Nama: Aprilliya Indah Sugiarto

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Reading in Professional Context

A. Preview the passage on the next page and then read it carefully. Look at the way it
has been marked to identify the thesis, the pattern signals, and the supporting points.

The Cultivation of the Pineapple

The pineapple has been cultivated and enjoyed by humans for thousands of years.
According to archaeologists, evidence from drawings on ancient Peruvian pottery shows
that Native Americans were cultivating the pineapple in about
Furthermore, some botanists believe that people in South and Central America began
definition cultivating it Cultivated pineappIes do not produce seeds. This fact
indicates that the plant has been dependent on humans for its reproduction for such a long
time that it no longer can reproduce by itself.
When Europeans discovered the pineapple at the end of the fifteenth century, it was a
case of love at first sight. Many of the early explorers reported favorably about this new
fruit, saying that it had a delightful smell and a sweet, refreshing taste. In fact, of all the
new American fruits that were brought back to Europe, the pineapple was the most
successful. While other fruits, such as the tomato, were regarded with great suspicion and
believed to be poisonous, the pineapple was accepted relatively quickly.
Throughout the sixteenth centur , the ships of the European explorers carried
pineapples from Central and South America to other parts of the world. During voyages,
the fruit provided an excellent source of fresh food and vitamins for the ship's crew.
Furthermore, When they arriv the travelers found that, if the climate was
suitable, it was easy to grow more fruit from the cut-off tops of pineapples.
f the sixteenth century, pineapples were being cultivated in parts of India, Africa, and
China. In Europe, the climate was generally too cold, so the fruit could be grown only by
wealthy people with heated greenhouses.
Pineapples remained a luxury food until the early twentieth century, when they
became more easily available. Faster shipping and improved rail and road connections
made it possible to bring the pineapples to new markets. with the advent' of safe industrial
canning methods, factories could produce canned pineapple for mass market. Asthefruit
becae moreviable and bter known, demand rose rapidly for
both fresh and canned pineapple. Production quickly expanded to meet that demand, most
notably in Hawaii, which dominates the world market. Puerto Rico, the Philippines,
Kenya, and Thailand are also important pineapple producers.

advent: beginning
 B. Use the text marking in the passage to help you write the following information.
Overall pattern of organization: Chronological (discussing historical progression)
Thesis statement: The pineapple has been cultivated and enjoyed by humans for thousands of
years.
Supporting points (main ideas):
Paragraph 2: Early Europeans’ admiration of the pineapple.
Paragraph 3: Spread of pineapples by European explorers.

Paragraph 4: Pineapple cultivation became common worldwide.

C. Compare your work with that of another student. If you disagree, look back at
the text and explain your answers.

I do agree with my friend’s answer

EXERCISE 1

A. Preview the passage below and then read it carefully. Mark the text to show the
thesis, the pattern signals, and supporting points. Try to use as many different kinds of
markings as you can: underlining, marginal notes, circles, numbers, or arrows.

The History of Pizza o everywhere from

Beijing to Moscow to Rio, and even in the United States, the home of the
ne of the most popular foods around the world today is pizza. Pizza restaurants
are popular

hamburger, there are more pizza restaurants than hamburger places. This
worldwide love for pizza is a fairly recent phenomenon. Before the 1950s, pizza was
a purely Italian food, with a long history in southern Italy.
The origins of pizza are somewhat uncertain, though they may go back to the Greeks
(pita bread) or even earlier. Under the Roman Empire, Italians often ate flat circles of
bread, which they may have flavored with olive oil, cheese, and herbs. By about the year
1000 A.D. in the area around Naples, this bread had a name: picea.
This early kind of pizza lacked one of the main ingredients we associate with pizza:
the tomato. In fact, tomatoes did not exist in Europe until the sixteenth century, when
Spanish explorers brought them back from South America. The Spanish showed little
interest in tomatoes, but southern Italians soon began to cultivate them and use them in
cooking. At some point in the 1600s, Neapolitan tomatoes were added to pizza, as it was
known by then.
The next development in pizza making came about, according to legend, in June
1889, when a Neapolitan pizza maker was asked to make pizza for the king and queen.
 To show his patriotism, he decided to make it green, white, and red, like the Italian flag,
using basil leaves, mozzarella, and tomato. He named his pizza "Margherita," after the
queen, and that is what this classic kind of pizza is still called today.
In Italy, pizza remained a specialty of Naples and other areas of the south until well
into the twentieth century. Then, in the 1950s and 60s, when many southerners moved to
the north to work in the new factories, pizzerias opened up in many northern Italian
cities. By the 1980s, they could be found all over the country and pizza had become a
part of the Italian way of life.
Today, pizza has become so common in so many countries that its Italian origins are
often forgotten. Indeed, the global versions of pizza made with all kinds of ingredients
have little in common with the Neapolitan original, as anyone knows who has tasted a
pizza in Naples.

B. Use your text marking in the passage to help you write the following
information. Change your marking if it does not indicate these points.
Overall pattern of organization: Chronological, with some thematic elements (pizza’s origins
and spread).
Thesis statement: Pizza, once a purely Italian food, is now popular worldwide.

Supporting points (main ideas):

Paragraph 2: Early origins of pizza and its initial ingredients
Paragraph 3: Introduction of tomatoes to pizza.
Paragraph 4: Creation of Margherita pizza in honor of Queen Margherita.
Paragraph 5: Spread of pizza in Italy during the 20th century.

Paragraph 6: Global adaptation and transformation of pizza

C. Compare your work with that of another student. If you disagree, look back at
the text andexplain your answers.

I do agree with my friend’s answer

Example:
A. Read this study question based on the title of the passage below, which is the
introduction to a section of a sociology textbook.
Study question: How is this passage going to analyze urbanization

B. Read the passage and look for the answer to the study question. Note facts and ideas
that have been marked in the text.
 A GLOBAL ANALYSIS OF URBANIZATION'
In 1693, William Penn wrote that "the country life is to be preferred for there we see the
works of
God but in cities little else than the work of man." Most people at the time probably
agreed with him. Less than 2 percent of the world's population then were urban dwellers.2
But in WO, about
44 percent of the world's population lived in urban areas and more than will do so
by the end of 2010 (Haub, 1999; Linden, 1993; Fischer, 1984).
While urban populations have grown, cities themselves have changed. We can identify
three**,, periods in their history: the preindustrial, industrial, and metropolitan-
megalopolitan stages.

urbanization: development of cities

2
dweller: resident

C. Working with another student, answer the quiz questions below without looking
back at the passage. Then check your answers by reading the passage again.
1 What percent of the world's population lived in cities in the 1600s?
Less than 2%.
2 How many will live in cities by the end of 2010?
Over 50% of the population
3 What are the three different, stages of urbanization that occurred over the
years?
Preindustrial, industrial, and metropolitan-megalopolitan stages.