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Multiple Choice: Explanation Text

 Zulfa Faturullah Hermansyah (36)

XII IPS 2


Answer the questions below by choosing options A, B, C, D or E carefully


1.  An example of an explanation text is ... 

A. 'How to Make a Coffee' 

B. 'The Legend of Korra' 

C. 'The Tale of the Black Swan' 

D. 'The Process of Tsunami' 

E 'The Biography: President Soekarno'


Answer: D. 'The Process of Tsunami


2. 

How to Build Confidence?


Self-confidence is one of very important parts of humanity. Someone with self-confidence generally likes themselves and thinks positively about their future. A person who lacks of self-confidence, however, tend to be pessimistic and is less likely to feel that they can achieve their goals in life. The good news is that self-confidence is something you can build! So, how to build your self-confidence?

First of all, you need to identify your negative thoughts because your negative thoughts will always whisper like this: "I can't do that," "Many people say that I will not succeed", "no one understands my efforts." These pessimistic thoughts will hold you back from achieving high self-esteem and greater self-confidence.

After identifying your negative thoughts, you must turn them to positive thoughts. You must be more energized to prove that all of those pessimistic thoughts are incorrect. This may be started by having the positive affirmations to overcome those negative perspectives, such as "I am going to try it," "I can be successful if I work at it," or "people will listen to me." You must try to repeat these sentences over and over to burn your spirits.

Next, you should refuse negative thoughts to occur more often than positive thoughts. Your positive thoughts should be given more “brain space” than your negative thoughts. The more you counter your negative self-thinking with positivity, the better confidence you will have.

In conclusion, as your confidence grows day by day, you must eliminate reminders of your negativity that can make you feel bad about yourself again. Always boost all of your positivity to achieve your dreams! Negativities might be reminders from the past and let the positivity become the flashlight to lighten up your map of dreams. This will go a long way in building your self-confidence up.


"To explain how to build confidence" is ... of the text.


A. social function

B. generic structure

C. language features

D. sequence

E. Conclusion


Answer: A. social function


Read This Text for Answering Nomber 3 - 5


Tsunami occurs when major fault under the ocean floor suddenly slips. The displaced rock pushes water above it like a giant paddle, producing powerful water waves at the ocean surface. The ocean waves spread out from the vicinity of the earthquake source and move across the ocean until they reach the coastline, where their height increases as they reach the continental shelf, the part of the earth crust that slopes, or rises, from the ocean floor up to the land.

A tsunami washes ashore with oftendisastrous effects such as severe flooding, loss of lives due to drowning and damage to property.

A tsunami is a very large sea wave that is generated by a disturbance along the ocean floor. This disturbance can be an earthquake, a landslide, or a volcanic eruption. A tsunami is undetectable far out in the ocean, but once it reaches shallow water, this fast traveling wave grows very large


3.  What are the impacts of tsunami?

A. The part of the Earth’s crust that slopes, or rises, from the ocean floor down to the land

B. A tsunami washes ashore with often disastrous effects such as flooding and loss of lives

C. A tsunami is a very large sea wave which is not generated by a disturbance a long the ocean floor

D. A tsunami is detectable far out in the ocean

E. Once tsunami reaches shallow water, the wave never grows very large


Answer: B. A tsunami washes ashore with often disastrous effects such as flooding and loss of lives


4. We understand from the text that tsunami ....

A. Causes the movement of earth
B. Forms a new shape of coastline
C. Makes unfortunate event
D. Rises a new coastal land
E. Displaces rocks to land

Answer: C. Makes unfortunate event


5. Tsunami happened because of.....

A. The displaced rock pushes water above it
B. A major fault under the ocean floor slips suddenly
C. The ocean waves spread out from the vicinity of the source
D. The waves moves across the ocean until they reach the beach
E. A tsunami is undetectable far out in the ocean

Answer: B. A major fault under the ocean floor slips suddenly

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