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Natural Phenomenon
By
Darno, S.Pd

A tidal wave can burst upon a beach and smash a tree as if it were
a matchstick.
It can start when an earthquake makes the gound shake under the
ocean.T he quake makes the water push up from the ocean floor, and
makes waves that can become one huge wall of rushing water.The
water can burst over the land, smashing boats, autmobiles, houses,
and other things and kill people in its way.
Most tidal waves occur in the pacific ocean. Sometimes, the waves
are so small that they cause no damage at all.But people who live
along ocean shore have to be prepared for the worst.They can be
saved from dangerous tidal wave if they are warned a head of time.
Most people call the wave a tidal wave , but scientific name for it is
tsunami, a Japanese word that mean storm wave.

1. What does the text tell us about ?

A. An Ocean
B. A tidal wave
C. An Eartquake
D. A matchstick
2. People along the ocean shore have to be prepared for the worst because ...
A. The ocean shores are the most dangerous places
B. Nobody can escape from the killing waves.
C. The tidal waves can occur there any time.
D. People need to be warned a head of time.
3. What is the function of paragraph 1?
A. To tell something to discuss.
B. To describe what something is like
C. To recommend on what ought to happen.
D. To tell how what happened and what squence.

4.What does the writers purpose write the text?

A. To persuade the readers to face tsunami bravely
B. To retell the effect of tsunami to the people
C. To present his point of view about tsunami.
D. To describe what tsunami is like.
5. Most tidal waves occur in the pacific ocean. The synonym of the underlined
word is...
A. Happen
B. Give
C. Across
D. Make
6. Sometimes, the waves are so small that they cause no damage at all.(par.3 line
2). The underlined word refers to...
A. The waves
B. People
C. The ocean shores
D. The earthquakes

Flood
A flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land.
A flood occurs when an area of land, usually a low-lying, is covered
with water. It happens when soil and vegetation can not absorb water.
Then the water runs off the land in quantities that can not be carried
in stream channels or kept in natural ponds or man-made reservation.
Periodic floods occur naturally on many rivers, forming an area
known as the flood plain. These river floods usually result from heavy
rain, sometimes combined with melting snow, which causes the rivers
to overflow their banks. A flood that that rises and falls rapidly with
little or no advance warning is called flash flood. Flash floods usually
result from intense rainfall over a relatively small area.

1. What does the text tell us about?

A. Water
B. Flood
C. River
D. Rain
2. What is flash flood?
A. The water that runs off the land
B. A flood that occurs because of the melting snow
C. The water that can not be absorbed by the soil and the vegetation
D. A flood that rises and falls rapidly with little or no advance warning.
3. It happens when soil and vegetation can not absorb water. (Paragraph 2).
What does the underlined word it in this sentence refer to?
A. An area of land
B. Flood
C. Water
D. Land

Thunder sounds like an explosion. Lightning causes thunder. The

sound comes from air that suddenly gets very hot.
A bolt of lightning can make the air around it as hot as 18,000
Fahrenheit (10,000 Celsius). Thats hotter than the surface of the Sun!
The hot air rushes away from the lightning bolt. The air rushing away
makes the loud sound of thunder.
You often hear the thunder after you see a bolt of lightning. This is
because sound travels slower than light. The farther away the lightning
is, the longer it takes for you to hear the thunder. You can tell how far
away the lightning is. You can count the seconds between the lightning
and the sound of the thunder it makes. Sound travels about 1 mile
(about 1.6 kilometers) every 5 seconds. If you count slowly to 5 and
hear thunder, the lightning bolt was about 1 mile away. If you count to
15 before you hear thunder, the lightning bolt was 3 miles away.

1. Paragraph 2 of the text above tells you about .

A. the heat of the sun surface
B. the loud sound of air
C. how the thunder happens.
D. the sun that shines the air.
2. We often hear the thunder after seeing the lightning because ...
A. the light travels faster the sound.
B. the thunder is very hot to feel.
C. the lightening is farther away.
D. the air rushes to heat the earth.
3. How many miles away from you is the lightning bolt if you count the sound of thunder at 30 seconds?
A. 7
B. 6
C. 5
D. 4
4. The word it in the sentence A bolt of lightning can make the air around it as hot as 18,000
Fahrenheit (10,000 Celsius. refers to .
A. the air
B. the sun
C. the lightning
D. the sound

Undoubtedly one of the most beautiful events to occur in our

world, the Aurora Borealis, also known as the Northern Lights, has
both astounded and amazed people since it was first discovered. This
phenomenon ocurrs when the sun gives off high-energy charged
particles (also called ions) that travel out into space at speeds of 300 to
1200 kilometres per second. A cloud of such particles is called a
plasma. The stream of plasma coming from the sun is known as the
solar wind. As the solar wind interacts with the edge of the earths
magnetic field, some of the particles are trapped by it and they follow
the lines of magnetic force down into the ionosphere, the section of
the earths atmosphere that extends from about 60 to 600 kilometers
above the earths surface. When the particles collide with the gases in
the ionosphere they start to glow, producing the spectacle that we
know as the auroras, northern and southern.

1. What does the text tell us about?

A. The most beautiful Aurora Borealis
B. The astounded and amazed people
C. The discovery of the strange cloud
D. The feature of human invetion
2. How does the Aurora Borealis happen ?
A. After the wind blows very fast to every direction
B. When particles crash with the gases in ionosphere
C. When the sun gives off high-energy charged particles
D. After interacting with edge of the earths magnetic field
3. What does the second paragraph tell us about?
A. The features of the natural phenomenon
B. Detail description about how Aurora occurs
C. The importance of the natural phenomenon
D. Clear explanation about natural phenomenon
4. This phenomenon occurs when the sun.... The synonymous of the underlined word is...
A. Show
B. Prove
C. Happen
D. Interact