Soal Asli UTBK SNBT 2010 Literasi Bahasa Inggris (LBE)

2 soal Literasi Bahasa Inggris UTBK SNBT 2010

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1. Nomor 1

   ..... considered as the modern culture is not totally modern.

   1. A.That is now
   2. B.What is now
   3. C.Now is
   4. D.That now
   5. E.What now

2. Bacaan untuk soal nomor 2 dan seterusnya

   Scientists are as obsessed with the question of why the superold survive and thrive as Ponce de Leon was to find the Fountain of Youth. They want to understand why the Japanese islands of Okinawa are home to the world's largest population of centenarians, "with almost 600 of its 1.3 million inhabitants living into their second century-many of them active and looking decades younger than their actual years. Like weekend visitors on the summer ferry to Martha's Vineyard, scientists and sociologists block the boats to Sardinia and Nova Scotia, Canada, to see why those craggy locales hide vast clusters at the superold. As well as studying these populations intensively to unlock their secrets, scientists have also taken a hard look at the very old in the U.S., most notably in the New England Centenarian Study, led by Dr. Thomas Perls, a geriatrician at Boston University. While the very old are happy to offer homespun explanations for their longevity -"I never took a drink"; "I drank a shot of whiskey every day" - experts are trying to unravel and understand the biological factors that allow some people to reach 100 while others drop off in their $ 70 \mathrm{~s} $ or $ 80 \mathrm{~s} $ . Researchers are particularly interested in determining which factors allow up to $ 30 % $ at those who reach 100 to do so in sufficient mental and physical health: a whopping $ 90 % $ of centenarians, according to Perls, remain functionally independent up to age 92 . It is pretty obvious even to nonscientists that how you get there depends partly on the genes you are born with and partly on lifestyle-what and how much you eat, where you live and what types of stress and trauma you experience. How much depends on each factor, though, was unknown until Swedish scientists tackled the problem in 1998. They did it by looking at the only set of people who share genes but not lifestyle: identical twins who were separated at birth and reared apart. If genes were most important, you would expect the twins to die at about the same age. In fact, they do not, and the average difference convinced the scientists that only about $ 20 % $ to $ 30 % $ of how long we live is genetically determined. The dominant factor is lifestyle.