The Red Bird of Paradise is found in lowland rainforests of islands in West Papua. The male has an emerald green face and crimson red plumes, while the female resembles the male but is smaller with a brown face and no red plumes. Camels live in hot, dry deserts and carry people and loads over long distances with little food or water. They have one hump like dromedaries or two humps like Bactrian camels, which store fat to use as energy. The Komodo dragon is the largest lizard, weighing over 150 pounds, and lives on Indonesian islands. It has gray scaly skin and hunts mammals and other lizards using its

1. EXERCISES
Text 1: The Red Bird of Paradise
An Indonesian endemic, the Red Bird of Paradise is distributed to lowland rainforests
of Waigeo and Batanta islands of West Papua. This species shares its home with another bird
of paradise, the Wilson's Bird of Paradise. Hybridisation between these two species are
expected but not recorded yet.
The Red Bird of Paradise, Paradisaearubra is a large, up to 33cm long, brown and
yellow bird of paradise with a dark brown iris, grey legs and yellow bill. The male has an
emerald green face, a pair of elongated black corkscrew-shaped tail wires, dark green feather
pompoms above each eye and a train of glossy crimson red plumes with whitish tips at either
side of the breast.
The male measures up to 72 cm long, including the ornamental red plumes that
require at least six years to fully attain. The female resembles the male but is smaller in size,
with adark brown face and has no ornamental red plumes. The diet consists mainly of fruits,
berries and arthropods.
I. Answer the questions base on the text 1: The Red Bird of Paradise!
1. Where is the red bird of paradise distributed?
2. What are the colors of the red bird?
3. Mention the characteristic about the female?
Text 2: The Camel
The camel is a large, strong desert animal. Camels can travel great distances across
hot, dry deserts with little food or water. They walk easily on soft sand and carry people and
heavy hump. The hump is a large lump of fat providing energy if food is hard to find.
There are two chief kinds of camels: (1) the Arabian camel also loads to places that
have no roads. Camels also serve the people of the desert in many other ways.

2. The camel carries its own built-in food supply on its back in the form of a called
dromedary, which has one hump, and (2) Bactrian camel, which has two humps.
II. Choose the correct answer base on the text 2: The Camel!
1. What is the type of the text above?
a. Descriptive
b. Narrative
c. Recount
d. Report
e. Procedure
2. The paragraph one belongs to?
a. Description
b. Orientation
c. General classification
d. Re-orientation
e. Conclusion
3. Where does the Camel live?
a. River
b. Jungle
c. Dessert
d. Lake
e. Island
4. Where does the Camel save the energy?
a. Legs
b. Humps
c. Head
d. Neck
e. Ears
5. What is the antonym of large?
a. Small
b. Big
c. Narrow
d. Fat
e. Many

3. Text 3: Komodo Dragon
Do you know what is the largest lizard? This lizard is called komodo. It lives in the
scrub and woodland of a few Indonesian islands.
Komodo dragon is the world's heaviest lizard, weighing 150 pounds or more. The
largest Komodo ever measured was more than 10 feet (3 meters) long and weighed 366
pounds (166 kg) but the average size of komodo in the wild is about 8 feet (2.5 meters) long
and 200 pounds (91 kg)
Komodo has gray scaly skin, a pointed snout, powerful limbs and a muscular tail.
They use their keen sense of smell to locate decaying animal remains from several miles
away. They also hunt other lizards as well as large mammals and are sometimes cannibalistic.
The Komodo dragon's teeth are almost completely covered by its gums. When it
feeds, the gums bleed, creating an ideal culture for virulent bacteria. The bacteria that live in
the Komodo dragon's saliva causes septicemia, or blood poisoning, in its victims. A dragon
will bite its prey, then follow it until the animal is too weak to carry on.
This lizard species is threatened by hunting, loss of prey species and habitat loss.
III. Choose T if the statement is true and F if it is false base on the text 3: Komodo
Dragon!
1. (T/F) Komodo is the smallest lizard.
2. (T/F) Komodo dragon is the world's heaviest lizard, weighing 150 pounds or
less.
3. (T/F) Komodo has gray scaly skin, a pointed snout, powerful limbs and a
muscular tail.
4. (T/F) Komodo dragon's teeth are almost completely covered by its gums.
5. (T/F) Komodo Dragon is threatened by hunting, loss of prey species and
habitat loss.

4. ANSWER KEYS
I. Text 1: The Red Bird of Paradise
1. The Red Bird of Paradise is distributed to lowland rainforests of Waigeo and
Batanta islands of West Papua
2. The colors of the red bird of paradise are brown and yellow, with a dark brown
iris, grey legs and yellow bill.
3. The female resembles the male but is smaller in size, with a dark brown face and
has no ornamental red plumes.
II. Text 2: The Camel
1. D
2. A
3. C
4. B
5. C
III. Text 3: Komodo Dragon
1. F
2. F
3. T
4. T
5. T