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LATIHAN
SELEKSI
NASIONAL
BERBASIS TES
BAHASA INGGRIS
 BAHASA INGGRIS
LATIHAN SELEKSI NASIONAL BERBASIS TES

Text 1

Scientists have discovered the bones of what may be the largest meat-eating dinosaur ever to walk the
earth. The discovery was made by a team of researchers from Argentina and North America in Patagonia, a desert
on the eastern slopes of the Andes in South America. Besides the interesting fact that the dinosaurs were huge and
horrifying, it is even more astounding that the bones of a number of the dinosaurs were found together. This
discovery challenges the prior theory that the biggest meat-eaters lived as loners and instead indicates that they may
have lived and hunted in packs. The Tyrannosaurus Rex lived in North America and was believed to hunt and lived
alone.
The newly discovered meat-eater appears to be related to the Giganotosaurus family, being as closely
related to it as a fox would be to a dog. It is actually not of the same family at all as the Tyrannosaurus Rex, being as
different from it as a cat is from a dog.
The fossilized remains indicate that the animals lived about 100 million years ago. With needle-shape noses
and razor sharp teeth, they were larger than the Tyrannosaurus Rex, although their legs were slightly shorter, and
their jaws were designed to be better able to cut the body of their prey into pieces quickly and precisely.

01. The main information of the text is about …. 04. The bones of the dinosaurs discovered recently
shows that the newly discovered dinosaurs ….
(A) the discovery made in Patagonia
(B) the research in dinosaurs (A) are closely related to those living in North
(C) the bones of dinosaurs America
(D) the types of dinosaurs (B) have the same bone structure as those of
(E) the meat-eating dinosaur foxes and dogs
(C) eat their prey in neat pieces due to the shape
02. The researchers found the bones of a new type of of their jaws
dinosaur in …. (D) lived a hundred million years earlier than
other dinosaurs
(A) Argentina (E) belong to the same family and origin as the
(B) North America Giganotosaurus
(C) East Patagonia
(D) the Andes forests
(E) South America 05. From the text we may conclude that ….

03. Which of the following is TRUE about the newly (A) the jaws of dinosaurs were shaped the same
discovered dinosaurs? (B) dinosaurs characteristic and way of life are
different
(A) They are called Tyrannosaurus Rex (C) North America was the origin of all
(B) They liked living as loners dinosaurs
(C) They are called Giganotosaurus (D) dinosaurs could not live together with their
(D) They used to live in groups own kind
(E) They were not as huge as other dinosaurs (E) all dinosaurs have the same bones and the
same height

Text 2

Man, like other animals, is ever a host to a great number of parasites: foreign organisms which cling to the
skin or live inside the body. Most of these parasites cause us little discomfort, but a few are responsible for serious
parasitic diseases particularly in tropical countries. Malaria and sleeping sickness, for instance -- and these are
caused by small protozoan parasites consisting of a single cell -- are still major causes of death in many parts of the

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world. Other parasitic diseases like schistosomiasis, which are due to much larger worm-like parasites, cause
relatively few deaths, but they seriously affect the well-being of more than two hundred million people.
In Western countries, the parasites of man are relatively unimportant, although livestock are seriously
affected. We are much more familiar with infectious diseases caused by very small organisms called microbes:
bacteria and viruses. To the biologist, these microbes are also parasites. But the diseases that they cause are, for
convenience, not referred to as parasitic. Not so many years ago, quite a number of the diseases caused by bacteria
or viruses, like cholera, pneumonia, smallpox, and poliomyelitis were among the foremost causes of deaths in
Western countries. Nowadays cases of some of these diseases are so rare that medical students should feel fortunate
ever to see them.

John Clegg, "The Immunology of Parasitic Diseases", Biology In Human Affairs.

06. Man 09. Who or what is more likely to be affected by

parasites in Western countries?
(A) loves all other creatures of God.
(B) feeds, keeps, breeds and cares for his (A) Man
parasites. (B) Smallpox
(C) is the carrier of many parasites. (C) Livestock
(D) behaves hospitably to his parasites. (D) Microbes
(E) allows foreign organisms to cling to his skin. (E) Schistosomiasis

07. Which of the following is not a parasitic disease? 10. The last sentence means:

(A) Sleeping sickness (A) It is impossible in our day for a medical

(B) Protozoa student to come across a case suffering from
(C) Schistosomiasis one of these diseases.
(D) Malaria (B) Medical students are lucky not to see these
(E) None of the above is diseases any more.
(C) There is no need to study these diseases any
longer.
08. Schistosomiasis (D) Some of these diseases are so dangerous that
even medical students should avoid studying
(A) has caused two hundred billion people to die. them.
(B) is caused by a parasite consisting of a single (E) Nowadays a medical student may not have an
cell. opportunity to study some of these diseases
(C) likes parasites more than worms. during his or her training.
(D) is a parasitic disease.
(E) is itself a large parasite.

Text 3

Why does anyone care whether or not Washoe has language? Psychologist Roger Brown asks this question at the
beginning of his critical comparison of child and chimp. Brown feels that we want the chimp to learn language for
perhaps the same reason we care about space travel. "It is very lonely being the only language-using species in the
universe. We want a chimp to talk to us, so that we can say: 'Hello, out there. What is it like, being a chimpanzee?'"
Brown's humorous answer to his own question is thus a near paraphrase of a remark by Carl Jung. Jung once wrote
about the necessity of finding another creature with whom we can converse if we are ever to find out what it is to be
human. In The Undiscovered Self, Jung stated categorically that man remains an enigma to himself because he lacks
the proper means of comparison necessary for self-knowledge. "He knows how to distinguish himself from other
animals in point of anatomy and physiology," wrote Jung, "but as a conscious, reflecting being, gifted with speech,
he lacks all criteria for self-judgment." "Man is on this planet a unique phenomenon which we can compare with no
other being. The possibility of comparison and hence self-knowledge would arise only if we could establish relations
with quasi-human mammals, if there are any such beings, inhabiting other stars." Perhaps, then, the thrill of
speaking to Washoe arises from a feeling that here is a "quasi-human mammal" with whom we might establish
relations and come to understand better what it is to be human. But why have we, up to now, ignored or downgraded

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any evidence of "human" behavior in other animals? This is because, even if there is a thrill in the idea of
conversing with another creature, there is also a threat... We really did not want to talk to a chimp, and, although this
may sound strange, perhaps we really have not wanted to find out what it is to be human. Perhaps, too, we still do
not want to think of ourselves as being animals ourselves, even though alternative explanations are becoming
increasingly convincing.

11. Brown, a psychologist, feels that the reason why 14. Mark out the appropriate statement
we want the chimp to learn human language is
(A) Carl Jung would never have approved of
(A) probably identical with the reason why we Brown's studies.
are so interested in space travel.
(B) Now that we have Washoe to communicate
(B) that we really care for the humorous aspects
with, there's no more need to look for quasi-
of psychology.
human mammals elsewhere.
(C) the same reason why we compare child and
chimp. (C) Carl Jung was a very lonely man toward the
(D) that we want to send chimps to space instead end of his life.
of astronauts. (D) Washoe is a zoologist, best-known for his
(E) that chimps are the only language-using work on chimpanzees.
species in the universe. (E) Man is unique on this planet and unique in
the universe, as far as we know.
12. Brown's answer is _________ a remark by Carl 15. Cross out the inappropriate statement
Jung.
(A) Man must discover more about the chimp in
(A) the opposite of
order to discover more about him.
(B) a critical comparison of
(C) almost a repetition in different words of (B) Man has so far ignored or downgraded any
(D) nearly as humorous as evidence of "human" behavior in other
(E) very different from mammals.
(C) There is less evidence now that man himself
13. Man would know himself better if is an animal species.
(D) Washoe can be regarded as a quasi-human
(A) he lacked the means of comparison. mammal.
(B) comparison were necessary.
(C) he found a means of comparison. (E) It is fairly obvious that we resist the idea of
(D) he remained an enigma to himself. being an animal species ourselves, despite
(E) he were unique on this planet. all evidence to the contrary.

Text 4

A cousin of the tenacious Asian longhorned beetle—which since its initial discovery in 1996 in New York City has
caused tens of millions of dollars in damage annually—the citrus longhorned beetle was discovered on a juniper
bush in August 2001 in Tukwila, Washington. Exotic pests such as the longhorned beetle are a growing problem—
an unintended side effect of human travel and commerce that can cause large-scale mayhem to local ecosystems. To
stop the citrus beetle, healthy trees were destroyed even though there was no visible evidence of infestation, and
normal environmental regulations were suspended so that a rapid response could be mounted.

16. Which best describes the function of the opening (C) It illustrates how the Asian longhorned beetle
sentence “A cousin… … Washington”? was introduced into the United States.
(D) It describes how the citrus longhorned beetle
(A) It underscores how frequently pests are was first discovered.
transferred from one geographical region to (E) It compares the destructiveness of the Asian
another. longhorned beetle to that of the citrus beetle.
(B) It suggests the potential harm the citrus
longhorned beetle could cause in the United
States

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17. The passage suggests that the actions undertaken
in the last sentence are best characterized as

(A) tested and reliable

(B) deliberate and effective
(C) costly and unpopular
(D) preemptive and aggressive
(E) unprecedented and unfounded

Text 5

Passage 1
Today any accessible, fast-moving story written in unaffected prose is deemed to be “genre fiction”—at best an
excellent “read” or a “page turner” but never literature with a capital L. Everything written in self-conscious,
writerly prose, on the other hand, is now considered to be “literary fiction”—not necessarily good literary fiction,
mind you, but always worthier of respectful attention than even the best-written thriller or romance. It is these works
that receive full-page critiques, often one in the Sunday book-review section and another in the same newspaper
during the week. It is these works, and these works only, that make the annual short lists of award committees.

Passage 2
One reason why most literary novels don’t appeal to the ordinary reader looking for a “good story” is that they
aren’t intended to. Just as nuclear physicists strive to impress other nuclear physicists and dog breeders value the
admiration of fellow dog breeders over that of the uninitiated masses, so people who write serious fiction seek the
high opinion of other literary novelists, of creative writing teachers, and of reviewers and critics. They want very
badly to be “literary,” and for many of them this means avoiding techniques associated with commercial and genre
fiction—specifically too much emphasis on plot. Who, after all, wants to be accused of writing “action movies in
book form”?

18. The author of Passage 1 implies that “literature 20. In the two passages, quotation marks are primarily
with a capital L” is fiction that is used to

(A) considered classic by scholars of English (A) call attention to some common ways of
literature categorizing fiction
(B) written in a mannered and pretentious style (B) suggest that some literary terms are
(C) unafraid to address highbrow themes and meaningless
weighty issues (C) note labels to which writers typically object
(D) successful both critically and financially (D) ridicule the modes of writing most popular
(E) unfairly ignored by the book-buying public with the public
(E) emphasize the importance of a shared
terminology
19. The author of Passage 2 suggests that authors who
write “self-conscious, writerly prose” are 21. Which of the following best describes the
relationship between the two passages?
(A) unlikely ever to produce great work
(B) trying to improve their chances of popular (A) Passage 2 presents evidence that rebuts the
success argument made in Passage 1.
(C) more talented than writers of mainstream (B) Passage 2 explicitly defines terms that
fiction Passage 1 assumes are well-known.
(D) seeking the approval of like-minded writers (C) Passage 2 supplies an explanation for a state
(E) not capable of depicting a realistic fictional of affairs described in Passage 1.
world (D) Passage 2 focuses on an exception to a
general rule established in Passage 1.
(E) Passage 2 provides a humorous view of a
situation that Passage 1 finds inexplicable.

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