The passage is a reading comprehension exam from Universitas Pamulang Faculty of Literature. It contains 7 sections assessing understanding of passages about pangolins, dictionary writing, computer outlines, predicting events, job advertisements, and school rules. The exam tests skills like identifying main ideas, determining meanings of words in context, answering true/false questions, and using skimming techniques.
The passage is a reading comprehension exam from Universitas Pamulang Faculty of Literature. It contains 7 sections assessing understanding of passages about pangolins, dictionary writing, computer outlines, predicting events, job advertisements, and school rules. The exam tests skills like identifying main ideas, determining meanings of words in context, answering true/false questions, and using skimming techniques.
The passage is a reading comprehension exam from Universitas Pamulang Faculty of Literature. It contains 7 sections assessing understanding of passages about pangolins, dictionary writing, computer outlines, predicting events, job advertisements, and school rules. The exam tests skills like identifying main ideas, determining meanings of words in context, answering true/false questions, and using skimming techniques.
The passage is a reading comprehension exam from Universitas Pamulang Faculty of Literature. It contains 7 sections assessing understanding of passages about pangolins, dictionary writing, computer outlines, predicting events, job advertisements, and school rules. The exam tests skills like identifying main ideas, determining meanings of words in context, answering true/false questions, and using skimming techniques.
UNIVERSITAS PAMULANG FAKULTAS SASTRA UJIAN TENGAH SEMESTER TAHUN AKADEMIK 2022/2023
Mata Kuliah : Textual Reading Hari/Tgl :-
Semester :1 Waktu : 90 Menit Fakultas /Prodi : Sastra/Sastra Inggris Sifat Ujian : Tutup Buku Dosen : Diyah Iis Andriani Shift :
I. Read the following passage and statements and answer the question below!
The Pangolin In parts of southeastern Asia, Indonesia, and areas of Africa below the Sahara desert, lives a relic of prehistory. The pangolin is a creature that looks something like a cross between an anteater and an armadillo. It is classified in the spiny anteater family, but instead of the coarse hair found on Central or South American anteaters, the pangolins have coats of mail formed by overlapping scales. Like their Central or South American cousins, pangolins have long tails, long, narrow snouts, and a sticky flypaper-like tongues, which they can thrust out to catch their meals. Pangolins have an effective means of defense. In addition to being protected by their scales, they also can roll up into a tight ball. Most enemies are deterred, but people in some areas of their range consider pangolin meat a delicacy.
1. What is the topic of this passage? The pangolin
2. What is the main idea of this passage? In part of southeastern , Indonesia and areas of Africa below the Sahara desert, lives a relic of prehistory. It is the pangolin.
II. Decide if each statement from the passage above is true, false, or can’t be determined from the information given. Write TRUE, FALSE, or UNKNOWN.
1. No pangolins live in North America. TRUE
2. Pigs and pangolins have similar snouts. FALSE 3. Pangolins eat ants. TRUE 4. Some people eat pangolins. FALSE 5. One meaning of mail is flexible armor. TRUE 6. Central or South American anteaters have soft, pliable hair. FALSE 7. A relic is something preserved from the past. TRUE 8. American anteaters have sticky tongues TRUE
III. Read each sentence and then answer the best meaning or synonym for the underlined word as it is used in the sentence. meanings principally from teachers and 1. It is widely believed that every word grammarians. a. Easily has a correct meaning that we learn these b. Mainly ( correct) YAYASAN SASMITA JAYA
UNIVERSITAS PAMULANG FAKULTAS SASTRA c. Only b. Language c. Type 2. What follows applies, incidentally, only to those dictionary offices where 7. As the editor read, they copy on card first-hand, original research goes on. a. every interesting or rare word, every Points to unusual or peculiar occurrence of a b. Belongs to common word, a large number of c. Relates to (correct) common words in their ordinary uses, and also the sentences in which each of these 3. What follows applies, incidentally, words appears, thus. a. Spelling only to those dictionary offices where b. Example (correct) first-hand, original research goes on. a. c. Lesson In that case (correct) b. In particular 8. When the sorting is completed, there will c. By the way be for each word anywhere from two to three to several hundred illustrative 4. What follows applies, incidentally, quotations, each on its card. a. Colorful only to those dictionary offices where b. Explanatory first-hand, original research goes on. a. c. Unusual (correct) New b. Language (correct) 9. The editor cannot be influenced by c. Informal what he thinks a given word ought to mean. He must work according to the cards or not at all. 5. The task of writing a dictionary a. Measured by begins with the reading of vast b. Interested in amounts of the literature of the period c. Affected by (correct) or subject that the dictionary is to cover. a. Idea b. Job ( correct) 10. To regard the dictionary as an c. Organization “authority” therefore, is to credit the dictionary writer with gifts or prophecy with neither he nor anyone else possesses. 6. The task of writing a dictionary a. Believe (correct) begins with the reading of vast b. Hope amounts of the literature of the period c. Understand or subject that the dictionary is to cover. a. Time ( correct)
IV. Look at the outline of the chapter below and answer the questions that follow! YAYASAN SASMITA JAYA
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Questions: 1. What is this chapter about? The Computer 2. Which topics are familiar with you? Printers 3. Are there any unfamiliar words for you in the outline? List them! DTC software, microcomputer evolution, the microctontoller. 4. Which topics would be most interesting to read for you? Central processing unit (CPU) 5. Would this chapter be difficult for you to read? Why? Yes, because i don’tknow a lot about Computer and i am not really interested of it.
V. Read the following passages. Determine what event is likely to occur next. Explain your answer using textual evidence.
My little brother is shaking me. Wake up, Kaira, he says. You’re going to be late. It wouldn’t be the first time. My dad always calls us down, but I never hear him. I quickly slip into my favorite pair of jeans and a random t-shirt I find in my drawer. When I get downstairs, Dad has already set a bowl of cereal on the table for me. He asks me if I slept well. I nod. The clock reads 7:22; three minutes before the bus comes. Questions: a. What event is most likely to occur next? He Will not be late. b. What evidence from the text supports your prediction? Because he prepared his heelf quickly before the bus comes.
VI. Read this job vacancy below and answer the following question YAYASAN SASMITA JAYA
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1. What type of work is offer? Accounting staff.
2. What kind of people is Intercontinental Hotel looking for? Male or female, maximum 25 years old, good command of English and so on. 3. Where is the job based? It is at the intercontinental Hotel. 4. True or false? Fresh graduated from Secretary can apply for this job. Give me the reason! No because the job is for the accounter. She/ he must graduated from accounting. 5. The minimum age for this job is 25. True or false? Give me a reason . FALSE because 25 is the maximum age based on the information.
VII. Read the school rules below and use skimming techniques to answer the questions that follow. YAYASAN SASMITA JAYA
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1. Is the prospectus aimed at students or parents? Yes it is.
2. Does the prospectus give detail of the curriculum? No it doesn’t. 3. Does the prospectus give parents information about school examinations? No it doesn’t. 4. Does the prospectus tell parents how to purchase second-hand uniform? Yes it does. 5. Does the prospectus tell you about school lunches? No it doesn’t.
