A Woman and the Wolves

A long time ago, very few people lived in the New Territories. There were
only a few villages. If the people wanted to go from one village to another,
they often had to pass through wild and unsafe forest.

One day, a farmer’s young wife went to the next village to visit her own
mother and brother. She brought along her baby son. When it was time for
her to leave, her brother said “ it is getting dark. Let my son, Ah Tim go with
you though the forest.”

So Ah Tim led the way and the young woman followed behind, carrying her
baby. When they were in the forest, suddenly they saw a group of wolves.
They began to run to avoid the danger, but Ah Tim kicked against a stone
and fell down. At once the wolves caught him. The young woman cried to
the wolves, “ please eat my own son instead.” Then, she put her baby son on
the ground in front of the wolves and took her nephew away.

Everyone understood that this was because the woman was very good and
kind. She had offered her own son’s life to save her nephew.

They ran back to the house and called for help. All men in the village
fetched thick sticks and went back with her into the forest. When they got
there, they saw something very strange. Instead of eating the woman’s baby
the wolves were playing with him.

Read the text, then choose the best choice to each questions.

1. What separated between one village to another a long time ago in the New
Territories ?
a. Another village
b. Mountains
c. Forests
d. Hills ve. Towers and logs

2. Who was Ah Tim ?

a. The young woman’s brother
b. The young woman’s son
c. The young woman’s brother and nephew
d. The young woman’s brother’s son
e. One of the men who fetched a stick
3. Who walked in front when they were in the forest ?
a. Ah Tm
b. The woman
c. The woman’s son
d. Her brother’s nephew
e. The baby and his mother

4. How could the wolves catch Ah Tim ?

a. He was afraid
b. He was stumbled by a stone
c. He ran slowly
d. The woman cried
e. The wolves were good runners

5. The woman gave her son to the wolves because

a. She loved her nephew than her son.
b. She thought about how her brother would be
c. She wanted her son was eaten by the wolves
d. She was crazy
e. She kept a grudge on his brother

6. What did the villagers bring sticks for ?

a. For the weapon to beat the wolves
b. To bring the woman’s nephew
c. For the fire woods.
d. For play
e. For building a house for the woman.

7. “ all men in the village fetched thick stick … “ the word “ fetched” has a
similar meaning to :
a. Received
b. Caught
c. Got
d. Hit
e. Lifted

8. From the passage we learn that the villages were ….

a. Located in one huge area
b. Situated in a large district
c. Separated by untamed jungles.
d. Wild and unsafe
e. Dark and very dangerous

9. The brother let her son go with his aunt as she left home because ….
a. Ah Tim wanted to see the wolves
b. His aunt wanted him to come long
c. Ah Tim was bored to live with his parents
d. The baby was too cute to be alone
e. Ah Tim would be a guardian for them

10. What is the purpose of the writer by writing the story above ?
a. To describe the danger of the villages
b. To entertain the readers of the story
c. To tell the villagers’ relationship
d. To explain how important a relative is
e. To narrate how the wolves were playing with the baby.

Once upon a time there was a girl name Cindrella. She lived with her
bad step-mother and two step-sisters. She had to do all the household chores.

One day the king invited all the ladies in the kingdom to go to a ball
(pesta dansa) in the palace. He wanted to find the Crown Prince a wife.

The step sisters went to the ball that night with their mother. Cindrella
was left alone. She cried because she actually wanted to go to the ball, too.

Just then a fairy godmother came. With her magic wand, she gave
Cindrella a coach (kereta), two horses and footmen. She also gave Cindrella
a lovely dress to wear the ball and a pair of glass slippers. She told Cindrella
to come home before midnight.

At the ball, Cindrella danced all night with the Prince. The Prince fell
in love with her. At midnight, Cindrella ran home. Unfortunately, one of her
slippers slipped off at the door. She did not have time to put it back on. The
Prince was sad as he could not find Cindrella again that night.

The next day, the Prince and his men brought along the glass slipper.
They went all over the Kingdom to search for the owner.

After searching for along time, finally, they came to Cindrella’s house.
The slipper fit her. The prince was very happy to find Cindrella again. They
got married and lived ever after.

1. What is the purpose of the text above?

a. To tell us how to write a story

b. To inform what happened in the past

c. To give a description of a beautiful girl

d. To retell about Cindrella’s experience/memory

e. To entertain readers with an actual, or vicarious experience

2. What was there at the palace one day?

a. A game c. A birthday party e. Glass slippers

b. A ball d. Crown part

3. Why did the king hold the event at his palace?

a. To celebrate his d. To entertain his people
birthday
b. To celebrate his e. To show give amusement to his guests.
wedding
c. To find his crown
prince a wife
4. How was the end of the story?
a. The prince married d. The king gave the kingdom to
Cindrella. Cindrella.
b. Cindrella was killed by her e. Cindrella was betrayed by the
step mother . king.
c. The prince turned into a
horse forever.
5. “She also gave Cindrella a lovely dress….” (Paragraph 4). The underlined
word has the same meaning with …..
a. boring c. Polite e. Pretty

b. honest d. Loyal
 A greedy dog story

A greedy dog stole a large piece of tender meat from a butcher’s shop. He
grasped the meat tightly between his teeth and ran home with it.

On the way home, he came to a small bridge over a stream. As he was

crossing the bridge, he looked down and saw his own reflection in the water
below; he thought it was another dog that he saw.

In this other dog’s mouth he saw another large piece of meat.

“If I can get the meat from that other dog, I will have two pieces instead of
one,” thought the greedy dog.

So, he bent down to get the meat and, as he opened his jaws, the meat fell
out and was quickly lost in the water. So, in the end, the dog had nothing. He
had been punished by his greed.

The water buffalo and the tiger

(Favourite stories from Chinese)

A farmer was ploughing his fields. “Why are you so lazy?” he asked his
water-buffalo pulling the plough. “You are very slow and you have no
strength. Look how quick and strong the tiger is! If only you could be like
that.”

“Do you really think the tiger is stronger than I? take me to one now
and I shall show you,” replied the water-buffalo. He was angry that his
master thought he was lazy.

A few days afterwards, the farmer took him to meet a tiger. The tiger
roared when he saw the buffalo coming. “What a nice meal!” he thought.
 “Mr. tiger,” said the water-buffalo, “Let us see who is stronger. You can
bite me three times if you will allow me to butt you three times.”

The tiger agreed. While the tiger sharpener his teeth, the water-buffalo
sharpened his horns. The water-buffalo then rolled in the mud and covered
himself with leaves. The tiger could not understand why. He asked the
water-buffalo but the water-buffalo did not answer him.

“Come, Mr. tiger,’ the water-buffalo said, “You can bite me first.” The
tiger bit him three times but he could not bite through the mud and leaves.
The water-buffalo then butted the tiger. With the first butt, he tossed the tiger
over his shoulder. With the second butt, he killed him.

After that the farmer treated the buffalo very well. He did not dare call
him lazy and useless again.

True Friends

Once upon a time, there were two close friends who were walking through
the forest together. They knew that anything dangerous can happen any time
in the forest. So they promised each other that they would always be
together in any case of danger.

Suddenly, they saw a large bear getting closer toward them. One of them
climbed a nearby tree at once. But unfortunately the other one did not know
how to climb up the tree. So being led by his common sense, he lay down on
the ground breathless and pretended to be a dead man.

The bear came near the one who was lying on the ground. It smelt in his
ears, and slowly left the place because the bears do not want to touch the
dead creatures. After that, the friend on the tree came down and asked his
friend that was on the ground, "Friend, what did the bear whisper into your
ears?" The other friend replied, "Just now the bear advised me not to believe
a false friend."
 The Ant and the Dove

One hot day, an ant was seeking for some water. After walking around for a
moment, she came to a spring. To reach the spring, she had to climb up a
blade of grass. While making her way up, she slipped and fell
unintentionally into the water.

She could have sunk if a dove up a nearby tree had not seen her. Seeing that
the ant was in trouble, the dove quickly put off a leaf from a tree and
dropped it immediately into the water near the struggling ant. Then the ant
moved towards the leaf and climbed up there. Soon it carried her safely to
dry ground.

Not long after at that, there was a hunter nearby who was throwing out his
net towards the dove, hoping to trap it in this way.

Guessing what he should do, the ant quickly bit him on the heel. Feeling the
pain, the hunter dropped his net and the dove flew away quickly from this
net.

The morality: One good turn deserves another.

The Tortoise and the Hare

As usual, the hare was bragging to all the other animals about his speed. "I'm faster than
the wind, quicker that nightfall," he said. "No one has ever beaten me. No one ever will. I
challenge any animal here to race me." The foxes and donkeys and frogs and serpents
looked on in silence. No one would accept the hare's challenge. Then a lone voice rose
up. "I will race you," said the tortoise.

"You!" said the hare, snickering. "Why, that's a fine joke. I will dance around you all the
way to the finish line!"
"We'll see about that," said the tortoise quietly. "Shall we race?"

The starting signal was given, and off went the tortoise and the hare. Almost at once, the
hare darted over a hillside and was out of sight. The tortoise set off slowly, just plodding
along. Soon the hare was way ahead of the tortoise. It was a hot day. He'd grown tired
from running so fast. He thought about how far behind the tortoise would be by now. So
the hare decided to take a little nap. On a soft, shady patch of grass, he curled up and
went to sleep.

Steadily, slowly, the tortoise kept plodding along. The sun fell lower in the sky. The
shadows grew longer. The hare woke up and stretched. "I wonder where that silly tortoise
is now," he said to himself. "I had a great nap. I'll bet the tortoise is still miles behind
me."

The hare looked back down the road. Sure enough, there was no tortoise in sight. Then he
looked up the road toward the finish line. Oh no! the tortoise, still plodding along, was
now nearing the end of the race.

Then the hare ran the fastest he ever had. But it was too late. The tortoise crawled across
the finish line. All the animals shouted, "Tortoise won, tortoise won!" The hare couldn't
believe it. And the tortoise just smiled to himself!

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Moral of the story: Slow but steady wins the race.

The Ant and the Grasshopper

On a warm summer day, a grasshopper leaped about a field merrily singing. Nearby, an
ant toiled hard under the hot sun. One by one, he hoisted heavy karnels of corn onto his
shoulders and carried them back to his nest.
"Come join me," said the grasshopper. "We'll sing and dance and make beautiful music!"

"I have no time to make music," said the ant. "I'm gathering food for the long winter
ahead. I suggest you do the same, if you know what's good for you,"

The grasshopper merely laughed. "I have plenty to eat today. Winter is a long time off.
Why worry on such a lovely day?"

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Summer turned to autumn, autumn to winter. Now the field was covered in snow. The ant
was burrowed deep in his nest, warm and content. He had enough food to last the whole
winter. But the grasshopper was no longer singing a happy song. "It's freezing," he
shivered. "I'm starving. If only I had listened to the ant's advice!"

Moral of the story:There is a time for work and a time for play

Elephant and Friends

One day an elephant wandered into a forest in search of friends. He saw a monkey on a
tree. “Will you be my friend?” asked the elephant. Replied the monkey, “You are too big.
You can not swing from trees like me.” Next, the elephant met a rabbit. He asked him to
be his friends. But the rabbit said, “You are too big to play in my burrow!” Then the
elephant met a frog.

“Will you be my friend? He asked.

“How can I?” asked the frog.

“You are too big to leap about like me.”

The elephant was upset. He met a fox next.

“Will you be my friend?” he asked the fox.

The fox said, “Sorry, sir, you are too big.”

The next day, the elephant saw all the animals in the forest running for their lives. The
elephant asked them what the matter was. The bear replied, “There is a tiger in the forest.
He’s trying to gobble us all up!” The animals all ran away to hide. The elephant
wondered what he could do to solve everyone in the forest. Meanwhile, the tiger kept
eating up whoever he could find. The elephant walked up to the tiger and said, “Please,
Mr. Tiger, do not eat up these poor animals.”

“Mind your own business!” growled the tiger.

The elephant has a no choice but to give the tiger a hefty kick. The frightened tiger ran
for his life. The elephant ambled back into the forest to announce the good news to
everyone. All the animals thanked the elephant. They said, “You are just the right size to
be our friend.”

Gajah dan Teman-Teman

Suatu hari seekor gajah mengembara ke hutan untuk mencari teman. Dia melihat monyet
di atas pohon. “Maukah kau menjadi temanku?” Tanya gajah. Jawab monyet, “Kamu
terlalu besar. Kamu tidak dapat berayun dari pohon seperti saya. ” Selanjutnya, gajah
bertemu kelinci. Dia meminta kelinci untuk menjadi temannya. Tapi kelinci itu berkata,
“Kamu terlalu besar untuk bermain di lubang saya!” Kemudian gajah bertemu kodok.

“Maukah kamu menjadi temanku? Dia bertanya.

“Bagaimana bisa?” Tanya katak. “Kamu terlalu besar untuk melompat seperti saya.

” Gajah kesal. Dia bertemu rubah berikutnya.

“Maukah kau menjadi temanku?” Tanyanya rubah.

Rubah berkata, “Maaf, Pak, Anda terlalu besar.”

Keesokan harinya, gajah melihat semua binatang di hutan berlarian keluar hutan. Gajah
bertanya kepada mereka apa yang terjadi. Beruang itu menjawab, “Ada Harimau di hutan.
Dia mencoba untuk melahap kita semua! ” Hewan-hewan semua lari bersembunyi. Gajah
bertanya-tanya apa yang bisa ia lakukan untuk memecahkan semua orang di hutan.
Sementara itu, harimau terus makan sampai siapa pun dia bisa temukan. Gajah berjalan
menemui ke harimau dan berkata, “Tolong, Tuan harimau, tidak memakan binatang yang
malang.”

“Urusi bisnis kamu sendiri!”

Geram harimau. Gajah tidakmemiliki pilihan selain memberikan harimau tendangan yang
hebat dan kuat. Harimau yang ketakutan dan berlari untuk hidupnya. Gajah melenggang
kembali ke hutan untuk mengumumkan kabar baik untuk semua orang. Semua binatang
berterima kasih kepada gajah. Mereka berkata, “Kamu mempunyai ukuran yang tepat
untuk menjadi teman kita.”

The Man and the Lion

A Lion and a Man chanced to travel in a company through the forest. They soon began to
quarrel, for each of them boasted that he and his kind were far superior to the other both
in strength and mind.

Now they reached a clearing in the forest and there stood a statue. It was a humas statue
in the act of tearing the jaws of a Lion.

“See,” said the man, “that’s how strong we are! The King of Beasts is like wax in our
hands!”

“Ho!” laughed the Lion, “a Man made that statue. It would have been quite a different
scene had a Lion made it!”

Moral: It all depends on the point of view, and who tells the story. Always trust your own
wit and try judge the circumstances.

A Wolf had been feasting too greedily, and a bone had stuck crosswise in his throat. He
could get it neither up nor down, and of course, he could not eat a thing. Naturally, that
was an awful state of affairs for a greedy Wolf.

So away he hurried to the Crane. He was sure that she, with her long neck and bill, would
easily be able to reach the bone and pull it out. “I will reward you very handsomely”, said
the Wolf, “if you pull that bone out for me”.

The Crane, as you can imagine, was very uneasy about putting her head in Wolf’s throat.
But she was grasping in nature, so she did what the Wolf asked her to do. When the Wolf
felt that the bone was gone, he started to walk away.

“But what about my reward!” called the Crane anxiously.

“What!” snarled the Wolf, whirling around. “Haven’t you got it? Isn’t it enough that I let
you take your head out of my mouth without snapping it off?”

Moral: Expect no reward for serving the one who has no honor. Staying in a company of
selfish people will not do anyone any favor

Long ago, there lived a lion in a dense forest. One morning his wife told him that his
breath was bad and unpleasant. The lion became embarrassed and angry upon hearing it.
He wanted to check this fact with others. So he called three others outside his cave.
First came the sheep. The Lion opening his mouth wide said, “Sheep, tell me if my mouth
smells bad?” The sheep thought that the lion wanted an honest answer, so the sheep said,
“Yes, Friend. There seems to be something wrong with your breath”. This plain speak did
not go well with the lion. He pounced on the sheep, killing it.

Then the lion called the wolf and said, “What do you think? Do I have a bad breath?” The
wolf saw what happened to the sheep. He wanted to be very cautious in answering a
question. So, the wolf said, “Who says that Your breath is unpleasant. It’s as sweet as the
smell of roses”. When the lion heard the reply, he roared in an anger and immediately
attacked the wolf and killed it. “The flatterer!” growled the lion.

Finally, came the turn of the fox. The lion asked him the same question. The fox was well
aware of the fate of the sheep and the wolf. So he coughed and cleared his throat again
and again and then said, “Oh Dear Friend, for the last few days, I have been having a very
bad cold. Due to this, I can’t smell anything, pleasant or unpleasant”.

The lion spared the fox’s life.

Moral: Do not involve yourself in a bad company or a bad situation else you may end up
getting punished for no fault of yours. Sometimes, It’s wise to stay away from certain
situation