Reading for Elementary School Prodi PGSD STKIP Cirebon
Answer the Following Questions correctly ( question 1 - 30 )
1.This test measures your ability to communicate. This means that it will tell us how you can give information to other people.
What do you know when you communicate?
a.You give information from other people
b.You take information from different sources.
c.You give and take information
d.You move from one place to other.
2.The library has many facilities to help people find information. These facilities include the library’s book.
What are the facilities of a library?
a.Things which help people find information.
b.People who use the library.
c.People who work in the library.
d.Books which answer questions about library.
3.All over the world, people are learning for different purposes.
What is a purpose meant?
a.A way people do something.
b.A kind of learning
c.A special kind of English
d.A reason for doing something.
4.Most car companies guarantee their new cars for one year.
What does guarantee mean?
a.To promise that something will work well
b.To fix something which does not work.
c.To work for one year.
d.To make something new.
5.Sally never gets lost because she has a good sense of direction.
What does sense mean in these sentence?
a.Intellegence
b.Meaning
c.Thinking
d.Feeling.
I.Suffixes and Parts of Speech (6-15)
6.A tradition is an old way of doing something. Traditions do not change for a long time………….., farmers used animals to do their work.(adverb)
7.Industries are companies and factories which make things for people. Most developing countrirs want to ………………..quickly. (adject)
8.Our house is too small, so we are going to extend the house to make it bigger. We are going to build an……………on the westend of the house. (noun).
9.Facilities help us do our work more quickly and easly. We can do more work in a short time when we use facilities because they ………………the work. (verb)
10.Newspapers give information about the news of the day. They ………… people about what is happening in the world. (verb)
11.Dictionaries are very ……. For students because students can use them to find the meanings.
a.Careless c. useful
b.Useless d.understandable.
12.Some families are …….. because the husband and wife decide not to have children.
a.Childless c. useful
b.Happiness d. successful
13.A car …….. if it will not start
a.Careless c. useable
b.Careful d. useless
14.Prof. Jenkins’ lectures are always ………. because he speaks clearly and explains everything very carefully.
a.Usable c. happiness
b.Usefulness d. understandable
15.Many mistakes are the result of ……………
a.Carelesness c. happiness
b.Succesfulness d. understandable
II.Pronoun References
When social scientists study families, they find that they have different shapes and sizes. (16 & 17)
16.The first they refers to -------------
a.Sizes c. shapes
b.Social scientists d. families
17.The second they refers to --------
a.Sizes c. shapes
b.Social scientists d. families
When most people thing of libraries, they think of books.
18.In this sentence, they refer to --------
a.Most people c. libraries
b.Books d. thing
There are as many different library services as there are types of people who use them
19.Them refers to -------
a.There c. library services
b.People d. facility
Music lovers can listen to recordings of their favorite musicians in the Music library.
20.Their favorite musicians means the favorite musicians of ---------
a.Music lovers c. recordings
b.The music library d. musicians
Some families have long histories, while others know very little about their ancestors (21 & 22)
21.Others refers to ---------
a.Families c. histories
b.Ancestors d. people
22.Their refers to --------
a.Families c. histories
b.Ancestors d. people
Successful language learners find people who speak the language and they ask these people to correct them when they make mistakes. (23 – 25)
23.The first they refers to ----------
a.Successful language learners
b.People who speak the language
c.Mistakes
d.Aspect of language.
24.Them refers to -------
a.Successful language learners
b.People who speak the language
c.Mistakes
d.Aspect of language.
25.The second they refers to --------
a.Successful language learners
b.People who speak the language
c.Mistakes
d.Aspect of language.
Learning a language is easy. Even a child can do it. Most adults who are learning a second language would disagree with this statement. For them learning a language is very difficult task. They need hundreds of hours of study and practice itand even these will not guarantee success for every adult learner.
