Snow White
Once upon a time, there lived a
little girl named Snow White.
She lived with her aunt and uncle
because her parents were dead.
One day, she heard her uncle and aunt talking about leaving Snow White in the
castle because they both wanted to
go to America and they didn’t have enough money to take Snow White.
Snow White did not want her uncle and aunt to do this, so she decided it would
be best if she ran away. The next morning, she ran away from home when
her aunt and uncle were having breakfast. She ran away into the woods.
She was very tired and hungry.
Then, she saw this little cottage. She knocked, but no one answered,
so she went inside and fell asleep.
Meanwhile, the seven dwarfs were coming home from work. They went inside. There they found Snow White sleeping. Then
Snow White woke up. She saw
the dwarfs. The dwarfs said, ”What’s your name?” Snow White answered, “My name is Snow White.”
The other dwarfs asked, “If you wish, you may live here
with us.” Snow White said, “Oh,
could I? Thank you!” Then Snow White told
the dwarfs the whole story, and the seven dwarfs lived happily ever after.
The synonym of the underlined word is……
a. Lived b.
Loved c. Passed away d.
Ran away e. kind
KING PRABU
Once upon a time, The King Prabu
ruled a Kingdom in West Java. King Prabu and his wife were wise and kind
so that their people were prosperous.
The problem came because The King
didn’t have children. They tried many ways to have children, but they
always failed.
One day, Prabu prayed to God, and he
was very happy because God accepted his prayer. Soon, they had a child
that was beautiful but spoiled and had the bad behavior.
For her seventeenth birthday party,
the princess got the gold necklace from her parents. Unfortunately, when
she saw it, she didn’t like it and threw it away into the floor.
Everybody was shocked because from the ground emerged a lot of water. All
of the kingdom suddenly became a big lake.
People call it Telaga Warna and
believed that the colours came from the Princess’ necklace.
1. The Kingdom
was located in……..
a.
Sumatera b.
Sulawesi c.
Java d.
Papua e. Bali
2.
People……….the King Prabu.
a.
hated
b. liked c. disliked
d. connected with e.ruled
3. Which statement is Not Correct?
a.
The queen had one daughter.
b. The
lake swallowed the Kingdom.
c.
The King adopted a girl as his child.
d. The princess had the bad
behavior.
e.
The Prabu and his wife were wise.
4. The communicative purpose of the story is…..
a. to describe the
King
b. to entertain the
readers
c. to persuade the readers
d. to
describe the Kingdom
e. to retell
the past experience
Attitude Is Everything
Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"
He was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.
Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?" Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, 'Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood.' I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life."
"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested. "Yes it is," Jerry said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live life." I reflected on what Jerry said.
Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it. Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never supposed to do in the restaurant business: he left the back door open one morning and was held up at gunpoint by three armed robbers. While trying to open the safe, his hand shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combinations. The robbers panicked and shot him.
Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma center. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body. I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins. Wanna see my scars?" I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place.
"The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door," Jerry replied. "Then, as I lay on the floor, I remembered I had two choices: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I chose to live."
"Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked.
Jerry continued, "The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read, 'He's a dead man.' I knew I needed to take action."
"What did you do?" I asked.
"Well, there was a big, burly nurse shouting questions at me," said Jerry. "She asked if I was allergic to anything. 'Yes,' I said. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, 'Bullets!' Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead."
Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything.
Croco'nile
...by Roy Gerrard; Farrar, Strauss, Girous, NY, 1994.
One morning while at play, Hamut and his sister, Nekatu, two
Egyptian children, found a baby crocodile. Each day they fed him and swam with
him in the Nile River. One day Nekatu and Hamut spied a boat. They climbed
aboard and hid themselves from the crew. By the next morning they were hundreds
by miles from their village. When found by the crew the captain sailed into
port to try to find them a home with a friend while runners returned to the
village to tell the family of their whereabouts. The captain's friend happened
to be a sculptor who soon was teaching Hamut to carve statues. Before long
Nekatu was drawing and painting. The villagers were in awe of the children's
talents. The sculptor had been commissioned to work in on underground pyramid
and asked the children to assist him in decorating the walls. One day the king
visited his tomb and was astonished to see the work of the children. Remembering
his wife's birthday was soon, he asked them to design a present for her,
something very rare and special. The children began to work and by the time of
the party the rare and special gift was complete, and they were present for the
unveiling before the queen. She was so pleased with her birthday gift that she
invited Hamut and Nekatu to sit with her and the king at the banquet table.
From this they garnered enormous fame but stayed modest and shy. However, some
villains knowing of their talents kidnapped them and sailed to foreign ports to
ransom them. By this time the flood waters had appeared and the boat soon sank
in the turbulent waves. To the children's rescue came their old friend the
Crocodile who carried them safely home.
A beautiful picture book! Read this to children while sitting
in the Egyptian Gallery of your nearest art museum.
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