Latihan Soal 01 - STAN: SBMPTN Bahasa Inggris

SBMPTN Bahasa Inggris
Latihan Soal 01 - STAN

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01. During the interrogation, some …. watched 08. Bruno always spends time around his friends,
me from outside. most …. are school athletes.
(A) police (A) of which
(B) polices (B) of them
(C) police officer (C) of who
(D) policies (D) of whom
02. I never talk about my family, ….? 09. I wish I …. Chinese. I can only speak English.
(A) do I (A) speak
(B) don't I (B) don't speak
(C) have I (C) spoke
(D) haven't I (D) didn't speak.
03. The …. route to the city is through the 10. Bertha would rather …. the kitchen than wash
mountain. the car.
(A) farther (A) cleaning
(B) further (B) be clean
(C) farthest (C) clean
(D) furthest (D) to clean
04. …. about human anatomy because I was not 11. The University of Alabama …. its research
a medicine student. paper about political corruption.
(A) Little did I know (A) was published
(B) Little I knew (B) is published
(C) Did I know (C) publishing
(D) Little did I knew (D) has published
05. Lisa does not understand algebra and …. 12. The celebrities went …. for President Obama's
(A) I do too speech.
(B) I don't either (A) craze
(C) so do I (B) crazily
(D) neither don't I (C) crazy
(D) craziness
06. I have watched a film about …. in space.
(A) the first made human object 13. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone, …. , was
(B) the first human-made object created by JK Rowling.
(C) the first human made object (A) which is one of the best-selling novels
(D) the human-made first object (B) is one of the best-selling novels
(C) which one of the best-selling novels
07. As you are now being punished, you must (D) which the best-selling novels
….whatever the teacher wants.
(A) does 14. …., I wouldn't have hurt myself in that
(B) do basketball game.
(C) did (A) If I practice regularly
(D) to do (B) If I practiced regularly
(C) If I have practiced regularly
(D) Had I practiced regulary
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15. Many people still buy expensive items …. their Brown bears dig dens for winter
lack of money. hibernation, often holing up in a suitable-looking
(A) although hillside. Females ..(24).. birth during this winter
(B) due to rest and their offspring are often twins.
(C) since Grizzly bears are powerful, top-of-the-food-
(D) despite chain predators, yet much of their diet consists
of nuts, berries, fruit, leaves, and roots. Bears
16. What …. beneath the sea? also eat other animals, from rodents to moose.
(A) does lie ..(25).. their impressive size, grizzlies are
(B) lies quite fast and have been clocked at 30 miles (48
(C) did lied kilometers) an hour. They can be dangerous to
(D) lying humans, particularly if surprised or if humans
come between a mother and her cubs.
17. The mechanic …. I paid a sum of money ran Excerpt from: http:/
away with my car key. animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/
(A) who mammals/grizzly-bear/
(B) which
(C) whom 21. ….
(D) for whom (A) solitude
(B) solitary
18. I am responsible for both hitting my class-
(C) solitarily
mates and ….
(D) soloist
(A) call names.
(B) calling names. 22. ….
(C) call names.
(A) congregate
(D) to call names.
(B) disperse
19. As a security guard, I sometimes throw peo- (C) break up
ple out of the building. Don‟t blame me …. (D) separate
doing my job.
23. ….
(A) of
(B) for (A) torment
(C) in (B) sustain
(D) to (C) consume
(D) rest
20. Next time you want to go out, tell me first.
Your safety …. to me. 24. ….
(A) is matter (A) who gave
(B) matter (B) give
(C) matters (C) giving
(D) mattering (D) who giving
The grizzly bear is a North American subspecies 25. ….
of the brown bear. These awe-inspiring giants
(A) Yet
tend to be ..(21).. Animals-with the exception of
(B) However
females and their cubs-but at times they do ..
(C) Even though
(22).. . Dramatic gatherings of grizzly bears can
(D) Despite
be seen at prime Alaskan fishing spots when the
salmon run upstream for summer spawning. In
this season, dozens of bears may gather to feast
on the fish, craving fats that will ..(23).. them
through the long winter ahead.
Whac-A-Mole is a popular arcade game in- Choose the wrong part of each
vented in 1976 by Aaron Fechter of Creative sentence!
Engineering, Inc. In Japan, Mole Buster, a simi-
31. Both dogs and (A) humans share (B) very
lar game, ..(26).. a year before Whac-A-Mole by
similar symptoms (C) of depressions (D).
Kazuo Yamada.
A typical Whac-A-Mole machine consists .. (A) A
(27).. a large waist-level cabinet with five holes (B) B
in its top and a large, Soft, black mallet. Each (C) C
hole ..(28).. a single plastic mole and the ma- (D) D
chinery necessary to move it up and down. Once
32. When two nuclei (A) move closer together,
the game starts, the moles will begin to pop up
their mutual (B) electrostatic potential energy
from their holes at random. The object of the
becomes (C) more large (D) and more posi-
game is to force the individual moles back into
tive.
their holes by hitting them ..(29).. on the head
with the mallet, thereby adding to the player‟s (A) A
score. The ..(30).. this is done, the higher the (B) B
final score will be. (C) C
(D) D
Excerpt from:https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
whac-A-Mole 33. Ears are an evolution (A) innovation that
allows us to (B) register (C) sound waves in
26. …. the air around (D) us.
(A) invented (A) A
(B) which invented (B) B
(C) was invented (C) C
(D) which was invented (D) D
27. …. 34. Inventor Sir James Dyson is about to open
(A) in his own institute to train engineers, who
(B) on (A) are badly (B) needed if UK companies
(C) of want (C) to remain competition (D).
(D) with (A) A
(B) B
28. …. (C) C
(A) containing (D) D
(B) contain
35. Whether or not the practice of Daylight
(C) contains
Saving Time actually shrinks (A) energy bills
(D) contained
seem (B) to vary (C) from state to (D) state
and remains up for debate today.
29. ….
(A) A
(A) direct
(B) B
(B) direction
(C) C
(C) directly
(D) D
(D) director
36. Cephalopods only have (A) a single type of
30. …. light receptor, means (B) they should not
(A) quick be able (C) to distinguish (D) color at all.
(B) quickest (A) A
(C) quicker (B) B
(D) quicker than (C) C
(D) D
37. We often measure (A) loudness (B) using a Like their wild relatives, domestic cats are
unit called (C) the decibel, naming (D) after natural hunters able to stalk prey and pounce
Alexander Graham Bell. with sharp claws and teeth. They are particu-
(A) A larly effective at night, when their light-
(B) B reflecting eyes allow them to see better than
(C) C much of their prey. Cats also enjoy acute hear-
(D) D ing. All cats are nimble and agile. and their long
tails aid their outstanding balance.
38. UN drug control officers reported that Cats communicate by marking trees_fence
when (A) the Taliban regime opium pro- posts, or furniture with their claws or their
duction (B) was (C) nearly wiped out in waste. These scent posts are meant to inform
Afghanistan — once the world‟s largest (D) others of a cat's home range. House cats em-
producer. ploy a vocal repertoire that extends from a
purr to a screech.
(A) A
Domestic cats remain largely carnivorous,
(B) B
and have evolved a simple gut appropriate for
(C) C
raw meat. They also retain the rough tongue
(D) D
that can help them clean every last piece from
an animal bone (and groom themselves).
39. Photosynthesis is a chemically (A) process
that uses (B) sunlight (C) to turn carbon Excerpt from:http//
dioxide into sugars which (D) the cell can animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/
use as energy. mammals/domestic-cat/
(A) A 41. The underlined word „them‟ in paragraph
(B) B 1 refers to ….
(C) C
(A) human communities
(D) D
(B) wild felines
(C) rodents
40. Hong Kong Island, that (A) is an island in
(D) Egyptians
the southern (B) part of the Hong Kong
Special Administrative Region in China, 42. Which one is WRONG according to the
has (C) a population of almost 1.3 million text?
(D) people.
(A) Wild relatives of domestic cats are also
(A) A natural hunters.
(B) B (B) Cats see better at night than in the
(C) C morning.
(D) D (C) Cats can communicate with other cats.
(D) Most domestic cats are carnivorous.
Domestic cats, no matter their breed. are all
members of one species. Felis catus has had a 43. The underlined word „employ‟ in
very long relationship with humans. Ancient paragraph 3 is mostly similar to ….
Egyptians may have first domesticated cats as (A) inform
early as 4,000 years ago. Plentiful rodents (B) provide work
probably drew wild felines to human commu- (C) use
nities. The cats' skill in killing them may have (D) talk
first earned the affectionate attention of hu-
mans. Early Egyptians worshipped a cat god- 44. What is the main topic of paragraph 3?
dess and even mummified their beloved pets (A) How a cat was revered by the early
for their journey to the next world— Egyptians.
accompanied by mummified mice! Cultures (B) How a cat hunts its preys.
around the world later adopted cats as their (C) How a cat communicates.
own companions. (D) How a cat eats.
45. The author mentions ‘mummified mice’ in Galvan-Magana, who authored the 2011
paragraph 1 to …. study, doesn't think two-headed sharks are
(A) give example of how a cat was revered more common—but rather that there are more
by the early Egyptians. scientific journals around to publish accounts.
(B) give the readers information about Excerpt from:http://
Egyptian culture. news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/11/sharks
(C) show that mummification of mice in- -two-headed-oceans-muattions/
fluences the later adoption of cats as
human companions. 47. According to the text. the following may
(D) show that mice and cats can live to- contribute to the existence of the two-
gether. headed sharks. EXCEPT ….
(A) viral infections
46. The following are the characteristics of (B) inbreeding
domestic cats, EXCEPT …. (C) genetic disorder
(A) mostly eat meat (D) two-headed embryos
(B) they have rough tongue
48. The underlined word 'dwindling' in para-
(C) they have poor hearing.
graph 4 means ….
(D) they may mark their home range with
their feces (A) shrinking
(B) expanding
Two-headed sharks may sound like a figment (C) increasing
of the big screen, but they exist—and more are (D) varying
turning up worldwide, scientists say. A few
49. The underlined word „it‟ in paragraph 4
years ago off Florida, fishermen hauled in
refers to ….
a bull shark whose uterus contained a two-
headed fetus. In 2008, another fisherman dis- (A) a two-headed fetus
covered a two-headed blue shark embryo in the (B) institute
Indian Ocean. (C) culprit
Now, Spanish researchers have identified (D) overfishing
an embryo of an Atlantic sawtail catshark.
50. The following are the opinions of the
They opened the egg to study the specimen,
researchers an the text, EXCEPT ….
and study leader Valentin Sans-Coma says it‟s
unknown whether the deformed animal would (A) Sans-Coma thinks that the existence of
have survived. two-headed catsharks is mostly genetic.
Sans-Coma and colleagues say a genetic (B) Sans-Coma thinks that two-headed
disorder seems to be the most plausible cause sharks may or may not have survived.
for the two-headed catshark, since the embryos (C) Ehemann thinks that overfishing
were grown in a lab among nearly 800 speci- causes two-headed sharks to exist, es-
mens. To the best of their knowledge, the eggs pecially in nature.
were not exposed to any infections, chemicals, (D) Galvan-Magana thinks that the num-
or radiation. ber of two-headed sharks are higher
But wild sharks‟ malformations could than the number of scientific journals.
come from a variety of factors, including viral
51. What is the main idea of the passage?
infections, metabolic disorders, pollution, or a
dwindling gene pool due to overfishing, which (A) Scientists have been trying to explain
leads to inbreeding, and thus genetic abnor- the two-headed shark phenomenon.
malities. Ehemann, a master‟s student at the (B) Scientists have found an answer to the
National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico, be- existence of two-headed sharks.
lieves that if the two-headed fetuses are more (C) Two-headed sharks were found in the
prevalent in nature, then overfishing is a strong oceans.
culprit as it may cause the gene pool to shrink. (D) Scientists studied two-headed sharks
both in the lab and in nature.
52. The passage above is mo found in a …. Avery continued to maintain his inno-
article. cence in the Beerntsen case. In 2002, after
(A) history. serving 17 years, the Wisconsin Innocence Pro-
(B) physics. ject used DNA testing — not available at the
(C) chemistry. time of Avery‟s original trial — to exonerate
(D) biology. him, and to demonstrate that Allen had in fact
committed the crime. Allen, who bore a strik-
53. The underlined word „plausible‟ in paragraph ing physical resemblance to Avery, had com-
3 means …. mitted an assault at the same beach where
Beerntsen was attacked in 1983, but he was
(A) reasonable
never a suspect in the Beerntsen case, and was
(B) improbable
not included in the photo or live lineups pre-
(C) important
sented to Beerntsen.
(D) known
Avery was released on September after
serving 18 years. By this time, his wife had di-
Steven Avery is an American man from Mani-
vorced him and he was estranged from his
towoc Country, Wisconsin, who was convicted
family. His wrongful conviction case attracted
of rape and attempted murder in 1985, when
widespread attention. A republican chairman
he was at the age of 22, and served 18 years of
of the Wisconsin Assembly Judiciary Commit-
a 32-year sentence before DNA testing exoner-
tee recommended improvements to the state‟s
ated him.
criminal justice system aimed at decreasing the
In July 1985. a woman named Penny
likelihood of future wrongful convictions.
Beerntsen was brutally attacked and sexually
assaulted while jogging on a Lake Michigan Excerpt from:https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
beach. Avery was arrested after the victim Steven_Avery
picked him from a photo lineup, and later from
a live lineup as well. Although Avery was 40 54. What confirmed Avery‟s location at the time
miles away in Green Bay at the time of the at- of Beerntsen attack?
tack — an alibi supported by a time-stamped (A) photo lineup
store receipt and sixteen eyewitnesses — he (B) live lineup
was charged and ultimately convicted of rape (C) store receipt
and attempted murder, then sentenced to 32 (D) DNA
years in prison. Appeals in 1987 and 1996 were
denied by higher courts. 55. When was Steven Avery released from prison?
In 1995, a Brown County police detective (A) 1985
called the Manitowoc County Jail, saying that (B) 2002
an inmate named Gregory Allen, serving a 60 (C) 2003
year sentence on rape conviction, “had admited (D) 2017
committing a sexual assault years ago in Mani-
towoc County and that someone else was in jail 56. The following are TRUE according to the
for it”. The jail officer informed the Manito- text. EXCEPT ….
woc County detective bureau, but no action
(A) Penny Beerntsen was the victim of as-
was taken.
sault.
(B) Penny Beerntsen chose Steven Avery as
her assailant.
(C) Penny Beerntsen was alive even though
she was brutally attacked and sexually
assulted.
(D) Penny Beerntsen admitted that Gregory
Allen should have been in prison.
57. The underlined word „maintain‟ in paragraph

4 most likely means ….
(A) take care of
(B) state
(C) recover
(D) remove
58. The underlined word „exonerate‟ in paragraph

4 can be replaced by ….
(A) punish
(B) sentence
(C) acquit
(D) praise
59. The underlined word ‘he’ paragraph 4 refers

to ….
(A) Steven Avery
(B) Gregory Allen
(C) Penny Beerntsen
(D) Brown County police detective
60. What is the best title of the passage?

(A) Steven Avery vs Gregory Allen,
(B) Penny Beerntsen: The Victim Who Lied.
(C) Steven Avery: 18 Years an Innocent.
(D) Criminal Justice System.

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