Narrative Text beserta Soal dan Jawaban (A clever man & his donkey)

Narrative Text beserta Soal dan Jawaban (A clever man & his donkey)

Soal UN SMP/MTs 2013

Read the text and answer questions 39 to 42. 

A man with his donkey carrying two sacks of wheat was on his way to the market. After a little while he was tired and they rested under a tree.

When he woke up from his nap he could not see the donkey and started searching for the donkey everywhere. On the way he met a boy, he asked the boy, “Have you seen my donkey?” The boy asked, “Is the donkey‟s left eye blind, his right foot lame and is he carrying a load of wheat?” The man was happy and said, “Yes, exactly! Where have you seen it?” the boy answered “I haven‟t seen it.” This made the man very angry and he took the boy to the village chief for punishment.

The judge asked, “Dear boy, if you had not seen the donkey, how could you describe it?” The boy answered, “I saw the tracks of a donkey and the right and left tracks were different from this. I understood that the donkey that passed there was limping. And the grass on the right side of the road was eaten but the grass on the left was not. From that I understood that his left eye was blind. There were wheat seeds scattered on the ground and I understood that he must have been carrying a load of wheat. The judge understood the boy's cleverness and told the man to forgive the boy.

39. The text shows that the boy knew about the donkey based on …
A. the clues that he saw. 
B. the words which people said.
C. the report made by passers by.
D. the people who told him.

40. “…and I understood that he must have been carrying a load of wheat.”
What does the underlined word in the sentence refer to?
A. The donkey 
B. The traveler
C. The man
D. The village chief

41. What lesson can we learn from telling the story?
A. Punishment should be done as soon as possible.
B. Law enforcement must be done to everyone.
C. We should not jump into conclusion quickly. 
D. We must not belittle people especially children

42. “Is the donkey‟s left eye blind, his right foot lame and is he carrying a load of
wheat?” The underlined word means that the donkey‟s right foot was…
A. very strong.
B. unable to walk. 
C. very weak.
D. all right.

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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