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The following text is for questions 1 to 4! The company received the 2003 IEEE
Corporate Innovation Recognition award, an
Xerox, in full Xerox Corporation, major
honour presented by the Institute of Electrical
American corporation that was a pioneer in
and Electronics Engineers, Inc., to industrial,
office technology, notably being the first to
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manufacture xerographic plain-paper copiers.
for the development of outstanding products
Headquarters are in Norwalk, Connecticut. The

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or concepts that advance electrotechnology;
company was founded in 1906 as the Haloid

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Xerox received the award for its DocuTech

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Company, a manufacturer and distributor
product line, which combined copier and
of photographic paper. In 1947, the firm

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computer resources to allow for the digital
obtained the commercial rights to xerography,

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transmission and storage of documents for
an imaging process invented by Chester

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print via a single machine, thereby creating
Carlson. Renamed the Haloid Xerox Company
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in 1958, the company introduced the 914
filed a patent in 2006 for photosensitive

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xerographic copier in 1959. The process,
“erasable paper,” which produced prints with
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images lasting only a day, thus allowing for
plain, uncoated paper, had been known for
the continuous reuse of paper. The company
some time, but this was its first commercial
acquired the technology sales and services
application. The product brought so much
company Global Imaging Systems (GIS) in
success and name recognition that the
2007. The same year, Xerox received the
company has waged a continuing campaign to
U.S. National Medal of Technology (now
prevent the trademark Xerox from becoming a
the National Medal of Technology and
generic term. The company changed its name
Innovation), the highest honour awarded
to Xerox Corporation in 1961.
by the president to the country’s leading
After the success of its first copier, Xerox innovators.
expanded into other information products
Most of the company’s 21st-century
and publishing businesses and founded PARC,
innovations occurred under the leadership
a research lab in Palo Alto, California, in 1970.
of Anne Mulcahy, who in 2001 became the
While remaining a major reprographics
first female chief executive of Xerox and, the
manufacturer, the company went on to
following year, its first female chairperson.
develop word-processing machines in 1974,
Upon her retirement in 2009, Mulcahy
laser printers in 1977, and Ethernet, an office
selected company president Ursula Burns as
communications network, in 1979. Xerox sold
her successor. Burns’s appointment marked
its publishing firms in 1985. The company’s
not only the first time an African American
product lines included copiers, printers, digital
woman headed a company of such size but
print production presses, and the software
also the first time a female chief executive
and systems support required for document
replaced another at a Fortune 500 company.
production. In the 1990s Xerox developed
digital photocopiers. Taken from: www.britannica.com

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1. What is the text mainly talking about?
A. The success of Xerox Corporatin
B. The founding of Xerox Corporation
C. One of the Fortune 500 company
D. The history of Xerox Corporation
E. The development of digital copier
2. What is the relationship between Anne
Mulcahy and Ursula Burns?
A. Ursula Burns is the senior of Anne
Mulcahy.
B. Anne Mulcahy is the beneficiary of
Ursula Burns.
C. They were employer and employee.
D. Anne Mulcahy was the former
The following text is for questions 5 to 8!
The brain is the body’s sovereign and
receives protection in keeping with its high
status. Its cells are long-lived and sheltered
inside a fearsome fortification called the
blood–brain barrier. For a long time, scientists
thought that the brain was completely cut
off from the chaos of the rest of the body —
especially its eager defence system, a mass
of immune cells that battle infections and
whose actions could threaten a ruler caught
in the crossfire.
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have discovered that the job of protecting the
employee of Ursula Burns.
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E. Ursula Burns is a descendant of Anne
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gateways and gaps and that its borders are
3. It can be inferred from the text that .... bustling with active immune cells.

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A. Xerox Corporation was built by

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Chester Carlson himself.

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that the brain and the immune system are
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tightly intertwined. Scientists already knew
publishing company.
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C. Xerox owned publishing company
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for more than 15 years.
D. Xerox was famous for its information
products and publishing businesses.
E. Xerox Corporatin’s business is
photography paper.
4. The sentence “The company acquired the
technology sales and services company
Global Imaging Systems (GIS) in 2007.”
in paragraph 3 means ....
A. Xerox Corporation established a
company named Global Imaging
Systems (GIS).
B. Global Imaging System (GIS)
collaborated with Xerox Corporation.
C. Xerox Company took possession of
Global Image System (GIS).
D. Global Image System would be
the business partner of Xerox
Corporation.
E. Xerox Corporation would no longer
be part of Global Imaging Systems
(GIS).
are painting more-detailed pictures of their
functions and revealing the characteristics
of the other immune warriors housed in the
regions around the brain. Some of these cells
come from elsewhere in the body; others are
produced locally, in the bone marrow of the
skull. By studying these immune cells and
mapping out how they interact with the brain,
researchers are discovering that they play an
important part in both healthy and diseased
or damaged brains. Interest in the field has
exploded: there were fewer than 2,000 papers
per year on the subject in 2010, swelling
to more than 10,000 per year in 2021, and
researchers have made several major findings
in the past few years.
No longer do scientists consider the
brain to be a special, sealed-off zone. “This
whole idea of immune privilege is quite
outdated now,” says Kiavash Movahedi, a
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of Brussels (VUB). Although the brain is still
seen as immunologically unique — its barriers
prevent immune cells from coming and going
at will — it’s clear that the brain and immune
system constantly interact, he adds.
This shift in attitude is widespread in the
community, says Leonardo Tonelli, chief of the
neuroendocrinology and neuroimmunology
programme at the US National Institute of
Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland. In
his experience, almost every neuroscientist
who reviews grant proposals for the agency
accepts the connection, he says, although
many still need to catch up with the latest
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discoveries in neuroimmunology, which have
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started to reveal the underlying mechanisms.
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The rush to understand how the brain and
immune system knit together has prompted a
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wealth of questions, says Tony Wyss-Coray, a
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neuroimmunologist at Stanford University in
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California. “How important is this in normal
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brain function or disease? That is a very hard
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question to answer.”
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Taken from: www.nature.com
5. The passage above mainly discusses ....
A. The brain as the immune system
B. The brain and immune system
parody
C. Study about brain and its immune
system
D. Study about brain and its abilities
E. Brain’s sturdy defense mechanism
6. The word “intertwined” in paragraph
3 has the same meaning as the option
below, EXCEPT ....
A. entwined
B. tangled
C. knit
D. knot
E. pot
7. How did the scientists find out that the
brain and the immune system have a
connection?
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A. By observing the brain activities
B. By dissecting human brain
C. By trial and error
D. By continuous study on the subject
E. By conducting survey
8. What is the best title for the text?
A. Brain vs Immune System
B. Brain As The Main Immune System
C. Kiavash Movahedi’s Journal
D. Guardian Of The Brain
E. The Sovereign of The Body
The following text is for question 9 to 12!
James Johnson hopes to drive a car again
one day. If he does, he will do it using only
his thoughts. In March 2017, Johnson broke
his neck in a go-carting accident, leaving
him almost completely paralysed below the
shoulders. He understood his new reality
better than most. For decades, he had been
a carer for people with paralysis. “There was
a deep depression,” he says. “I thought that
when this happened to me there was nothing
— nothing that I could do or give.”
Then Johnson’s rehabilitation team
introduced him to researchers from the
nearby California Institute of Technology
(Caltech) in Pasadena, who invited him to join
a clinical trial of a brain–computer interface
(BCI). This would first entail neurosurgery to
implant two grids of electrodes into his cortex.
These electrodes would record neurons in
his brain as they fire, and the researchers
would use algorithms to decode his thoughts
and intentions. The system would then use
Johnson’s brain activity to operate computer
applications or to move a prosthetic device. All
told, it would take years and require hundreds
of intensive training sessions. “I really didn’t
hesitate,” says Johnson.
The first time he used his BCI, implanted in
November 2018, Johnson moved a cursor around
a computer screen. “It felt like The Matrix,” he says.
“We hooked up to the computer, and lo and behold
I was able to move the cursor just by thinking.”
 Johnson has since used the BCI to control
a robotic arm, use Photoshop software, play
‘shoot-’em-up’ video games, and now to drive
a simulated car through a virtual environment,
changing speed, steering, and reacting to
hazards. “I am always stunned at what we
are able to do,” he says, “and it’s frigging
awesome.”
Johnson is one of an estimated 35 people
who have had a BCI implanted long-term in
their brain. Only around a dozen laboratories
conduct such research, but that number
is growing. And in the past five years, the
range of skills these devices can restore
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has expanded enormously. Last year alone,
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scientists described a study participant using a
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robotic arm that could send sensory feedback
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directly to his brain; a prosthetic speech device
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for someone left unable to speak by a stroke;
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and a person able to communicate at record
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speeds by imagining himself handwriting.
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Taken from: www.nature.com
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9. The underlined word in paragraph 1
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means ....
A. debuffed
B. buffed
C. poisoned
D. disabled
E. enabled
10. Which of the following statement is
INCORRECT according to the passage?
A. James becomes vegetables.
B. Johnson has robotic arm.
C. James had a car accident.
D. James is a fan of The Matrix.
E. BCL keeps growing better.
11. It can be inferred from the passage that
....
A. Many people has BCL implanted.
B. James is afraid and doubtful at the
beginning of BCL implant.
C. James still can’t feel his arm even
when he is able to move the cursor
around.
D. BCL growth is on its apex.
E. James can’t accept reality that he
became paralyzed from shoulder
and below.
12. The author’s intention is to ....
A. make you give up
B. introduce and promote BCL implant
C. boost BCL implant sales
D. cheers James Johnson recovery
E. give readers vigor to keep going
The following passage is for questions 13
to 16!
A single flash from the sky pointed the
way to a bizarre star that rotates very slowly,
making it difficult to figure out if it’s a pulsar
or some other stellar object.
The object, known as PSR J0901-4046,
“Challenges our current understanding of how
these systems evolve” due to its slow pirouette
of 76 seconds and the fact that it emits radio
waves, both of which are unusual for pulsars,
researchers said in a study published Monday
(May 30) in Nature Astronomy.
Pulsars are rapidly rotating objects that
belong to the family of neutron stars. These
are ultra-dense, city-sized objects that are just
a little more massive than our sun. They are
thought to emerge from powerful supernova
explosions of massive stars. But typically,
pulsars rotate several times a second.
That makes PSR J0901-4046 and its slow
pirouette rather strange, and unlike any of the
other 3,000 other pulsars found in our
Milky Way galaxy. The newly found object
may belong to a “theorized class of ultra-
long period magnetars with extremely
strong magnetic fields,” researchers
said in a statement Tuesday (May 31).
“It took an eagle eye to recognize it as
something that was possibly a real source
because it was so unusual looking,” Ian
Heywood, a radio astronomer at the University
of Oxford and collaborator on the research,
said in the statement.
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 Researchers spotted the flash using the
MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa. It
was initially spotted under a program called
ThunderKAT, which looks for radio transients,
and then the researchers brought in expertise
from the University of Manchester’s MeerTRAP
(More Transients and Pulsars) program.
Working together, the researchers were able to
confirm the pulsar’s flash period and estimate
its location in the sky, the statement said.
Lead author Manisha Caleb, an
astronomer at the University of Sydney, said
that the radio emission was only visible for
0.5% of the pulsar’s rotation period, making
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the detection “very fortuitous,” she said. “The
majority of pulsar surveys do not search for
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periods this long, and so we have no idea how
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many of these sources there might be,” Caleb
added in the statement.
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The researchers noted that it is difficult
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to classify this object. While the radio waves
suggest it is a pulsar, the polarization of the
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pulses (along with how the signal fluctuates)
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points more to it being a magnetar, another
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neutron star type which has powerfully strong
magnetic fields, greatly affecting their local
environments.
The star appears to pulse in at least
seven different ways, which might indicate
changes in seismic activity within the star, but
researchers aren’t quite sure what to make of
what they are seeing.
Taken from: www.space.com
13. What does the text mainly deal with?
A. Milky Way Galaxy
B. ThunderKAT
C. A rotating stellar object
D. PSR J0901-4046
E. A star that rotates slowly in
Andromeda Galaxy
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14. The following statements are true
according to the text, EXCEPT ....
A. The PSR J0901-4046 was first found
using ThunderKAT radio telescope.
B. The PSR J0901-4046 belong to a
theorized class of ultra-long period
magnetars with extremely strong
magnetic fields.
C. Pulsars rotate several times a second.
D. PSR J0901-4046 is difficult to classify.
E. Pulsars are rapidly rotating objects
that belong to the family of neutron
stars.
15. “It took an eagle eye to recognize it for
something that was possibly a real source
because it was so unusual looking.”
What do the underlined words mean?
A. An eagle eye-like telescope
B. An astronomic program referenced
from eagle eye
C. A keen and carefully perceptive
observation
D. A radio program at the University of
Oxford
E. An expertise from the University of
Manchester
16. The following statements are incorrect
according to the paragraph 6, EXCEPT ....
A. PSR J0901-4046 was initially spotted
by MeerTRAP radio telescope.
B. The public was able to confirm the
pulsar’s flash period and estimate its
location in the sky.
C. ThunderKAT was the first program
that spotted the PSR J0901-4046.
D. The expertise was from University of
Oxford.
E. The researchers are working
dependently to confirm the pulsar’s
flash period and estimate its location
in the sky.
The following passage is for questions 17
to 20!
Few people love car dealerships. They’re
stressful and sprawling, and it’s hard to shake
the feeling that someone is getting a raw
deal. But as the auto industry increasingly
goes electric and moves online, companies
like Honda are rethinking every aspect of the
purchase process—including the spaces in
which it happens.
Honda announced today that it’s rolling
out a new dealership design, one that takes up
less square footage and is modular and flexible;
That could make buying cars more
convenient, but it makes selling them easier,
too. Building cars to fulfill customers’ online
orders takes some guesswork out of vehicle
production, meaning fewer unexpectedly
unpopular models end up languishing—
and eventually selling at a discount—on
showroom floors. “We have learned that, yes,
operating with fewer vehicles on lots is not
only possible, but it’s better for customers,
dealers, and Ford,” Jim Farley, Ford’s CEO,
told investors last summer. “But we’re also
driving a significant increase in the number
of customers configuring and ordering their
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what was once showroom space, for example,
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company aims to sell half a million EVs in the
not always worked out in car buyers’ favor.
US by 2030. “Our dealers are looking at ways

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Dealers report that the combination of a tight
to modernize and digitalize their business,”

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car market and limited inventory means they
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sales at American Honda, told reporters last
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the automaker that selling cars “will not require
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as much space.” And they’re not the only ones
looking to shed square footage.
Like so many recent transformations, the
shift is in part a reflection of the pandemic.
Automakers have struggled with a shortage
of semiconductor chips, a serious issue for
vehicles that need hundreds, and sometimes
a thousand or more of them to work. The
supply chain bottleneck means new car
dealers have fewer vehicles on hand to show
off to customers. Meanwhile, inspired by a new
breed of electrified direct sales companies, like
Tesla and Rivian, big automakers have started
experimenting with letting customers reserve
and even buy their cars online. Ford made its
first online sales of its electrified sports car,
the Mustang Mach-E, on the internet and took
online reservations for its electric pickup truck.
Volvo said last year that its electric vehicles—
which the automaker says will account for
100 percent of sales by 2030—will be sold
exclusively online.
whether those conditions will last beyond the
public health emergency and related supply
chain struggles.
Taken from: www.wired.com
17. Why would a dealership modernize and
digitalize their business?
A. To make the new cars like Tesla and
Rivian cheaper.
B. B e c a u s e t h e p a n d e m i c - e r a
adjustment always worked out in
car buyers’ favor.
C. The unpopular models will be sold
at full price.
D. To make cars purchase more
convenient and easier.
E. To make customers purchase the
cars exclusively from store only.
18. Why would many dealerships reconsider
every aspect of their purchase method to
be online? Because ....

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 A. The pandemic-era adjustment has
always worked out in car buyers’
favor.
B. They need to sell the unpopular
model at full price.
C. The customer can easily buy cars
through dealership’s online store
because of the pandemic-era
adjustment.
D. They need to sell more cars at a
massive discount because they are
out of customers.
E. They want the customer to come to
the store.
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19. The following statements are true
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according to the paragraph 4, EXCEPT ....
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A. The customer can order via online
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because it’s easier.
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B. The dealers works better with lots of
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vehicle in showroom.
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C. Online buying means that the
dealership can avoid selling
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unpopular model at discounted
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price.
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D. Operating with fewer vehicles on
showroom floor are better for
customers, dealers, and the car
company in general.
E. The dealerships make significant
increase of customers configuring
and ordering their vehicles online.
20. “Volvo said last year that its electric
vehicles—which the automaker says
will account for 100 percent of sales by
2030—will be sold exclusively online.”
The underlined words mean ....
A. The customer should buy the car at
the dealership.
B. The dealership sells their cars door
to door.
C. The customer can only purchase the
vehicle online.
D. The vehicle will be sold on the
showroom floor only.
E. The vehicle can be purchased from
a store or dealership.
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The following text is for questions 21–24!
Color blindness affects a substantial
portion of the human population. Protanopia
and deuteranopia, the two most common
forms of inherited color blindness, are red-
green color vision defects caused by the
absence of red or green retinal photoreceptors,
respectively. In individuals of Northern
European ancestry, as many as 8 percent of
men and 0.5 percent of women experience the
common form of red-green color blindness.
Picking colors suitable for color-blind
readers not only enhances accessibility
but also is good graphic design practice.
For example, the Ishihara color vision test
intentionally relies only on color hue to create
contrast. In general, colors will be easier to
distinguish when they vary in lightness and
saturation as well as hue. Colors such as black,
orange, sky blue, bluish green, yellow, blue,
vermilion, and reddish purple have good
overall variability and can be differentiated
by individuals with red-green color blindness.
It is useful to remember that pure red and
pure green are not the only culprits in color
confusion—rather, any color with components
of red and green can cause trouble. Authors
can rely on software to simulate how images
might appear to individuals with red-green
color blindness. In Adobe Illustrator and
Photoshop, first convert the document to
RGB color space for accurate simulation and
then create a soft proof (View > Proof Setup
> Color Blindness). Simultaneously viewing
the original and the soft proof (Window
> Arrange > New Window in Photoshop)
makes it convenient to adjust colors in order
to make them universally accessible. Web-
based tools such as Vischeck (www.vischeck.
com) can also produce simulated images.
Perhaps the most widespread use of
red-green color coding in the life sciences is
in immunofluorescent images. To make this
and other artificial color schemes accessible
to readers with red-green color blindness,
replace red with magenta. This can be easily
accomplished using Photoshop. Because red
mixes with blue to produce magenta, copy
the contents from the red channel (Window
> Channels) and paste them into the blue
channel. This unconventional magenta-green
color coding may require a key indicating that
the overlap of these colors produces white.
Alternatively, some individuals with red-green
color blindness find that replacing green with
turquoise provides the most visible difference.
Taken and adapted from: https://www.nature.com/
articles/nmeth.1618
21. What is the text mainly about?
A. The most common form of color
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blindness
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B. Study of color blindness in Northern
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C. The Ishihara color vision test
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D. Creating graphic design for those
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with color vision deficiencies
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E. Color Coding
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22. According to paragraph 1, if there were
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a random sample of 500 men and 1.000
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women, how many of the sample would
likely suffer color blindness?
A. 60 men and 4 women
B. 30 men and 4 women
C. 40 men and 4 women
D. 40 men and 5 women
E. 50 men and 5 women
23. According to the text, which of the
following statements is TRUE?
A. Pure red and pure green are the
main culprits in color confusion.
B. Blue-red color vision defects are
the most common form of color
blindness.
C. Color Blindness can be cured.
D. Vermilion, orange, and blue are not
distinguishable by red-green color
blindness.
E. Replacing red with magenta can
make images to be more accessible
for those with red-green color
blindness.
24. The word “culprits” in paragraph 2 can
be replaced with ....
A. robber
B. cause
C. effect
D. responsibility
E. trouble maker
The following text is for questions 25–27!
The narrow, technical frame problem
generated a great deal of work in logic-based
artificial intelligence in the late 1980s and early
1990s, and its wider philosophical implications
came to the fore at around the same time. But
the importance each thinker accords to the
frame problem today will typically depend on
their stance on other matters.
Within classical AI, a variety of workable
solutions to the logical frame problem have
been developed, and it is no longer considered
a serious obstacle even for those working in
a strictly logic-based paradigm (Shanahan
1997; Reiter 2001; Shanahan 2003; Lifschitz
2015). It’s worth noting that logically-minded
AI researchers can consistently retain their
methodology and yet, to the extent that they
view their products purely as engineering,
can reject the traditional cognitive scientist’s
belief in the importance of computation over
representations for understanding the mind.
Moreover, insofar as the goal of classical AI is
not computers with human-level intelligence,
but simply the design of better and more
useful computer programs, it is immune
to the philosophical objections of Fodor,
Dreyfus, and the like. Significantly though, for
AI researchers working outside the paradigm
of symbolic representation altogether—
those working in situated robotics, for
example—the logical frame problem simply
doesn’t feature in day-to-day investigations.
Taken from://plato.stanford.edu/entries/frame-
problem
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25. What is the text talking about?
A. A classical AI
B. The opinions of two different parties
regarding classical AI
C. The goal of classical AI
D. Future of classical AI
E. Frame problem within classical AI
26. From the text above, we know that ....
A. Many workable solutions to the
classical AI has been developed.
B. The goal of classical AI is to design
a better and more useful computer
programs.
C. The frame problem is still a big
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obstacle in developing AI.
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D. The technical frame problem
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generated a great deal of work in
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logic-based artificial intelligence in
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the early 1980s.
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E. The development of AI would lead
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to war.
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27. The antonym of the word “retain” in
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paragraph 2 line 7 is ....
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A. keep
B. save
C. neglect
D. maintain
E. preserve
The following text is for questions 28–35!
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken a hardline
stance against his employees working from
home, Electrek and Bloomberg report. In
an email apparently sent to the company’s
executive staff with the subject line “Remote
work is no longer acceptable,” the CEO said
employees must spend a minimum of 40
hours per week in the office, or else “depart
Tesla.” He said this should be a “main Tesla
office,” and not a “remote branch office.”
Responding to a screenshot of the
alleged email posted on Twitter, Musk did
not deny its authenticity, and wrote that
anyone who disagrees with the policy of
coming into the office “should pretend to
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work somewhere else.” Tesla did not respond
to The Verge’s request for comment, but it is
widely reported to have dissolved its press
office.
In his email, the CEO added that he
would be willing to consider requests to
work remotely under some circumstances,
but indicated that such requests would have
to be “exceptional” to be approved. “If there
are particularly exceptional contributors for
whom this is impossible, I will review and
approve those exceptions directly,” he wrote.
Working 40 hours in person, he said, is “less
than we ask of factory workers.”
In a follow-up email seen by Electrek, the
CEO claimed his own history of almost living
in the Tesla factory was the reason behind the
company’s survival. “The more senior you are,
the more visible must be your presence,” he
wrote. “There are of course companies that
don’t require this, but when was the last time
they shipped a great new product? It’s been
a while.”
After the global pandemic forced many
companies to rapidly introduce remote
working policies, many are now assessing
how they should bring their employees back
into the office, or whether they even need
to in the first place. Some, such as Apple,
are testing a hybrid approach that involves
employees coming into the office for just part
of the week.
Tesla’s hardline stance makes it a relative
outlier in the so-called “new normal.” “If you
don’t show up, we will assume you have
resigned,” Musk wrote. You can read both of
his emails in their entirety over on Electrek.
Taken from: www.theverge.com
28. What does the text tell us about?
A. The man who bought Twitter
B. The CEO of Tesla
C. The founder of Space X
 D. Elon Musk stance on remote work
E. The wealthiest person in the world
29. Which of the following statements is
INCORRECT?
A. Tesla’s employees are required to
work at least 40 hours a week in the
office.
B. Tesla’s employees will be fired if they
work from home.
C. Apple completely agrees with
remote work.
D. Elon Musk is against the idea of
remote work.
E. Many companies haven’t created
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new products.
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30. From paragraph 3, we can infer that ....
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A. The approval to be able to work at
home is easy to get.
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B. You can’t actually ask for permission
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to be able to work from home.
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C. E l o n M u s k c o m p a n y i s v e r y
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demanding in their work hour.
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D. Elon Musk would not bother to
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check the request about working
from home.
E. Factory workers mostly work for 8
hours a day, in a week.
31. Which of the following statements is NOT
the right inference from paragraph 4?
A. E l o n M u s k e n c o u r a g e d h i s
employees to live within the factory
for better efficiency.
B. Elon Musk often sleeps at the factory
himself.
C. Elon Musk is very likely to work
overtime in a daily basis.
D. Tesla company never face a crisis in
their survival.
E. Living at the factory isn’t mandatory
in some other companies.
32. “… when was the last time they shipped
a great new product? It’s been a while.”
What can we infer from the sentence
above?
A. Someone is going on vacation.
B. Other companies are on a ship to
somewhere.
C. Other companies are shipping
goods.
D. Other companies didn’t perform as
well as Tesla company.
E. Tesla is not going to ship a new
product.
33. Inferring from paragraph 5, which of
these statements is TRUE?
A. Apple is adapting to the new method
of working.
B. Tesla would likely adapt to Apple’s
new approach.
C. A few companies are troubled about
how they should let their employees
work
D. Apple’s employees are required to
come to the office 3 times a week.
E. Working from home wasn’t born
because of Covid.
34. The word “many” in paragraph 5 line 3
refer to ....
A. Tesla’s employee
B. Apple’s employee
C. the pandemic
D. companies
E. the remote working policies
35. From the text above, we can conclude
that .…
A. Tesla is going to let their worker to
work from home.
B. Elon Musk has a hardline stance that
remote work is not acceptable.
C. Elon Musk has a hardline stance that
remote work is acceptable.
D. Elon Musk has a soft stance that
remote work is not acceptable.
E. Elon Musk doesn’t like lazy people.
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The following text is for questions 36–40! 37. According to the text, when will Omni
One likely to be shipped?
Virtual reality startup Virtuix is building
A. January
a VR treadmill for your home. The Omni One
B. December
is an elaborate full-body controller that lets
C. October
you physically run, jump, and crouch in place.
D. August
Following an earlier business- and arcade-
E. June
focused device, it’s supposed to ship in mid-
2021 for $1,995, and Virtuix is announcing 38. Which of these statements is TRUE?
the product with a crowdfunding investment A. You won’t get tired when using
campaign. Omni One
B. You can slip and trip very easily when
The crowdfunded Virtuix Omni started
using Omni One
development in 2013. It’s not a traditional
C. Omni One would allow player to
treadmill — it’s a low-friction platform that’s
experience full-dive gaming

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used with special low-friction shows or shoe
D. Omni one is bigger and sturdier than
covers and a harness. (You may remember

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its previous versions
the overall VR treadmill concept from Steven

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E. Omni one is a sport device

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Spielberg’s Ready Player One.) As an Omni
One prototype video demonstrates, the device 39. The word “Low-friction” in paragraph 2

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basically holds you in place while your feet means…

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slide across the platform, and that movement A. The platform is slippery

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gets translated into a VR environment. We’ve B. Your feet will stick on the platform

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tried earlier iterations of the Omni, and it’s C. The platform will not get hot from

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an awkward yet fascinating experience. the friction

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D. Unstable
The Omni One is more compact than
E. A cheap platform
its predecessors, anchoring users to a single
vertical bar instead of a ring around the whole 40. Referring to last paragraph, who is likely
treadmill. You can also fold it up and put it to buy the product with only $995?
away. It will play games from a dedicated A. The reader
store that’s supposed to launch with 30 titles. B. Industry
C. Streamer
The retail Omni One will be a self-
D. Reseller
contained system with a standalone headset
E. Game developer
— it’s being tested with a Pico Neo 2, but
Virtuix will decide which headset to use for
retail in the coming months. A $995 developer
kit will only offer the treadmill portion.
Taken from://www.theverge.com

36. What does the text tell us about?

A. A gaming console
B. A sport treadmill
C. A gaming treadmill
D. The Omni Slash
E. Virtuix

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 Pembahasan
1. Teks sepenuhnya membahas dengan
detail perusahaan Xerox dari masa berdiri
hingga masa jayanya dan tidak membahas
hal yang lain. Jadi, jawaban yang tepat
adalah sejarah dari perusahaan Xerox
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(the history of Xerox Corporation).
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Jawaban: D
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2. Berdasarkan paragraf terakhir, Anne
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memutuskan untuk memilih Ursula Burns
A
sebagai penerusnya untuk memimpin
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perusahaan Xerox. Jadi, jawaban yang
tepat adalah Ursula Burns merupakan
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penerus dari Anne Mulcahy (Ursula Burns
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is the descendant of Anne Mulcahy.)
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Jawaban: E
3. Teks tersebut khususnya paragraf 2,
membahas mengenai kesuksesan
perusahaan Xerox di bidang percetakan.
Jadi, jawaban yang tepat adalah Xerox
expanded its business to publishing
company.
Jawaban: B
4. Kata kunci dari pertanyaan ini adalah
kata acquired, yang mana memiliki
arti mendapatkan, bukan membangun
(opsi A), bukan berkolaborasi (B), bukan
partner (D), dan juga bukan berpisah (E).
Jadi, jawaban yang benar adalah Xerox
company took possession of Global Image
System (GIS).
Jawaban: C
5. Jika dilihat sekilas, teks tersebut banyak
membahas tentang penelitian hubungan
antara otak dan sistem imun. Namun,
hal tersebut merupakan sebuah ide
pendukung di mana ide tersebut
menjelaskan/mendukung suatu ide
pokok yaitu pertahanan diri sebuah otak.
Jawaban: E
6. Dalam teks tersebut “Intertwined” berarti
“saling terhubung” atau “bersangkutan”
di mana jawaban A, B, C, dan D adalah
jawaban yang salah karena memiliki arti
yang sama dengan kata tersebut. Jadi,
jawaban yang tepat adalah pot.
Jawaban: E
7. Dalam teks tersebut, disebutkan
beberapa kali bahwa para peneliti
melanjutkan penelitian mereka terhadap
sistem kekebalan otak secara detail (by
continuous study on the subject).
Jawaban: D
8. Teks tersebut sepenuhnya membahas
tentang sistem kekebalan yang ada pada
otak dan cara mereka mempertahankan
keamanan otak. Jadi, judul yang tepat
untuk teks tersebut adalah Guardian of
The Brain.
Jawaban: D
9. Kata “paralysed” diartikan sebagai “tidak
bisa bergerak”. Jawaban A, B, C, dan E
tidak memiliki arti yang sama dengan
kata tersebut. Jadi, kata yang memiliki
arti yang sama dengan kata “paralysed”
adalah disable.
Jawaban: D
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10. Kesimpulan dari teks tersebut tidak
mengandung informasi yang mengatakan
bahwa James menjadi lumpuh. Vegetable
dalam konteks tersebut diartikan
‘lumpuh’.
Jawaban: A
11. Teks tersebut menyimpulkan bahwa James
masih tidak bisa menggerakan tangannya
walau bisa menggerakan cursor komputer
dikarenakan adanya chip perangkat yang
ditanamkan di otaknya (James still can’t feel
his arm even when he is able to move the
cursor around).
Jawaban: C
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12. Melalui teks tersebut, penulis teks
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tersebut ingin menyampaikan adanya
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teknologi baru yang bisa membantu
pasien hampir lumpuh pasca kecelakaan
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(introduce and promote BCL implant).
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Jawaban: B
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13. Teks tersebut membahas tentang benda
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asing yang sulit dikenali bernama PSR
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J0901-4046.
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Jawaban: D
14. Pernyataan yang salah berdasarkan teks
tersebut adalah The PSR J0901-4046
was first found using ThunderKAT radio
telescope karena nama teleskop radionya
adalah MeerKAT sedangkan ThunderKAT
adalah nama programnya.
Jawaban: A
15. Kata eagle-eye pada teks tersebut berarti
‘melihat dengan jeli’ atau ‘mencermati
dengan teliti’ (A keen and carefully
perceptive observation) yang diambil dari
perumpamaan mata elang yang sangat
jeli melihat mangsanya.
Jawaban: C
16. Pada paragraf ketiga dapat disimpulkan
bahwa ThunderKAT yang pertama kali
mendeteksi benda asing PSR J0901-4046.
Jawaban: C
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17. Teks tersebut menjelaskan bahwa toko
dealer mobil ingin memodernisasikan
sistem jual-beli mereka agar pelanggan
lebih mudah membeli kendaraan yang
ada di dealer mereka.
Jawaban: D
18. Teks menyimpulkan bahwa dealer ingin
mengubah sistem jual-beli mereka
menjadi online agar mendatangkan
pembeli tanpa mengharuskan mereka
datang ke dealer di masa pandemi.
Jawaban: C
19. Pada paragraf 4, disimpulkan bahwa
semakin sedikitnya kendaraan yang
terpajang di showroom maka semakin
efektif kinerja pekerja dealer.
Jawaban: B
20. Arti dari kata “exclusively online”
adalah “hanya via online” yang dalam
teks tersebut berarti “tidak dipajang di
showroom”, artinya pelanggan hanya
bisa memesan lewat online.
Jawaban: C
21. Walaupun pilihan A terlihat benar, pilihan
tersebut adalah jebakan dikarenakan
kalimat-kalimat pendukung dari tiap
paragraf tidaklah membahas lebih
lanjut tentang hal tersebut, melainkan
menjelaskan lebih lanjut tentang
bagaimana kita dapat membuat sesuatu
lebih bisa diakses/dinikmati oleh mereka
yang buta warna (creating graphic design
deficiencies).
Jawaban: D
22. Berdasarkan paragraf 1, sebanyak 8% laki-
laki dan 0,5% perempuan mengalami buta
warna. Maka jika ada 500 laki-laki dan 1.000
perempuan, banyak orang yang mengalami
buta warna ada
8%  500 = 40 orang
0,5%  1.000 = 5 orang
Jawaban: D
23. Penjelasan tiap opsi sebagai berikut.
A. Pure red and pure green bukanlah
penyebab utama.
B. Bentukk paling umum dari buta
warna adalah buta warna merah
hijau.
C. Buta warna tidak bisa disembuhkan,
tapi dapat diatasi dengan alat-alat
bantu masa kini.
D. Warna-warna tersebut bisa lebih
dibedakan oleh penderita buta
warna, bukan malah tidak bisa
dibedakan.
Jadi, pernyataan yang benar opsi E
(Replacing red with magenta can make
images to be more accessible for those
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with red-green color blindness).
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Jawaban: E
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24. Culprit sendiri memiliki arti “pelaku” di
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mana jika kita masukan ke dalam kalimat
A
akan menjadi “ … bukanlah pelaku utama
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dari …” kata tersebut bisa diganti dengan
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kata “cause” atau “penyebab”.
Jawaban: B
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25. Permasalahan utama dari teks tersebut
bukanlah Classical AI, melainkan frame
problem dalam sebuah AI secara umum.
Jawaban: E
26. Sebagaimana dijelaskan dalam teks di
paragraf 2, bahwa tujuan dari kecerdasan
buatan klasik adalah untuk mendesain
program komputer yang lebih baik dan
lebih berguna.
Jawaban: B
27. Pilihan A, B, D, dan E memiliki arti yang
sama dengan kata “retain” yaitu menjaga,
maka antonim dari “retain” adalah neglect.
Jawaban: C
28. Pilihan A, B, C, dan E mengacu pada satu
orang yang sama yaitu Elon Musk yang
mana pilihan tersebut tidak menjelaskan
apa pun tentang teks. Jadi, jawaban yang
tepat adalah Elon Musk stance on remote
work.
Jawaban: D
29. Pernyataan yang salah adalah opsi C.
Perusahaan Apple TIDAK mendukung
bekerja dari rumah sepenuhnya
melainkan mereka mencoba metode
hybrid baru yang mana membolehkan
pekerja mereka bekerja dari rumah,
namun tetap harus datang ke kantor
beberapa kali tiap minggunya.
Jawaban: C
30. Kita umpamakan siklus 1 minggu bekerja
(mingguan) adalah 6 hari kerja dan 1
hari libur, maka total jam kerja pekerja
perusahaan pada umumnya adalah 8  6
= 48 jam, Selama total jam kerja melebihi
40 jam, maka apa pun kombinasi siklus
kerja mingguannya, maka pernyataan E
akan selalu bernilai BENAR.
Jawaban: E
31. Pernyataan yang tidak benar berdasarkan
paragraf 4 adalah Tesla never face a crisis
in their survival. Perusahaan Tesla juga
menghadapi krisis, namun telah berhasil
bertahan dan melewati krisis tersebut.
Jawaban: D
32. D a r i k a l i m a t t e r s e b u t k i t a a k a n
mengetahui bahwa perusahaan lain
sudah lama tidak mengeluarkan produk
baru dibandingkan dengan Perusahaan
Tesla yang berhasil mengeluarkan produk
baru. Maka dapat disimpulkan jawaban
yang tepat adalah Other companies didn’t
perform as well as Tesla company.
Jawaban: D
33. S e b a g a i m a n a d i s e b u t k a n d a l a m
paragraf 5 teks tersebut, Apple
sedang mengimplementasikan sebuah
metode bekerja baru untuk karyawan-
karyawannya (Apple is adapting to the
new method of working).
Jawaban: A
34. Kata “many” pada paragraf 5 baris 3
mengacu pada bagian awal kalimat, yaitu
“companies”.
Jawaban: D
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35. Sudah dijelaskan dengan jelas pada
teks bahwa Elon Musk sendiri sangat
tidak setuju dengan metode WFH (Work
From Home) di mana dia akan memecat
setiap karyawannya yang tidak datang ke
kantor untuk bekerja tanpa alasan yang
benar-benar kuat.
Jawaban: B
36. Banyak petunjuk dapat ditemukan pada
teks, salah satunya adalah pada paragraf
1 baris 6, “…Full-body controller” yang
mana bisa langsung kita simpulkan
bahwa treadmill tersebut diperuntukan
untuk mengendalikan sebuah game.
40. $995 hanya akan memberikan kita
treadmill-nya saja di mana jika kita
adalah seorang developer game, maka
kita akan lebih memilih QUANTITY over
Quality di karenakan tujuan pembelian
kemungkinan besar adalah untuk TEST
RUN game-game yang di buat dengan
controller Omni One bukan untuk
menikmati game itu sendiri.
Jawaban: E

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PERTENGAHAN tahun 2021(Paragraf 1,
baris 5) yang mana paling mendekati

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adalah bulan Juni.

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Jawaban: E

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sebuah perusahaan VR gaming yang
mana seperti yang kita tahu VR gaming

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saat ini hanya terbatas pada kacamata
dan 2 buah controller yang kita pegang,
di mana hal itu tidak mengharuskan
kita untuk melakukan sebuah aksi untuk
mengendalikan karakter dalam game,
namun dengan Omni One, jika anda
ingin lari dari musuh, maka anda HARUS
berlari, tidak akan ada tombol perintah
untuk lari, pengalaman tersebutlah yang
kita sebut sebagai FULL DIVE.
Jawaban: C

39. Low friction memiliki arti “rendah gaya

gesek”. Sesuatu dengan gaya gesek kecil
maka sesuatu tersebut akan LICIN, dalam
konteks ini, yang licin adalah Pijakan
Omni One. Jadi, jawaban yang tepat
adalah You won’t get tired when using
Omni One.
Jawaban: A

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