Making Conclussion and Predicting Outcome

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Making Conclussion and Predicting Outcome

Bacalah wacana berikut, kemudian jawab pertanyaan-pertanyaan yang mengikutinya, yang kebanyakan didasarkan pada kemampuan Anda untuk menarik simpulan atau memprediksi kelanjutan peristiwa.

Few people passed. The man of the last house passed on his way home; she heard his footsteps clacking along the concrete pavement and afterwards crunching on the cinder path before the new red house. One time there used to be a field there in which they used to play every evening with other people’s children. Then a man from Belfast bought the field and built houses in it—not like their brown houses but bright brick house with shining roofs. The children of the avenue used to play together in that field— the Devines, the Waters, the Dunns, little Keogh the cripple, she and her brothers and sisters. Ernest, however, never played: he was too grown up. Her father used often to hunt them in out of the field with his blackthorn stick; but usually little Keogh used to keep nix and call out when he saw her father coming. Still they seemed to have been rather happy then. Her father was not so bad then; and besides, her mother was alive. That was a long time ago, she and her brothers and sisters were all grown up, her mother was dead. Tizzie Dunn was dead, too, and the Waters had gone back to England. Everything changes. Now she was going to go away like the others, to leave her home.                                                                             

 —James Joyce in Wiener Harvey S,1977: 123

1. The title that would best express the main idea of this selection is_____ A.      A  Quiet Street B.      How Tizzie Dunn Died C.     Dreams D.     Everything Changes E.      Building Old and New	4. We may conclude that the woman’s home probably in___ A.     England B.     Ireland C.     New York D.     Chicago E.     none of these
2. About her past life the woman has___ A.       no thoughts at all B.       generally pleasant thoughts C.      thoughts filled with pain D.      regrets E.       anger	5. About the idea of leaving home the woman is____ A.     deeply worried B.     somewhat concerned C.     greatly relieved and happy D.     frightened because of her father E.     sorry because of her mother
3. If her father had found the woman playing in the field when she was younger he probably___ A.        would have sent her home B.        would have chased the other children away C.       would have yelled at her for playing with Keogh the cripple D.       would have told her mother E.        would have beaten her	6. One conclusion  we cannot safely draw based upon this selection is___ A.     the Waters family returned to England because they were unhappy where they lived B.     the woman’s father grew worse as the years went on C.    the house built by the man from Belfast changed the way the neighborhood D.    the woman lives on a quiet street E.     Ernest did not join the games of the young children

Bacalah wacana berikut, kemudian jawab pertanyaan-pertanyaan yang mengikutinya, yang kebanyakan didasarkan pada kemampuan Anda untuk menarik simpulan atau memprediksi kelanjutan peristiwa.

I don’t know how I become a writer, but I think it was because of a certain force in me that had to write and that finally through and found a channel. My people were of the working class of people. My father, a stone-cutter, was a man with a great respect and veneration for literature. He had a tremendous memory, and he loved poetry, and the poetry that he loved best was naturally of the rhetorical kind that such a man would like. Nevertheless it was good poetry, Hamlet’s Soliloquy, “Macbeth”, Mark Antony’s Funeral Oration, Grey’s “Elegy”, and the rest of it. I heard it all as a child; I memorized and learned it all.

He sent me to college to the state university. The desire to write, which had been strong during all my days in high school, grew stronger still. I was editor of the college magazine, etc., and in my last year or two I was a member of a course in playwriting which had just established there. I wrote several little one-act plays, still thinking I would become a lawyer or a newspaper man, never daring to believe I could seriously become writer. Then I went to Harvard, wrote some more plays there, became obsessed with the idea that I had to play with, left Harvard, had my plays rejected, and finally in the autumn of 1926, why, or in what manner I have never exactly been able to determine, but probably because the force in me that had to write at length sought out its channel, I began to write in London. I was living alone at that time. I had two room—a bedroom and a sitting room— in a little square in Chelsea  in which all the houses had that familiar, smoked brick, and cream-yellow-plaster look.

—Thomas Wolfe in Wiener Harvey S,1977: 124

1. We may conclude, in regard to the author’s development as a writer, that his father____ A.        made an important contribution B.        insisted that he choose writing as a career C.        opposed his becoming a writer D.        taught him grammar and sentence structure E.        insisted that he read Hamlet in order to learn how to be a writer	3. A conclusion we cannot safely draw (based upon this passage) about the author’s life in 1926 is that___ A.    he was unmarried B.    he was miserable about having his plays rejected C.    he lived in a house like all the other houses around him D.    he started his first novel E.    he was no longer a student
2. The author believes that he became a writer mostly because of____ A.         his special talent B.         his father’s teaching and encouragement C.        his course at Harvard D.        a hidden urge within him E.         all of these