Direstions; In Part A you will hear short conversations between two people. After each conversation, you will hear a question about the conversation. The conversations and questions will not be repeated. After you hear a question, read the four possible answers in your test book and choose the best answer. Then on your answer sheet, find the number of the question and fill in the space that corresponds to the letter of the answer you have chosen. tisten to an example. On the recording you hear: (man) That exam was just owful. (Waman! oh it could hove been worse. (narrator) What does the woman mean? In your test book, you reod: (A) The exam was really awful. (B) it was the worst exam she had ever seen. (C) It couldn't have been more difficult. (D) It wasn't that hard.

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Dalam dialog ini, pria itu mengeluh bahwa ujian itu sangat buruk ("That exam was really awful"), di mana wanita itu menjawab dengan pernyataan: "Oh, it could have been worse." Pernyataan wanita tersebut berimplikasi bahwa ujian itu tidaklah seburuk yang digambarkan pria tersebut. Jawaban yang paling sesuai dengan implikasi itu adalah pilihan (D) 'It wasn't that hard.' Jawaban lain (A, B, dan C) menyarankan bahwa ujian sangat buruk atau sangat sulit, yang bertentangan dengan percakapan wanita tersebut. Oleh karena itu, berdasarkan dialog di atas, jawaban yang paling masuk akal adalah (D) 'It wasn't that hard.'