Mini TO Bahasa Inggris [LBE] 931

1. Third World countries often mistakenly decide to permit rapid industrialization. When this industrialization occurs, many new factories open, and workers get jobs. Unfortunately, many of these new jobs are not permanent. The leaders of an industry want their factories to be as productive as possible, and they will do anything to achieve that goal. Whenever they can, they take advantage of automation, which means that workers are replaced by a more efficient machine. ___________________________________________.

The main information of the text tells us about _______.

2. Third World countries often mistakenly decide to permit rapid industrialization. When this industrialization occurs, many new factories open, and workers get jobs. Unfortunately, many of these new jobs are not permanent. The leaders of an industry want their factories to be as productive as possible, and they will do anything to achieve that goal. Whenever they can, they take advantage of automation, which means that workers are replaced by a more efficient machine. ___________________________________________.

Which of the following sentences is the best concluding sentence for the text?

3. The most important thing that keeps a family together is the faith of each member that when he or she has something to say, the others will listen. You shouldn’t have to yell in order to be heard. You should be able to say, “I went downtown today and I saw these interesting people,” and give an account of your day, and the others should pay attention. This sort of everyday storytelling is what holds people together. We can endure terrible hardships if we get to tell somebody about them.

Authoritarian fathers get in the way of storytelling, and so do over-anxious mothers and jealous brothers and sisters, but mostly what defeats us is noise and busyness. The people around us deserve our best attention sometimes, and then we have to shut the world out. Turn off the television. Turn off the radio. Don’t read the newspaper. Live a smaller life. The television is full of trash, the radio is full of noise and nonsense, and the newspaper is full of horrors and disasters and stories about terrible things done by other people’s children – and all of it an open invitation to be self-righteous; those weren’t our children who beat up the old lady and put her in the hospital.

Worst of all, the media tend to remove us from direct experience. When we are fascinated by television and accept it as reality, the real world pales. American children don’t want to go on trips to strange places because it will mean missing their favourite shows. What a pity.

We have more information than any other people in history, and we need a little less of it and a little more experience. The terrible danger of the media is their power to diminish our pleasure in the ordinary day, the richness and the goodness of a simple landscape and ordinary small talk and stories.

The article says that everyday storytelling is important because _______.

4. The most important thing that keeps a family together is the faith of each member that when he or she has something to say, the others will listen. You shouldn’t have to yell in order to be heard. You should be able to say, “I went downtown today and I saw these interesting people,” and give an account of your day, and the others should pay attention. This sort of everyday storytelling is what holds people together. We can endure terrible hardships if we get to tell somebody about them.

Authoritarian fathers get in the way of storytelling, and so do over-anxious mothers and jealous brothers and sisters, but mostly what defeats us is noise and busyness. The people around us deserve our best attention sometimes, and then we have to shut the world out. Turn off the television. Turn off the radio. Don’t read the newspaper. Live a smaller life. The television is full of trash, the radio is full of noise and nonsense, and the newspaper is full of horrors and disasters and stories about terrible things done by other people’s children – and all of it an open invitation to be self-righteous; those weren’t our children who beat up the old lady and put her in the hospital.

Worst of all, the media tend to remove us from direct experience. When we are fascinated by television and accept it as reality, the real world pales. American children don’t want to go on trips to strange places because it will mean missing their favourite shows. What a pity.

We have more information than any other people in history, and we need a little less of it and a little more experience. The terrible danger of the media is their power to diminish our pleasure in the ordinary day, the richness and the goodness of a simple landscape and ordinary small talk and stories.

According to the text, the greatest obstacle to storytelling is _______.

5. The most important thing that keeps a family together is the faith of each member that when he or she has something to say, the others will listen. You shouldn’t have to yell in order to be heard. You should be able to say, “I went downtown today and I saw these interesting people,” and give an account of your day, and the others should pay attention. This sort of everyday storytelling is what holds people together. We can endure terrible hardships if we get to tell somebody about them.

Authoritarian fathers get in the way of storytelling, and so do over-anxious mothers and jealous brothers and sisters, but mostly what defeats us is noise and busyness. The people around us deserve our best attention sometimes, and then we have to shut the world out. Turn off the television. Turn off the radio. Don’t read the newspaper. Live a smaller life. The television is full of trash, the radio is full of noise and nonsense, and the newspaper is full of horrors and disasters and stories about terrible things done by other people’s children – and all of it an open invitation to be self-righteous; those weren’t our children who beat up the old lady and put her in the hospital.

Worst of all, the media tend to remove us from direct experience. When we are fascinated by television and accept it as reality, the real world pales. American children don’t want to go on trips to strange places because it will mean missing their favourite shows. What a pity.

We have more information than any other people in history, and we need a little less of it and a little more experience. The terrible danger of the media is their power to diminish our pleasure in the ordinary day, the richness and the goodness of a simple landscape and ordinary small talk and stories.

In the text the author says that we need more _______.

6. The most important thing that keeps a family together is the faith of each member that when he or she has something to say, the others will listen. You shouldn’t have to yell in order to be heard. You should be able to say, “I went downtown today and I saw these interesting people,” and give an account of your day, and the others should pay attention. This sort of everyday storytelling is what holds people together. We can endure terrible hardships if we get to tell somebody about them.

Authoritarian fathers get in the way of storytelling, and so do over-anxious mothers and jealous brothers and sisters, but mostly what defeats us is noise and busyness. The people around us deserve our best attention sometimes, and then we have to shut the world out. Turn off the television. Turn off the radio. Don’t read the newspaper. Live a smaller life. The television is full of trash, the radio is full of noise and nonsense, and the newspaper is full of horrors and disasters and stories about terrible things done by other people’s children – and all of it an open invitation to be self-righteous; those weren’t our children who beat up the old lady and put her in the hospital.

Worst of all, the media tend to remove us from direct experience. When we are fascinated by television and accept it as reality, the real world pales. American children don’t want to go on trips to strange places because it will mean missing their favourite shows. What a pity.

We have more information than any other people in history, and we need a little less of it and a little more experience. The terrible danger of the media is their power to diminish our pleasure in the ordinary day, the richness and the goodness of a simple landscape and ordinary small talk and stories.

We may infer from the text that there is a tendency of the media to _______.

7. The most important thing that keeps a family together is the faith of each member that when he or she has something to say, the others will listen. You shouldn’t have to yell in order to be heard. You should be able to say, “I went downtown today and I saw these interesting people,” and give an account of your day, and the others should pay attention. This sort of everyday storytelling is what holds people together. We can endure terrible hardships if we get to tell somebody about them.

Authoritarian fathers get in the way of storytelling, and so do over-anxious mothers and jealous brothers and sisters, but mostly what defeats us is noise and busyness. The people around us deserve our best attention sometimes, and then we have to shut the world out. Turn off the television. Turn off the radio. Don’t read the newspaper. Live a smaller life. The television is full of trash, the radio is full of noise and nonsense, and the newspaper is full of horrors and disasters and stories about terrible things done by other people’s children – and all of it an open invitation to be self-righteous; those weren’t our children who beat up the old lady and put her in the hospital.

Worst of all, the media tend to remove us from direct experience. When we are fascinated by television and accept it as reality, the real world pales. American children don’t want to go on trips to strange places because it will mean missing their favourite shows. What a pity.

We have more information than any other people in history, and we need a little less of it and a little more experience. The terrible danger of the media is their power to diminish our pleasure in the ordinary day, the richness and the goodness of a simple landscape and ordinary small talk and stories.

Sometimes we should just shut out the world because _______.

8. There has been so much written about the dangers of cigarette smoking that it is hard to believe that anyone would smoke, knowing the risks it brings and the energy drain it causes. Cigarette smoke is composed of over 4000 chemicals, ___(8)___ 43 that are known to cause cancer. Advertisers spend billion of dollars a year to ___(9)___ you that smoking will make you more attractive, sexier, cooler, and calmer, and will solve all your problems in life. We are a drug-using ___(10)___, and the payoff is excitement and pleasure and a quick fix for problems. The fact is, ___(11)___, that nicotine is a depressant and saps your energy. Recent studies also show that smoking even causes wrinkles. The risks are well documented, and nearly 500.000 people die every year from smoking-___(12)___ illness. Nonsmokers who are married to smokers have a 30 percent greater risk of developing lung cancer than those who are married to nonsmokers.

9. There has been so much written about the dangers of cigarette smoking that it is hard to believe that anyone would smoke, knowing the risks it brings and the energy drain it causes. Cigarette smoke is composed of over 4000 chemicals, ___(8)___ 43 that are known to cause cancer. Advertisers spend billion of dollars a year to ___(9)___ you that smoking will make you more attractive, sexier, cooler, and calmer, and will solve all your problems in life. We are a drug-using ___(10)___, and the payoff is excitement and pleasure and a quick fix for problems. The fact is, ___(11)___, that nicotine is a depressant and saps your energy. Recent studies also show that smoking even causes wrinkles. The risks are well documented, and nearly 500.000 people die every year from smoking-___(12)___ illness. Nonsmokers who are married to smokers have a 30 percent greater risk of developing lung cancer than those who are married to nonsmokers.

10. There has been so much written about the dangers of cigarette smoking that it is hard to believe that anyone would smoke, knowing the risks it brings and the energy drain it causes. Cigarette smoke is composed of over 4000 chemicals, ___(8)___ 43 that are known to cause cancer. Advertisers spend billion of dollars a year to ___(9)___ you that smoking will make you more attractive, sexier, cooler, and calmer, and will solve all your problems in life. We are a drug-using ___(10)___, and the payoff is excitement and pleasure and a quick fix for problems. The fact is, ___(11)___, that nicotine is a depressant and saps your energy. Recent studies also show that smoking even causes wrinkles. The risks are well documented, and nearly 500.000 people die every year from smoking-___(12)___ illness. Nonsmokers who are married to smokers have a 30 percent greater risk of developing lung cancer than those who are married to nonsmokers.

11. There has been so much written about the dangers of cigarette smoking that it is hard to believe that anyone would smoke, knowing the risks it brings and the energy drain it causes. Cigarette smoke is composed of over 4000 chemicals, ___(8)___ 43 that are known to cause cancer. Advertisers spend billion of dollars a year to ___(9)___ you that smoking will make you more attractive, sexier, cooler, and calmer, and will solve all your problems in life. We are a drug-using ___(10)___, and the payoff is excitement and pleasure and a quick fix for problems. The fact is, ___(11)___, that nicotine is a depressant and saps your energy. Recent studies also show that smoking even causes wrinkles. The risks are well documented, and nearly 500.000 people die every year from smoking-___(12)___ illness. Nonsmokers who are married to smokers have a 30 percent greater risk of developing lung cancer than those who are married to nonsmokers.

12. There has been so much written about the dangers of cigarette smoking that it is hard to believe that anyone would smoke, knowing the risks it brings and the energy drain it causes. Cigarette smoke is composed of over 4000 chemicals, ___(8)___ 43 that are known to cause cancer. Advertisers spend billion of dollars a year to ___(9)___ you that smoking will make you more attractive, sexier, cooler, and calmer, and will solve all your problems in life. We are a drug-using ___(10)___, and the payoff is excitement and pleasure and a quick fix for problems. The fact is, ___(11)___, that nicotine is a depressant and saps your energy. Recent studies also show that smoking even causes wrinkles. The risks are well documented, and nearly 500.000 people die every year from smoking-___(12)___ illness. Nonsmokers who are married to smokers have a 30 percent greater risk of developing lung cancer than those who are married to nonsmokers.

13. Erika _______ on her report for three days in a row without much sleep. That’s why she looks so tired.

14. ‘I thought lunch is ready.’
‘Don’t worry, it _______ now.’

15. ‘Why did you have to work overtime yesterday?’
‘Well, I had to finish not only the company’s annual report _______.’

16. I’ve just received a fax from the bookstore _______ that the latest version of the accounting book written by Kelso will be available tomorrow.

17. ‘Yumi, I really don’t know _______. You know as much English as I do.’
‘Well, I mainly want you to correct my pronunciation.’

18. ‘May I borrow your calculator, please?’
‘Sorry, I can’t find it in my bag. I _______ at home.’

19. Kerosene lamps had been used in every house in this village until _______ in remote places.

20. If the food-producing nations had not sent immediate aid, thousands of people in the drought regions would have died.
From the above sentence we may conclude that _______.