Timun Mas

Long long time ago, there was a farmer couple. They were staying in a village near a forest.
They lived happily. Unfortunately, they hadn’t had any children yet. Every day they prayed to
God for a child. One day a giant passed their home. He heard what they were praying. Then the
giant gave them a cucumber seed.
“Plant this seed, then you’ll get a daughter,” said the giant.
“Thank you, Giant,” said the couple.
“But in one condition, in her 17-th birthday, you must give her to me,” said the Giant. The
couple wanted a child so much that they agreed without thinking first.
Then the couple planted the cucumber seed. Each day they took care the growing plant so
carefully. Months later, a golden cucumber grew from the plant. The cucumber was getting
heavier and bigger each day. When it was ripe, they picked it. Carefully they cut out the
cucumber and how surprised were they when they found a beautiful baby inside. They were so
happy. They named the baby Timun Mas, or Golden Cucumber.
Years were passing by and Timun Mas had grown into a beautiful girl. Her parents were
very proud of her. But their happiness turned to fear when her 17th birthday came. The giant
returned to ask for their promise. He was going to take Timun Mas away.
The farmer tried to be calm. “Just a moment, please. Timun Mas is playing. My wife will call
her,” he said. Then the farmer came to his daughter. “My child, take this,” as he was giving her a
little bag to Timun Mas. “This will help you from the giant. Now, run as fast as you can,” he
ordered. So Timun Mas ran away.
The couple was very sad about her leaving. But they didn’t want the giant to eat Timun
Mas. Meanwhile, the giant had been waiting for too long. He became impatient. Somehow he
knew that the couple had lied to him. So he destroyed their house and ran for Timun Mas.
The giant was chasing Timun Mas and he was getting closer and closer. Timun Mas then
took a handful of salt from her little bag. She spread out the salt behind her. Suddenly a wide sea
appeared between them. The giant had to swim to reach her.
Timun Mas was still running, but now the giant almost caught her. Then she took some
chilly and threw them to the giant. The chilly suddenly grew into some trees and trapped the
giant. The trees grew some thorns as sharp as a knife. The giant screamed painfully. At the
mean time, Timun Mas could escape again.
But the giant was very strong. Again he almost caught Timun Mas. So Timun Mas took the
third magic stuff, the cucumber seeds. She threw the seeds and suddenly they became a wide
cucumber field. The giant was very tired and hungry so he ate those fresh cucumbers. He ate too
much that he felt sleepy and fell asleep soon.
Timun Mas kept on running as fast as she could. But soon she was very tired herself. To
make things worse, the giant had woken up! Timun Mas was so scared. Desperately she then
threw her last weapon, terasi (a kind of shrimp pasta). It did a miracle again. The pasta became a
big swamp. The giant fell into it but his hands almost reached Timun Mas. Suddenly the lake
pulled him to the bottom. The giant panicked and he couldn’t breathe. At last he was drown.
Timun Mas was very relieved. She was safe now. Then she returned to her parents’ house.
Her parents were of course very happy to see their daughter safe and sound. “Thanks God. You
have saved my daughter,” they cried happily. From then on, Timun Mas lived happily with her
parents with no fear anymore.

Questions:
1. What is the purpose of the text?
2. Is the story useful for you?
3. What can you learn from the story?
4. Who were the characters of the story?
5. Where did the story happen?
6. Why did the farmers pray to the God?
7. How did he get the farmers get their daughter?
8. What was her name?
9. Why did the giant come again to the farmer’s house?
10. What things brought by Timun Mas when she escaped?
11. What did those things use for? How?
12. How did the giant die?
 Snow White

Once upon a time there lived a little girl named Snow White. She lived with her aunt and
uncle because her parents were dead.
One day she heard her uncle and aunt talking about leaving Snow White in the castle
because they both wanted to go to America and they didn’t have enough money to take Snow
White.
Snow White didn’t want her uncle and aunt to do that so she decided that it would be best if
she ran away. The next morning she ran away into the woods. She was very tired and hungry.
Then she saw a little cottage. She knocked but no one answered so she went inside and fell
asleep.
Meanwhile, the seven dwarfs were coming home from work. There they found Snow White
sleeping. Then Snow White woke up. She saw the dwarfs.
The dwarfs said, “What is your name?”
Snow White said, “My name is Snow White.”
Then, Snow White told the dwarfs the whole story.
The dwarfs said, “If you want, you may live here with us.”
Snow White answered, “Oh, could I? Thank you.”
Finally, Snow White and the seven dwarfs lived happily ever after.

1. What type of the text is used by the witer?

a. Narrative
b. Report
c. Anecdote
d. Comparative
e. news item
2. To tell the plot, the writers uses ...
a. a rhetorical que
b. stion and an exclamation
c. time sequences contrastive evidences
d. past tense
e. concessive conjunctions
3. Why Snow White ran away to the woods?
a. Her parents passed away
b. Her uncle was angry with her
c. Her uncle and aunt would go to America
d. Snow White was happy to run away
e. Snow White liked playing in the woods.
4. When did Snow White run away to the woods?
a. In the afternoon
b. In the morning
c. In the evening
d. In the full moon
e. In the middle of night
5. Where did Snow White live after she ran away to the woods?
a. She lived in the cave
b. She lived in the lion nest
c. She lived everywhere in the woods
 d. She lived in the dwarfs’ cottage
e. She lived on the street
6. According to the text, before she ran away into the woods, why did Snow White live with
her uncle and aunt?
a. because she loved them very much
b. as a result of forcing attitude from them
c. because her parents were dead
d. because she were afraid of the dwarfs
e. because she ran away from a monster
7. The communicative purpose of this text is ...
a. to inform the readers about important and newsworthy events
b. to entertain readers with fairy tale
c. to share an account of an unusual event
d. to persuade readers to accept his/her opinions
e. to denote or propose something as the case
8. The organization of the text above is ...
a. abstract, orientatin, crisis, incident,coda
b. thesis, argument: plot-elaboration, argument: plot-elaboration, argument: plot-
elaboration, conclusion
c. orientation, major complication, resolution, complication, resolution, complication,
major complication
d. description, background events, sources
e. orientation, event, event, event
Choose the right answer!
1. What is the communicative function of narrative text?
a. To entertain the readers
b. To explain about something
c. To argue about something
d. To inform the reader
e. To instruct the reader

June came from a writer family. Both his parents work as a writer. His mother is a
novelist, his father is a professor and his older brother is a journalist. During his lifetime June
was intimidated by authors’ family epithet. He was faced with a situation that requires him to be
able to write. In fact he could not write. When someone asked him to write, he refused and
reasoned that his family talent in writing is up.

2. What kind of short paragraph above?

a. Recount paragraph
b. Narrative paragraph
c. Argumentative paragraph
d. Exposition Paragraph
e. Procedure paragraph

Text for number 3-6

Little Red Riding Hood

One day there was a little girl named little red riding hood. She was asked by her
mother to deliver cake to her grandmother. When she was heading for his grandmother’s house,
little riding hood met a wolf. “Where are you going, a little girl?” The wolf asked. “I’m willing
to give this cake to my grandmother” replied little riding hood.
The wolf had an evil plan that he wanted to eat them both. Then he ran through a
shortcut to her grandmother’s house. After arriving to grandmas’ house, he knocked on her
door. When Grandma opened the door, the wolf caught her and locked her in a closet. The bad
wolf then wore Grandma’s clothes and laid in bed, waiting for Little Red Riding Hood.
When little riding hood arrived, the wolf in disguise told her to come in. little riding
hood did not realize that it was the wolf. Then the wolf ate a little riding hood and her
grandmother. After eating them, the wolf fell asleep beside the river. Suddenly, a woodcutter
came; he saw a large wolf’s belly and knew what had been done by the wolf. Then he saved them
by releasing them out from the belly of the wolf and filled the wolf’s stomach with a big stone.
Then he threw the wolf into the river.

3. What is the story about?

a. A kind wolf who wants to help little riding hood
b. A little riding hood meet wolf
c. Grandma asked wolf to take little riding hood
d. A bad wolf who wants to eat little riding hood and grandma
e. None of the option is right
4. Why did little riding hood do not realize the wolf who in disguise as her grandma?
a. Because she was blind
b. Because she was daft
c. Because the wolf was kind
 d. Because the wolf wore little riding hood’s clothes
e. Because the wolf wore grandma’s clothes
5. Who did save little riding hood and her grandma from the wolf?
a. The woodcutter
b. The stranger
c. The grandfather
d. The little riding hood’s mother
e. The little riding hood’s father
6. What is the moral value of the story?
a. Don’t be greedy
b. Don’t believe in stranger
c. Don’t use riding hood
d. Don’t go to Grandma’s house
e. Don’t sleep in the river

The text is for number 7-10

It was January 29/30, 1950, that day was the saddest day of Indonesia because one of
Indonesia’s best sons was death. Even that day the sky also seemed sad by droving his tears to
earth. Who is he? Why is said to be the best son?
Sudirman was born in a village in central Java on January 24, 1916. He was taken as a foster
child by his mother’s brother, a retired district officer who resides in Cilacap. That’s where small
Sudirman successfully completed primary school (formerly HIS = Holland Indies School). When
he was in HIS, little Sudirman was known as a quiet kid. Not surprisingly, he was loved by his
friends.
After his graduation, then he entered MULO in Cilacap. At that school he became beloved
students of Mr. Tri Supeno so that he nationality education from Mr. Tirta a teacher graduated
from Military Academy Breda.

7. What is the best tittle of the text?

a. Sudirman’s death
b. Sudirman’s born
c. Sudirman’s life
d. Sudirman’s Education
e. Sudirman’s Family
8. Where did he graduate from Elementary School?
a. HIS
b. MULO
c. Military Academy Breda
d. Cilacap
e. SIH
9. Which one of these statements is wrong?
a. Sudirman was born in a village in central Java on January 24, 1916
b. Little Sudirman was known as a quiet kid.
c. He became beloved students of Mr. Tri Supeno
d. He was loved by his friends
e. Sudirman death on January 27, 1950
10. Who is the one who teach him about nationality?
a. Mr. Supeno
b. Mr. Trisno
c. Mr. Tirta
d. Mr. Breda
e. No one
 A kangaroo is an animal found only in Australia, although it has a smaller relative, called a
wallaby, which lives on the Australian island of Tasmania and also in New Guinea.
Kangaroos eat grass and plants. They have short front legs, but very long, and very strong
back legs and a tail. These they use for sitting up on and for jumping. Kangaroos have been
known to make forward jumps of over eight metres, and leap across fences more than three
metres high. Thelsoy can also run at speeds of over 45 kilometres per hour.
The larges kangaroos are the great Grey kangaroo and the Red kangaroo. Adults grow to a
length of 160 metres and weigh over 90 kilograms.
Kangaroos are marsupials. This means that the female kangaroo has an external pounch on
the front of her body. A baby kngaroo is very tiny when it is born, and it crawls at once into this
pounch where it spends its first five months of life.

1. Where is kangaroo found?

a. in japan
b. in London
c. in Austria
d. in America
e. in Australia

2. There are some criterias of kangaroos, except ...

a. They eat grass and plants
b. They have short front legs
c. They have very strong back legs
d. They have a tail
e. They are not marsupials

3. The followings are what the kangaroo can do, except …

a. They have been known to make forward jumps of over eight metres
b. They can leap across fences more than three metre high
c. They can also run at speeds of over 45 kilometres per hour
d. They can’t walk
e. They are marsupials

4. Adult kangaroo grow to a length of … metres.

a. 130
b. 140
c. 150
d. 160
e. 170

5. Adult kangaroo can not grow to a weight under ...

a. 100
b. 120
c. 95
d. 110
e. 80

6. A baby kangaroo is ...

 a. Very big
b. Very long
c. Very tiny
d. very smooth
e. very cool

7. What is the best title of the text?

a. What is the kangaroo?
b. What is the buffalo?
c. Kangaroo the Marsupials
d. Kangaroo the Australian Animals
e. What is the animal?

8. The largest kangaroos are …

a. The great grey kangaroo and the white kangaroo
b. The great blue kangaroo and the red kangaroo
c. The great grey kangaroo and the red kangaroo
d. The great red kangaroo and the green kangaroo
e. The great white kangaroo and the pink kangaroo

9. What is the first paraghraph tells?

a. Kangaroo’s live.
b. Kangaroo’s species
c. kangaroo’s job
d. kangaroo’s hobby
e. kangaroo’s name

10. Why do kangaroos can run at speeds of over 45 kilometres per hour?
a. Kangaroo have short front legs, but very long
b. Kangaroo can run like lion
c. Kangaroo can run like tiger
d. Kangaroo can run like zebra
e. Kangaroo have many legs