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News Item Text 1

The Surabaya Police have arrested a man, identified only as MN, for allegedly buying an infant via Instagram.

MN was arrested at his house on Jl. Karah in Jambangan district in Surabaya, East Java, on Sunday. He was found to have paid some Rp 3.8 million (US$250) for a baby boy when he was only three days.

Surabaya police chief Sr. Comr. Rudi Setiawan said recently that the transaction was conducted in Semarang, Central Java, on Sept. 23. The baby’s parents live in Tangerang in Banten.

“The baby is now safe with the Surabaya administration,” Rudi said on Monday (The Jakarta Post, Tue, October 16, 2018)

1. What is the purpose of the text?

• A. To inform readers about arrested man for buying an infant

• B. To describe the important person for readers

• C. To argue that arresting the man is important

• D. To explain how police arrested the man

• E. To convince reader that buying infant is illegal

2. What is the generic structure of the text above?

• A. Orientation – Complication – Reorientation

• B. Orientation – Series of event – Reorientation

• C. Stating thesis – Arguments – Reiteration

• D. Goal – Equipments – Steps

• E. Newsworthy event – Background events – Sources

3. “MN was arrested at his house…” The underlined word refers to a house belongs to…….

• A. The police officer

• B. The arrested man

• C. The infant parent

• D. A Surabaya administration officer

• E. A Semarang administration officer

4. “…for allegedly buying an infant” The infant word has similar meaning with ……

• A. Adult

• B. Teenager

• C. Child

• D. Grown

• E. Man

News Item Text 2

For question number 5 – 7

Madrid (Reuters) – Spain’s most wanted thief, “The Loner,” saw himself as a Robin Hood-style figure and said he robbed banks only because they stole from the public, his lawyer said Thursday.

Accused of killing three policemen and holding up more than 30 banks, Jaime Jimenez Arbe was planning to move on to insurance companies when he was arrested last month, Spanish media reported, citing lawyer Jose Mariano Trillo-Figueroa.

“I am not a killer and if I was obliged to shoot at officers of the law, it was always against my will and in order to avoid being arrested,” Jimenez said in a letter reproduced on the websites of newspapers El Pais and El Mundo.

Trillo-Figueroa said Jimenez, who robbed the banks disguised in a false beard and a wig, thinks of himself as Curro Jimenez, a Spanish 1970s television bandit in the style of Robin Hood.

The Loner was arrested in Portugal, armed with a submachine gun in preparation for another bank robbery-Reuters

5.What is the text about?

• A. The websites of newspaper EI Pais and EI Mundo

  
  

  
  

• B. Spanish media reporter, Jose Mariano Trillo-Figueroa

• C. The arresting of Spains’s most wanted thief in Portugal

• D. A submachine gun in preparation for another bank robbery

• E. A Spanish 1970s television bandit in the style of Robin Hood.

6. Before being arrested, Jaime Jimenez Arbe . . . in Spain

• A. had just robbed a policeman.

• B. had robbed 30 banks

• C. would have killed three officers of the law

• D. Had robbed insurance companies

• E. had been working for companies

7. The reason why “The Loner” robbed the banks is because . . .

• A. his lawyer helped him

• B. he was the most wanted thief in Spain

• C. he was accused of killing three policemen

• D. he believed that the banks stole money from the public

• E. he was himself as a Robin Hood-style figure

Text 3

UN: Indonesia records 117th human case of bird flu

Geneva (AP): Indonesia has recorded another human case of the H5N1 strain of the bird flu, raising its world-leading total to 117 cases, according to the World Health Organization.

Of the total number of human cases in Indonesia, 94 have been fatal. WHO says that globally 349 people have been infected with H5N1 since the 2003 outbreak of the disease. Of those, 216 have died

After Indonesia the country with the next highest number of cases in Vietnam with 101, followed by Egypt with 43, according to the U.N. health agency

8. Which of the following statement is true according to the text?

• A. Egypt ranked second as the highest number of bird flu cases

• B. Indonesia’s 117th human case of bird flu was found in West Jawa

• C. The article is taken from the UN report

• D. Since 2003, it has been reported that all 117 Indonesians died of bird flu

• E. According to WHO, there have been 349 people in Indonesia infected by H5N1

9. The word “fatal” in the third paragraph has the closest meaning to ….

• A. Harmless

• B. Poisonous

• C. Tedious

• D. Deadly

• E. Extreme

Text 4

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Six U.S. soldiers were killed by a blast north of Baghdad on Monday, the U.S. military said on Tuesday, in one of the single deadliest ground attacks against American forces in Iraq in months.

Three other soldiers were wounded after an explosion went off near their vehicles in the province of Salahaddin, the military said in a statement, without giving details. Salahaddin is a Sunni Arab insurgent stronghold.

More than 3,170 U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003.

Iraqi and U.S. forces are in the third week of a security crackdown in Baghdad aimed at stemming sectarian violence. U.S. military commanders have expressed concerns that insurgents could step up attacks outside Baghdad.

10. Which of the following statements is NOT mentioned in the text?

• A. Insurgents could increase attacks outside Baghdad.

• B. Three soldiers were wounded after an explosion went off.

• C. The U.S invasion has caused more than 3,170 of its soldiers died.

• D. Six, US, soldiers died due to a blast north of Baghdad on Monday.

• E. Iraqi and U.S. forces are in the second week of a security crackdown in Baghdad