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

A Kangaroo is an animal found only in Australia. It has a smaller relative, called a wallaby, which lives on the Australian island of Tasmania and in New Guinea.

Kangraroos eat grass and plants. They have short front legs, but very long and strong back legs and tail. These are used for sitting up and for jumping. Kangaroos have been known to make fordward jumps of over eight metres, and leap across fences more than three metres high. They can also run at speeds of over 45 kilometres per hour.

The largest kangaroos are the Great grey kangaroo and the Red Kangaroo. Adults grows to a length of 1.60 metres and weighs over 90 kilos.

Kangaroos are marsupials. This means that the female kangaroo has an external pouch on the front of her body. A baby kangaroo is very tiny when it is born, and it crawls at once into this pouch where it spends its first five months of life.

 

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Once upon a time, there was a young man called Ma Liang. He was poor. He helped a rich bad man to tend cattle. He liked drawing an drew pictures everywhere. One night, he dreamed that and old man gave him magic paintbrush and asked him to use it to help poor people. When he woke up, he found the magic paintbrush in his desk.

From that day on, he used the paintbrush to help people. Whenever he draw pictures, they became a real. But a few days later, his master heard about the magic paintbrush and stole it. He drew a lot of pictures, but they could not become real. He was very angry and asked some people to get Ma Liang.

Guava is a plant native from Mexico and Central America, Northern South America, parts of the Caribbean, some parts of North Africa, and some parts of India.

A guava tree is not big. It is about 33 feet with spreading branches. The bark is smooth with green or reddish brown color. The plant branches are close to the ground.

Guavas are cultivated in many tropical and sub tropical countries for their edible fruit. The fruit is round or oval depending on the species. It is usually green when unripe, but becomes yellow or maroon when ripe. The flesh of the fruit is sweet or sour. The color of the flesh may be white, pink, yellow, or red, with the seed in the central part of the flesh. The seed are numerous but small. In some good varieties, they are edible. Guavas are rich with vitamins A and C, Omega-3 and Omega-6, gutty acids and dietary fibers.

 

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Guava is a plant native from Mexico and Central America, Northern South America, parts of the Caribbean, some parts of North Africa, and some parts of India.

A guava tree is not big. It is about 33 feet with spreading branches. The bark is smooth with green or reddish brown color. The plant branches are close to the ground.

Guavas are cultivated in many tropical and sub tropical countries for their edible fruit. The fruit is round or oval depending on the species. It is usually green when unripe, but becomes yellow or maroon when ripe. The flesh of the fruit is sweet or sour. The color of the flesh may be white, pink, yellow, or red, with the seed in the central part of the flesh. The seed are numerous but small. In some good varieties, they are edible. Guavas are rich with vitamins A and C, Omega-3 and Omega-6, gutty acids and dietary fibers.

 

The Guava is usually ... when unripe

All his life, Guntur had dreamt about travelling aboard. One day his school announced a competition for scholarship to study in Singapore. As he really wished to go aboard, he followed the competition. he prepared well for the competition because he didn’t want to miss the chance. He won the competition and could go aboard. studying in Singapore.

Guntur was pleased when he heard about his winning the scholarship. He was going to study in Singapore. He actually felt cheerless when he had to say goodbye to his family and friends. However, he was excited about going to the university and meet people from all over the world.

The first few weeks in Singapore was not easy for Guntur. Sometimes, he felt homesick and lonely. The other students were nice, but he found it hard to get along with people from the countries with different background, cultures, and languages. He tried his best to adjust to the new environment. The classes were interesting, but they were hard. He had to spend time in the library many hours every day. Guntur didn’t want to give up. He knew he had to do his best and succeed.

 

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1. Theu are invertebrate animals
2. Jellyfish have s stomach and a mouth, but no heads
3. This means that they have no backbones
4. They are made almost entirely of water. That's why we can look through them
5. They have a nervous system for sensing the world around them, but no brains.
6. In fact, they have no bones at all
7. Jellyfish are not really fish

HOW TO USE AN ELECTRIC KETTLE

1. Third, plug the kettle in
2. Finally, when the kettle beeps, the water is ready to use
3. Next, press the button to boil the water
4. First, put some water into the kettle
5. Second, put the kettle on the stand

Once upon the time, there was a kingdom in Java that was attacked by another kingdom. The king asked his Queen to save her life. Alas! In the middle of the jungle, the enemy killed all her guards. However, the Queen was lucky because she changed herself into a golden snail and survived.

One day, an old woman saw the snail and took it home. She looked after it. Whenever the old woman was not at home, the snail turned into a human being. She cooked and did the household chores When the old woman got home, the Queen quickly changed into a snail again. It happened several times and made the old woman curious. One day, the old woman peeped and saw what was going on. She broke in, immediately.  She  asked, “Why did you change yourself into a snail?. The Queen told her what happened. The old woman was surprised to know that the snail was a Queen.

Later, from the head of the village they discovered that the king had won the battle and he was looking for his wife. Then the village head sent a message to the king telling him that his wife was safe.

Several days later, the King and his guards came for the queen. They thanked the villagers for their kindness and brought the old woman to their palace.

 

In the end of the strory, the old woman live in...

Sand and Stone

Ikhwan and Arif were walking through the dessert. During some point of the journey, they had an argument and Ikhwan slapped Arif in the face. Arif was hurt, but he said nothing and wrote in the sand: “TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE”

They kept on walking and finally found an oasis, They decided to take a bath. Suddenly, Arif slipped on moss, hit his head and started drowning, but Ikhwan saved him. After Arif gained his consciousness, he carved on a stone “TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE”.

Ikhwan asked Arif, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you carved it on a stone, why?”

Arif replied, “when someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness would blow it away and when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it”.

 

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