SOAL LATIHAN ENGLISH

What is narrative text?

• A factual news

• A true experience story

• A text that describe specific things

• An imaginative story to entertain people

A Milkmaid had been in the meadow to milk her cows. Now she was returning home with a pail of milk on her hand.

She thought, "I will make cream and butter out of this milk. Then after selling them, I will buy eggs. And when they hatch, I shall have a good poultry farm".

She further thought, "I shall sell some of my chickens and buy a fine dress. Seeing it on my body at the party, all the boys will admire me. But I will turn them away".

She went on day dreaming; she forgot about the pail on her head. She moved her head suddenly and the pail of milk came tumbling down. It was broken and all the milk split.

"Dear, 0 dear!" she cried, "I have lost mine all".

What did the milk-maid carry on her hand?

• Some cream

• Some butter

• A pail of milk

• A pail of eggs

What does the text tell us about?

• Spilt milk

• A pail of milk

• A hardworking girl

• A day dreaming milk-maid

What can we learn from the story above?

• Don't cry over the split milk

• Don't cry before you are hurt

• Don't dream when you sleep

• Don't count your chickens before they are hatched

What is the structure of narrative text?

• Orientation - Complication - Resolution

• Resolution - Complication - Orientation

• Complication - Orientation - Resolution

• Orientation - Resolution - Complication

Giraffe is the highest animal in the world. Its height can reach 4.8 to 5.5 meters and its weight about 1360 pounds. Giraffe has a unique characteristic. They have a very long neck and two small horns on its head. Giraffes have big brown eyes and protected by thick and long eyebrows. Her body is covered with a unique pattern that is attached by brown spots all over their body.

Just like camels, giraffes can survive without drinking for long time because giraffes can rely on the water contained in leaves they eat. Giraffes are very selective in choosing food. They always eat young leaves that grow in the tree tops. Their tongue shaped like a knife help them to cut branches which are very hard.

Female giraffes can start pregnant at the age of five years, with a gestation period of 15 months. Commonly female giraffe bear one baby, but sometimes two babies at once. Giraffes bear its baby with a standing position. When the baby is about to be born, they just drop it to the ground from a 1.5 meter of height. Baby giraffe can stand with about 20 minutes since being born, and begin breastfeeding within an hour of birth.

What kind of text above?

• Descriptive text

• Narrative text

• report text

• recount text

An elephant is the largest and strongest animals. It is a strange looking animal with its thick legs, huge sides and backs, large hanging ears, a small tail, little eyes, long white tusks and above all it has a long nose, the trunk.

The trunk is elephant’s peculiar feature, and it has various uses. The elephant draws up water by its trunk and can squirt it all over its body like a shower bath. It can also lift leaves and puts them into its mouth. In fact the trunk serves the elephant as a long arm and hand. An elephant looks very clumsy and heavy and yet it can move very quickly.

The elephant is a very intelligent animal. Its intelligence combined with its great strength make it a very useful servant to man and it can be trained to serve in many ways such as carry heavy loads, hunt for tigers and even fight.

The third paragraph is mainly about the fact that ....

• elephants are strong

• elephants can lift logs

• elephants are very useful

• elephants are servant

A storm is a disturbance of the ordinary conditions of the atmosphere accompanied by wind, rain, snow, sleet, hail (frozen rain), or thunder and lighting.

The underlined word means ....

• Great

• Normal

• Small

• Big

Coconut tree usually grow in the lowland. It is easy to grow because it is not need special care. Coconut tree can survive until few years. Coconut tree is different with other tree because it is multifunction.

Coconut tree is very useful plants. We can use every part of the tree in our lives. The white meat can make in to copra by dry it. Then the people can get oil from it and use in daily cooking. Beside copra the meat also can make soap, candles and use it in culinary. The trunk is use to build houses. Sometimes there are people who use the leaves as roof and the people in Indonesia usually use it to make “ketupat”. People also can make rope, doormats, and from the coconut’s husk. Because coconut tree is very useful so it use as scout symbol

why coconut trees are easy to grow in the lowland?

• because it is not need special care.

• because coconut tree is very useful so it use as scout symbol

• because there are people who use the leaves as roof

• because the people can get oil from it

What is the social purpose of report text?

• Present about how to make something.

• presenting information about something. They generally describe an entire class of things, whether natural or made: mammals, the planets, rocks, plants, countries of region, culture, transportation, and so on.

• Present about information relate with news.

• To amuse the readers and listeners.