Recount Text + Jawaban

Soal UN SMP/MTS 2011/2012

The following text is for questions number 1 to 3.

I am used to travelling by air but only on one occasion I felt frightened. After taking off,

we flew low over the city. It slowly went high to the sky.

But suddenly it turned round and flew back to the airport. An air‐hostess told us to keep

calm and to get off the plane quietly as soon as it landed. After we landed, the police

searched the plane carefully. Everybody on board was worried and we grew curious

about what was happening.

Later we learnt that there was a very important person on board. Earlier somebody told

the police that there was a bomb on the plane. Fortunately, they didn’t find a bomb and

five hours later we were able to take off again.

1. Who searched the plane carefully?

A. The pilot.
B. The police.
C. The air‐hostesses.
D. The passengers.

2. Why did the plane fly back to the airport?

A. The pilot was afraid of bombs.
B. The pilot forgot about something.
C. The passengers were frightened.
D. Police suspected that there was a bomb on the plane.

3. What is the main idea of paragraph three?

A. The writer felt frightened.
B. The police searched the plane carefully.
C. Somebody said that there was a bomb on the plane.
D. There was a very important  

Muhammad Ahkam Arifin Muhammad Ahkam Arifin is a Fulbright PhD student at Washington State University, US. He earned a master`s degree in TESOL from the University of Edinburgh & Applied Linguistics from the University of Melbourne.

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