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LADY DIANA
Diana was
born in 1961 as the third daughter of Edward John Spencer and his wife Ruth
Burke Roche. Diana grew up in a very privileged family that had a long history
of close ties with the royal family. When Diana’s paternal grandfather passed
away in 1975, Diana’s father became the 8th Earl of Spencer and Diana gained
the title of “Lady”.
In 1969, Diana’s parents divorced. Her mother’s affair helped court decide to give custody of the couple’s four children to Diana’s father. Both of her parents eventually remarried, but the divorce left an emotional scar on Diana.
Diana attended school at West Heath in Kent and spent a short time a finishing school in Switzerland. Although she was not an excellent student academically, her determined personality, caring nature, and cheerful outlook helped her through it. After returning from Switzerland, Diana rented an apartment with two friends, worked with children at the Young England Kindergarten, and watched movies and visited restaurants in her free time.
It was about this time that Prince Charles, in his early 30, was under increasing pressure to choose a wife. Diana’s vibrancy, cheerfulness, and good family background caught the attention of Prince Charles and the two began dating during in mid-1980. It was a whirlwind romance for on February 24, 1981, Buckingham Palace officially announce the couple’s engagement. At the time, Lady Diana and Prince Charles seemed truly in love and whole world was awed by what seemed like a fairytale romance.
26. How did Diana spend her free time when she was still a bachelorette?
A. She watched movies B. She finished her school
C. She worked in restaurant D. She returned to Switzerland
E. She visited her friends near the restaurant
Letak Jawaban: ... and watched movies and visited restaurants in her free time.
27. The custody of the couple’s four children was given to Diana’s father because…….
A. her outlook was cheerful B. her mother had an affair
C. she determined her personality D. she had her very privileged family
E. her paternal grandfather was dead
Letak Jawaban: Her mother’s affair helped court decide to give custody of the couple’s four children to Diana’s father.
28. How was Diana’ academic achievement?
A. Super B. Average C. First rate D. Admirable
E. Exceptional
Letak Jawaban: Although she was not an excellent student academically, ....
Pilihan A, C, D, dan E mempunyai makna yg sama.
In 1969, Diana’s parents divorced. Her mother’s affair helped court decide to give custody of the couple’s four children to Diana’s father. Both of her parents eventually remarried, but the divorce left an emotional scar on Diana.
Diana attended school at West Heath in Kent and spent a short time a finishing school in Switzerland. Although she was not an excellent student academically, her determined personality, caring nature, and cheerful outlook helped her through it. After returning from Switzerland, Diana rented an apartment with two friends, worked with children at the Young England Kindergarten, and watched movies and visited restaurants in her free time.
It was about this time that Prince Charles, in his early 30, was under increasing pressure to choose a wife. Diana’s vibrancy, cheerfulness, and good family background caught the attention of Prince Charles and the two began dating during in mid-1980. It was a whirlwind romance for on February 24, 1981, Buckingham Palace officially announce the couple’s engagement. At the time, Lady Diana and Prince Charles seemed truly in love and whole world was awed by what seemed like a fairytale romance.
26. How did Diana spend her free time when she was still a bachelorette?
A. She watched movies B. She finished her school
C. She worked in restaurant D. She returned to Switzerland
E. She visited her friends near the restaurant
Letak Jawaban: ... and watched movies and visited restaurants in her free time.
27. The custody of the couple’s four children was given to Diana’s father because…….
A. her outlook was cheerful B. her mother had an affair
C. she determined her personality D. she had her very privileged family
E. her paternal grandfather was dead
Letak Jawaban: Her mother’s affair helped court decide to give custody of the couple’s four children to Diana’s father.
28. How was Diana’ academic achievement?
A. Super B. Average C. First rate D. Admirable
E. Exceptional
Letak Jawaban: Although she was not an excellent student academically, ....
Pilihan A, C, D, dan E mempunyai makna yg sama.
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SEA HORSE
Many people
imagine the seahorse to be real horse living in the sea. This is not
true at all. The seahorse is so called because it is a tiny creature
with a horse – liked head which lives in the sea.
Sea – horse
are found mostly in warm seas. They have a long, flexible tail which is used
for wrapping around weeds for support. They swim I upright position, their
movements being helped by a rapidly oscillating fin on their back. The male sea
– horse lays her eggs in this pouch.
The most
remarkable thing about the seahorse is that part of the process of
reproduction is taken over by the male creature. One the
female seahorse has laid her eggs in the male creature’s pouch, she
leaves. The hatching of the egg is done by the male fish.
Mating
begins with the male and the female seahorses doing courtship dance.
The male and female creatures swim around each other in circles. At the end of
the dance, the male appears to bow to its partner; but in actually, the male is
banding to pump water from his pouch. Next, the female fish lays eggs into the
male’s pouch. About two hundred eggs are laid. The pouch, then close up. The
female seahorse now swims away, leaving the
male seahorse to do hatching.
The eggs are
hatched about a month later. The young seahorses are ejected from the
male creature’s pouch by means of muscular contractions.
The sea –
horse feeds on tiny fish the creatures sucking them into its month.
1. What is
the purpose of the text?
a. to inform readers the sea – horse’s process of
reproduction
b. to
persuade readers to breed the seahorse
c. to
explain how to bread the seahorse
d. to
describe a particular seahorse
e. to
describe a particular sea horse
2. What do
you think about the sea horse’s reproduction process ....?
a.
Amazing
b.
Exciting
c. Peculiar
d.
Strange
e. Unique
3. The
male seahorse has a pouch in its abdomen to ….?
a. hatch the
eggs
b. feed the
baby seahorse
c. eject the
young seahorses
d. keep some
food for its babies
e. pump
water from its abdomen
NO 2 JAWABANNYA C
ReplyDeleteNO 3 JAWABANNYA D
Cerita yg mana
DeleteBnr kah no 2 dan 3 c Ama d
Deletetexs ya sama aja tapi jawaban yang ini apa : why this use of a long flexible tail?
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