Read the text to answer questions 1 to 2!
B.J. Habibie was born on June 25, 1936, in Pare
Pare, South Sulawesi. He was an Indonesian aircraft engineer and politician and
former president of Indonesia (1998-99). He was brilliant in science and mathematics since he was a child. He
underwent his tertiary education at the Bandung
Institute of Technology in Bandung, Indonesia, and furthered his studies
at the Institute of Technology of North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. After
graduating in 1960, he remained there as an aeronautics researcher and
production supervisor.
Indonesian second president then, Suharto, asked
Habibie to return to Indonesia to help build advanced industries. Suharto
assured him that he could do whatever was needed to accomplish that goal.
Firstly assigned to the state oil company, Pertamina, Habibie became a
government adviser and chief of a new aerospace company in 1976. Two years
later he became research minister and head of the Agency for Technology
Evaluation and Application. In these roles, he supervised a number of companies
involving the production and transportation of heavy machinery, steel,
electronics and telecommunications equipment, and arms and ammunition
In 1993 he showed the first Indonesian-developed
plane, which he helped design. In the following year he launched a plan to
rebuild more than three dozen vessels bought from the former East German navy
at his initiative. The Finance Ministry refused to finance the latter.
Nevertheless, Habibie got more than 400$ million for rebuilding. His
achievement made him viewed as one of several possible successors to the aging
Suharto in the late 1990s
He became a president, from vice-president,
after Suharto announced his resignation in May 1998, after the wake of
large-scale violence in Jakarta. He ruled the country until 1999 due to his
speech in front of extra-ordinary plenary session of MPR was rejected. He went
back to stay in Germany until his wife passed away in 2010
1. The
text informs readers about ….
A. The biography of B.J. Habibie.
B. The description of B.J. Habibie.
C. The success stories of B.J.
Habibie.
D. The story of Indonesia’s third
president.
2. We
know from the text that B.J. Habibie became
Indonesia’s president because he ….
A. Replaced Suharto’s position who
resigned earlier.
B. Was the best aircraft engineer in
Indonesia.
C. Was elected in the Indonesia’s
general election.
Dorothy Hodgkin was a British chemist, she was born
on May 12, 1910, in Cairo, Egypt. Her determination to study the structure of
penicillin and vitamin brought her the 1964 Noble Prize for Chemistry. Her work
on critical discoveries of the structure of both penicillin and later insulin
led to significant improvements in health care.
Dorothy Hodgkin was the eldest of four sisters
whose parents worked in North Africa and the Middle East as archaeologists. She was sent to England for her education,
therefore she spent much of her childhood away from her parents. But it was her mother who especially encouraged Hodgkin to pursue her
interest in crystal that she first displayed at age 10.
Dorothy Hodgkin studied at a state secondary
school in the small town of Suffolk. She fought to be allowed to study science
along with the boys. She succeeded and was later accepted in 1928 to
pursue a degree in chemistry at University of Oxford. She was one of the first
scientists who studied the structure of an organic compound by using X-ray
crystallography.
An Australian pathologist, Howard Florey, who
started the Nobel Prize in Physiology on medicine with Alexander Fleming and
his colleagues at Oxford succeeded in isolating penicillin. He asked Hodgkin to solve it’s structure.
By 1945 she did her job. Hodgkin’s work on penicillin was recognized by the
Royal Society, Britain’s premier scientific academy, in 1947. That was only two
years after a woman had been elected for the first time.
3. What had Dorothy
Hodgkin done to get the Nobel Prize?
A. Living
away from her parents with her sisters on her childhood.
B. Studying
crystals she displayed at age 10.
C. working
on a structure of an organic compound.
D. Solving
the structure of penicillin and vitamin.
4. Where did Dorothy and
the boys study science?
A. In Britain’s premier scientific
academy.
B. At a state secondary school in
Suffolk.
C. At a state secondary school in
North Africa.
D. At university of Oxford.
5. “He asked Hodgkin to
solve it’s structure.” (last paragraph)
The underlined word
refers to….
A. Organic compound.
B. X-ray crystallography.
C. Crystals.
D. Penicillin.
6. … “who especially encouraged
Hodgkin to pursue her interest.” (paragraph 2)
The underlined word is
closest in meaning to….
A. Supported.
B. Inspired.
C. Empowered.
D. Insisted.
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