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The wirst-hit flood area in the country this rainy season has been Central Java where people has been killed and tens of thousands evacuated.

The public works ministry estimated that it will need 14 bilion rupiah to reconstruct the bridges in Kali Kuto and Kali Desa, Central Java, and to repair a number of roads in the provibce. another 10.36 billion rupiah is need to repair irrigation facilities.

The minister of Public work, Radinal Mochtar, has instructed that repairs on damaged roads and bridges be completed before the Idul Fitri holidays at the end of March.

Radinal said he ordered the state-owned construction company PT adi Karya to begin the reconstruction innedietelly. He said he chose the frim because it is now working or projects in the area and has experience in handling similar kinds of repairs. The company rebuilt both the Kali Comal Bridge, which was damaged by floods three years ago, and the Kali Kuto Bridge, which was destroyed by floods two years ago.

the minister also said the damaged irrigation facilities in the regencies of demak, Kendal and Purwodadi might be repaired before the end of March, allowing farmers to meet tis year's planting schedules.

The agriculture Ministry Pledged to send seed and tools to farmers in East and Central java whose fields have been damaged by floods.

1. What was the minister of public works instruction?
a. to send seed and tools
b. to calculate the funds
c. to evacuate the victim
d. to take all the people away
e. to reconstruct the damaged thing

2. When should the damaged roads and bridge be finished?
a. in March
b. at the end of March
c. before the Idul Fitri holidays at the end of March
d. at the Idul Fitri holidays at the end of March
e. at the Idul Fitri holidays

3. Which one is true according to the text?
a. the goverment has paid attention to the victim of the flood
b/ to reconstruct the destruction of the foods needs a lot of funds
c. the flood happened in the west season
d. there is no one killed in the flood
e. the flood took place in Central Java

The northern and shoutern polar regions are different in many ways. The most important difference the concerns the distribution of land and water. The northern artic regions are ice-covered sea, almost completely surrounded by land. The pole itself is in deep water. In the south, Antartica is a huge continent which is surrounded by a great ocean. Because of this basic difference other difference occur. The Artic has varied climate, while the Antartic climate vaies little; the Artic has much plant life but the Antartic is an empty desert. And whereas the Artic has been exploited economically for centuries, trade has never really touched Antartica.

One reason for the present interest in both polar regions is that the world may soon be short of fresh water. The world's population is double in every 35 years, and the United States alone an average person uses about 1,500 gallons of fresh water a day. The ice in the northern and southern polar regions is actually frozen fresh water. In fact over 85% of the erath's entire fresh water is found in the polar ice. If we could find a way of carrying this ice to other parts of the world, this would solve all our fresh water problems. (taken from; Communicate in Writing p. 28b)

1. Which of following is not true the northern Artic..
a. ice-covered sea
b. no economic exploitation
c. surrounded by land
d. varied climated
e. much plant life

2. The main ideia of the first paragraph is...
a. the differences between Artic and Antartic
b. Trade has never really touched Antartica
c. the south Antartica is a huge continent
d. The Artic has varied climate
e. the northern Artic regions are ice-covered sea

3. Because of this basic difference other difference occur (paragraph 1). the word "occur" has similar meaning with...
a. appear
b. change
c. happen
d. emerge
e. create

Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy. He was the illegitimate

son of Ser Piero, a Florentine notary and landlord, but lived on the estate and was

treated as a legitimate son.

In 1483, Leonardo da Vinci drew the first model of a helicopter. It did not  look

very much like our modern day “copter,” but the idea of what it could do was about

the same.

Leonardo was an artist and sculptor. He was very interested in motion and

movement and tried to show it in his art. In order to show movement, he found it

helpful to study the way things moved. One subject he liked to study was birds and

how they flew. He spent many hours watching the birds and examining the structure

of their wings. He noticed how they cupped air with their wings and how the

feathers helped hold the air. Through these studies, Leonardo began to understand

how birds were able to fly.

Like many other men, Leonardo began to dream of the day when people would be

able to fly. He designed a machine that used all the things he had learned about

flight, and thus became the first model of a helicopter.

Poor Leonardo had only one problem, however. He had no way to give the necessary

speed to his  invention. You see, motors had not yet been invented and speed was an

important part of the flying process. It would be another four hundred years before

the engine was invented and another fifty years before it was put to the test in an

airplane. Leonardo’s dream of a helicopter finally came to pass in 1936.

The Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist, Leonardo died on

May 2, 1519, and was buried in t he cloister of San Fiorentino in Amboise.

Choose the right one :

1.      What is the author’s main point?

a.      The invention of the helicopter

b.      Birds cup air with their wings and use feathers to help hold the air

c.       An overview of one of Leonardo da Vinci’s many skills

d.      Leonardo Da Vinci was born in 1452 and died in 1519

2.      The word problem in paragraph five could best be replaced by the word :

a.      Dilemma

b.      Mistake

c.       Danger

d.      Pain

3.      The word it in paragraph two refers to :

a.       Leonardo Da Vinci

b.      The first model helicopter

c.       1483

d.      Motion and Movement

4.      Which paragraph explains why Leonardo’s helicopter was not succesful in his lifetime?

a.       Paragraph 1

b.      Paragraph 2

c.       Paragraph 4

d.      Paragraph 5

5.      The word illegitimate in paragraph one is closest in meaning to :

a.       Against the law or illegal

b.      Not in correct usage

c.       Incorectly deduced, illogical

d.      Born out of wedlock

6.      The following sentence would best complete which paragraph? “ Since then people have been living out Leonardo’s dream of flying”?

a.       Paragraph 3

b.      Paragraph 4

c.       Paragraph 5

d.      Paragraph 2

7.      What was the main problem with Leonardo’s invention?

a.      Motors were not yet invented

b.      The birds lost their feathers

c.       He was illegitimate

d.      He couldn’t draw

8.      The word they in the third paragraph refers to :

a.       The feathers

b.      The birds

c.       The studies

d.      The wings

9.      In what year was the first helicopter clown?

a.       1483

b.      1452

c.       1519

d.      1936

10.  The word thus in the fourth paragraph could best be replaced by

a.       Wings and beaks

b.      Feathers and talons

c.       Wings and feathers

d.      Cups and feathers

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PPATK FINDS 2,300 Suspect Bank Account Tied to Ofiicials

           

Denpasar. A financial transaction watchdog has found 2,300 potentially problematic bank accounts belonging to heads of regional administrations or their families, its former chairman said on Thursday.

            " It is not yet known whether there are any (illegally) fat accounts among them, " Yunus Husein said on the said on the sidelines of a seminar on regional financial management in Bali.

                 Yunus said hundreds of the suspected problematic accounts in the names of regional heads or their families were being investigated by The Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Center (PPATK).

 Any iregularities in the accounts, he said, would be evident in the way the money was moved among them.

                " The Funds are usually only moved around between the accounts of the wife, their children or other relatives," Yunus said.

                He cautioned that not all of the suspicious accounts flagged necessarily involved coruption, and said the investigation would eventually make it clear which were innocent.

                Meanwhile, Isran Noor, the head of the Association of Municipality Governments of Indonesia (Apkasi), said regional leaders were now concerned that they could potentially be accused of coruption because of an administrative error. He said unjustified suspicion could damage their careers even if they were eventually cleared.

                "Once they have been summoned by the prosecutors' office or the police, the case gets compilcated and they can no longer work comfortably," Isran said.

                He also objected to the PPATK's surveillance of Bank Accounts, arguing that bank customers had the right to privacy.

                Yunus, however, said the PPATK had the legal authority to investigate suspicious accounts.

               He added that the PPATK never released names, and said that if any were leaked to the press, the information must have come from other sources.

                Meanwhile, a spokesman for The Corruption Eradication Comission (KPK), Johan Budi, said the comission had not yet received any reports from the PPATK regarding the suspicious bank accounts.

            He said that because the KPK was busy addresing a significant backlog of cases, the commision could not take the initiative to request a report from The PPATK.

            Among the cases currently under KPK Investigation are those of
nine high ranking officials at the Finance Ministry found to have unusually large balances in their bank accounts.

            The reports about the accounts in question also came from the PPATK.

            In february, the center said more than 1,800 questionably large bank accounts had been detected since 2003.

            These included 707 accounts held by civil servants, 89 by police officers, 12 by prosecutors, 17 by judges, 65 by lawmakers, and one by a KPK official.

Source : Jakarta Globe Newspaper

Comment :

Commission should be careful in handling this case. KPK should be able to distinguish between suspicious accounts and normal accounts. But, recently there was a new cases of misappropriation of funds by the head of the regional. Negative funds deviation is done by Salatiga Mayor for alternative road Salatiga-Semarang. When the investigation will be held, Mayor Salatiga suddenly sick and had to be at hospital untill he become well. KPK should not pity, it is just a camouflage for the long-running from law and given a little relief. KPK must also be clean of corruption. In order to move forward into the best institutions in Indonesia. Go KPK!