Friday, 20 December 2013

DAILY TEST - 1 SHORT SEMESTER GRADE XI (REPORT TEXT AND CONJUNCTION)




            The Sumatran elephant’s habitat is in Sumatra, Indonesia. The average male elephant reaches eight feet high and weighs up to six tons. A baby elephant can weigh up to one ton. The males are always larger than the females. They are massive creatures.

            Elephants have a trunk, two tusks, two eyes, two ears and two lumps on their head. They are known to be clever animals. When an elephant is hot, they fan themselves by flapping their ears back and forth. When an elephant herd wants to move they use their ears as a guide. Their hearing range is very large. Elephants hear some noises that can not be heard by a human ear.
            Sumatran elephants have enough strength to knock down a tree. They can also pick up a log using just their trunk and their tusks. Their trunk is their nose. They also use it like a hand. Just below their trunk they have their tusks. Only male Sumatran elephants have tusks. A baby elephants is called a calf; the females are called cows.

1.         How do elephants guide each other to move in a
direction ?
                    a. They use their head as a guide
                    b. They use their tusks as a guide
                    c. They use their trunk as a guide
                    d. They use their nose as a guide
                    e. They use their ears as a guide

2.     What are the uses of an elephant’s trunk ?
                    a.  can be used as eyes and head
                    b.  can be used as a nose and hand
                    c.  can be used as legs and tail
                    d.  can be used as a trunk and tusks
                    e.  can be used as ears and hand

3.     What do elephants use to pick up a log ?
                    a.  they use their eyes and head
                    b.  they use their nose and hand
                    c.  they use their legs and tail
                    d.  they use their trunk and tusks
                    e.  they use their ears and hand

4.     What do you call a baby elephant ?
                    a.   a dog                   c.    a cow              e. a cat
                    b.   a calf                    d.    a puppy         

5.     Where do you find the tusks ?
                    a.   under the nose                 d.   on the head                    b.   below the trunk                             e.   in the neck     
                    c.   on the back

                   
                                            Birds

Birds belong to a class of warm blooded vertebrate animals with feather covered bodies. Next to mammals, birds are the most important group of land-living vertebrates.
All birds have feathers, although in some types, particularly those that can not fly, the normal structure of the feathers of the feathers may be much modified and be downy, woolly, or straw like. The forelimbs of birds are modified into wings.

The bony part of the tall, except in the very earliest fossil birds, is very short, and the visible tall is composed of the feathers only. The teeth are absent except in some fossil forms. As in mammals the only other group of warm-blooded animal-the circulation is highly perfected so that there is no mixing of arterial and venous blood, but the arrangement of veins and arteries by which this is accomplished, is different in the two groups. Birds have keen hearing, although they have no external ears. The sense of sight also is very keen, but the sense of smell is weak or lacking, except in a few vultures and other birds.       

        6.      The passage is about the …of birds.
                        a.  Species                            d.  Definitions                       b.  Clarification                     e.  Classification                  c.  Characteristics

        7.      From the text we can conclude that both birds and
                  mammals have….
                         a. Backbone
                         b. Keen sight
                         c. Keen hearing
                         d. Downy feathers
                         e. Weak sense of smell

        8.      Which of the following is NOT possessed by birds?
                         a. Feathers
                         b. Wings
                         c. Teeth
                         d. Tails
                         e. Ears

Although gorillas look ferocious, they are really rather quiet apes. They live in family groups in the thickest parts of jungles.
A gorilla’s feet, hands, and wrinkled face are bare and black. His fur may be short or long, depending where he lives. The short-hair gorilla lives in the hot, damp, tropical forest of western Africa and the long-hair gorilla live in the cooler air in the high mountains of central Africa. 

A gorilla’s arms are so long; they almost touch the ground, even when he is standing up! Some wild mountain gorillas weigh as much as you, your father all weigh together.
At night the father gorillas sleeps on the ground. But the mother and baby gorillas sleep in the big nest of stick and leaves on the ground, or in the lower branches of trees, where they are safer from prowling animals.  

        9. The text mainly tells about…
                        a. Father gorillas                 d. A gorilla’s life                   b. Kinds of gorillas               e. Gorillas in brief
                        c. The origin of gorillas

        10. The…of gorillas affect the length of the gorillas fur.
                        a. Size                    c. Food                  e. Habit                  b. Weight               d. Habitat


        11. The following parts of a gorilla are not covered by
             fur EXCEPT…
                        a. The chin            c. The nose           e. The arms          b. The feed           d. The hands

        12.  “Although gorillas look ferocious, they are really 
              rather quiet apes,” (paragraph 1)
       What does the word underlined mean?
a.       Rude              c. Cruel                  e. Rough
b.       d. Strong        d. Clumsy

                A kangaroo is an animal found only in Australia. It has a smaller relative, called a wallaby, which lives on the Australian island of Tasmania and in New Guinea.

                Kangaroos eat grass and plants.They have short front legs, but very long and strong back legs and a tail. These are used for sitting up and for jumping. Kangaroos have been known to make forward jumps of over eight metres, and leap across fences more than three metres high. They can also run at speeds of over 45 kilometres per hour.

                The largest kangaroos are the Great grey kangaroo and the Red Kangaroo. Adult grows to a length of 1.60 metres and weighs over 90 kilos.

                Kangaroos are marsupials. This means that the female kangaroo has an external pouch on the front of her body. A baby kangaroo is very tiny when it is born, and it crawls at once into this pouch where it spends its first five months of life.


13. According to the text, the kangaroo ....
                A. can grow as tall as a man
                B. can run faster than a car
                C. can walk as soon as it is born
                D. can jump over a 3 metres high fence
                E. can live in a pouch during its life

14. .... are used for sitting up and for jumping ....
                A. Long tails
                B. Short legs
                C. Body pouch
                D. Short front legs
                E. Strong back legs

15. We know from the text that kangaroo ....
                A. is smaller in size to human
                B. is an omnivorous animal
                C. has habitat in Tasmania
                D. can be called Wallaby in New Guinea
                E. has another name called Wallaby 29.

          Mangrove Trees
            A mangrove is a tropical maritime tree or shrub of the genus Rhizophora. Mangroves have special aerial roots and salt-filtering tap roots that enable them to thrive in brackish water (brackish water is salty, but not as salty as sea water).
            There are several species of mangrove tress found all over the world. Some prefer more salinity, while others like to be very close to a large fresh water source (such as a river). Some prefer areas that are sheltered from waves. Some species have their roots covered with sea water every day during high tide. Others are more sensitive to salinity, and grow closer to the shore. Other species grow on dry land, but are still part of the ecosystem.
            Mangrove need to keep their trunk and leaves above the water line. Yet they also need to be firmly attached to the ground so they are not moved by waves. There are three types of mangrove roots that help in this process :
        -     Support roots which directly pierce the soil.
        -     Level-growing roots which twist upward and  
              downwards, with the upward twists emerging on the
              water surface.
        -     Level-growing roots whose downward twists (sub-
             roots) appear on the water surface.
      Any part of a root that appears above the water line
      channels oxygen to the plant below the water line. 
      Over time as soil begins to build up, these roots
      produce additional roots that become embedded in
      the soil.

        16. What is a mangrove tree ?
                 a.  It is dessert tree or vegetation of the genus
                    Zoroaster
b.     It is a mountain tree or plant of the genus polychaeta
c.     It is a jungle tree or vegetation of the genus
ancylostoma
d.     It is a sea tree or plant of the genus
      pseudoselomata
e.     It is a tropical maritime tree or shrub of the genus rhyzophora.

        17.     What makes mangroves able to thrive in brackish
                water? Because………
                        a.     They have feet to move to another area
                        b.    They do need oxygen to live
                        c.     They do not need water to live
                        d.    They have special aerial roots and salt-
                            filtering tap roots
                        e.     They produces the salt for human.
       
        18.     What can you say about brackish water?
                        a.   Brackish water is sweet but not as sweet as
                          sugar
b.       Brackish water is sour but not as sour as
acid
c.        Brackish water is hot but not as hot as red
pepper
d.       Brackish water is salty but not as salty as
sea water
e.       Brackish water is bitter but not as bitter as
herbs.

        19.     Why do mangroves need to be firmly attached to
                the ground ? so…
                        a.     They will move by waves to another area
                        b.    They are not moved by waves
                        c.     It is easier to catch their prey
                        d.    They can fly like bird
                        e.     They were drifting along with the current.

        20.     What is the generic structure of the text?
                        a.   Newsworthy events > background events >
                          sources
                        b.   Identification > description
                        c.   Orientation > event > re-orientation
                        d.   Orientation > evaluation > complication >
                          resolution > re-orientation
e.       General classification > description














Spider
            Spiders are predatory invertebrate animals. They are not classified in the class of insect. A spider has eight legs while an insect never has more than six legs.
            Spiders have a body with two main divisions, four legs and two other pairs of abdominal spinnerets for spinning threads of silk. This silk can be used to aid in climbing, build egg sacs and catch pray.
            Spiders kill so many insects, but they never do the least harm to man’s belonging. Spiders are busy for at least half of the year killing insects. It is impossible to find out how many insects they kill, since they are hungry creature which cannot be content with only three meals a day.

21.    The purpose of the text is to…
                a.     explain about spider
                b.     tell a particular spiders in chronological
                     order
                c.     describe an insect
                d.     persuade people about spiders
                e.     retell about spiders
22.      Why can’t spider be classified in the class of insect?
a.          Because spiders have more than six legs
b.          Because spider’s bodies have two main divisions
c.          Because they have walking legs
d.          Because spiders kill many insects
e.          Because spiders are hungry creature
23.      Which sentences describe the behavior of spiders?
a.          a spider has eight legs
b.          a spider has a body with two main divisions
c.      a spider has four pairs of walking legs and two pairs of abdominal spinnerets
d.     a spider kills so many insects
e.     a spider is a hungry creature
24.      The following sentences are true about  spiders, except
a.     they belong to insect
b.     they have eight legs
c.     the eat many insects
d.     they are not dangerous for people
e.     the eat more than three meals a day
25.      They never do the last harm to mans belonging’’
The underlined word has almost the same meaning as the word…
a.     Useless
b.     Damage
c.     Bothering
d.     Intervention
e.     Relation



Complete these sentences using appropriate “Conjunction”
1)  Could you email me                      you receive the offer?
2) I want to buy it                      it is expensive or not.
3) Don’t do that                      I allow it.
4)                      you are confident with it, you should go
   for it.
5) I didn’t enroll this semester                      I could go backpacking in Europe.

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