Tugas SoftSkills 3: TOEFL

3.      Water  boil  at  212 degrees F, and freezes at 32 degrees F.

    A      B     C                                     D

Answer: B. boil (boils)

6.      She won’t  be going to the conference, and neither won’t  her colleagues.

          A            B                                                   C                     D

Answer: C. neither won’t (neither)

2.      Peter had already saw  that musical before  he  read  the reviews about it.

                                    A                                 B               C                           D

                                Answer: A. already  saw (seen)

Tugas SoftSkills 2: Indirect Speech

1.     Indirect: Prof Tim Frayling of the University of Exeter Medical School, who oversaw the study said that people born to tall parents are more likely to be tall themselves is a common knowledge. But he was surprised how complex the picture was. They had identified nearly 700 genetic variants that were involved in determining height then. And that went a long way tp fulfilling scientific curiosity that could have had real impact in the treatment of disease that can have been influenced by height, such as osteoporosis or cancer.


2.     Indirect: Proff Joel Hirchhorn of Boston Children’s Hospital, who was also involved in the study said that many genes they have identified were likely to be important regulators of skeletal growth, but were not known to be involved until then. Some may also have been responsible for unexplained syndromes of abnormal growth in children.

Tugas SoftSkills 1: Direct Speech

1. "It's common knowledge that people born to tall parents are more
likely to be tall themselves," said Prof Tim Frayling of the
University of Exeter Medical School, who oversaw the study.
"But I'm surprised how complex the picture is. We have now identified
nearly 700 genetic variants that are involved in determining height.
“And this goes a long way to fulfilling scientific curiosity that
could have real impact in the treatment of diseases that can be
influenced by height, such as osteoporosis or cancer."


2. Prof Joel Hirschhorn of Boston Children's Hospital, who was also
involved in the study, said: "Many genes we identified are likely to
be important regulators of skeletal growth, but were not known to be
involved until now. Some may also be responsible for unexplained
syndromes of abnormal growth in children."

Source : http://www.bbc.com/news/health-29480803