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Pembuat peta yang menghapus laut
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Mengikuti narasi sastra dengan kalimat panjang yang seimbang.
Dengarkan setiap kalimat dan tulis apa yang kamu dengar.
Audio dan pemeriksaan jawaban: https://joy-english.com/id/listening-lessons/the-cartographer-who-erased-the-sea
Kosakata penting
- cartographer
- Orang yang menggambar peta.
- distrust
- Tidak mempercayai sesuatu.
- consoling
- Menghibur orang yang sedang sedih.
- hovered
- Tetap melayang di udara tanpa menyentuh apa pun.
Kunci jawaban
- The old cartographer had spent so many decades charting coastlines that he had come to distrust anything he could not measure.Dengarkan bentuk lemah pada “had come to”. Frasa “so many decades that” menghubungkan sebab dengan akibatnya.
- Only when a storm swallowed his final survey did he admit that the sea had never once consented to being drawn.“Only when” di awal kalimat menuntut inversi: “did he admit”, bukan “he admitted”.
- His apprentice, far from consoling him, simply handed him a blank sheet and a pencil worn down to a stub.“Far from consoling him” berarti kebalikan dari menghibur. Koma menandai jeda di sekitarnya.
- Not a single line did he commit to the page for an entire week, though his hand hovered more than once.Inversi lagi setelah “not a single line”. “Commit to the page” berarti benar-benar menulis atau menggambar.
- On the eighth morning he sketched a wave, smudged it with his thumb, and, for the first time in years, laughed.“Eighth” berakhir dengan t lalu th, gugus bunyi yang sulit sebelum “morning”. Dengarkan tiga tindakan: sketched, smudged, dan laughed.