BAHASA INGGRIS

The following text is for questions number 76 to 78.

Text I
Every January, many people start working out, hoping to lose weight. But as studies
attest, exercise often produces little or no weight loss — and even weight gain — and
resolutions are soon abandoned. __(76)__. It is more than a matter of burning calories;
exercise also affects hormones.
A study in 2012 from the University of Wyoming looked at a group of women who
either ran or walked and, on alternate days, sat quietly for an hour. After the running, walking
or sitting, researchers drew blood to test for the levels of certain hormones and then directed
the women to a room with a buffet. __(77)__.
The study has shown that exercise typically increases the production of ghrelin.
Workouts make you hungry. In the Wyoming study, when the women ran, their ghrelin levels
spiked, which should have meant they would attack the buffet with gusto. __(78)__. In fact,
after running they consumed several hundred fewer calories than they burned.
(www.indianexpress.com)

76. Which option best completes (76)?

(A) In fact, after running, those women consumed several hundred fewer calories than
they burned.
(B) But new science suggests that if you stick with the right kind of exercise,
you may change how your body interacts with food.
(C) Human appetite-related hormones, inparticulary ghrelin, which stimulates
hunger, are known to be instrumental in determining how much we consume.
(D) But they did not.
(E) The research shows as it is.

77. Which option best completes (77)?

(A) The result shows that after running, there is no difference between those
women consumed several hundred fewer calories and those who didn‘t.
(B) Many proves show that if you stick with the right kind of exercise, your body will
interacts with food.
(C) Human appetite-related hormones, in particulary ghrelin, which stimulates
hunger, are known to be instrumental in determining how much we consume.
(D) It is completely okay.
(E) No research has been conducted.

78. Which option best completes (78)?

(A) In fact, after running, those women consumed several hundred fewer calories than
they burned.
(B) But new science suggests that if you stick with the right kind of exercise,
you may change how your body interacts with food.
(C) Some hormones have proven to stimulate hunger that are instrumental in
determining the food to consume.
(D) But they did not.
(E) The research shows as it Is.
Questions 79 to 84 are based on the following passage.

Text II
For the Pacific bluefin tuna, sitting at the popular kid‘s table surely isn‘t paying off. The
stock of the fish is at historically low levels and is being dangerously overfished, a new report
shows. Fisheries scientists from the International Scientific Committee to Study the Tuna
and Tuna-Like Species of the North Pacific Ocean estimate that the Pacific bluefin
population has declined from its unfished level by more than 96 percent. The report warns
that stock levels likely won‘t improve by extending the current fishing levels. All the world‘s
scrombrids — a family that includes tunas and mackerels — are on the endangered list.
One problem is the majority of bluefin fishermen are snagging fish are under a year
old, further hindering the species‘ chance to procreate. But the extreme lack of supply isn‘t
deterring many buyers. If anything, low supplies of the fish have caused it to become a
premium commodity, worth buying at extreme prices. Last week, a Pacific bluefin sold for
$1.78 million at an auction in Tokyo.
The director of the Pew Environment Group has said that ―the most responsible
course of action is to immediately suspend the fishery until significant steps are taken to
reverse this decline.‖ She called on the main countries responsible for Pacific bluefin fishing
— Japan, Mexico, South Korea and the U.S. — to take conservational action. So far, there‘s
been one minor step forward. In June 2012, the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission
set a quota for the tuna catch in the eastern Pacific for the first time ever. Some of the other
actions the Pew Environment Group suggested were preventing fishing on bluefin spawning
grounds in the northern pacific and creating size limits to reduce the number of juvenile
bluefin caught.
(www.Pewenvironment.org)

79. Paragraph 2 is linked to paragraph 3 in that the former ....

(A) present the policy of preventing bluefins from becoming rare; the latter discusses
the laws for bluefin conservation
(B) discusses a problem and effect of catching too young bluefins; the latter
suggest conservation
(C) gives a warning to the irresponsible fisherman; the latter outlines rules for a
limited number of bluefins hunting
(D) talks about efforts to increase the population of bluefins; the latter
proposes the need for free-zone fishing
(E) mentions the possible regulations for hunting bluefins; the latter presents and
issuance of a bluefin tuna fishing man

80. What does the author assume regarding the Pacific bluefin tuna?
(A) The bluefin tuna show a gradual annual decrease in number.
(B) The fishery of the bluefin tuna has been suspended from year to year.
(C) A greater number of fisherman have caught the fish in the Pacific.
(D) The family of bluefin tunas could be extinct because of illegal fishing.
(E) The fish will be well-sold over the world if successfully promoted.
81. With reference to the text, an environmentalist will mostly likely ....
(A) agree that the Pacific bluefins should be conserved
(B) suggest that the Pacific bluefins be the most expensive food
(C) ban the catching of all bluefins completely all over the world
(D) advise the fisherman not to do the fishing activities in the eastern Pacific
(E) suggest bluefins as sacred fish to the InterAmerican Tropical Tuna Commission

82. The points provided in paragraph 1 of the text explain that ....
(A) scientists think of the need to increase the population of tunas
(B) catching tunas and their species has been interesting activities
(C) fish such as tunas and mackerels have been badly endangered
(D) stock level of bluefins in fishery have shown a radical decrease
(E) tunas and tuna-like species are mostly found in the North Pacific

Questions 83 to 86 are based on the following passage.

Text III
During the heyday of the railroads, when America‘s rail system provided the bulk of the
country‘s passenger and freight transportation, various types of railroad cars were in service
to accomplish the varied tasks handled by the railroads. One type of car that was not
available for public use prior to the Civil War, however, was a sleeping car; ideas for
sleeping cars abounded at the time, but these ideas were unworkable. It unfortunately took
the death of a president to make a sleeping car a viable reality.
Cabinet-maker George M. Pullman had recognized the demand for sleeping cars and
had worked on developing experimental models of sleeping cars in the decade leading up to
the Civil War. However, in spite of the fact that he had made successful test runs on the
Chicago and Alton Railroads with his models, he was unable to sell his idea because his
models were too wide and too high for existing train stations and bridges. In 1863, after
spending time working as a storekeeper in a Colorado mining town, he invested his savings
of twenty thousand dollars, a huge fortune at that time and all the money that he had in the
world, in a luxurious sleeping car that he named the Pioneer. Pullman and friend Ben Field
built the Pioneer on the site of the present-day Chicago Union Station. For two years,
however, the Pioneer sat on a railroad siding, useless because it could not fit through train
stations and over bridges.
Following President Lincoln‘s assassination in 1865, the state of Illinois, Lincoln‘s
birthplace, wanted to transport the presidential casket in the finest fashion possible. The
Pullman Pioneer was the most elegant car around; in order to make the Pullman part of the
presidential funeral train in its run from Springfield to Chicago, the state cut down station
platforms and raised bridges in order to accommodate the luxurious railway car. The
Pullman car greatly impressed the funeral party, which included Lincoln‘s successor as
president, General Ulysses S. Grant, and Grant later requested the Pioneer for a trip from
Detroit to Chicago. To satisfy Grant‘s request for the Pioneer, the Michigan Central Railroad
made improvements on its line to accommodate the wide car, and soon other railroads
followed. George Pullman founded the Pullman Palace Car Company in partnership with
financier Andrew Carnegie and eventually became a millionaire.
83. Which of the following best states the main idea of the passage?
(A) America‘s railroads used to provide much of the country‘s transportation.
(B) President Lincoln‘s assassination in 1865 shocked the nation.
(C) George Pullman was the only one to come up with the idea for a sleeping car.
(D) Pullman‘s idea for a sleeping car became workable after Lincoln‘s death.
(E) Pullman‘s idea for a sleeping car was realized after his death

84. A “heyday” in line 1 is most probably a ....

(A) time for harvest
(B) a period with low prices
(C) a period of great success
(D) a type of railroad schedule
(E) a time for journey

85. To satisfy Grant‘s request for the Pioneer, the Michigan Central Railroad made
improvements on its line to accommodate .... (last paragraph). The underlined word
refers to ....
(A) Grant‘s request
(B) Pioneer
(C) the Michigan Central Railroad
(D) the wide car
(E) the Pullman Palace Car Company

86. It can be inferred from the passage that before the Civil War, sleeping cars ....
(A) were used abundantly
(B) were thought to be a good idea
(C) were only used privately
(D) were used by presidents
(E) were useless to implement

Questions 87 to 90 are based on the following passage.

Text IV
Passage A
The first sample of material ever taken from the inside of a rock on another planet has
been obtained by NASA‘s Mars rover Curiosity. NASA just released new images showing
the drilled material. The sample material will give researchers a look into what Mars was like
during the rock material‘s formation.
Curiosity drill, located on one of its many robotic arms, obtained the sample powder as
it made a 2.5 inch hole in the flat Martian bedrock on February 8th. The sample will now be
put through a sieve, and portions of it will be analyzed by the scientific instruments inside of
the rover.
The area where the sample was obtained is a “fine-grained”, veiny sedimentary rock
called ‘John Klein‘, named in memory of a Mars Science Laboratory deputy project manager
who died in 2011. The rock was selected for the first sample drilling because it may hold
evidence of wet environmental conditions long ago. The rover‘s laboratory analysis of the
powder mayprovide information about these conditions.
(planetsave.com)
 Passage B
A possible alien planet discovered by NASA‘s Kepler space telescope is the most
Earth-like world yet detected beyond our solar system, scientists say. With a radius that is
just 1.5 times that of Earth, the potential planet is a so-called super-Earth‖ meaning it is just
slightly larger than the Earth. The candidate planet orbits a star similar to the sun at a
distance that falls within the “habitable zone”–the region where liquid water could exist on
the planet‘s surface. Scientists say the planet, it confirmed, could be a prime candidate to
host alien life.
The object takes 242 days to orbit its star (compared to Earth‘s 365 days) and is about
threequarters of the Earth-sun distance from its parents. The Earth orbits 93 million miles
(150 million kilometers) from the sun on average, a distance known as one astronomical
unit.
(news.yahoo.com)
87. The topic discussed in both passages is ....
(A) the future place to live
(B) the identification of rock formation
(C) the attempt to prove the existence of alien
(D) the comparison of the planets with the Earth
(E) the search for the possibility of life in other planet

88. Which of the following statement is true about both planets according to both
passages?
(A) They have water.
(B) They orbit the stars.
(C) They are home of their aliens.
(D) They supported life in the past.
(E) They have a similar distance to the star.

89. Passage A differs from passage B in that in passage A ....

(A) the alien does not exist
(B) the planet is more habitable
(C) the planet is closer to the star
(D) the rock formation is more complicated
(E) the researcher can use the real sample from the planet

90. Based on both passages, it can be hypothesized that ....

(A) human will travel around the universe soon
(B) human needs spacecraft reaching the speed of the light
(C) the closer planet to the sun, the higher chance to live on
(D) the more water exists in a planet, the higher possiblitity of life is
(E) humans will create advanced technology to survive on other planets