EXCERCISE BIOGRAPHY

 Nama         : Devi Lusyany

Kelas          : XII IPS 4

No Absen   : 8

 

TEXT 1

Maria Yuryevna Sharapova is a Russian professional tennis player. She was born in 1987 in Ngayan, Siberia.

At the age of three, Sharapova moved with her family to Sochi. She began playing tennis at the age of four using a racket given to her by Yevgeng Kafelnikov’s father. At the age five or six, at a tennis clinic in Moscow, Sharapova was spotted by Martina Navratilova, who urged her parents to get her serious coaching in the USA.

At the age of seven, she and her father boarded a plane to the USA with only $700. Her father took her to the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy where one of the coaches check her out. The story goes that maria knocked his hat off with the tennis ball, thereby making a favorable impression. This led her obtaining a scholarship. At the age of nine, she was signed up by a number of sponsors including Prince (racquets), Oakley and Nike.

In 2004, Sharapova became the second youngest Wimbledon women’s champion in open era (after Martina Hingis) by defeating defending two-time champion Serena Williams in straight sets (6-1, 6-4). In the process she also became the first Russian ever to win that tournament.

1. What is the text about?

A. The family of maria Sharapova

B. Professional tennis players in the world

C. The happiness of having a great father

D. The working experienceof maria Sharapova

 

2. In what age was miss Sharpova being a model of some products?

A. Three

B. Four

C. Five

D. Nine

 

3. “… was spotted by Martina Navratilova …” (Paragraph 2). The synonym of word “spotted” is…

A. seen

B. searched

C. placed

D. introduced

 

TEXT 2

Kang Chol Hwan was born into a loyal family that had once lived in the large Korean community of Japan. In Kyoto, his grandfather had been supporter of Kim II Sung, North Korean’s Great Leader since 1945. In 1961 the grandfather returned with his family to North Korea and had important government post.

Within months, however, he was complaining to friends that North Korea was not the country he had expecteD. He was shocked to see so much poverty, which he eventually came to blame on the government’s stifl ing left for work and never returneD. One morning in July 1977, when Kang was nine, his grandfather left for work and never returned.

A few weeks later, seven plain clothes security guard stormed into Kang’s house “Your grandfather betrayed the fatherland,” one of them stated” You must be punished.”

Kang’s parents and grandmother sobbed as they forced to pack their belongings into two army trucks. The family was driven off, but Kang’s mother was left behind, “spared” because her own father was regarded as a revolutationary hero. That was the last Kang ever saw her.

4. What was a reason for Kang’s grandfather never returned to Kang’s house?

A. A supporter of Kim II Sung

B. Accused of betraying North Korea

C. Regarded as a hero

D. As an important person in Korea

E. Force Kang’s family to leave their homeland

 

5. A few weeks later, seven plain clothes security guards stormed into Kang’s housE. The word “stormed” has the same meaning as ….

A. Destroyed

B. Attacked

C. Knocked

D. Involved

E. Knotted

 

ANSWER :

1. B

2. D

3. A

4. B

5. B