SMA Bahasa Inggris: Pertanyaan, Jawaban, Latihan Soal & Pembahasan

ANNOUNCEMENT

Merauke High School is looking for diving coach for the 2012 season. Please contact Merauke High School if you are interested and have a lot of experiences in diving.

For more information please visit http://www.facebook.com/asaa.org or follow us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/asaa_org.

PS :
2012-13 Basketball and Cheerleading Season and State Championship is rescheduled a week later due to a conflict with the Sullivan Arena and UAA Hockey schedule.

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How Chocolate is made:

Have we wondered how we get chocolate from? Well this time we will enter the amazing world of chocolate so we can understand exactly how chocolate is made.

Chocolate is taken from a tree called cacao tree. This tree grows in equatorial regions, especially in places such as South America, Africa, and Indonesia. The cacao tree produces a fruit about size of small pine apple. Inside the fruits are the tree's seeds. They are also known as coco beans.

Next, the beans are fermented for about a week, dried in the sun. After that they shipped to the chocolate maker. The chocolate makers work by roasting the beans to bring out the flavour. The beans from different places have different qualities and flavour. So they are often sorted and blended to produce a distinctive mix.

The next process is winnowing. The roasted beans are winnowed to remove the meat nib of cacao bean from its shell. Then the nibs are blended. The blended nibs are grinds to make liquid. The liquid is called chocolate liquor. It tastes bitter.

All seeds contain some amount of fat and cacao beans are not different. However, cacao beans are half fat. It is pure bitter chocolate.

Why are the coco beans roasted?

ANNOUNCEMENT

Merauke High School is looking for diving coach for the 2012 season. Please contact Merauke High School if you are interested and have a lot of experiences in diving.

For more information please visit http://www.facebook.com/asaa.org or follow us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/asaa_org.

PS :
2012-13 Basketball and Cheerleading Season and State Championship is rescheduled a week later due to a conflict with the Sullivan Arena and UAA Hockey schedule.

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Yogyakarta, December 12^th , 2012

University of Cambridge International Examination

Cambridge Assessment DC 10

Hill Farm Road

Whittlesford

Cambridge CB2 4FZ, England

Dear Sir/Madam,

I would like to apologiza for sending the Forecast Grade from of our CIE candidates very late. I have overlooked the deadline to send this form. I had been so absorder in carrying out the examination that we forgot to send the forecast grade form in October. Actually, I had been trying to send the Forecast Grade using Cameo program, but I failed to install it. I couldn't find the location of Cameo in Direct CIE as recommended when installing it.

We are really sorry for this inconvenience. I promise not to make this mistake again in the future.

Thank you very much,

Faithfully yours,

Kuswaro

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Yogyakarta, December 12^th , 2012

University of Cambridge International Examination

Cambridge Assessment DC 10

Hill Farm Road

Whittlesford

Cambridge CB2 4FZ, England

Dear Sir/Madam,

I would like to apologiza for sending the Forecast Grade from of our CIE candidates very late. I have overlooked the deadline to send this form. I had been so absorder in carrying out the examination that we forgot to send the forecast grade form in October. Actually, I had been trying to send the Forecast Grade using Cameo program, but I failed to install it. I couldn't find the location of Cameo in Direct CIE as recommended when installing it.

We are really sorry for this inconvenience. I promise not to make this mistake again in the future.

Thank you very much,

Faithfully yours,

Kuswaro

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Named after one of her father's favorite crocodiles, Bindi Sue Irwin first appeared in front of the cameras when she was only a few weeks old. Her father, Steve Irwin, was the star of the popular nature program, The Crocodile Hunter.

Irwin shared her parent's passion for 'wildlife. Home-schooled, she grew up surrounded by the animals at the Australian Zoo which is owned and operated by her family.

She experienced a terrible loss in 2006 when her father died after being stung by a stingray while snorkeling on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. At Steve Irwin's memorial service, held at the Australian Zoo, she spoke warmly of her father, calling him "her hero".

In memory of her father, Irwin starred in the 2007 television docuentary My Daddy the Crocodile Hunter. She continued to work on her new wildlife series for American television, Bindi: The Jungle Girl, which debuted that same year, with the young wildlife enthusiast educating and entertaining viewers with stories about animals. She rode an elephant, played with a phyton and introduced her audience to her pat rat, Candy. Irwin even sang and danced on the show with her back-up group, known as the Crocmen. Along with her mother, Irwin also appeared in the documentary series,  Planet's Best with Terri and Bindi, around time.

Though the show only lasted for 26 episodes, Bindi: The Jungle Girl found a second life on Australian televisian. The series aired there in 2009. Back in the states, Irwin has made appearances on such talk shows as The Oprah Winfrey Show in recent years.

How did Iriwin's family continue their life, after Steve left them for good?

INDONESIANS SHINE AT 'RUN FOR FRIENDS

Nethy Dharma Somba

The Jakarta Post / Jayapura

Two hundred runners from Indonesia and Papua New Guinea (PNG) run from Wutung to Skouw in the International Cross Border 10K on Wednesday.

The race started at Wafa village, Vanimo, 7,5 kilometers from the RI-PNG border in Wutung, PNG, and finished in Skouw, Indonesia. The event, which took 'Run for Friendship' as its theme, started at 8 a.m. Eastern Indonesia Time.

Heavy rain did not affect the participants who kept in high spirit throughout the race. The event was dominated by male runners. There were only eight female runners in the event.

Hanafi of Indonesia came in the first place in the male category, completing the course in 31 minutes. Another Indonesia national, FG Manori, took first place in the female category, completing the course 44 minutes. The winner in both categories recieved a cash prize of Rp 5 million each.

The cross border race was the first of its kind held between the two neighbouring countries and wa made possible thanks to cooperation between the Indonesian Papua province administration and the PNG Sandaun provincial administration, as well as the support of PT. Freeport Indonesia as the event partner.

Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the text?

INDONESIANS SHINE AT 'RUN FOR FRIENDS

Nethy Dharma Somba

The Jakarta Post / Jayapura

Two hundred runners from Indonesia and Papua New Guinea (PNG) run from Wutung to Skouw in the International Cross Border 10K on Wednesday.

The race started at Wafa village, Vanimo, 7,5 kilometers from the RI-PNG border in Wutung, PNG, and finished in Skouw, Indonesia. The event, which took 'Run for Friendship' as its theme, started at 8 a.m. Eastern Indonesia Time.

Heavy rain did not affect the participants who kept in high spirit throughout the race. The event was dominated by male runners. There were only eight female runners in the event.

Hanafi of Indonesia came in the first place in the male category, completing the course in 31 minutes. Another Indonesia national, FG Manori, took first place in the female category, completing the course 44 minutes. The winner in both categories recieved a cash prize of Rp 5 million each.

The cross border race was the first of its kind held between the two neighbouring countries and wa made possible thanks to cooperation between the Indonesian Papua province administration and the PNG Sandaun provincial administration, as well as the support of PT. Freeport Indonesia as the event partner.

Why did the heavy rain not affect the participants?

A mouse that cured

A new ally againts cancer

Dr. Megan Sykes, a medical researcher, has a mouse with human immune system - her own. She calls it "Mini-Me."

There are also mice containing a part of 9 year old Michael Feeney-a cancerous tumor extracted from his lungs. Researches have tasted various drugs on the mice, hoping to fine the treatment that would work best for Michael.

In what could be the ultimate in personalized mediciine, animals bearing your diseas, or part of your anatomy, can serve as your personal guinea pig, so to speak. Some researches call them avatars, like the virtual character in movies and online games.

"The mice allow you the opprtunity to test drugs to find out which ones will be efficacious without exposing the patient to toxity." saidColin Collins, a professor at the University of British Columbia.

Experiments on mice have been done for decades, including implanting people's tumors into the animals. But the techniquea have improved in the past few years and interest is growing. The National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, held a workshop on personalized animal models which are mainly being used for research. Companies are beginning to commercialize them for use in drug development and medical treatment as well.

Expert caution that it has not been proved that the use of avatars will prolong the lives if cancer patients. And it costs tens of thousands of dollars, which insurer will not cover, to create and test a colony and test a colony of the animals.

"It's an act of faith to say this is a superior way of proceeding," said Dr. Edward Sausville, a professor of medicine at the University of Maryland.

"... a cacerous tumor extracted from his lungs." (paragraph 2)

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A mouse that cured

A new ally againts cancer

Dr. Megan Sykes, a medical researcher, has a mouse with human immune system - her own. She calls it "Mini-Me."

There are also mice containing a part of 9 year old Michael Feeney-a cancerous tumor extracted from his lungs. Researches have tasted various drugs on the mice, hoping to fine the treatment that would work best for Michael.

In what could be the ultimate in personalized mediciine, animals bearing your diseas, or part of your anatomy, can serve as your personal guinea pig, so to speak. Some researches call them avatars, like the virtual character in movies and online games.

"The mice allow you the opprtunity to test drugs to find out which ones will be efficacious without exposing the patient to toxity." saidColin Collins, a professor at the University of British Columbia.

Experiments on mice have been done for decades, including implanting people's tumors into the animals. But the techniquea have improved in the past few years and interest is growing. The National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, held a workshop on personalized animal models which are mainly being used for research. Companies are beginning to commercialize them for use in drug development and medical treatment as well.

Expert caution that it has not been proved that the use of avatars will prolong the lives if cancer patients. And it costs tens of thousands of dollars, which insurer will not cover, to create and test a colony and test a colony of the animals.

"It's an act of faith to say this is a superior way of proceeding," said Dr. Edward Sausville, a professor of medicine at the University of Maryland.

Why did the research use mice? Because ....