NILAI PRAKTIK

BAHASA INGGRIS

KARINA FILZA AAFIYAH

XII MIPA 2
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 Nilai Praktik

The impacts of electronic commerce in a developing country can be helpful rather

than detrimental.Electronic commerce has the potential to tie developing countries into the
rest of the world so they are no longer considered outsiders.For example, electronic
commerce can enable more people to access products and services that once were not
available. Another benefit is that electronic commerce stores are available 24 hours a day,7
days a week. As the infrastructure for electronic commerce keeps growing, services that were
not offered in the past become available. Many of these benefits have not been proven yet,but
the technology is now available, and developing countries are looking forward to these
benefits. The high cost of echnology may still be detrimental in many developing countries;
however, the constant innovation of software and hardware will hopefully reduce these costs.
Consumers in developing countries can benefit from electronic commerce because
they can buy product that could only be found in major cosmopolitan cities. Electronic
commerce is closing the gap·between the countries that have wide availability of products
and those with limited availability. The basic purpose of electronic commerce is to provide
goods and services to consumers who do not live close to the physical location of the product
or service and would otherwise have a hard time acquiring these products and services.
Society and consumers alike have only begun to enjoy the benefits of electronic
commerce.Since new developments are made on a continuous basis, it will eventually affect
every individual. Some of the benefits enjoyed by society and consumers, for example,are
ease of transaction, comparability of products, quick delivery and the ability to make any type
of transaction at any given time of day.
Electronic commerce facilitates delivery of public and social services, such as
healthcare, education, and distribution of government social services at a reduced cost,
improvong the quality of care and living in these communities. For example, healthcare
services can reach patients in rural areas.

1. What is the topic of the text?

(A) Government policy on electronic commerce
(B) Types of business suitable for electronic commerce
(C)The benefits of electronic commerce for developing countries
(D)The gap between countries applying and not applying electronic commerce
(E)Minimum requirements fo software and hardware for electronic commerce
Answer: C
2. The purpose of the text is to...
(A) explain the advantages of electronic commerce
(B) describe innovation of electronic commerce
(C) provide examples of the use of electronic commerce
(D) promote electronic commerce in developing countries
(E) show some developing countries applying electronic commerce
Answer:B

3. It can be inferred from the text that...

(A)remote areas need to improve their technology to catch up with businesses
(B)electronic commerce is mainly accessed by developed countries until today
(C) consumers in developing countries prefer traditional commerce
(D)society uses electronic commerce for particular products only
(E) electronic commerce can accelerate services to the public
Answer:E

4. To whom is the passage likely intended?

(A) Online shops
(B) Society
(C) Government
(D) Technology experts
(E) Scientists
Answer: B

5. Healthcare products are readily available in a developing country, ....

(A) everyone can enjoy the product from develop countries
(B) electronic delivery of public and social services gap with no condition commerce will
eradicate
(C) people will no longer go to major cosmopolitan countries products
(D) customers will be proudof the benefits of electronic commerce
(E) there will be no difference of develoving countries and developed ones to buy such
Answer: B

Climate change is not just bad for the planet and for our bodies. According to a new
report climate change is bad for our mental health too.The report is not the first to tackle
climate change from a health perspective. Earlier this year a Consortium on Climate and
Health issued a report detailing the many ways climate change can negatively human health
and wellbeing.What makes this new report unique is its narrow focus on mental health.
The report breaks up the mental health impacts into two broad buckets acute impacts
such as those from discrete climate related shocks (like fires floods, and storms) and chronic
impacts, or the more gradual ways that climate change can impact our wellbeing.
It is important that we recognize that up to forty percent of people who live through a
disaster experience some kinds of psychopathology. This includes anxiety depression, mood
disorders,and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). According to the report, one in six
people who lived in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina met the criteria for PTSD. Similarly,
suicide and suicidal ideation more than doubled in those regions, and 49 percent of people
developed anxiety or mood disorder like depression. The issue is not just disaster itself—
most of us can cope with a single source of stress. But in disaster situations stressors multiply
rapidly. You may have lost not just your home, but your job, and perhaps even the broader
community that you ordinarily relied on for support. And under climate change scenarios, it
could mean that you are extirpated from your home permanently. Chronic effects are harder
to envision, but no less dangerous. As the climate continues to change, for example, many
locations will be warmer for longer portions of the year-anyone who has experienced this
unusually warm winter knows this firsthand. But if the weather gets too sticky, we tend to
retreat indoors, making it harder (even in this digital age) to build and maintain much needed
social networks. Similarly, as temperatures soar, studies suggest our tempers do as well,
cohesiveness. Which can further threaten community cohesiveness.

6. What is the topic of the text?

(A) Stressors in disaster situations
(B) Chronic effects of climate change
(C) Impacts of climate change in wellbeing
(D) Psychopathology caused by climate change
(E) Contribution of climate change to mental illness
Answer: E

7. It is implied in the text that in a hot and damp weather, people have a tendency to...
(A) stay at home
(B) support each other
(C) have a better social network
(D) solidify their social relationship
(E) permanently leave their houses
Answer: A

8. The purpose of the text is to

(A) present several types of psychopathology
(B) prevent mental illness in disaster conditions
(C) explain a particular impact of climate change
(D) describe psychological problems due to particular disaster
(E) persuade people to maintain social network among disaster victims
Answer: C

9. Who is likely the author of the passage?

(A) A scientist
(B) A surgeon
(C) A lecturer
(D) An editor
(E) A government official
Answer: A

10. It can be predicted from the passage that if if the weather gets too hot,
(A) people tend to stay at home to build intimate time with their family
(B) people will prefer to be imposes less needed social networks
(C) people will choose to be outside to get fresh air and build social relationship
(D) we will spend more time with relative indoors and outside as well
(E) it will make it harder to earn money for their survival
Answer: E
 According to the latest New York Times poll,most Americans are troubled by
performance-enhancing drugs, which they believe are widely used by the nation's
athletes.The public believes that professional athletes in major American sports leagues use
steroids to a greater degree than American Olympic athletes do. But the prospect of
achievement through illicit mean in the Winter and Summer Olympics is more troubling.
Also, younger Americans are much less troubled by drug use in sports and believe it to be
more widespread than do Americans age 30 and above.
After recent revelations about the use of performance-enhancing drugs in football,
baseball and track and field. 43 percent of those polled said they believed that at least half of
American Olympic athletes use banned performance-enhancing substances.
While 61 percent of Americans said they were bothered by the use of steroids among
professional athletes, 75 percent said they were concerned about the use of performance-
enhancing drugs among Olympic athletes.This response seemed to be based partly on the
ideal that American Olympic sports are purer than professional sports, and on the widely held
belief that Olympic athletes are still amateurs. "The Olympics are pure and clean." Jason
Marnnino, 32, a tax assessor, said. "We want these kids to be all on the same playing field. A
lot of these kids are trying to make a name for themselves purely on their athletic ability, and
they are not getting high-dollar contracts to perform.They are performing out of pride for the
country and out of pride for getting a gold medal." In fact, the Olympics have been open to
professionals since the late 1980's and most of the drug scandals in recent years have
involved sports related to the Olympics.

11. “But the prospect of achievement through illicit mean in the Winter and Summer
Olympics is more troubling.”
The underlined word can be replaced by....
(A) forbidden
(B) allowed
(C) occasional
(D) digress
(E) unnatural
Answer:A

12. The paragraph following the passage will likely talk about
(A) drug use by Olympic athletes
(B) the opinions of young people and those above 30
(C) what the surveyor thinks about drug use
(D) what is being done about the problem
(E) what the problem will lead to
Answer: A

13. In which paragraph does the author mention about the statistic of people concerns on the
atheletes' using drugs to enhance their performance?
(A) 1
(B) 2
(С) 3
(D) l and 2
(E) 2 and 3
Answer: E

14. Which of the following statement is NOT TRUE based on the passage?
(A) Society believe that professional athletes in major American sports leagues use steroids
more than American Olympic athletes do
(B) 61 percent of Americans stated they were disturbed by the use of steroids among
professional athletes
(C) The Olympics have been professionals since the late 1980's
(D) Younger Americans troubled by drug use in sports
(E) the chance of achievement through illicit mean in the Winter and Summer Olympics is
more troubling.open to are much more
Answer: D

15. The statement "... 43 percent of those polled said they believed that at least half of
American Olympic athletes use banned performance-enhancing substances." can be best
restated as
(A) almost a half of the polled people said that at least half of American Olympic athletes
use drugs to improve their performance
(B) over 43% pollsters are disturbed that at least half of American Olympic athletes
consumed drugs
(C) to enhance their performance, 43 percent of the athelete use banned substance
(D) American Olympic athletes utilize banned illicit drugs for thier own sake
(E) it is said 43 percent of those polled said use drugs for self-performance
Answer: A

If drought, floods and wildfires are the criminal, climate change is the accomplice.
This is how the population must begin regarding global warming, experts said at a session at
the annual american Academy for the Advancemnet of Science meeting here. Although
extreme weather events, from the creeping drought that scorched last year's corn crop to
superstrom Sandy, are worrisome, automatically andsimplistically lying them to the scientific
phenomenon of climate change could be misleading.
Last year's drought in Texas, for example, could not be specifically tied to climate
change, said John Nielsen - Gammon, the Lone Star state's climatologist. Over the past
century there has been an increase in rainfall- not a tedency toward dryness- over most of
Texas by about 10 percent. "Changing climate has not contributed to the lack of rainfall over
the long term, as of yet,"he said. Last year's drought, much like the temperatures in the
Pacific Ocean- the weather event known as La Nina, "Until we see a long- term decrease in
rainfall in Texas, it will be hard to say that climate change has caused a decrease," Nielsen-
Gammon said. Temperatures have risen in Texas, meaning the increased rainfall is being
evaporated at a more rapidrate, he added. But for the drought, which continues to seize more
than half of the lower 48 states. Heat was a drought accelerant but not the main cause.

16. The following is relevant with the idea of climate changes described in the passage
except
(A) heat can result from ongoing rise of temperature
(B) drought and climate change are mistakenly understood
(C) often high temperatures cause increased rainfall in Texas
(D) the lesser the rainfall makes the drought spread even greater
(E) drought and rising sea surface temperature are interrelated
Answer: A

17. In which paragraph does the author mention about the assumption that climate change has
not contributed to the lack of rainfall over the long term?
(A) 1
(B) 2
(C) 3
(D) 1 and 2
(E) 2 and 3
Answer: B
18. The paragraph following the passage would likely talk about ...
(A) a rare weather event, La Nina
(B) the main factors that accelerate the drought
(C) long- term decrease in rainfall in Texas
(D) the difficulty in deciding how climate change has caused a decrease in rainfall
(E) the factors influencing the rise of temperatures in Texas
Answer: B

19. "If drought, floods and wildfires are the criminal, climate change is the accomplice.”
The underlined word can be replaced by ..
(A) collaborator
(B) opponent
(C) aridity
(D) villain
(E) felon
Answer: A

20. Sentence "Heat was a drought accelerant but not the main cause." can be best restated as
(A) the main factor of the drought is either heat or others
(B) heat is admitted to be the most rapid factor of the dryness of the earth
(C) heat is one of factors fastening the drougt but it is not regarded as the key culprit
(D) heat might be a drought accelerant helped by other energy sources
(E) people are confused how to decide what the main cause of drought is
Answer: C

Healthy eating is not about strict dietary limitations, staying unrealistically thin, or
depriving yourself of the foods you love. Rather, it is about feeling great, having more
energy, improving your outlook, and stabilizing your mood. If you feel overwhelmed by all
the conflicting nutrition and diet advice out there, you are not alone. It seems that for every
expert who tells you a certain food is good for you, you will find another saying exactly the
opposite. But by using these simple tips, you can cut through the confusion and learn how to
create a tasty, varied, and healthy diet that is as good for your mind as it is for your body.
 We all know that eating right can help maintain a healthy weight and avoid certain
health problems, but your diet can also have a profound effect on your mood ar well being.
Studies have linked eating a typical western diet – filled with processed meats, packaged
meals, takeout food, and sugary snacks - with higher rates of depression, stress bipolar
disorder, and anxiety. Eating an unhealthy diet may even play a role in the development of
mental health disorder such as ADHD, Alzheimers disease, and schizophrenia, or in the
increased risk of suicide in young people.
Eating more fresh fruits and vegetables, cooking meals at home, and reducing your
intake of sugar and refined carbohydrates, on the other hand, may help to improve mood and
lower your risk for mental health problems. If you have already been diagnosed with a mental
health problem, eating well can even help to manage your symptoms and regain control of
your life.
While some specific foods or nutirens have been shown to have a beneficial effect on
mood, it is your overall dietary pattern that is most important. That means switching to a
healthy diet does not have to be an all or nothing proposition. You do not have to be perfect,
and you do not have to completely eliminate foods you enjoy to have a healthy diet and make
a difference to the way you think and feel.

21. The passage can be best summarized as ...

A. Good meal is only a matter of feeling good, having more stamina and goodlooking
B. Appropriate dietary food can reduce risk of being depressed, stressed, and anxious
C. Dietary change is often misperceived by many people as losing weight and being slim
D. Good diet means to be healthy by eating fresh fruits, vegetables, and less carbohydrates
E. Healthy diet means physiologically balance intake of nutrients and results in good mood
Answer: E

22. What is the authors attitude toward the topicof the passage?
A. Decisive
B. Optimistic
C. Ambitious
D. Motivated
E. Considerate
Answer: D
23. The paragraph following the passage will likely talk about
A. Important patterns of healthy diet
B. Definition of perfect dietary pattern
C. Types of food to improve mood
D. Feelings resulted from changing diet
E. Cases of mood improvement influenced by diet
Answer: A

24. Based on the passage, it can be hypothesized that a good diet will impact the body if ...
A. The dietary menu is under a nutrition expert control
B. The meals are home-cooked in traditional fashion
C. What is eaten equalizes the feeling of enjoying the food
D. A good selection of fruit and vegetable becomes the menu
E. Diet is losing controlled for minimizing distress and stress
Answer: C

Banana peels can be used to purify drinking water contaminated with toxic heavy
metals such as cooper and lead, according to a study. Researchers from the Bioscience
Institute at Botucatu, Brazil, said that the peels can outperform even conventional purifiers
such as aluminium oxide, cellulose and silica. These have potentially toxic side effects and
are expensive. The teams method follows previous work that showed that plant parts, such as
apple and sugar cane wastes, coconut fibers and peanut shells, can remove toxins from water.
These natural materials contain chemicals that have an affinity for metals.
In the process, the researchers dried the peels in the sun for a week, ground them and
added them to river water containing known concentrations of copper and lead. They found
that the peels absorbed 97 percent of the metals after just one hour. The peels were tested in
the lab and worked perfectly. Eventually their efficiently reduces, at which point they should
be removed from the peels so that they can be disposed of safely. In addition, they said that
although the peels were tested only on copper and lead, the material could also work on
cadmium, nickel and zinc. But they warned that this sort of filter is better suited to industrial
purposes and cannot be used for water purification at home as the extraction capacity of
banana peels depends on the particle size of the heavy metals and this is difficult to measure.
Dimitris Kalderis, from the Technical University of Crete, Greece, said: "The results are very
promising and the banana peel processes has proven to be a cost- effective and quick
alternative to conventional knowledge is there, what we need now is innovation and
construction."
25. Paragraph 1 and 2 are related in that both ...
A. Discuss the advantages of banana skins for metal absorption
B. Present a cause effect relationship between banana and metals
C. Illustrate the need to use banana filters for industrial purposes
D. Highlight general and detailed information on banana peels
E. Demonstrate chemical elements of metals in purifying water
Answer: A

26. What does the word " these " in " These have potentially toxic ". (paragraph 1) refer to?
A. Conventional purifiers
B. Natural materials
C. Heavy metals
D. Banana peels
E. Toxic effects
Answer: A

A study into the educational impact of esports was launched recently at the annual
general meeting of Ukie, the trade body for the UK games and interactive entertainment
industry.
The study, conducted by Staffordshire University, examined data to determine the
effect of participation in the Digital Schoolhouse Esports Tournament 2018. Over 2000
students aged 12-18 participated in various roles, including event management, production,
tournament administration, community management, on-screen talent and players. The skills
that these roles helped to develop were recognised by the Duke of York's Inspiring Digital
Enterprise Award (İDEA).
Key Findings of the study included an increase in transferable skills, with
communication (74%) and team working (80%) coming top. Positive effects of bonds of
friendship amongst participants were alsoreported, with 67% of respondents stating that
friendship bonds grew over the course of the tournament (and 94% of friendships were
maintained or grew during the competition). Qualitative evidence from teachers and schools
involved in the tournament further reinforced these findings, particularly regarding the effects
on behaviour and engagement amongst harder to reach students. Meanwhile, almost 90% of
students said that the tournament had increased their interest in a career in the video games
industry and that it had increased their interest in computers and computing.
The results show that taking part not only improved skills and confidence but sparked
their interest in subjects, job roles and opportunities they probably not have thought
were possible before. The objective of Digital Schoolhouse's tournament was to use esports
as a vehicle to provide students with an immersive careers education experience and help
them realise the breadth of career opportunities available to them.
"E-sports offers a great opportunity to take a popular pastime and to turn it into an
enriching learning opportunity. The tournament's impact on the numbers of students
interested in computing has been fantastic. A real eye-opener has been the increase in other
areas too; improved confidence and self-esteem, better team working and communication and
strategic thinking skills too. Additionally, the transformative effects we've seen on
participating schools has been phenomenal. All this combined with that magical fun factor
make this one of the most effective and meaningful learning experiences we can find today."
Mark Ward at St John Fisher Catholic Voluntary Academy said: "Getting involved in
the tournament has been amazing. I can bring the pupils' world into my lessons – I can use
role models that they have heard of (some I hadn't until very recently!) and talk about careers
that they are interested in and passionate about, all whilst 'playing games'. The most amazing
thing: this is a world that is open to everybody."

27. The results show that taking part not only improved skills and confidence but sparked
their interest in subjects, job roles and opportunities they not have thought were possible
before.
A. must
B. would
C. can
D. might
E. should
Answer: D

28. The paragraph following the passage would likely contain an information about
А. The relation between e-sport and career enhancement.
В. The role of teachers in providing teaching materials that benefitted their students.
С. The prospects of e-sport as a promising occupation for everybody.
D. The finding about the negative effects of too much gaming for students.
Е. Some precious e-sports world tournaments that involved many participants.
Answer: C
29. The following sentences are main ideas from every paragraph in the passage. Rearrange
based on its paragraph!
(1) The results of the study
(2) E-sports enriches learning oportunity
(3) The educational impact of e-sports
(4) The methods of conducting the study
(5) The benefit of e-sports in classroom setting
(6) The implications of the study
A. 3 - 6 - 2 - 4 - 5 - 1
В. 3 - 4 - 1-6- 2 - 5
C. 3 - 4 - 6 - 2 - 1- 5
D. 3 - 5 - 2 - 4 - 1- 6
Е. 3 - 1-4 - 2 - 6 - 5
Answer: B

30. If the participants ... the tournament, they wouldn't have thought that some occupations
were possible before.
А. didn't join
В. were join
С. have been joined
D. are not join
Е. hadn't joined
Answer: E

31. E-sports offers a great opportunity to take a popular pastime and to turn it into an
enriching learning opportunity. The sentence could best be restated as...
А. The enhance learning occasion will affect the pastime opportunity to be taken by the great
E-sports
В. A great opportunity of learning chance will improve the popular pastime, so that E-sport
effect will be enriched
С. E-sport ignores a great opportunity into enriching learning opportunity through the popular
pastime
D. E-sport gives a significant chance of drawing popular pastime and becomes an improving
learning chance
Е. E-sports doesn't provide a great chance of enriching learning achievement by drawing
popular pastime
Answer : D

Watching cooking shows that featured healthy recipes seemed to encourage healthy
eating in children, the study showed. "The findings from this study indicate cooking
programs can be a promising tool for promoting positive changes in childrens food-related
preferences, attitudes and behaviors," said lead author Frans Folkvord, from Tilburg
University in the Netherlands. The study was published in the Journal of Nutrition Education
and Behavior.
The researchers engaged 125 children, aged 10 to 12, who watched 10 minutes of a
Dutch public television cooking program designed for children. All were offered a snack as a
reward for taking part in the study. Some of the children watched an episode featuring
healthy food, while others watched an episode featuring unhealthy food.
Those who watched the healthy episode were 2.7 times more likely to choose a
healthy snack (an apple or a few pieces of cucumber) than an unhealthy snack (a handful of
chips or salted mini-pretzels). Previous research has found children are more likely to eat
healthy foods such as fruits and vegetables if they help prepare meals. However, the growing
reliance on ready- prepared foods and fewer parents preparing fresh foods have led to a drop
in cooking skills among children, the researchers said. They noted that the study was
conducted at the childrens schools, which could represent a promising alternative to teach
children healthy eating behaviors. "Providing nutritional education in school environments
instead may have an important positive influence on the knowledge, attitudes, skills and
behaviors of children," Folkvord said in a journal news release.

32. What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. A healthy cooking program impacts contardictive preference of eating food to
children
B. TV cooking program gives impacts on children's behavior, attitudes, and food-related
preference
C. The program aired by TV stations influences people's choice
D. TV programs are aimed to entertain their viewers
E. How TV cooking program impacts on children's behaviour
Answer: B
33. Which of the following statements is mentioned in the passage?
A. The study was conducted in the children's house and guided by their parents
B. Children must watch healthy cooking program in order to be healthy
C. Children watching healthy cooking program are more likely to choose a healthy snacks
D. All children are offered snacks as a reward for taking part in the program
E. The cooking programs can be a promising tool to change people's behavior
Answer : C

34. What is likely the author's motive in writing the passage?

A. To give information about children cooking programs on television
B. To present responses on how children follow what they watch on TV
C. To give information about cooking program on television that gives positive impacts on
attitude, food-related preference, and behaviour
D. To show that TV program always impacts positively
E. To present different point of views about children's attitude after watching TV
Answer: C

35. The word engaged in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to...

A. followed
B. included
C. dismissed
D. involved
E. asked
Answer: D

36. The sentence "Previous research has found children are more likely to eat healthy foods
such as fruits and vegetables if they help prepare meals" can be best replaced by...
A. The following research has found children are more likely to eat healthy foods such as
fruits and vegetables if they help prepare meals
B. The following research has found children are more likely to eat healthy foods such as
fruits and salads if they help prepare meals
C. Former research has found children are more likely to eat healthy diet such as fruits
and vegetables if they help prepare foods
D. The former research has found children are more likely to eat junk foods such as
fruits and vegetables if they help prepare meals
E. The following research has found children are more likely to eat junk foods such as
fruits and vegetables if they help prepare diets
Answer : C

The coronavirus and its spread has changed the way people interact with each other.
Keeping social and physical distance, although only temporary, is now the norm. People stay
at home in isolation, unable or unwilling to leave their homes and engage as a community.
Fortunately, people have found other ways to come together and connect. Some turn to digital
conferencing apps like Zoom. Others escape to media like Netflix and YouTube. But an
increasing number are jumping onto a quirky yet compelling app called TikTok, and loving
every second of it.
TikTok is a social media app that allows users to create, promote, and react to short-
form music video content. TikTok users have been using the app to create videos of
themselves dancing, acting and exercising to audio clips and sharing it with their friends.
The concept has proved immensely popular. According to official company
announcements, TikTok has over 500 million monthly users, and has been downloaded from
the Google Play store over 1 billion times. The app's popularity was on the rise even before
the coronavirus hit. Young TikTok users had been creating energetic and fun music videos to
entertain themselves and their friends, and in the process engaged others from all over the
world. In the early months of 202 0 TikTok had arown its influence across different age and
regional demographics and drawn more attention from brands and advertisers looking for the
next big social media platform.
As the coronavirus began spreading across the world, governments ordered citizens to
practice social distancing and to stay at home in order to curb infection rates. Now forced into
isolation, people all over the world suddenly need a way to both entertain themselves and
connect with others. Many people latched on to TikTok, that quaint music video app their
friend or child was using, and things only snowballed from there.
TikTok has become a media sensation. Publications all over the internet are writing
about how people are connecting with each other over the platform. Take the family who
created the first-ever Quarantine Olympics, for example, or the Vancouver teen who became
a TikTok idol-in Italy. Educators are figuring out how to leverage TikTok, too; some want to
keep kids learning, and others just want to connect.
37. What does the passage mainly discuss?
A. TikTok App emerges as the result of COVID-19 Pandemic
B. TikTok has become a media sensation in society
C. TikTok is the main communication media during COVID-19 pandemic
D. The way people communicate has changed through TikTok
E. People have changed their ways of using social media platforms
Answer: D

38. Look at the following statement: The coronavirus and its spread has changed the way
people interact with each other. If the coronaviruses didn't spread, it change the way
people communicate with each other.
A. will
B. will not
C. would
D. would not
E. should
Answer: D

39. In which part of the passage does the author mention about TikTok has developed its
influence across different age and regional demographics?
A. Paragraph 1
B. Paragraph 2
C. Paragraph 3
D. Paragraph 4
E. Paragraph 5
Answer: C

40. It can be concluded from paragraph 1 that...

A. Tiktok has become the way people to communicate during the pandemic
B. social media platforms are always the best to get away from being bored during pandemic
C. pandemic gives positive impacts on advertising company due to social media users
D. people change their ways of communicating with their family
E. people prefer offline communication to online communication with their colleagues
Answer: A

41. Paragraph following the passage would most likely tell about….
A. TikTok and other social media platforms during COVID-19 pandemic
B. another social media platforms as means of communication
C. how corona virus spreads through the world
D. other implications of TikTok in connecting people
E. the benefits of using TikTok as a media oflearning
Answer: D

One of the keys to combating COVID-19 is understanding how our immune system
responds to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease. We can potentially use this
information for a number of purposes, like trying to predict the likelihood of severe illness,
preventing or treating serious complications, developing a vaccine, and understanding if
reinfection is possible. Here, we'll review what a normal immune response looks like, and
what we've learned so far about how the immune system reacts to COVID-19. Let's start with
the basics of how your body responds to and fights off a virus.
Our body's immune response is broken down into two systems that work together in
different ways to protect us: the innate and adaptive (or acquired) immune systems. Your
innate immune system is the first line of defense against viruses, taking minutes to hours to
kick in. It provides a general defense against invaders. This system includes physical barriers
like skin and protective layers in our throat or gut, chemicals in our blood, and different
immune cells to fight infections.
Compared to your innate immune response, this response is more specific for the
virus. Some B cells work to fight the current infection, while others are stored in the body as
a memory of the virus to fight future infections, sometimes lasting for decades. This is
generally how many vaccines work. They use your adaptive immune system to create long-
lasting memory cells. For example, memory B cells you develop from getting the smallpox
vaccine can last over 50 years.However, some vaccines may require multiple doses to get an
adequate immune response, and some require boosters as the initial protection starts to wear
off. T cellsare also white blood cells that are part of your adaptive immune system.
Researchers have been trying to understand why some people get sick from COVID-
19 while others do not. Looking at how the immune system responds to the virus can give us
some ideas, and it can possibly help us try to predict the course of the disease in people who
have been infected. Under normal circumstances, the innate immune response kicks in first to
attack and clear out the virus, followed by the adaptive immune response to remove any
remaining virus and create a memory for future infections. For people with asymptomatic or
mild cases of COVID-19, everything tends to work together as it should, or at least it does
not progress to severe disease that requires hospitalization. But in severe cases, especially
with older people, research has suggested that sometimes the different arms of the immune
response can be out of sync. This can create a perfect storm, leading to some of the
complications that we've seen in severe COVID-19.

42. What is the passage mainly dealt with?

A. The description of our adaptive immune system that creates long-lasting memory cells
B. The explanation about how the body immune system fights off COVID-19
C. The information of some immune cells in our immune system that plays a crucial role in
the development of severe COVID-19
D. The argument of COVID-19 asymptomatic patients that do not need hospitalizing
E. The description about both the innate and adaptive immune system in the development of
severe COVID-19
Answer: B

43. The word response in paragraph 2 can be replaced by...

A. flunkee
B. contributor
C. reaction
D. companion
E. nemesis
Answer: C

44. Based on the passage, why are researchers curious to investigate how some infected
people from COVID-19 get sick while others do not? Because they want to gain information
about ...
A. how their adaptive immune system creates memory cells
B. how asymptomatic or mild cases of COVID-19 become severe
C. how the immune system responds to the virus which can give the researchers some ideas
to predict the course of the disease
D. how the virus spread of throughout the body leading to some of the complications that
we've seen in severe COVID-19
E. how their adaptive immune system can develop antibodies and white blood cells
Answer: C

45. This system includes physical barriers like skin and protective layers in our throat or gut,
chemicals in our blood, and different immune cells to ... infections.
A. shield
B. props up
C. combat
D. fuse
E. weld
Answer: C

46. The paragraph following the passage will likely discuss about
A. further information about some of the complications in severe COVID-19 cases
B. another part of both the innate and adaptive immune responses that can play a large role in
the development of severe COVID-19
C. how the immune system reacts to COVID-19
D. information about how your innate immune responds the virus
E. some infections caused by COVID-19
Answer: A

The diffusion of information and communications technology (ICT) into all aspects of
our lives and its impact on altering the nature of social interactions is not a new phenomenon.
When coupled with additional push factors, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic that
forced many countries to implement strict social distancing policies by closing offices and
schools, we are now entering a new era of exploiting ICT in full gear to keep the world going
while keeping our feet on the ground. As the tech-savvy young generations including children
seem to be excelling in adapting to online learning, we are being more and more convinced
that maybe the way education is delivered will never be the same again even after COVID-
19. The question is, is this new way of learning really benefitting the community?
Online learning was initially seen as a cheaper and more flexible alternative for
developing countries to increase the number of students who have access to fulltime
education and to close the education divide between rural and urban students. The developing
countries, however, are facing many challenges in implementing online learning, from poor
ICT network infrastructure, a lack of quality content and issues over the competencies of the
people that interact with the e-learning system.
Indonesia is in a unique position to exploit the advent of online learning. More than
171 million or 69 percent of Indonesians are connected to the worldwide web with an internet
penetration rate that stood at 63.5 percent in 2019 according to the latest survey by the
Association of Indonesian Internet Service Providers (APJII), which is higher than the
average of Asian countries. However, most Indonesian internet users are relying on the
expensive and limited capacity mobile network, instead of the broadband network that can
easily cater to the online learning requirements that require a large data exchange especially
for video conferencing.
Online learning also can facilitate everyone to contribute to the advancement of the
education sector through knowledge sharing. We can expect the mid-term impact in which
Indonesian students in rural areas no longer need to go to big cities to get a better education,
thus the rural community can retain their talent to help develop villages. In the long run, the
social and economic impact will be enormous, especially in helping the government's effort
at regional development equalization. The period of school closure is supposed to be utilized
by all stakeholders in the education sector to adapt to the e-learning ecosystem and find the
best formula for how best the online education content need to be developed and delivered.

47. The period of school closure is supposed to be utilized by all stakeholders in the
education sector to adapt to the e-learning ecosystem and find the best formula for how best
the online education content ... be developed and delivered.
A. may
B. will
C. should
D. had to
E. can
Answer: C

48. Which of the following statements is not mentioned in the passage?

A. The author expects that the way education will never be the same even after COVID-19
B. Online learning can prevent everyone from contributing to the education sector
C. Online learning can close the gap of education between rural and urban students
D. About 69 percent of Indonesians are connected to the worldwide web with an internet
penetration rate in 2019
E. Most Indonesian internet users rely on the expensive and limited capacity mobile network
Answer: B
49. It can be inferred from the passage that...
A. only some people actively involve in the advancement of learning devices for better
education system
B. the way people think about the best education that is shifted from direct learning to e-
learning is the same
C. children now tend to smartly adapt to online learning because they are assisted by
information and communications technology (ICT)
D. we have to keep the world going while our feet must stay on the ground
E. rural students will not have the same opportunity in gaining good education as urban
students do
Answer: C

50. To whom is the text likely intended?

A. Linguists
B. Sociologists
C. Government
D. Educators
E. Psychologists
Answer: D