulness and environment.
(B) To give examples of animals that aren’t
fearful.
(C) To compare fear in mammals to fear in
other animals.
(D) To identify the nerves that control fear in
certain animals.
47. (A) Why water flows from artesian springs.
(B) How artesian wells are drilled.
(C) Why artesian springs are important to
geologic research.
(D) How aquifers are formed.
48. (A)They pump water from the aquifer.
(B) They purify the water in the aquifer.
(C) They store excess water from the aquifer.
(D) They trap water in the aquifer.
49. (A)By eroding layers of sediment above it.
(B) By traveling through cracks in layers of
rock.
(C) By reversing its flow down the aquicludes.
(D) By boiling up through pores in the aquifer.
50. (A) It pushes the water upward.
(B) It keeps the water cool.
(C) It holds the water underground.
(D) It creates holes in the aquiclude.
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ANOTHER QUIZ:
1. The giant ragweed, or
buffalo weed, grows —.
(A) 18 feet up to high
(B) to high 18 feet up
(C) up to 18 feet high
(D) 18 feet high up to
2. Neptune is — any pl
anet except Pluto.
(A) to be far from the Sun
(B) far from the Sun being
(C) farther than the Sun is
(D) farther from
the Sun than
3. Since prehistoric times, artists have arranged
paint on surfaces in
ways — their ideas about
people and the world.
(A) express
(B) that their expression of
(C) which, expressing
(D) that express
4. Except for certain microorganisms, — need
oxygen to survive.
(A) of all living things
(B) all living things
(C) all are living things
(D) are all living things
5. Dubbing is used in
filmmaking — a new sound
track to a motion picture.
(A) which to add
(B) to add
(C) is adding that
(D) to add while
6. — of green lumber may come from moisture in
the wood.
(A) More weight than half
(B) Of the weight, more than half
(C) The weight is more than half
(D) More than half of the weight
7. Archaeologists study
—- to trace ancient trade
routes because such tool
s are relatively rare, and
each occurrence has a s
lightly different chemical
composition.
(A) which obsidian tools
(B) obsidian tools
(C) how obsidian tools
(D) obsidian tools are
8. —- the hamster’s basic di
et is vegetarian, some
hamsters also eat insects.
(A) Despite
(B) Although
(C) Regardless of
(D) Consequently
9. The Navajo Indians of the southwestern United
States — for their sand
painting, also called dry
painting.
(A) noted
(B) are noted
(C) to be noted
(D) have noted
10. In 1784, the leaders of what would later
become the state of Virginia gave up — to the
territory that later became five different
Midwestern states.
(A) any claim
(B) when the claim
(C) to claim
(D) would claim
11. —- one after another, parallel computers
perform groups of operations at the same time.
(A) Conventional computers, by handling tasks
(B) Since tasks being handled by conventional
computers
(C) Whereas conventional computers handle
tasks
(D) While tasks handled by conventional
computers
12. The Liberty Bell, formerly housed in
Independence Hall,
— in Philadelphia, was
moved to a separate glass pavilion in 1976.
(A) which a historic building
(B) a historic building which
(C) was a historic building
(D) a historic building
13. Fossils, traces of dead organisms found in the
rocks of Earth’s crust,
reveal — at the time the
rocks were formed.
(A) what was like
(B) was like life
(C) what life was like
(D) life was like
14. Although the huge ice masses —- glaciers
move slowly, they ar
e a powerful erosive force
in nature.
(A) call them
(B) are called
(C) to call
(D) called
15. The soybean contains vitamins, essential
minerals, — high percentage of protein.
(A) a
(B) and a
(C) since a
(D) of which a
16. A gene is a biological
unit of information who
directs the activity of a cell
or organism during its lifetime.
17. The flowering
of African American talent in
literature, music, and art
in the 1920’s in New York City
became to know
as the Harlem Renaissance.
18. The symptoms of
pneumonia, a
lung infection, include
high fever, chest pain, breathing difficult
, and coughing.
19. The rapid grow
of Boston during
the mid-nineteenth century coincided with
a large influx of
European immigrants.
20. In 1908 Olive Campbell started writing
down folk songs
by rural people in the
southern Appalachian
mountains near hers
home.
21.The
thirteen stripes of the United States flag represent
the original thirteen
states of the Union, which they all
were once colonies of Britain.
22. In 1860, more as
90 percent of the people of Indiana lived
rural areas, with only a few cities having
a population
exceeding 10,000.
23.Gravitation keeps
the Moon in orbit around Earth and
the planets other
of the solar system in orbit
around the Sun.
24. Photograph
was revolutionized in 1831 by the
introduction of
the collodion process for making
glass negatives.
25. After
flax is washed, dry, beaten, and combed, fibers are obtained for use
in making fabric.
26. A fever is caused which
blood cells release proteins called pyrogens, raising
the body’s temperature
.
27. Because of various gift-giving holidays, most stores clothing
in the United Sates do almost as much
business in November and December as they
do in the other ten months combined
.
28.The United States National La
bor Relations Board is authorized
to investigation
allegations of unfair
labor practices on the part of
either employers or
employees.
29.The Great Potato Famine in
Ireland in the 1840’s caused
an unprecedented numbers
of people from
Ireland to immigrate to
the United States.
30.The particles comprising
a given cloud are continually changing
, as new ones are added while others
are taking away
by moving air
.
31.Political parties in the United States help to coordinate
the campaigns of their
members and organizes
the statewide and national conventions that mark election years
.
32.The lemur is an unusual
animal belonging to
the same
order than
monkey’s and apes.
33.Chese may be
hard or soft, depending
on the amount of water left into
it and the character of the cutting.
34.The carbon-are lamp, a very bright
electric lamp used for spotlights, consists of
two carbon electrodes with
a high-current are passing between it
.
35. At first
the poems of E.E. Cummings gained notoriety to
their idiosyncratic punctuation and typography, but they have gradually been
recognized for their
lyric power as well.
36.The mechanism of human thought
and recall, a subject
only partly understood by scientists, is extraordinary
complicated.
37.While the process of photosynthesis
in green plants, light energy
is captured and used
to convert
water, carbon dioxide, and minerals
into oxygen and organic compounds.
38.The globe artichoke was known as a
delicacy at least 2,500 years ago, and records of
its cultivation date from fifteenth
century.
39. Humans do not constitute the only species endowed with intelligence: the higher animals also have considerably problem-solving abilities.
40. Many of species of milkweed are among the most dangerous of poisonous plants, while others have little, if any, toxicity