SIMAK UI 2018 Bahasa Inggris

Soal SIMAK UI 2018 - Bahasa Inggris

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Plastic bags are often thought of as 32. ....

free, no-brainer solutions to carry your
(A) therefore
groceries or to use as trashcan liners,
(B) in contrast
However, research has shown that as a
(C) also
consequence of carefree usage of plastic
(D) in other words
bags millions of tons of plastic particles
(E) after that
_31_ in our seas each year. Reversing this
trend and finding ways to maintain both
the health of our oceans and the human
33. ....
benefits associated with it are
complicated tasks. Most people (A) a gap
appreciate and value the importance of (B) a cure
the ocean and see marine litter as a (C) an advantage
global problem. _32_, the challenge is (D) an alternative
connecting the dots. So many of human (E) an impediment
behaviours and decisions contribute to
this problem, but rarely are there 34. ….
attempts to link their impact to the
(A) aware
environment. Behavioural science has
(B) elated
been recognized as _33_ to understand
(C) excited
drivers of human behaviour which
(D) optimistic
support ongoing initiatives to clean up
(E) interested
our environments. For instance,
behavioural scientists have suggested
that the public could become more _34_ Unlike beloved children’s stories,
if powerful images were carried on nature is a cruel, hard world that is
everyday products, similar to that already painted not in water colors but in blood.
being used on cigarette packaging. A study found that chemicals released by
plants as they are eaten can help push
Gunakan Petunjuk A dalam menjawab caterpillars to cannibalism. Many plants
soal 31 sampai nomor release the chemical methyl jasmonate
34! when stressed or damaged. Getting
gnawed on by a caterpillar is stressful, so
31. .... when the caterpillars start biting, the
chemical flare goes up. Other nearby
(A) accumulate plants sense the flare and start
(B) accumulator producing their own methyl jasmonate,
(C) accumulation building a camouflage around their leaves
(D) accumulating and stems. Once all the food sources
(E) accumulative taste terrible, caterpillars turn to the
next available meal; each other. Plants
with the time to build up a strong
defence can make their leaves so
unappetizing that caterpillars will start
eating each other to get their fill, leaving
the plant alone.

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Researchers now plan to also look 36. The topic of this passage is ….
into how insect viruses are transferred
(A) caterpillars’ consumption
during their more carnivorous period. If
behavior
viruses that harm caterpillars are
(B) cannibalism and it’s effect on
transferred more easily by cannibalism,
caterpillars
that could be a gain for the plants. Not
(C) the effect of methyl jasmonate
only are their leaves protected from
on insects
pests, but now those predators are
(D) plant’s defence mechanism
spreading disease amongst themselves,
against herbivores
reducing the herbivore population
(E) the cause and effect of
further.
cannibalism among caterpillars
Interestingly enough, cannibalism
can serve some important functions
37. It can be inferred from the text that
among these herbivores. Eating each
other literally takes the competition out ….
of the food chain, and keeps the surviving (A) cannibalism may balance the
population strong in a time when food supply and demand for food
might be scarce. Therefore, we should (B) viruses are easily transferred by
not be to quick to judge these fuzzy tittle means of cannibalism
cannibalism. It’s a bug eat bug world out (C) the chemicals decrease the
there. caterpillar’s hunger for food
(D) cannibalism is a natural
Gunakan Petunjuk A dalam menjawab phenomenon among herbivores
soal nomor 35 sampai nomor 39! (E) other bugs can also turn
cannibalistic towards each other
35. Which of the following statements is
not true according to the text? 38. The purpose of this passage is to ….
(A) stress may save plants from (A) convince readers that nature is
being consumed harsh in reality
(B) plants can manipulate their own (B) educate readers not to judge
perception of taste herbivores hastily
(C) under constraints, plants can (C) describe the effect of
alter their predator’s appetite cannibalism among plant-eating
(D) cannibalism helps maintain food animals
supply in times of need (D) explain how caterpillars can
(E) the chemical methyl jasmonate behave uncharacteristically
drives caterpillars away from (E) inform the readers that
their natural food cannibalism among herbivores is
normal

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Fortune. The overcrowded chaos of the

39. The tone of this passage is …. mining camps and towns _43_ ever more
lawless, including rampant banditry
(A) critical gambling, prostitution, and violence.
(B) amused After 1850, the surface gold in
(C) objective California largely disappeared. Though
(D) outraged gold mining continued throughout the
(E) humorous 1850’s, it had reached its peak by 1852,
when some eighty-one million dollars
The discovery of gold nuggets in the was pulled from the ground. After that
Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked year, the total take _44_. Settlement in
the Gold Rush, arguably one of the most California continued, however, and by the
noteworthy events to shape American end of the decade the state’s population
history during the first half of the was 380,000.
ninetieth century. _40_, thousands of
prospective gold miners travelled by sea Gunakan Petunjuk A dalam menjawab
or over land to San Francisco and the soal 40 sampai nomor 45!
surrounding area. By the end of 1849, the
non-native population of the California 40. ….
territory was some 100,000 (compared (A) as the discovery of news spread
with the pre-1848 figure of less than (B) as of the discovery news spread
1,000). A total of 2 billion dollar’s worth (C) as news of the discovery spread
of precious metal _41_ from the area
(D) spread as news of the discovery
during the Gold Rush, which peaked in
(E) the news as spread of discovery
1852.
Throughout 1849, people around
41. ….
the United States (mostly men) borrowed
money, mortgaged their property or (A) extracted
spent their life savings to make the (B) was to extract
arduous journey to California. In pursuit (C) was extracted
of the kind of wealth they had never (D) was extracting
dreamed of, they left their families and (E) was to be extracted
hometowns. In turn, women left behind
took on new responsibilities such as 42. The italic phrase took on in paragraph
running farms or businesses and caring 2 means ….
for their children alone. Thousands of
(A) shared
would-be gold miners, known as ‘49ers,
(B) shouldered
travelled overland across the mountains
(C) declined
or by sea, sailing to Panama or even
(D) established
around Cape Horn, the southernmost
(E) volunteered
point of South America.
To accommodate the needs of the
‘49ers, gold mining towns had sprung up
all over the region, complete with shops,
saloons, brothels and other businesses
seeking to make their own Gold Rush

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43. ….
(A) grow
(B) grew
(C) has grown
(D) were growing
(E) would have grown

44. ….
(A) reached a peak
(B) took a soar
(C) became surprising
(D) remained lucrative
(E) declined gradually

45. This sentence “San Francisco, for it’s

part, developed a bustling economy
and became the central metropolis of
the new frontier.” should be ….
(A) the last sentence of paragraph 1
(B) the second sentence of
paragraph 2
(C) the last sentence of paragraph 2
(D) the las sentence of paragraph 3
(E) the second sentence of
paragraph 4

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