HORTATORY EXPOSITION TEXT

Text 1. cheating that students do during the test or

Is it important to know what your kids are examination, such as looking other students’ work, put
watching? Of course yes. Television can expose things some notes under their clothes, write notes or
you have tried to protect them from, especially formulas on their desks make hand signals or go to rest
violence, pornography, consumerism, etc. rooms to get the answers from their friends.
A study demonstrated that spending too much In my view, students who do cheating are
time on watching TV during the day or at bedtime committing a crime. It is a sort of taking something
often causes bedtime disruption, stress, and short illegally. This crime causes negative results to the
sleep duration. students. Students who always cheat deteriorate their
Another research found that there is a significant mental capacity. Cheating acts also create
relationship between the amount of time spent for dependence. They weaken their self-confidence.
watching television during adolescence and early Instead of preparing for the coming test, they are busy
adulthood, and the possibility of being aggressive. to organize notes on a piece of paper. If this awful
Meanwhile, many studies have identified a habit continues, the students will lose their
relationship between kids who watch TV a lot and opportunity to develop their intellectual and mind.
being inactive and overweight. Therefore, school should consider cheating as a
Considering some facts mentioned above, protect very serious problem. School board and administration
your children with the following tips: should go hand to overcome this matter. Honesty must
1. Limit television viewing to 1-2 hours each day. be put in school’s vision. Harsh punishment must be
2. Do not allow your children to have a TV set in applied to students who commit this crime.
their bedrooms.
3. Review the rating TV shows that your children 1. What is mainly discussed in the text?
watch. a. School policy
4. Watch television with you children and discuss b. Harsh punishment
what is happening in the show. c. Cheating as a crime
Source: UN SMA IPA 2012 d. Mental deterioration
e. Different ways of cheating
1. Too much TV watching can possibly lead to ....
A. frustration 2. What will the school do to eliminate students who
B. overweight commit cheating?
C. low achievement a. Create a good vision
D. laziness b. Select honest students
E. hyperactivity c. Make harsh punishment
d. Make students confident
2. We know from the text that.... e. Administer the school affair
A. too much watching TV causes stress
B. being aggressive can happen to children 3. “Students who always cheat deteriorate their
C. adult can get overweight mental capacity.” (Paragraph 3)
D. parents will protect their children The bold typed word means…
E. short of sleep duration cause overweight a. support
b. worsen
3. The word disruption in the second paragraph is c. cause
closest in meaning to …. d. create
A. improvement e. find
B. restoration
C. eruption 4. “They weaken their self-confidence.” (Paragraph 3)
D. allocation What does the bold typed word refer to?
E. interference a. tests
b. papers
Text 2. c. results
Students’ cheating is one of the biggest problems d. students
faced by teachers nowadays. e. cheatings
Despite the fact that teachers advise their
students not to do dishonest acts during tests, some
students still do cheating. There are many kinds of