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. How many people participated in the Monday morning event?

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Soal di atas menanyakan jumlah orang yang berpartisipasi dalam acara di Senin pagi. Untuk menjawabnya, kita perlu memperhatikan kata kunci yang tercantum di soaldan kemudian mencari kata tersebut di antara paragraf-paragraf teks berita yang tertera dengan cara membaca scanning (membaca sepintas untuk mendapatkan informasi spesifik dalam teks). Kata kunci pada soal tersebut adalah people yang artinya "orang", participated yang artinya "berpartisipasi", dan Monday morning event yang artinya "acara di Senin pagi". Ketiga kata kunci itu tertulis di kalimat 1 paragraf pertama yang berbunyi, " More than 2000 people participated in bike-to-work and bike-to-school promotional event staged on Yogyakarta's Alun-Alun Utara Square a Monday morning" yang memilikiarti "Lebih dari 2000 orang berpartisipasi dalam acara mempromosikan kebiasaan mengendarai sepeda ke tempat bekerja dan sekolah yang dilaksanakan hari Senin pagi di halamanAlun-alun Utara Yogyakarta". Berdasarkan informasi dari kalimat tersebut, jumlah orang yang berpartisipasi ada lebih dari 2000 orang. Agar sesuai dengan kalimat soal, jawabannya dapat dituliskan sebagai berikut: there are more than 2000 people who participated in the Monday morning event yang artinya "ada lebih dari 2000 orang yang berpartisipasi dalam acara di Senin pagi". Jadi, jawaban yang benar adalah " there are m ore than 2,000 people who participated in the Monday morning event. "