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ANSWER SHEET
FINAL TEST - READING (PPS 500)
Semester II/2012-2013/May 2013

1. T F 5. T F 9. T F 13. T F
2. T F 6. T F 10. T F 14. T F
3. T F 7. T F 11. T F 15. T F
4. T F 8. T F 12. T F

16. A B C D 20. A B C D 24. A B C D
17. A B C D 21. A B C D 25. A B
18. A B C D 22. A B C D
19. A B 23. A B C D


26. T F 29. T F 32. T F 34. T F
27. T F 30. T F 33. T F 35. T F
28. T F 31. T F


36. A B C D 41. A B C D 46. A B C D
37. A B C D 42. A B C D 47. A B C D
38. A B C D 43. A B 48. A B C D
39. A B C D 44. A B 49. A B C D
40. A B C D 45. A B C D 50. A B C D























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English Unit/UP MKDU Name :
Bogor Agricultural University Major/NRP :




FINAL TEST - READING (PPS 500)
Semester II/2012-2013/May 2013
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1)
A new study has found that different brain areas are activated when we choose to suppress an
emotion, compared to when we are instructed to inhibit an emotion. In this study the researchers
scanned the brains of healthy participants and found that key brain systems were activated when
choosing for oneself to suppress an emotion. They had previously linked this brain area to deciding to
inhibit movement.
2)
This result shows that emotional self-control involves a quite different brain system from simply
being told how to respond emotionally. In most previous studies, participants were instructed to feel or
inhibit an emotional response. However, in everyday life we are rarely told to suppress our emotions,
and usually have to decide ourselves whether to feel or control our emotions.
3)
In this new study the researchers showed unpleasant or frightening pictures to 15 healthy
women. The participants were given a choice to feel the emotion, by distancing themselves through an
act of self-control. The researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI) to scan the
brains of the participants. They compared this brain activity to another experiment where the
participants were instructed to feel or inhibit their emotions, rather than choose for themselves.
4)
Different parts of the brain were activated in the two situations. When participants decided for
themselves to inhibit negative emotions, the scientists found activation in the dorso-medial prefrontal
area of the brain. They had previously linked this brain area to deciding to inhibit movement.
5)
In contrast, when participants were instructed by the experimenter to inhibit the emotion, a
second, more lateral area was activated. Controlling ones emotion and controlling ones behavior
involve overlapping mechanisms. There is a distinction between voluntary and instructed control of
emotions similar to a distinction between making up our own mind about what to do and following
instructions.

Cross T on your answer sheet if the following statement is TRUE based on the passage above and F if it is FALSE.
1. The passage above mainly discusses the relation between brain and health.
2. It can be inferred from the context that the word inhibit (line 2) is closest in meaning to suppress.
3. The second sentence In this study emotion. in Paragraph One (lines 2-4) is a statement of Opinion.
4. The pronoun they in line 4 refers to key brain systems.
5. The word linked in line 4 is an adjective.
6. The word told (line 7) and instructed (line 2) are synonymous.
7. The research findings show that key brain systems are activated when people choose to control their
emotions.
8. The same part of the brain is activated whether controlling emotion is an individual choice or instructed.
9. Paragraph Three contains procedures or methods used in the research.
10. Paragraph Three contains statements of both facts and opinions.
11. Self-control emotion makes the dorso-medial prefrontal area of the brain active.
12. The writer uses the transition In contrast in Paragraph Five to show a contrast between movement and
emotion.
13. It can be inferred from the passage that the same part of the brain is activated when people are
instructed whether to suppress emotions or to inhibit movements.
14. The expression making up our own mind in line 21 is closest in meaning to deciding.
15. The passage implies that the studies on emotion and movement were conducted simultaneously.

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READING 2



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1)
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says only 7% percent of plastic waste
in the United States is recycled each year. A new company in northern New York says that it can
increase that percentage. It also says that it can help the United States reduce the amount of oil it
imports. This is because the company has a machine which it calls the plastic-eating monster. Every
hour, thousands of kilograms of milk jugs, water bottles, and grocery bags are fed into the machine. The
plastic waste comes from landfills across the United States. John Bordnyniuk runs the company, called
JBI.
2)
Mr. Bordyniuk thinks that people in the USA basically have been mining their own piles for the
company and sending them there. He has invented a new process for turning plastic into fuel. First,
many different kinds of unwashed plastics are melted together. The viscosity is close to what milk
would be like. Almost like when milk is heated on the stove, except that it is black. Mr. Bordyniuk uses a
special chemical to turn the fluid into a vapor. This reduces the plastic to its most basic elements.
Plastics are just long hydrocarbon chains. They are then re-formed into links and chains so as they have
a high fuel value. 8% of the recycled plastic is used to run the system. Independent testers say that 86 %
percent of what goes in comes out as fuel.
3)
Bob Molodynia helps run the company. He watches as the plastic-eating machine pours a thin,
brown liquid into an oil barrel, which could be tapped and ready to go. This is a number six fuel, thats
what a lot of like US Steel uses.

Choose the best answer based on the passage by crossing (X) A, B, C or D on your answer sheet.

16. What does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) Recycling waste plastic into oil. (C) Feeding a monster with waste plastic.
(B) Turning an oil company to success. (D) Collecting waste plastic from all over USA.

17. Paragraph One states that __________.
(A) EPA can only recycle 7% of waste plastic in USA
(B) with what JBI does USA oil import will be lower
(C) JBI needs more plastic waste than EPA does
(D) the plastic eating machine needs water to run

18. The word landfills in line 6 most probably means __________.
(A) households (B) companies (C) rubbish deposits (D) sources

19. The last sentence of Paragraph One (lines 57) is a statement of __________.
(A) fact (B) opinion

20. The transition First in line 9 indicates a text organization of __________.
(A) comparison (B) listing (C) classification (D) process

21. The phrase close to (line 10) is closest in meaning to __________.
(A) near (B) similar to (C) not open (D) approaching

22. The passage mentions the following steps to turn plastic into fuel except __________.
(A) washing (B) melting (C) vaporizing (D) re-forming

23. The suffix er in the word testers (line 14) means __________.
(A) machine (B) tool (C) person (D) more

24. Of the volume fed into the machine, how much of the waste plastic is not turned into fuel?
(A) 7% (B) 8% (C) 86% (D) 14%

25. The last sentence of Paragraph Two (lines 1415) is a statement of __________.
(A) fact (B) opinion

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Reading 3



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Of all the non-starchy vegetables, Americans eat more tomatoes and tomato products than any
others. Researchers Britt Burton-Freeman, PhD, MS, and Kristin Reimers, PhD, RD of the National
Center for Food Safety & Technology, Illinois Institute of Technology and ConAgra Foods, Inc., looked
at the current research to discover the role tomato products play in health and disease risk reduction.
The researchers found that tomatoes are the biggest source of dietary lycopene; a powerful
antioxidant that, unlike nutrients in most fresh fruits and vegetables, has even greatly available after
cooking and processing. Tomatoes also contain other protective mechanisms, such as antithrombotic
and anti-inflammatory functions. Research has additionally found a relationship between eating
tomatoes and a lower risk of certain cancers as well as other conditions, including cardiovascular
disease, osteoporosis, ultraviolet light-induced skin damage, and cognitive dysfunction.
Tomatoes are widely available, people of all ages and cultures like them, they are cost-effective,
and are available in many forms. "Promoting emerging knowledge about tomatoes and tomato
products may be one simple and effective strategy to help individuals increase vegetable intake,
leading to improved overall eating patterns, and ultimately, better health." write the authors.
"Tomatoes are the most important non-starchy vegetable in the American diet. Research
underscores the relationship between consuming tomatoes and reduced risk of cancer, heart disease,
and other conditions," the authors conclude. "The evidence also suggests that consumption of
tomatoes should be recommended because of the nutritional benefits and because it may be a
simple and effective strategy for increasing overall vegetable intake."

Cross T on your answer sheet if the following statement is TRUE based on the passage above and F if it is FALSE.
26. It can be inferred from Paragraph 1 that tomatoes are a kind of vegetables.
27. According to Paragraph 2, after cooking and processing, tomatoes contain more lycopene.
28. The word unlike in line 6 is to indicate a comparison or similarity between two things.
29. The word additionally in line 8 is to show the text organization for a process.
30. The main idea of the whole reading passage is the health benefits of eating tomatoes.
31. One benefit of consuming tomatoes is lower vegetable intake.
32. The word cost-effective in line 11 probably means expensive.
33. According to Paragraph 3, there are many types of tomatoes.
34. Eating tomatoes can reduce the risk of osteoporosis.
35. The word underscores in line 16 has the same meaning as underlines.

Reading 4
1)
Drug addiction might be cured with a simple
treatment to awaken a part of the brain of the
addict the person who has grown dependent on
the drug. Recently, researchers reported they were
able to end drug-seeking behavior in rats addicted
to cocaine. They said they did this with laser light by
activating a part of the animals brains known as
the prefrontal cortex.
2)
Cocaine is used widely as a drug. It comes
from a substance, an alkaloid, in the coca plant.
3)
For several weeks, the researchers gave the
drug to a group of rats. The animals quickly became
dependent on cocaine. For four days, the rats
received a mild but unpleasant electric shock to a
foot when they attempted to get more cocaine.
Antonello Bonci, scientific director at the United
States National Institute on Drug Abuse, was
involved in the study. He says that after the shocks,
70 percent of the rats stopped looking for more
cocaine. But the remaining 30 percent continued to
show an addictive hunger for the drug.
4)
The researchers compared nerve-cell firing
action in both groups of rats by examining cells
from a brain area known as the prefrontal cortex.
This area is involved in higher brain activity. This
includes the making of decisions, controlling
unplanned behavior and unwillingness to change
ones mind.
5)
Scientists discovered that the addicted rats
had reduced activity in a part of the brain cortex
called the prelimbic region. The area showed
weakness in the self-control processes needed to
resist the drug. So, the scientists developed a plan
to increase the animals ability to control itself.
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6)
The first step was to inject the brain area with
a harmless virus carrying a protein that responds to
light. After several weeks, the scientists placed a
very small fiber optic device into the prefrontal
cortex, and sent light to wake up the sleepy area.
7)
When we turned on some activity in this
prefrontal cortex, we could see that the compulsive
cocaine seeking was gone.
8)
He says researchers then turned the process
around. The rats that had changed their behavior
because of the shocks again became cocaine
seekers. This happened because the researchers
used the fiber optic method to reduce neuronal
firing in the prefrontal cortex.
9)
Dr. Bonci says investigators are now designing
human clinical tests for electromagnetic brain
stimulation that is non-invasive. He says they are
doing this to increase the hypoactive, or inactive,
prefrontal cortex of volunteer drug users. He says
the plan is to set up testing in the near future. In
those trials, he says, cocaine addicts ideally should
lose their interest and need for the drug.

Choose the best answer based on the passage by crossing (X) A, B, C or D on your answer sheet.
36. The first paragraph contains a finding, a comment on the finding and part of the method of the research,
so it is the ______ the research.
A. summary B. conclusion C. background D. aim

37. Paragraph 2 gives information about______ about the drug related to the research.
A. the past research B. general knowledge C. comment D. new finding

38. The word attempted in paragraph 3 probably means ______.
A. managed B. tried C. succeeded D. decided

39. Which of the following sentences from the reading passage is about the finding of the research?
A. For several weeks, the researchers gave the drug to a group of rats
B. For four days, the rats received a mild but unpleasant electric shock to a foot when they attempted to
get more cocaine.
C. The researchers compared nerve-cell firing action in both groups of rats by examining cells from a
brain area known as the prefrontal cortex.
D. But the remaining 30 percent continued to show an addictive hunger for the drug.

40. Paragraph 5 is mainly about the _______ of the research.
A. Findings B. purpose C. method D. conclusion

41. Paragraph 6 is mainly about the _______ of the research.
A. Findings B. purpose C. method D. conclusion

42. In what paragraph can you find the purpose of the research on human about ending drug addictions?
A. Paragraph 6 B. Paragraph 7 C. Paragraph 8 D. Paragraph 9

43. The first sentence of paragraph 1 is a statement of _______.
A. Fact B. Opinion

44. The first sentence of paragraph 5 is _______.
A. Fact B. Opinion

45. It can be inferred from the passage that the research about the ending of drug addiction in human ______.
A. has been done C. has not been completed
B. has been impossible D. will not be done

46. The text organization of paragraph 6 is a _______.
A. Listing B. Process C. Cause-effect D. Definition

47. The word When in Paragraph 7 implicitly indicates a/an ______ relationship.
A. Time B. cause-effect C. contrast D. comparison

48. The word This in line 5 of Paragraph 4 refers to _______.
A. Nothing B. This area C. prefrontal cortex D. higher brain activity

49. The word cured in line 1 of Paragraph 1 can be best replaced by_______.
A. ended B. continued C. studied D. obtained

50. The word harmless in the first sentence of paragraph 6 probably means ______.
A. dangerous B. not dangerous C. dead D. homeless