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

Hurricanes are giant, spiraling tropical storms that can pack wind speeds of over 160 miles (257 kilometers) an hour and unleash more than 2.4 trillion gallons (9 trillion liters) of rain a day.
Hurricanes begin as tropical disturbances in warm ocean waters with surface temperatures of least 80 degrees Fahrenheit (26.5 degrees Celcius). These low pressure systems are fed by energy from the warm seas. If a storm achieves wind of 38 miles (61 kilometers) an hour, it becomes known as a tropical depression. A tropical depression becomes a tropical storm, when its sustained wind speeds top 39 miles (63 kilometer) an hour. When a strom’s sustained wind speeds reach 74 miles (119 kilometers) an hour, it becomes a hurricane and earns a category rating of 1 to 5 on the Saffir-Simpson.

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Last year I joined the Chicago Marathon, my first marathon contest. I had to run 26,2 miles to complete it. It was hard

Last year I joined the Chicago Marathon, my first marathon contest. I had to run 26,2 miles to complete it. It was hard

ONCE upon the time, a grandmother and her granddaughter lived in Roti Island, Nusa Tenggara Timur. They had a field grew some vegetable. The grandmother sold them at the market

In one morning, the grandmother would go to the market. Before she left, she asked her granddaughter to cook.

“Please cook some rice for lunch. But just cook one grain of rice. It’s enough for both of us.”

“Why, Grandma? asked the girl

“Just do what I said.”

The grandmother then left for the market. Later, the girl started to cook. However, she felt a grain of rice would not be enough for them.

“I think it’s not enough for me and my grandmother.” Then she took handfuls of rice. Suddenly, something bad happened to the rice pot. “Oh no! the rice flowed out of the pot!” shouted the girl. “What should I do?” The rice became rice porridge. It flowed and flowed until it covered the kitchen. Suddenly, the grandmother came home. The girl explained what happened.

“You are naughty girl! Why didn’t you listen to me? The grandmother was so angry. She hit the girl with a wooden stick.

“Please forgive me, Grandma! The little cried an cried. But the grandmother kept hitting her.

Then, a incredible thing happened! The girl turned into a monkey. The monkey then ran away an climbed a tree. The grandmother chased it. From the tree, the monkey said “ Grandmother, I’m a monkey now.  I cannot live with you anymore, You are all alone.”

The monkey climbed up and disappeared. The grandmother was very sad. She regretted what she had done to her beloved granddaughter. “Please come back to me. Please forgive me, my granddaughter!” but it was too late.

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.

 

.......... are used for sitting up and for jumping.

Koala is a mammal living in a tree. It has a (41) … diet which is mostly leaves of eucalyptus trees. Koalas are sometimes called koala bears. However, koala are not bears. Young bears (cube) are grown (42) outside their mother’s body, but young koalas (43) … their development inside the mother’s pouch.

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.

 

What happened when the old woman found the snail?

A man and his son were going to the market. While they were walking, a country man passed and said, “You fool, what a donkey for but to ride upon?"

So the man put the boy on the donkey. But soon, some passersby said, "see that lazy young steer. He lets his father walk while he rides."

So the man ordered his boy to get off and got on himself, but the passerby "Shame on that lazy old man, he lets his poor son walk, while he rides"

The man did not know what to do. Last, he took his boy on the donkey. Then the passerby said "Aren't you ashamed of yourself for overloading the poor donkey?"

The man and the boy got off. They cut down a pole, tied the donkey's feet to it and raised the pole to their shoulders. They arrived to a bridge when the donkey, getting one of its feet loose, kick all out and caused the boy to drop his end of the pole. In the struggle, the donkey fell over the bridge and then it was drowned.

“…,tied the donkey’s feet to it …” (last paragraph) The underline word refer to …

In ancient times, the king placed a boulder on a roadway. Then he hid and watched to see if anyone would remove the huge risk. Some of the king’s wealthiest merchants countries came by and simply walked around it.

Many loudly blamed the king for not keeping the roads clear, but none did anything to get big stone out the way. Then a peasant came along carry a load of vegetables. On approaching the boulder, the peasant laid down his burden and tried to move the stone to the side of the road. After lots of pushing and straining, he finally succeeded. As the peasant picked up his load of vegetables, he noticed a purse lying on the road where the boulder had been.

The purse contained a lot of gold coins and a note from the king indicating that the gold was for the person who removed the boulder from the roadway. The peasant learned what Many others never understand.What does the last paragraph tell us?

Adult butterflies can only feed on … (41), usually nectar. Their mouth parts are modified to enable them to drink, but they cannot chew solids. A proboscis, which functions .. (42) a drinking straw, stays curled up under the butterfly’s chin until it finds a source of nectar or other liquid nutrition. It then opens the long, tubular structure and … (43) up the nectar.