UNIVERSITAS INDRAPRASTA PGRI

(UNINDRA)
FAKULTAS BAHASA DAN SENI
SOAL UJIAN TENGAH SEMESTER GENAP
TAHUN AKADEMIK 2021/2022

Program Studi : Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris

Mata Kuliah : Critical Reading
Hari / Tanggal : Jumat/20 Mei 2022 REGULER
Waktu : mulai pukul 13.00
Sifat Ujian : Daring

Catatan:
Lembar jawaban dikirim langsung ke dosen pengampu masing-masing sesuai kesepakatan via
email/WA atau Jasa pengiriman selambat-lambatnya 24 jam setelah menerima naskah soal.

BACA PETUNJUK PENGERJAAN SOAL DENGAN TELITI

a. Bacalah soal dengan teliti sebelum Anda menjawabnya.
b. Tulislah identitas Nama, Kelas, NPM dan No HP (WA) Aktif pada lembar jawaban
Anda.
c. Anda dilarang menyontek maupun menyalin jawaban teman Anda.
d. Selamat mengerjakan dengan penuh percaya diri dan semoga kesuksesan selalu
menyertai anda.

I. Read the passage carefully and do the instructions.

China’s long arm of dictatorship reaches into the United States

By the Editorial Board

May 6, 2022 at 2:15 p.m. EDT

What happens when a dictatorship sends its brutal enforcers to intimidate or capture
dissidents, journalists, activists, business executives, members of ethnic minority groups and
religious believers who are living in a free and open democracy? No rule-of-law state should
tolerate such trespasses. Yet they go on — especially those involving China’s long arm of
repression, which often reaches deep into the United States.
While keeping a lid on free speech at home, Beijing sends agents to the West to harass,
intimidate, surveil and abduct those who have spoken out. This can include brazen attempts to
kidnap people and bring them back to China, or the misuse of extradition procedures and the
international law enforcement platform Interpol. Other dissidents are silenced with threats to
their relatives in China.
The Post’s Christian Shepherd reported April 29 that activists and lawmakers in
Europe and North America are raising the alarm about China’s use of such coercive tactics.
Beijing’s issuance of Interpol “red notices” asking for a suspect to be detained and returned to
China has jumped from around 30 a year to more than 200. Among the targets are not only
political dissidents and business executives, but also ethnic minority Uyghurs or Tibetans who
fled repression in their homelands. In 2002, Chinese agents seized dissident and democracy
advocate Wang Bingzhang while he was visiting Vietnam; he remains in prison in China. So
does Gui Minhai, a Swedish citizen and Hong Kong bookseller and publisher whose volumes
contained rumors about the private lives of China’s leaders. In 2015, he was abducted in
Thailand and taken back to China.

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 Shadowy agents often carry out China’s intimidation overseas, demanding written
pledges of obedience lest a relative be arrested or punished inside China. Such underhanded
blackmail is terrifying for those on the receiving end. A 2021 study by Freedom House
identified 31 countries that have aimed transnational repression at 79 host nations. The report
documented more than 600 cases between 2014 and 2020, and found that 26 of the 31 nations
also used nonphysical methods of intimidation, such as spyware, online harassment and
sending threats by proxy. The report concluded, “China conducts the most sophisticated,
global, and comprehensive campaign of transnational repression in the world.” Other leading
perpetrators are Russia, Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Rwanda.
A glimpse of China’s efforts in the United States came in March when the Justice
Department brought charges against five people accused of variously “stalking, harassing, and
spying on U.S. residents” on behalf of China’s secret police.
The U.S. government has a spotty record when it comes to combating such activity.
The Trump-era “China Initiative” against economic espionage and trade-secret theft was
a misguided flop and created a perception of anti-China bias. Any effort to stop transnational
repression must avoid this. In a positive step, State Department human rights reports are now
highlighting more cases of transnational repression. It is vital to stop this ugly byproduct of
dictatorship from spreading in democratic nations that respect rule of law.
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/06/chinas-long-arm-dictatorship-
reaches-into-united-states/)

1. Find out Connotations (if any), try to guess the meaning.

2. Analyze the writer’s PoV (Point of View) and explain it.
3. Analyze the Tone and Mood.
4. Give your personal opinion(s) towards the topic.

II. Choose three out of five numbers below! And try to guess what type of fallacy
from each number you choose (explain your answer!)
1. “Oh, officer, there is no reason to give me a traffic ticket for going too fast
because I was just on my way to the hospital to see my wife who is in serious
condition.”
2. Students who attend schools with expansive music programs tend to perform
much higher on standardized testing. so, all we have to do to lift poorer-
performing schools is introduce more music classes.
3. I’m going to leave my part-time job because I don’t have enough time for my
homework.
4. “I know the exam is graded based on performance, but you should give me an A.
My cat has been sick, my car broke down, and I’ve had a cold, so it was really
hard for me to study!”
5. “Grading this exam on a curve would be the most fair thing to do. After all,
classes go more smoothly when the students and the professor are getting along
well.”

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