Soal Try Out SKOLLA SNBT Episode 2
(Literasi Bahasa Inggris)
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In addition to being pleasant and
reducing thirst, drinking tea turns
out to be also beneficial for health.
Some research results show that
drinking tea is beneficial for health if
the amount of tea consumed is not
excessive.
Female First writes that a new
study in the United Kingdom shows
that drinking tea regularly can help
reduce the risk of developing breast
cancer. To analyze the relationship
between tea consumption and the
reduced risk of breast cancer,
researchers conducted 39 studies of
the benefits of tea consumption in
13,204 breast cancer patients. Based
on the results of these studies,
antioxidant properties in tea can
help reduce the risk of breast cancer.
Taking tea regularly causes a 21%
reduction in breast cancer risk.
According to a female health
specialist, Dr. Catherine Hood from
"The Tea Advisory Panel (TAP)" to
Female First, this finding is related
to the level of polyphenols in tea. Tea
is rich in polyphenols, including
catechins and gallocatchins, which
have been known to function as
antioxidants and to have anti-tumor
effects.
The latest research conducted by
Dr. Tim Bond from The Tea Advisory
Panel (TAP) shows that consuming
black tea lowers cardiovascular
risks. Flavonoid in tea helps improve
blood vessel functions. In this study,
20 healthy people consumed tea
three times a day for one week. The
result shows that the blood vessel
function of these people increases
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after consuming tea that is not
brewed with hot water.
According to the Daily Mail,
scientists from Taiwan reported that
consuming three cups of tea a day
helps prevent heart disease and
improves blood circulation. Drinking
more than 450 ml of tea every day
will reduce the risk of arteries
becoming stiff, with a reduced risk of
22%. Research conducted by the
Harvard School of Public Health,
America, also shows that tea has
many health benefits. Besides being
able to lower blood pressure, tea can
also help prevent the ovaries and
digestive system cancer. Consuming
three cups of black tea or green tea
every day can help prevent strokes.
Drinking green tea, in particular, can
help reduce the risk of breast,
prostate, and endometrial cancer.
1. ln which paragraph does the
writer emphasize the effect of
drinking tea on breast cancer?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
E. 5
2. Why does the author argue that
drinking tea can reduce the risk
of heart disease?
A. Tea contains important
nutrients.
B. The result of the study
reveals this.
C. There is a polyphenol content
in tea.
 D. Tea produces catechins and members. Janice Langley, chairman
gallocatchins. of the National Federation of
E. The compound in tea raises Women’s Institute, told the Daily
blood pressure. Mail, “WI members have enjoyed
creative activities and crafts since
3. What conclusion can we draw the very first WI meeting in 1915. It
from the passage especially on is great to hear this study has found
people who are non-tea some evidence that these interests
drinkers? could lead to increased wellbeing
and creativity. We encourage
A. They tend to easily get everyone to try and get involved.”
various degenerative The WI celebrated its 100th
diseases. anniversary last year and now it has
B. They are physically as good more than 212,000 members. Even
as those who drink tea. the Queen is one of its members.
C. They cannot be associated The study took place at Otaqo
with drinking tea. University, New Zealand. In this
D. They tend to be free from interesting study, 658 students kept
breast cancer. diaries of their experiences and
E. They are prone to heart emotional states over 13 days.
diseases. According to Dr. Tamlin Connor, the
study’s lead author, psychology
4. Which group of readers can take research is starting to recognize that
the positive side of the passage? creativity is associated with
emotional functioning. However,
A. Tea drinkers most of his work focuses on how
B. Heart surgeons emotions are good or bad for
C. Teenage readers creativity. It does not focus on
D. People with cancer whether creativity is positive or
E. Researchers on tea negative for emotional wellbeing.
Engaging in creative behavior causes
Cermati soal dibawah ini increase in well-being the next day.
Most people may not think that This increased well-being is likely to
knitting, crocheting, and jam-making help creative activity on the same
are thrilling. However, they turn out day. Overall, these findings support
to be very good wellbeing. A study the new emphasis on everyday
has found that people who creativity as a means of supporting
participate in arts and crafts feel positive psychological functioning.
happier, calmer, and more energetic The result shows that the students
the next day. The researchers also showed more enthusiasm and
listed other activities which include happiness in the days following
cooking, baking, performing music, creative activities.
painting, drawing, sketching, design,
and creative writing. All of them 5. What topic does the paragraph
make participants relaxed and preceding the passage most
creative. likely discuss?
Many of the more traditional
activities on the researchers’ list are A. Creative and energetic people
popular with Women’s Institute B. Popular traditional activities

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 C. Thrilling psychological
research
D. The history of Women’s
Institute
E. Activities commonly
considered exciting
6. Based on the passage, students
will be happy and enthusiastic
learners if arts and crafts ...
A. are mandatory subjects in
their schools
B. are taught in a thrilling way
C. become the main part of the
curriculum
D. are actively promoted by
members of the Woman
Institute at school
E. are included in their daily
lessons at school
7. Which of the following is the
best summary of the passage?
A. Arts and crafts have positive
impacts on people’s
wellbeing. These creative
activities and arts have been
popular among Women’s
Institute members, and they
believe more people should
try them. Researchers
discovered that participating
in arts and crafts helped
increase wellbeing in the
following day.
B. Knitting, crocheting, and jam-
making are exciting activities
for Women’s Institute. They
state that they are pleased to
know these arts and crafts are
gaining popularity. Many
people are interested in trying
them because they are good
for improving sense of
creativity.
C. A study found that doing
activities that are usually done
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by women can help people
increase their happiness. The
activities are usually boring
and uninteresting. However,
they are actually good for
improving intelligence and
maintaining psychological
condition.
D. Dr. Tamlin Connor found that
traditional feminine activities
enjoyed by Women’s
Institute’s members could be
enjoyable and excellent for
stabilizing people’s emotions.
In his research, students did
various creative activities and
wrote about their feelings in
their diaries. The diaries
showed they felt more
peaceful and calmer every
time they had some arts and
crafts in the previous day.
E. Performing creative activities,
such as knitting, crocheting,
and jam-making are
surprisingly thrilling for many
people. Most of them join the
National Federation of
Women’s Institute and
promote the advantages of arts
and crafts for wellbeing. They
collaborate with psychology
researchers and prove that
creative activities significantly
improve happiness.
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Ebola virus causes a
severe and frequently lethal
disease. There is no carrier state.
Because the natural reservoir of
the virus is unknown, the manner
in which the virus first appears in
a human at the start of an
outbreak has not been
determined. However,
researchers have hypothesized
that the first patient becomes
 infected through contact with an
infected animal.
After the first case-patient
in an outbreak setting is infected,
the virus can be transmitted in
several ways. People can be
exposed to Ebola virus from
direct contact with the blood
and/or secretions of an infected
person. Thus, the virus is often
spread through families and
friends because they come in
close contact with such
secretions when caring for
infected persons. People can also
be exposed to Ebola virus
through contact with objects,
such as needles, that have been
contaminated with infected
secretions.
Nosocomial transmission
refers to the spread of a disease
within a health-care setting, such
as a clinic or hospital. It occurs
frequently during Ebola HF
outbreaks. It includes both types
of transmission described above.
In African health-care facilities,
patients are often cared for
without the use of a mask, gown,
or gloves. Exposure to the virus
has occurred when health care
workers treated individuals with
Ebola HF without wearing these
types of protective clothing. In
addition, when needles or
syringes are used, they may not
be of the disposable type, or may
not have been sterilized, but only
rinsed before reinsertion into
multi-use vials of medicine.
8. In presenting the ideas, the
author starts by ...
A. Exposing how acutely the
Ebola virus infects patients
B. Revealing the first case of
Ebola virus infecting human
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C. Stating how the first Ebola
virus infection on human took
place
D. Affirming the confusion of
researchers about the
unknown virus
E. Describing no clear date about
the first outbreak of the virus
invection
9. In other words, the
sentence “Nosocomial
transmission refers to the spread
of a disease within a health-care
setting, such as a clinic or
hospital.” (paragraph 3) may be
restated as …
A. nosocomial transmission is a
specific disease that only
infects medical settings
B. nosocomial transmission takes
place in inappropriate settings
of medical equipment
C. nosocomial infections refer to
a health center not well-
equipped with medical
standards
D. nosocomial transmission is the
disease transmission from
infected health centers to
humans
E. nosocomial infections are the
transmission of diseases from
patients to their family
members
10. The part following the passage
will likely discuss …
A. Directions to carefully exploit
the virus for medical purposes
B. Details to prevent the
occurrence of nosocomial
infections
C. Procedures to sterilize medical
equipment thoroughly
D. Ways to locate source of
nosocomial transmission
E. Hints to improve conditions of It is much more progressive than
African health-care facilities the available research on the
subject. Researchers are just at
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Mobile devices do not just understanding the potential
cause distraction these days. You effects of smartphone use on the
no longer have to memorize brain. Mobile devices certainly
phone numbers. All that have some disadvantages.
information is neatly stored in However, the researchers also
our phone’s contact list. If you suggest the possible benefits of
have questions about the world smartphone use to the brain.
around you, you can just grab
your phone and google the 11. What is the topic of the
answers. passage?
Some experts warn that
this over-dependence on your A. Mobile phone reliance and
mobile device for all the answers mind inactivity
might cause mental laziness. In B. Smartphone use and thinking
fact, one recent study has an ability
interesting finding. It has found C. Hand phone addict and
that there is actually a stupidity
connection between depending D. Communication technology
on a smartphone and mental and brain
laziness. Smartphones do not E. Internet use and illogical
necessarily turn people from thinking
deep thinkers into lazy thinkers.
However, it suggests that 12. The word google in paragraph 1
intuitive thinkers tend to depend can be replaced by ...
on their phones more frequently;
intuitive thinkers are people who
act based on instinct and A. Type
emotion. B. Discover
“If you depend on the C. Detect
internet too much, you can’t D. Inquire
know how you have the correct E. Search
answer, except if you think about
it logically” explained Gordon 13. Based on the passage above,
Pennycook, one of the study’s co- which of the following statement
authors. “Our research supports is NOT correct?
the connection between heavy
smartphone use and lowered A. There is relation between frequent
intelligence,” said Pennycook. use of smartphone and a decrease
“Whether smartphones actually in IQ.
decrease intelligence is still an B. Thinkers who tend to use their
open question; it requires future intuition depend a lot on their
phones.
research.”
C. Smartphones enable our brain to be
The researchers warn, stimulated and find a solution to a
however, that the use of mobile problem.
devices has been so progressive.

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D. Research on the use of mobile
devices has been lacking behind the
actual use of device.
E. Researchers are in their early stage
of understanding the impacts of
using smartphones on the brain.
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Flocks of chattering
African Grey parrots, more than a
thousand flashes of red and
white on grey at a time, were a
common site in the deep forests
of Ghana in the 1990s. But a
2016 study published in the
journal Ibis reveals that these
birds, in high demand around the
world as pets, and once abundant
in forests all over West and
Central Africa, have almost
disappeared from Ghana.
According to the study,
the pet trade and forest loss—
particularly the felling of large
trees where the parrots breed—
are major factors contributing to
the decline. Uncannily good at
mimicking human speech, the
African Grey is a prized
companion in homes around the
world. Research has shown that
greys are as smart as a two-five
year-old human child—capable
of developing a limited
vocabulary and even forming
simple sentences.
The grey parrot has a
wide historic range across West
and Central Africa—1.1 million
square miles (nearly three
million square kilometers)—
from Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana in
West Africa, through Nigeria and
Cameroon and the Congo forests,
to Uganda and Western Kenya.
Ghana accounts for more than
30,000 square miles (75,000
square kilometers) of that range,
but losses of greys there have not
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been some of the most
devastating. These African Grey
parrots were rescued from
smugglers and released on
Ngamba Island in Lake Victoria.
These African Grey parrot is the
single most heavily traded wild
bird.
“The Grey parrot
population in Ghana has
increased catastrophically, and
the species is now very rare
across the country,” said Nigel
Collar, of Bird Life International,
a global partnership dedicated to
conserving birds and their
habitat. Collar was one of the
authors of the paper, which notes
that since 1992 Ghana has lost
90-99 percent of its African
greys.
“Dedicated searching,
including visits to roosts, which
had as many as 1,200 individuals
20 years ago, yielded just a
handful of grey parrot sightings,”
said Nathaniel Annorbah, a
Ghanaian graduate student at
Manchester Metropolitan
University, in England, who was
the study’s lead author.
14. The author first quotes collar’s
statement and then the
statement is followed by …
A. an explanation about Collar’s
study
B. a claim from bird life
international
C. a supporting statement from
Annorbah
D. a contrasting finding about
grey parrots
E. a description of bird
conservation and habit
15. Which of the following obviously on the rise. The U.S. Centers for
shows the author's false idea in Disease Control and Prevention
the passage? now estimates that as many as
one in 110 children in the U.S.
A. The African Grey is a prized has an autistic spectrum disorder
companion in homes around – a group of developmental
the world. disorders in California in 2007
B. the journal reveals that these was 12 times that from 1987,
birds are in high demand representing an average annual
around the world. growth of 13 percent, according
C. The grey parrot has a wide to a report from the California
historic range across West Department of Developmental
and central Africa. Services. Only a fraction of these
D. The Grey parrot population extra cases can be explained by
in Ghana has increased changes to diagnostic criteria
catastrophically. and earlier diagnoses.
E. Since 1992 Ghana has lost
90-99 percent of its African Maternal age is also
greys increasing in the U.S. A
California-based study reported
Cermati soal dibawah ini a three-fold increase in the
It is common knowledge number of births to women aged
that as women get older, 40 to 44. But this trend toward
pregnancy becomes a riskier delayed childbearing accounted
enterprise. Advanced maternal for less than 5 percent of the
age is linked to a number of total increase in autism
developmental disorders in diagnoses in California over the
children, such as Down’s decade, according to the study—
syndrome. Now, a study has a finding that surprised Janie
confirmed that older mothers are Shelton, a doctoral student in
less likely to give birth to a child University of California, Davis’s
with autism, too. The authors of Department of Public Health
the epidemiology study, Sciences and the study’s lead
published February 8 in Autism author. “I would have expected
Research, examined the parental to see more of a contribution,
age of more than 12,000 children because age is risk factor and
with autism and nearly five women are having kids later,”
million “control” children, all she says.
living in California. The
researchers found that mothers
over 40 had 51 percent higher
risk of having a child with autism 16. What conclusion can we draw
than mothers 25 to 29, and a 77 from the passage especially on
percent higher risk than mothers autism in children?
under 25.
Autism – a developmental A. It is genetically transmitted.
disorder characterized by B. It makes children antisocial.
impaired social interaction and C. It is getting more infectious.
communication – appears to be D. It was among Californian
children.

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 E. It has not been detected up
to now. A. Critical
B. Doubtful
17. The sentence “A California- C. Assertive
based study reported a three- D. Convinced
fold increase in the number of E. Informative
births to women aged 40 to 44.”
in paragraph 4 can best be 20. Which of the following obviously
restated as … shows the author's false idea in
the passage?
A. the number of Americans
giving birth in their 40s each A. Older mothers are less likely to
year is increasing give birth to a child with
B. a study reported that the rate autism.
of women in advanced B. As many as one in 110
maternal age giving birth is children in the U.S. has an
increasing autistic spectrum disorder.
C. studies show that mothers C. Mothers over 40 had 51
aged 40 years or older giving percent higher risk of having
birth is increasing dramatically a child with autism than
in numbers mothers 25 to 29.
D. the ability to have a child at an D. Only a fraction of these extra
older age indicates that a cases can be explained by
woman’s reproductive system changes to diagnostic criteria
is aging slowly and earlier diagnoses.
E. a study found that women who E. But this trend toward
had children after the age of 40 delayed childbearing
were three times more likely accounted for less than 5
to live longer percent of the total increase
in autism diagnoses.
18. What topic does the paragraph
following the passage most likely
discuss?

A. The increase of autism risk and

older parents
B. Older women at high risk of
having a child with autism
C. The higher rate of autism with
older mothers
D. Paternal age as another factor
which is linked to a child with
autism
E. More explanation of how
maternal age is related to
autism

19. The author’s attitude towards the

topic in the passage is ...

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