Reading Comprehension 1

Read the text comprehensively!

Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno who was born on 28 June 1969 is an Indonesian businessman, investor
and politician who is the Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, and was the Deputy Governor of
Jakarta. He is a handsome man with a proportional weight and height, athletic and muscular because he
likes sports very much. His glasses make his appearance looks dignified with a smile that shows
humility and kindness. He also has good communication skills so he can fit into any circle.

Sandi Uno graduated from Wichita State University in 1990 and from George Washington
University with an MBA in 1992. He began his career with Summa Bank in 1990. In 1994, he joined
MP Group Holding Limited as an investment manager. The following year, he began working for NTI
Resources Ltd in Canada and worked as an Executive Vice President in the company. He worked for
several companies and rose in rank before founding his own business, which led him to become one of
the richest people in Indonesia.

In 1997 and 1998, he co-founded PT. Recapital Advisors and Saratoga Capital. With good
networks with companies or financial institutions in the country and abroad, the companies founded by
Sandiaga Uno was finally successful and both businesses continue to flourish today. Listed as 29th
richest man in Indonesia according to Forbes magazine in 2009, he continued to grow his businesses,
buying a controlling (51%) stake in Mandala Airlines in May 2011. He was listed as 47th richest man
in Indonesia according to Forbes in 2013. He decided to leave the business world, entering politics in
mid-2015.

Regarding family, Sandiaga Uno is married in 1996 to Nur Asia, his friend since they were in
Junior High School. From this marriage, they were blessed with three children named Sulaiman
Saladdin Uno, Anneesha Atheera Uno, and Amyra Atheefa Uno.

Task 3 : Check your understanding – True False

Decide whether the statements are True or False based on the text!

No Statements TRUE FALSE

1. Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno is the Deputy Governor of Jakarta now.
2. He began his career as the founder of his own business.
3. He graduated from two universities in United State of America.
4. He likes to wear glasses because he wants to be seen as a kind
person.
5. He left the business world since his companies went bankrupt.
6. He worked for several companies before running his own business.
7. Married to Nur Asia, they have two daughters and a son.
8. During his political role, he was listed as one of the richest people
in Indonesia

Task 4 : Check your understanding – Ordering

Analyze the statements then put them in order by writing number 1 – 8 in the columns!
 Sandiaga Uno is married to Nur Asia.
He is the Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy
He graduated from Wichita State University.
He joined MP Group Holding Limited as an investment manager.
He co-founded PT. Recapital Advisors and Saratoga Capital.
He graduated from George Washington University with an MBA.
He was the Deputy Governor of Jakarta.
He worked as an Executive Vice President for NTI Resources Ltd in Canada.
He left the business world.

Reading Comprehension 2
Read the texts comprehensively!

Mark Zuckerberg is an American media
magnate, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist,
the co-founder and CEO of Facebook, the world’s
largest social networking site. He is also one of
the youngest billionaires in the world, with a net
worth of over $50 billion.
Zuckerberg was born in White Plains, New
York, in 1984. His father was a dentist and his
mother was a psychiatrist. This handsome young
man with brown and curly hair started his career
in computers and programming as his early
interest. He attended Harvard University, where
he studied computer science. While at Harvard,
Zuckerberg created a social networking site called
Face Mash.
He later dropped out of Harvard to focus on
Facebook full-time. Under his leadership,
Facebook has grown into a global phenomenon
with over 2 billion users. Passion for technology,
to be precise, computers were from the early days
of life. Mark Zuckerberg is an aggressive but
encouraging leader who was never afraid
of taking risks.
Since 2008, Time magazine has named
Zuckerberg among the 100 most influential
people in the world as a part of its Person of the
Year award, which he was recognized with in
2010. In December 2016, Zuckerberg was ranked
tenth on Forbes list of The World's Most
Powerful People.
She is the person behind Sayurbox as the
founder and CEO, a platform to help farmers in
Indonesia. Amanda Cole, a graduate of The
University of Manchester in management and
finance, started Sayurbox from her hobby of
gardening.
Besides being beautiful with straight and
long hair, she has a sensitivity to the problems
around her especially the problems of farmers.
Sayurbox is the result of Amanda seeing the
difficulty of farmers in selling their products,
especially in logistics and distribution. Therefore,
Amanda wants to break the distribution chain by
creating the Sayurbox platform, so that farmers
can find their own market.
Now Sayurbox has expanded its products to
fruit and meat. The focus of Sayurbox itself is to
provide fresh and healthy ingredients. It also won
a competition in startup Seedstarts Jakarta, and
received funding of more than US$2 million or
around Rp28 billion. It has as many as 70-80
farmers and 300 partners. It’s market is still in
Jabodetabek which serves 50,000 customers, and
is still dominated by household consumers.
Reporting from Forbes, Sayurbox also makes
1,000 deliveries a day.
This young female entrepreneur relies on
hard work and tenacity in running her business. In
addition, thanks to Amanda's initiative, she was
included in the Forbes Under 30 list in 2019, in
the Industry, manufacturing and Energy category.

Task 5 : Check your understanding – grouping

Write the facts in the box into the correct groups!
 ◙ The founder of Sayurbox
◙ awarded The World's Most Powerful People by Forbes
◙ focus on providing fresh and healthy ingredients
◙ didn’t finish study at university
◙ interested in computers and programming
◙ CEO of the world’s largest social networking site
◙ Good initiative to help farmers
◙ it is used by over 2 billion people of the world
◙ graduated from The University of Manchester
◙ breaking the distribution chain of farmers’ product

Mark Zuckerberg Amanda Cole

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Task 6 : Check your vocabulary – grouping

Category Mark Zuckerberg Amanda Cole

Occupation

Physical
characteristics

Personality

Activities
Task 7 : Check your understanding – multiple choice
Choose the best answer!

1. Both Mark Zuckerberg and Amanda Cole are …

A. female
B. customers
C. entrepreneurs
D. programmers
E. managers

2. Both of them were … on Forbes list with different categories.

A. awarded
B. arranged
C. proved
D. inserted
E. returned

3. Amanda Cole help the farmers to sell their products by providing …

A. retailers
B. market place
C. big boxes
D. manufacturing
E. fresh industry

4. Mark Zuckerberg focuses his business on …

A. computer science
B. management and finance
C. global phenomenon
D. social networking
E. future technology

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