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Bagaimana pedagang kuno mengukur jarak
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Mengikuti penjelasan sejarah dengan klausa waktu dan kalimat cleft.
Dengarkan setiap kalimat dan tulis apa yang kamu dengar.
Audio dan pemeriksaan jawaban: https://joy-english.com/id/listening-lessons/how-ancient-traders-measured-distance
Kosakata penting
- merchant
- Orang yang membeli dan menjual barang.
- terrain
- Jenis lahan di suatu daerah.
- elapsed
- Berlalu, saat membicarakan waktu.
- imprecise
- Tidak tepat.
Kunci jawaban
- Before accurate maps existed, merchants often described a journey by the time it took rather than the distance covered.'Rather than' menggabungkan dua gagasan. 'Distance covered' adalah klausa pasif yang diringkas: jarak yang ditempuh.
- A route might be described as six days by camel, a figure that varied with the weather and the load.'A figure that varied' menambahkan informasi tentang angkanya. 'Camel' diucapkan CAM-el.
- Sailors, meanwhile, relied on the stars and on careful records of speed, direction and elapsed time.'Meanwhile' menandakan pergantian topik. 'Elapsed' berakhir dengan bunyi t: e-LAPST.
- Such methods were imprecise, yet they were sufficient for generations of traders who valued experience over exactness.'Sufficient' ditekan pada suku kata kedua: suf-FI-cient. 'Exactness' berakhir dengan bunyi -ness.
- It was only when travel became fast and frequent that a single shared standard of distance became essential.Kalimat belah ini, 'It was only when ... that ...', menekankan saat terjadinya perubahan. 'Travel became' menyambungkan l dan b.