Soal dan Pembahasan TBI (Reading Comprehension) Bagian 7

  1. Soal
  2. Reading Comprehension

            Many historical  linguists  are able to trace modern complex  languages  back to earlier  languages, but in  order to answer the question of how complex languages are actually formed, the researcher needs to observe how  languages  are started from scratch. To find  out how grammar is  created. someone needs  to be present at the time of a language’s creation, documenting its emergence. However, this is possible.

            Some of the most  recent languages  evolved due to the Atlantic  slave trade.   At that time, slaves from a number  of different ethnicities were forced to work together under colonizer's  rule. Since they  had no opportunity to learn  each  other's languages,  they  developed a moke-shift  language  called a pidgin. Pidgins are strings of words copied from the  language of the landowner.  They have little  in the way of grammar.  and  in  many cases it is  difficult for a listener to deduce when an event happened,  and who did what  to  whom.

            Speakers  need   to  use  circumlocution   in   order  to  make  their  meaning  understood. Interestingly,  however.  all it takes for a  pidgin to become a complex language  is for a group of children  to be exposed to  11  when they  learn  thelrmctber  tongue. Slave children  did  not  simply copy the strings  of words uttered by their elders, they adapted their words to create a new, expressive language. Complex grammar systems which emerge from pidgins are termed creoles, and they are inventad by children.

            Some linguists  believe that  many most established languages  were  creoles at first.  The English past tense -ec ending may have evolved from the verb 'do'. it ended'mayonce have been'lt end-did'. Thus, it would appear that even the most widespread languages were partly created by children.  Children appear to have innate grammatical mechanism in jheir brains. which emerges when they are first trying to make sense of the world  near them. Their-minds can serve to create logical.  complex structures,  even when there is no grammar present for them to copy.

    (Adapted from various sources - PTT BPPK)



  1.  The word deduce in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning...

    1. Think
    2. React
    3. Conclude
    4. Reply
    Jawaban : c

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  2. In   order  to  study  the   grammar  creation   of  a language, the linguists have to ...

    1. interview the language maker
    2. document the complex form of the language
    3. record the creation of the language
    4. study the language from the native speaker
    Jawaban : c

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  3. How do the slave children improve a pidgin in order to become a complex language?

    1. they imitate the pidgin then develop a completely new language
    2. they adapt the words to create an expressive and new language
    3. the study the existing grammer of the pidgin then correct it
    4. they communicate with their parents intensively to improve the pidgin
    Jawaban : b

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  4. Paragraph 2 in the passage discusses about .....

    1. a more simple language used by Atlantic slave
    2. history of slave children in learning language
    3. explanation of complex language formation
    4. differences between pidgin and creole
    Jawaban : c

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  5. The word which in paragraph 3 refers to ...

    1. words
    2. systems
    3. pidgins
    4. language
    Jawaban : b

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  6. It is stated in the passage that creole is ...

    1. a native language created by Atlantic slaves
    2. a series of words copied from the language of the landowner
    3. a complex grammer system that come from pidgins
    4. language to communicate among slaves of different ethnicities
    Jawaban : c

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