Onliner Intensive SBMPTN , Friday, 6 June

2014 (English) by Agustini

1.

Which of the following best states the topic

of this text?
A. The obstructive sleep apnea
B. High rates of sleep apnea in women
C. The risk factors of sleep apnea in
women
D. The study of 400 women underwent a
sleep examination
E. The association between sleep apnea,
obesity and hypertension

2.

The main idea of this text is that

A. Women with hypertension and/or
obesity were more likely to experience
sleep apnea
B. The results found that obstructive sleep
apnea was present in 50% of women
aged 20-70 years
C. Obstructive sleep apnea is a condition
in which there are frequent pauses in
breathing during sleep
D. New research from Ume and Uppsala
universities has found high rates of
sleep apnea in women
E. The incidence of the condition increases
with age and it is considered more
prevalent in men than in women

3.

Implied in the text that the earlier study of

the obstructive sleep apnea found
A. The men is considered more prevalent
than women
B. Obstructive sleep apnea was present in
50% of women aged 20-70 years
C. Severe sleep apnea was present in 31%
of obese women aged 55-70 years old
D. Women with hypertension and/or
obesity were more likely to experience
sleep apnea
E. 80% of women with hypertension and
84% of obese women suffered from
sleep apnea

Choose the best answer!

Text 1 for no. 1 5
New research from Ume and Uppsala
universities has found high rates of sleep apnea in
women, despite the condition usually being
regarded as a disorder predominantly of males.
The study, published online ahead of print August
16 in the European Respiratory Journal, also
suggested that women with hypertension and/or
obesity were more likely to experience sleep
apnea.
Obstructive sleep apnea is a condition in
which there are frequent pauses in breathing
during sleep. The incidence of the condition
increases with age and it is considered more
prevalent in men than in women. In this new
study, researchers from Uppsala and Ume
University in Sweden aimed to investigate the
frequency and risk factors of sleep apnea in
women.
The study analyzed 400 women from a
random sample of 10,000 women aged 20-70
years. The participants answered a questionnaire
and underwent a sleep examination.
The results found that obstructive sleep
apnea was present in 50% of women aged 20-70
years. The researchers also found links between
age, obesity and hypertension: 80% of women
with hypertension and 84% of obese women
suffered from sleep apnea.
Additionally, severe sleep apnea was present in
31% of obese women aged 55-70 years old.
Lead author Dr Karl Franklin said: "We
were very surprised to find such a high occurrence
of sleep apnea in women, as it is traditionally
thought of as a male disorder. These findings
suggest that clinicians should be particularly
aware of the association between sleep apnea and
obesity and hypertension, in order to identify
patients who could also be suffering from the
sleeping disorder.

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5.

The following is mentioned in the text about

sleep apnea in women, EXCEPT that
A. The researchers found links between
age, obesity and hypertension
B. Severe sleep apnea was present in 31%
of obese women aged 55-70 years old
C. Women with hypertension and/or
obesity were more likely to experience
sleep apnea
D. The study aimed to investigate the
frequency and risk factors of sleep apnea
in women
E. The study analyzed 400 women from
whole population of 10,000 women aged
20-70 years

Which of the following is not stated in the

text?
A. The study particularly analyzed women
B. The sample of study were taken
randomly
C. The research has been conducted in
Sweden
D. The condition of sleep apnea usually
being as a disorder predominantly of
females
E. Women with obesity suffered from
sleep apnea more than women with
hypertension

Institute and MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain

Research.
Zhang and his colleagues describe the new
technique in the Jan. 3 online edition of Science.
Lead authors of the paper are graduate students Le
Cong and Ann Ran.
6.

The main topic of this text is

A. Adding or deleting genes
B. A set of bacterial proteins
C. A developing a new technique
D. A new genome editing technique
E. Altering the genomes of living cells

7.

What can be inferred from the text above?

A. The technology is easy and cheap
B. The researchers create a set of bacterial
proteins
C. Using the system, scientists can alter
several genomes
D. The method needs animal model to
study human diseases
E. The new method of altering the
genomes of living cells has several
benefits

8.

The following is mentioned in the text about

the new method, EXCEPT,
A. The research has been done at the MIT
B. The new technique needs more research
C. The new method is the result of the
college students research
D. The technology useful for engineer
organism that produce biofuels
E. The leader of the research team is an
assistant professor of brain and cognitive
sciences at MIT

9.

"Anything that requires engineering of an

organism to put in new genes or to modify
what's in the genome will be able to benefit
from this,. The word this refers to
A. New genes
B. MIT research
C. New genomes
D. The new method
E. The engineering organism

Text 2 for no. 6 10

Researchers at MIT, the Broad Institute and
Rockefeller University have developed a new
technique for precisely altering the genomes of
living cells by adding or deleting genes. The
researchers say the technology could offer an
easy-to-use, less-expensive way to engineer
organisms that produce biofuels; to design animal
models to study human disease; and to develop
new therapies, among other potential applications.
To create their new genome-editing technique, the
researchers modified a set of bacterial proteins
that normally defend against viral invaders. Using
this system, scientists can alter several genome
sites simultaneously and can achieve much greater
control over where new genes are inserted, says
Feng Zhang, an assistant professor of brain and
cognitive sciences at MIT and leader of the
research team.
"Anything that requires engineering of an
organism to put in new genes or to modify what's
in the genome will be able to benefit from this,"
says Zhang, who is a core member of the Broad

10.

The following are the benefits of the new

technology, EXCEPT
A. easy-to-use
B. can modify a set of bacterial proteins
C. scientists can alter several genome sites
simultaneously
D. less-expensive to engineer organisms
that produce biofuels
E. can achieve much greater control over
where new genes are inserted

Choose the best answer!

Text A
Future sea level rise due to the melting of
the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets could be
substantially larger than estimated in Climate
Change 2007, the Fourth Assessment Report of
the IPCC, according to new research from the
University of Bristol. The study, published
January 6 in Nature Climate Change, is the first of
its kind on ice sheet melting to use structured
expert elicitation (EE) together with an approach
which mathematically pools experts' opinions. EE
is already used in a number of other scientific
fields such as forecasting volcanic eruptions.
The ice sheets covering Antarctica and
Greenland contain about 99.5 per cent of Earth's
glacier ice which would raise global sea level by
some 63m if it were to melt completely. The ice
sheets are the largest potential source of future sea
level rise -- and they also possess the largest
uncertainty over their future behavior. They
present some unique challenges for predicting
their future response using numerical modeling
and, as a consequence, alternative approaches
have been explored.
Text B
Anthropogenic climate change leads to
melting glaciers and rising sea level. Between
1902 and 2009, melting glaciers contributed 11
cm to sea level rise. They were therefore the most
important cause of sea level rise. This is the result
of a new assessment by scientists of the
University of Innsbruck. They numerically
modeled the changes of each of the worlds
300,000 glaciers. Until 2100, glaciers could lead
to an additional 22 cm of sea level rise. Since
1900 the global sea level has risen by
approximately 20 cm. Melting glaciers are one of
the causes along with warming and thereby
expanding sea water, melting Greenland and

Antarctic ice sheets, and changing terrestrial water

storage in dammed lakes and groundwater
reservoirs. A team of scientists at the University
of Innsbruck has now assessed the contribution of
melting glaciers to sea level rise during the 20th
century. They numerically modeled each of the
worlds roughly 300,000 glaciers and used
thousands of on-site measurements to validate the
model results.
These calculations show that between 1902
and 2009, glaciers contributed about 11 cm to sea
level rise, says Dr. Ben Marzeion from the
Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics. This
means they were the most important cause of sea
level change. Surprisingly, melt rates were more
or less constant over time: While temperatures
during the first decades of the 20th century were
considerably lower, glaciers were larger and
extended into lower and thus warmer areas.
Additionally, brief but strong warm episodes in
the Arctic led to strong glacier retreat in the Arctic
in the 1930s and 1950s.
11.

Which of the following best states the topic

of the two texts above?
A. The sea level rise
B. The melting glaciers
C. The study of melting glaciers
D. The contribution of melting glaciers
E. The melting of the Greenland and
Antarctic ice sheets

12.

The main idea of the two text is

A. The melting glaciers cause the sea level
rise
B. Future sea level rise due to
Anthropogenic climate change
C. The ice sheets are the largest potential
source of future sea level rise
D. Between 1902 and 2009, melting
glaciers contributed 11 cm to sea level
rise
E. Strong warm episodes in the Arctic led
to strong glacier retreat in the Arctic in
the 1930s and 1950s.

13.

Which of the following ideas reflects

opinion mentioned in the two texts?
A. The melting glaciers are the most
important cause of sea level rise.
B. Until 2100, glaciers could lead to an
additional 22 cm of sea level rise.
C. Between 1902 and 2009, melting
glaciers contributed 11 cm to sea level
rise.
D. This is the result of a new assessment
by scientists of the University of
Innsbruck.
E. EE is already used in a number of other
scientific fields such as forecasting
volcanic eruptions.

14.

This means they were the most important

cause of sea level change. The word they
refer to
A. The calculations
B. team of scientists
C. Antarctic ice sheets
D. The melting glaciers
E. dammed lakes and groundwater
reservoirs

15.

16.

What the results of the studies mentioned in

the two texts DO NOT concludes is that
A. Melting glaciers are the only causes of
sea level rise
B. The most important cause of sea level
rise is melting glaciers
C. The ice sheets are the largest potential
source of future sea level rise
D. Anthropogenic climate change leads to
melting glaciers and rising sea level
E. The sea level would raise globally if the
ice sheets covering Antarctica and
Greenland melt completely
Based on the information in the two texts
above, it CANNOT be inferred that
A. The studies are held in different
universities
B. The studies have similar results about
sea level rise
C. The studies are all about the causes of
the sea level rise
D. The studies have been conducted by the
same researchers
E. The scientists of the studies are
concerned about the results of the
studies

17.

The difference of the two texts in presenting

the focus is that text A emphasizes on.
A. The methods used on the studies and
text B emphasizes on the approaches
used by scientists
B. The results of the studies done by
scientists and text B emphasizes on the
duration of the studies
C. The results of the studies done by
scientists and text B emphasizes on the
approaches used by them
D. The way how scientists do the
researches and text B emphasizes on
the following researches should be done
E. The approaches that used by scientists
to predict the possibility of sea level
rise and text B emphasizes on the
results of the studies

18.

It can be inferred from the two texts that

A. EE is the best method to calculate the
amount of melting glaciers
B. The ice sheets covering Antarctica and
Greenland will melt completely
C. Warm episodes in the Arctic led to
strong glacier retreat in the Arctic in the
1930s and 1950s
D. The melting of the Greenland and
Antarctic ice sheets is the main cause of
the sea level rise in the future
E. The results of the studies surprised the
scientists from the Institute for
Meteorology and Geophysics

19.

In organizing ideas in the text B the writer

A. Arrange the steps of the researches

B. Explain the process how the sea level
rise happened
C. Mention the methods of the researches
done by scientists
D. Explain the effect of melting glaciers
toward sea level rise
E. Inform the procedures taken by
researchers in studying the case

20.

The following are mentioned in the two

texts, EXCEPT
A. The use of numerical modeling
B. The methods of sea level rise
calculation
C. The melting of the Greenland and
Antarctic ice sheets
D. The contribution of temperatures rise
toward the melting glaciers
E. The researches have involved the
scientists from certain universities