SOAL REMIDI SEMESTER GENAP KELAS X 2011-2012

Once upon a time, a hawk fell in love with hen. The hawk flew down from the sky and asked hen, “Won’t you marry me?”

The hen loved the brave, strong hawk and wished to marry him. But she said, “I cannot fly as high as you can. If you give me a time, I may learn to fly as high as you. Then we can fly together.”

The hawk agreed. Before he went away, he gave hen a ring. “This is to show that you have promised to marry me,” said the hawk.

So it happened that the hen had already promised to marry a rooster. So, when the rooster saw the ring, he became very angry. “Throw that ring away at once! Didn’t you tell me the hawk that you’d already promised to marry me?” shouted the rooster. The hen was so frightened at the rooster’s anger that she threw away the ring immediately.

When the hawk came the next day, the hen told him the truth. The hawk was so furious that he cursed the hen. “Why didn’t you tell me the earlier? Now, you’ll always be scratching the earth, and I’ll always be flying above you to catch your children,” said the hawk.

The curse seems to have come true.

Taken from: UAN D4-P11-2005/2006

1.      The text above is called ………

2.     What happened after the hawk knew the truth?

3.     What can we conclude from the text above?

4.     What did the hawk do to make the hen keep her promise?

One morning, one of the Witch’s friends came over to visit. When she looked around the room, she said, “Your house is ugly. My house is more beautiful than yours, and the walls are brighter.” The Witch was very angry when she heard this and she shouted, Get out of my house! And don’t ever come back here.”

After her friend left, the Witch looked around her house and she said to herself, “My friend was right. My house looks ugly and the paint is faded. I have to repaint it.” Then she went to the shop and bought a can of paint.

After lunch, she started to paint, and she worked very carefully. In the afternoon she finished the lower part of the house. When she wanted to start painting the upper part, she found out that she couldn’t reach it. Then she got an idea. “I will use my magic broom!” she shouted, “Broom, oh my broom, turn into a paint brush and paint my walls!”

Suddenly the broom turned into a paint brush and it started to paint the upper walls. It worked very fast, and in ten minutes the job was done.

The Witch was very happy.

Taken from:  English Text in Use X

5.     What is the resolution of the story above?

6.     What moral can we get from the story?

7.      What did the witch do after her friend criticized her house?

8.     What is the generic structure of the text?

 

Borobudur is Hindu-Buddhist temple built in the 9th century under the Sailendra Dynasty of Java. It is located near Magelang on the island of Java, Indonesia.

                 Abandoned in the 11th century and partially excavated by the archeologists in the early 20th century, Borobudur temple is well-known all over the world. Influenced by the Gupta architecture of India, the temple is constructed on a hill 46 m (150 ft) high and consists of eight step-like stone terraces, one on top of the other. The first five terraces are square and surrounded by walls adorned with Buddhist sculptures in bas-relief the upper three are circular, each with a circle of bell-shaped stupa (a Buddhist shrine). The entire edifice is crowned by a large stupa at the center of the top circle. The way to the summit extends through some 4.8 km of passages and stairways. The design of Borobudur, a temple-mountain symbolizing the structure of the universe, influenced the temples built in Angkor, Cambodia.

                Borobudur, rededicated as an Indonesian national monument in 1983, is a valuable treasure for Indonesian people.

9.     What is the best title for the passage above?

10. The main idea of the second paragraph is...

11.  The main idea of the first paragraph is...

12. ‘...surrounded by walls adorned with Buddhist sculptures...’ (paragraph 2)

The underlined word means...

MAN JAILED FOR STRIKING RI MAID

SINGAPORE: A supervisor was jailed for two months for repeatedly striking his Indonesian maid on the head and back with a television remote control, news reports said on Thursday.

Muhamad Shafiq Woon Abdullah admitted in a Singapore court, he physically abused the woman on several occasions between June and October 2002, The Straits Times said.

The magistrate’s court heard that Shafiq, 31, began striking Winarti, 22, about a month after she started working for him.

He hit her on the head with the TV set’s remote control because he was unhappy with her work. On one occasion, he punched her on the back after accusing her of daydreaming.

S.S. Dhillon, Shafiq’s lawyer, said his client lost his “better senses” when he saw his daughter’s face was covered as she lay in bed.

He said his client thought the maid had put the child in danger. – DPA

13. What does the text want to tell us about?

14. Who help Winarti in court?

15. What is the communicative purpose of the text?

16. What is maid?

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19. What is the advertisement about?

20.           What do you think “Taste Your Action” mean?

Bridge breaks in Central Java, killing 5 people and injuring 29 others

A footbridge packed with tourists broke at a mountainous resort on Java Island Wednesday, killing five people and injuring 29 after they plunged into a rocky riverbed, police and tourist officials said.

The victims were evacuated to three nearby hospitals, said Surono, an employee at the Baturaden resort in Central Java province, adding that they fell more than 20 meters (yards) after one of the steel cables holding the small bridge snapped. Local police chief Emron Putra Agung said five people were killed and 29 injured. The accident occurred as the country enjoys a weeklong holiday marking the end of the Islamic month Ramadan, when people traditionally flock to holiday sites. Baturaden, located 300 kilometers (190 miles) east of the capital Jakarta, is one of the most popular resorts on the slopes of Mount Slamet (3,428 meters, 11,246 feet), Java's second-highest peak.

21.  The text tells us about ….

22.       Some local tourist were killed and injured in Baturaden when ….

23.       The footbridge in Baturaden broke because …. 

24.       Which of the following statement is NOT TRUE according to the text?

25.       …. killing five people and injuring 29 after they plunged into a rocky riverbed,

What is the similar meaning of the words “plunged into”?

Lapindo Brantas Inc. is dumping contaminated water from the Sidoarjo mudflow disaster directly into the Porong River without treating it first as promised, witnesses claim.

The company has denied it has dumped untreated water into the river.

Witnesses claimed they had seen water from retaining ponds being channeled directly into the river.

The two pipes were connected to the river from one of the ponds near Pejarakan Jabon village. Three pumps have also been installed to distribute water from the pond to the river.

A TV journalist, Medi, said the pipes were set up in Thursday by soldiers from the Kepanjen battalion in Malang. Of the two pipes, only one was operating Friday, he said.

State Minister of Environment Rachmat Witoelar earlier said the water must not be dumped into seas or rivers without being treated.

The ministry earlier said the mud was non-toxic and safe, despite a study published in a government magazine that said the mud contained a number of dangerous chemicals.

26.       What type of text is used by the writer?

27.       The communicative purpose of this text is….

28.       What did the company conceal from the local people?

29.       It has dumped untreated water into the river. ( Paragraph 2)

What does It in the above text refer to….

RADIO, PAY-TV TO RESUME 24-HOUR BROADCASTS

 The government has revised a controversial decree cutting back the airtime for broadcasters to allow radio and pay-TV stations to resume broadcasting 24 hours a day.

The Ministry of Information and Communications issued Decree No. 11/2005 last month obliging all broadcast stations to go off the air from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m., in a bid to save energy amid soaring oil prices that have greatly inflated the government fuel subsidy.

The decree has drawn strong criticism from a number of different parties, with critics calling the decree government intervention in the public’s freedom and right to information.

The new decree, No. 12/ 2005, stipulates that local TV stations will be allowed to stay on the air 24 hours a day in the event of emergency situation, such as natural disasters.

In addition, the new decree also allows local TV stations to air live broadcasts from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. if the stations signed a contract with a third party before the decree was issued.

The new decree will be effective for five months and is subject to revision based on further developments in the county’s energy crisis.

The Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) said that the decree violated the independence of the media.

30.    What does the text tell us about?

31.    Why did the decree violate the independence of the media? Because ….

32.    The new decree, No. 12/ 2005, stipulates that local TV stations will be allowed to stay on the air 24 hours a day.

What is the meaning of the underlined word? 

AUSTRALIAN JOB ADS FALL

 SYDNEY:  The number of Australian job advertisements in newspapers and on the internet fell 2.4 percent in June from May but were still up 24.1 percent year-on-year, figures showed on Monday in another sign the economy continues to slow.

The number of jobs advertised in metropolitan newspapers alone dropped 1.9 percent in June to their lowest level since May 2003 and were down 6.1 percent from a year earlier.

Internet ads also declined in June, falling 2.5 percent from May but were still up 30.6 percent year-on-year.

The recent slowing in growth in job advertisements was consistent with cooling domestic economic activity, particularly in housing and retail spending, said ANZ senior economist Tony Pearson. “It suggests the exceptionally strong performance of the labour market over the past half year or so is coming to an end,” Pearson said.

33.    What is the purpose of the text?

34.    The decrease of Australian job ads is caused by …

35.    …. figures showed on Monday in another sign the economy continues to slow.

The underlined words have synonymous meaning with ….