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Mn-2B 2019

Module 12
READING, VOCABULARY and TRANSLATION
READING

You’re Gorgeous
• For many people, German-born supermodel Claudia Schiffer is the perfect beauty: tall and slim,
blue-eyed, tanned, and athletic-looking with long, blonde hair. No wonder people have
described her as ‘the most beautiful woman in the world”.
• But people have not always had the same ideas about beauty. Until the 1920s, suntans were for
poor people, “ladies” stayed out of the sun to keep their faces as pale as possible. Five hundred
years ago, in the time of Queen Elizabeth I of England, fashionable ladies even painted their
faces with lead to make them whiter a very dangerous habit as lead is poisonous!
• And people in the eighteenth century would certainly not have thought much of Claudia
Schiffer’s hair. Ladies in those days never went out without their wigs, which were so enormous
—and so dirty—that it was quite common to find mice living in them. As for the ‘perfect
beauties’ painted by Rubens in the seventeenth century, if they wanted to be supermodels
today they would have to spend months for a diet.
• Ideas of beauty can be very different according to where you live, too. For the Paduang tribe in
South-East Asia, traditionally the most important sign of the beauty was a long neck. So as the
age of five or six, girls received their first neck ring, and each year they added new rings. By the
time they were old enough to marry, their necks were about twenty-five centimeters long.
• And what about the ideal man? If you ask women today to name an attractive man, most
mention someone like Russel Crowe, Mel Gibson or Denzel Washington: someone tall and
strong, brave and ‘manly’.
• In the eighteenth century, however, ‘manliness’ was very different from what it is today. As well
as wearing wigs, perfume and lots of make-up, a true gentleman showed his feelings by crying
frequently in public. According to one story, when the British Prime Minister, Lord Spencer
Percival, came to give King George IV some bad news, both men sat down and cried.
• And even now, Russel Crowe might not find it so easy to attract women if he visited the Dinka
tribe of Sudan. They have always believed in the saying that ‘Big is beautiful’. Traditionally, each
 year, men compete to win the title of ‘the fattest man’. The winner is sure to find a wife quickly:
for a Dinka woman, if a an is fat, it is also a sign that he is rich and powerful.

Task for you to do:

Are these statements True or False? Explain your answers

a. Pale sin was popular than tanned skin until the twentieth century. (FALSE)
There is no sentence in the text that Pale sin was popular than tanned skin until the twentieth
century.
b. Elizabethan make-up was not safe. (TRUE)
Fashionable ladies even painted their faces with lead to make them whiter- a very dangerous
habit as lead is poisonous!
c. In the eighteenth century, fashionable ladies had mice as pets. (FALSE)
Ladies in those days never went out without their wigs, which were so enormous—and so
dirty—that it was quite common to find mice living in them. It's not mean mice as pets
d. Women in Rubens’ time probably never went on diets. (FALSE)
If they wanted to be supermodels today they would have to spend months for a diet.
e. Paduang women with short necks couldn’t get married. (FALSE)
There is no sentence in the text that women with short becks couldn't get married.
f. In the eighteenth century it was OK for men to cry. (TRUE)
a true gentleman showed his feelings by crying frequently in public.
g. Dinka women from Sudan think that thin men are very ugly. (FALSE)

They have always believed in the saying that ‘Big is beautiful’.

VOCABULARIES

1. Find words in the text that mean:

a. (for hair) light - coloured or yellow. (bond)
b. Pleasant to look at
c. Having skin made darker by the sun
d. Of more than average height
e. (for skin) light – coloured
f. Looking physically strong and good at sport
g. Having the good qualities of a man
h. Thin in attractive way
 i. Having a lot of courage
j. With blue eyes

Answer

a. athletic-looking with long, blonde hair

b. No wonder people have described her as ‘the most beautiful woman in the world”.
c. suntans were for poor people, “ladies” stayed out of the sun to keep their faces as
pale as possible
d. their necks were about twenty-five centimeters long
e. fashionable ladies even painted their faces with lead to make them whiter----
f. They have always believed in the saying that ‘Big is beautiful’. Traditionally,
each year, men compete to win the title of ‘the fattest man’
g. Russel Crowe, Mel Gibson or Denzel Washington: someone tall and strong,
brave and ‘manly’.
h. Russel Crowe might not find it so easy to attract women if he visited the Dinka
tribe of Sudan. They have always believed in the saying that ‘Big is beautiful’.

i. someone tall and strong, brave and ‘manly’.

‘manliness’ was very different from what it is today. As well as wearing wigs,
perfume and lots of make-up, a true gentleman showed his feelings by crying
frequently in public.
j. blue-eyed

2. Find the opposites to the words in the bracket below in the answer to part 2 above, then make a
sentence using each word.

( cowardly----dark haired----fair skinned----fat----short----ugly) t

Cowardly : and strong, brave and ‘manly’

Dark haired : athletic-looking with long, blonde hair.

Fair skinned : tall and slim, blue-eyed, tanned

Fat : tall and slim, blue-eyed, tanned

Short : tall and slim, blue-eyed, tanned

Ugly : the most beautiful woman in the world

TRANSLATION

Translate the reading entitle You’re Gorgeous into good Bahasa Indonesia

Kamu Cantik
• Bagi banyak orang, supermodel kelahiran Jerman Claudia Schiffer adalah kecantikan

sempurna: tinggi dan langsing, bermata biru, kecokelatan, dan atletis dengan rambut pirang
panjang. Tidak heran orang-orang menggambarkannya sebagai ‘wanita paling cantik di dunia”.
• Tetapi orang tidak selalu memiliki ide yang sama tentang kecantikan. Sampai tahun
1920- an, berjemur diperuntukkan bagi orang-orang miskin, "para wanita" tetap berada di luar
matahari untuk menjaga wajah mereka sepucat mungkin. Lima ratus tahun yang lalu, pada masa
Ratu Elizabeth I dari Inggris, wanita-wanita modis bahkan melukis wajah mereka dengan timah
hitam untuk membuat mereka lebih putih kebiasaan yang sangat berbahaya karena timah hitam
beracun!
• Dan orang-orang di abad ke delapan belas pasti tidak akan terlalu memikirkan rambut
Claudia Schiffer. Para wanita pada masa itu tidak pernah keluar tanpa wig mereka, yang sangat
besar — dan sangat kotor — sehingga cukup umum untuk menemukan tikus yang hidup di
dalamnya. Adapun 'wanita cantik sempurna' dilukis oleh Rubens pada abad ketujuh belas, jika
mereka ingin menjadi supermodel hari ini, mereka harus menghabiskan waktu berbulan-bulan
untuk diet.
• Ide-ide kecantikan bisa sangat berbeda sesuai dengan tempat tinggal Anda juga. Bagi
suku Paduang di Asia Tenggara, secara tradisional tanda kecantikan yang paling penting adalah
leher panjang. Jadi pada usia lima atau enam tahun, anak perempuan menerima cincin leher
pertama mereka, dan setiap tahun mereka menambahkan cincin baru. Pada saat mereka sudah
cukup umur untuk menikah, leher mereka sudah sekitar dua puluh lima sentimeter panjangnya.
• Dan bagaimana dengan pria ideal? Jika Anda meminta wanita hari ini untuk menyebut
pria yang menarik, sebutkan seseorang seperti Russel Crowe, Mel Gibson atau Denzel
Washington: seseorang yang tinggi dan kuat, berani, dan 'jantan'.
• Namun, pada abad kedelapan belas, 'kejantanan' sangat berbeda dari sekarang. Selain
mengenakan wig, parfum, dan banyak make-up, seorang pria sejati menunjukkan perasaannya
dengan sering menangis di depan umum. Menurut sebuah cerita, ketika Perdana Menteri Inggris,
Lord Spencer Percival, datang untuk memberi kabar buruk kepada Raja George IV, keduanya
duduk dan menangis.
• Dan bahkan sekarang, Russel Crowe mungkin tidak menemukan begitu mudah untuk
menarik wanita jika dia mengunjungi suku Dinka di Sudan. Mereka selalu percaya pada
ungkapan bahwa 'Besar itu indah'. Secara tradisional, setiap tahun, laki-laki berlomba untuk
memenangkan gelar 'pria paling gemuk'. Pemenangnya pasti akan menemukan seorang istri
dengan cepat: untuk seorang wanita Dinka, jika seorang wanita gemuk, itu juga merupakan tanda
bahwa dia kaya dan berkuasa.