TELEPHONES

What if you want to talk right now to a friend who lives far away? The answer is simple. You
pick up your telephone and press some buttons. Next, you hear a ringing sound—one, two, three
rings. Then you hear your friend’s voice say, “Hello.” Making a phone call seems so easy. But did
you ever think about what makes it possible?
When you talk on the phone, your voice is changed into an electric signal that can travel
through wires. A plastic disk in the mouthpiece vibrates when you speak. The vibration makes a
pattern in an electric field between the plastic disk and a metal disk. The pattern is sent through wires
as an electric signal.
Just as a telephone can turn a voice into an electric signal, it can also change an electric signal
back into a voice. When the signals pass through magnets in the earpiece, the magnets vibrate a disk
that reproduces the speaker’s voice.
When you make a local call, the call travels over wires from your house to the telephone
company’s routing station. From there, a computer automatically sends the call to the number you
dialed.
Did you know you can call someone on the other side of the world? The call might even be
sent into space! Satellites orbiting high above Earth connect calls between distant countries. Some
international calls travel along cables under the sea. Cell phones work by sending a radio signal
through the air to a cell tower. The tower sends the signal to the cell phone company, which relays it
to another cell phone or through the telephone company to a wired phone.

11. What does paragraph 2 talk about?

a. How the cell phone company relays the radio signal.
b. How the voice changes into an electric signal.
c. How you make a call to your friend.
d. How the satellite connects calls.
12. What changes an electric signal back into a voice?
a. A wire.
b. A plastic disc.
c. A telephone.
d. A mouthpiece.
13. How does an electric signal travel?
a. It travels through wires.
b. It travels through the air.
c. It travels through a radio.
d. It travels through the sea.
14. What connects calls between various countries?
a. Cables.
b. Towers.
c. Radio signals.
d. Telephone companies.
15. What does “it” in paragraph 5 line 5 refer to?
a. The satellite.
b. The cell phone.
c. The wired phone.
d. The radio signal.

Rama: You know, I’m thinking about designing a website for our company. I think it is quite
necessary for us.
Budi : You’re right. Although our company is not a big one, it still seems to need a website, at least,
for the business purposes. But, we have no one who has got good command of webbing.
Rama: That doesn’t matter. We can learn it. Look, I’ve found an article in the internet explaining
how to create a website with Yahoo! easily. Let me read the instruction. First of all, log in to
Yahoo home page. Click on the 'GeoCities' link in the navigation pane to begin. Then, click
the 'Sign Up Now' link. This will redirect you to the GeoCities start page, which will ask you
a series of questions that Yahoo! needs to know before you can create your Website. Next,
determine what you intend your Website for by pressing one of the buttons next to your
choice. Click on each box that indicates how you heard about GeoCities. Enter the
'Verification Key,' which is the letters and numbers that appear in the displayed image. Click
'Submit' once you are done. After that, click the 'Build Website Now' button to create your
site using Yahoo's Sitebuilder application. This program helps you create your Website even
if you have no experience with coding or programming. Finally, click the 'Submit' button
once you've finished making changes with Sitebuilder, and your Website will reflect the
changes you've made.
Budi : Wow. I think we can do it.
Questions
1. What is Rama thinking about?
2. Does Budi agree with him?
3. What does Budi worry about?
4. What did Rama find from the internet?
5. Are they going to design a website for their company?
6. How does one go to Geocities start page?
7. In the form of what does the verification key appear?
8. What does Yahoo’s Sitebuilder function?
9. When do you click the ‘Submit’ button?
10. When do you click the “Build Website Now” button?