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

Over this decade, employment in jobs requiring education beyond a high school diploma will grow more rapidly than employment in jobs that do not; of the 30 fastest growing occupations, more than half require post-secondary education. With the average earnings of college graduates at a level that is twice as high as that of workers with only a high school diploma, higher education is now the clearest (31) ....... into the middle class.

In higher education, the U.S. has been outpaced internationally. While the United States ranks ninth in the world in the proportion of young adults enrolled in college, we have fallen to 16th in the world in our share of certificates and degrees awarded to adults ages 25-34 - lagging behind Korea, Canada, Japan and other nations. While more than half of college students graduate within six years, the (32) ....... for low-income students is around 25 percent.

Acknowledging these factory early in his Administration, President Obama challenged every American to commit to at least one year of higher education or post-secondary training. (33) ...... that America would once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020.

The option that best completes (31) is .....

People still collect books as valuable antiques or for a hobby, but you get virtually all the information you need from the viewscreen of your home computer system. The computer is linked to a library-not a library of books but an electronic library where information on every subject is stored in computer memory banks.

Having this service at your fingertips is like having a huge brand-new encyclopedia in your homes at all times. The computer can tell you anything you want to know, and the information is always the very latest available. There need be only one central library to which computers in gomes, offices, schools, and colleges are connected. At the library experts are constantly busy, feeding in the very latest information as they receive it. In theory one huge electronic library could serve the whole world!

E-books have not shelled the demise of the local library in New York. In fact, according to a new report from the Center for an Urban Future, 40.5 million people visited the city's public libraries, more than all of the city's professional sports teams and major cultural institutions combined.

The report "Branches of Opportunity" looks at the changing role of the city's libraries in the digital age. It finds that while public libraries are serving more New Workers than ever, they are "undervalued by policymakers and face growing threats" New York City library's system is a unique hybrid. Three organizations - the New York Public Library, along with the Brooklyn and Queens libraries - operate 206 local branches throughout the five boroughs.

Which idea in passage is different from that in passage 4?

People still collect books as valuable antiques or for a hobby, but you get virtually all the information you need from the viewscreen of your home computer system. The computer is linked to a library-not a library of books but an electronic library where information on every subject is stored in computer memory banks.

Having this service at your fingertips is like having a huge brand-new encyclopedia in your homes at all times. The computer can tell you anything you want to know, and the information is always the very latest available. There need be only one central library to which computers in gomes, offices, schools, and colleges are connected. At the library experts are constantly busy, feeding in the very latest information as they receive it. In theory one huge electronic library could serve the whole world!

E-books have not shelled the demise of the local library in New York. In fact, according to a new report from the Center for an Urban Future, 40.5 million people visited the city's public libraries, more than all of the city's professional sports teams and major cultural institutions combined.

The report "Branches of Opportunity" looks at the changing role of the city's libraries in the digital age. It finds that while public libraries are serving more New Workers than ever, they are "undervalued by policymakers and face growing threats" New York City library's system is a unique hybrid. Three organizations - the New York Public Library, along with the Brooklyn and Queens libraries - operate 206 local branches throughout the five boroughs.

The topic discussed in both passages is .......

People still collect books as valuable antiques or for a hobby, but you get virtually all the information you need from the viewscreen of your home computer system. The computer is linked to a library-not a library of books but an electronic library where information on every subject is stored in computer memory banks.

Having this service at your fingertips is like having a huge brand-new encyclopedia in your homes at all times. The computer can tell you anything you want to know, and the information is always the very latest available. There need be only one central library to which computers in gomes, offices, schools, and colleges are connected. At the library experts are constantly busy, feeding in the very latest information as they receive it. In theory one huge electronic library could serve the whole world!

E-books have not shelled the demise of the local library in New York. In fact, according to a new report from the Center for an Urban Future, 40.5 million people visited the city's public libraries, more than all of the city's professional sports teams and major cultural institutions combined.

The report "Branches of Opportunity" looks at the changing role of the city's libraries in the digital age. It finds that while public libraries are serving more New Workers than ever, they are "undervalued by policymakers and face growing threats" New York City library's system is a unique hybrid. Three organizations - the New York Public Library, along with the Brooklyn and Queens libraries - operate 206 local branches throughout the five boroughs.

Based on the information in both passages, it can be hypothesized that ........

Did you ride your like to school when you were a kid? A generation ago most kids rode, walked or caught the bus to school; very few of us were dropped off by our parents at the school gate. These days most of us have experienced the daily traffic jams around school at drop-off and pick-up times, as parents drive their children to the school gate. While there is no national data on the number of children who walk or ride to school, a recent Victorian survey found early half of all children are driven to school every day.

Parents choose to drop their kids at school for a number of reasons ..... mostly to do with safety and convenience. But experts say chauffeuring your kids to school every day could mean they are missing out on much-needed exercise and other life skills.

Reasearch suggests at least a third of Australian children aged 9-16 years are not getting the amount of daily physical activity recommended in national guidelines. But this is not because children participation in leisure or potting activities has dropped off, says Dr Can Garrard. Participation in these activities has not altered much over he years, Garrard says but what has changed is the level of incidental activity children do. "When you look at countries where children are just active as part of everyday life, they do not have to be sports. All they have to do is to get around the way the community get around by walking and cycling, and they get enough physical activity," she says.

The part following the passage above most Iikely contains information on...

People still collect books as valuable antiques or for a hobby, but you get virtually all the information you need from the viewscreen of your home computer system. The computer is linked to a library-not a library of books but an electronic library where information on every subject is stored in computer memory banks.

Having this service at your fingertips is like having a huge brand-new encyclopedia in your homes at all times. The computer can tell you anything you want to know, and the information is always the very latest available. There need be only one central library to which computers in gomes, offices, schools, and colleges are connected. At the library experts are constantly busy, feeding in the very latest information as they receive it. In theory one huge electronic library could serve the whole world!

E-books have not shelled the demise of the local library in New York. In fact, according to a new report from the Center for an Urban Future, 40.5 million people visited the city's public libraries, more than all of the city's professional sports teams and major cultural institutions combined.

The report "Branches of Opportunity" looks at the changing role of the city's libraries in the digital age. It finds that while public libraries are serving more New Workers than ever, they are "undervalued by policymakers and face growing threats" New York City library's system is a unique hybrid. Three organizations - the New York Public Library, along with the Brooklyn and Queens libraries - operate 206 local branches throughout the five boroughs.

Which of the following statements is true according to both passages?

Did you ride your like to school when you were a kid? A generation ago most kids rode, walked or caught the bus to school; very few of us were dropped off by our parents at the school gate. These days most of us have experienced the daily traffic jams around school at drop-off and pick-up times, as parents drive their children to the school gate. While there is no national data on the number of children who walk or ride to school, a recent Victorian survey found early half of all children are driven to school every day.

Parents choose to drop their kids at school for a number of reasons ..... mostly to do with safety and convenience. But experts say chauffeuring your kids to school every day could mean they are missing out on much-needed exercise and other life skills.

Reasearch suggests at least a third of Australian children aged 9-16 years are not getting the amount of daily physical activity recommended in national guidelines. But this is not because children participation in leisure or potting activities has dropped off, says Dr Can Garrard. Participation in these activities has not altered much over he years, Garrard says but what has changed is the level of incidental activity children do. "When you look at countries where children are just active as part of everyday life, they do not have to be sports. All they have to do is to get around the way the community get around by walking and cycling, and they get enough physical activity," she says.

Dr. Garrard's statement "... where children are just active as part of everyday life, they do not have to be sporty..." (paragraph 3 line 5) may be best restated that....

Did you ride your like to school when you were a kid? A generation ago most kids rode, walked or caught the bus to school; very few of us were dropped off by our parents at the school gate. These days most of us have experienced the daily traffic jams around school at drop-off and pick-up times, as parents drive their children to the school gate. While there is no national data on the number of children who walk or ride to school, a recent Victorian survey found early half of all children are driven to school every day.

Parents choose to drop their kids at school for a number of reasons ..... mostly to do with safety and convenience. But experts say chauffeuring your kids to school every day could mean they are missing out on much-needed exercise and other life skills.

Reasearch suggests at least a third of Australian children aged 9-16 years are not getting the amount of daily physical activity recommended in national guidelines. But this is not because children participation in leisure or potting activities has dropped off, says Dr Can Garrard. Participation in these activities has not altered much over he years, Garrard says but what has changed is the level of incidental activity children do. "When you look at countries where children are just active as part of everyday life, they do not have to be sports. All they have to do is to get around the way the community get around by walking and cycling, and they get enough physical activity," she says.

By writing the sentence "... chauffeuring your kids to school every day could mean they are missing out on much-needed exercise and other life skills." (paragraph 2, sentence 2), the author implies that...

       Agroecologists do not always agree about what agroecology is or should be in the long term. Different definitions of the term agroecology can be distinguished largely by the specificity with which one defines the term “ecology”, as well as the term’s potential political connotations. Definition of agroecology, therefore may be first grouped according to the specific contexts within which they situate agriculture. Agroecology is defined as “the study of the relation of agricultural crops and environment. Following this definition, agroecologis would study agriculture’s various relationships with soil health, water quality, air quality, meso–and micro—fauna, surrounding flora, environmental toxins, and other environmental contexts.

       A more common definition of the word can be taken from Dalgaard et al., who refer agroecology as the study of the interactions between plants, animals, humans and environment within agricultural system. Consequently, agroecology is inherently multidisciplinary, including factor from agronomy, ecology, sociology, economics and related disciplines. In this case, the ‘-ecology” portion of “agroecology” is defined broadly to include social, cultural, and economic contexts as well.

       In global south, the term often carries overtly political connotations. Such political definitions of the term usually ascribe to it the goals of social and economic justice; special attention, in this case, is often paid to the traditional farming knowledge of indigenous populations. North American and European uses of the term sometimes avoid the inclusion of such overtly political goals. In these case, agroecology is seen more strictly as a scientific discipline with less specific social goals.

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The points provided in paragraph 3 of the passage explain that....

       Agroecologists do not always agree about what agroecology is or should be in the long term. Different definitions of the term agroecology can be distinguished largely by the specificity with which one defines the term “ecology”, as well as the term’s potential political connotations. Definition of agroecology, therefore may be first grouped according to the specific contexts within which they situate agriculture. Agroecology is defined as “the study of the relation of agricultural crops and environment. Following this definition, agroecologis would study agriculture’s various relationships with soil health, water quality, air quality, meso–and micro—fauna, surrounding flora, environmental toxins, and other environmental contexts.

       A more common definition of the word can be taken from Dalgaard et al., who refer agroecology as the study of the interactions between plants, animals, humans and environment within agricultural system. Consequently, agroecology is inherently multidisciplinary, including factor from agronomy, ecology, sociology, economics and related disciplines. In this case, the ‘-ecology” portion of “agroecology” is defined broadly to include social, cultural, and economic contexts as well.

       In global south, the term often carries overtly political connotations. Such political definitions of the term usually ascribe to it the goals of social and economic justice; special attention, in this case, is often paid to the traditional farming knowledge of indigenous populations. North American and European uses of the term sometimes avoid the inclusion of such overtly political goals. In these case, agroecology is seen more strictly as a scientific discipline with less specific social goals.

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Regarding the definition of agroecology, the author assumes that is....