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SOAL PAKET C

READING SECTION

The following text is for questions number 16 – 17

16. What is the objective of the text above?

A. To cancel the workshop about the Online Management of Vacation and
Leaves
B. To promote workshop about the Online Management of Vacation and
Leaves
C. To give information of workshop about the Online Management of
Vacation and Leaves
D. To inform the reschedule of workshop about the Online Management of
Vacation and Leaves

E. To invite students to join workshop about the Online Management of

Vacation and Leaves

17. This announcement is not intended to ....

A. director assistans
B. vice deans
C. directors
D. lecturers
E. dean

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The following text is for questions number 18 – 19

18. This text is probably addressed to those who are interested in ....
A. Designing building
B. Dressmaking
C. beauty care
D. cooking
E. artwork
19. What will the invitees prepare before attending the meeting?
A. Evaluating the budget
B. Reserving a hotel room
C. Desiging a model for the future
D. Demonstrating progress and ideas
E. Working in team to make progress report

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The following text is for questions number 20 – 22

To : jjones@jonesofficesolutions.com
From : tmcaden@jonesooficesolution.com

Subject : Meeting About New Internet Service Provider 1/10/2019

Mr Jones,
I have been researching our choice for the internet providers over the
past two weeks, and I want to update my progress.
We have two options: H.C. Cable and Toll South. Both offer business
plans, and I will go over the pricing of each plan at the meeting on Tuesday.
Both of the options I listed have comparable speed and data usage offering as
well. I called your personal provider, GoGo Satellite, but they did not have any
business offerings. They primarily do residential internal service.
I will talk with Joe and Susan from IT department about these options
and get their suggestions. I will also send out meeting requests to everyone,
including Mr Morris in operations. If you have any questions prior to the
meeting, please let me know.

Respectfully,
Tina McAden
Administrative Assistant
Jones Office Solutions
http://www.jonesofficesolutions.com
(555)124-5678
20. What is the email about?
A. A working progress of Jones Office Solution
B. A research about new internet providers
C. An offer from a personal provider
D. A meeting plan on Tuesday
E. A business transaction

21. What will Mr Jones probably do after reading the email?

A. Attend the meeting on Tuesday
B. Evaluate the working progress
C. Determine business offerings
D. Call some internet providers
E. Set up a meeting plan

22. “I will also send out meeting request…..” (paragraph 3)

The underlined phrase is closest in meaning to…..
A. Attend
B. Produce
C. Distribute
D. Participate
E. Contribute

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The following text is for questions number 23 – 25

The Taos Pueblo

The Taos Pueblo is the largest many-storied pueblo structure in the United
States. It was a lively community in 1540, when it was observed by Spanish
explorers. It is still inhabited today, and its inhabitants live in much the same way
that their ancestors lived ofr centuries.
The pueblo consists of rectangular blocks made of adobe that are clustered
together and stacked one on top of the other. The pueblo has two main clusters of
buildings, one on the northern side and the other on the southern side of the Rio
Pueblo de Taos river.
Some changes have been made in the pueblo over time, but much has stayed
the same.Windows and doors, for example, have been added to modernize the
pueblo from its early days. However, the method of moving from level to level has
remained the same as it has been for centuries. To move from level to level, the
inhabitants climb on a series of ladders on the outside of the pueblo. There are no
elevators or staircases and no ways to move from level to another in the interior of
the pueblo.

23. It is stated in the text that the Taos Pueblo ....

A. is not very old
B. is made of wood
C. has the largsest structure
D. is not inhabited any longer
E. has many levels made of adobe

24. When did Spanish explorers come across the Taos Pueblo, according to the
passage?
A. Fifteen hundred years ago
B. Early in the fifteenth century
C. More than five hundred years ago
D. Sometime in the sixteenth century
E. Before Spanish explored America

25. What is stated in the text about the inhibitation of the Taos Pueblo?
A. It was inhabited in 1540.
B. It has been inhabited for centuries.
C. Inhabitants have only recently moved there.
D. It has been uninhabited since sixteenth century.
E. It was inhabited but now it has been abondened.

The following text is for questions number 26 – 29

SOJOURNER TRUTH

The name of Sojourner Truth evokes the struggle of slaves in America to be

free and equal. Sojourner Truth started from poor beginnings, but over her lifetime she
became a strong force in the early days of the civil rights movement.
She was born a slave in Ulster County, New York, near the end of the
eighteenth century, but she did not remain a slave. Her real name was Isabella Van
Wagener, a name she got from one of the owners. She was freed by the last of her

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several owners in 1827. As a free woman, she moved to New York City and found work
as a housekeeper.
In 1843, she started a new life away from the world of domestic work. She
changed her name to Sojourner Truth, she began a life on the road throughout the
states in the northern part of the United States. In her travels, she spoke out publicly
against slavery. She made money by selling copies of her book, The Narrative of
Sojourner Truth. She developed a reputation as a dynamic speaker and spokesperson
for the antislavery movement.
From the time of the Civil War, the focus of her life changed from speaking out
against slavery to assisting freed slaves. She spent the Civil War years in Washington,
D.C. counseling freed slaves, and after the war she devoted her life to helping newly
freed slaves make the transition to life as a free people.

26. What is the topic of this passage?

A. the history of the civil rights movement in America
B. the cause and effect of the Civil War in Ammerica
C. the life of an early civil rights leader
D. the effort to free slaves in America
E. the early years of Sojourner Truth

27. What does paragraph 2 mainly discuss?

A. Sojourner Truth’s shifting focus from housework to civil rights work
B. Sojourner Truth’s efforts to survive against her hard life pressure
C. Sojourner Truth’s struggles to eliminate slavery in America
D. Sojourner Truth’s transition from slave to free woman
E. Sojourner Truth’s intention to abolish slavery

28. “... after the war she devoted her life to helping ...” (last paragraph).
The underlined word has the same meaning as the following words, except ....
A. desecrated
B. performed
C. dedicated
D. presented
E. served

29. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?

A. Sojourner Truth’s preaching after the Civil War
B. Sojourner Truth’s preaching before the Civil War
C. Sojourner Truth’s helps for slaves before the Civil War
D. Sojourner Truth’s help for freed slaves after the Civil War
E. Sojourner Truth’s focus of her struggles before the Civil War

The following text is for questions number 30 – 33

Medusa and Athena

Once upon a time, a long time ago there lived a beautiful maiden named
Medusa. Medusa lived in the city of Athens in a country named Greece -- and although
there were many pretty girls in the city, Medusa was considered the most lovely.
Unfortunately, Medusa was very proud of her beauty and thought or spoke of
little else. Each day she boasted of how pretty she was and each day her boasts
became more outrageous.

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When Medusa saw the sculptures, she whispered that she would have made a
much better subject for the sculptor than Athena had. When Medusa saw the artwork,
she commented that the artist had done a fine job considering the goddess's thick
eyebrows -- but imagine how much more wonderful the painting would be if it was of
someone as delicate as Medusa.
And when Medusa reached the altar she sighed happily and said, “My this is a
beautiful temple. It is a shame it was wasted on Athena for I am so much prettier than
she is – perhaps some day people will build an even grander temple to my beauty.”
Before long the temple was empty of everyone except Medusa, who was so
busy gazing proudly at her reflection in the large bronze doors that she hadn't noticed
the swift departure of everyone else. The image she was gazing at wavered and
suddenly, instead of her own features, it was the face of Athena that Medusa saw
reflected back at her.
“Vain and foolish girl,” Athena said angrily, “You think you are prettier than I am!
I doubt it to be true, but even if it were -- there is more to life than beauty alone. While
others work and play and learn, you do little but boast and admire yourself.”
Medusa tried to point out that her beauty was an inspiration to those around her
and that she made their lives better by simply looking so lovely, but Athena silenced
her with a frustrated wave.
“Nonsense,” Athena retorted, “Beauty fades swiftly in all mortals. It does not
comfort the sick, teach the unskilled or feed the hungry. And by my powers, your
loveliness shall be stripped away completely. Your fate shall serve as a reminder to
others to control their pride.”
And with those words Medusa’s face changed to that of a hideous monster. Her hair
twisted and thickened into horrible snakes that hissed and fought each other atop her
head.
“Medusa, for your pride this has been done. Your face is now so terrible to
behold that the mere sight of it will turn a man to stone,” proclaimed the goddess,
“Even you, Medusa, should you seek your reflection, shall turn to rock the instant you
see your face.”
And with that, Athena sent Medusa with her hair of snakes to live with the blind
monsters -- the gorgon sisters -- at the ends of the earth, so that no innocents would be
accidentally turned to stone at the sight of her.

30. What is this text written?

A. To describe the characteristics of Medusa
B. To introduce Greek cultures and myths
C. To give pleasure for the reader
D. To tell the Greek old legend
E. To provide moral lessons

31. Which statement is not right to describe Medusa?

A. generous
B. boastful
C. arrogant
D. talkative
E. mean

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32. “Beauty fades swiftly in all mortals”.

The underlined word can be best replaced by the word ....
A. Slowly
B. Rapidly
C. Steadily
D. Leasurely
E. Unhurriedly

33. What message is conveyed through this story?

A. One must struggle persistently till the end of life
B. Underestimating others is strongly recommended.
C. Beauty is important to support female performance.
D. Pride, beauty, and wealth must be achieved to get success.
E. Pride of beauty means nothing without good mental attitudes.

The following text is for questions number 34 – 36

Instructions:
Step 1 : Remove any rocks, sticks or other objects that would be uncomfortable to
lay on from the area where you’d like to build the tent. Not only will this
make your sleep more comfortable, it will also protect your tent from
getting damaged.
Step 2 : Unroll the tent with the top facing upward over the cleaned area. Remove
the tent poles from the tent bag and unfold them to assemble.
Step 3 : String the tent poles diagonally across the top of the tent using the sleeves
on the tent to hold the poles. Use the elastic cords on each end of the tent
to secure the poles in place and erect the tent. Straighten the tent with
your hands so that it rests evenly and sturdily over the poles.
Step 4 : Remove the stakes from the tent bag and use a hammer or large rock to
pound them into the ground through the loops around the perimeter of the
tent. Make sure the stakes are secure and do not shift easily when pulled
on.

34. What is the instruction about?

A. Building a tent
B. Cleaning the camp area
C. Sleeping comfortably in a tent
D. Protecting the tent from damaged
E. Making a campingsite by the mountain

35. What do you have to do after removing the tent poles from the bag?
A. Straighten the tent with your hands
B. Remove the stakes from the tent bag
C. Unroll the tent with the top facing upward
D. String the poles diagonally across the top tent.
E. Remove any rocks, sticks or other objects away

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36. ” Make sure the stakes are secure and do not shift easily when pulled on”.
What is the opposite meaning of the underlined word?
A. safe
B. risky
C. firm
D. tight
E. fixed

The following text is for questions number 37 – 40

The Magellanic Clouds are hazy glowing patches in the sky that can be seen
with the naked eye from the equator or from the southern hemisphere. They are
actually the nearest galaxies to our galaxy, the Milky Way. They are part of the larger
group to which the Milky Way galaxy belongs.
There are two Magellanic Clouds, one larger and one smaller. The large
Magellanic Cloud is about 180,000 light years away and contains about10 billion stars.
This is about one-tenth as many stars as there are in the Milky Way. The Small
Magellanic Cloud is about 50,000 light-years further away than the Large Magellanic
Cloud and contains only a fraction of the number of stars.
These two galaxies bear the name of Portugueses explorer and navigator
Ferdinand Magellan. Magellan discovered them early in the sixteenth century when he
was sailing on the seas in the southern hemisphere and employing navigational
methods based on the position stars in the sky.

37. It is implied in the text that the Magellanic Clouds cannot be seen with naked eye
....
A. from the Earth
B. from the equator
C. from the northern hemisphere
D. from the southern hemisphere
E. from the imaginary line drawn around the earth

38. It can be inferred from the text that the Small Magellanic Cloud is ....
A. 50,000 light-years away from Earth
B. 130,000 light-years away from Earth
C. 180,000 light-years away from Earth
D. 230,000 light-years away from Earth
E. 310,000 light-years away from Earth

39. The text concludes that Magellan discovered these galaxies while ....
A. Employing Portuguese navigator
B. Travelling aroung the earth
C. Working as an astronomer
D. Climbing mountain rock
E. Setting a ship’s cruise

40. The Milky Way most likely contains ....

A. 100 million stars

B. 100 billion stars
C. 10 million stars
D. 10 billion stars
E. 2 billion stars

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The following text is for questions number 41 – 44

Why is the 21st century making us miserable?

We've built an all-encompassing web of technology dedicated to avoiding
people.We shop online so we can avoid people in the supermarket.We spend a fortune
on a home theatre system so we can avoid the annoyance of going to the cinema.
Filter from your world that chatty person next to you in a queue by plugging in your
iPod and texting your mates.
The problem is that tolerating annoyance is necessary in a world populated by
other people who aren't you. As long as you have needs, you'll have to deal with
people you can't stand from time to time. Technology is ensuring we lose that vital
ability.
These days, whatever your interests, you can find a forum and meet a dozen
people just like you. Say goodbye to the painful process of dealing with somebody
who's different. That's another Old World inconvenience. Fifty years ago people were
unable to filter their peers in this way, but still managed to have more close friends than
we have now – people they could trust.
They say 40 percent of your personality is lost in the text transition, so do your
online friends even really know you? How often do they get a different message than
the one you sent? For example, sarcasm is just mismatching the words with the tone.
So how can we effectively communicate by text or email? In face-to-face conversation,
only 7% of meaning is in the words; the rest is nonverbal.
We are losing the art of criticism and gaining the ability to insult, especially
online. In my time online I've been insulted lots, but I've been criticized very little. Don't
ever confuse the two. Criticism is someone trying to help you, by telling you something
about yourself that you were a little too comfortable not knowing. Your response to this
criticism helps build trust with friends over time. Tragically, these common quirks and
vulnerabilities that real friendships are built on are disappearing online.
We are programmed by evolution to need to do things for and with people, to
interact face to face. Most office jobs these days make us miserable because we don't
get physical, tangible results from our work. Do some building work out in the hot sun
for two months, and you can say, "I built that. That’s my work."Work for two months in
your office and what have you achieved?
So why not turn off the computer, go outdoors and re-connect with the real
world? That feeling can't be matched by anything the Internet has to offer, but I guess
we are too far down the line.
https://www.examenglish.com/PTE/pte_general_level5_reading1.htm

41. According to the author, online contacts frequently ....

A. fail to receive messages
B. misinterpret messages
C. misplace messages
D. forward messages
E. sends messages
42. The second paragraph claims that technology
A. Erodes our social skills .
B. Refocuses our social skills.
C. Identifies a new set of social skills.
D. Fully support human’s life to survive.
E. Promotes highly qualified inter-relationship.

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43. The implication is that, compared with fifty years ago, people now make friends
more
A. deeply
B. smoothly
C. superficially
D. conveniently
E. appropriately

44. .... we don't get physical, tangible results from our work. (Paragraph 6)
What is the closest meaning of the underlined word?
A. unshowy
B. ambigious
C. concealed
D. unimportant
E. noticeable

The following text is for questions number 45 – 47

KILIAN JORNET
Born in 1987, Kilian has been training for Everest his whole life. And that really
does mean his whole life, as he grew up 2,000 metres above sea level in the Pyrenees
in the ski resort of Lles de Cerdanya in Catalonia, north-eastern Spain. While other
children his age were learning to walk, Kilian was on skis. At one and a half years old
he did a five-hour hike with his mother, entirely under his own steam. He left his peers
even further behind when he climbed his first mountain and competed in his first cross-
country ski race at age three. By age seven, he had scaled a 4,000er and, at ten, he
did a 42-day crossing of the Pyrenees.
He was 13 when he says he started to take it 'seriously' and trained with the Ski
Mountaineering Technical Centre (CTEMC) in Catalonia, entering competitions and
working with a coach. At 18, he took over his own ski-mountaineering and trail-running
training, with a schedule that only allows a couple of weeks of rest a year. He does as
many as 1,140 hours of endurance training a year, plus strength training and technical
workouts as well as specific training in the week before a race. For his record-breaking
ascent and descent of the Matterhorn, he prepared by climbing the mountain ten times
until he knew every detail of it, even including where the sun would be shining at every
part of the day.
Sleeping only seven hours a night, Kilian Jornet seems almost superhuman. His
resting heartbeat is extremely low at 33 beats per minute, compared with the average
man's 60 per minute or an athlete's 40 per minute. He breathes more efficiently than
average people too, taking in more oxygen per breath, and he has a much faster
recovery time after exercise as his body quickly breaks down lactic acid – the acid in
muscles that causes pain after exercise.
All this is thanks to his childhood in the mountains and to genetics, but it is his
mental strength that sets him apart. He often sets himself challenges to see how long
he can endure difficult conditions in order to truly understand what his body and mind
can cope with. For example, he almost gave himself kidney failure after only drinking
3.5 litres of water on a 100km run in temperatures of around 40°C.
It would take a book to list all the races and awards he's won and the mountains
he's climbed. And even here, Kilian’s achievements exceed the average person as,
somehow, he finds time to record his career on his blog and has written three books,
Run or Die, The Invisible Border and Summits of My Life.
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45. The text mostly talks about ....

A. Kilian Jornet with his excellent academic achievement at school.
B. The life experience of well-trained persistent mountain climber.
C. The hobby of mountain climbing and everything needed.
D. The daily activity of Kilian Jornet to spend his free time.
E. The adventures of many competent everest climbers.

46. Which of these following is incorrect based on the text?

A. Kilian Jornet is unlike most everest climbers because he ascended faster.
B. Killian books are another example of his impressive accomplishments.
C. His training includes physical and psychological preparation.
D. In his training now, Kilian demands a little to himself.
E. Kilian is much assisted by genetic mountain climber.

47. He does as many as 1,140 hours of endurance training a year, .... (paragraph 2,
line 5)
What is meant by the underlined word?

A. a long, hard walk

B. the height of a place above sea level
C. a climb up a mountain or other object
D. a mountain guide from the Himalaya mountains
E. the ability to do something difficult for a long time

The following text is for questions number 48 – 50

NEW DELHI: Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) have developed a

'Spine Surgery Robot', an image guided robotic system for minimally invasive and open
spine surgeries that are less painful and more affordable.

The project funded by HRD Ministry, is India's first robotic system for spinal surgery -
making such procedures right-first-time across skill level of surgeons and affordable to
patients, the researchers at IIT Madras claim.

"Minimally invasive spinal surgeries yield superior results compared to open spinal
surgeries (needs expertise) with faster recovery time, lower infections and better
outcomes. The Spine Surgery Robot we have developed will help in reduction in
procedure time, reducing hospital stay and recovering time for patient," said IIT
Professor, Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam, who is leading the project.

"Our product will also increase safety of the procedure for the patient and reducing
surgeon's radiation exposure. To provide intra-operative guidance, an external position
tracker will be provided to independently track the tool placement and robotic position
on need basis.

"A calibration step will be performed for the external tracker to align the world
coordinates to the 3D model and robot coordinate. Once calibrated, any movement of
the tracker can be extrapolated on to the 3D model ..

Read more at:

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48. What is the news about?

A. The Spine Surgery Robot in USA
B. Launching The Spine Surgery Robot
C. India's last robotic system for spinal surgery
D. The innovation of Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology
E. Developing robot for less painful, more affordable spine surgeries

49. What can be inferred from the text?

A. The robot helps in lessening hospital stay and recovering time for patient
B. The robot reduces safety of the procedure for the patient
C. The project is funded by Indian Institute of Technology
D. The robot increases surgeon's radiation exposure
E. The robot will be offered for high prices

50. ‘ ... are less painful and more affordable. ‘

What is the closest meaning of the underlined word?
A. reasonable
B. premium
C. pricey
D. costly
E. dear

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