Exposition Text Exercise Zenowsky
Exposition Text Exercise Zenowsky
Cramming is Bad
How do you study when the test is coming? Do you start preparing for the test weeks or
months before the test or leave things to the last hour? If you start studying weeks or
months before the test, it is great. However, if you study all the material in the last hour or
minute, it is not good for you and it is called cramming.
Cramming is the situation when students stay up until morning to study before their test.
This habit can lead to negative impacts for some reason. The first reason is that disruptions
in the regular sleep cycle can cause temporary intellectual lapses. For most students, less
sleep can make them could not focus in the class. Additionally, cramming can leave us with
“something that I have seen before” in our memory. However, being able to recognize
something is not the same as being able to recall it. Besides that, each person has their
different sleeping time, so some of them often use a stimulant for cramming. Furthermore,
that stimulant gives bad effect to its consumers.
The example stimulant is coffee. It causes many problems such as Caffeine Intoxication
Syndrome, anxiety, panic, headaches, and so on. To sum up, cramming is bad because it
disturbs our regular sleep cycle which cause temporary intellectual lapses and using
stimulant for cramming gives bad effect to our health.
5 Purpose of the text The Purpose is to warn the readers about the
negative impacts caused by cramming
Exercise 2
List some difficult words that you find in the text and write the synonyms
and Indonesian meaning. You can add more rows if you find many difficult
words!
Drug users are actually ill people who need help. Rehabilitation is one of the main
things they should get. Instead of punishing drug users in prisons, the
government should provide rehabilitation for them.
Most users are actually victims of persuasive peddlers and they suffer from
consuming the drugs. Therefore, by rehabilitating them, we are actually helping
them out from traps, which they might accidentally step on.
If we only arrest drug users and send them to jail, this doesn't solve the problem
as drug users will still be addicted unless proper rehabilitation is imposed to
them. Providing rehabilitation programs for drug users and forcing them to
participate in the programs is better than only arresting them and doing nothing
to their illness. Only drug dealers, traffickers, and wholesalers should be
imprisoned.
Most drug users get drugs from ....
Jails
Peddlers
Traffickers
D. Wholesalers
E. Rehabilitation center
Sending the drug users to prison is not a good solution because ....
"...drug users will still be addicted unless proper rehabilitation is imposed to them."
(Paragraph 3) The underlined word is closest in meaning to ....
Influenced
Treated
Forced
Burdened
Implemented
Consuming fresh groceries instead of frozen ones are healthier for us.
Furthermore, fresh food or groceries means no requirements for it to be freeze
up. It means that no electricity is needed and saving energy means reducing
carbon dioxide and money.
So, from now on we should consume fresh local groceries to reduce global
warming.
The text gives us information about ….
Increase
Decrease
Improve
Add
Maximize
The second reason is that there is no tight control from the government. This
condition makes the people’s health is really in a threat. When the control is weak
and the use formalin was spread wide all over the Indonesian regions, and these
days it has really happened, the citizen's bodies will be badly contaminated with
the poisons. Fish or food traders still sell their products which contain formalin
and dangerous preservatives. Can you imagine that our digestive system absorbs
the substance that should be for the human and animal corpses?
Considering the reasons, we can make a conclusion that the use of formalin and
other preservatives is really a serious problem if it is not resolved immediately.
Why is formalin dangerous for human`s body?
It is not food preservatives (This answer is also correct because A and D is connected)
It is a disinfectant for human beings
It is used to preserve biological specimens
D. It is 10% solution of formaldehyde in water
E. It is controlled flighty from the government