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B.INGGRIS 1
B. INGGRIS PERSIAPAN UTBK 2021

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Both in what is now the eastern and the south western united States, the peoples of the Archaic Era (8,000-
1,000 B.C) were, in a way, already adapted to the beginnings of cultivation through their intensive gathering and
processing of wild plant foods. In both areas, there was a well-established ground stone tool technology, a method of
pounding and grinding nuts and other plant foods, that could be adapted to newly cultivated foods. By the end of the
Archaic era, people in eastern North America had domesticated certain native plants, including sunflowers, weeds
called goosefoot, sumpweed, or marsh elder, and squash or gourds of some kind. These provided seeds that were
important sources of carbohydrates and fat in the diet.
The earliest cultivation seems to have taken place along the river valleys of the Midwest and the Southeast,
with experimentation beginning as early as 7,000 years ago and domestication beginning 4.000 to 2,000 years ago.
Although the term “Neolithic” is not used in North American prehistory, these were the first steps toward the same
major subsistence changes that took place during the Neolitic (8,000-2,000 B.C) period elsewhere in the world.
Archeologists debate the reasons for beginning cultivation in the eastern part of the continent. Although
population and sedentary living were increasing at the time, there is little evidence evidence that people lack of adequate
wild food resources; the newly domesticated foods supplemented a continuing mixed substance of hunting, fishing,
and gathering wild plants. Increasing predictability of food supplies may have been a motive. It has been suggested
that some early cultivation was for medicinal and ceremonial plants rather than for food. One archeologist has pointed
out that the early domesticated plants were all weedy species that do well in open, disturbed habitats, the kind that
would form around human settlements where people cut down trees, trample the ground, deposit trash, and dig holes.
It has been suggested that sunflower, sumpweed, and other plants almost domesticated themselves, that is, they thrived
in human-disturbed habitats, so humans intensively collected them and began to control their distribution. Women in
the Archaic communitiew were probably the main experimenters with cultivation, because ethnoarcheological
evidence tells us that women were the main collectors of food plants and had detailed knowledge of plants.

01. The passage nainly discusses each of the following 04. The word “adequate” in line 13 is closest in
aspects of the life of Archaic people? meaning to ....
(A) The principal sources of food that made up (A) sufficient
their diet (B) healtful
(B) Their developent of ground stone tool (C) varied
technology (D) dependable
(C) The development of agriculture (E) efficient
(D) The distribution of work between men and
women 05. According to the passage, which of the following
(E) The main role of women in cultivation was a possible motive for the cultivation of plants in
eastern North America?
02. The word “these” in line 10 refers to .... (A) Lack of enough wild food souces
(A) seeds (B) The need to keep trees from growing close to
(B) river valleys settlements
(C) the Midwest and Southeast (C) Provision of work for an increasing population
(D) experimentation and domestication (D) Desire for the consistent availability of food
(E) native plants (E) The suffieciency of food sources from hunting
and fishing
03. According to the passage, when did the
domestication of plants begin in North America? 06. The phrase “rather than” in line 16 is closest in
(A) 7,000 years ago meaning to ....
(B) 4,000 to 2,000 years ago (A) in addition to
(C) long after the Neolithic period (B) instead of
(D) before the Archaic period (C) as a placement
(E) 8,000 years ago (D) such as
(E) in view of

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07. The plant “sumpweed” is mentioned in line 19 in 09. According to the passage, which of the following is
order to .... true about all early domesticated plants?
(A) contrast a plant with high nutritional value with (A) They were varieties of weeds
one with little nutritional value. (B) They were moved from disturbed areas
(B) explain the medicinal use of a plant (C) They succeeded in areas with many trees
(C) clarify which plants grew better in places where (D) They failed to grow in trampled and damaged
trees were not cut down areas
(D) provide an example of a plant that was easy to (E) They were easily found everywhere
domesticate
(E) describe an example of a plant that disturbed 10. According to the passage, it is thought that most of
other domesticated plants the people who began cultivating plants were ...
(A) medical workers
08. The word “thrived” in line 19 is closest in meaning (B) leaders of ceremonies
to .... (C) women
(A) stayed (D) hunters
(B) originated (E) men
(C) grew well
(D) died out
(E) grew hard

Text 2
You really have to get very old before you realize you’re old. I’m in the middle fifties and I don’t feel old yet.
However, sometimes I look back at my childhood and ___11__ things to the way life is for today’s kids. Some things
have certainly changed.
One area of change is television. Some changes have been improvements. Some changes, however, have been
__12__.
When I started school, most people didn’t have television; TV was just beginning to get popular. My father
decided to go all out and buy a 16 inch black and white Motorolla set. I still remembered watching the Lone Ranger
save people from the bad guys on that awesome electronic machine. That was exciting!
Now, television have larger pictures in full color. The pictures are clearer and the sound is much more
__13__. The high definition sets are made to __14__ movie screens. The variety and quantity of programming have
increased greatly. There are hundreds of channels and shows that one person could ever watch. There are many fine
entertainment and educational shows. There’s also a lot of garbage, stuff that most parents don’t want their kids
to be exposed to. Overall, we have more choices, __15__ that is good. I wonder what television will be like when today’s
kids are my age.
11. .... 14. ....
(A) forget (A) avoid
(B) remember (B) combine
(C) miss (C) compose
(D) compare (D) complete
(E) decide (E) rival

12. .... 15. ....

(A) remark (A) and
(B) remarkable (B) because of
(C) remarkably (C) despite
(D) remarked (D) otherwise
(E) remarks (E) in order that

13. ....
(A) real
(B) really
(C) realism
(D) reality
(E) realistic

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