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Grade X
TEXT 1
What Causes Weather?
Weather is the physical condition
of the athmosphere at a particular time and place. It includes temperature, air
pressure, water content. Weather is producted when air moves from place to
place. This moving air is known as wind. Winds are formed when the cooler air
moves into replace the raising warm air. Warm air is usualy less dense than
cool air; therefore, it creates low air pressure. Cool air is more dense and
creates high air pressure. Usualy we have fine weather when the air pressure is
high and there are clouds, rain and snow when the air pressure drops.
1. What does the text explain?
A. Moving air
B. Air pressure
C. Low air pressure
D. Types of weather
E. The formation of weather
2. “Warm air is usualy less dense
than cool air...” (Paragraph 2). The underlined word has the opposite meaning
to...
A. Sparse
B. Solid
C. Thick
D. Heavy
E. Compact
3. “...therefore, it
creates low air pressure.” (paragraph 2). The word it refer to...
A. Weather
B. Temperature
C. Wind
D. Warm air
E. Rain
TEXT 2
This text is for number 4-6
This Is a Good
An old story is told of a king in
Africa who had close friend with whom he grew up. The friend had a habbit of
looking at every situation that ever occured in his life (positive or negative)
and remarking, “this is good!”
One day the king and his friend
were out on a hunting expedition. The friend would load and prepare the guns
for the king. The friend had apparently done something wrong in preparing one
of the guns, for after taking the gun from his friend, the king fired it and
his thumb was blown off. Examining the situation the friend remarked as usual,
“This is good!” To which the king replied, “No, this is NOT good! And proceeded
to send his friend to jail. About a year later, the king was hunting in an area
that he should have known to stay clear of. Cannibals captured him to the
stake. As they came near to set fire to the wood, they noticed that the king
was missing a thumb. Being superstitious, they never ate anyone that was less
than whole. So untying the king, they sent him on his way.
As he returned home, he was
reminded of the event that had taken his thumb and felt remorse for his
treatment of his friend. He went immediately to the jail to speak with his
friend. “You were right,” he said, “it was good that my thumb was blown off.”
And he proceeded to tell the friend all that had just happened. “And so I am
very sorry for sending you to jail for so long. It was bad for me to do this.” “No,”
his friend replied, “This is good!”
‘What do you mean, “This is
good?” How could it be good that I sent my friend to jail for a year?”
“If I had NOT been in jail, I
would have been with you.”
4. What is the moral lesson of
the story?
5. Who was captured by Cannibals?
6. “....taken his
thumb and felt remorse.” What does the underlined refer to?
TEXT 3
Dear Dika,
I am Ardian, I am seventeen years
old and I am from West Kalimantan. I go to SMA Kubu, Pontianak. I am in class
X. Let me tell you about my classroom. In front
of the class, there is a teacher’s desk and a chair. There are two
pictures and a map of West Kalimantan on the wall. In front of the class in the
corner, there is a flag. Near the door, there is a garbage can. In my classroom
there isn’t any bookshelf, but there is cupboard. I like my classroom very much
because it is clean. We clean it everyday. I usually get the turn to clean it
on Friday. Well, that’s all I can say about my classroom. How about yours?
Please write me back, and tell me about your classroom.
Sincerely yours,
Ardian
7. Who is the sender of the
letter?
8. Where does the writer go to
school?
9. When does the writer get the
turn to clean the classroom?
10. Is there any bookshelf in his
classroom?
11. Where is the flag?
12. Find the English meaning from
these words based on the text above (text 3)!
a. Menulis
b. Biasanya
c. Karena
d. Setiap hari
e. Lemari
f. Tentang
g. Rak buku
h. Sudut/pojok
MATCHING (MENJODOHKAN)
17. Teacher (.....)
18. Farmer (.....)
19. Mechanic (.....)
20. Sailor (.....)
a. Ricefield
b. Workshop
c. Ship
d. School
Grade XI
TEXT 1 (for number 1-2)
One day, when Sangkuriang was hunting, he accidently killed his
beautiful black dog Si Tumang. This dog is actually Sangkuriang’s father who
had been condemned to live the life of a dog by his GURU. However, Sangkuriang
never knew it. Sangkuriang had been
separated from his mother since childhood. On his way home, he stopped at a
small village and fell in love with a beautiful girl. He didn’t realize that
the village was his homeland or that the beautiful girl was his own sacred
mother who remained young and pretty. Their love grew naturally
and one day, when they were discussing their wedding plans, Dayang Sumbi
suddenly realized that the profile of Sangkuriang’s head matched that of her
son’s who had left twenty years earlier. How could she marry her own son? But
she did not wish to disappoint him. So she agreed to marry Sanngkuriang only on
the condition that he would provide her with a lake and a boat with which they
could sail on their wedding day the next day at dawn.
Sangkuriang accepted this condition. He dammed up the Citarum River to
make a lake. Dayang Sumbi realized that Sangkuriang would fulfill the condition
she had set. With a of her supernatural shawl, she lit up the eastern horizon
with flashes of light. Deceived by false dawn, the cock crowed and the farmers
rose for the new day. Sangkuriang realized that
he failed to finish her boat. With all his anger, he kicked the unfinished boat
upside-down. The boat is now known as the mount TANGKUBAN PARAHU. In Sundanese
TANGKUBAN means upturned or upside down, and PARAHU means boat. With the dam
torn asunder, the water drained off the lake and made the lake a wide plain. It
is now called Bandung from the word BENDUNG which means dam.
1. Who was condemned by Guru?
2. The moral message of this story is…
TEXT 2 (for number 3-4)
YONKERS, December 11th. A four alarm fire damaged 14 stores today in the
Cross County Shopping Center, the largest shopping center in Westchester
County. Two fire investigators said the blaze apparently started in a pile of
cardboard cartons at the rear of a shoe store and spread through a utilities
duct above the 13 other stores. The fire started at 4.40 p.m. and was declared
under control at 6.14 p.m. the center is on the Cross County Parkway at the
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey Thruway. Five fire-fighters were busy
at the scene. Lieut. John Carey of the Yonkers Arson Squad said the cause of
the fire was under investigation.
3. The text mainly tells us about…
4. How many investigators and fire fighters were involved in the scene?
TEXT 3 (for number 5-6)
Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901-December 15, 1966) was an American
animated film producer and animator. He was also the creator of an
American-based theme park called Disneyland, and the founder of the highly
profitable corporation, now known as The Walt Disney Company.
Disney was born in Chicago to Elias Disney and Flora Call. He was named
after his father and after his father’s close friend Walter Parr, the minister
at St. Paul Congregational Church. In 1906, his family moved to a farm near
Marceline, Missouri. The family sold the farm in 1909 and lived in a rented
house until 1910, when they moved to Kansas City. Disney was nine years old at
the time. According to the Kansas
City, Missouri, Public School District records, Disney began attending the Benton
Grammar School in 1911, and continued his formal education there until he
graduated on June 8, 1917. During this time, Disney also enrolled in classes at
the Kansas City Art Institute. In the fall of 1917, Disney rejoined his family.
He left school at the age sixteen and became a volunteer ambulance driver in
World War I, after he changed his birth certificate to show his year of birth
as 1900 in order to be able to enlist in the service. He served as a member of
the American Red Cross Ambulance Force in France till 1919.
5. The second paragraph mainly tells about…
6. What did Disney do to become an ambulance driver?
TEXT 4 (for number 7-8)
Many people call
platypus duckbill because this animal has a bill like a duck’s bill. Platypus
is an indigenous of Tasmania and southern and eastern Australia. Although it
lays egg instead of bearing its young alive, the platypus is a true mammal, not
a reptile. It nurses its young with milk as do other mammals.
Platypus has a flat
tail and webbed feet. Its body length is 30 to 45 cm and covered with a thick
and woolly layer of fur. Its bill is detecting prey and stirring up mud.
Platypus’ eyes and head are small. It has no ears but has ability to sense
sound and light.
The male platypus has
a hollow claw, or spur, on each hind leg. The spurs are connected with poison
glands. The platypus leg scratches and poisons its enemies with the spurs.
Platypus lives in
streams, rivers, and lakes. Female platypus usually digs burrows in the streams
or river banks. The burrows are blocked with soil to protect it from intruders
and flooding. On the other hand, male platypus does not need any burrow to
stay.
7. What is the purpose
of the text above?
8. Platypus habitat is
mostly in…
TEXT 5 (for number 9-10)
Igloos or snow houses
are shelters constructed from blocks of snow, generally in the form of a dome.
Although igloos are usually associated with all Inuit, they were predominantly
constructed by people of Canada’s Central Arctic and Greenland’s Thule area.
Inuit people tended to use snow to insulate their houses. The temperature
outside may be as low as -45°C, but on the inside the temperature may range
from -7°C to 16°C when warmed by body heat alone.
There were three
traditional types of igloos. The smallest one was constructed as a temporary
shelter, usually used for one or two nights. These were built and used during
hunting trips, often on open sea ice. Next in size was the semi permanent,
intermediate-sized for family dwelling. This is a single room dwelling that
housed one or two families. The largest of the igloos is normally built in
groups of two. These might have had up to five rooms and housed up to 20
people. A large igloo might have been constructed from several igloos attached
by tunnels, giving common access to the outside. These were used to hold
community feasts and traditional dances.
9. What is mainly
discussed in the text?
10. Which kind of igloos
is used during hunting trips?
