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Mid Term the Years of 2012 2013

Subject Day and Date Time Major Field Lecture : Extensive Reading : November 17, 2012 : 17.00 18.00 : English Language : Lia Oktovia, S. Pd

To look is Not to See Every reader of this passage must spend the whole of his waking life looking at things, like breathing, is natural; we do it without noticing it. Looking is passive but seeing is active, and that is the explanation for the title of the passage. Once you start seeing thing you really begin to wake up. People who see thing which other have only looked at. And seeing, draw conclusion from what they see, can add to mans knowledge and help progress. Someone recently discovered a place where metal had been worked continuously longer than anywhere else in England. He saw a wall in the Forest of dean. Thousands of people must have looked at it without really seeing it, but this man noticed that among the usual stones of that place were bits and pieces of a different color; they also felt different hand. A closer sight showed that these pieces had been left behind in the fires of ancient people who had smelted rocks to get metals. Looking around, he found more and more information, until the history of what man had one at that place over tens centuries was known 1. Find the correct answer based on the text above a. His walking Life means b. For the writer seeing means c. The mans discovery was useful because it gave us more knowledge about d. What was it that men had done at place over tens of centuries 2. Put these events into their order of happening a. A wall was built in the Forest of Dean b. Ancient people put rocks into fires c. The man saw that the colored pieces had been in fires d. Ancient people threw away the rocks from which they had smelted metal e. The history of that place over tens of century was know f. Thousands of people looked at the wall without seeing anything unusual g. The man looked closer at the colored pieces he found in the wall h. The man noticed bits and pieces of different color in the wall i. The man looked around for other information 3. Answer the following question briefly a. Why must every reader of this passage spend his waking life looking at things b. Does the writer want us to be active are passive c. Could a blind man discovered the unusual stones in the wall? Give a reason for your answer