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Ekonomi Sekolah Menengah Atas 4. Swept Away
In storm-ravaged Santa Clarita, California, last March, Margarito Martinez approached
Road Runner Road carefully. A swollen creek had flooded it. Martinez, driving a Toyota SUV,
figured he’d be OK. Big mistake.
Halfway across, the rushing waters grabbed hold of his vehicle, sweeping it off the road
washing it down a rocky streambed. It finally stopped a good 80 feet away, when the water
somehow lifted the SUV and wedged it in the ground at a 45-degree angle. Bruised, shaken, and
trapped inside with the muddy rising quickly, Martinez was certain he was going to die.
On the road right behind Martinez were a party-rental delivery worker and his niece. They
watched the horror unfold, and when Martinez’s SUV came to rest in the middle of the gushing
creek, the man leaped to act. First, he grabbed heavy-duty straps from the back of his van and
secured the teetering SUV to nearby posts. Then he climbed atop Martinez’s vehicle and banged
on a rear window with his fists. Frustrated, he returned to his niece and yelled, “Give me a rock!”.
Over and over he smashed the rock into the window, to no avail. “We were scared that something
else was going to come down and take the SUV, take him, take my uncle,” Krystina Reyes, 27, told
CBSLA.
Reyes’ uncle shouted to Martinez to move away from the window. He braced himself – right
foot on the spare tire, left in the wheel well. He leaned back and threw the rock. Finally, the glass
broke and the man kicked in the remaining shards. Soon, a soaked Martinez emerged through the
window frame, and the men escaped to dry land.
(Source: Reader’s Digest USA, September 2018)
Answer the following questions.
a. What is the pattern of organization and the signal words used in this reading text?
b. Identify the main idea of each paragraph in the text.
c. Summarize the content of the text in less than 5 sentences.

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Ekonomi Sekolah Menengah Atas 3. a. Read this table of contents and predict by summarizing what the content of the book will be.
Your summary should have less than 5 sentences.
b. You will be given an incomplete text from a book. Predict what the book content will be by
summarizing based on the information given in this text. Your summary should have less than
5 sentences.
Ancient Swimmers
The elusive fish has been found along the eastern coast of Africa as well as Indonesia.
The largest known group – 300 or so – lives near the island nation of Comoros. The
expedition team made 21 dives to depths of 300 to 400 feet in South Africa’s Sodwana Bay
area. Over the course of four weeks, they spotted coelacanths only six times. The nocturnal
animals hide in underwater caves by day, then venture out at night, feeding on small, fish,
squid, and octopus.

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