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Whales are the largest animals on the earth. Bigger than elephants, they may grow 95
feet long, and weigh 150 tons. A baby blue whale, just born, can be 23 feet long and weigh 3
tons.
Although whales live in the oceans and swim like fish, they are not fish. They are
mammals, like cows and elephants. Unlike fish they bear young alive, not as eggs. Their
babies live on their mother’s milk. They breathe through their lungs and hold their breath
when they go under water. If they cannot come to the surface to breathe fresh air, they will
drown. They are warm blooded. Fish, however, lay eggs, breathe oxygen in the water, and are
cold-blooded.
Whales life in all-the ocean, in the winter some of them go to warm waters to breed and
in the summer most of them go to cold waters to feed. There are to kinds of whales, whales
with teeth (tooted whales) and whales without teeth (baleen whales). The toothed whales eat
fish and squid, which they can catch with their teeth, although they swallow their food
without chewing it. The baleen whales eat plankton (small sea animals and plants). When
they find plankton, they open their mouth and swallow the plankton.
Whales have few enemies. Only human and killer whale attack whales. And whales do
not seem to fight among themselves. They usually live from 20 to 30 years.

1. What is the main idea of the second paragraph?

a. Whales are the largest animals on the earth.
b. There are two kinds of whales.
c. Whales are mammals.
d. Whales have few enemies.
e. Fish lay eggs, breathe oxygen in the water

2. Whales occasionally live in warm waters…

a. To get more foods
b. For production
c. For fresh air
d. To avoid winter
e. To feed their babies

3. From the text we may conclude…

a. a whale can eat both squid and plankton
b. tooted whales chew their food before swallowing it
c. the two types of whales live in different waters.
d. Baleen whales swallow the water containing plankton
e. Each type of whale eat specific in of food

The Brainy Body

Your brain is as big as your two fists side by side. It's the place where you think, learn, work out
problems, remember, feel happy and sad, wonder, worry, have ideas, sleep and dream.
Yet the brain looks like a wrinkly lump of grey-pink jelly! On average, it weighs about 1.4
kilograms. It doesn't move, but its amazing nerve activity uses up one-fifth of all the energy needed by
the body.
 The main part of the brain is its bulging, wrinkled upper part, the cerebrum. Different areas of its
surface (cerebral cortex) deal with nerve signals to and from different parts of the body. For example,
messages from the eyes pass to the lower rear part of the cerebrum, called the visual center. They
are sorted here as the brain cells work out what the eyes are seeing.
There are also areas for touch, hearing, taste and other body processes. ,
The cerebellum is the rounded, wrinkled part at the back of the brain. It processes messages from
the motor center, sorting and coordinating them in great detail, to send to the body's hundreds of
muscles. This is how we learn skilled, precise movements such as writing, cycling or playing music (or
all three), almost without thinking.
The brain stem is the lower part of the brain, where it joins the body's main nerve, the spinal cord.
The brain stem controls basic processes vital for life, like breathing, heartbeat, digesting food and
removing wastes.
The brain really does have 'brain waves'. Every second it receives sorts and sends millions of
nerve signals. Special pads attached to the head can detect these tiny electrical pulses. They are
shown on a screen or paper strip as wavy lines called an EEG, electro-encephalogram.

1. How big is the brain according to the text?

a. 1.4 kilograms
b. Hundreds
c. Millions tons
d. 1.5 kilograms
e. Three fists

2. What is the main part of the brain ?

a. fists
b. cerebrum
c. cerebellum
d. bulging
e. encephalogram

3. What is the cerebellum?

a. it is the main part of the brain which processes massage from the eyes pass to the lower rear part
b. it is the special pads attached to the head can detect these tiny electrical pulses
c. it controls basic processes vital for life, like breathing, heartbeat, digesting food and removing wastes
d. it is back part of the brain which processes massage from the motor center
e. it is the lower part of the brain, where it joins the body’s main nerve, the spinal cord

4. Which part controls the heartbeat?

a. the cerebellum
b. the cerebrum
c. the brain stem
d. the cerebral cortex
e. the electro-encephalogram

5. Different areas of its surface…

The underlined word means ….
a. the brain stem
b. the cerebellum
c. the electro-encephalogram
d. the spinal cord
e. the cerebrum

6. The cerebellum controls basic process vital for life like…

a. breathing
b. seeing
c. cycling
d. hearing
e. Digesting food
 Kangaroo
A Kangaroo is a marsupial from the family Marcopodidae (marcopods, meaning ‘large foot’). In
common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, the Red Kangaroo, the
Antilopine Kangaroo, and the eastern and Western Grey Kangaroo of the Macropus genus.
The Kangaroo is an Australia icon: it is featured on the Australian coat of arms, on some of its
currency, and is used by many Australian organizations, including Qantas.
Kangaroo soon became adopted into Standard English where it has come to mean any
member of the family of kangaroos and wallabies. Male kangaroos are called bucks, boomers, jacks,
or old men; famales are does, flyers, or jills, and the young ones are joeys. The collective noun for
kangaroos is a mob, troop, or court. Kangaroos are sometimes colloquially referred to as roos.
Kangaroos have large, powerful hind legs, large feet adapted for leaping, along muscular tail
for balance, and a small head. Like all marsupials, female kangaroos have a pouch called a
marcupium in which joeys complete postnatal development.
Because of its long feet, it cannot walk correctly. To move at slow speeds, it used its tail to
form a tripod with its two forelimbs. It then raises its hind feet forward, in a form of locomotion called
“crawl-walking.”

1. The following are about the kangaroo, EXCEPT…

a. Male kangaroos have puch called marsopium
b. The kangaroo has large, powerful hind legs
c. The kangaroo can not walk correctly
d. The kangaroo is an Australian icon
e. Kangaroo is a marsupial

2. To move at slow speeds, kangaroos…

a. Form a tripod
b. Use its tail
c. Use its pouch
d. Use its hind feet
e. Use its two forelimb

3. The young Kangaroo is…

a. Jill
b. Jack
c. Buck
d. Boomer
e. Joey

Mangrove Trees
A mangrove is a tropical maritime tree or shrub of the genus Rhizophora. Mangroves have
special aerial roots and salt-filtering tap roots that enable them to thrive in brackish water (brackish
water is salty, but not as salty as sea water).
There are several species of mangrove tress found all over the world. Some prefer more
salinity, while others like to be very close to a large fresh water source (such as a river). Some prefer
areas that are sheltered from waves. Some species have their roots covered with sea water every day
during high tide. Others are more sensitive to salinity, and grow closer to the shore. Other species
grow on dry land, but are still part of the ecosystem.
Mangrove need to keep their trunk and leaves above the water line. Yet they also need to be
firmly attached to the ground so they are not moved by waves. There are three types of mangrove
roots that help in this process :
1. Support roots which directly pierce the soil.
2. Level-growing roots which twist upward and downwards, with the upward twists emerging on the
water surface.
3. Level-growing roots whose downward twists (sub-roots) appear on the water surface.
Any part of a root that appears above the water line channels oxygen to the plant below the water
line. Over time as soil begins to build up, these roots produce additional roots that become embedded
in the soil.

4. What is a mangrove tree ?

 a. It is dessert tree or vegetation of the genus Zoroaster
b. It is a mountain tree or plant of the genus polychaeta
c. It is a jungle tree or vegetation of the genus ancylostoma
d. It is a sea tree or plant of the genus pseudoselomata
e. It is a tropical maritime tree or shrub of the genus rhyzophora.

5. What makes mangroves able to thrive in brackish water? Because………

a. They have feet to move to another area
b. They do need oxygen to live
c. They do not need water to live
d. They have special aerial roots and salt-filtering tap roots
e. They produces the salt for human.
6. What can you say about brackish water?
a. Brackish water is sweet but not as sweet as sugar
b. Brackish water is sour but not as sour as acid
c. Brackish water is hot but not as hot as red pepper
d. Brackish water is salty but not as salty as sea water
e. Brackish water is bitter but not as bitter as herbs.

7. Why do mangroves need to be firmly attached to the ground ? so…

a. They will move by waves to another area
b. They are not moved by waves
c. It is easier to catch their prey
d. They can fly like bird
e. They were drifting along with the current.

8. What is the generic structure of the text?

a. Newsworthy events > background events > sources
b. Identification > description
c. Orientation > event > re-orientation
d. Orientation > evaluation > complication > resolution > re-orientation
e. General classification > description

The Sumatran elephant’s habitat is in Sumatra, Indonesia. The average male elephant reaches eight
feet high and weighs up to six tons. A baby elephant can weigh up to one ton. The males are always
larger than the females. They are massive creatures.

Elephants have a trunk, two tusks, two eyes, two ears and two lumps on their head. They are known
to be clever animals. When an elephant is hot, they fan themselves by flapping their ears back and
forth. When an elephant herd wants to move they use their ears as a guide. Their hearing range is
very large. Elephants hear some noises that can not be heard by a human ear.

Sumatran elephants have enough strength to knock down a tree. They can also pick up a log using
just their trunk and their tusks. Their trunk is their nose. They also use it like a hand. Just below their
trunk they have their tusks. Only male Sumatran elephants have tusks. A baby elephants is called a
calf; the females are called cows.

16. How do elephants guide each other to move in a direction ?

a. They use their head as a guide
b. They use their tusks as a guide
c. They use their trunk as a guide
d. They use their nose as a guide
e. They use their ears as a guide

17. What are the uses of an elephant’s trunk ?

a. can be used as eyes and head
b. can be used as a nose and hand
 c. can be used as legs and tail
d. can be used as a trunk and tusks
e. can be used as ears and hand

18. What do elephants use to pick up a log ?

a. they use their eyes and head
b. they use their nose and hand
c. they use their legs and tail
d. they use their trunk and tusks
e. they use their ears and hand

19. What do you call a baby elephant ?

a. a dog
b. a cow
c. a calf
d. a puppy
e. a cat
20. Where do you find the tusks ?
a. under the nose
b. on the head
c. below the trunk
d. in the neck
e. on the back

Every time they see illegal logging in their area, the woman and children cry out, “Where can we settle
and make a living with our forest gone?”
These are the forest people, members of the local Anak Dalam, tribe, in Mangkekal (Makekal),
Bukit Duabelas National Park, Jambi province. They have tried very hard to protect the forest zone
illegal logging operations, “Adults as well as children are fighting for the conservation of this forest,”
said tribal chief Tumenggung (Regent) Meriak.
The national park zone is about 60,000 hectares. It is home to about 1,500 Anak Dalam. The
tribesmen live in Mangkekal, Kedasung, Air Hitam, and Terap.

21. Who are the forest people ?

a. members of the local Anak Dalam tribe
b. chief Tumenggung (Regent) Meriak
c. Adults and children
d. Woman and children
e. Animals and plants

22. Where do Tumenggung Meriak’s people live ?

a. in Bukit Dua Belas National park
b. in Mengkel, kedasung,Air Hitam and Terap
c. in Regent,kedasung,Air Hotam and Terap
d. in Mengkal, Regent, Air Hitam and Terap
e. in the forest,Jambi province

23. What are the woman and children unhappy about ?

a. the fighting in their area
b. the conservation in their area
c. the government invasion
d. the illegal logging in their area
e. the protection of forest

24. What are the forest people fighting for ?

a. they fight for food
b. protection from the government invasion
c. to get more farm land
d. the conservation of the forest
e. to protect their village

25. Whom can they get help from ?

a. the regent
b. the government
c. the people
d. the forest people
e. the chief

Soal-soal Ulangan Teks report

Spider

Spiders are predatory invertebrate animals. They are not classified in the class of
insect. A spider has eight legs while an insect never has more than six legs.
Spiders have a body with two main divisions, four legs and two other pairs of
abdominal spinnerets for spinning threads of silk. This silk can be used to aid in climbing,
build egg sacs and catch pray.
Spiders kill so many insects, but they never do the least harm to man’s belonging.
Spiders are busy for at least half of the year killing insects. It is impossible to find out how
many insects they kill, since they are hungry creature which cannot be content with only three
meals a day.

1. The purpose of the text is to…

a. explain about spiders
b. tell a particular spiders in chronological order
c. describe an insect
d. persuade people about spiders
e. retell about spiders
2. Why can’t spider be classified in the class of insect?

a. Because spiders have more than six legs

b. Because spider’s bodies have two main divisions
c. Because they have walking legs
d. Because spiders kill many insects
e. Because spiders are hungry creature
3. Which sentences describe the behavior of spiders?

a. a spider has eight legs

b. a spider has a body with two main divisions
c. a spider has four pairs of walking legs and two pairs of abdominal spinnerets
d. a spider kills so many insects
e. a spider is a hungry creature
4. The following sentences are true about spiders, except

a. they belong to insect

b. they have eight legs
c. the eat many insects
d. they are not dangerous for people
e. the eat more than three meals a day
 5. They never do the last harm to mans belonging’’

The underlined word has almost the same meaning as the word

a. useless
b. damage
c. bothering
d. intervention
e. relation

Elephants are the largest land animal alive today. These animals have special body
Characteristics, among them are tusks and trunk.
Elephants tusks are made of a hard, white substances like bone .when an elephant is
angry, its tusk can very dangerous. The tusks of an elephant are actually its front teeth.
People pay a lot of money for the ivory of an elephants’ tusk. The ivory from the tusks is
made into many beautiful things.
The trunk of an elephant is a fusion of the nose and upper lip. An elephant uses its
trunk in many ways. It pulp up trees with its trunk when it want to make a long path through
the jungle. It also uses to get water. The trunk can hold a lot of water, as an elephant needs to
drink three hundreds pints of every day.

1. The main topic of the text above is

a. An elephant’s habits
b. Training an elephant
c. Hunting an elephant
d. How an elephant uses its trunk

2. According to the text, elephants

a. Are very weak animals

b. Are the only animals with tusks
c. Are the largest land animal in the world
d. Drink less water than any other animal
e. All are correct

3. what do you call text type above

a. narrative
b. explanation
c. procedure
d. descriptive
e. report

4 which of the following sentences is not active sentences

a. it uses its tusk in many way

b. it pulls up the tree with its trunk
c. The ivory from the tusks is made into many beautiful things
d. An elephant needs to drink three hundreds points of water every day
e. People pay a lot of money for the ivory of elephants tusk
5’’it pulp up trees with its trunk when it want to make a long path through the jungle’’.
The underlined word means
a. Street
b. Road
c. Way
d. Tunnel
e. Cannal

ANTS
Ants are small insect. The body of an ant is clearly divided into three sections; the head,
the thorax, and the gaster. (The narrow waist is actually within the abdomen, so the part of
the abdomen behind the waist is called the gaster.) The waist can be made up of one or two
small segments, depending on the species.
Ants are social insects living in colonies comprised of one or a few queens, and many
workers. The queen generally stays deep and safe within a nest. Most ants that you see are
workers and these are all females. Depending on species, workers may be similar in size, or
come in a range of sizes,
Ants tend to corne in dark or earth-tones. Different species are black, earth-tone reds,
pale tens, and basic browns.
Queen of ants is for one colony.

1. The communicative purpose of the text is....

a. to amuse the reader.
b. to describe the way ants are
c. to persuade the reader.
d. to make the reader become familiar with ants
e. to describe the ants' life.

2. The first paragraph tells about…

a. how the colonies of ants work
b. the sections of ants' body
c. the function of ants abdomen
d. the classification of ants
e. many kinds of ant species

3. The text is focused on….

a. features appearance of ants
b. species of ants
c. social life of ants
d. size of ants
e. the body of ants
 Birds

Birds belong to a class of warm blooded vertebrate animals with feather covered bodies.
Next to mammals, birds are the most important group of land-living vertebrates.
All birds have feathers, although in some types, particularly those that can not fly, the
normal structure of the feathers of the feathers may be much modified and be downy, woolly,
or straw like. The forelimbs of birds are modified into wings. The bony part of the tall, except
in the very earliest fossil birds, is very short, and the visible tall is composed of the feathers
only. The teeth are absent except in some fossil forms. As in mammals the only other group
of warm-blooded animal-the circulation is highly perfected so that there is no mixing of
arterial and venous blood, but the arrangement of veins and arteries by which this is
accomplished, is different in the two groups. Birds have keen hearing, although they have no
external ears. The sense of sight also is very keen, but the sense of smell is weak or lacking,
except in a few vultures and other birds.

4. The passage is about the …of birds.

a. Species
b. Definitions
c. Clarification
d. Classification
e. Characteristics

5. From the text we can conclude that both birds and mammals have….
a. Backbone
b. Keen sight
c. Keen hearing
d. Downy feathers
e. Weak sense of smell

6. Which of the following is NOT possessed by birds?

a. Feathers
b. Wings
c. Teeth
d. Tails
e. Ears

Although gorillas look ferocious, they are really rather quiet apes. They live in family
groups in the thickest parts of jungles.
A gorilla’s feet, hands, and wrinkled face are bare and black. His fur may be short or
long, depending where he lives.
The short-hair gorilla lives in the hot, damp, tropical forest of western Africa and the
long-hair gorilla live in the cooler air in the high mountains of central Africa.
A gorilla’s arms are so long; they almost touch the ground, even when he is standing up!
Some wild mountain gorillas weigh as much as you, your father all weigh together.
At night the father gorillas sleeps on the ground. But the mother and baby gorillas sleep in
the big nest of stick and leaves on the ground, or in the lower branches of trees, where they
are safer from prowling animals.
7. The text mainly tells about…
a. Father gorillas
b. A gorilla’s life
c. Kinds of gorillas
d. Gorillas in brief
e. The origin of gorillas

8. The…of gorillas affect the length of the gorillas fur.

a. Size
b. Food
c. Habit
d. Weight
e. Habitat

9. The following parts of a gorilla are not covered by fur EXCEPT…

a. The chin
b. The nose
c. The arms
d. The feed
e. The hands

10. “Although gorillas look ferocious, they are really rather quiet apes,” (paragraph 1)
What does the word underlined mean?
a. Rude
b. Cruel
c. Rough
d. Strong
e. Clumsy

The polar bear is a very big white bear. We call it the polar bear because it lives inside the
Arctic Circle near the North Pole. The are no polar bear at the South Pole.
The polar bears live in the North Pole. The is only snow, ice and water. The is not any
land.
These bears are three meters long and weight 450 kilos. They can stand up on their back
legs because the have very wide feet. They can use their front legs like arms. The polar bears
can swim very well. They can swim 120 kilometers out into the water. They catch fish and
sea animals for food. They go into the sea when they are afraid.
People like to kill the polar bears for their beautiful white coats. The government of
Canada, The United States, and Russia say that no one can kill polar bears now. They do not
want all of these beautiful animals to die.

11. What does the passage mainly discus?

a. The size of polar bear
b. Where polar bears live
c. The habitats of polar bears.
d. Why people hunt polar bears
e. A brief description of polar bears
 12. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?
a. Polar bears are very big animals
b. The polar bears are tame animals
c. Polar bears live at the North Pole
d. There are no polar bears at the South Pole
e. Polar bears are hunted because of the beautiful white coats.

13. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE about a polar bear?
a. A polar bear weighs 450 kilos
b. A polar bear is three meters long
c. A polar bear catches fish for food
d. A polar bear goes into the sea when it is angry
e. A polar bear can swim 120 kilometers out into the water
In the natural rainforest, Mahogany is a very large canopy tree, sometimes reaching over
150 feet in height, with trunks sometimes more than 6 feet in diameter above a large basal
buttress. It is a generally open-crowned tree, with gray to brownish-red fissured bark.

Mahogany is perhaps the most valuable timber tree in the whole of Latin America and
has been heavily exploited for most of this century. Mahogany is becoming increasingly rare,
and is already extinct in parts of its original range. It is listed as threatened in "Arboles
Maderables en Peligro de Extinción en Costa Rica" and is listed in CITES Appendix III.
Mahogany varies from yellowish, reddish, pinkish, or salmon colored when freshly cut,
to a deep rich red, to reddish brown as the wood matures with age. Mahogany is fine to
medium texture, with uniform to interlocking grain, ranging from straight to wavy or curly.
Irregularities in the grain often produce highly attractive figures such as fiddle back or mottle.
Mahogany polishes to a high luster, with excellent working and finishing characteristics. It
responds well to hand and machine tools, has good nailing and screwing properties, and turns
and carves superbly.
Mahogany is regarded by many as the world's premier wood for fine cabinetry, high-class
furniture, trimming fine boats, pianos and other musical instruments, sculpture, joinery,
turnery, figured and decorative veneer, interior trim, and carving.

ikator : Menentukan informasi tertentu

ikator soal : Disajikan teks report tentang tumbuhan, siswa dapat
menentukan informasi tertentu di dalam teks.

Soal:
1. How large can Mahogany be?
A. Less than 5 feet in diameter
B. More than 6 feet in diameter
C. About 100 feet in diameter
D. Over 150 feet in diameter

Kunci jawaban : B
Pembahasan :
Ukuran pohon tersebut bisa mencapai lebih dari 6 meter diameternya.

Indikator : Menentukan informasi rinci

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 menentukan informasi rinci di dalam teks.
Soal:
2. What makes Mahogany becoming increasingly rare?
A. Its size
B. Its exploitation
C. Its quality
D. Its value

Kunci jawaban : B
Pembahasan :
Yang menyebabkan pohon itu semakin langka adalah karena dieksploitasi.

Indikator : Menentukan makna kata/frasa

Indikator soal : Disajikan teks deskriptif tentang orang terkenal, siswa dapat
menentukan sinonim sebuah kata yang dipilihkan.

Soal:
3. “… and is already extinct in parts of its original range. The underlined word means…
A. survive
B. vanish
C. stay alive
D. uncommon

Kunci jawaban : b
Pembahasan :

Contoh Soal UN (Ujian Nasional) tentang Report Text. As we know that

Report Text is a kind of text usually found in English National Test (UN =
Ujian Nasional) for the students of the last year class, whether they are in Junior
High School or Senior High School. For this I want to share about the examples
of English National Test (Ujian Nasional). I hope these examples can make
easier for the students to understand about the material of Report Text I have
ever posted.

Let’s go to the questions

The text is for questions no. 1 – 4

Recent Development at the Post Office

Post offices in industrial countries have a policy to provide their

customers with a better service. One of their better services is the handling of
mail. Government also takes part to increase the function of post offices. Now,
the postage rates have risen. Private firms are not normally allowed to handle
ordinary mail, although some private carriers have been increasingly in
circulating catalogues, magazines, and merchandise samples. Private parcel
carriers also compete with the post office.
 The growth of electronic postal services has been a major development.
In developing countries, The postal services is being extended to rural areas,
and modernized into new technological developments. Many small nations earn
valuable income from the stamp collectors. However, delivery of letters remains
the main job of post officers and postal workers around the world.

1. What does the text tell you about?

A. The increasing customers in the post office.

B. The growing services at the post office

C. The rising rates of post office things

D. The circulating catalogues.

2. What do the post offices offer to the customers?

A. Better services

B. Postage

C. Letters

D. Stamps

3. From the text we can conclude that the post office … .

A. will improve its services

B. only delivers mail

C. is not necessary

D. sells stamps

4. The word “their” in the paragraph 1 line 1 refers to?

A. The functions of post office.

B. Services provided by post office.

C. Post offices in industrial countries.

D. Private firms in developing countries

The text is for questions no. 5 – 8.

Jellyfish

Jellyfish are not really fish. they are invertebrate animals. this means that
unlike fish or people, they have no backbones.in fact, they have no bones at all.

Jellyfish have stomach and mouths, but no heads. they have nervous
systems for sensing the world around them, but no brains. they are made almost
entirely of water, which is why you can look through them.

Some jellyfish can glow in darkness by making their own light. the light is
made by a chemical reaction inside the jellyfish . scientists believe jellyfish
glow for several reasons. for example, they may glow to scare away predator or
to attract animals they like to eat.

Most jellyfish live in salt water, apart from a few types that live in fresh
water. jellyfish are found in oceans and seas all over the world. they live in
warm, tropical seas and in icy waters near north and south poles.

5. which one creates jellyfish light?

A. White blood

B. Nervous system

C. Chemical reaction

D. Salt water

6. Based on the text, we know that…

A. they belong to invertebrate animals

B. they have heads like other animals

C. their brain helps them find the food

D. they cannot live in fresh water

7. What is the text about?

A. Jellyfish

B. Kinds of all fish

 C. All invertebrate animals

D. Some kinds of sea animals

8. Some jellyfish can glow in darkness by making own light {paragraph 3}

the word “glow” in the sentence means…

A. move

B. produce

C. appear

D. shine

The text is for questions no. 9 – 13

A cactus (plural: cacti) is any member of the plant family Cactaceae, native
to the Americas. They are often used as ornamental plants, but some are also
crop plants. Cacti are grown for protection of property from wild animals, as
well as many other uses.

Cacti are part of the plant order Caryophyllales, which also include
members like beets, gypsophila, spinach, amaranth, tumbleweeds, carnations,
rhubarb, buckwheat, plumbago, bougainvillea, chickweed and knotgrass.

Cacti are unusual and distinctive plants, which are adapted to extremely
arid and hot environments, showing a wide range of anatomical and
physiological features which conserve water. Their stems have adapted to
become photosynthetic and succulent, while the leaves have become the spines
for which cacti are well known.

Cacti come in a wide range of shapes and sizes. The tallest is Pachycereus
pringlei, with a maximum recorded height of 19.2 m, and the smallest is
Blossfeldia liliputiana, only about 1 cm in diameter at maturity. Cactus flowers
are large, and like the spines and branches arise from areoles. Many cactus
species are night blooming, as they are pollinated by nocturnal insects or small
animals, principally moths and bats. Cacti range in size from small and globular
to tall and columnar.

9. Where can we find cacti mostly?

A. In the jungle.

B. On the beach.
 C. On the mountain.

D. In the arid and hot region.

10. Why do cacti mostly bloom at night?

A. Because their flowers are large.

B. Since cacti are unusual and distinctive plants.

C. Since cacti are pollinated by nocturnal insects.

D. As the afternoon period is used for photosynthetic process.

11. What does the first paragraph tell us about?

A. The members of cacti.

B. The habitat of cacti.

C. The use of cacti

D. Types of cacti.

12. What is the purpose of the text ?

A. To give information about American cacti

B. To explain physical feature of cacti

C. To describe cacti in general

D. To tell cacti’s life

13. “Cacti are unusual and distinctive plants, which …”

The synonym of the word “distinctive” is …

A. typical

B. antique

C. unique

D. different
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GORILLAS

Gorillas are the largest of all the primates. A male gorilla can be 180
centimeters tall and can weigh 200 kilograms. Gorillas are very strong
but they do not often fight. In fact they are peaceful animals. Gorillas live in
small family groups of about 15. In a group there is one strong, older male,
some young males, and a few females with their babies. They move slowly
around a large area of jungle eating leaves and bushes.

In some ways gorillas are very like humans. When they are happy, they
laugh and wave their arms. When they are angry, they beat their chests. When
they are sad, they cry. But they cry quietly, without any tears.

Unfortunately, people hunt and kill gorillas. They also cut down and burn
their trees. There are now only about 10,000 gorillas left in the world.

Questions:

14. How tall can gorillas be?

A. One hundred and eighteen

B. Eighteen hundred

C. One hundred eighty

D. Two hundred

15. What is the purpose of the text above?

A. To retell about gorillas

B. To entertain the gorillas

C. To explain gorillas

D. To describe gorillas

16. What does paragraph 1 tell us about?

A. The size of gorillas

B. The largest gorillas

 C. The strenght of gorillas

D. The habitat of gorillas

17. The main idea of the second paragraph is ….

A. There are only about 10,000 gorillas in the world

B. People hunt and kill gorillas

C. Gorillas are like human

D. When gorillas sad, they cry

18. How do gorillas live?

They live …

A. alone

B. in group

C. peacefully

D. nomad

19. “They also cut down and burn …”

“They” here refers to ….

A. gorillas

B. people

C. humans

D. females