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            Last week was a hectic week. I have been touring East Java and Bali. There were so many things that I’ve experienced that it’s difficult to write about all of them.

            I arrived in Yogyakarta, on Sunday. I stayed in a cheap accommodation, a wisma. The room was clean and I could get hot water to bathe. On Monday, I went with a tour group to visit Borobudur and the Hindu temples in Prambanan. Some of these temples are more than twelve hundred years old. They date well beyond the churches in my home town in Europe, I was amazed at the enormity of the construction. I’m sure they did not have the heavy machines we have today to raise and lay those huge blocks of stone. The carvings on the walls were another feature of the construction.

            I’m getting used to the spicy food served here. I have eaten fresh fish, lamb and beef, I know you don’t eat all this but I’ve got used to it. On Tuesday I decided to go for a hike to Mount Merapi. But I found out that it was a difficult climb. So I went to the forest park in Kaliurang. That was a lovely walk that made me hot and tired. But I managed to cool off in a waterfall in the park then walked up to a hill nearby where I could see the smoky, fiery Mount Merapi.

1.      The writer comes from ………

A.    Bali

B.     Europe

C.     Surabaya

D.    East Java

E.     Yogyakarta

2.      The main idea of the second paragraph is ……………

A.    The writer arrived in Yogyakarta

B.     Borobudur, Prambanan temples the carvings amazed the writer

C.     The writer visited Borobudur and Prambanan temples with a tour group

D.    The temples are older than the churches in Europe

E.     The writer spent the night at a cheap wisma

3.      From the text we can conclude that the writer ………

A.    Enjoyed the tour

B.     Liked mountain climbing

C.     Had experienced in writing

D.    Was used to eating spicy food

E.     Visited Yogyakarta a week before

4.      “Last week was a hectic week”. (Paragraph 1) The synonym of the underlined word is very ……….

A.    Idle

B.     Busy

C.     Quiet

D.    Relaxed

E.     Tied up

The Blue Plaque

Mary Seacole

Nick Rennison

Everyone has heard of Florence Nightingale and her achievements. Not enough people have heard of Mary Seacole, who played an equally heroic role in nursing British soldiers during the Crimean War, often tending their wounds while under fire herself.

Born Mary Jane Grant in Kingston, Jamaica in 1805, the daughter of a free black woman and a Scottish army officer, she married Edwin Seacole in 1836 and was widowed eight years later. She had learned nursing skills from her mother who ran a boarding house for invalid soldiers and, when the Crimean War broke out in 1854, she travelled to England to offer her services to the British government. She was turned away, doubtless because of her colour. As she herself suggested, she was not wanted, 'because my blood flowed beneath a somewhat duskier skin than theirs.'

Undaunted, she financed her own journey to the Crimea and there established the British Hotel near Balaclava to provide comfort and medical care for wounded soldiers. At the end of the war she was bankrupt but was rescued by public subscription when her work was given publicity by a number of newspapers. Two English officers who had fought in the war and recognised her achievements organised a benefit festival for her in the Royal Surrey Gardens in Kennington and she was eventually awarded a Crimean medal by the British government.

Her autobiography, The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands, was published in 1857 with an introduction by the famous war correspondent W. H. Russell. The blue plaque to Mary Seacole is on a house in George Street, off the Edgware Road, where she lived in the 1870s.

5.      Where was Seacole from?

A.    British

B.     Scottish

C.     Balaclava

D.    Jamaica

E.     Kennington

6.      ‘because my blood flowed beneath a somewhat duskier skin than theirs’. What is the meaning of those words?

A.    She had dark skin

B.     Her blood was dark

C.     She was born in dusk

D.    Their skin was duskier

E.     She had colorful skin

7.      What is the main idea of the third paragraph?

A.    She gave her service to British government.

B.     Her disappointment because of being not wanted.

C.     She learnt nursing skills from her mother.

D.    She was bankrupt.

E.     Two English officers had fought in the Crimean War.

EFFECTIVE MICRO ORGANISMS 4

ORGANIC FERMENTATION BACTERIA

TO INCREASE CATTLE PRODUCTIVITY

EM-4 is a mixture of micro- organisms that gives the benefit for cattle growth and product.

Usage:

1.      Decrease smell pollution

2.      Balance mutual micro-organisms

3.      Increase quality and quantity of cattle product

How to use:

1.      To get satisfying result, dissolve Ice EM-4 per litre water every day.

2.      Spray 1cc EM per litre of water every week on the floor, wall, and manure.

Agent: PT. Songgolangit

Persada, Jakarta

Distributor: Jl. Ki Hajar Dewantara 46

Jakarta

Phone: (021) 7894529

8.      This text tells us about ………..

A.    Organism

B.     Fermentation

C.     Cattle product

D.    Contact address

E.     The use of EM-4

9.      One of the benefits of the product is ………

A.    For growing cattle bacteria

B.     For increasing smell pollution

C.     For producing cattle manure and organic fermentation bacteria

D.    For increasing micro organisms

E.     For increasing quality and quantity of cattle product

10.      What will you do to get satisfying result?

A.    Dissolve 1cc EM-4 per litre of water every two days.

B.     Dissolve 4cc EM-1 per litre of water every week.

C.     Dissolve 1cc EM-4 per litre of water every week.

D.    Dissolve 4cc EM-1 per litre of water per day.

E.     Dissolve 1cc EM-4 per litre of water every day.