Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Ali Baba was such a poor man that he had only one shoe for his two feet. Even the mice in his house are hungry. One day, his wife said, we have no food in the house. No rice. No potatoes. Go and collect leaves in the forest so that I can make a soup.
Ali was a lazy man. He looked for leaves for about ten minutes and then he climbed a tree to sleep. He was afraid of wolfes. When he woke up he was surprised to see forty thieves on forty horses. They stopped in front of a big rock.
“Open Sesame!” shouted the leader.
A door in the rock opened. The thieves carried sacks full of gold into the cave. When they had finished the leader shouted, “Close Sesame!” and the door closed.
As soon as the thieves had disappeared Ali Baba jumped down the tree, said “Open Sesame!” and went into the cave. There were sheives all around the walls. The shelves were full of sacks which are full of gold. Ali took a sack home with him.
Unfortunately one of the thieves saw Ali’s footprints on the sand. He followed them to Ali’s home. He took out his knife and made a cross on the door. “Now I shall know which house it is”, he said. Then, he rode off to get the other thieves. But Ali has seen the thief. He and his wife took a room and swept away the footprints. Then he made crosses on every door in the street.
When the forty thieves arrived they had their knives between their teeth. But they never found Ali or the gold. Ali and his wife lived happily ever after.
- What is the moral value of the passage above?
a. We are not allowed to sleep on the tree
b. It is possible to cheat the thieves
c. Don’t be a lazy man
d. There’s always any way for poorman
e. Don’t steal any goods from other
2 ...he followed
them to Ali’s home.
The underlined word refers to...
a. Ali and the thieves
b. Ali and wife
c. The thieves
d. Ali’s footprints
e. The golds
Many years ago, there lived a hermit in a forest in Sumatra. He did not grow food but depended on jungle fruit to survive. Soon, there was a drought, and all plants and fruit trees in the jungle died.
The old man had nothing to eat now, so he return to begging. He went to a nearby village trying to get some food. At first, the villagers were happy to help him. However, when he came continually, they refused to give him anymore food. They told him to grow his own food..
One day, while the hermit was sitting in his hut, sad and hungry, he bagan to think about growing his own food. Just then, a boatman stopped by, and taking pity on the hermit, give him some paddy seeds.
Before the boat man went away, he said. “These seeds will grow and give you everlasting harvest if you work very hard. If you are tired of the work, the paddy plants will turn into weeds”.
The old hermit worked hard to clear the land and sowed the seeds before the rains came. Strangely, after a short period of time, the paddy was ready for harvesting. The old man got a lot of rice from the harvest. After each harvest, the plants grew back again right way. When the villagers heard about the hermit and his wonderful paddy, they flocked to his paddy-field and took home as much paddy as they could
One day, the hermit became so tired of harvesting the paddy that he shouted, “Oh, stop growing, you wretched thing!” As soon as he had said this, the paddy plants turned into weeds.
3. What is the best title for the text?
a. A wonderful paddy
b. A hermit and the villagers
c. A boatman and a hermit
d. A life of a hermit in a forest
e. A hermit and an amazing paddy seed.
4 The other word can replace sowed
a. Spread
b. Put
c. Pour
d. Add
e. Show
Sticky Finger
After breakfast, I sent the children to school and then went to market. It was still early when I returned home. The children were at school, my husband was at work and the house was quiet. So I decided to make some tarts for tea. In a short time, I was busy mixing butter and flour and my hand were soon covered with sticky pastry. At exactly that woman, telephone rang. I picked up the receiver between two sticky fingers and was dismayed when I recognized the voice. It was Mrs. Bates. It took me ten minutes to persuade her to ring back later. At last I hung up the receiver. There was pastry on my fingers, on the telephone, and on the door-knobs. Suddenly, the bell rang, very loudly. This time it was postman. He wanted me to sigh for registered letter. What a mess!
5. What did the main character do when she was alone at home?
a. She called Mrs. Bates
b. Made some tarts
c. Sign for a registered letter
d. She was busy mixing butter and flour
e. Covering sticky pastry
6. What is the social function of the text above?
a. To retell the past event
b. To persuade the reader to read the text
c. To describe the habits of the main character
d. To amuse the reader
e. To explain about steps making something
The Oil Formation
It was widely known that oil was funned from the remains of plants and animals that lived in the ocean many millions of years ago. The most familiar plants and animals that had formed oil were algae and plankton. They were accumulated on the seabed and were buried from under layer of sediment. They were not decomposed because the sediment preserved them from the process of decomposition. Instead the organic matters were trnsformed by the action of bacteria into substance called kerogen. Over long periods of time, further layers of sediment produced increased temperature and preasure which changed the kerogen into many different hydrocarbons.
Atoms of carbon and hydrogen join together in a number of characteristric arrangements to form hydrocatbon molecules. The smallest and simplest hydrocarbon is methane, which has a molecule consisting of a single carbon atom surrounded by four hydrogen atoms. Larger and more complex hydrocarbon have molecules made up of a chain or ring of carbon atoms. Benzene has a molecule consisting of six carbon atoms that form a ring; ecah atom has one hydrogen atom. Hexane consists of a chain of six carbon atoms. The first and the last atom of the chain have three hydrogen atoms, while the four carbon atoms in the middle have two hhydrogen atoms each. That is why crude oil can be thick and dark, or pale and thin.
7. What is the main idea of the second paragraph?
a. The structure of hydrocarbon make crude oil can be dark
b. Carbon and hydrogen join into hydrocarbon molecules
c. The changing of kerogen into hydrocarbon
d. Many kinds of hydrocarbon
e. The formation of crude oil
8.
They were accumulated on the seabed... (paragraph 1 line 3)
The bolded word refers to ...
a. Crude oil
b. Kerogen
c. Algae
d. Plants and animals
e. Algae and plankton
Honey
Honey is among the olderst type of natural food known to mankind. Its consumption has been recorded in ancient civilization, and for many races it was the only sources of pure sweetness. It was widely believed to have health-giving propertied, the journal of ansient doctor contained references to honey as the most important ingredient in their medication
The ancient Greek believe that eating honey can increase man’s life span by almost double. In the early Olympic Games athletes took honey to perform better and after the games, to restore their strength. In the modern times it has beebn proven that honey can prevent and cure all kind of illnes. Germs of dysentry, typhoid, pneumonia and variety of other diseases died soon after they placed in pure honey.
Honey is rich of vitamin and because of its hig food value, it is better than any other type sugar. It has been converted into simple sugar bey bees, so it easy to digest and releases energy quickly. Besides, it never goes bad, as it was found in Egyptian tombsafter thousand of years honey was still dood enough to be eaten.
9. What is the generic structure of the text?
a. Orientation-events-reorientaion
b. Goal-steps
c. Thesis-arguments
d. General classificaion-identification
e. Desription-identification
Laptop Thief Targets Boarding Students
DEPOK: The police detained a 22-year-old woman who had stolen 26 laptops from University students boarding in Beji subdistrict, Depok municipality.
Depok police deputy chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Ahmad Kamal said that the suspect, Irene Agni Swastika, had enganged in the crime mastermided by her father for a year.
“The father, who is still on the run, set up everything for her. He had surveyed the boarding house, made room key dupleicates, and called up the tarteted victims to make them leave the boarding house. Irene would use the keys to get the laptops. She used to pretend to be the victims’ friend,” He was quoted by tempt.co over the weekend.
Irene was caught red-handed by the owner of Wisma Gardenia boarding house when she was about to leave the house.
The police confiscated one laptop and 153 room key duplicates from the suspect as evidence.
Jakarta Post, Tuesday January 24, 2012
10. Who is Irene Agni Swastika?
a. The victim
b. The suspected
c. Police
d. The owner of Wisma Gardenia
e. The student
11. What kind of genre of the text?
a. Report
b. Explanation
c. News Item
d. Recount
e. Descriptive
