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This passage adapted from Indonesia’s Occupational Employment Outlook ©2020 by The World Bank and
Indonesia’s Ministry of National Development Planning (Bappenas)

[1]
Occupations Today Total demand—defined as the volume of workers today plus available vacancies—is an
important indicator for understanding which occupations have good employment prospects. Identifying these
occupations is relevant because slight changes in their demand will affect many workers. [3] Total current demand is
a stock, not a flow, indicator. While it does not provide information about how the occupation will be demanded in
the future, it constitutes the baseline for the occupational analysis and should be taken into consideration. [5] OEVS
is the first survey that attempts to estimate total demand at higher-digit occupational level.
[6]
Consistent with Indonesia’s workforce, the detailed occupational analysis shows that the majority of employment
is concentrated in low-skilled occupations in low-value-added services. It shows the top 15 occupations with the
highest volume of employment. [8] The bars are coloured, showing the distribution of employment according to
economic group (with the caveat that only selected subgroups are in the sample), and the label at the end of the bar
indicates the most common minimum level of education that employers demand for that occupation. Half of these
occupations are food-related activities. [10] More specifically, a large number of workers are cooks (KBJI 5120) and
street food salespersons (KBJI 5212). This is consistent with OEVS firms’ characteristics and levels of informality:
firms in the accommodation and food sectors are massively informal and hire almost 30 percent of all workers.
Most firms hiring these occupations do not require a minimum level of education.
[13]
Very few of the top 15 occupations are associated with high-value-added firms, confirming messages from other
reports that Indonesia still needs to industrialize and professionalize. In higher-productivity firms, the most
demanded occupations are security guards (KBJI 5414), hired at high- value-added services firms, and sewing
machine operators (KBJI 8153), hired at manufacturing firms. Both occupations require at least some level of
secondary education
[15]
Only three occupations are in the top 15 for both indicators of good short-term dynamics. Advertising and
marketing professionals (KBJI 2431), which is one of the largest occupations today, and graphic and multimedia
designers (KBJI 2166) experienced a large increase in employment in both absolute terms (30,797 and 4,219 new
jobs, respectively) and relative to the baseline (20.6 percent and 34.4 percent growth, respectively). [17] Low-value-
added services firms generate most of these jobs. Civil engineer technicians (KBJI 3112) also experienced a large
increase in both absolute and percentage change (3,306 jobs and 39.8 percent growth). [19] High-value-added firms
and, to a lesser extent, manufacturing firms create these types of jobs.

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Top 15 Occupations with the Highest Demand (Employment Volume)

1. The main idea of the passage is…

A. the volume of workers compared to the
available vacancies.
B. the current demand includes its demand stock in
the future
C. Provide support for the claim that efforts to
reduce jobless
D. one way to reduce the negative environmental
effects of jobless is to make the available job
vacancies as many as possible
E. the occupations analysis which has good
employment prospect.

2. According to the graph, approximately what field of

job that has the biggest opportunity to be dominant
in Indonesia?
A. Manufacture
B. Food and culinary
C. Graphic and multimedia designers
D. Advertising and Marketing
E. Service firms

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3. Which choice provides the best evidence for the

answer to the previous question?
A. Sentences 9-12 (“half…… education”)
B. Sentences 1-2 (“occupations…. Workers”)
C. Sentences 17-19 (“lows…jobs”)
D. Sentences 3-5 (“total ....... level”)
E. Sentences 7-9 (“it……activities”)

4. It can most reasonably be summarized from the

passage and the graph that…
A. the volume of occupations demand is the same
rate with the education requirements
B. the higher of education level you have, the more
prestigious of occupation you get
C. the highest demand of occupations depends on
the quality of job itself
D. the occupation with no education requirements
will be the highest demand jobs and the most
volume of employees
E. Indonesia will have more qualified employees
with better education and skill to provide good
occupations

This passage adapted from the article China's protests: Blank paper becomes the symbol of rare demonstrations
©2022 by bbc/news.com
[1]
So often one item comes to symbolise an entire protest movement. In China, that item is a humble piece of blank
paper. [3] As dusk fell on Shanghai on Sunday evening, some of those who gathered at a vigil to remember the
victims of a fire that catalysed the demonstrations came clutching sheets of paper. Similarly, in the capital Beijing,
protesters came armed with scraps of paper to a demonstration at Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University, once
attended by President Xi Jinping. [5] And in another striking video a young woman could be seen walking through
the streets of Wuzhen - a town in the eastern province of Zhejiang - with chains around her wrists and duct tape
over her mouth. In her hands was a sheet of unspoiled blank paper.
[7]
The trend has its roots in the 2020 Hong Kong demonstrations, where locals held blank pieces of paper to protest
against the city's draconian new national security laws. Activists held the paper aloft after authorities banned
slogans and phrases associated with the mass protest movement of 2019 that saw the city grind to a halt and
officials violently clamp down on demonstrators. [9] Some have argued that the gesture is not only a statement about
the silencing of dissent, but also a challenge to authorities, as if to say 'are you going to arrest me for holding a sign
saying nothing?'". "There was definitely nothing on the paper, but we know what's on there," a woman who joined
protests in Shanghai told the BBC.
[11]
Johnny, 26-years old demonstrator in Beijing, told the Reuters news agency that the paper had come to
"represent everything we want to say but cannot say". Kerry Allen, the BBC's China media analyst, observed that
Chinese censorship officials have gone into overdrive on the country's social media platforms. [13] "Tens of millions
of posts have been filtered from search results," she said. "'Blank sheet of paper' and 'white paper' now also only
show sparing results." The censors scrubbing of social media has provoked anger online, with one user writing that
"if you fear a blank sheet of paper, you are weak inside".
[16]
Meanwhile, paper maker Shanghai M&G Stationary was forced to deny rumours that it had taken all A4 paper
off shelves for national security reasons. M&G officials said production and operation was all normal and that they
had notified police of a forged document circulating online which had kick-started the rumour. [18] But the blank
sign has also become a lightning rod for abuse from those still loyal to the central government and angered by the
waves of protest.

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[19]
In another video from later that night, dozens more students were seen on the campus holding pieces of white
paper, standing in silence. Demonstrators - hamstrung by Beijing's censorship machine - have also turned to other
forms of anti-government comment, including sarcastic expressions of support for China's harsh Covid policies .[21]
In one case, after officials ordered dozens of white sheet-sporting protesters to stop signing anti-lockdown slogans
they responded with sarcastic chants of "more lockdowns" and "I want to do a Covid test". And at Tsinghua
University some students were seen holding pieces of paper with Friedmann equations scrawled on them, in which
the Russian physicist and mathematician explains how the universe evolves over time. [23] The use of the equation
is understood to be a play on the words "Free man". But it is paper that has been the most common sight at Chinese
demonstrations, joining such items as umbrellas (Hong Kong), rubber ducks (Thailand) and flowers (Belarus) as an
emblem of modern protest.

5. The first paragraph mainly serves to….

A. Establish the reason why some of Shanghai
people gathered to do demonstrations
B. Illustrate the Shanghai current situation, many
people do demonstration by clutching sheets of
paper.
C. Introduce the origin of demonstration in
Hongkong, the root of white sheet symbolizes
the mass protest
D. Offer the solutions for the conflict in the text
during the action of demonstration
E. Manage the readers’ framework about the
symbolize of white sheet that represents the
publics’ ideas

6. In describing the living condition of the situation in

China, the demonstrations indicates that a “blank
paper” as……
A. a depth exploration
B. a sign of simplicity and purify
C. a description of well-balanced and optimistic
D. an ironic response to the diminishing space for
agreement
E. a true balance of purity and innocence

7. Which choice provides the best evidence for the

previous questions?
A. Sentences 7-8 (“the trends……. demonstrator”)
B. Sentences 3-4 (“As……. Xin JinPing”)
C. Sentences 23-24 (“The use…… protest”)
D. Sentences 14-15 (“blank…… inside”)
E. Sentence 18 (“but ....... protest”)

8. In the Sentence 5 ” ….And in another striking video

a young woman could be seen walking through the
streets of Wuzhen - a town in the eastern province of
Zhejiang - with chains around her wrists and duct
tape over her mouth. In her hands was a sheet of
unspoiled blank paper” Indicates to…
A. stress how authoritarian the government was
B. underline the importance of this massive action
C. emphasize the emotional connection among
other people
D. imply that they can’t express their feeling
independently
E. describe the people through pantomime

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9. As used in sentence 18, “a lightning rod” most

nearly means….
A. Troublemaker
B. Tattler
C. Gossiper
D. target
E. talebearer

[1]
The deaths of nearly 70 children in The Gambia, linked to cough syrups made in India, are being investigated
amid concerns about effective regulation of the manufacture and trade in medicines. Last week, the World Health
Organization (WHO) issued a global alert over four brands of cough syrups, saying they could be linked to acute
kidney damage, following reports from The Gambia of children diagnosed with serious kidney problems. [3]
Laboratory analysis of the syrups "confirms that they contain unacceptable amounts of diethylene glycol and
ethylene glycol as contaminants", according to the WHO. The Indian authorities and the cough syrup manufacturer,
Maiden Pharmaceuticals, say these syrups have been exported to The Gambia only.
[5]
Maiden Pharmaceuticals says it adheres to internationally recognised quality-control standards. But some of its
products have failed to meet national or state-level quality-control standards in India. [7] Official records there show
the company, was blacklisted by Bihar state, in 2011, for selling a syrup failing to meet local standards, was subject
to legal proceedings by India's drug regulator, in 2018, for quality-control violations, failed a quality-control test in
Jammu and Kashmir state, in 2020, has failed quality-control tests in Kerala state four times in 2022
[8]
It is also among nearly 40 Indian pharmaceutical companies blacklisted by Vietnam for exporting sub-standard
products. The company, based in Haryana state, has said it is "shocked" by the deaths in The Gambia and had
"been diligently following the protocols of the health authorities, including [the] drugs controller general [of India]
and the state drugs controllers, Haryana". [10] It would not comment further while drugs regulators were still
testing, it added. Haryana Health Minister Anil VII told BBC News samples had been sent for testing and if
something wrong was detected, action would be taken.
Taken from: https://www.bbc.com/news

10. What is the topic of the text above?

A. The cough syrups
B. The death of children in India
C. The illegal Indian cough syrup scandal
D. The Investigation of death case in India
E. Maiden Pharmaceuticals

11. What is the main idea of writing the text above?

A. An education to the readers about drugs
’composition which is allowed to consumed
B. A news about many children died in Gambia
because of consuming illegal Indian cough
syrups
C. A persuasive information to the readers to be
careful in choosing the drug for their family
D. the latest news from Gambia
E. A news about an illegal cough syrup which
contained healthy composition made in India

12. The passage indicates that a problem with an illegal

cough syrup that results…
A. All Indian’s drugs are unfit for consumption
B. The health authority’s controller by WHO is
higher than before

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C. WHO appeal all cough syrup all over the world

D. Caused serious kidney’s problem till the death
of many children in Gambia
E. Indian pharmaceutical companies were
blacklisted by WHO

13. According to the passage, what is the word can

bestrepresent The Indian Pharmaceutical
companies?
A. Fear
B. Careless
C. Tough
D. Remarkable
E. Exceptional

14. As used in sentence 2, “diagnose” most nearly

means
A. Determine
B. Camouflage
C. Conceal
D. Hide
E. Disguise

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