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Questions 53 - 56 are based on the following passage.


    When we think of Earth's water resources, we think of huge oceans, lakes, and rivers. Water resources like these are called surface waters. The most obvious type of water pollution affects surface waters. For example, a spill from an oil tanker creates an oil slick that can affect a vast area of the ocean.

    Not all of Earth's water sits on its surface, however, A great deal of water is held in underground rock structures known as aquifers, which we cannot see and seldom think about. Water stored underground in aquifers is known as groundwater. Aquifers feed our rivers and supply much -of our drinking water. They too can become polluted, for example, when weed killers used in people's gardens drain into the ground. Groundwater pollution is much less obvious than surface-water pollution but is no less of a problem. In 1996, a study in Iowa in the United States found that over half the state's groundwater wells were contaminated with weed killers. You might think things would have improved since then, but, two decades on, all that's really changed is the name of the chemicals we're using. Today, numerous scientific studies are still finding weed killers in groundwater in worrying quantities: a 2012 study discovered glyphosate in 41 percent of 140 groundwater samples from Catalonia, Spain; scientific·.opinion differs on whether this is safe or not.

Surface waters and groundwater are the two types of water resources that pollution affects. There are also two different ways in which pollution can occur. If pollution comes from a single location, such as a discharge pipe attached to a factory, it is known as point source pollution. Other examples of point source pollution include an oil spill from a tanker; a discharge from a smokestack (factory chimney), or someone pouring oil from their car down a drain. A great deal of water pollution happens not from one single source but from many different scattered sources. This is called nonpoint-source pollution.

   When point-source pollution enters the environment, the place most affected is usually the area immediately around the source. For example, when a tanker accident occurs, the oil slick is concentrated around the tanker itself and, in the right ocean conditions, the pollution disperses the further away from the tanker you go. This is less likely to happen with nonpoint source pollution which, by definition, enters the environment from many different places at once.

    Sometimes pollution that enters the environment in one place has an effect hundreds or even thousands of miles away. This is known as transboundary pollution. One example is the way radioactive waste travels through the oceans from nuclear reprocessing plants in England and France to nearby countries such as Ireland and Norway.

(Taken from: https://www.explainthatstuff.com.waterpollution.html)

With the sentence ' You might think things would have improved sincethen, but, two decades on, all that's really changed is the name of the chemicals we're using' in paragraph 2, the writer intends to ....

With the sentence 'You might think things would have improved since then, but, two decades on, all that's really changed is the name of the chemicals we're using' in paragraph 2, the writer intends to ....

  1. explain the chemicals that are contaminating the groundwater wells

  2. confirm the improvement of the polluted griundwater wells

  3. explain that there is no improvement of the polluted groundwater wells

  4. confirm that there is no improvement of the polluted groundwater wells

  5. tell the change of the chemicals' name

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jawaban yang tepat untuk soal tersebut adalah C. explainthat there is no improvement of the polluted groundwater wells.

jawaban yang tepat untuk soal tersebut adalah C. explain that there is no improvement of the polluted groundwater wells.

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Jawaban yang tepat untuk pertanyaan tersebut adalah C. explain that there is no improvement of the polluted groundwater wells. Soal meminta untuk mengetahui maksud penulis. Terjemahan dari soal adalah "Dengan kalimat 'Anda mungkin berpikir segalanya akan membaik sejak itu, tetapi, dua dekade kemudian, yang benar-benar berubah hanyalah nama bahan kimia yang kami gunakan' di paragraf 2, penulis bermaksud untuk ...." Untuk mengetahui maksud penulis, juga diperlukan untuk memahami kalimat tersebut serta kalimat sebelum dan setelahnya. Kalimat yang disebutkan sebelumnya adalah " In 1996, a study in Iowa in the United States found that over half the state's groundwater wells were contaminated with weed killers ." yang artinya "Pada tahun 1996, sebuah penelitian di Iowa di Amerika Serikat menemukan bahwa lebih dari setengah sumur air tanah negara bagian itu terkontaminasi dengan pembunuh gulma." Berdasarkan terjemahan, dapat diketahui jika kalimatt ini membahas tentang sumur air tanah yang terkontaminasi pembasmi gulma. Kalimat " You might think things would have improved sincethen, but, two decades on, all that's really changed is the name of the chemicals we're using" artinya "Anda mungkin berpikir segalanya akan membaik sejak itu, tetapi, dua dekade kemudian, yang benar-benar berubah hanyalah nama bahan kimia yang kami gunakan." Berdasarkan terjemahan tersebut, dapat diketahui jika maksud penulis menuliskan kalimat tersebut adalah untuk menjelaskan bahwa tidak ada kemajuan dalam sumur air tanah yang tercemar. Dengan demikian, kalimat yang tepat adalah " explain that there is no improvement of the polluted groundwater wells. " Jadi, jawaban yang tepat untuk soal tersebut adalah C. explainthat there is no improvement of the polluted groundwater wells.

Jawaban yang tepat untuk pertanyaan tersebut adalah C. explain that there is no improvement of the polluted groundwater wells.

Soal meminta untuk mengetahui maksud penulis. Terjemahan dari soal adalah "Dengan kalimat 'Anda mungkin berpikir segalanya akan membaik sejak itu, tetapi, dua dekade kemudian, yang benar-benar berubah hanyalah nama bahan kimia yang kami gunakan' di paragraf 2, penulis bermaksud untuk ...."

Untuk mengetahui maksud penulis, juga diperlukan untuk memahami kalimat tersebut serta kalimat sebelum dan setelahnya. Kalimat yang disebutkan sebelumnya adalah "In 1996, a study in Iowa in the United States found that over half the state's groundwater wells were contaminated with weed killers." yang artinya "Pada tahun 1996, sebuah penelitian di Iowa di Amerika Serikat menemukan bahwa lebih dari setengah sumur air tanah negara bagian itu terkontaminasi dengan pembunuh gulma." Berdasarkan terjemahan, dapat diketahui jika kalimatt ini membahas tentang sumur air tanah yang terkontaminasi pembasmi gulma.

Kalimat "You might think things would have improved since then, but, two decades on, all that's really changed is the name of the chemicals we're using" artinya "Anda mungkin berpikir segalanya akan membaik sejak itu, tetapi, dua dekade kemudian, yang benar-benar berubah hanyalah nama bahan kimia yang kami gunakan."

Berdasarkan terjemahan tersebut, dapat diketahui jika maksud penulis menuliskan kalimat tersebut adalah untuk menjelaskan bahwa tidak ada kemajuan dalam sumur air tanah yang tercemar. Dengan demikian, kalimat yang tepat adalah "explain that there is no improvement of the polluted groundwater wells."

Jadi, jawaban yang tepat untuk soal tersebut adalah C. explain that there is no improvement of the polluted groundwater wells.

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