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Text 1

The Pros and Cons Of Video Games

Nowadays, the video games industry is developing rapidly. It becomes a multi-billion dollar industry. Video games have become an important part not only in the children’s lives but also the adults’. Nevertheless, there is an argument about whether video games bring good or bad influences on children.

People who have a pro argument claim that video games give a lot of benefits? Playing video games is a good way to kill children’s boredom. It can refresh the children’s mind after a tiring school day. Moreover, they also argue that video games can trigger children to be more creative because the games provide challenging ways to win. In other words, they believe that the video games can actually sharpen a human’s brain.

Conversely, some people believe that video games make children lazy. They argue that playing video games is addictive. As a consequence, most of the children prefer playing video games to studying. These children find it hard to concentrate on their studies because they always think about how to spend more time playing video games. In fact, there are also some children who skip their extracurricular lessons, just because they want to play video games. In addition, most of the video games often expose too much violence. Two years ago in the USA, for example, a student shot his teacher and some of his friends. Newspapers said that the boy was deeply influenced by the actions in the video games.

It is obvious that video games have more disadvantages than advantages. Therefore, parents should be very careful in selecting the appropriate games for their children.

1.      Which of the following statements is not true?

a. Children like playing video games

b. Adults like playing video games

c. The writer takes sides towards the pros opinion

d. Parents should select the games carefully

e. Violence in the games influences the children very much

 

Text 2

Professor Carter

Professor Carter visited Mr. and Mrs. Crockett on the other side of town. After a good dinner and a game of cards, he said,” I’m going to walk home now.”

Mrs. Crockett looked out of the window and said,” It’s raining outside. Please stay here tonight.”

She went and prepared the guest room for him. After a few minutes, she came back to the living room, but the professor was not there.

Mr. and Mrs. Crockett waited for more than 30 minutes, and then they started to go to bed. But then somebody knocked at the back door of the house.

It was the professor. He was very wet. Mr. Crockett and his wife were very happy to see him. They said, “You’re here!”

“Yes,” the professor answered. He smiles and added, “I went home and got my pajamas.”

2.      The following statements are true, except ...

a. Professor Carter went home on foot

b. Professor Carter went home to take his pajamas

c. Mrs. Crocket asked Prfessor Carter to spend the night at her house

d. Professor Carter live next to Mr. And Mrs. Crocket’s house

e. Mr. And Mrs. Crocket were relieved to see Professor Carter at the back door of the house

 

3.      After reading the text, we can conclude that Professor Carter is ... person.

a. Selfish

b. Humble

c. Foolish

d. Generous

e. Very smart

 

4.      The type of the text is a ...

a. Spoof

b. Recount

c. Narrative

d. Report

e. Procedure

 

5.      The last paragraph of the text is called the ...

a. Twist

b. Orientation

c. Complication

d. Conclusion

e. Recommendation

 

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

a. To explain why something occurs

b. To retell events with humorous twist

c. To persuade the readers that something is the case

d. To retell events for the purpose of informing something

e. To describe the participants in the story

Text 3

To Whom it may concern,

“Indonesian Idol” is an annual Indonesian televised singing competition that has been airing on RCTI. Part o the Idol franchise, it originated from the British reality program “Pop Idol”. “Indonesian Idol” is a combination of a reality show and a talent search show. Unfortunately, instead of giving the opportunity to anyone who has talent and capability to be promoted as an idol. I find some weaknesses in this program.

Sometimes, the winner is not guaranteed to have the quality of a good singer because the winner is merely determined by pubic voting by phone and SMS. Most of these voters do not consider the jury’s comments on the contestant’s performance because they would prefer focusing on the contestant’s physical appearance and personality rather than his/her singing quality.

As a consequence, after the competition is over, only a few of the winners get the chance to be professional singers. Why is it so? Because they don’t have great skills to be professional singers. Furthermore, most of them only have little experience in the show business, while being professional singers need a long process and time.

My suggestion is that “Indonesian Idol” should not determine the winner based on the contestant’s popularity. The singing quality of each contestant should be the first priority.

Yours truly,

Pinky Baboe- Semarang

7.      The text belongs to the . . . text type.

a. Discussion

b. Analytical exposition

c. Hortatory exposition

d. Description

e. Explanation

 

8.      Public voting is subjective . . . the score comes from the voters who often do not consider the jury’s comments on the contestant’s performance.

a. Although

b. Instead of

c. Despite

d. In spite of

e. Because

 

9.       “My suggestion is that “Indonesian Idol” should not determine the winner based on the contestant’s popularity. The singing quality of each contestant should be the first priority.” This part of the text is called . . . .

a. Thesis statement

b. General statement

c. General classification

d. Recommendation

e. Reiteration

 

10.  How “Indonesian Idol” determine the winner is considered subjective because of the following reasons, except . . . .

a. The winner is determined by public voting by phone and SMS

b. The winner is determined by the physical appearance

c. The winner is determined by the jury's comments

d. The winner is determined by the participant's appearance

e. The winner is determined by the contestant's personally

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