ENGLISH REMIDIAL SEMESTER TEST

Name :Erik PratomoClass :XII IPA 2Number :11

A. Narrative Text

Text 1

Long ago, a rich man wanted the very best education for his son, and so he sent him abroad to learn other languages. A few years later when the young man returned home, the only language he had learnt was the dog’s language. The father was so igdinant that he drove his son out of the house, and said the wished to have nothing further to do with him. The young man left his broken heart.

After a great deal of wandering, the young man arrived in a village which was terrorized by a group of fierce dogs. Altough everybody had advised him not to wander there, the young man insisted on going into the wood where dogs lived, and, too much amazement he returned without even a bark. He said that the dogs has spoken to him, explaining they were sad buried in the woods. The young man solved all the problems by digging up the chest for himself, so the dogs troubled the villagers no further and were free to wander.

Text 2

FLY AND BULL

There was once a little fly who thought he was very important. He felt proud of himself. One sunny morning, he flew around looking for someone to talk. He saw a bull grazing in a field. He decided to fly down to talk to him.

The little fly flew down and buzzed around the bull’s head. The bull didn’t bother him. He went on chewing grass.

The fly then buzzed right inside the bull’s head. The bull continued chewing grass. The fly tought, “What a stupid animal”.

Now the fly decided to land on the bull’s faced to make the bull notice him. He waited the bull to say something, but the bull kept quiet.

The fly then shouted angrily, “Oh, Bull if you find that Iam to heavy for you, let me know and I’ll fly away!”

The bull laughed and said, “Little fly, I don’t care if you stay or leave. You’re so tiny that your weigh doesn’t make any difference to me, so please be quiet and leave me alone”.

Text 3

WOLF AND THE LAMB

In a forest a deer was grazing along with her babies. Suddenly, she saw a wolf coming toward them. The deer thought of how to save her babies from the wolf and face danger. So she turned towards the wolf and politely wished good morning.

The wolf replied good morning, looking rather puzzled. The deer always run away when they see him. He asked , “Are you not frightened of me?” the deer replied ,“not at all”, because I know that you are wise. You do not attack anyone unless they quarrel with you.

The wolf said, “Youre absolutely right. Iam a peaceful animal.’ Amd it went into the forest. Suddenly the wolf saw a lamb drinking water down the stream. He felt very happy. He said to himself, “Oh! I have got my dinner”.

Suddenly he remembered the deer’s words. He searched for an excuse to attack the lamb. He told the lamb, “Oh! Wicked one! Why are you make your water muddy which Iam drinking?”. The lamb politely replied, “Sir, Iam drinking water in the downstream. How can I make your water muddy? Water never flow up.” For a moment the wolf did not find any answer.

He was determined to quarrel with the lamb. Finally the wolf said, “Six months ago you had called me names.” The lamb replied, “Sorry Sir, you are mistaken. I was not even bom six months ago.” The wolf realized that the lamb was right. He went away to the forest without causing any harm to the lamb.

While returning to the forest the wolf thought to himself, “My brother wolf never talked to its victim, but the deer tricked me to save her life.” So, he hurriedly came back to the stream. But he found that the lamb had already dissapeared. The wolf had to go without a meal.

Text 4

THE BEAR WHO MARRIED A WOMAN TSIMSHIAN

Once upon a time, there lived a widow of the tribe of the Gispaxia’ts. Many men tried to marry her daughter, but she declined them all.

The mother said, “When a man comes to marry you, feel of the palms of his hands. If they are soft, he decline him. If they are rough, accept him. “She meant that she wanted to have for a son in law a man skillfull in building canoes.

Her daughter obeyed her commands and refused the wooings of all young men. One right a youth came to her bed. The palms of his hands were very rough, and therefore she accepted his suit. Early in the morning, however, he had suddenly dissapeared, even before she had seen him.

When her mother arose early in the morning and went out, she found a halibut on the beach in front of the house, altough it was midwinter. The following evening the youngman came back but dissapeared again before the dawn of the day. In the morning the widow found a seal in front of the house. Thus they lived for some time. The young woman never saw the face of her husband; but every morning she found an animal on the beach, every day a larger one. Thus the widow came to be very rich.

She was anxious to see her son in law, and one day she waited until he arrived. Suddenly, she saw a red bear emerge from the water. He carried a whale on each side, and put them down on the beach. As soon as noticed that he was observed, he was transformed into a rock, which may be seen up to this day. He was a supernatural being of the sea.

B. Explanation Text

Text 1

Some of the world’s finest roads make use of bodies of water. They are called canals.

Canals are man made waterways. They are usually straight and narrow. But they are filled with water. They connect rivers and lakes, ocean and lakes, rivers and rivers, and oceans and oceans so that boats and ship can go from one to the other.

Most canals are used for transportation. Barges, boats, and ships carry good over canals. Some are used to irrigate land or to carry sewage from large cities. Canals also reduce the cost of shipping goods and offer travel short cuts. Canals even go over hills and mountains. But you know that water can’t flow up a hill, so how can the water and boats in a canal go up a hill?

Something called a lock is used. It is a giant tank. The tank is big enough to hold a long boat. The boat into the tank, and the doors behind it are closed to lock the boat in there. The more water is let into the tank. When the tank is full of water, the tank door in front of the boat is opened and the boat floats out. The boat floats higher and higher as the water rises. It floats either out a higher of the canal or into another tank or lock, which will lift it still higher.

To go down the hill on the other side, the boat enters a lock that is full of water. As the water is let out of the lock, the boat will float lower and lower. So locks make it possible for boats or ships to move from one water level to another.

Text 2

Chocolate starts with a tree called the cacao tree. The tree grows in equatorial regions, especially in places such as South America, Africa and Indonesia. The cacao tree produces a fruit about the size of small pineapple. Inside the fruit are the tree seeds, also known as cacao beans.

The beans are fermented for about a week, dried in the sun and then shipped to the chocolate maker. The chocolate maker starts by roasting the beans to bring out the beans to bring out the flavor. Different beans from different places have different qualities and flavor, so they are often sorted and blanded to produce a distinctive mix. Next, the roasted beans are winnowed. Winnowing removes the meat nib of the cacao bean from it shell. Then the nibs are blended. The blended nibs are ground to make it a liquid. The liquid is called chocolate liquor. It tastes bitter. All seeds contain some amount of fat, and cacao beans are not different. However, cacao beans are half fat, which is why the ground nibs from liquid. It’s pure bitter chocolate.

Text 3

An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. The seismicity, seismism or seismic activity of an area refers to the frequency, type and size of earthquakes experienced over a period of time.

Earthquakes are measured using observations from seismometers. The moment magnitude is the most common scale on which earthquakes larger than approximately 5 are reported for the entire globe. The more numerous earthquakes smaller than magnitude 5 reported by national seismological observatories are measured mostly on the local magnitude scale, also referred to as the Richter scale. These two scales are numerically similar over their range of validity. Magnitude 3 or lower earthquakes are mostly almost imperceptible or weak and magnitude 7 and over potentially cause serious damage over larger areas, depending on their depth. The largest earthquakes in historic times have been of magnitude slightly over 9, although there is no limit to the possible magnitude. The most recent large earthquake of magnitude 9.0 or larger was a 9.0 magnitude earthquake in Japan in 2011 (as of October 2012), and it was the largest Japanese earthquake since records began. Intensity of shaking is measured on the modified Mercalli scale. The shallower an earthquake, the more damage to structures it causes, all else being equal.

At the Earth's surface, earthquakes manifest themselves by shaking and sometimes displacement of the ground. When the epicenter of a large earthquake is located offshore, the seabed may be displaced sufficiently to cause a tsunami. Earthquakes can also trigger landslides, and occasionally volcanic activity.

In its most general sense, the word earthquake is used to describe any seismic event — whether natural or caused by humans — that generates seismic waves. Earthquakes are caused mostly by rupture of geological faults, but also by other events such as volcanic activity, landslides, mine blasts, and nuclear tests. An earthquake's point of initial rupture is called its focus or hypocenter. The epicenter is the point at ground level directly above the hypocenter.

Text 4

Tsunami are sometimes referred to as tidal waves, which are unusually high sea waves that are triggered especially by earthquakes. In recent years, this term has fallen out of favor, especially in the scientific community, because tsunami actually have nothing to do with tides. The once-popular term derives from their most common appearance, which is that of an extraordinarily high tidal bore. Tsunami and tides both produce waves of water that move inland, but in the case of tsunami the inland movement of water is much greater and lasts for a longer period, giving the impression of an incredibly high tide. Although the meanings of "tidal" include "resembling" or "having the form or character of the tides, and the term tsunami is no more accurate because tsunami are not limited to harbours, use of the term tidal wave is discouraged by geologists and oceanographers.

There are only a few other languages that have an equivalent native word. In Acehnese language, the words are ië beunaor alôn buluëk (depending on the dialect). In Tamil language, it is aazhi peralai. On Simeulue island, off the western coast of Sumatra in Indonesia, in Devayan language the word is smong, while in Sigulai language it is emong. In Singkil (in Aceh province) and surrounding, the people name tsunami with word gloro.

The principal generation mechanism (or cause) of a tsunami is the displacement of a substantial volume of water or perturbation of the sea. This displacement of water is usually attributed to either earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, glacier calvings or more rarely by meteorites and nuclear tests. The waves formed in this way are then sustained by gravity. Tides do not play any part in the generation of tsunamis.

Tsunami can be generated when the sea floor abruptly deforms and vertically displaces the overlying water. Tectonic earthquakes are a particular kind of earthquake that are associated with the Earth's crustal deformation; when these earthquakes occur beneath the sea, the water above the deformed area is displaced from its equilibrium position.More specifically, a tsunami can be generated when thrust faults associated with convergent or destructive plate boundaries move abruptly, resulting in water displacement, owing to the vertical component of movement involved. Movement on normal faults will also cause displacement of the seabed, but the size of the largest of such events is normally too small to give rise to a significant tsunami.