Jumat, 26 April 2013

SPOOF ( MAPEL KLS XI )

Fixing the Headstone

Once, there were two men walking home after a Halloween party. They decided to take a
shortcut through the cemetery just for laughs. Right in the middle of the cemetery they were
startled by a tap-tap-tapping noise coming from the misty shadows.
Trembling with fear, they found an old man with a hammer and chisel, chipping away at one of
the headstones.
“Holy cow, Mister,” one of them said after catching his breath, “You scared us half to death,
we thought you were a ghost! What are you doing working here so late at night?”
“Those fools!” the old man grumbled. “They misspelled my name!”

QUESTIONS :

1. How many men were walking through the cemetery?
    a. Two men
    b. Three men
    c. Four men
   d. Five men
   e. Six men

2. What made them shocked when they were walking through the cemetery?
    a. The serene of the cemetery
    b. The darkness of the cemetery
    c. A tap-tap-tapping noise
   d. The howling of wolfs
   e. A man passing the cemetery in rush.

3. Who did they find in the cemetery?
    a. A villager
    b. Their friend
    c. The guard of the cemetery
   d. An old man
   e. The maker of a tombstone

4. What did the old man do at that night?
     a. He made a tombstone for someone.
     b. He corrected his name written on his
         tombstone.
     c. He was just passing through the
        cemetery.
    d. He had just attended a Halloween
        party.
    e. He was just making a devotional visit
        to a grave.

5. “The old man grumbled”. The word grumble
   in the sentence is similar in meaning to …
   a. smile
   b. attract
   c. persuade
  d. think
  e. complain

Senin, 22 April 2013

The Kind Duck and the Poor Frog

One beautiful summer's day, a duck decided to go to the river for a picnic.
She took a lot of food with her, and was really looking forward to eating it. She
sat down on the river bank and spread the food out in front of her.
"You're not going to eat all that food yourself, are you?" said a small voice.
She looked up and saw a frog sitting at the water's edge.
"Please give me some of it. I am very poor and very hungry, " pleaded the
frog, wiping a tear from his eye. She gave him a sandwich. To her

ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES ( MAPEL KLS II )

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Ali Baba was such a poor man that he had
 only one shoe for his two feet. Even the mice in his house were hungry.
One day, his wife said, "We have no food in the house. No rice. No potatoes.
Go and collect leaves in the forest so that I can make a soup."
Ali was a lazy man. He looked for leaves for about ten minutes and then
he climbed a tree to sleep. He was afraid of wolves. When he woke up,
he was surprised to see forty thieves on forty horses. They stopped in front
of a big rock. "Open Sesame!" shouted the leader.
A door on the rock opened. The thieves carried sacks full of gold into the cave.
When they had finished, the leader shouted. "Close Sesame!" and the door
closed. As soon as the thieves had disappeared Ali Baba jumped down
from the tree, said, "Open Sesame" and went into the cave.

USING OF HONEY ( MAPEL KLS II )

Honey is the sweet, thick fluid made by bees from flower nectar. Nectar is a thin, watery
liquid. Bees sip it from the blossoms and carry it to their hives. Each worker bee has
a pouch in its body, called a honey stomach where the nectar is stored. In the pouch,
the sugar and nectar are broken down by a process called inversion into two simple sugars
fructose and glucose. After bees deposit the nectar in the hive, they allow most
of the water to evaporate and the liquid thickens.
They also add enzyme that enhance the flavor. Honey is an excellent energy food because
it contains simple sugars that can be used quickly by the body. It differs chemically
from cane sugar, which is also an energy food. Honey contains mineral salts and
other materials needed by the body. It is the only form of sugar food that does not
need to be refined.

Taken from The World Book Encyclopedia, 1996

QUESTIONS :

Liu-Always-in-a-Hurry (MAPEL KLS II )

In China long ago, there was a farmer named
Liu. He was not a patient man. He was very
impatient. He was always in a hurry. He rushed
through breakfast. He rushed through lunch. He
rushed through his work. He wanted to be fi rst in
every thing. He didn’t worry about being careful in
his work. He just wanted to fi nish it quickly.
One day, Liu was in the village. Some farmers
were talking about their rice.
"My rice is doing very well,” said one farmer.
“It is almost three inches high.”
"My rice is already three inches high,” said
another farmer.
Liu hurried home. He measured his rice. The
plants were strong and healthy. But they were
only two inches high.

Jumat, 05 April 2013

NARRATIVE

The Eagle and the Arrow

An Eagle was soaring through the air when suddenly it
heard the whizz of an Arrow, and felt itself wounded to
death. Slowly it fluttered down to the earth, with its lifeblood
pouring out of it. Looking down upon the Arrow
with which it had been pierced, it found that the shaft of
the Arrow had been feathered with one of its own plumes.
‘Alas!’ it cried, as it died.

MORAL MESSAGE
‘We often give our enemies the means for our own
destruction.’

Questions :