Soal dan Pembahasan Bahasa Inggris SBMPTN tahun 2014 (Kode 613)

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Belajar dari bentuk soal yang sudah pernah ditanyakan membuat persiapan menghadapi ujian yang sebenarnya akan menjadi lebih terarah, lebih fokus dan lebih efektif.

Bentuk soal yang akan diujikan dari tahun ke tahun pada umumnya materinya sama. Pada pelajaran yang menitikberatkan pada hafalan soanya bisa sangat mirip bahkan ada yang persis sama. Sedangkan pada soal hitungan, rumus dan analisanya pada umunya sama.

Oleh karena itu, kami menyarankan bagiadik-adik calon mahasiswa baru (camaba) tahun ini, kuasailah minimal 10 tahun terakhir soal ujian yang sudah pernah keluar.

Pada kesempatan ini, bimbel WIN berbagi soal asli Bahasa Inggris SBMPTN tahun 2014 kode 613 lengkap dengan pembahasannya yang mudah untuk dimengerti. Di akhir pembahasan, kami juga mengajak adik-adik camaba untuk tetap berlatih pada soal online yang sudah kami siapkan, Ayouk teruslah berlatih...!!! Semoga tahun ini kalian semuanya yang belajar disini bisa lolos di pilihan pertama kalian, Amiiin... 🙏🙏

- BAHASA INGGRIS -

Parents send their children to school with the best of intentions, believing that formal education is what kids need to become productive, happy adults. Many parents do have qualms about how well schools are performing, but the conventional wisdom is that these issues can be resolved with more money, better teachers, more challenging curricula, or more rigorous tests. But what if the real problem is school itself? The unfortunate fact is that one of our most cherished institutions is, by its very nature, failing our children and our society. Children are required to be in school, where their freedom is greatly restricted, far more than most adults would tolerate in their workspaces. In recent decades, we have been compelling them to spend ever more time in this kind of setting, and there is strong evidence that this is causing psychological damage to many of them. And as scientists have investigated how children naturally learn, they have realized that kids do so most deeply and fully, and with greatest enthusiasm, in conditions that are almost opposite to those of school. Compulsory education has been a fixture of our culture now for several generations. President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan are so enamored of it that they want even longer school days and years. Most people assume that the basic design of today's schools emerged from scientific evidence about how children learn. But nothing could be further from the truth. Schools as we know them today are a product of history, not of research. The blueprint for them was developed during the Protestant Reformation, when schools were created to teach children to read the Bible, to believe Scripture without questioning it, and to obey authority figures without questioning them. When schools were taken over by the state, made compulsory, and directed toward secular ends, the basic structure and methods of teaching remained unchanged. Subsequent attempts at reform have failed because they have not altered basic blueprint. The top down, teach-and-test method, in which learning is motivated by a system of rewards and punishments rather than by curiosity or by any real desire to know, is well designed for indoctrination and obedience training but not much else. It is no wonder that many of the world's greatest entrepreneurs and innovators either left school early (like Thomas Edison) or said they hated school and learned despite it, not because of it (like Albert Einstein).

💦Soal No. 31

Which of the following is closest in meaning to the word "qualms" line 2?

(A) remarks

(B) requsets

(D) views

(E) beliefs

Pembahasan:

qualms means : rasa remas, maka persamaan katanya adalah doubts

💥Kunci Jawaban: C

💦Soal No. 32

What is the topic of the text above?

(A) Double on the effectiveness of American school systems
(B) Parents expectation on reformation in American school system.
(C) Restrictions on children's freedom at the US schools
(D) Regulations for American children to stay longer at schools
(E) Absence of a research-based school system in the USA

Pembahasan:

Pada text dinyatakan tentang orang tua yang memiliki kerguan tentang seberapa baik sekolah dipersiapkan ; maka topinya adalah doubts on effectiveness of Amerika school systems

💥Kunci Jawaban: A

💦Soal No. 33

What is the purpose of the text?

(A) To remind American parents that the formal school is basically a product of culture

(B) To discuss if the American school system is truly effective to educate children

(D) To review how compulsory education in the USA has me parents expectation.

(E) To describe how American children learn at school and in real-life settings.

Pembahasan:

Dalam wacana dinyatakan, "But what if the real problem is school itself?" maka maksud wacananya adalah todiscuss if the American school system is truly effective to educate children.

💥Kunci Jawaban: B

The MV Akademik Shokalsky, a "highly ice-strengthened" Russian tour ship built in Finland in 1984 "for polar and oceanographic research," is stranded in Antarctica's summer ice with 74 passengers and crew members aboard. The group, which includes two Guardian journalists, is retracing the harrowing 1911 Antarctic expedition led by Sir Douglas Mawson, who lost many of his team members and nearly died himself on the frigid continent a century ago. The ship's passengers include an Australian research team led by University of New South Wales Professor Chris Turney, who said in November that the voluminous data collected by Mawson 100 years ago is critical to understanding global warming. But Turney reported that blizzard-like conditions and thick ocean ice are preventing the latest expedition from leaving. "Unfortunately proceeding north we found our path blocked by ice

pushed in by an increasingly strong southeasterly wind. On Christmas Eve we realized we could not get through, in spite of being just 2 nautical miles from open water," Turney reported in his blog. "According to reports nobody is in present danger and three nearby icebreakers are being sent to assist", said Expeditionsonline.com, which books polar expeditions. The ship is "stuck part-way through her Australasian Antarctic Expedition towards Mawson's Hut at Cape Denison," located about 100 nautical miles east of Dumont D'Urville, a French base on Antarctica, and 1,500 nautical miles south of Hobart in Tasmania. Three icebreakers-China's Xue Long, Australia's Aurora Australis, and France's L'Astrolabe-have been dispatched to the scene, according to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA), which is coordinating the international rescue after the Falmouth Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre in the United Kingdom received a satellite distress call Christmas morning. However, it will take the icebreakers at least two days to get to the 20 stranded ship, which "is experiencing very strong winds and limited visibility," The closest rescue ship is not expected to get to the scene until sometime Friday night. "While it is early winter in the Arctic, it is early summer in the Antarctic. Continuing patterns seen in recent years, Antarctic sea ice extent remains unusually high, near or above previous daily maximum values," according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).

💦Soal No. 34

Which of the following statements is NOT stated in the text?
(A)    The MV Akademik Shokalskiy is a Russian four ship which is intended for polar and                               oceanographic research.
(B)    Three icebreakers - Xue Long, Aurora Australis and Astrolabe - were experiencing two days in               the sea.
(C)    Professor Chris Turney is an Austrlian research team leader, who reported that Mawson had               collected lots of detaileddata related to global warning.
(D)    Sir Douglas Mawson, who led an Antartic expedition in 1911, lost many of his team members               and nearly died himself on the Antartic
(E) it was the National Snow and Ice Data Center which reported that the Antartic sea ice remained             unsually high.

Pembahasan:

Dalam wacana dinyatakan, However, it will take the ice breakers at least tw days to get to the stranded ship, which "is experiencing very strong winds and limited visibility, "maka pernyataan yang tidak dinyatakan dalam text adalah Three icebreakers - Xue Long, Aurora Australia and Astrolabe - were experiencing two days in the sea.

💥Kunci Jawaban: B

💦Soal No. 35

The purpose of the text is to ...

(A) report about a stranded ship

(B) describe efforts to rescue a stranded ship

(D) explain why the Russian ship was stranded

(E) discuss problems of rescuing a stranded ship

Pembahasan:

Maksud text tersebut adalah melporkan tentang kapal yang terdampar. Jawaban : report about a stranded ship.

💥Kunci Jawaban: A

💦Soal No. 36

The phrase "The group" (line 3) refers to ...

(A) crew

(B) passengers

(D) members

(E) team members

Pembahasan:

and crew

💥Kunci Jawaban: C

💦Soal No. 37

Which of the following is closest in meaning to the word "frigid" (line 4)?

(A) far away

(B) ar isolated

(D) extremely cold

(E) completely frozen

Frigid artinya dingin sekali maka persamaan frigid adalah extremely cold

💥Kunci Jawaban: D

💦Soal No. 38

What is the topic of the text above ?

(A) The rescue of the stranded MV Akademik Shokalskiy by the three icebreakers.

(B) A highly ice-strengthened Russian tour ship built for polar and oceanographic research.

(D) A trapped Russian tour ship on then Antartica's summer ice waiting for a rescue.

(E) A ship retracting a 1911 Antartic expedition stranded in South Pole's summer ice.

Pembahasan:

Topik wacana adalah the rescue of the streded MV Akademik Shukalskiy by the three icebreakers.

💥Kunci Jawaban: A

💦Soal No. 39

It is implied in the second paragraph that ...

(A) Sir Douglas Mawson finally died whe he was collecting the data which are believed to be very relevant to today's global warming.

(B) the MV Akademik Shokalskiy was not able to leave the south Pole ocean at due time in November (C) Sir Douglas Mawson failed to collect enough data which are important for polar and oceanography research.

(D) the MV Akademik Shokalskiy got stranded in Antartic's summer ice sometime on the 24th of December

(E) the crew and all the passengers of the MV Akademic Shokalskiy were not able to celebrate Christmas

Pembahasan:

Dalam text dinyatakan, "Qn christmas Eve we realized we Could not get throught, in spite of being just 2 nautical miles from open water." Maka dapat dinyatakan secara tidak langsung bahwa the crew anal all the passengers of the MV Akademic Shokalskiy were not able to celebrate Christmas.

💥Kunci Jawaban: E

Non-verbal communication is defined as communication between people by means other than speech. Non-verbal communication (NVC) derives from the following major sources: (1) eye contact (amount of looking at another person's body and face); (2) mouth (especially smiling or grimacing in relation to eye contact); (3) posture (for example, sitting forwards or backwards); (4) gesture (as with the use of arm movements when talking); (5) orientation (of the body to the addressee); (6) body distance (as when we stand too close or too far away from others); (7) smell (including perfumes); (8) skin (including pigmentation, blushing and texture); (9) hair (including length, texture and style); (10) clothes (with particular reference to fashion). Non-verbal communication is not quite the same as 'body language' because any claim about a language must refer to an agreed and identifiable grammar and syntax. NVC is not always so precise or advanced; the vocabulary of non-verbal signs is more limited than speech. Even so, it is a mistake to consider NVC as isolated from speech. Instead, some complex interaction is envisaged between word and body signal, and one that is not always complementary. Imagine yourself interviewing job applicants. You might not offer employment to a candidate who refuses to look at you, always frowns, hunches both shoulders, sweats a lot, and has a Mohican hair cut - despite the fact that he or she gives thoughtful and interesting replies to your questions. 15 Take eye contact as an example for discussion. Mutual eye contact (where both people look into each other's eyes) can be a sign of liking, but prolonged gaze leads to discomfort. The directed eye contact violates a code of looking, where eye contact is frequently broken but returned to, and leads to depersonalization of the victim because an aggressor deliberately breaks the rules which the victim adheres to, Eye contact is often enhanced by size of pupils, eyebrow inflection and movement, and smiling.

💦Soal No. 40

According to the text, NVC ...
(A) does not have established rules
(B) has an identifable grammar
(C) may be derived from hair color
(D) is isolated in language study
(E) is more complicated than body language

Pembahasan:

NVC does not have estabilished rules.

💥Kunci Jawaban: A

💦Soal No. 41

The purpose of the text is to ...

(A) present the result of research

(B) define non-verbal communication

(D) provide examples of non-verbal commu nication

(E) explain the role of non-verbal communi cation in communication

Pembahasan:

Tujuan dari text adalah : to explain the role of none - verbal communication in communication

💥Kunci Jawaban: E

💦Soal No. 42

In which lines of the text does the author mention that NVC is inseparable from speech?

(A) 8-9

(B) 10-11

(D) 15-16
(E) 18-19

Pembahasan:

Dalam wacana dinyatakan (line 10 - 11) Even so, it is a mistake to consider NVC as isolated from speech.

💥Kunci Jawaban: B

💦Soal No. 43

The word "code" (line 16) is closest in meaning to ...

(A) sign

(D) rule

(B) program

(E) instruction

Pembahasan:

Code artinya sandi, kode, tanda maka jawaban sign

💥Kunci Jawaban: A

💦Soal No. 44

It can be inferred from the text that verbal and non-verbal communication ...

(A) never match

(B) use the same grammar

(D) need learning and practice

(E) sometimes show striking contrast

Pembahasan:

Dalam wacana dinyatakan : Non - verbal communication is not guite the same, as body language because any claim about language must refer to an agreed and identifiable grammar and syntax. Jawaban sometimes show striking contrast.

💥Kunci Jawaban: E

💦Soal No. 45

The author organizes the ideas in the text by ...

(A) classifying types of non verbal communication

(B) differentiating non verbal communication from body language

(D) exposing problems in defining non verbal communication

(E) ordering sources of non verbal communi cation chronologically

Pembahasan:

non verbal communication and giving examples

💥Kunci Jawaban: C