Saturday, 31 May 2014

KUMPULAN SOAL LATIHAN NARRATIVE DISCUSSION EXPLANATION REVIEW TEXT

Text 1

Once upon a time there were four little rabbits. Their names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail and Peter. One morning they were allowed to play outside. Their mother reminded them not to go to Mr. McGregor’s garden because their father had an accident there.
Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail were good little rabbits. They went down the lane to pick blackberries. But Peter was naughty. He ran straight away to Mr. McGregor’s garden. He ate some lettuces, French beans, and radishes. Suddenly, he met Mr. McGregor. Peter was very frightened and rushed away as fast as he could. He lost a pair of shoes and a jacket while he was running. Peter never stopped running or looked behind him till he got home. During the evening, he was sick because he was so tired. He had to drink some medicine while three of his brother had bread, mild and blackberries for supper.

1.             Who was the naughtiest rabbit ?
a. Flopsy                        b. Mopsy         c. Cotton-tail    d. Peter                        e. Mr. McGregor

2.             What did Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-tail eat?
a.  carrot             b. blackberries             c. Lettuce         d. Strawberry   e. French beans

3.             What did Peter lose while he was running?
a.  one of his shoes        b. a book         c. vegetable      d. medicine      e. a pair of shoes

4.             Why did Peter get sick?  Because ….
a.  He was so tired
b.  He did not eat
c.  He caught a cold
d.  He was eating to much
e.  He was naughty

5.             Whom did Peter meet at the garden?
a. his mother      b. Flopsy          c. Mr. McGregor          d. Mrs. McGregor        e. His father

Text 2
Once up on a time, the Israelites were at war with the philistines. The leader of the philistines was a giant named goliath, who was three meters tall. A spear was long across his shoulders and a heavy sword hung from a belt around his waist. Goliath challenged the Israelites to send a leader to fight with him. “If he can kill me, we shall be your slaves,” he boasted.
“But if I kill him, then you should be our slaves.” No one except a young shepherd boy dared volunteer to fight goliath. The shepherd boy’s name was David. He was armed with only a sling.
When goliath saw David, he laughed, “What?” are you the only one they can send to fight with me? Why, I will tear you apart and feed you the birds! “Then he charged at David with his sword. Calmly, David took a stone, put it on his sling, and took careful aim at the giant’s eyes.
The stone struck goliath and he fell to the ground. David freed his people from the terror of goliath.

6.             What is the writer’s purpose of writing this kind of text? To …..
a. entertain the readers
b. tell a story of giant
c. inform an event in the past
d. tell the terror of the leader of the philistines
e. report the war between the Israelites and philistine

7.             Who dared to fight the leader of the philistines?
a. a giant
b. goliath
c. David
d. a have
e. people

8.             What did David use to defeat the leader of the philistines?
a. a spear
b. a sward
c. a sling
d. a stone
e. a belt

9.             “But if I kill him, then you shall be our slaves.” The word “you” refers to …..
a. David
b. the volunteer
c. the Philistines
d. the Israelites
e. a shepherd boy

10.         “David took goliath’s sword and slew him with it.” Slew means …..
a. cut
b. tore
c. struck
d. fought
e. killed

11.         The generic structures of the text above are …
a. Orientation – resolution
b. Complication – orientation – climax
c. Orientation – complication – resolution
d. Orientation – complication – climax
e. Climax – resolution
Text 3
In modern world, women have the benefit from wider chance of getting a career outside there household sphere. Many women, however, have some difficulties deciding whether they will pursue a career or not. Some of them stay at their offices, while at the same time they act as housewives. But, the other chooses to concentrate their attention to their household only.
Being career women offers the advantage of a wider chance of self-actualization. They can widen their knowledge and develop their capacity. For example, many women do not know exactly what their talent is before they start a career. But then, after they have a career they know which field they can do best and which one they can’t. This will help them to refocus their life goal.
Another big advantage is that they can help supporting their household‘s finance so that men do not become the single fighter in financing their families. For example, if a wife works, she can help her husband financing their children’s educational budget, so that their children can have the best education.
Being career women, on the other hand has some significant disadvantages too. They have more burdens in their life, as they have to manage their job as well as their household. For example, a female teacher has to prepare teaching material for tomorrow class while at the same time she has to think about how to handle her naughty son.
In addition, being career women can be risky for their household. For example, many women have to spend their time in their career as it grows more challenging, so they have only limited time left for their family, resulting in their lack of care and attention for their household and children. The extreme impact of this situation is the broken home.
In the end, the decision that each woman makes will depend on their own personal values, as well as their readiness for taking on the considerable consequences of each choices.




12.         What is the type of the text
a. Narrative      b. Discussion   c. Explanation d. Recount       e. Spoof

13.         How do we call the first paragraph..
a. General statement 
b. Identification
c. Orientation
d. Thesis
e. Issue

14.         What is the communicative purpose of the text?
a. To persuade the reader to become a career woman
b. To persuade the reader not to become a career woman
c. To retell an event for the purpose of entertaining
d. To present (at least) to point of view about an issue
e. To retell an event with a humorist twist

15.         Which of the following is true?
a. Career woman can widen their knowledge and develop their capacity
b. Career women can’t support their household’s finance
c. Becoming career woman does not have disadvantages
d. Career women have more spare time for their families
e. In the modern world it will be better for woman to stay at home

16.         To tell the readers, writer using..
a. Past perfect  b. Past tense     c. Present tense                        d. Continuous tense     e. Perfect tense

17.         The extreme impact of being career women is 
a. Dishonest     b. Corrupt        c. Broken home           d. Happy                      e. Separate

18.         “Another big advantage is that they can help supporting their household‘s finance...” The word “They” refers to,,
a. Business Man
b. Career Women
c. Women
d. Business woman
e. Mother


Text 5

Nowadays, the police have been applying the new regulation concerning the use of seat belts. In European countries, this regulation has been applied for a long time. However, this new regulation has become controversial and is an interesting topic to discuss. Here are some of the arguments.
The use of seat belt has been proven to reduce the risk of injury or death in an accident. Seat belt has become a standard component in cars.
The research shows that most car accidents will cause an injury to the head. Frequently, drivers or the passengers driving without seat belts die because of this. By wearing the seat belts, the injury will not happen since the seat belts restrain our body on the car seat when the accident happens.
Unfortunately, many cars, especially the old ones, don’ have seat belts. This is because the traffic conditions in the past were unlike the recent traffic conditions. The designer of old cars didn’t consider a seat belt as an important part. Besides, the drivers wearing the seat belts will think that they are completely safe, so they may drive carelessly. They are safe, indeed, but how about the safety of others?
The seat belt is only one of the ways to reduce the risk of car accidents. It doesn’t mean that we are completely safe. In short, our safety depends on ourselves.

19.         What is the writer’s intention?
a. To describe the use of seat belt.
b. To present two points of view about the seat belt.
c. To persuade the readers to use the seat belt.
d. To tell the readers about the use of seat belts.
e. To explain about the use of the seat belt.

20.         What part of the text is the last paragraph?
a. coda                       
d. point of view
b. re-orientation         
e. elaboration
c. conclusion

Text 6

GLOBALIZATION

Globalization is a social change formed by the increase of interrelation among society and its elements and happens because of acculturation and technology development
Globalization gives new nuance and wide impact to the immigrants in different culture. World becomes more various in aspect of ethnics, race and skin colour. Nowadays social growth brings about the cultural changes which have pluralistic and cultural characters.
Globalization has positive effect if we can adapt better, by improving the self quality and selective attitude to the foreign cultural adoption.
The positive of globalization can be seen in the change of the development system. In this case, national development has given wide opportunity for Indonesian society to get proper education.
In the change of life view, globalization expands the concept of the balance between material and immaterial development.
Nevertheless, globalization results in some negative effects as well. The society experiences cultural shock because they are not ready to accept the foreign culture immediately. Globalization makes the value in social life not ready to anticipate the changes happened in the community. It may bring about cultural value destruction having been adopted by the local society.
Good or bad, the changes that caused by the globalization must be faced with selective attitude to receive the new culture and strong self-ability to fight for it.

21.         What is the purpose of the text?
a. to persuade the readers that globalization is the case.
b. to present at least two points of view about globalization.
c. to explain the effect of globalization
d. to describe how globalization happen
e. to retell the development of globalization

22.         The organization of the text above is ….
a. orientation, events, re-orientation
b. general statement, explanation
c.  thesis, arguments, reiteration
d. general classification, description
e.  issue, arguments, conclusion
23.         What is the main idea of the text?
a. Globalization only creates bad effect.
b. Globalization causes the life style change.
c. Globalization destroys the social values.
d. Globalization has good and bad influence.
e. Globalization cannot be avoided.
Text 7
Commercial breaks during television shows generally generate one of two reactions: viewers will reach for the remote and switch channels, or they will sit through the ads.
In recent survey by Marketing Research Indonesia (MRI), some 47 % of respondents switched channels during commercial breaks, while 37 % they sat through the ads.
In the survey of 711 people in Jakarta, Bandung, Semarang, Surabaya, Medan and Makassar; 83 % of respondents suggested that the government strictly regulate the content of TV ads.
Despite all the criticism, most respondents agreed on the importance of TV ads to support broadcast programs. Some 80 % saw the necessity of ads for the survival of TV stations.
Besides the advertisers and the advertising industry, television stations should also take part in filtering quality ads to show audiences. TV stations should take a stand in rejecting advertisements considered to be of low quality.
24.         What is the type of the above text?
a. exposition              d. description
b. discussion              e. report
c. explanation

25.         What does the writer want from the text?
a. to describe commercial TV ads specifically
b. to explain how TV ads are broadcasted in TV
c. to present at least two points of view about TV ads
d. to describe commercial TV ads generally
e. to persuade the readers to advertise their product through TV ads

26.         Why are TV ads indispensable for TV? Because …
a. they are main income of TV
b. they attract the audiences to watch TV
c. they make the audiences switch the channels
d. they give significant lesson to the audiences
e. they determine the program availability

27.         Which is TRUE according to the text?
a. The presence of ads has no effect on TV stations.
b. The TV stations have no power to reject the low quality ads.
c. More people agree with the importance of TV ads.
d. The viewers give different reactions to the TV ads.
e. TV broadcast needs no TV ads to run its programs.

28.         …. television stations should also take part in filtering quality ads to show audiences.
The underlined words have synonymous meaning with ….
a. separate                       d. assemble
b. resemble                      e. create
c. participate
Text 7
Acid rain is rain that is highly acidic because of Sulphur oxides, nitrogen oxides, and other air pollutants dissolved in it. Normal rain is slightly acidic, with a pH of 6. Acid rain may have a pH value as low as 2.8.
Acid rain can severely damage both plant and animal life. Certain lakes, for example, have lost all fish and plant life because of acid rain.
Acid rain comes from sulphur in coal and oil. When they burn, they make sulphur dioxide (SO2 ). Most sulphur leaves factory chimneys as the gaseous sulphur dioxide (SO2 ) and most nitrogen is also emitted as one of the nitrogen oxides (NO or NO2 ), both of which are gases. The gases may be dry deposited–absorbed directly by the land, by lakes or by the surface vegetation. If they are in the atmosphere for any time, the gases will oxidise (gain an oxygen atom) and go into solution as acids. Sulphuric acid (H2 SO4 ) and the nitrogen oxides will become nitric acid (HNO3 ). The acids usually dissolve in cloud droplets and may travel great distances before being precipitated as acid rain. Catalysts such as hydrogen peroxide, ozone and ammonium help promote the formation of acids in clouds. More ammonium (NH4 ) can be formed when some of the acids are partially neutralised by airborne ammonia (NH3 ). Acidication increases with the number of active hydrogen (H+) ions dissolved in acid. Hydrocarbons emitted by for example, car exhausts will react in sunlight with nitrogen oxides to produce ozone. Although it is invaluable in the atmosphere, low level ozone causes respiratory problems and also hastens the formation of acid rain. When acid rain falls on the ground it dissolves and liberates heavy metals and aluminium (Al). When it is washed into lakes, aluminium irritates the outer surfaces of many fish. As acid rain falls or drains into the lake the pH of the lake falls. Forests suffer the effect of acid rain through damage to leaves, through the loss of vital nutrients, and through the increased amounts of toxic metals liberated by acid, which damage roots and soil micro organisms.

Taken from Science and Technology Encyclopedia, 1998
29.         What is the text mainly about?
a. The definition of acid rain.
b. The process of acid rain.
c. The effect of acid rain.
d. Acid rain.
e. Rain.

30.         The third paragraph tells about ….
a. acid rain damages environment
b. how acid rain endangers life
c. how acid rain occurs
d. the cause of acid rain
e. the acid rain cause

31.         What is the purpose of the text?
a. To report the acid rain in general
b. To explain the process of acid rain.
c. To persuade the reader to prevent acid rain.
d. To discuss the danger of acid rain in the air.
e. To present two different opinion on acid rain process.

32.         “Acid rain can severely damage both plant and animal life”. The bold word has the closest meaning to ….
a. harm               b. hang             c. endow          d. produce       e. develop

Text 8
Facsimile, often called fax, is away of transmitting texts and pictures over telephone lines. News services often use facsimile to send news, stories, and photographs to newspaper and television stations. Banks, law firms and other businesses use facsimile to send copies of document, to clients and other organization.
A device called a facsimile machine is used for transmitting and receiving images. Facsimile machines resemble small photocopiers. However, they are equipped with a telephone or are connected to one. To send a document, the user inserts it into the machine and dials the telephone number of the receiving fax machine. After the connection is made, an electronic scanner on the transmitting machine moves across the page and converts the image a set of electric signals. These signals travel over the telephone line to the receiving fax machine. That machine converts the electric signals back into an image of the original document and then prints a copy.
Some business people use small desktop fax machines or portable models at home or when they travel. A personal computer can also be used to send and receive documents if it is equipped with a special electronic circuit board called a fax board.

34.         What is the main information in the second paragraph?
a. A facsimile machine is a small photocopier
b. A facsimile machine is equipped with a telephone to transmit images
c. A facsimile machine transmits and receives images
d. A facsimile machine converts the electric signals back into an image
e. A facsimile machine sends documents to distant places

35.         What do you call the device in the facsimile machine that converts the image of the document into a set of electric signals?
a. A copier
b. A converter
c. A telephone
d. An electronic scanner
e. A transmitting machine

36.         What do you need to enable your computer to send and receive documents like a fax?
a. A fax board
b. A transmitter
c. A signal converter
d. An electronic circuit
e. An electronic scanner
Text 9
The story to ‘Kung Fu Panda’ is nothing really new, but it is told so well as to actually pack an emotional punch. And it never comes off as laughable, which in lesser hands could easily have happened. Speaking of laughs, there are many to be had here as well. ‘Kung Fu Panda’ works on just about every level a family movie can.
The cast features Jack Black as Po the Panda. The furious five, the most feared group of warriors in all of China, consists of Tigress (Angelina Jolie), Monkey (Jackie Chan), Mantis (Seth Roger), Viper (Lucy Liu), and Crane (David Cross). Their master is Shifu (Dustin Hoffman), a fur ball creature who is a legendary teacher of Kung Fu. Escaped from prison and on hi way to claim the Dragon Scroll, which will make him the all powerful Dragon Warrior, is the good gone bad Tai Lung (Ian Mc Shane). But first, he’ll have to muscle his way around 400 pounds of panda to get to it.
‘Kung Fu Panda’ is a damn good time at the movies. This was the movie that Dream works Animation so desperately needed after the disappointing ‘Shrek The Third’. With gorgeous animation, spectacular action, a great cast and dramatic weight of an Akira Kurosawa film, Kung Fu Panda is one of the favorite movie of the year.

37.         Which of the following quality does not describe the movie?
a. Funny
b. Touching
c. Stunning movie picture
d. Excellent actors
e. Unexciting

38.         Shrek The Third is ….
a. as desperate as Kung Fu Panda
b. not produced by Dream works
c. not a moving picture
d. not a first-rate movie
e. a brilliant movie

39.         The antagonist role of the movie is ….
a. Po
b. Tigress
c. Shifu
d. Tai Lung
e. Viper

40.         The phrase ’a full ball creature’ means….
a. An animal who likes to play fur ball
b. A ball-size creature which is hairy
c. An animal with black and white skin
d. An animal who is good at Kung Fu
e. A hairy animal

41.         The text above is characterized as …
a. Report                        b. Narrative                  c. Analytical                d. Hortatory     e. Review
Text 10
FILMS INTACT.
2002 Juan Carlos Fresnadillo.

Frederico and Sam are two lucky men, Frederico survived an earthquake and has the power to wrench fortune from those around him: he has the gift, Sam is a survivor of the Jewish holocaust and manages a casino in the middle of a lava desert. One day, Frederico challenges Sam who expels him from paradise, taking his gift from him.
Years later, Frederico thinks that he has found in Tomas, the only survivor of an air accident, the instrument of his vengeance. By teaching him to control fortune, he can use him to return to the casino and challenge the God of fortune. Together they begin a journey of initiation, a succession of ever more strange and difficult tests in which the highest bet is the luck of others; luck, which in this game is captured in a simple photograph. Everything goes well until Sara, a policewoman who survives a car accident which kills her family, becomes obsessed with discovering what is behind these clandestine games in which death and luck become enmeshed. In which only one ca remain intact. This film is really worth watching.

42.         The purpose of the text is …..
a. to describe a film
b. to describe how a film is made
c. to inform readers about a good film
d. to entertain readers by telling a story
e. to review a film for a public audience

43.         After reading the review, how would you judge this film?
a. Bad
b. Fair
c. Not bad
d. Mediocre
e. Excellent

44.         What does the writer suggest to the audience?
a. The film is forgettable
b. They should watch the film
c. They should neglect the film
d. They should make another film
e. The writer should promote the film

Cinta (Dian Sastrowardoyo) is a beautiful, smart and confident seventeen year old. Born in a loving family, surrounded by caring and supporting friends. Cinta seems to have everything in the world. She has four best friends, Milly (Sissy Pricillia), Karmen (Adinia Wirasti), Alya (Ladya Cheryl), and Maura (Titi Kamal) who always protect her. She’s also the object of Borne’s affection, the most eligible boyfriend at school.
But things are starting to change when Cinta meets Rangga (Nicholas saputra), a cool and arrogant boy whose presence is never taken into account at school. The unpredictable character of Rangga has disturbed Cinta. It creates a new and unfamiliar sensation which leads Cinta into a new and strange world. The next thing she knows, she has fallen in love with someone who has a very different character and comes from a very different world.
Bit by bit, Cinta starts to change. She becomes a new person, a stranger to her friends and even to herself. She doesn’t understand what has happened, let alone her friends.
45.         The purpose of the text is ….
a. to review the film character’s
b. to present two point of view
c. to explain how to do something
d. to retell the past event
e. to inform the true story

46.         The whole of the passage is …….
a. coda
b. title
c. evaluation of the work
d. orientation
e. issue

47.         What kind of family was she born to ?
a. poor family
b. rich family
c. in a loving family
d. in a good family
e. in a bad family

48.         What is the meaning of eligible?
a. bad qualification
b. comfortable
c. smart and beautiful
d. suitable, having the right qualification
e. good qualification

49.         What is the communicative purpose of the text above?
a. To analyze the artwork / event to the audience
b. To present the facts/arguments
c. To give the well-structured of procedures
d. To entertain the readers
e. To describe about something

50.         To tell the readers, the reviewer uses …
a. Past tense
b. Present continuous
c. Present tense
d. Simple future
e. Past continuous


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