TUGAS REMIDI BAHASA INGGRIS MINAT

NAMA : RAJ NADILA BUNGA AFATESA

KELAS : XI IPS 1

1) Page: 89 Text ‘ The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County ‘

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

In compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I
called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler and enquired after my friend’s
friend, Leonidas W. Smiley, as requested to do, and I hereunto append the result. I have a
lurking suspicion that Leonidas W. Smiley is a myth and thet my friend never knew such
a personage and that he only conjectured that if I asked old Wheeler about him, it would
remind him of his infamous Jim Smiley and he would go to work and bore me to death
with some exasperating reminiscence of him as long and as tedious as it should be useless
to me. If that was the design, it succeeded.
I found Simon Wheeler dozing comfortably by the barroom stove of the dilapidated
tavern in the decayed mining camp of Angle’s and I noticed that he was fat and bald-headed
and had an expression of winning gentleness and simplicity upon his tranquil countenance.
He roused up and gave me good-day. I told him a friend had commissioned me to make
some enquiries about a cherished companion of his boyhood named Leonidas W. Smiley-
Rey. Leonidas. W. Smiley, a young minister of the gospel, who he had heard was at one
time a resident of Angel’s camp. I added that if Mr Wheeler could tell me anything about
this Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley, I would feel under many obligations to him.
( Twain, 1867)
 Questions:
a. Who is the main character in the story?
b. Describe the main character.
c. What do you think of the writer’s friend?

Answer:
a. The main character in the story is Simon Wheeler
b. Simon Wheeler was fat and bald-headed and had an expression of winning
gentleness and simplicity upon his tranquil countenance
c. In my opinion, the writer’s friend is myth

2) Page: 90 Text nomor 13.

The Widow of Paolo Saverini lived alone with her son in a poor little house on
the out skirts of Bonifacio. The town was built on a outjutting part of the mountain, in
places even overhanging the sea, looking across the straits, full of sandbanks, toward the
southherndmost coast of Sardinia. Beneath it, on the other side and almost surrounding it,
was a cleft in the cliff like an immense corridor which served as a harbour, and along it the
little Italian and Sardinian fishing boats came by a circuitous route between precipitous
cliffs as far as the first house, and every two weeks yhe old, wheezy steamer which made
the trip to Ajaccio.
On the white mountain, the houses, massed together, made an even whiter spot.
They loked like the nests of wild birds, clinging to this peak, overlooking this terrible
passage, where vessels rarely ventured. The wind, which blew uninterruptedly, had swept
bare the forbidding coast; it drowe through the narrow straits and lays waste both sides.
The pale streaks of foam, clinging to the black rocks, whose countless peaks rose up out of
the water, looked like bits of rag floating and drifting on the surface of the sea.
The house of widow Saverini, clinging to the very edge of the precipice, looked
out, thourgh its three windows, over this wild and desolate picture. She lived there alone,
with her son Antonia and their dog Semillante, a big, thin beast, with a long rough coat, of
the sheep-dog bread. The young took her with him when out hunting.
Questions:
a. Who is the main charcter in this story
b. What was Bonifacio

Answer:

a. The main character in this story is The Widow of Paolo Saverini

b. The town was built on a outjutting part of the mountain, in places even
overhanging the sea, looking across the straits, full of sandbanks, toward the
southherndmost coast of Sardinia.