Cinderella

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful girl called Cinderella. She lived with step sister
and step mother. They were very bussy. She has to do all the homework.

On day, an invitation to the ball came to the family . her step sister did not let her go, so
cinderella was very sad, the steps sister went to the ball without her.

Fortunately, the fairy god mother cam and helpd to her. To get to the ball. At the balli
Cinderella danced with the prince, she fell in love with her, then later he married her, they lived
happily ever after.

1. Which of the following is not true according to the text ?

a. Cinderella lived with step sister
b. Cinderella felt happy with her husband
c. Cinderella felt annoyed with her step sister
d. Cinderella was helped by a fairy to get the ball
e. Cinderella was helped by her step sister to do all the home work
2. The communicative purpose of the text is to ….
a. Entertain the readers with a fairytale
b. Describe how Cinderella went to the ball
c. Persuade the readers to read the story
d. Inform the readers about Cinderella’s marriage
e. Explain to the readers why Cinderella’s stepsister hated her so much
3. “They were very bossy” (paragraph 1) the word “bossy” means….
a. Furious
b. Arrogant
c. Sensitive
d. Offensive

Fine Clothes

The emperor always wore the fines clothes in the empire. He was very proud of his fine clothes,
so when some men started advertising a new type of clothes “finer than the Emperor’s” he
immediately went to see for himself. He asked the men why the new clothes were finer than this,
but the men would not tell him. “That is our secret,” they said. Finally, the emperor decided to
buy all of the new clothes so that he would still have the finest clothes in the empire. As he
walked out of the shop wearing some of new clothes, a child shouted, “Look! The Emperor
understood the “secret” of his fine new clothes.

4. Which of the following examples shows that the Emperor was proud of his clothes?
a. He always wore the finest clothes in the empire
b. He went to see the new clothes
c. He bought all the new clothes so that he would have the finest clothes
d. He understood the “secret” of the fine new clothes
e. He didn’t wear any clothes
5. A secret is….
a. Something that is not true.
b. Something about which people will not tell others.
c. Special type of clothes.
d. Something that no one knows.
6. No body has ever seen Tony in a nightclub.
a. He has ever seen him in a nightclub
b. He has never seen in a nightclub
c. He hasn’t ever been seen in a nightclub
d. He has ever seen nobody in a nightclub
e. He has ever been seen in a nightclub
The passive construction is….

Al Brown

Al brown was very good was very good at fixing things around the house when they
broke. One day he went to another city to do some work there, and his wife was alone in the
house. While Mr. Brown was away, one of the faucets on the bathtub broke. Mrs. Brown didn’t
know much about fixing broken faucets, so she telephoned a plumber.
 The plumber came to the house that afternoon and fixed the faucet in few minutes. When
he finished, he gave Mrs. Brown his bill for the work.

She looked at it for several seconds and then said, “Your prices are very high, aren’t
they? Do you know, the doctor cost less than this when he comes to the house?”

“Yes, I know,” answered the plumber. “I know that very well, because I was a doctor
until I was lucky enough to find this job a few moths ago.”

7. The text mainly tells us about….

a. Al Brown visited to another city
b. The payment of the doctor’s visit
c. The broken faucets of Mrs. Brown’s bath up
d. The disappointment of Mrs. Brown about the bill given
e. An unexpected incidents experienced by Mrs. Brown
8. Which of the following sentences is true according to the text?
a. The plumber was smart
b. Al Brown went to the village to work
c. The plumber charged Mrs. Brown cheaply
d. Mrs. Brown was skillful in fixing broken faucet.
e. Mrs. Brown called Mr. brown to fix the broken faucet.
9. “The plumber came to the house that afternoon” (paragraph 2).
The underlined word means….
a. making handicraft
b. repairing vehicles
c. operating computers
d. fixing machines
10. The type of the text above is….
a. Report
b. Recount
c. Anecdote
d. Narrative
e. Descriptive
 Space travel
Space travel should he stopper for many reasons. Firstly, it is totally unsafe as proven by
the Columbia space shuttle disaster. Thousand people have been killed in accidents.
Secondly, it cost billions and billions dollars everyday just to put fuel into rockets.
Professor Smith from the spend money on people space association agrees that space
travel is a waste of time and money. Further, space travel is a altering the world’s weather
pattern as evidenced by the record of high temperatures this summer in cobra. Everyone
knows that if god wanted us to fly in space we should have been born with space suits.
Stop space before it destroys the earth.

11. How many reasons are stated in the text dealing with the point that space travel should be
stopped?
a. One
b. Two
c. Three
d. Four
e. Five
12. “Professor Smith from the spend money on people space association agrees that space
travel is a waste of time and money”
The sentence contain a word exspresses…..
a. Agreement
b. Disagreement
c. Contrast
d. Certainly
e. desire
13. wich is not true based on the text above…
a. Space travel should be stopped
b. Space travel destroys the earth
c. Space travel cost billions of dollars everyday
d. Space travel offer benefits to the earth
 e. Space travel is un safe
14. What does the text above mainly talk about ?
a. Air travel
b. Road travel
c. Water travel
d. Space travel
e. Rocket travel

Penguin In The Park

Once, a man was walking in a park when he came across a penguin. He took him to a
policeman and said, “I have just found this penguin. What should I do?” The policeman replied,
“take him to the zoo” The next day the policeman saw the same in the same park, and the man
was still carrying the penguin with him.

The policeman was rather surprised and walked up to the man and asked. “Why are you
still carrying that penguin about? Didn’t you take t to the zoo?” ‘I certainly did,’ replied the man.
“And it was a great idea because he really enjoyed it, so today I’m taking him to the movies!”

15. The text above belongs to

a. Spoof
b. Recount
c. Report
d. News item
e. Narrative
16. Where did the man find the penguin ?
a. In a zoo
b. In a park
c. In a movie theater
d. In a police station
e. At his home
17. Where did the man take the penguin for the first time ?
a. To a park
b. To a police station
c. To a zoo
d. To a movie theatre
e. To police man