Tugas Reading 1 - 050435476 - Lourdes Genoveva

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1. Why do we know so little about the life of William Shakespeare when we know comparatively so much
about the lives of his less accomplished peers? Our lack of knowledge about Shakespeare has inspired
countless conspiracy theories. The actual writing of Shakespeare’s works has been attributed to others from
contemporary playwrights Christopher Marlowe and Ben Johnson to the brilliant Renaissance scientist and
philosopher Francis Bacon. Shakespeare was an immensely successful dramatist as well as a prosperous
property owner. Circumspect, and only too aware of government-inspired branding of Johnson, its torture
of Thomas Kyd, and its murder of Marlowe, Shakespeare kept himself nearly anonymous. Wary to the end,
Shakespeare led a life virtually without memorable incidents, as far as we can tell.
a. Circumspect and wary are synonyms. In the context of the passage, what do they mean?
 Wary, according to the Oxford Languages, means to feel or to show caution about
possible dangers or problems. Circumspect is to be wary and unwilling to take the risk.
(source: Google’s English dictionary provided by Oxford Languages.)
b. Write down two words that start with spect-:

 Spectacular and Spectrum.
c. How do the roots circum- and spect- relate to the definition of circumspect?
 The word ‘Circum-‘ originated from Latin, meaning ‘around’ or ‘about’ in English,
while the Latin word for ‘spect-‘ is ‘specere’ meaning ‘look’. When combined these words
in Latin would result in ‘Circumspicere’, meaning to ‘look around’, later on through time the
word branched to ‘Circumspectus’ before finally integrated into English as ‘Circumspect’ in
late Middle English.
(source: Google’s English dictionary provided by Oxford Languages.)
2. The world around us is filled with sound. There are loud sounds and soft sounds. There are pleasant sounds
and unpleasant sounds. At this very moment, you are surrounded by sound. Where does sound come from?
How does it get to your ears? Why are there different kinds of sound? The study of these questions about
sound is called acoustics.
Imagine a cymbal hit with a drumstick. The cymbal shakes rapidly, and this vibration causes the tiny
particles in the air particles in the air around it to vibrate. These vibrating air particles, called molecules,
bump into the air particles next to them and make them vibrate. This spreading vibration moves outward in
every direction from the cymbal in waves. When a small object is made to vibrate, the sound waves move
up and down very quickly. This produces a high-pitched sound, like a high note in a song. When a large
object is made to vibrate, the sound waves move up and down more slowly. This produces a low-pitched
sound, like a low note in a song. Hitting a small cymbal makes a more high-pitched sound than hitting a
large cymbal.
a. Write the context clues that give a hint to the meaning of the acoustics word!
 “Where does sound come from? How does it get to your ears? Why are there
different kinds of sound? The study of these questions about sound is called acoustics.” –
The hints are within the rhetorical questions describing it, and at the end of the paragraph
is where it declared that these questions are descriptions related to the word acoustic.
b. Write the context clues that give a hint to the meaning of the vibration word!
 “The cymbal shakes rapidly, and this vibration causes the tiny particles in the air
particles in the air around it to vibrate.” - the mention of ‘shakes rapidly’ to which followed
by the indication of ‘, and this …’ that leads to it being the meaning of the word vibration.
c. Write the context clues that give a hint to the meaning of the high-pitched word!
 “This produces a high-pitched sound, like a high note in a song.” – At the end of
the sentence, the meaning has been described in the lines of ‘like a high note in a song’.
3. March 17th is an Irish holiday which honours the patron saint of Ireland, St Patrick, 1. _ brought
Christianity to the Irish people. According to tradition, St Patrick, 2. _ father was a wealthy man, was
actually born in England. At the age of 16, he was kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave. Some years
later, he escaped to France, 3. _ he lived for many years and became a priest. At the age of 60, 4. _ he
returned to Ireland, he built his first church. On March 17th, the day 5. _ St. Patrick died, people wear green
clothes decorated with shamrock, which is the national symbol of Ireland.
a. Complete the passage with relative pronoun!

 1. who 4. when
2. whose 5. that
3. where
b. Write three noun phrases in the text above!

 1. Simple Noun Phrase: “a wealthy man”
2. Compound Noun Phrase: “an Irish Holiday” “the Irish people”
3. Complex Noun Phrase: “the patron saint of Ireland” “the national symbol of
Ireland”
c. Identify coordinating conjunction in the text above!

 “and” is a conjunction located within the sentence “he was kidnapped by pirates
and sold as a slave”.

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b. Write down two words that start with spect-:

a. Complete the passage with relative pronoun!

b. Write three noun phrases in the text above!

c. Identify coordinating conjunction in the text above!

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