Reading Exercise

EXERCISE 1

PATTY CAKES




Ingredients
3 tablespoons butter
1 cup of self raising flour
1 egg
¼ teaspoon vanilla
pinch salt
¼ cup milk

Method

1. Beat butter and sugar to a cream
2. Add lightly beaten egg and vanilla. Beat well.
3. Stir flour and salt together.
4. Fold in dry ingredients alternately with milk and mix well.
5. Drop heaped teaspoonfuls of mixture into well-greased patty tins or papers.
6. Bake in a moderate oven for 10 to 15 minutes.
7. Cool on a wire rack.
8. Ice with butter icing

Servings
Makes about 12

(Taken from Text Types. A writing Guide for Students. Townsend, Ann. 2006)


Answer the following questions correctly by reading the procedure above.
1)      What does the text tell about?
(A)   describe about patty cakes
(B)   how to make patty cakes
(C)   tell the story of patty cakes
(D)   give information about buying patty cakes
(E)    what the patty cakes for

2)      What do you need to make patty cake?
(A)  butter, flour, garlic, vanilla, salt, sugar
(B)   butter, milk, onion, salt, vanilla, egg
(C)  vanilla, flour, salt, butter, egg, milk
(D)  vanilla, noodle, salt, milk, egg, flour
(E)   milk, egg, flour, sugar, butter, vanilla

3)      What will you do after all ingredients mixed well?
(A)  cool on a wire rack
(B)   bake in an oven about 15 minutes
(C)  add flour and salt
(D)  fold in dry ingredients with milk
(E)   drop heaped teaspoonfuls into patty tins or papers

4)      How many minutes do you need to bake the cake in the oven?
(A)  10 to 15 minutes
(B)   20 minutes
(C)  25 to 30  minutes
(D)  30 to 45 minutes
(E)   an hour

5)      What is the writer’s suggestion to serve the patty cakes?
(A)  serve with chocolate chips
(B)   those ingredients make 12
(C)  keep in cool and icy place
(D)  eat patty cake right after taking out from the oven
(E)   only 12 people may eat the patty cake