Modul Bahasa Inggris: January 2017

Read the text below carefully and answer the following questions!

The Legend of King Bali

Long time ago, there was a king in Bali. He was a generous ruler but also very

ambitious. To propitiate the gods he performed a Yagna (fire sacrifice). His Yagna

so successful that even the gods were terrified to appear before him and grant

him a boon (hadiah) in the fear that he might ask was something which was

beyond their capacity. Some of the Gods pleaded Vishnu to check King Bali's

Vishnu came to earth in the form of a du,arf dressed as priest.

When the priest reached King Bali's court. he asked the King to ask for anything

he wanted. The priest said "You are the ruler of the three worlds: the Earth. the

world above the skies and the underworld. Would you give me the space that I could

cover with three steps?" King Bali laughed. This request seemed strange to all the

courtiers, but king Bali granted it. Surely a dwarf could not cover much ground,

thought the King, who agreed to dwarfs request

Once the request was granted to the priest (who was none but Visnu in disguise),

submerged the entire world (Mrityu-loka) with one step, with the second he submerged

heaven (Swarga-loka) and for the third step; there was no respectable place to put his

foot down and so he asked the bewildered (bingung) Baliness respectable

place to this foot so that the boon gould be fulfilled. Left with no alternative, the

noble but exasperated King Bali offered his head for the purpose. To his surprise,

the priest not only lost no time in placing his foot over King Bali's head, but also

thrust Bali into the nether worlds (Patala-loka) which in Hindu cosmogony means

hell and lies below the surface of the earth.

Source: indonesialegend.wordpress.com

Questions:

l. What is the text about?

2. How was the personality of King Bali?

3. Why did he perform a fire sacrifice?

4. What did the gods fear of?

5. What did King Bali ask from the gods?

6. Why did Vishnu come to the Earth in disguise?

7. What did Vishnu ask from King Bali?

8. Why did King Bali grant the priest's request?

9. What did the priest do with his first step?

10. What happened to Bali at the end of the story?

B. Write T if the following statements are TRUE, and F if the statements are FALSE based on the text above!

Sentences	Answers True/False
1. The fire sacrifice that King Bali held failed.
2. The gods were afraid that King Bali's power was beyond their capacity. 3. Vishnu was one of the gods.

4. Vishnu came to the Earth in disguise as a king.
5. Vishnu asked King Bali to give him three powers.
6. King Bali refused to grant Vishnu's request.
7. Vishnu submerged the heaven with his first step.
8. Vishnu submerged the world with his second step.
9. King Bali offered his own head for Vishnu for his third step
10. Finally, Bali became a heaven.

C. Match the words in the left with the symnyms in the right, and write down their Indonesian meanings!

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