SMA Bahasa Inggris: Pertanyaan, Jawaban, Latihan Soal & Pembahasan

The folllowing text tells us about the attitudes of a certain community in Yogyakarta towards pollution and global warming. Read it and then answer the questions.

Yogyakarta Promotes Commuting by Bike

    The Jakarta Post, Jakarta - More than 2,000 people participated in bike-to-work and bike-to-school promotional event staged on Yogyakarta's Alun-Alun Utara Square a Monday morning.

    The participants who include civil servants, private-sector employees, students, police, and soldiers represented 30 different bicycle clubs.

    "We have to support this program to help Yogyakarta be an environmentally friendly city," Yogyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X said.

    Yogyakarta Mayor Herry Zudianto said the program would benefit the city by reducing pollution levels and global warming contributions. "It's also good fo our health," he added.

    Harry said the city administration would allocate funds to construct designated cycle routes if their numbers increased significantly.

If you find several different activities, ask for his/her explanation of the activities.

The folllowing text tells us about the attitudes of a certain community in Yogyakarta towards pollution and global warming. Read it and then answer the questions.

Yogyakarta Promotes Commuting by Bike

    The Jakarta Post, Jakarta - More than 2,000 people participated in bike-to-work and bike-to-school promotional event staged on Yogyakarta's Alun-Alun Utara Square a Monday morning.

    The participants who include civil servants, private-sector employees, students, police, and soldiers represented 30 different bicycle clubs.

    "We have to support this program to help Yogyakarta be an environmentally friendly city," Yogyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X said.

    Yogyakarta Mayor Herry Zudianto said the program would benefit the city by reducing pollution levels and global warming contributions. "It's also good fo our health," he added.

    Harry said the city administration would allocate funds to construct designated cycle routes if their numbers increased significantly.

Look at your friend's activities. Are they the same as yours? What are the differences?

The folllowing text tells us about the attitudes of a certain community in Yogyakarta towards pollution and global warming. Read it and then answer the questions.

Yogyakarta Promotes Commuting by Bike

    The Jakarta Post, Jakarta - More than 2,000 people participated in bike-to-work and bike-to-school promotional event staged on Yogyakarta's Alun-Alun Utara Square a Monday morning.

    The participants who include civil servants, private-sector employees, students, police, and soldiers represented 30 different bicycle clubs.

    "We have to support this program to help Yogyakarta be an environmentally friendly city," Yogyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X said.

    Yogyakarta Mayor Herry Zudianto said the program would benefit the city by reducing pollution levels and global warming contributions. "It's also good fo our health," he added.

    Harry said the city administration would allocate funds to construct designated cycle routes if their numbers increased significantly.

Suppose that you were a mayor of a city, what activities would you design to reduce pollution and slow down global warming?

Complete the following statements based on the texts

Forest Fires Rage Near Chernobyl Nuclear Plant

    KYIV, Ukraine - Forest fires raged Tuesday in the contaminated area near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, but officials insisted there is no radiation threat.

    Hundreds of firefighters backed by aircraft have battled several forest fires around Chernobyl since last week. They managed to contain the initial blazes, but new fires are now raging close to the decommissioned plant.

    Volodymyr Demchuk of Ukraine's State Emergencies Service insisted that the situation is under control "There is no threat to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, waste fuel storage or other critical facilities," he said

    The emergency service said radiation levels in the capital Kyiv, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) south of the plant, were within norms.

    Activists warned, however, that the blazes were getting dangerously close to waste storage facilities.

    Yaroslav Yemelyanenko, a member of the ·public council under the state agency in charge of the closed zone around the plant, said one fire was raging within 2 .kilometers (about 1.2 miles) from one of the radioactive waste depots.

    "The situation is critical" he said on Facebook.

    Last week, officials said they tracked down a person suspected of triggering the blaze by setting dry grass on fire in the area. The 27-year-old man said he burned grass "for fun" and then failed to extinguish the fire when the wind caused it to expand quickly.

    On Monday, police said that another resident burned waste and accidentally set dry grass aolaze; triggering another devastating forest fire. They said he failed to report the fire to the authorities.

    The 2,600-square-kilometer (1,000-square-mile) Chernobyl Exclusion Zone was established after the April 1986 disaster at the plant that sent a cloud of radioactive fallout over much of Europe. The zone is largely unpopulated, although about 200 people have remained despite orders to leave.

    Blazes in the area have been a regular occurrence. They often start when residents set dry grass on fire in the early spring - a widespread practice in Ukraine, Russia and some other ex-Soviet nations that often leads to devastating forest fires.

(70134901Adopted from: t\ttps://abcnews.go.com/lnterna,tional/wireStory/forest-fires-rage-chernobyl-nuclear-plant-70134901 (April 14, 2020))

Are the words in bold verbs, nouns, adjectives, or adverbs? 

Read and pronounce the words correctly.
What are their meanings?

5. batch 

Read and pronounce the words correctly.
What are their meanings?

6. mixture 

Read and pronounce the words correctly.
What are their meanings?

1 . toast 

The following text is for questions 17 to 20.

    Weather experts warn of drought in Europe over its summer as firefighters tackled forest fires on Thursday, and farmers fretted over wilting crops and a repeat of 2018 's arid conditions.

    In Germany, Europe's biggest economy, farmers are fearful at the start of the growing season following below-average rainfall earlier this year-bad news after last year's drought.

    Unless significant rain falls in May, experts say there is little chance of decent crops.

    "If the dry weather continues in the coming months, the drought of 2018 could be repeated or even exceeded," warned Udo Busch, head of the German weather service's agricultural section.

    A lack of rain has turned some forests into potential tinderboxes.

    Over the past few days, German firefighters have tackled blazing forest fires in the states of Hessen, Brandenburg and Thuringia .

    A senior fire chief has even asked authorities, including the army, to lend helicopters in order to "react adequately".

    Scandinavia has also been hit, with Swedish firefighters currently tackling 10 to 15 forest fires a day after precious little rain this month.

    The most serious blaze broke out over 300 hectares (740 acres) in the southern district of Hassleholm, forcing 49 people to be evacuated.

    There are fears of a repeat of last year's poor harvest, when crops were down between 30 to 80 percent, threatening the livelihoods of many German farmers.

    Rain is forecast for the coming days. But it is expected to be far insufficient for what is needed to mitigate a worrying situation.

(Adopted from: https://phys.org/news/2019-04-forest-blight-europedrought.html (April 6, 2019))

From the text we know that ____. 

Read and pronounce the words correctly.
What are their meanings?

7. golden brown 

Read and pronounce the words correctly.
What are their meanings?

2. ingredient