Listening UN SMA 2015

Part 1

1. A. The woman's dress
    B. The elegant woman
    C. The woman's black dress
    D. The woman's appearance
    E. The man's complaint about the woman

2. A. Sick
    B. Tired
    C. Sleepy
    D. Thirsty
    E. Hungry

3. A. One week
    B. Two weeks
    C. Four days
    D. Three days
    E. Seven days

4. A. She is discussing the cause of heart attack
    B. She is finishing her report on heart attack
    C. She is finishing her school project
    D. She is presenting her assignment
    E. She is looking for a scholarship

Part 2

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Part 3

Report Text

Definition 
“Report is a text which presents information about something, as it is. It is as a result of systematic observation and analyses.” (Report adalah sebuah teks yang menghadirkan informasi tentang suatu hal secara apa adanya. Teks ini adalah sebagai hasil dari observasi dan analisa secara sistematis.)

Structure 

1. General Clasification ; Stating classification of general aspect of thing; animal, public place, plant, etc which will be discussed in general (Menyatakan klasifikasi aspek umum hal; hewan, tempat umum, tanaman, dll yang akan dibahas secara umum).
2. Description : tells what the phenomenon under discussion ; in terms of parts, qualities, habits or behaviors. (Pada bagian ini biasanya memberikan gambaran fenomena-fenomena yang terjadi; baik bagian-bagiannya, sifat-sifatnya, kebiasaannya, ataupun tingkah lakunya. Intinya adalah penjabaran dari klasifikasi yang disajikan dengan ilmiah.)

Social Purpose 
Its social purpose is presenting information about something. They generally describe an entire class of things, whether natural or made: mammals, the planets, rocks, plants, countries of region, culture, transportation, and so on.

Language Feature 

1. Use of general nouns, eg hunting dogs, rather than particular nouns, eg our dog;
2. Use of relating verbs to describe features, eg Molecules are tiny particles;
3. Some use of action verbs when describing behaviour, eg Emus cannot fly;
4. Use of timeless present tense to indicate usualness, eg Tropical cyclones always begin over the sea;
5. Use of technical terms, eg Isobars are lines drawn on a weather map;
6. Use of paragraphs with topic sentences to organise bundles of information; repeated naming of the topic as the beginning focus of the clause.

Example:

Honey Bee

Honey bee is the name given to some species of bees who have the ability to produce honey and beeswax. Of all 20.000 species of bees in the world, there are only seven species which belong to the group of honey bee. They are insect and all of them belong to the genus Apis. One of the most famous honey bee is the Western Honey Bee.

There are three castes of honey bee and each of them has their own job or function. The first one is the Queen. The queen is a female honey bee with the job to lay eggs and to be the mother of all bees in the colony. There is only one queen in a colony of bees. An exclusive food called “royal jelly” is what makes a female honey bee grow larger than other honey bees and became the queen. The second one is the Workers. The workers are all female honey bees in a colony except the queen. They can consist of as much as 60.000 bees in single colony. Some of their duties are: feeding the brood, collecting food, receiving nectar, cleaning the hive, guard duty, producing honey and also producing beeswax. The third one is the Drones. Drones are all male bees in a colony. The drones have one job only and that is to fertilize the queen during the mating process and will soon be dead after that.

The largest species of bee in the world is the Indonesian resin bee who can grow up to the size of 39 millimetres and the smallest species is the Dwarf stingless bees with the size of 2 millimetres. They have the typical body of an insect with three sections: the head, thorax and abdomen. They have two large eyes, two antenna, a mouth and a long proboscis on their head. They use the proboscis to suck up nectar from a flower which later be kept on their hind legs. There are three pairs of legs and two pairs of wings on their thorax. There are nine segments on their abdomen and the last three segments is modified into the sting.

Exercise :

Blueberries, cranberries, and huckleberries and related plants have been found to contain resveratrol, a potential anti-cancer agent, according to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists who made the discovery. This new fi nding from ARS adds to previous research by other scientist who found that darkskinned bunch grapes contain resveratrol.

Using chemical identifi cation procedures, the team of scientists measured the resveratrol content of 30 whole fruit samples of blueberry, cranberry, huckleberry and related plants. The samples represented five families and 10 species of Vaccinium fruit. They also measured resveratrol in skin, juice/pulp and seed samples of muscadine grape. Because of its important biological properties, resveratrol has been examined extensively in grapes. Studies showed the compound protects the grapes from fungal diseases. It also provides health benefi ts for consumers by reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease. The compound’s anticancer potential warranted is examination in other fruits.

The team’s studies showed that several fruits samples of Vaccinium contain varying amounts of the compound. Analysis of the extracts of the skin, juice/pulp and seed of muscadine grapes showed that concertration of resveratrol more Vaccinium and muscadine sample is continuing. The new data could help build a foundation for increasing resveratrol in those berry and grapes crops that are important to many small farmers. Future research goals will include enhancing production of resveratrol in selected species.

1. From the text, we know that resveratrol .…

    A. Is anticancer agent and benefit for reducing heart disease

    B. Examines grapes and measures of fruits as sample disease

    C. Shows the protection for increasing health in selected fruits

    D. Reduces minerals and vitamins in some fruits

    E. Protects any fruits from fungal diseases

2. Resveratrol has been tested in grapes because of ….

    A. Its advantages by extracting health substances

    B. Its disadvantages as anticancer substances

    C. Its important biological substances

    D. Its risk at cardiovascular diseases

    E. Its relationship to the fruit

3. Paragraph 3 talks about .…

    A. Fruit skin is highly concentrated for resveratrol

    B. Grapes are fruits for biological experiments

    C. The beneficial of resveratrol reduce the risk of heart attack

    D. Resveratrol is represented by species of vaccinium fruit

    E. Fruit skin gives measurements for resveratrol

Exercise (News Item)

Geneva (AP): Indonesia has recorded another human case of the H5N1 strain of the bird flu, raising its world-leading total to 117 cases, according to the World Health Organization.

The agency said Friday night that the Indonesian Health Ministry had reported that a 16-year-old girl from West Java Province has been hospitalized since Jan. 4 with symptoms of the diseasE. It said the strain had been confirmed as H5N1.

Of the total number of human cases in Indonesia, 94 have been fatal. WHO says that globally 349 people have been infected with H5N1 since the 2003 outbreak of the diseasE. Of those, 216 have died.

After Indonesia the country with the next highest number of cases in Vietnam with 101, followed by Egypt with 43, according to the U.N. health agency.

1. Which of the following statement is true according to the text?
A. Egypt ranked second as the highest number of bird flu cases
B. Indonesia’s 117th human case of bird flu was found in West Java
C. The article is taken from the UN report
D. Since 2003, it has been reported that all 117 Indonesians died of bird flu
E. According to WHO, there have been 349 people in Indonesia infected by H5N1

2.In the WHO release, the country ranked second in number of bird flu case found is ….
A. Indonesia
B. Vietnam
C. Egypt
D. USA
E. Singapore

3.The word “fatal” in the third paragraph has the closest meaning to ….
A. Harmless
B. Poisonous
C. Tedious
D. Deadly
E. Extreme

Thailand: Forty-two passengers were injured and two were missing after two boats carrying Thai and foreign tourists collided in the popular island beach party, police said Sunday.
The speedboats were ferrying tourists to the Pha-Ngan island for a “Fullmoon” party, a monthly event that attracts thousands of young, mostly western tourists.

Provincial police officer, Adipong Tapee said of the 42 travelers injured, 39 were hospitalized including four Britons, four Australians and four Singaporeans. Also among them were Irish, Norwegian, Malaysian and Thai tourists, he said.

The boats collided and overturned before midnight Saturday, throwing the passengers into the rough sea water just off the island, the website of The Nation newspaper said. -AP

4.We know from the text that…
A. The boat carried forty two passengers
B. The accident happened not far from Pha-Ngan
C. The two missing passengers were westerners
D. The passengers were mostly foreign tourists
E. The boats collided on the way back to Pha-Ngan island

5. What had possibly caused the accident?
A. A careless captain
B. Too many passengers on board
C. There were too many boats
D. A rough weather
E. The boats were speeding