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1. A man in Puerto Rico had a wonderful parrot.  There was no other parrot like it.

It was very, very smart.  This parrot would say any word-except one.  He would not say the name of the town where he was born.  The name of the town was Catano.

The man tried to teach the parrot to say Catano.  But the bird would not say the word.  At first the man was very nice, but then he got angry.  “You are a stupid bird! Why can’t you say the word? Say Catano, or I will kill you!” but the parrot would not say it.  Then the man got to so angry that the shouted over and over, “Say Catano, or I’ll kill you!” but the bird wouldn’t talk.

One day after trying for many hours to make the bird say Catano, the man got very angry.  He picked up the bird and threw him into the chicken house.  “You are more stupid than the chickens.  Soon I will eat them, and I will eat you, too.” In the chicken house there are four old chickens.  They were for Sunday’s dinner.  The man put the parrot in the chicken house and left. The next day the man came back to the chicken house.  He opened the door and stopped.  He was very surprised at what he saw! He saw three dead chickens on the floor.  The parrot was screaming at the fourth chicken, “Say Catano, or I’ll kill you!

35. Where does the story take place?

A.  Indonesia

B.  Brazil

C.  Puerto Rico

D.  New York

E.  Jepang

Answer: C

2. Kangaroo

A kangaroo is an animal found only in Australia, although it has a smaller relative, called a wallaby, which lives on the Australian island of Tasmania and also in New Guinea.

Kangaroos eat grass and plants. They have short front legs, but very long, and very strong back legs and a tail. These they use for sitting up on and for jumping. Kangaroos have been known to make forward jumps of over eight meters, and leap across fences more than three meters high. Thelsoy can also run at speeds of over 45 Km per hours.

The largerst kangaroos are the great Grey kangaroo and the red kangaroo. Adults grow to a length of 160 meters and weigh over 90 kilos.

Kangaroo are marsupials. This means that the female kangaroo has an external pounch on the front of her body. A baby kangaroo is very tiny when it is born and it crawls at once into this punch where it spends its first five months of life.

What the little about the text…

a. What the kangaroo?

b. What the buffalo?

c. Kangaroo is marsupials.

d. Kangaroo is Australian.

e. Babys Kangaroo

Answer: A

3. Long, long ago, when the gods and goddesses used to mingle in the affairs of mortals, there was a small kingdom on the slope of Mount Wayang in West Java.  The King, named Sang Prabu, was a wise man.  He had an only daughter, called Princess Teja Nirmala, who was famous for her beauty but she was not married.  One day Sang Prabu made up his mind to settle the matter by a show of strength.

After that, Prince of Blambangan, named Raden Begawan had won the competition.  Unfortunately, the wicked fairy, Princess Segara fell in love with Raden Begawan and used magic power to render him unconscious and he forgot his wedding.  When Sang Prabu was searching, Raden Begawan saw him and soon realized that he had been enchanted by the wicked fairy.  The fairy could not accept this, so she killed Raden Begawan.  When Princess Teja Nirmala heard this, she was very sad.  So a nice fairy took her to the Kahyangan.

QUESTION : Which one of the following statements is false about Sang Prabu?

A. Sang Prabu was a father of his only daughter

B. Sang Prabu was a king of a kingdom in West Java

C. Sang Prabu was  taken to Kahyangan by a wicked fairy

D. Sang Prabu was a wise man

E. Sang Prabu didn’t have a son

Answer: C

4. Snow White 

Once upon a time there lived a little girl named Snow White. She lived with her aunt and uncle because her parents were dead.

One day she heard her uncle and aunt talking about leaving Snow White in the castle because they both wanted to go to America and they didn’t have enough money to take Snow White. Snow White didn’t want her uncle and aunt to do that so she decided that it would be best if she ran away. The next morning she ran away into the woods. She was very tired and hungry. Then she saw a little cottage. She knocked but no one answered so she went inside and fell asleep.

Meanwhile, the seven dwarfs were coming home from work. There they found Snow White sleeping. Then Snow White woke up. She saw the dwarfs.

The dwarfs said, “What is your name?”

Snow White said, “My name is Snow White.”

Then, Snow White told the dwarfs the whole story.

The dwarfs said, “If you want, you may live here with us.”

Snow White answered, “Oh, could I? Thank you.”

Finally, Snow White and the seven dwarfs lived happily ever after.

Question : To tell the plot, the writers uses…………..

a. a rhetorical question and an exclamation

b. time sequences

c. contrastive evidences

d. past tense

e. concessive conjunctions

Answer: D

5. The rat's king immediately took his entire group of rats and they cut open the nets which had trapped the elephant's herd. The elephant herd was totally set free. They danced with joy and thank the rats.

1. What type of text is the above text? It is …

A. a narrative text 

B. a description text

C. a recount text

D. an anecdote text

E. an expository text

Answer: A