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Exercise For Meeting 9 Basic Reading Class B

This document contains a student worksheet for an English reading assignment. It includes two reading comprehension exercises. The first exercise asks the student to identify references in a passage about organizations forming personnel departments to systematize management of human assets. The second exercise is a passage about the fallibility of human memory and how people tend to complain about poor memory but may not fully realize just how bad their own memory is, as evidenced by an amnesic patient who claimed to pride herself on her memory despite severe memory loss from Korsakoff's syndrome.

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Exercise For Meeting 9 Basic Reading Class B

This document contains a student worksheet for an English reading assignment. It includes two reading comprehension exercises. The first exercise asks the student to identify references in a passage about organizations forming personnel departments to systematize management of human assets. The second exercise is a passage about the fallibility of human memory and how people tend to complain about poor memory but may not fully realize just how bad their own memory is, as evidenced by an amnesic patient who claimed to pride herself on her memory despite severe memory loss from Korsakoff's syndrome.

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UNIVERSITAS MERDEKA MALANG

PROGRAM STUDI D3 BAHASA INGGRIS


Kampus: Jl. Terusan Halimun No.11-B Malang 65146 Telp: (0341) 568 395 psw. 772
Website: http://www.unmer.ac.id
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STUDENT’S WORKSHEET
Name : Fatia Fatima Viola Bella Vilonia (19063000037)

Assignment # : Exercises for Meeting 9

Subject/Credit : Basic English Reading

Exercise 1

Every organization, as soon as it gets to any size (perhaps 1,000 people), begins to feel a need to
systematize its management of human assets. Perhaps the pay scales have got way out of line,
with apparently similar-level jobs paying very different amounts; perhaps there is a feeling that
there are a lot of neglected skills in the organization that other departments could utilize if they
were aware that they existed. Perhaps individuals have complained that they don't know where
they stand or what their future is; perhaps the unions have requested standardized benefits and
procedures. Whatever the historical origins, some kind of central organization, normally named a
personnel department, is formed to put some system into the haphazardry. The systems that they
adopt are often modelled on the world of production, because that is the world with the best
potential for order and system.
Answer :
IDENTIFY THE REFERENCES
First Sentence :
Every organization, as soon as it gets to any size (perhaps 1,000 people), begins to feel a need to
systematize its management of human assets.
1. “It” refers to any size.
2. “Its” refers to every organization.
Second Sentence :
Perhaps the pay scales have got way out of line, with apparently similar-level jobs paying very
different amounts; perhaps there is a feeling that there are a lot of neglected skills in the
organization that other departments could utilize if they were aware that they existed.
3. “They” refers to other departments.
4. “They” refers to neglected.
Third Sentence :
Perhaps individuals have complained that they don't know where they stand or what their future
is; perhaps the unions have requested standardized benefits and procedures.
5. “They, Their” refers to individuals.
Fourth and fifth Sentence :
Whatever the historical origins, some kind of central organization, normally named a personnel
department, is formed to put some system into the haphazardry. The systems that they adopt are
often modelled on the world of production, because that is the world with the best potential for
order and system.
6. “They” refers to Personnel Department.
7. “That” refers to The world of production

Exercise 2

We all tend to complain about our memories. Despite the elegance of the human memory
system, it is not infallible, and we have to learn to live with its fallibility. It seems to be socially
much more acceptable to complain of a poor memory, and it is somehow much more acceptable
to blame a social lapse on 'a terrible memory', than to attribute it to stupidity or insensitivity. But
how much do we know about our own memories? Obviously we need to remember our memory
lapses in order to know just how bad our memories are. Indeed one of the most amnesic patients
I have ever tested was a lady suffering from Korsakoff's syndrome, memory loss following
chronic alcoholism. The test involved presenting her with lists of words; after each list she would
comment with surprise on her inability to recall the words, saying: 'I pride myself on my
memory!' She appeared to have forgotten just how bad her memory was'.

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