UTBK/SNBT Bahasa Inggris: Pertanyaan, Jawaban, Latihan Soal & Pembahasan

3. The author reminds readers to be more careful with commercialism in free applications in paragraph(s) ....

According to the passage, Australian Universities are well-known for ....

Which paragraph(s) explain(s) the importance of using technology and media wisely so that it can support existing classroom practice?

The text states all of the following, except ....

The text mentions all of the following psychological problems, except ....

3. According to information in the passage, which of the following is LEAST likely to occur as a result of animals' intuitive awareness of quantities?

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What is the author's purpose in writing this text?

10. What most likely motivates the writer to write the passage?

    Indigenous plant and animals are few in Easter Island. At the time of European arrival, the toromiro tree was the only wild tree and the Carolina wolfberry the only wild shrub, the vegetation being (1) ____ herbaceous. The taromira tree was overexploited by the island wood carvers, and the last local specimen died in the 1950s (2) ____, the species was saved from extinction. The Norwegian Archaeological Expedition collected seeds and planted them in the Gothenburg Botanical Garden, and saplings from the garden were reintroduced to Easter Island in 1988. Today only 31 wild flowering plants, 14 ferns, and 14 mosses are reported. Grass and small ferns dominate the barren landscape, (3) ____ the boggy crater lakes are thickly covered by two imported American species, the totora reed and Polygonum acumination. A number of cultivated species of plant were also introduced partly from America and partly from Polynesia before the arrival of Europeans; of these the (4) ____ species was the sweet potato, which was the cultivated in extensive plantations and formed the staple diet. Bottle gourds, sugarcane, bananas, taro, yams, and two trees. (i.e., the Asiatic paper mulberry- and the American Triumfetta semitriloba) were of aboriginal importation, as also probably were the husk-tomato, small variety of pineapple, and the coconut.

(4) ____

    Forget what world leaders say. If you want to understand what they are really up to, look at the painting that hang behind them at press conference and summit meetings, or when they pause with apparent spontaneity along a corridor to answer a reporter's question. The silent stare of a poised portrait gazing at you over the shoulder of David Cameron or Vladimir Putin is often more loaded and more deliberately orchestrated than you might think.

    For example, President Obama's recent trip to Cuba in March 2016 was considered his boldest step. His controversial agenda was to reset diplomatic relations between the two nations. However, it was a painting by a Cuban artist that (12) ____ the show. Among the more awkward events on Obama's Cuban itinerary was a meeting with a group of political dissidents, many of (13) ____ fear the thawing of relations between Washington and Havana will only embolden the repressive tendencies of Cuban presidents Raul Castro by legitimizing his resign. Enter Michel Mirabal, a contemporary Cuban artist whose sprawling painting My New Friend provided the striking backdrop to the meeting.

    The work stretched evocatively behind Obama as he sat at a long table to discuss the concern of the Cuban government's detractors. It featured side-by-side representations of the Cuban and US flags constructed loosely of red, white, and blue handprints (14) ____. As a subliminal symbol capable of capturing, on the one hand the plight of those oppressed by the Cuban government's, and on the other hand, Obama's commitment to ending sanction against Cuba, the painting (15) ____ The hasty blizzard of anonymous handprint has the feel of street art or something illicitly constructed: a compression of innocence that recall the clay moulds made by children in kindergarten. At the same time, the two flags appear to be visual anagrams of each other. Each consists of the same handprint merely arranged in different combinations, as if subtly to imply that the two countries are essentially inseparable.

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