Latihan Soal News Item

Kendari SAR Team Found 3 More Victims

            KENDARI, Southeast Sulawesi, on Thursday a searching and rescue team found three more victims from a ship that sank in Banda Sea, who had been missing since the incident occurred on Friday last week. They were Aris Triono, the captain of Amami cargo Ship, Takub, a crewman, and Suharto, a passenger.

            They were found on Thursday floating in waters close to Menui Island, Central Sulawesi Province. The province is adjacent to South East Sulawesi Province, within those territory lies the Banda Sea. Two other victims were earlier saved by SAR team in the Banda Sea on Saturday last week only a day after the ship sank due to the bad weather.

            The SAR team is still searching for 10 crew members and a passenger still missing from the incident, said Rocky Asikin, the head of Kendari SAR Team. 

1. The communicative purpose of the text is ___ .

a.    to retell past experience

b.    to describe particular thing

c.    to explain about SAR team’s work

d.    to persuade readers to help victims

e.    to inform readers about an important  event

2. Why did the ship sink to the sea? It happened because ______

a.  the weather was bad

b.  the ship was broken

c.  the ship was over loaded

d.  there was a leak in the ship

e.  the ship crashed another ship

3. How many crew members and passengers included in the accident?

a. two

b. three

c. five

d. sixteen

e. more than sixteen

4. Who is the source of the news?

a. SAR team

b. Yakub, a crewman

c. Suharto, passenger

d. Aris Triono, the captain

e. Rocky Asikin, the head of SAR team

5.  SAR team found three more victims.

     The underlined word means ___ .

a. a passenger of a ship

b. a person who join the SAR team

c. a person who cures the sick people

d. a person who helps the injured people.

e. a person that is injured or killed in an accident

Police Stands Guard in Cikini Cemetery Complex after Clash

        Hundreds of police personnels from the Central Jakarta Resort Police are taking guard at a cemetery complex in Cikini following a clash in the area.

“Tonight we place 600 of our men in the location to prevent another clash,” resort police chief Sr. Comr. Hamidin said on Monday as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.

A clash erupted on Monday noon between a group of locals and a number of people from a real estate developer. The locals are from the side of those claiming to be the inheritors of the cemetery land. The two groups have disputed the ownership of the land.

Dozens of men from the two groups attacked each other using swords and stones, injuring five people.

“They are being treated in the Cikini hospital and in the RSCM (Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital),” Hamidin said.

Police have swept the area after the clash and seized discarded weapons.

“We have tried to mediate the two groups and asked them to refrain from [engaging in another clash],” he added.

The police have yet to name any suspect in the incident.

1.  Where did the clash happen?

a.     the Cikini station

b.     around Central Jakarta Resort Police

c.     in the area of Cikini cemetery complex

d.     in Jakarta

e.     around the real estate complex

2.  Who is Sir. Comr. Hamidin?

a.     resort police chief

b.     chief of the complex’s security guard

c.     police spokesperson

d.     local people of the area

e.     a journalist

3.  When did the clash happen?

a.     Monday evening       

b.     Monday morning  

c.     On Monday

d.     Monday noon

e.     Monday afternoon

4.  Who were involved in the clash?

a.     Some students

b.     Local people and the police

c.     Local people and people from real estate

d.     Local people

e.     Gang members

5.  How many people were injured in the incident?

a.   two                   d. ten  

b.   five                   e. hundreds

c.   dozens