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B.INGGRIS 4
B. INGGRIS PERSIAPAN UTBK 2021

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You have invited your frien over for dinner. Your child sees your friend reach for some cookies and says,” Better
not take those, or you’ll get even bigger.” You’re embarassed that your child could speak so rudely. However, you
should consider that your child may not know how to use the language appropriately in social situation and did not
mean harm by the comment. An individual may say word clearly and use long, complex sentences with correct
grammar, but still have a communication problem if he or she has not mastered the rule of social language known as
pragmatics. Adults may also have difficulty with pragmatics, for example, as a result of a brain injury or stroke. An
individual with pragmatic problems may say inappropriate or unrelated things during conversations, tell stories in
a disorganized way, or have little variety in language use. It is not unususal to have pragmatic problems in only a few
situations. However, if problems in social language use occur often and seem inappropriate considering the child’s
age, a pragmatic disorder may exist. Pragmatic disorders often coexist with other language problems such as
vocabulary development or grammar.

01. The topic of this paragraph is .... 03. The word “embarassed” in the text is closest in
(A) pragmatic disorder meaning to ....
(B) pragmatic aspect of language (A) proud
(C) pragmatics, logic and semantics (B) happy
(D) children with pragmatic difficulties (C) akward
(E) what causes pragmatic problems (D) fast
(E) slow
02. The paragraph which follows this one most ikely
discusses .... 04. The organization of the text is ....
(A) pragmatic language tips (A) comparison
(B) how to test social pragmatic skills (B) problem solving
(C) pragmatic disorder and language inhibition (C) paradox
(D) semantic-pragmatic disorder in children (D) exposition
(E) pragmatic impairment and associated (E) division and classification
behavioral problems

Text 2.

The thought of a car or truck that can drive itself is at once both exciting and frightening. Autonomous vehicle
navigation, as the technology is known, may make life more concenient if it allows people to kick back and enjoy a
good book or movie while their cars guide themselves through rush-hour traffic. However, what happens if it starts
to rain or if traffic suddenly picks up?
If the technology is to work at all, it will have to be completely safe on all roads, under all speeds, and in all
weather. Therein lies the challenge: if cars and trucks are to drive autonomously, they will need futuristic sensors and
advanced computing capabilities to respond to ever changing road conditions.
Perhaps the most extreme exampke of ever-changing conditions is a war zone where roads may be reduced to
rubble and vehicles are natural targets of attack. Rolling out fleets of self-navigating vehicles for the military is an
enticing idea because it could keep thousands of troops out of harm’s way. Nevertheless, will it be possible for these
vehicles to operate in war zones? This question was the inspiration for a recent Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA) contest aimed at spurring the development of such technologies.
In late 2007, the DARPA urban Challenge offered a $ 3.5 million purse to competitirs who could design the
fastest and safest vehicles that could traverse a 60-mile urban course in moving traffic in less than 6 hours. The
contestants’ veheicles were unmanned and had to complete a simulated military supply mission, manouvering
through a mock city environment, avoiding obstacles, merging into moving traffic, navigating traffic circles, and
negotiating intersections – all while conforming to California’s driving rule. 0f the 89 international teams, only six
finished in the allotted time.

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 Wende Zhang of general Motors was part of the team that designed the winning vehicle, which finished
with the fastest time – an average speed of approximately 13 miles per hour. The GM team drew upon eexisting
technology already offered in some oftheir vehicles that can assist in parking or detect lanemarkers and trigger
alarms if the drivers are coming too close to the shoulder of the road. For the DARPA challenge, they developed a more
sophisticated package of sensors that included GPS coupled with camera and a laser-ranging LIDAR system to guide
and correct the vehicle’s route through the city. In Baltimore, Zhang will present GM’s patented new methods for
detecting lanes and correcting a vehicle’s route w, which helped them with the challenge.
Though they won people should not look for robotic chauffers immediately. The technology must provve
reliable in many different road, weather, and lighting conditions. Still, says Zhang, a commercially-viable autonomous
driving product may be available in the nect decade.

05. The best title for this passage is .... 08. The word “obstacle” in paragraph 4 is closest in
(A) Future War Zone Vehicles meaning to which of the following?
(B) A Great Leap in Automotive Industry (A) Problems
(C) Research on the Development of Unmanned (B) Difficulties
vehicles (C) Obstructions
(D) Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (D) Burdens
(E) The Triumph of General Motors in a (E) Nuisances
Competition
09. Which of the following statements is FALSE?
06. What is stated about autonomous vehicle (A) Futuristic sensors and advanced computing
navigation in the passage? abilities will be essential features of the
(A) It cannot function if it runs out of electricity autonomous vehicle
(B) Bad weather and traffic jam are minor problems (B) Using self-navigating vehicles in the army will
for autonmous vehicles reduce the numbered of injured soldiers in
(C) Sixty teams managed to design autonpous wars
vehicles n DARPA competition (C) The DARPA Urban Challenge looked for the
(D) Autonomous vehicle will be equipped with a fastest and safest autonomous vehicle
state-of-the-art navigating system (D) The GM team’s new detecting and navigating
(E) Robotic chauffers will be ready in the near methods played an important role in its victory
future (E) The U.S. army is already well-prepared and
ready to launch unmanned vehicles in current
07. It can be inferred from the passage that the DARPA wars
Urban Challenge ...
(A) was meant to search for an advanced manned
navigation sysytem
(B) was only open for American teams
(C) gave a trivial prize for a winning team
(D) is to develop self-navigating vehicles for all sorts
of road conditions
(E) was not very competitive

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Text 3

Doctors have recently started to study the causes of a medical disorder which they have appropriately named SAD, or
seasonal affective disorder. People who suffer from SAD become very __10__ during the winter months. Their
depression appears to be the result of a decrease in the amount of sunlight they are exposed to. Doctors theorized that
decreased sunlight affects the __11__ of melotonin, a hormone manufactured in the brain, and serotonin, a chemical
that helps transmit nerve impulses. Depression may result from the ensuing imbalance of these two substances in the
body. __12__ doctors believe that a decrease in the amount of sunlight the body receives may cause a __13__ in the
body’s natural clock, which could, in turn, results in symptoms such as listlessness, oversleeping, weight gain,
anxiety, irritability, all symptoms of depression. ___14___ absence of light seems to be the cause of this disorder, a
daily dose of light appears to be the cure. Doctors advise patients to sit in front of a special light box which stimulates
natural light __15__ a few hours every day.

10. .... 13. ....

(A) depressed (A) Disturbance
(B) clear (B) Danger
(C) doubtful (C) Result
(D) mad (D) Disease
(E) anxious (E) Ambition

11. .... 14. ....

(A) produce (A) In fact
(B) production (B) When
(C) productive (C) Besides
(D) productively (D) Since
(E) produced (E) Moreover

12. .... 15. ....

(A) Therefore (A) simultaneous
(B) However (B) simulate
(C) Despite (C) simulates
(D) In addition (D) simulation
(E) Thus (E) simulator

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