First Semester Assignment

Understanding Narrative text, Explanation text,

and Discussion text

By : Gifari Widi. K

11 / XII IPS-1

SMA NEGERI 1 SURAKARTA

2014/2015

A. Narrative Text

The Boy Who Went to the North Wind

Once on a time there was an old widow who had one son, and as she was

poorly and weak, her son had to go up into the safe to fetch meal for cooking, but when he got outside the safe, and was just going down the steps, there came

the North Wind puffing and blowing, caught up the meal, and so away with it through the air. Then the boy went back into the safe for more, but when he came out again on the steps, if the North Wind didn't come again and carry off

the meal with a puff, and more than that, he did so the third time. At this the boy got very angry, and as he thought it hard that the North Wind should behave so,

he thought he'd just look him up, and ask him to give up his meal. So off he went, but the way was long, and he walked and walked, but at

last he came to the North Wind's house.

"Good day!" said the boy, and "thank you for coming to see us yesterday." "GOOD DAY!" answered the North Wind, for his voice was loud and

gruff, "AND THANKS FOR COMING TO SEE ME. WHAT DO YOU

WANT?" "Oh!" answered the boy, "I only wished to ask you to be so good as to let

me have back that meal you took from me on the safe steps, for we haven't much to live on, and if you're to go on snapping up the morsel we have there'll be nothing for it but to starve."

"I haven't got your meal," said the North Wind, "but if you are in such need, I'll give you a cloth which will get you everything you want, if you only

say, "Cloth, spread yourself, and serve up all kind of good dishes!"" With this the boy was well content. But, as the way was so long he

couldn't get home in one day, so he turned into an inn on the way, and when they

were going to sit down to supper, he laid the cloth on a table which stood in the corner and said,

"Cloth, spread yourself, and serve up all kinds of good dishes." He had hardly said so before the cloth did as it was bid, and all who stood

by thought it a fine thing, but most of all the landlady. So, when all were fast

asleep, at dead of night, she took the boy's cloth, and put another in its stead, just like the one he had got from the North Wind, but which couldn't so much as

serve up a bit of dry bread. So, when the boy woke, he took his cloth and went off with it, and that day

he got home to his mother.

"Now," said he, "I've been to the North Wind's house, and a good fellow he is, for he gave me this cloth, and when I only say to it, "Cloth, spread

yourself, and serve up all kind of good dishes," I get any sort of food I please." "All very true, my darling, "said his mother, "but seeing is believing, and I

can't believe it till I see it."

So the boy made haste, drew out a table, laid the cloth on it, and said, "Cloth, spread yourself, and serve up all kind of good dishes."

But never a bit of dry bread did the cloth serve up. "Well," said the boy, "there's no help for it but to go to the North Wind

again, "and away he went.

So he came to where the North Wind lived late in the afternoon.

"Good evening!" said the boy. "Good evening!" said the North Wind. "I want my rights for that meal of ours which you took," said the boy, "for

as for that cloth I got, it isn't worth a penny." "I've got no meal," said the North Wind, "but yonder you have a ram

which coins nothing but golden ducats as soon as you say to it: "Ram, ram, make money!"

So the boy thought this a fine thing, but as it was too far to get home that

day, he turned in for the night to the same inn where he had slept before. Before he called for anything, he tried the truth of what the North Wind

had said of the ram, and found it all right, but when the landlord saw that, he thought it was a famous ram, and, when the boy had fallen asleep, he took another which couldn't coin gold ducats, and changed the two.

Next morning off went the boy, and when he got home to his mother, he said,

"After all, the North Wind is a jolly fellow, for now he has given me a ram which can coin golden ducats if I only say, " Ram, ram! make money!""

"All very true, I dare say," said his mother, "but I shan't believe any such

stuff until I see the ducats made." "Ram, ram! make money!" said the boy, but if the ram made anything it

wasn't money. So the boy went back again to the North Wind, and blew him up, and said

the ram was worth nothing, and he must have his rights for the meal.

"Well," said the North Wind, "I've nothing else to give you but that old stick in the corner yonder, but it's a stick of that kind that if you say "Stick, stick, lay on!" it lays on till you say "Stick, stick, now stop.""

So, as the way was long, the boy turned in this night too to the landlord, but as he could pretty well guess how things stood as to the cloth and the ram, he

lay down at once on the bench and began to snore, as if he were asleep. Now the landlord, who easily saw that the stick must be worth something,

hunted up one which was like it, and when he heard the boy snore, was going to

change the two, but just as the landlord was about to take it the boy bawled out, "Stick, stick! lay on!"

So the stick began to beat the landlord till he jumped over chairs, and tables, and benches, and yelled and roared,

"Oh my! oh my! bid the stick be still, else it will beat me to death. You

shall have back both your cloth and your ram." When the boy thought the landlord had got enough, he said, "Stick, stick!

now stop!" Then he took the cloth and put it into his pocket, and went home with his

stick in his hand, leading the ram by a cord round its horns, and so he got his

rights for the meal he had lost.

Source : http://oaks.nvg.org/ntales13.html

Questions based on the text of “The Boy Who Went to the North Wind” :

1. The underlined word in sentence “…,he did so the third time” (paragraph

one) refers to….

a. The Landlord c. The North Wind

b. The Boy d. The Lord

2. What is exactly the boy did ?

a. Looking for food c. Go up into the safe

b. Looking for The North Wind d. Fetch a meal

3. Who is the character the boy met firstly on his way ?

a. The widow c. The Landlord

b. The North Wind d. The Landlady

4. The word “Haste” has the same meaning with…..

a. Hurry up c. Speed

b. Statement d. Move

5. The word “Fellow” has the closest meaning with the following words

except….

a. Man c. Friend

b. Companion d. Person

6. What did the boy got from the north wind for the first time ?

a. Cloth c. Ram

b. Book d. Stick

7. How many things the boy got from the north wind ?

a. One c. Three

b. Two d. Four

8. Who took the boy’s cloth ?

a. The Boy’s mother c. The Landlord

b. The North Wind d. The Landlady

9. Where was the boy lost his first worth thing ?

a. In The Inn c. Outside the safe

b. On his way to home d. In The Landlord’s house

10. How many times the boy went to the north wind ?

a. Once c. Three times

b. Twice d. Four times

11. What happened when the boy met the north wind for the first time ?

12. What is exactly the boy wanted from the north wind for the first time ?

13. What could the cloth from the north wind do ?

14. How could the boy lost his cloth ?

15. According to the text, what is the moral values we obtain ?

B. Explanation Text

The Northern Lights

The Northern Lights, as the name suggests, are especially related to the polar

regions. They occur most frequently in a belt of radius 2500 km centered on the

magnetic north pole. This so-called auroral zone extends over northern

Scandinavia, Island, the southern tip of Greenland and continuing over northern

Canada, Alaska and along the northern coast of Siberia. The coasts of the

Norwegian counties of Troms and Finnmark lay where occurrence is greatest,

making northern Norway, due to its ease of access and mild winter climate, an

attractive destination for people interested in observing this atmospheric

phenomenon. The Northern Lights can be seen from regions both north and

south of the auroral zone, but the likelihood decreases with distance. There is a

corresponding auroral zone around the southern magnetic pole, but these

'Southern Lights' are largely only seen from Antarctica and the surrounding

ocean. Of the populated regions in the southern hemisphere, the Southern Lights,

may only be glimpsed from Tasmania and southern New Zealand. The Northern

and Southern Lights occur simultaneously and are almost mirror images of each

other.

The Northern Lights stem from when large numbers of electrically charged

particles (electrons) at high speed stream in towards the Earth along its magnetic

field and collide with the highest air particles. The air then lights up rather like

what happens in a fluorescent light tube. The resulting colours reflect which

gases we find up there, the most usual yellow-green colour coming from oxygen.

Red colouring is also due to oxygen with a contribution from nitrogen. The

violet we often see at the lower edge of the aurora is due to nitrogen, as is most

blue colouring. The charged particles originate from the sun, and it is the

'weather' conditions on the sun that decide whether or not we will see the aurora.

Particles can stream out from the sun and some are captured by the Earth's

magnetic field and find their way into the polar regions. On the way, they travel

out into the night side of the Earth and gain extra energy.

Source : http://geo.phys.uit.no/articl/nord_eng.html

Questions based on the text of “The Northern Lights” :

1. What is the text about ?

a. Aurora

b. The formation of aurora

c. The Northern Light

d. Atmospheric phenomenon

2. The following points are about the text of “The Northern Light”. Which

one is incorrect ?

a. Aurora can be seen in the northern and southern hemisphere

b. The Southern Light mostly seen in Antartica

c. Nitrogen contributes blue colour of aurora

d. People loves to visit Norway because it’s mild winter

3. According to the text, where is the best place to see aurora ?

a. Norway

b. Northern and southern hemisphere

c. The coasts of the Norwegian counties of Troms and Finnmark

d. The coasts of Norway

4. The word “…this atmospheric phenomenon” on line 7th refers to…..

a. The Norwegian coasts

b. Auroral zone

c. Aurora

d. Winter climate

5. Based on the text, how many colours the aurora has ?

a. 2 c. 4

b. 3 d. 5

6. In which hemisphere can we find aurora ?

a. Northern hemisphere

b. Southern hemisphere

c. Northern and southern hemisphere

d. Polar hemisphere

7. The following places are where the aurora can be found, except…..

a. Earth’s magnetic c. Southern New Zealand

b. Norway d. Troms

8. The word “collide” on the 2nd pararaph has the closest meaning with the

followings words except….

a. Hit c. Impact

b. Crash d. Destroy

9. What can influences the appears of aurora ?

a. Mild winter climate c. Climate

b. The charged particles from the sun d. Conditions of the sun

10. What is the information in the 2nd paragraph…..

a. Explanation about aurora

b. About how aurora formed

c. About the parts of aurora

d. Characteristic of aurora

11. How aurora formed ?

12. Refers to question number 4, why the place mentioned above is considered

as the best place to see aurora ?

13. Where can we see violet colour of aurora ?

14. What is “auroral zone” ?

15. Where does the auroral zone extends ?

C. Discussion Text

Should Indonesia raise fuel prices ?

Raising fuel prices is politically sensitive in Indonesia, where it's thought almost

half the population lives on $2 a day. Prices were raised by 2,000 rupiah ($0.16; £0.10) per litre, with gasoline now costing 8,500 rupiah and diesel 7,500 rupiah.

One frequently criticized government policy in Indonesia is that fuel - to a large extent - is subsidized by the state budget. The subsidised fuel prices in Indonesia are among the cheapest in the world. Although this measure aims at supporting the poorer

segments of Indonesian society, richer segments are in fact the ones benefiting the most from subsidized fuel.

Moreover, it results in a significant increase in fuel demand, thus placing serious stress on the government's budget deficit. Extra allocations to meet rising subsidized fuel demand are made annually, while the artificial low price of fuel causes market

distortions. The government realizes the importance of reducing these fuel subsidies, a move

that would be highly supported by international organizations such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), but its reduction or removal is, however, a highly sensitive issue in Indonesia and will trigger mass demonstrations across the

country, thus implying political risks for the ruling elite.

Source : http://www.indonesia- investments.com/id/doing-business/commodities/crude- oil/item267

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30092295

Questions based on the text of “Should Indonesia raise fuel prices ?”

1. What is the main idea of the text ?

a. Indonesian government’s policy about fuel c. Fuel prices

b. The raise of the fuel prices d. Oil crisis

2. Based on the text, what is the frequently criticized in Indonesia ?

a. Subsidy policy of fuel

b. The raise of fuel prices

c. Indonesian government’s policy about fuel

d. Indonesian state budget

3. Which is the correct statement about the topic discussed on the text ?

a. Fuel prices is raised by $ 2

b. Fuel prices in Indonesia is the cheapest in the world

c. There is happened government’s budget deficit

d. The artificial low price of fuel causes market distortions

4. How many gasoline we get by Rp 50.000 ?

a. About 5 litres c. 5,5 litres

b. Approximately 5,5 litres d. More than 5 litres

5. Based on the text, what makes the deficit of government’s budget ?

a. The increase of fuel prices c. Market distortion

b. Increase in fuel demand d. Fuel subsidy

6. What is the solution offered by the World Bank and the IMF ?

a. Decrease fuel demand c. Reducing market

distortion

b. Removing fuel subsidy d. Raising fuel prices

7. What is the purpose of government’s subsidy policy of fuel ?

a. To increase fuel demand c. To help Indonesian

people

b. To support the poor society d. To make Indonesian

rich

8. From the text, we can conclude that raising fuel prices is a sensitive matter in

Indonesia. Why it is considered as a sensitive matter ? Please explain with

the identification of it’s correlation with people’s life !

9. Refers to question number 2, why it is the frequently criticized in Indonesia

?

10. What will happen if the Indonesian government applied the solution offered

by the World Bank and the IMF ?

Answers of questions from narrative text, explanation text, and discussion text

A. Answer of questions from text “The Boy Who Went to The North Wind”

1. C 6 . A

2. D 7 . C

3. B 8 . D

4. A 9 . A

5. A 10. C

11. The boy met the north wind for the first time when he got outside the safe. When the boy met the north wind for the first time, all of his meal blown

away through the air. ( 1st paragraph on line 3-4 )

12. The boy wanted his meal that blown away by the north wind back by asking

the north wind to give it back. ( 3rd paragraph)

13. The cloth given by the north wind can provides everything the boy want by saying “Cloth, spread yourself, and serve up all kind of good dishes!”

( 4th paragraph)

14. The boy lost his cloth when he was asleep at the night. His cloth actually was taken by the landlady.

( 6th paragraph) 15. The moral value we obtain from the text is that we are supposed to be very

careful in keeping what we have and what our rights.

B. Answer of questions from text “The Northern Lights”

1. B 6. C

2. D 7. A

3. C 8. D

4. C 9. B

5. B 10. B

11. Aurora formed by the large numbers of electrically charged particles at high

speed stream in towards the earth along it’s magnetic field and collide with the

highest air particles.

( 2nd paragraph on 1st sentence )

12. The coast of the Norwegian counties of Troms and Finmark are the best

place to see aurora because these are the place where the northern light

phenomenon happens amazingly. Moreover, it has mild winter climate and its

ease of access.

( 1st paragraph on line 5-7 )

13. We can see violet colour of aurora at the lower edge of aurora.

( 2nd paragraph on line 6-7 )

14. Auroral zone is an imaginary belt or line on radius 2.500 km centered on the

magnetic pole.

( 1st paragraph on line 2-3 )

15. Auroral zone extends over northern Scandinavia, Island, the southern tip of

Greenland and continuing over northern Canada, Alaska and along the

northern coast of Siberia.

( 1st paragraph on line 3-5 )

C. Answer of questions from text “Should Indonesia raise fuel prices ?”

1. B 6. B

2. C 7. B

3. D

4. B

5. D

8. Raising fuel prices is a sensitive matter in Indonesia because the

living standard in Indonesia is low as there written on the text that almost

half of people in Indonesia lives by $ 2 (Approximately Rp 25.000 with the

current exchange rate) per day , so that most of Indonesian people’s income

will not sufficient to cover their needs, especially on fuel.

( Based on 1st paragraph on 1st line )

9. The Government’s policy about fuel subsidy is frequently criticized in

Indonesia because the government subsidizing a large amount of fuel in

Indonesia with the state budget.

( Based on 2nd paragraph on line 1-2 )

10. The solution offered by the World Bank and IMF are removing or reducing

fuel subsidy. As raising fuel prices is a sensitive matter, there will be many

protest from many parts, especially from poor society that against the

government’s policy about rising fuel prices and cut off fuel subsidy.

Furthermore it will impact to the political risk.

( Based on 4th paragraph and 1st paragraph )