K13 Revisi Antiremed Kelas 10 Bahasa Inggris: Recount Texts - Exercise

K13 Revisi Antiremed Kelas 10 Bahasa Inggris
Recount Texts - Exercise

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Text 1-a Text 1-b

Very little was ever written about the Soon there was a hard and very fast
third-class passengers of the Titanic; report- knock at the door, and one of my friends
ers, the United States Senate investigation, from Finland dashed in to say the ship had
and the British investigation never bothered struck something and was sinking. "Where is
to interview any of the third-class survivors. Pekko?" she asked. "He went to see why the
Most of those in third class spoke very ship had stopped. I don't know where he is
little English. But for some, like Titanic now." "How did he get out of the passage-
survivor Elin Hakkarainen, the memory way?" she continued. "All the doors are
lingered long enough for her English to locked!" I was confused; I didn't know what
catch up ... to do next. After a few moments I grabbed
We could hardly believe that in two more my purse and life jacket and ran out to the
days we would be landing In America. passageway. The door was locked! All of the
Originally, my husband and I planned on doors were locked.
making the trip on board the Mauretania, but Finally a ship's steward came and gath-
we decided to wait a few months so we ered a small group of us together and guided
could make the crossing aboard the luxury us, "Come, there is another way to get to the
liner Titanic. Married just a few months, upper deck." On the upper deck, it was
Pekko and 1 decided to leave Finland and rather quiet — almost eerie. The deck on
start a new life in America. Although we the ship's bow was already under water, and
were booked as third class, we still enjoyed the loud sound of the steam escaping from
many "extras" on board and had quite a time the funnels had settled down. The lifeboats
in our little group. After a couple of days at were guarded by the ship's officers standing
sea we settled into a routine: attending in semicircles around each one. Soon I was
church services after breakfast, strolling the motioned aboard a lifeboat, but I still was
decks, and during the evening playing games scanning the listing deck looking for my hus-
in the third-class general room. band.
We would leave the game room very late We rowed away quickly, watching our
in the evening, and the night of April 14th ship slide beneath the surface of the water.
was no exception. Just after we returned to The screams of those in the water were hor-
our cabin and settled in, Pekko reached to rible — I remember calling over and over,
turn out the light when we heard a scraping "Pekko, Pekko, I am here; come this way." It
sound and felt the ship shudder. A few mo- was cold on the lifeboat, and I wasn't wear-
ments later the throb of the engines ing warm clothes. I didn't know if I was fal-
stopped. Pekko jumped out of bed, slipped ling asleep or freezing to death, but I drifted
into his clothes, and said, "I'm going to see into unconsciousness.
what has happened." Not thinking too much
of WI this, I dozed off. But after an hour or
so, the murmuring of other passengers in
the hall awakened me. I noticed Pekko was
still gone, and when I tried to step out of the
bed, the cabin was tilted at an angle.
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K13 Revisi Antiremed Kelas 10 Bahasa Inggris, Recount Texts - Exercise
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Text 1-c 05. Guess what Carpathia is! (final paragraph)

Soon after, it was daylight, and we could ________.
see a ship in the distance — we would be
rescued...and made warm. Once aboard the Text 2-a
Carpathia, the passengers and crew did their August 6, 1945 - the sun rose into a clear
best to console us. We were given clothes, blue sky over the city of Hiroshima, Japan
food, and hot coffee. But with all we were promising a warm and pleasant day. Nothing
given. I was still lacking. I slowly realized the in the day's dawning indicated that this day
last words I might ever hear from my hus- would be any different from its
band were, "I'm going to see what has hap- predecessors. But this day would be differ-
pened." I remember standing at the railing ent very different This day would change the
for hours, looking out to the open sea and world. On this day a single bomb dropped
hoping upon hope that I would discover just by a single airplane destroyed the city, leading
one more lifeboat. to the end of World War II and introducing
mankind to the Atomic Age.
01. What is the purpose of paragraph 1 and 2? Dr. Michihiko Hachiya lived through that
________. day and kept a diary of his experience. He
served as the Director of the Hiroshima
02. What is the topic of the passage? Communications Hospital and lived near the
(A) The Titanic hospital approximately a mile from the ex-
(B) A Titanic survivor account plosion's epicenter. His diary was published
(C) The sinking of Titanic in English in 1955:
(D) The experience of a husband and a wife Suddenly, a strong flash of light...
(E) The death of the writer’s husband The hour was early; the morning was still
warm, and beautiful. Shimmering leaves, re-
03. The information ____ is NOT TRUE flecting sunlight from a cloudless sky, made a
according to the text. pleasant contrast with shadows in my garden
(A) The night of April 14th, the writer and as I gazed absently through wide-flung doors
Pekko left the game room in the left opening to the south.
evening. Clad in drawers and undershirt, I was
(B) On the lifeboat, the writer was uncon- sprawled on the living room floor exhausted
scious because I had just spent a sleepless night on
(C) A ship steward helped the writer to go duty as an air warden in my hospital.
to the upper deck Suddenly, a strong flash of light startled
(D) Pekko informed the writer that the ship me—and then another. So well does one re-
was sinking call little things that I remember vividly how
(E) The writer had married before boarding a stone lantern in the garden became bril-
the Titanic liantly lit and I debated whether this light
was caused by a magnesium flare or sparks
04. The last sentence from a passing trolley.
"I remember …. hoping upon hope that I
would discover just one more lifeboat."
means ….
(A) The writer hopes that her husband is
not dead.
(B) The writer still hoped that her husband
would be alive.
(C) The writer had found the last lifeboat.
(D) The writer's husband was found aboard
the last lifeboat.
(E) The writer was alive.
Text 2-b Text 2-c

Garden shadows disappeared. The view We'll be all right,' I acclaimed. 'Only
where a moment before had been so bright let's get out of here as fast as we can.'
and sunny was now dark and hazy. Through She nodded, and I motioned for her to
swirling dust I could barely discern a follow me."
wooden column that had supported one cor- It was all a nightmare...
ner of my house. It was leaning crazily and Dr. Hachiya and his wife made their
the roof sagged dangerously. way to the street. As the homes around
Moving instinctively, I fried to escape, them collapsed, they realized they must
but rubble and fallen timbers barred the way. move on, and began their journey to the
By picking my way cautiously I managed to hospital a few hundred yards away.
reach the roka [an outside hallway] and “We started out, but after twenty or
stepped down into my garden. A profound thirty steps I had to stop. My breath be-
weakness overcame me. so I stopped to re- came short, my heart pounded, and my legs
gain my strength. To my surprise I discov- gave way under me. An overpowering thirst
ered that I was completely naked. How odd! seized me and I begged Yaeko-san to find
Where were my drawers and undershirt? me some water. But there was no water to
What had happened? be found. After a little my strength some-
All over the right side of my body I was what returned and we were able to go on.
cut and bleeding. A large splinter was pro- I was still naked, and although I did not
truding from a mangled wound in my thigh, feel the least bit of shame. I was disturbed
and something warm trickled into my to realize that modesty had deserted me.
mouth. My cheek was torn, I discovered as I On rounding a corner we came upon a sol-
felt it gingerly, with the lower lip laid wide dier standing idly in the street_ He had a
open. Embedded in my neck was a sizable towel draped across his shoulder, and I
fragment of glass which I matter-of-factly asked if he would give it to me to cover my
dislodged, and with the detachment of it, my nakedness. The soldier surrendered the
hand was bleeding. towel quite willingly but said not a word. A
Where was my wife? little later I lost the towel. and Yaeko-san
Suddenly alarmed, I began to yell for took off her apron and tied it around my
her: 'Yaeko-san! Yaeko-san! Where are you?' loins.
Blood began to spurt. Had my carotid artery Our progress towards the hospital was
been cut? Would I bleed to death? Fright- interminably slow, until finally, my legs,
ened and irrational, I called out again 'Its a stiff from drying blood, refused to carry
five-hundred-ton bomb! Yaeko-san, where me farther. The strength, even the will, to
are you? A five- hundred-ton bomb has go on deserted me, so I told my wife, who
fallen!' was almost as badly hurt as I, to go on
Yaeko-san, pale and frightened, her alone. This she objected to, but there was
clothes torn and blood-stained, emerged no choice. She had to go ahead and try to
from the ruins of our house holding her el- find someone to come back for me.
bow. Seeing her, I was reassured. My own
panic assuaged, I tired to reassure her.
Text 2-d All who could were moving in the direc-

Yaeko-san looked into my face for a motion of the hospital. I joined in the dismal
ment, and then, without saying a word, parade when my strength was somewhat re-
turned away and began running towards the covered, and at last reached the gates of the
hospital. Once, she looked back and waved Communications Bureau."
and in a moment she was swallowed up in
the gloom. It was quite dark now, and with 06. The underlined word
my wife gone. a feeling of dreadful loneli- “predecessors” (paragraph 1) most nearly
ness overcame me. means ….
I must have gone out of my head lying (A) Successors.
there in the road because the next thing I (B) Former days.
recall was discovering that the clot on my (C) Ancestors.
thigh had been dislodged and blood was (D) Descendants.
again spurting from the wound. (E) Previous life.
I pressed my hand to the bleeding area
and after a while the bleeding stopped and I 07. What is the best title for the text?
felt better. (A) Recounting the Atomic Bombing.
Could I go on? (B) Recounting the Bombing of Hiroshima.
I tried. It was all a nightmare - my (C) Recounting the Bombing of Hiroshima
wounds, the darkness, the road ahead. My and Nagasaki.
movements were ever so slow; only my mind (D) Recounting an Atomic Bombing Ex-
was running at top speed. periment in Japan.
In time I came to an open space where (E) Recounting Atomic War.
the houses had been removed to make a fire
lane. Through the dim light I could make 08. Which one is NOT TRUE according to the
out ahead of me the hazy outlines of the text?
Communications Bureau's big concrete (A) After the bomb had been dropped, his
building, and beyond it the hospital. My spir- house's wooden column tilted.
its rose because I knew that now someone (B) After the bomb had been dropped, he
would find me; and if I should die, at least was completely naked.
my body would be found. I paused to rest. (C) His wife arrived at the hospital before
Gradually things around me came into fo- he did.
cus. There were the shadowy forms of peo- (D) On his way to the hospital, he stopped
ple, some of whom looked like walking more than once.
ghosts. Others moved as though in pain, like (E) He saw walking ghosts on his way to the
scarecrows. their arms held out from their hospital.
bodies with forearms and hands dangling.
These people puzzled me until I suddenly 09. Below are what happened to Michihiko Ha-
realized that they had been burned and were chiya's body after the bomb had been
holding their arms out to prevent the painful dropped, EXCEPT ….
friction of raw surfaces rubbing together. A
(A) The right side of his body was
naked woman carrying a naked baby came
wounded.
into view. I averted my gaze. Perhaps they
(B) His thigh was wounded.
had been in the bath. But then I saw a naked
(C) His cheek was torn.
man, and it occurred to me that, like myself,
(D) His neck was lunged with a fragment of
some strange thing had deprived them of
glass.
their clothes. An old woman lay near me
(E) His face was pale.
with an expression of suffering on her face;
but she made no sound. Indeed, one thing
was common to everyone I saw -complete
silence.
10. The underlined word “concrete” (paragraph Text 3-b

25) most nearly means …. Soviet troops entered the camp in July
(A) abstract. 1944. A week later,
(B) real. Alexander Werth joined a group of fellow
(C) building material. reporters in a guided tour of the facility:
(D) destroyed.
"My first reaction to Maidanek was a feeling
(E) safe.
of surprise. I had imagined something horri-
ble and sinister beyond words. It was noth-
Text 3-a
ing like that It looked singularly harmless
Hitler established the first concentration from outside. 'Is that it?' was my first reac-
camp soon after he came to power in 1933. tion when we stopped at what looked like a
The system grew to include about 100 camps large workers' settlement Behind us was the
divided into two types: concentration camps many towered skyline of Lublin. There was
for slave labor in nearby factories and death much dust on the road, and the grass as dull,
camps for the systematic extermination of greenish-grey colour. The camp was sepa-
"undesirables" including Jews, Gypsies, ho- rated from the road by a couple of barbed-
mosexuals, the mentally retarded and others. wire fences, but these did not look particu-
As the allied armies raced towards final larly sinister, and might have been put up
victory, advancing troops liberated the camps outside any military or semi-military estab-
one-by-one, revealing the horrors of the lishment The place was large; like a whole
Nazi concept of establishing a "pure" soci- town of barracks painted a pleasant soft
ety. The first liberation came in July 1944 green. There were many people around -
when Soviet troops entered Maidanek, a soldiers and civilians. A Polish sentry opened
death camp located in Poland two miles from the barbed-wire gate to let cars enter the
the city of Lublin. Alexander Werth, a corre- central avenue, with large green barracks on
spondent for the London Sunday Times and either side. And we stopped outside a large
the BBC, accompanied the Soviet troops and barrack marked Bad und Desinfektion II. 'This,'
described the camp shortly after its capture. somebody said, 'is where large numbers of
The BBC refused to air his report of the those arriving at the camp were brought in.'
camp as his description was so unbelievable The inside of this barrack was made of
they considered it a Soviet propaganda ploy. concrete, and water taps came out of the
It was not until the later capture of Buchen- wall, and around the room there were
wald, Dachau and other camps on the west- benches where the clothes were put down
ern front that his description was accepted as and afterwards collected. So this was the
true. place into which they were driven. Or per-
"It looked singularly harmless." haps they were politely invited to 'Step this
The Maidanek camp was established by way, please?' Did any of them suspect, while
the Nazis in 1941 soon after their conquest washing themselves after a long journey,
of the then Russian occupied region of Po- what would happen a few minutes later?
land. The primary purpose of the facility was Anyway, after the washing was over, they
the speedy extermination of new arrivals were asked to go into the next room; at this
(mostly Jews) transported in from various point even the most unsuspecting must have
countries including Czechoslovakia, France, begun to wonder. For the "next room" was a
Austria, and Holland. The majority of vic- series of large square concrete structures,
tims, however, came from the immediate each about one-quarter of the size the bath-
area. It is estimated that 1.5 million died at house, and, unlike it, had no windows. The
the camp during its three years of operation. naked people (men one time, women an-
other time, children the next) were driven or
forced from the bath-house into these dark
concrete boxes - about five yards square -
and then, with 200 or 250 people packed
into each box - and it was completely dark what prayers perhaps, had been uttered in-
there, except for a small light in the ceiling side that gas chamber only a few minutes
and the spyhole in the door - the process of before?..."
gassing began. First some hot air was
pumped in from the ceiling and then the 11. The text mainly tells us about ….
pretty pale-blue crystals of Cyclon were (A) The victim account of the Maidanek
showered down on the people, and in the hot Concentration Camp.
wet air they rapidly evaporated. In anything (B) A reporter experience touring the
from two to ten minutes everybody was Maidanek Concentration Camp.
dead ... (C) A Soviet troops retelling his story find-
There were six concrete boxes—gas- ing the Maidanek Concentration Camp.
chambers—side by side. 'Nearly two thou- (D) Hitler account of the Maidanek
sand people could be disposed of here si- Concentration Camp.
multaneously,' one of the guides said. But (E) The slaughtering of Jews by Nazi
what thoughts passed through these people's Germany.
minds during
But what thoughts passed through these 12. The opposite of the underlined word
people's minds during those first few minutes "immediate" (paragraph 5) is mostly ….
while the crystals were falling; could anyone (A) fast
still believe that this humiliating process of (B) slow
being packed into a box and standing there (C) far
naked, rubbing backs with other naked peo- (D) near
ple, had anything to do with disinfection? (E) indirect
Text 3-c 13. Which one is TRUE about the text?

At first it was all very hard to take in, (A) From the outside, Maidanek looked
without an effort of the imagination. There horrible and sinister.
were a number of very dull-looking concrete (B) The doors of the gas chambers in
structures which, if their doors had been Maidanek were made of iron.
wider, might anywhere else have been mis- (C) The writer was the first person to find
taken for a row of nice little garages. But the the Maidanek Concentration Camp.
doors - the doors! They were heavy steel (D) At first the BBC thought the camp was
doors, and each had a heavy steel bolt. And a Soviet scheme.
in the middle of the door was a spyhole, a (E) Concentration camps were made only to
circle, three inches in diameter composed of murder the "undesirables".
about a hundred small holes. Could the peo-
14. The underlined word “disposed
ple in their death agony see the SS man's eye
of ” (paragraph 9) mostly means ….
as he watched them? Anyway, the SS-man
had nothing to fear: his eye was well pro- (A) located.
tected by the steel netting over the spyhole ... (B) transferred.
...Then a touch of blue on the floor (C) killed.
caught my eye. It was very faint, but still legi- (D) arranged.
ble. In blue chalk someone had scribbled the (E) thrown.
word "vergast’ and had drawn crudely above
15. what does the phrase “…. the pretty
it a skull and crossbones. I had never seen
pale-blue crystals of Cyclon ….” mostly
this word before but it obviously meant"
refer to?
gassed" - and not merely "gassed" but: with,
that eloquent little prefix ver. 'gassed out'. (A) jewellery.
That's this job finished, and now for the next (B) hot water.
lot. The blue chalk came into motion when (C) poison.
there was nothing but a heap of naked (D) hot air.
corpses inside. But what cries, what curses, (E) air evaporation.
Text 4-a Either way I knew I had to get out be-

On September 11, 2001, Sydney woman cause we could well be next in line and I did-
Penny saw American Airlines Flight 11 hit n't want to be leaping to my death from a 60
the north tower of the World Trade Centre -storey building like those poor people I had
from her hotel window across the road. She tragically just witnessed.
shares her story and photos for the first time. My instinct was to run - I didn't get
. I was staying in the Millennium Hilton dressed, I didn't grab anything, I escaped in
Hotel, directly across the road from the twin the hotel bathrobe and only took my camera
towers on Church Street. I was standing at as it was still in my hand and I hadn't
the window taking photos of the view when I thought to put it down.
heard the sound of the plane approaching. It People came streaming out of their
seemed normal at first until in a few split sec- rooms, panicked and fighting to get into the
onds it turned into a roar, followed by a mas- lift, which was packed by now. An an-
sive explosion. I'm sure as I can be that who- nouncement came over the loudspeaker to
ever was flying that jet put it in full throttle evacuate immediately. It seemed like an eter-
just before it hit, as the screech sounded just nity for the elevator to get down to the
like when a plane is taking off. ground because it stopped at every floor and
. I watched at the window while the enor- people were pushed back as they tried to
mity of the disaster began to unfold, watched crush their way in.
as we realised people were trapped on the In the foyer we were ushered out a side
floors above the explosion, as fire and police door and I was grateful I had grabbed my
rescuers streamed into the building. sandals, as there was debris on the ground.
. People were throwing whatever they We ran up a side sheet and I recall being
could out of the windows -tables, water cool- astonished that people were just standing
ers etc. - to break the glass and get air. I there, mesmerised by what they were seeing.
could see them hanging out of windows, then I've thought about why since then and I
to my horror I realised people were begin- think they were so shocked to see those
ning to jump to their death rather than being buildings, which were so familiar to them
burned alive. What a terrible choice to have and part of the New York those building,
to make. And there was nothing I. or as it which were so familiar to them and part of
turned out, anyone else, could do to help. the New York landscape, attacked and burn-
I saw what I'm pretty sure was a police- ing. It was personal to them.
man killed by a person who fell on him. Text 4-b
We were told to stay in the building as
But my every instinct was to get as far
there was a lot of falling debris, massive pil-
away from the towers and all the other build-
lars, all sorts of things, paper like a ticker-tape
ings as I could. I ran down to Battery Park,
parade.
where I had caught the Statue of Liberty
I switched on the television to see if
ferry the day before. On the streets people
there was anything on the news. Up until that
were standing around people with mobile
point I thought it was an accident Then sud-
phones getting updates and we heard there
denly as I watched it live, like millions of
were more planes hijacked and on the way.
other people, I heard the second plane come
I had only been on a wharf near Battery
screaming in.
Park for a relatively short time when I heard
The explosion was a lot bigger and closer
another massive explosion and saw a huge
and our building shook. I suddenly realised
cloud of dust coming our way.
something was very wrong. For some bizarre
It was incomprehensible that one of the
reason I thought there must be something
towers had fallen down but we pretty soon
wrong with air traffic control and they didn't
understood that's what happened. And then
realise they were directing the planes into
a short time later the next tower fell. It was
downtown Manhattan.
too much in. All we could do was cover our
faces from the dust, sit and wait to see what
was going to happen next.
Thousands of people were on foot escap- 19. What did the writer think after the saw the
ing across the bridges but it just seemed too first crash?
exposed if there were more attacks so I (A) She thought it was a terrorist attack.
waited by the river thinking at least I could (B) She thought it was an air traffic
swim for it if necessary. control’s fault.
Eventually a police boat came and evacu- (C) She thought it was an accident.
ated us from Manhattan. I was given shelter (D) She thought it was only a normal
for a couple of nights by a Wall Street banker sound of an airplane.
I had met who had just lost dozens of (E) She thought her hotel would be the
friends. I was stuck in New York for almost next target.
two weeks before I could get a flight home.
I've been back to New York twice now, I 20. The underline word “take in” in sentence
still love it and feel a dose bond with the peo- “it was too much to take in” (paragraph 16)
ple, who we shared such a tragic time with in mostly means ....
the days after the attack.
(A) Understand.
I've tried to connect with other Austra-
(B) Enjoy.
lians who were there on that day and will be
(C) Disgust.
attending the interfaith memorial service at St
(D) Humiliate.
Mary's Cathedral in Sydney on the 10th anni-
(E) Possess.
versary of the attack.
16. What was the writer doing right before the
first plane hit the twin towers?
(A) She was sleeping.
(B) She was taking photos at the windows.
(C) She was running outside her hotel.
(D) She was jumping from her hotel
window.
(E) She was helping people.
17. The writer saw the following after the first
airplane crashed the twin towers, EXCEPT
….
(A) fire and police rescuers who immediately
entered the building.
(B) people in the twin towers throwing
things out of the windows to get air.
(C) people in the twin towers jumping from
the building.
(D) a person stepped on a police officer.
(E) falling debris.
18. Which one is TRUE according to the text?
(A) There was only one plane crashing into
the twin towers.
(B) Only one of the twin towers fell down.
(C) A firefighter evacuated the writer from
Manhattan.
(D) The writer entered the twin towers after
the plane crash.
(E) The writer was not the only Australian
who had witnessed the 9/11.

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Text 1-a Text 1-b

Text 1-c 05. Guess what Carpathia is! (final paragraph)

Text 2-b Text 2-c

Text 2-d All who could were moving in the direc-

10. The underlined word “concrete” (paragraph Text 3-b

Text 3-c 13. Which one is TRUE about the text?

Text 4-a Either way I knew I had to get out be-

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