Ujian PPDS 25 Juni 2022

• The great stone city of angkor …..... for six centuries before it fell in 14:31
A. Flourishes
B. Has flourish
C. Has been flourished
D. Flourished
E. Flourishing
• In 2020 the world’s largest gold producer …...... China with 368 3 tonnes of gold minned in that year
A. Was
B. Was being
C. Be
D. To be
E. Is
• Astronomers at the Hansen Observatory …...... no fewer than 12 meteor showers since November
A. Record
B. Are recording
C. Recorded
D. Are being recorded
E. Have recorded
• In the beginning of eighteen century, science was separated from philosophy, and intellectuals ….....
smaller and smaller subdivisions of knowledge
A. Had began to study
B. Was begun to study
C. Began to study
D. Was beginning to study
E. Had been beginning to study
• Muslim logicians, most notably Avicerna and Averroes, inhented Greek ideas after they ….... Egypt
and the Levant
A. Had been invaded and conquered
B. Had invaded and conquered
C. Has invaded ajd conquered
D. Invaded and conquered
E. Have invaded and conquered
• Many schools …... more interested in foreign education
A. Has became
B. Have becoming
C. Has become
D. Have became
E. Have become
• Anna …..... to visit Rachel because she is now busy taking care of her sick grandmother
A. Having not able
B. Was not able
C. Has not been able
 D. Had not been able
E. Have not been able
• All guest …... when she came to the party last night
A. Have left
B. Were leaving
C. Left
D. Were left
E. Had left
• All guest …... when she came to the party last night
A. Have left
B. Were leaving
C. Left
D. Were left
E. Had left
• Indeed we …... everything possible to stop our planet from going towards a climate catasthrophe
A. May do
B. Do
C. Must do
D. May have done
E. Did
• People who live in glass house ….. throwing metal items
A. Should avoid
B. Might avoid
C. May avoid
D. Would avoid
E. Can avoid
• To became registered voters, people ….... at least 18 years old
A. May be
B. Might be
C. Can be
D. Will be
E. Must be
• Many believe that emission levels … rise again, returning to pre-pandemic level, once all restrictions
are filled
A. Will
B. Might
C. Shall
D. Can
E. Must
• The underwater world of Pasir Putih Beach is truly wonderful in that the colourful corals can even ….
from 10 meters deep
A. Being seen
B. Be seen
C. Be see
 D. Seein
E. See
• Mice ….. to cheese than they are to grains
A. Do not really more attract
B. Were not being really more attracted
C. Are not really more attractive
D. Are not really more attracting
E. Are not really more attracted
• The last group assignment of this course …..... to the professor two days ago
A. Handed in
B. Have been indeed in
C. Were handed in
D. Had been handed in
E. Was handed in
• China’s first emperor ….... surrounded by 7,000 life-sized clay figures of soldiers standing in battle
formation
A. Burying
B. That burried
C. Was burying
D. Burried
E. Was burried
• NGOs ….. into two operational NGOs and advocacy NGOs
A. Can be categorize
B. Can categorized
C. Can be categorized
D. Can categorize
E. Can be categorizes
• …....... biodiversity is very crucial for water management
A. To be predicted
B. To be protecting
C. Protect
D. Protecting
E. To protect
• …......... forests has a direct impact on human health
A. Being destroyed
B. Destroy
C. To destroy
D. Destroying
E. Be destroying
• When I was a kid, I remember ….. video games all day long during the semester break
A. Play
B. To play
C. Playing
D. Played
 E. To be playing
• The student is questioning the professor about ….... to look at her proposal
A. Having him the chance
B. His having the chance
C. The chance has him
D. To have the chance he has
E. He has the chance
• The importance of the Chaco Canyon archeological site is that ….... reveals insights into a whole
civilization
A. They
B. It
C. Theirs
D. Its
E. Their
• The development of informaton technology …... freedom to exchange online information
A. Is providing
B. Be provided
C. Provide
D. To provide
E. Provides
• A government that ….... to keep its promises should not be re-elected
A. Failed
B. Is failing
C. Failing
D. Are failing
E. Fails
• To ensure the productivity ….... here some modern equipment
A. The number one of local companies
B. Some local companies
C. A number of local companies
D. Number of local companies
E. Little of local companies
• One problem with all languages ….... they are full of irregularities
A. Are that
B. Is so
C. Is that
D. Is when
E. Just that
• One problem with all languages …..... they are full of irregularities
A. Are that
B. Is so
C. Is that
D. Is when
E. Just that
• After the maintenance, the building looks comfortable and …....
A. Cleaning
B. Cleaned
C. Cleans
D. Clearly
E. Clean
• The new staff work perfomances are potraying her …... traits
A. Strength and confidence
B. Strong and confidence
C. Strong and confidential
D. Strength and confidential
E. Strong and confident
• Kampung Sumber Alam is …... with typical Sundanese archilvictuse
A. A uniquely traditional rescent
B. A unique traditionally resort
C. A uniequely tradtition resort
D. A unique tradition resort
E. A unique traditional resort
• Deforestation forces animals and humans to live closer together, creating …...
A. Potential dead risks to human health
B. Potential dead risking to human health
C. Potentially deadly risks to human health
D. Potentially dead risks to human health
E. Potential deadly risks to human health
• Scissor, a Bronze Age invention ….... basically unchanged to this day, consist of two blades linked by
a C shapped spring
A. Remained
B. It remains
C. Remaining
D. That they remain
E. Remains
• What is interesting from water villa is that you can enjoy …... straight from your bed
A. The clearly blue sea
B. The clear blues sea
C. The clearing blue sea
D. The clearness blue sea
E. The clear blue sea
• The books ….. are on sale are labelled with yellow price tags
A. That
B. Who
C. What
D. Whose
E. Where
• ….... the student has a car parking problem, he probably takes a walk to campus
 A. Since
B. During
C. Nonetheless
D. Because
E. Although
• We will share ….. vulnerable people to equip them with tooks to protect themselves against
mesinformation
A. Who
B. Which
C. Whom
D. How
E. When
• The label clearly mentions when ….. for maximum result
A. Should be the pills taken
B. Should the pills to be taken
C. Should be take the pills
D. The pills should be taken
E. Should the pills be taken
• It is not made of silicon, and its not a river valley, but forgetting that. Silicon Valley is probably the
most famous valley in the world. Altough it is not the place where the first computer was built ( that
was Manchester, England ) , Silicon Valley. Near San Francisco, was the birthplace of the modern
computer industry.

For this, we can say thank you to scientist at the universities at the universities in California, and to the
Hippies of the 1960s

It was in te nineteen-sixties that American “youth culture” really began. California, of course, already
existed, but the Sixties Generation rediscovered it.

At the time there were really to different forms of youth culture; the “Beach Boy” culture on the one
hand, and the antiestablishment hippies and radical students on other hand, and they all dreamed of
California.

For the Beach Boys, that meant southern California, where they could sing about surfing and cars, for
the Hippies and radicals, it meant San Francisco, were hotbeds of new ideas, new technology, new
culture, and new ways of living.

When they finished university, many of the best students did not look for jobs with big companylike
Ford or Exxon instead, they wanted to be free and run their own operations and stay California, not far
from San Francisco. Silicon Valley is this a group of smalls town, including Palo Alto and San Jose, a few
miles south of San Francisco.

The high-technology industry was already present around San Francisco. Intel had been founded in 1968
, and in the same year, the first computer mouse was built at Stampford Univesity in 197, Xerox opened
a reseacrh centre in Palo Alto. There were also other electronics companies, like Hewlett Packard, and
Fairchild, the world’s first “semiconductor”
Then, in 1976, an electronics student called Steve Jobs started a small computer company in his garage,
he gave it the same name as the Beatles’ record company Apple.

Very soon, more companies, like Seagate and Google appeared “Silicon Valley” had arrived. There was
even a sort of primitive Internet connecting many addreses in Silicon Valley, called the Arpanet

Today, Silicon Valley is still the home of the computer industry. It is still full of high technology, but it is
not the only centro for high-tech in the USA. Today there are computer firms all over the USA and all
over the world, but Silicon Valley stillhas the largest concentration of high-tech companies and research
centres.

The new grammar for schools, students and teachers. Microsoft, the world’s biggest high-tech company,
is not based in Silicon Valley it is further north, near Seattle in the state of Washington.

The word ‘radical’ in paragraph 4 could best be replaced by ….....

A. Moderate
B. Conservativeo
C. Revolutionary
D. Careful
E. Cautious
• Pilihlah analogi yang paling tepat

SEDIH : menangis : KLARIFIKASI : …....

A. Pemberitaan
B. Penguraian
C. Kejelasan
D. Permasalahan
E. Perbedaan
• There is no dispute that a series of droughts occurred In the Yucatan Peninsula of southeastern
Mexico and northern Central America at the end of the ninth century when Maya cities
mystrieriously began to be depopulated. Believing the Maya were mostly dependent on drought-
sensitive corn, beans, and squash, some scholars assume the droughts resulted in starvation

However, a new analysis by UC Riverside archaeologist Scott Fedick and plant physiologist Louis Santiago
shows the Maya had nearly 500 edible plants available to them, many of which are highly resistant

Some of the toughest plants the Maya would have turned include cassava with its edible tubers, and
hearts of palm. Another is chaya, a shrub domesticated by the Maya and eaten today by their
descendants. Its leaves are high in protein, iron, potassium, and calcium.

Unable to find a ,aster list of indegnous Maya food plants, Fedick recently compiled and published one
that draws on decades of Maya plant knowledge. Faced with much speculation about drought as the
cause of Maya social disruptions, he and Santiago decided to examine all 497 plants on the list for
drought tolerance.

Though the researchers do not have a clear answer about why ancient Maya society unravelled, they
suspect social and economic upheavel played a role.
The pronoun “its” in the last sentence of paragraph 3 refers to …...

A. Plant
B. Chaya
• One of the principles of Victorian design is that unused space in a room is a sign of poor taste and
lower economic status. With that in mind. Europan designers sought to fill every space. This
victorian design has sometimes been viewed as indulging in a grand excess of emament. Every room
was decorated with objects that reflected the owner’s influences and preferences. Extravagant
decorations, lace tablecloths, stained glass, vases, busts, framed paintings or prints, multi-layered
window treatments, richly patterned fabrics, and accesorries were used throughout the house. The
Victorian Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia, exemplities the classic Victorian Style. Chandeliers
hang from the ceiling, vases with fresh flowers dot every table, and the dining room features
eleborately carved furniture and decorative teapots made in China. It is elegantly appointed, true to
the Victorian style. This hotel often hosts the royal family when they visit Canada.

Emblematic of a Victorian home was the use of vibrant, brightly coloured fabrics. Complex patterns
covered every surface. Oriental rugs and heavy draperies were thought of as the height of good taste.
Windows were rarely left uncovered, rather, on them hung thick, decorative drapes. The lack of light
that couldenter rooms through these heavy drapenes was companesated for with eye-catching
appointments of velvet, silk, and satin. Linen patterns ranged from flowers and animals to geometric
shapes, stripes, and woven Arabic symbols squares and circles, typically repeated. Overlapped and
interlaced to form infricate patterns. Victorians loved these patterns and used them liberally

The phrase ‘indulging in’ in sentence 3 of paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to …....

A. Obsessing about
B. Deriving pleaasure them
C. Living in
D. Carving with fancy furniture
E. Showing interest in
• Of all organs in the body, perhaps the most mysterious one is the brain. Scientists, physicians, and
psychologists have often been at odds about how the brain functions. Still, today we do know that
not only the brain the centre of the nervous system, but it is also considered the seat of one’s
emotions, memory, and ideas as well. In the past, it was popular for both doctors and laymen to
often talk about the left and the right hemispheres of the of the brain as if each had very specifically
assigned functions. Today, this is not considered nearly as cut and dried as it once was. That is to
say, we now know much more than we did a decade ago and realize that thought each area of the
brain is associated with certain skills or functions, no one particular area of the brain is thought of as
fully responsible for one specific function.

In very loose terminology, the right hemisphere of the brain controls the left side of the body (the arm,
leg, hand, etcetera), likewise, the left hemisphere controls the right side of the body. In general, it is
believed that the left hemisphere primarily controls language learning skills and the right side controls
creative activities. One reason, however, that there is much less emphasis on whether a person is
considered to be “right” or “left brained” is that there is such an overlap in these areas. For example, a
person who is greatly skilled at language learning may also be highly creative or imaginative or possess
musical ability, which is considered to be “right-brained” also much has been learned about the
functions of the brain through recent medical and scientific research on the subject, and by studying
brain damaged patients. And from these studies, great strides have been made in treating patients with
epilepsy , brain tumours, and a host of other brain disorders and diseases. Still, the brain is a great
unknown in myriad ways and remains one of the most challenging and fascinating areas in the medical
field.

The best choice of a the tittle for this passage is ….........

A. The Mysteries of the Brain

B. Left or Right Brain Which is Better?
C. How We Think
D. What Makes Us Smart?
E. What create human organ

. Push the bars back and forwards with his feet, and make the back wheel go round. He could also steer
the bike, as the front wheel could be turned.

To demonstrate has invention, he cycled 60 miles to Glasgow! It must have been terrible journey on the
roads of the day Pate’s bike did not have rubber tyres or springs. Mad Pate was not recognized in his
time, but other people became interested in bicycles. Twenty five years later, a Frenchman called Pierre
Lallement designed and patented the first bicycle with rotary pedals, and in 1876, H. J Lawson added
another basic feature “chain drive”

Other features, such as rubber tyres and gears, have appeared since then, but the basic bicycle has not
changed. Since then the bicycle has had a magnificent fortune. Today, it is probably the most common
form of transport in the world especially developing countries and non polluting and easy to ride, it has
a big future as the town vehicle of tomorrow.

The word “articulated” in the third paragraph could best be replaced by.....

A. Devised
B. Commited
C. Whined
D. Mambled
E. Constracted

. Another critical factor that plays a part in susceptibility to colds is age. A study done by University of
Michigan School of Public Health revealed particular that seem to hold true for the general population.
Infants are the most cold ridden group, averaging more than six colds in their first year. Boys have more
colds than girls up to age three. After the age of three, girls are more susceptible than boys, and teenage
girls average three colds a year to boys’ two
The general incidence of colds continues to decline into maturity. Elderly people who are in good health
have as few as one or two colds annually. One exception is found among people in their twenties,
especially women, who show rise in cold infections because people in this age group are most likely to
have young children. Adult who delay having children until their thirties and forties experience the same
sudden increase in cold infections.

The study also found that economics plays an important role. As income increases, the frequency at
which colds are reported in the family decreases. Family with the lowest income suffer about a third
colder than families at the highest end. Lower income in general forces people to live in more cramped
quarters than those typically occupied by wealthier people, and crowding increases the opportunities
for the cold virus to travel from person to person. Low income may also adversely influence diet. The
degree to which poor nutrition affects susceptibility to colds is not yet clearly established but an
inadequate diet is suspected of lowering resistance in general.

Which of the following is closest in meaning to the word susceptible in first paragraph?

A. Impervious
B. Resistant
C. Prone
D. Adamant

. Raden Adjeng Kartini (21 April 1879 – 17 September 1904) also known as Raden Ayu Kartini, was a
prominent Indonesian activist who advocated for women’s right and female education. She was born
into aristocratic Javanese family in the Dutch East Indies (present day Indonesia) after attending a Dutch
language primary school, she wanted to pursue further education but Javanese women at the time were
barred from higher education.

During her seclusion, Kartini continued to self-educate herself. She was fluent in Dutch and acquired
several Dutch pen pals. One of which, was a girl named Rosa Abendanon, who later became a close
friend. Books, newspaper and European magazines fed Kartini's interested in Europe and feminist
thinking and overall fostered the desire to improve the conditions of indigenous Indonesian women,
which at the time had very low social status.

After her death, her sister continued her advocacy for educating girls and women. Kartini’s letter were
published in a Dutch magazine and eventually in 1911 as the works. Out of the Darkness to Light,
Wome’s Life in the Village, and Letters of Javanese Princess. Her birthday is now celebrated in Indonesia
as Kartini Day in her honour.

How did Raden Adjeng Kartini not do to self-educate herself?

A. She improved indigenous women

B. She learned Dutch language
C. She had pen pals
D. She read books, newspapers and magazines
E. She made friends with Dutch people
. Victorian style is a broad term that refers to the characteristic of design from latter period of Queen
Victoria’s rule, from 1837 until her death in 1901. At the time, the style was used as a signal of affluence
among the upper class of British society due to its ornate, showy interiors. Today, it is still popular across
the globe, particularly in Asia, where it is used to create opulent spaces that convey a high position in
society.

One of the principles of Victorian design is that unused space in a room is a sign of poor taste and lower
economic status. With that in mind, European designers sought to fill every space. The Victorian design
has sometimes been viewed as indulging in a grand excess of ornament. Every room was decorated with
objects that reflected the owner’s influences and preferences. Extravagant decorations, lace tablecloths,
stained glass, vases, busts, framed paintings or prints, multi layered window treatments, richly
patterned fabrics, and accessories were used throughout the house. The Victorian Hotel in Vancouver,
British Columbia, exemplifies the classic Victorian Style Chandeliers hang from the ceiling, vases with
fresh flowers dot every table and the dining room features elaborately carved furniture and decorative
teapots made in China. It is elegantly appointed true to the Victorian style. This hotel often hosts the
royal family when they visit Canada.

Emblematic of a Victorian home was the use of vibrant, brightly coloured fabrics. Complex pattern
covered every surface. Oriental rugs and heavy draperies were thought of as the height of good taste.
Window were rarely left uncovered, rather on them hung thick, decorative drapes. The lack of light that
could enter rooms through these heavy draperies was compensated for with eye catching appointments
of velvet, silk and satin. Linen patterns ranged from flowers and animals to geometric shapes, stripes
and wovwn Arabic symbols squares and circles. Typically repeated, overlapped and interlaced to form
antricate patterns Victorians loved these patterns and used them liberaly.

Why did Europeans fill up every space?

• Improved strain of corn, which should surivive in wet soil and a relatively cool climate, and also
learned to cullivate beans indeed, agriculture became so important to the Missisipians that it
became closely assocated with the Sun – the guarantor of good crops. Many tribes called
themselves “children of the Sun” and believed their omniponent priest-chiefs were descendant of
the great sun god

Althought mos Mississipians lived in small villages, many others inhabited large towns. Most of these
towns boasted at least one major flat-topped mound on which stood a temple that contained a sacred
flame. Only priest and those charged with guarding the flame could enter the temples. The mound also
served as ceremonial and trading sites, and at times they were used burial grounds

What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. Hits that had temples and monument on top

B. The construction of burial mounds
C. The development of agriculture
D. The locations of towns and villages
E. The early people and culture of the US
• The first peoples to inhabit what today is the southeastern United States sustained themselves as
hunters and gathers. Sometimes early in the first millenium A.D. however, they began to cultivate
corn and other crops. Gradually, as they became more skilled at gardening, they settled into
permanent villages and developed a rich culture, charactenzed by the great earthen mounds they
erected as monuments to their gods and as tombs for their distinguished dead. Most of these early
mound builders were part of the Adena-Hopewell culture, which had its beginning near the Ohio
River and takes it’s name dorm sites in Ohio. The culture spread southward into the present day
states of Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida its peoples became great traders, bartering
jewellery, pottery, animal pelt, tools, and other goods along with extensive trading networks that
stretched up and down eastern North America and as far west as the Rocky Mountains.

About A.D. 400, the Hopewell culture fell into decay. Over the next centuries, it was supplanted by
another culture, the Mississippian, named after the river along which many of its earliest villages were
located. This complex civilization dominated the Southeast from about A.D. 700 until shorty before the
Europeans began arriving in the sixteenth century. At the peak of its strength, about the year 1200, it
was the most advanced culture in North America. Like their Hopewell predecessors, the Mississippians
became highly skilled at growing food, although on a grander scale. They developed an improved strain
of corn, which could survive in wet soil and a relatively cool climate, and also learned to cultivate beans
Indeed, agriculture became so important to the Mississippians that it became closely associated with
the Sun-the guarantor of good corps. Many tribes called themselves “children of the Sun” and believed
their omnipotent priest-chiefs were descendants of the great sun god.

• The nature of time is one of the biggest mysteries in science. Scientist simply do not understand
what time is at least pertality, because it does not behave the same way in all circumstances. For
example, clocks installed on areoplanes-or even further away, on satelites-record time at different
rates then here on Earth

We all know that time has a physical component that is measured by clocks. This physical component of
time exists because things and people move around in space, the motion the Earth propels time forward
in 24-hour days and 365-day years. We physically experience time because we experience ourselves and
things moving around. This is obviously true when you think about different time zones. It isn’t the same
time in New York as it is in Sydney because the Earth is moving in fact, we are all travelling in time at
about one second per second.

This physical component of time was explained by Einstein who, more than 100 years ago,
revolutionized the idea of how time works. He theorized that time and space are inextincabily linked
together. He also found that the universe has a speed limit of sorts, the speed of light. So while time and
space are linked to, nothing can travel faster than the speed of light (186,000 miles per second)

The word ‘propels’ in the second sentence of paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ….....

A. Causes
B. Times
C. Records
D. Moves
E. Circles
• Floor and people used ladders to reach the first root. All the villages had underground chambers
called kivas. Men held tribal councils there and also there and also used them for secret religious
ceremonies and clan meetings. Winding paths, ladders, and steps cut into the stone led from the
valleys below to the ledges on which the villages stood. The largest settlement contained 217
rooms. One might surmise that these dwelings were built for protection, but the Anasazi had no
known enemies and there is no sign of conflict

But bigger mystery is why the Anasazi occupied these structures for such a short time. By 1300 Mesa
Verde was deserted it is conjectured that the Anasazi abandoned their settlements because of drought,
overpopulation, crop failure, or some combination of these. They probably moved southward and were
incorporated into the pueblo villages that the Spanish explorers encountered 200 years later. Their
descendants still live in the Southwest

The name that Anasazi used for themselves ….....

A. Is unknown today
B. Mean “Basketmakers” in Navayo language
C. As inhented from their Navayo ancestors
D. Means “ancient ones” In the Anasazi language
E. Was given them by Archeologists
• Prints, multi layered window treatments, richly patterned fabrics, and accessories were used
throughout the house. The Victorian Hotel in Vancouver. British Columbia, exemplities the classic.
Victorian Style. Chandeliers hang from the ceiling, vases with fresh flowers dot every table, and the
dining room features elaborately carved furniture and decorative teapots made in China, it is
elegantly appointed true to the Victorian Style. This hotel often hosts the royal family when they
visit Canada

Emblematic of a Victorian home was the use of vibrant, brightly coloured fabrics. Complex patterns
covered every surface. Oriental rugs and heavy draperies were thought of as the height of good taste.
Windows were rarely left draperies was compensated for with eye-catching appointments of velvet, silk,
and satin. Linen patterns ranged form flowers and animals to geometric shapes, and women Arabic-
symbols squares and circles, typically repeated, overlapped and interfaced to form intricrate patterns.
Victorians loved these patterns and used them liberally

Why did Europeans fill up every space?

A. To demonstrate the valuable appreciation for the sophisticated arts

B. To show visitors their collections of objects
C. To showcase their personal interest by adorning open spaces
D. To demonstrate that they appreciated a grand excess of ornamentation
E. To show that they had wealth and sophisticated taste
• With metal weapons invaded and where people only used stone weapons, some on the people
escaped and had in forests and caves. Further support for this idea is that farries were thought to be
afraid of iron and could not touch it. Living outside of society, the hiding people probably stole food
and attacked villlages. This might explain why fairies were often described as playing tricks on
humans. Hundreds of years ago, people actually believed that farries stole new babies and replaced
 them with a ‘changeling’ - a fairy baby – or that they look new mothers and made them feed fairy
babies with their milks

While most people no longer believe in fairies, only a hundred years ago some people were very willing
to think they might exist in 1917, 16 year-old Elsie Wright took two photos of her cousin, nine-year-old
Frances Griffiths, sitting with fairies. Some photography experts thought they were take, while others
weren’t sure. But Arthur Conan Doyle, the writer of the Sherlock Holmes detective stones, believed they
were real. He published the original pictures and three more the 1983, created using pictures of dancers
that Else copied from a book …...

In paragraph 1, the author mentions Tinker Bell in order ….....

A. To exemplily how fairies are normally pictured

B. To show how friendly Tinker Bell is
C. To tell the story of Peter Pan
D. To explain the reason behind fairies use of magic
E. To compare fairies o human