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

C. Post-Reading Activity

Discussion Questions

Read the questions carefully. Note down your opinions and reactions to the questions. During the discussion with your teacher and classmates, offer your personal reaction and understanding of the text.

Why did President Sukarno want everyone to be united?

Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the verbs in italics.
 

The internet connects people around the world easily. This school has a very excellent internet ____.

Complete the sentences with the correct forms of the verbs in italics.
 

The artiste agency has to decide on the concert cancellation. The agency’s ____ has to be respected.

GRAMMAR REVIEW

Task 1: Read the following incomplete sentences. Complete them with am/is/are (present) or was/were.

Today the weather _____ cold, but last Monday it _______ terribly hot.
 

The story is about ____.

What is the topic of the text above?

Create a dialog using if clauses followed by imperatives or suggestions. 

Read the following text and answer the question!

How to Operate Photoshop:
Tutorial for Beginners

    When you open Photoshop for the first time, it's easy to click around in confusion for a minute and then reach for your freelancer's phone number instead. With a little help, you can easily teach yourself how to use it to create beautiful, compelling graphics. All it takes is an introduction to core elements. To get you started, you need to understand how the five most important Photoshop tools work. The five tools are the Layer Tool, Color & Swatches Tool, Custom Fonts & Text Tool, Custom Brushes & Brush Tool, and Crop Tool. This time you'll learn two Photoshop tools, i.e. the Layer Tool and Color & Swatches Tool.

    First, recognize how a layer tool works. A layer can be used for an image, text, brush strokes,
background colors, patterns and filters. Layers are by far the most important element of Photoshop. Always name your layers. Keeping them organized will help keep you sane, especially if you find yourself working on a project with a large number of layers.

    With layers, you can select, add, delete and duplicate them. You can also do all sorts of cool things, such as making animated pictures.

    Then, make sure you know how the Color & Swatches Tool operates. The tool lets you use, modify, copy and save custom colors for your content. It has powerful features that will keep visual content vibrant and unify your color schemes. To create your own custom color, open the Color Picker by double-clicking on the top box either in the Color module or in that menu on the left. Then, you'll see a vertical spectrum of color with a slider on it, which you can adjust to create your own custom color.

(Adopted from: Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, Bahasa lnggris untuk SMA/MA/SMK/MAK Kelas XII Edisi Revisi Cetakan Ke-2, Jakarta, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, 2018.)

What is the Color Picker for? 

Answer the following questions briefly.

2. Does Hannah want to be Alia's friend?

This text is for questions 4 to 7.

    Ancient stones in Armenia, Karahunj, have many similarities with Stonehenge: a larger, outer circle of stones surrounding a smaller interior circle, though the stones are considerably smaller than Stonehenge's. The largest weigh only 10 tons and are only nine feet tall; an ancient lineage. Karahunj is actually at least 2,000 years older than Stonehenge.

    There is some evidence that both sides were primarily used as burial grounds. There are some 200 shallow graves covered by massive stone slabs on the ground of Karahunj, though, as with burial sites in Stonehenge, the relationship of these graves to the central circles is less than clear. Beyond these surface similarities, little is known, and speculation about the various ways in which Karahunj might have been used rages unabated. One common theory is that the location represents the oldest known astronomical observatory. In support this idea is one odd characteristic of Karahunj, not found in Stonehenge. There are 84 stones which have carefully bored holes at different angles in them, some of which seem to point to various celestial points of significance. The holes are also offered as the reason for the name of the location with kara meaning stones and hunj meaning voices, the presumption being that the wind whistling through the holes in the stones created a distinctive sound.

Adopted from: Anonymous, Seeing is Believing, New York, Life Books, 2014.

" ... the wind whistling through the holes in the stones created a distinctive sound." (Last paragraph)

The underlined word can be replaced by ____.