TPS Kelas 11 IPA-IPS Semester 1

(Bahasa Inggris)

Questions 1–4 are based on the following passage.

Text 1
One of the deadliest diseases of the human body is cancer. Cancer is any type of disease that is caused by out of
control cell growth. The abnormal cells divide and multiply and make tumors. These cells can spread throughout the body
slowly destroying the person's good cells and tissues, which causes the person to become sick with the disease. There are
several diseases which are called cancer, and some are treatable and curable, though others are much more dangerous and
can result in death. Approximately 40% of all humans will be diagnosed with some type of cancer during their lifetimes.
When cancer starts, it begins when the genes in a cell that controls cell growth are somehow changed or
dangerously mutated. Many of these mutations must occur in the cells of a person's body before it becomes
cancerous. Often the cell can regulate itself and get rid of the mutation, killing off the bad cell. However, if it cannot
rid itself of the mutation, the cells will grow uncontrollably.
There are more than 200 types of cancer. Most often, a cancer is named after the location in the body where
the cancer first began. For example, if it began in the lungs it would be called lung cancer, which is mostly caused
by smoking. Within each location are different names of cancers as well.Other common forms of cancer include
breast cancer which is more common in women than in men. This forms in the tubes and glands that carry and make
milk. Colon cancer is a cancer in the large intestine where the colon is located. Leukemia is a type of cancer that is
related to the blood, and begins in the bone marrow where blood is produced. Lymphoma is a cancer of the white
blood cells which affects the immune system. Melanoma is cancer of the skin often caused by exposure too much
exposure to the Sun. Two other common cancers are pancreatic and prostate cancer. The first forms in the pancreas
and the other occurs only in men when they are much older.
Each type of cancer has its own symptoms, but common ones include a sore that does not heal, difficulty in
swallowing or having upset stomachs often, unusual bleeding, thick lumps or growths and others. Cancer can be
treated and cured through surgery; chemotherapy, which is the use of chemicals to kill the cancerous cells, but some
good cells can be killed as well during the treatment or radiation, which uses high-energy waves to kill the cancer
cells. A combination of the treatments must also be used by an oncologist, a doctor ____(4)_____.
Several things can help lower the risk of getting cancer including not smoking or using tobacco, eating
healthy, exercising and maintaining a healthy weight, avoiding getting a sunburn, being immunized avoiding risky
behaviors, and seeing a doctor for regular check-ups, which can help if a cancer is detected in its early stages.
In summary, cancer is uncontrollable cell growth and a disease that begins when the genes in a cell change or
become dangerously mutated. About 40% of people will be diagnosed with cancer during their life, but it can also
be cured and treated with early intervention. There are also several ways to lower the risk of getting cancer such as
seeing the doctor regularly, avoiding tobacco, and eating healthy and exercising.

1. Based on the the information in the text, where 2. It can be concluded from the passage that a
does cancer begin? cancer is usually named by
(A) It starts when tumors in a cell that controls (A) the location in the body where the cancer
cell growth are somehow changed. first appeared.
(B) It begins when the genes in a cell that (B) the person who discovered the cancer.
controls cell growth are somehow changed (C) the treatement of the cancer.
or dangerously mutated. (D) the length of time the cancer existed.
(C) It shows when the genes in tissues that (E) the cause of the cancer.
control cell growth are somehow changed
or visible mutated. 3. Which paragraphs of the passage most effectively
(D) It appears when the organs in a cell that
illustrate the treatment and prevention of cancer?
controls cell growth are somehow changed
(A) 1 and 2. (C) 3 and 4. (E) 4 and 6.
or complicatedly spreaded.
(E) It gathers when the genes in a cell that (B) 2 and 3. (D) 4 and 5.
controls cell growth are somehow changed
or dangerously mutated.

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4. Which clause best completes?

(A) that specialize in cancer treating.
(B) whose specialized in treating cancer.
(C) who specializes in treating cancer.
(D) which specializes in the cancer treating.
(E) where the specialization is treating the cancer.

Questions 5–8 are based on the following passage.

Text 2
Magnesium is another mineral we obtain now by collecting huge volumes of ocean water and treating it with
chemicals, although originally it was derived only from brines or form the treatment of such magnesium-containing
rocks as dolomite, of which whole mountain ranges are composed. In 5 a cubic mile of seawater there are about four
million tons of magnesium. Since the direct extraction method was developed about 1941, production has increased
enormously. It was magnesium from the sea that made possible the wartime growth of the aviation industry, for
every airplane made in the United States (and in most other countries as well) contains 10 about half a ton of
magnesium metal. And it has innumerable uses in other industries where a lightweight metal is desired, besides its
long-standing utility as an insulting material, and its use in printing inks, medicines, and toothpastes.

5. What is the main topic of the passage? 7. It can be inferred from the passage that during the
(A) Uses of seawater. past fifty years the demand for magnesium has
(B) Treatment of seawater. (A) declined greatly.
(C) Chemical properties of magnesium. (B) remained stable.
(D) Derivation and uses of magnesium. (C) increased slightly.
(E) Valuable industry in the United States. (D) risen dramatically.
(E) gradually decreased.
6. According to the passage, which of the
following was a direct consequence of the new 8. According to the passage, why is magnesium
method of obtaining magnesium? important to industry?
(A) The development of insulation materials. (A) It is strong.
(B) Increased airplane production. (B) It conducts heat well.
(C) Improved medical facilities. (C) It weighs little.
(D) The development of cheap inks for printing. (D) It is inexpensive to produce.
(E) Reducing of aviation facilities. (E) It has unreachable price.

Questions 9–11 are based on the following passage.

Text 3
Line Parents send their children to school with the best of intentions, believing that formal education is what
kids need to become productive, happy adults. Many parents do have qualms about how well school are
performing, but the conventional wisdom is that these issues can be resolved with more money, better teachers,
more challenging curricula, or more rigorous tests. But what if the real problem is school itself? The unfortunate
5 fact is that one of our most cherished institutions is, by its very nature, falling our children and our society.
Children are required to be in school, where their freedom is greatly restriced, far more than most adult
would tolerate in their workspaces. In recent decades, we have been compelling them to spend ever more time
in this kind of setting, and there is strong evidence that this is causing psychologycal damage to many of them.
And as scientists have investigated how children naturally learn, they have realized that kids do so most
10 deeply and fully, and with greatest anthusiasm, in conditions that are almost opposite to those of school.
Compulsory education has been a fixture of our culture now for several generations. President
Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan are so enamored of it that they want even longer school
days and years. Most people assume that the basic design of today‟s schools emerged from scientific
evidence about how children learn. But nothing could be further from the truth.
15 Schools as we know them today are a product of history, not of research. The blueprint for them was
developed during the Protestant Reformation, when schools were created to teach children to read the
Bible, to believe Scripture without questioning it and to obey authority figure without questioning them.
When schools were taken over by the state, made compulsory and directed toward secular ends, the basic
structure and methods of teaching remained unchanged. Subsequent attempts at reform have failed because
20 they have not altered, the basic blueprint. The top down, teach-and-test method, in which learning is
motivated by a system of rewards and punishment rather than by curiousity or by any real desire to know, is
well designed for indoctrination and obedience training but not much else. It is no wonder that many of the
world‟s greatest entrepreneurs and innovators either left school early (like Thomas Edison) or said they
haled school and learned despite it, not because of it (like albert Einstein).
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9. What is the topic of the text above?
(A) Restrictions on children‟s freedom at the
US schools.
(B) Parents expactation on reformation in
American school system.
(C) Doubts on the effectiveness of American
school system.
(D) Regulations for American children to stay
longer at schools.
(E) Absence of a research-based school system
in the USA.
10. What is the purpose of the text?
(A) To review how compulsory education in the
USA has met parents expectation.
(B) To remind American parents that the format
school is basically a product of culture.
(C) To tell the readers that formal schools in the
USA have been constantly developed for a
long time.
(D) To discuss if the American school system is
truly effective to educate children.
(E) To describe how American children learn at
school and in the real-life settings.

11. Which of the following is closest in meaning to

the word “qualms” (line 2)?
(A) Beliefs. (C) Remarks. (E) Doubts.
(B) Requests. (D) Views.

Questions 12–17 are based on the following passage.

Text 4
Mental illness involves specific types of mood disorders that cause distortions. When people suffering from
one of these illnesses perceive reality incorrectly, they will likely find themselves suffering from sadness, anxicty,
hallucinations, or psychosis. With clinical depression itself, people may have both good moods and bad moods from
time to time. The bad moods, however, will likely predominate.
When people are excessively pessimistic and feel like they are experiencing a mid-life crisis, they might very
well be suffering from a major depression disorder. Misery and lack of hope may come to the forefront, and people
might very well feel that they can no longer go on. It is at this point that they will need to schedule a consultation
with a licensed therapist. In some cases, they might be started on anti-depressant medications. The goal is to correct
cognitive distortions so that the patients can regain their passion for life. The worst cases may take many months to
overcome. Strong support from loved ones is essential.
Beyond unipolar depression, which might stem from thyroid mood swings or a hormonal imbalance, the
other major type of depression is bipolar disorder. Signs of bipolar disorder might differ from person to person and
can thus be hard for professionals to tease out. Swinging from despair to europhia will indicate presence of bipolar
manic depression. In some cases, patients might believe that they have superhuman powers or traits. People who are
bipolar might also spend money without regard to the future. They could also engage in risky behaviors.
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12. Based on the passage above, it can be inferred
that
(A) clinically people tend to have changing
moods over time.
(B) depressions are closely associated with
one‟s cognition state.
(C) people who get angry easily may suffer
from mental disorders.
(D) the first aid for those with mental illnesses
is having a psychiatrist.
(E) essentially there is no best theraphy for
mentally disorder people.
13. Another way of saying “The bad moods,
however, will likely predominate.” (paragraph 1
lines 5) is that
(A) even so more and more people suffer from
bad feelings.
(B) nonetheless depressions happen to anyone
more often.
(C) yet one‟s happiness in life tends to be hard
to achieve.
(D) but there is a general tendency of feeling
sorrowful.
(E) nevertheless people tend to feel gloomier at
a time.
14. The paragraph following the passage will likely
talk about
(A) follow-up actions for anyone experiencing
bipolar psychosis.
(B) an example of how a serious mental
disorder begins to occur.
(C) necessary first clinical treatments in the
event of depression.
(D) effective curative measures for all kinds of
mental disorders.
(E) descriptions of unipolar and bipolar types
of depression.
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15. In paragraph 2 the author presents a serious case 17. In which paragraph does the author mention
of mental disorderliness followed by a/an about the medication suggested to the persons
(A) argument for the possible causes. who suffer from mental disorder?
(B) description of clinical diagnosis. (A) 1. (D) 1 and 2.
(C) suggestion for curative measures. (B) 2. (E) 2 and 3.
(D) explanation on an expert‟s theraphy. (C) 3.
(E) recommendation for effective cures.

16. To whom is the text intended?

(A) Media users. (D) Artists.
(B) Society. (E) Scientists.
(C) Government.

Questions 18–20 are based on the following passage.

Text 5
Line Scientists expect that the ocean will eventually absorb abut 85% of anthropogenic CO 2, but because
the ocean takes 1000 years to mix, this process will take many hundreds to thousands of years. An
increasing sink is expected through 2100. It is because the increasing CO 2 in the atmosphere will drive
more carbon into the ocean by the solubility mechanism. However, because of the chemistry of carbon in
5 seawater, the ability of the ocean to absorb carbon decreases as the concentration increases. Anthropogenic
forcings may slow down the large-scale overturning circulation of the ocean. As a result, they will reduce
the efficiency of the ocean sink. Predictive models suggest significant regional changes in biological
removal of carbon to the deep ocean, but a small net effect on globally-integrated ocean carbon uptake.
Uncertainties in the ocean carbon uptake include the degree to ocean circulation. The ocean
10 circulation will change with climate change and how this will modify carbon uptake. Model predictions
suggest small future changes to the “biological pump” of carbon to the deep ocean. These models, however,
do not account for potentially-important ecosystem shifts or for changes in carbon cycling in the near-
surface ocean. Carbon cycling in coastal systems is poorly quantified. The carbon cycling includes estuaries
and marshes, and the continental shelves. These are areas of active research.
15 There are additional consequences to the ocean‟s uptake of carbon. CO 2 dissolves in seawater and
forms carbonic acid. It eventually makes the ocean more acidic. From preindustrial times to present the pH
of the ocean has declined 0,1 pH units, from 8.21 to 8.10, and it is likely to decline by another 0, - 0,4 pH
units by the 2100, assuming atmospheric CO2 is about 800 ppmv by that time. Acidification will damage
coral reefs. It likely places significant stress on species important to ocean food chain, as well, particularly
in the Southern Ocean. Scientists are working hard to better-understand the impacts on organisms and the
integrated effects on ocean ecosystems.
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18. What can be inferred from the passage?
(A) Ocean circulation impacts marine lives.
(B) Most of the carbon in the air will be
absorbed by the ocean.
(C) Coastal carbon measurement methods need
improvement.
(D) Carbon absorbed will be deposited in the
seabed securely.
(E) More scientists are required to measure the
impacts of carbon absorption.
19. The sentence „The ocean circulation will change
with climate change and how this will modify
carbon uptake.‟ in lines 9‒10 is closest in
meaning to
(A) both the circulation and climate change
impact carbon absorption.
(B) climate change impacts the circulation and
change of carbon absorption.
(C) the circulation impacts climate change and
decreases carbon absorption.
(D) the process of carbon absorption impacted
by the circulation is still confusing.
(E) carbon absorption will influence both
climate change and ocean circulation.
20. What is the main idea of the third paragraph?
(A) CO2 gives additional effects to the ocean‟s
uptake of carbon.
(B) Techniques of analysis of carbon cycling
measurement are needed.
(C) Impacts of CO2 absorption seems to alert
human civilization.
(D) The absorption of CO2 into the ocean isn‟t
alarming.
(E) Research targets on carbon absorption
should have done before.