KELO M PO K 7

H O RTATO RY TEXT
SITRIA RADJAK
INDRI RAHAYU
ISMAIL MALIKI

Text 1
NationSpace travel should be stopped for many
reasons. Firstly, it is totally unsafe as proven by
the Colombia Space Shuttle disaster. Thousand
people have been killed in accidents. Secondly, it
costs billions and billions dollars everyday just to
put fuel into rockets. Professor Smith from the
Spend Money on People Space Association agrees
that space travel is a waste of time and money.
Further, space travel is altering the worlds
weather pattern as evidenced by the record of
high temperatures this summer in Cobar.
Everyone knows that if God wanted us to fly in
space we should have been born with space suits.
Stop space before it destroys the earth.

1. How many reasons are stated in the

text dealing with the point that Space
travel should be stopped?
A. One
B. Two
C. Three
D. Four
E. Five

2. Professor Smith from the Spend Money on

People not Space Association agree that
space travel is a waste of time and money.
The sentence contains a word expresses ...
A. agreement.
B. disagreement.
C. contrast.
D. certainty.
E. desire.

3. Which is not true based on the text

above?
A. Space travel should be stopped.
B. Space travel destroys the earth.
C. Space travel costs billions and
billions of dollars everyday.
D. Space travel offer benefits to
the earth.
E. Space travel is unsafe.

NationSpace travel should be stopped

for many reasons. Firstly, it is totally
unsafe . Secondly, it costs billions and
billions dollars everyday just to put fuel
into rockets Further, space travel is
altering the worlds weather pattern as
evidenced by the record of high temperatures
this summer in Cobar. Everyone knows that if
God wanted us to fly in space we should have
been born with space suits. Stop space
before it destroys the earth

4. What does the text above mainly

talk about?
A. Air travel
B. Road travel
C. Water travel
D. Space travel
E. Rocket travel

Everyone knows that if God wanted us to fly in

space we should have been born with space suits.
Stop space before it destroys the earth.
5. Stop space before it destroys the earth. What
does the word it refer to ... .
A. space
B. travel
C. space travel
D. the earth
E. space suit

 Text 2
Students cheating is one of the biggest problems faced by teachers

nowadays.
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 cheating that students do during the test or examination, such as
looking other students work, put some notes under their clothes, write
notes or formulas on their desks make hand signals or go to rest rooms
to get the answers from their friends.
In my view, students who do cheating are committing a crime. It is a sort
of taking something illegally. This crime causes negative results to the
students. Students who always cheat deteriorate their mental capacity.
Cheating acts also create dependence. They weaken their self
confidence. Instead of preparing for the coming test, they are busy to
organize notes on a piece of paper. If this awful habit continues, the
students will lose their opportunity to develop their intellectual and
mind.
Therefore, school should consider cheating as a very serious problem.
School board and administration should go hand to overcome this
matter. Honesty must be put in schools vision. Harsh punishment must
be applied to students who commit this crime.

6. What is mainly discussed in the

text?
A. School policy.
B. Harsh punishment.
C. Cheating as a crime.
D. Mental deterioration.
E. Different ways of cheating

 Students who always cheat

deteriorate their mental

capacity. Cheating acts also
create dependence. They
weaken their self confidence.
Instead of preparing for the
coming test, they are busy to
organize notes on a piece of
paper. If this awful habit
continues, the students will lose
their opportunity to develop

7. What will the school do to eliminate

students who commit cheating?
A. Create a good vision.
B. Select honest students.
C. Make harsh punishment.
D. Make students confident.
E. Administer the school affair.

Therefore, school should

consider cheating as a very
serious problem. School board
and administration should go
hand to overcome this matter.
Honesty must be put in schools
vision. Harsh punishment must
be applied to students who
commit this crime. (p.3)

8. Students who always cheat

deteriorate their mental capacity.
(Paragraph 3).
The underlined word means
A. support
B. worsen
C. cause
D. create
E. find

 support = dukungan
worsen = memperburuk
cause = sebab
create = menciptakan
find menemukan

9. How do you compare the second and the fourth

paragraphs?
A. The second paragraph tells how students
cheat and the four tells what effort should
be carried out to overcome it.
B. The second paragraph tells the cause of cheating
and the fourth tells how school overcomes it.
C. Unlike the second paragraph, the fourth paragraph
shows the failure of cheating.
D. The second and the fourth paragraph tell the
effects of cheating.
E. Both paragraphs elaborate the danger of cheating.

 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 cheating that
students do during the test or examination, such
as looking other students work, put some notes
under their clothes, write notes or formulas on
their desks make hand signals or go to rest rooms
to get the answers from their friends. (p.2)

Therefore, school should consider cheating as a

very serious problem. School board and
administration should go hand to overcome this
matter. Honesty must be put in schools vision.
Harsh punishment must be applied to students
who commit this crime. (p.4)

10. According to the text, how can

cheating decline students mental
capacity?
A. It is easy to perform.
B. It affects disturbance.
C. It loses students mind.
D. It makes students dependent.
E. It stimulates disappointment

 Students who always cheat

deteriorate their mental capacity.

Cheating acts also create
dependence. They weaken their self
confidence. Instead of preparing for
the coming test, they are busy to
organize notes on a piece of paper. If
this awful habit continues, the
students will lose their opportunity to
develop their intellectual and mind.

11. They weaken their self confidence.

(Paragraph 3).
What does the underlined word refer
to?
A. Tests
B. Papers
C. Results
D. Students
E. Cheatings

In my view, students who do cheating are

committing a crime. It is a sort of taking
something illegally. This crime causes negative
results to the students. Students who always
cheat deteriorate their mental capacity.
Cheating acts also create dependence. They
weaken their self confidence. Instead of
preparing for the coming test, they are busy to
organize notes on a piece of paper. If this
awful habit continues, the students will lose
their opportunity to develop their intellectual
and mind.

 Text 3
Old Enough?
When a person old enough to be responsible for a crime? This question needs

to be investigated because the current law is not good enough. The law at
present protects children aged between ten years and four years from being
punished for committing crimes. It is believed that children under fourteen
years are too young to realize the seriousness of their crimes. Mr. Stephen
Scarlett, head of the NSW Childrens Court, describes how clever young
offenders use this defense, saying that they are too young to understand that
they have broken the law. Mr. Scarlett, an expert on this subject, states that
the age should be dropped from fourteen to twelve years. I agree with this.
Teenagers these days are far more sophisticated than those in the past. The
law should recognize this. In a recent survey some people suggested that the
age for being responsible for a crime should be dropped to eight years old.
This, I feel, is too young. Fourteen, however, is too old. Is there anyone who
believes that a fourteen-year-old does not know that it is against the law to
steal or vandalize property? By the age of twelve, children are aware of
what is legal and what is not.
Public pressure creates change. It is now up to the public to put pressure on
the government to change the age at which a person may be held responsible
for a crime from fourteen years to twelve years. Out of daSte laws have no
place in a modern society, especially one that needs people to be responsible
for their actions.

12.What does the text above talk about?

A. When a person is old enough to be
responsible for a crime.
B. When a person is being punished for
committing crimes.
C. When children are too young to be
responsible for a crime.
D. When a person is too old to be responsible
for a crime.
E. When do teenagers realize the seriousness of
their crimes

13. In what age are the children

protected by the present law from
being punished for committing
crimes?
A. Ten years old.
B. Fourteen years old.
C. Ten to fourteen years old.
D. Eight years old.
E. Twelve years old.

14. In what paragraph do we find the

recommendation of the text above ...
A. in the first paragraph
B. in the second paragraph
C. in the third paragraph
D. in the fourth paragraph
E. in the fifth paragraph

 Public pressure creates change. It is

now up to the public to put pressure

on the government to change the age
at which a person may be held
responsible for a crime from fourteen
years to twelve years. Out of daSte
laws have no place in a modern
society, especially one that needs
people to be responsible for their
actions. (p.3)

15. The part of the text which states

what ought or ought not to happen is
called ...
A. thesis
B. argument
C. elaboration
D. reiteration
E. recommendation

16. Teenagers these days are far

more sophisticated than those in the
past. The word those refer to ...
A. days.
B. teenagers.
C. laws.
D. children.
E. crimes.

17. What type of genre does the text

belong to?
A. Analytical exposition.
B. Hortatory exposition.
C. Report.
D. Description
E. Narrative.

 Text 4
Dear Editor,
We are writing to complain about ads on TV. There are so many ads,

especially during our favourite programmes. We think they should be

stopped for a number of reasons. First, ads are nuisance. They go
on for a long time and there are so many. Sometimes there seems to
be more ads than programmes. Second, ads are bad influence on
people. They try to encourage people to buy unhealthy food
like beer, soft drink, candy and chips. And they make people want
things they do not really need and can not. Finally, the people who
make ads have too much say in what programmes people watch. That
is because they want to put all their ads on popular programs that a
lot of people watch. Some programmes which are not so popular get
stopped because they do not attract enough ads, even though those
programmes may be someones favourite. For those reasons, we think
TV station should stop showing ads. They interrupt programmes.
They are bad influences on people, and they are sometimes put a
stop to peoples favourite shows. We are sick of ads, and now we
mostly watch other channels.

David

18. What kind of genre does the text

above belong to?
Descriptive.
Narrative.
Analytical exposition.
hortatory exposition.
Report.

19. What is the purpose of the text?

A. To persuade the reader or listener that
something should or should not be the
case.
B. To persuade the reader or listener that something
should be the case.
C. To inform the reader or listener about some
cases.
D. To persuade the reader or listener about the
most important case.
E. To give opinion to the reader or listener related
some cases

20. The generic structure of the text

above is ...
A. thesis arguments reiteration.
B. thesis arguments
recommendation.
C. description identification.
D. identification description.
E. orientation event reorientation

21. Who is the letter addressed to?

A. Editor.
B. Reader
C. Listener.
D. David.
E. Advertisement

22. The following statements are true

based on the text, except ...
A. Advertisement encourages people to buy
unhealthy food.
B. Advertisement is a nuisance.
C. Advertisement interrupts programmes.
D. Advertisement puts a stop to peoples
favourite show.
E. Advertisement has many
advantages

23. In what paragraph is stating an

issue?
A. First paragraph.
B. Second paragraph.
C. Third paragraph.
D. Fourth paragraph.
E. The last paragraph.

 Text 5
Nowadays, many people have realized that agriculture is much more

important than other supporting tools in economic development. in

Indonesia agriculture should be the priority of development because of
some good reasons.
First of all, the agriculture's contribution in the beginning of the
development of the country was the highest of all sectors. At present,
almost half of the total Indonesian labors are working in the agriculture
sector, but the contribution of the agriculture sector does not reach 30
percents.
Second, the agriculture sector is expected to fulfill the need of food in
the country. As the number of population increases in an alarming rate
each year, food supply must also increase but the agricultural production
per capita never increases more than one percent each year, and in
some extreme cases, it is even stagnant.
Last but not least, without agricultural development, the growth of the
industrial sector will be hampered because the growth that comes from
industry will bring a wider gap into the internal economy in that country.
In turn, this gap will create serious poverty problems, wider inequality of
income distribution, and increase unemployment.
It is, therefore, obvious that the government should put agriculture as
the priority of national development.

24. What is the percentage of the

contribution of the agriculture sector
to the Indonesian economic
development ?
A. Less than ten percent.
B. About twenty percent.
C. About thirty percent.
D. Below thirty percent.
E. Above thirty percent

25. According the text, in order to support

economic development, the government
should ...
A. produce more food as the priority.
B. reduce labors in the agriculture sector.
C. supply more food for the national needs.
D. increase the industrial sector as the first
priority.
E. prioritize the development of
agriculture

26. "As the number of population increases

in an alarming rate each year, ..."
(Paragraph 3)
The underlined word is closest in meaning
to...
A. awakening
B. growing
C. exciting
D. wording
E. frightening