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Gunakan Petunjuk A dalam menjawab soal nomor 31 sampai nomor 45.
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The Hollywood sign in the hills that line the northern border of Los Angeles is a famous … 31 … recognized the world over. The white- painted, 50-foot-high, sheet metal letters can be seen from great distances across the Los Angeles basin.
The sign was not constructed, as one might suppose, by the movie business as a means of celebrating the importance of Hollywood to this industry; … 32 …, it was first constructed in 1923 as a means of advertising homes for sale in a 500- acre housing subdivision in a part of Loa Angeles called “Hollywood’. The sign that was constructed at the time, of course, said “Hollywood”. Over the years, people began referring to the area by the shortened version “Hollywood” and after the sign and its site … 33 … to the city in 1945, the last four letters were removed.
The sign supported from years of disrepair, and in 1973 it needed to be completely replaced, at a cost of $ 27,700 per letter. Various celebrities were instrumental in helping to raise needed funds. Rock star Alice Cooper, for example, sought “O” in memory of Groucho Marx, and Hugh Hefner of playboy fame held a benefit party to … 34 … the money for the “Y”. The construction of the new sign was finally completed in 1978.
31.
-A. city D. feature
B. signature E. landmark
C. signboard
32. It can be concluded that most people think that Hollywood sign was first made by ....
A. therefore D. moreover
B. instead E. however
C. then
33.
-A. are being donated D. was donated B. is donated E. were donated C. are donated
34.
-A. collect D. raise
B. look for E. demand
C. request Bacalah teks di bawah ini untuk menjawab pertanyaan nomor 35 – 39!
Hydrogen, one of earth’s most abundant elements, once was seen as green energy’s answer to the petroleum driven, easy to produce, available everywhere and nonpolluting when burned. Hydrogen energy was defeated by a mountain of obstacles, the fear of explosion by the highly flammable gas, the difficulty of carrying the fuel in large, heavy tanks in the vehicle and the lack of a refueling network. Automakers turned to biofuels, electricity or the gas-electricity hybrid.
But hydrogen, it turns out, never was completely put of the race. Now Israeli scientists and entrepreneurs claim to have brought hydrogen energy a step closer by putting it in much smaller, lighter, containers. Rather than using metal or composite cylinders of compressed gas that look like bulky scuba gear, hydrogen is packed into glass filaments which, once out of the lab, will be only slightly thicker than a human hair. These 370 glass capillaries are bundled into a glassed tube called capillary array, about the width of a drinking straw. The scientist say 11000 such arrays will fuel a car for 400 kilometers, take less than half the space and weight of tanks currently installed in the few hydrogen cars now available.
The scientist make no attempt to improve the standard fuel cell, which is not much different today from when it was invented more than 150 years ago. A fuel cell makes electricity from chemical reactions involving hydrogen and oxygen,
producing only water vapor as a byproduct. The fuel cell can be compared with a standard car’s engine, while the capillary arrays would be comparable to the gasoline tank.
While its backers call the technology a breakthrough, it is unlikely to gain traction without a large injection of capital to scale up development. It also would need a distribution system and the support of major car companies, which have poured billions of dollars into their own closely guarded research programs. Like electric cars, the driving force behind hydrogen research is the need to break away from oil and rein in emissions of greenhouse gases blamed for climate change, especially carbon dioxide from industry and transport. Transportation adds about 13 percent of manmade carbon to the atmosphere. Hydrogen boasts zero emissions. It can be produced from water through electrolysis, or harvested as the waste product of nuclear reactors and chemical slants. Within few years, perhaps a decade, hydrogen fuel will shift the world’s energy balance away from oil.
35. What is the author’s main purpose in writing the passage?
A. To explain about the industrial uses of hydrogen
B. To describe the chemical properties of hydrogen
C. To give examples of the combination of hydrogen and Soil
D. To discuss the breakthrough in hydrogen technology
E. To persude the readers to support the writer’s opnion
36. It can be inferred from the passage that capillary array is …
A. simpler than scuba tank B. more complex than scuba tank C. more intricate than scuba tank D. cheaper than scuba tank
E. more expensive than scuba tank
37. According to the passage, why was the hydrogen less preferable energy source to petroleum?
A. Because it was highly flammable B. Because it boasted zero emissions
C. Because it was a waste of nuclear reactors D. Because it was the abundant elements on
earth
E. Because it was the insufficient elements on earth
38. The word rein in in the fourth paragraph could be best replaced by ...
A. strap D. control
B. secure E. lead
C. limit
39. The following are the reasons why the hydro-gen technology unlikely gains a development EXCEPT ...
A. It need a lot of money to scale up develop-ment
B. It needs a lot of refueling network C. It needs a steady distribution system D. It needs the support of major car
compa-nies
E. It needs a continous distribution system Bacalah teks di bawah ini untuk menjawab pertanyaan nomor 40 – 45!
Many historical linguist are able to … 40… modern complex languages back to earlier languages, but in order to answer the question of how complex languages are actually formed, the researcher needs to observe how languages are started from scratch. To find out how grammar is created, someone needs to be present at the time of a language’s creation, documenting its emergence. However, this is possible.
Some of most recent languages evolved … 41… the Atlantic slave trade. At this time, slaves from a number of different ethnicities were forced to work together under colonizer’s rule. Since they had no opportunity to learn each other’s languages, they developed a make-shift language called pidgin. Pidgins are strings of words copied from the languages of the landowner. They have little in the way of grammar, and in many cases it is difficult for a listener to … 42 … when an event happened, and who did what to whom. Speakers need to use circumlocution in order to make their meaning understood. ... 43 …, however, all it takes for a pidgin to become a complex language is for a group of children to be exposed to it when they learn their mother tongue. Slave children did not simply copy the strings of words uttered by their elders, they adapted
mother words to create a new, expressive language. Complex grammar systems which emerge from pidgins are termed creoles, and they are … 44 … by children.
Some linguist believe that many most established languages were creoles at first. The English past tense -ed ending may have evolved from the verb ‘do’. ‘It ended’ may once have been ‘It end-did’. Thus, it would appear that even the most widespread languages were partly created by children. Children appear to have innate grammatical mechanism in their brains, which emerges when they are first trying to make sense of the world near them. Their minds can serve to create logical, complex structures, even when there is no grammar present for them to copy.
40. – A. explore D. trace B. think E. activate C. react 41. -A. according to C. because A. in accordance with D. due to B. concerning 42. -A. think D. see B. read E. notice C. deduce 43. -A. interestedly D. interesting B. interestingly E. with interest C. interested
44.
-A. written D. invented
B. read E. improved
C. learned
45. The italic word in the last paragraph means …
A. appeared D. involved
B. developed E. included C. happened