The folllowing text tells us about the attitudes of a certain community in Yogyakarta towards pollution and global warming. Read it and then answer the questions. Yogyakarta Promotes Commuting by Bike The Jakarta Post, Jakarta - More than 2,000 people participated in bike-to-work and bike-to-school promotional event staged on Yogyakarta's Alun-Alun Utara Square a Monday morning. The participants who include civil servants, private-sector employees, students, police, and soldiers represented 30 different bicycle clubs. "We have to support this program to help Yogyakarta be an environmentally friendly city," Yogyakarta Governor Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X said. Yogyakarta Mayor Herry Zudianto saidthe program would benefit the city by reducing pollution levels and global warming contributions. "It's also good fo our health," he added. Harry said the city administration would allocate funds to construct designated cycle routes if their numbers increased significantly. Who were the participants?

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Soal di atas menanyakan orang-orang yang berpartisipasi dalam acara bersepeda di halaman Alun-alun Utara Yogyakarta pada Senin pagi. Untuk menjawab soal tersebut, kita perlu memperhatikan kata kunci yang tercantum di soal dan kemudian mencari kata itu di antara paragraf-paragraf teks berita yang tertera dengan cara membaca scanning (membaca sepintas untuk mendapatkan informasi spesifik dalam teks). Kata kunci yang dimaksud pada soal tersebut adalah participants yang artinya "para partisipan atau orang-orang yang berpartisipasi". Kata kunci itu tertulis di paragraf 2 yang berbunyi, " the participants who include civil servants, private-sector employees, students, police, and soldiers represented 30 different bicycle clubs" yang memiliki arti "para partisipan mencakup pegawai negeri sipil, pegawai swasta, pelajar, polisi, dan tentara yang mewakili 30 klub sepeda". Agar sesuai dengan kalimat soal, jawabannya dapat dituliskan sebagai berikut: the participants were civil servants, private-sector employees, students, police, and soldiers yang artinya "para partisipan terdiri atas pegawai negeri sipil, pegawai swasta, pelajar, dan tentara". Jadi, jawaban yang benar adalah " The participants werecivil servants, private-sector employees, students, police, and soldiers. "