ENGLISH REMIDIAL SEMESTER TEST

Name
Class
Number

:Erik Pratomo
:XII IPA 2
: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 dogs
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 bulls head. The bull
didnt bother him. He went on chewing grass.
The fly then buzzed right inside the bulls head. The bull continued
chewing grass. The fly tought, What a stupid animal.
Now the fly decided to land on the bulls 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 Ill fly away!
The bull laughed and said, Little fly, I dont care if you stay or leave.
Youre so tiny that your weigh doesnt 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 deers 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 Gispaxiats.
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 worlds 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
cant 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. Its 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 i beunaor aln buluk
(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.