SMA Bahasa Inggris: Pertanyaan, Jawaban, Latihan Soal & Pembahasan

Fill in the blanks with the suitable article a, an, or without article.

____ antique type 

The music ____ (play) when I left her.

Nicole ____ her homework when her friend called.

Bagus was ____ around the block while Nata was ____ at their backyard yesterday.

I was ____ when my mother ____ me yesterday.

"We are definitely going to expand into the Philippines ... " (Paragraph 5)

What does the underlined word mean?  

Answer the questions that follow.

UK Using 1.2 Billion Tonnes of Material a Year

    The UK is using 1.2 billion tonnes of materials a year-that's the equivalent of 18.5 tonnes of material for every person in the country. The materials include food, timber products, metals, construction materials, and fossil fuels. They are vital to the economy, but the figures show the UK is increasingly reliant on importing its materials, especially from China. Almost 80% come from abroad, the Office for National Statistics numbers show the statistics matter because extracting materials from the environment uses a great deal of energy, typically generated by burning fossil fuels.

    The UK is signed up to international agreements to reduce its consumption of materials in an attempt to protect the natural world and combat climate change. But, despite those agreements, the figures show Britain's material consumption has gone up slightly, not down. What's more, the amount of material generated in the UK itself has slumped to a new low - just over a fifth of the total we use.

    That means more is being shipped from China and other developing nations, which supply the vast majority of the material we use. And they object to being blamed for the carbon emissions that are generated when meeting our needs. The figures show that the UK's material "footprint" is now 30% higher than it was in 1990. They were partially compiled by the University of Leeds, which says the UK has "outsourced" its environmental pressures to other countries.

    Professor John Barrett from Leeds says the government should focus on reducing the flow of resources into the UK, if it wants to reduce C02 emissions. He said that it would be cheaper and more effective than trying to help the industry save energy.

    "Resource efficiency improvements are twice as effective as industrial energy efficiency measures but most of the UK government funds are aimed at industrial energy efficiency," he told the BBC.

(Adopted from: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52141941 ?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.com/news/busin!lss&link_location=live-reporting-story (April 11, 2020)

What does professor John Barrett suggest to the UK's government? 

What does the article say about overfishing? 

What is the song about? 

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Use the appropiate words in the box below to complete the sentences.

The family intend to ____ a new species of leopard geckos.