TIPS & STRATEGI MENJAWAB SOAL BAHASA INGGRIS SPMB / SNMPTN

Longer reading : 1 text 5 question items

- main idea - specific/factual information - conclusion/interpretation - sorting information/true-not true - expression meaning

Reading Comprehension

Short reading: 2 texts 4 question items

- main idea - topic sentence / opening sentence - concluding sentence / closing remark - irrelevant sentence / cohesiveness - sorting information/true-not true

Cloze procedure : 1 text 8 question items

- derivatives - conjunction - vocabulary - tenses - verb forms: gerund / bare & to infinitive / participle - auxiliaries - collocation - concord

Short Reading
- Main idea Clue: # main main idea main information mainly discusses # topic # text/passage/paragraph about # text/passage/paragraph describes

TIPS
# kata/frasa yang diapit tanda petik/kutip ()/() # urutan 1 first a - 2 second b - 3 third c - # kalimat pertanyaan (?) # dua hal yg kontradiktif : positive >< negative : advantage >< disadvantage : benefit >< loss etc. : good >< bad # kalimat pertama (+kalimat terakhir)

Short Reading: main idea

Ecologist Dr. Barry Commoner says that ecology has not yet developed specific laws, as has physics. But he suggests four generalizations that have resulted from ecological research on ecosystems. These might be considered as an informal set of laws of ecology. The four generalizations are (1) Everything is connected to everything. This means, everything plays a part in the endless cycles of ecosystems. Too much stress at any one point in the ecosystems may lead to a collapse of the entire ecosystems; (2) Everything must go somewhere. This implies that there is no such thing as waste in nature What is given off by one organism as waste is taken up by another organism as food. (3) Nature knows best. This explain the changes having occurred over billions of years, which have made up the delicately balanced ecosystems that we have today. For every organic substance produced by a living organism, nature has provided an enzyme capable of breaking down that substance. Nature takes care of all natural materials, both organic and inorganic. (4) There is no such thing as a free lunch, meaning that all life in nature lives at the expense of some other life. (USM UGM 2003)
15. What is the main idea of the passage? (A) Ecology has not yet developed specific laws (B) Physics has developed specific laws (C) The four generalizations resulting from ecological research on ecosystems (D) Natural laws of ecology (E) Ecological research as the development of ecosystem (USM UGM 2003 No 51)

# kata yg diapit petik/kutip ()/() # urutan # kalimat pertanyaan (?)

# dua hal yg kontradiktif

# kalimat pertama (+kalimat terakhir)

Short Reading: main idea

Text 2 SPMB 2006 Regional 2

Languages are much like living creatures that become endangered when numbers decline. Some linguists are taking action in preserving endangered languages. They believe it should be a priority since they are on the brink of extinction. Preservation can occur in two ways. First, linguists can study dying languages and seek to preserve the components of the language the sounds, the vocabulary, the grammar, and the traditions. The second way is to teach children the language and have linguists advise on language maintenance. An example of this latter method is the Maori language of New Zealand. It has seen an increase in the number of speakers between the 1960s and 1970s. New Zealand has since set up language nests in early childhood centers to teach children the Maori language, exposing 100,000 children to the native tongue so far. ____________________________________. 7. The topic of the paragraph is ________. (A) how to preserve endangered languages. (B) the movement of languages in the world. (C) the Maori language of New Zealand. (D) the estimated rate of language extinction. (E) how to maintains aboriginal languages. (SPMB 2006 Regional 2 No. 56)

# kata yg diapit petik/kutip ()/() # urutan # kalimat pertanyaan (?)

# dua hal yg kontradiktif # kalimat pertama (+kalimat terakhir)

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Short Reading: main idea

Text II SPMB 2006 Regional 3

The health benefits of aerobic exercise are not as obvious as the health risk of cigarette smoking. Nevertheless, people who lead inactive lives, without much exercises, have been found to be at greater risk for heart disease and other illnesses. Research at Harvard and Stanford recently reported the results of major study of 17,000 middle-age and older men who were first studies as college students between 1926 and 1950 and then followed up periodically for many decades. The researchers found that those men, who exercised regularly, even at moderate levels, lived longer than those who did not. Even after correcting for such factors as family history, the death rate due to heart disease of the least active group was almost twice as high as that for the most active group. Another recent study found that both men and women who kept physically fit were much less likely to develop high blood pressure which may lead to heart disease than those who did not keep fit _______________. 38. The topic of the paragraph is_______. (A) the advantages of non smokers over smokers (B) the risk of heart disease to smokers (C) the advantages of doing regular exercises (D) the effects of leading an inactive live (E) the research on the causes of heart diseases (SPMB 2006 Regional 3 No. 56)

Manfaat kesehatan dari olah raga aerobik tidak senampak resiko kesehatan dari merokok

# kata yg diapit petik/kutip ()/() # urutan # kalimat pertanyaan (?)

# dua hal yg kontradiktif # kalimat pertama (+kalimat terakhir)

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- Concluding sentence / closing remark Clue: # (kalimat terakhir dalam teks dihilangkan) # Which of the following sentences should the paragraph end/ sum up? # conclude

TIPS
1. harus identik dengan inti cerita; 2. tidak boleh kontradiksi dengan inti cerita; 3. idenya harus menyimpulkan ide-ide sebelumnya; 4. idenya berupa solusi atau alternatif yg ditawarkan;

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Short Reading: concluding sentence / closing remark Text 2 SPMB 2006 Regional 2

Languages are much like living creatures that become endangered when numbers decline. Some linguists are taking action in preserving endangered languages. They believe it should be a priority since they are on the brink of extinction. Preservation can occur in two ways. First, linguists can study dying languages and seek to preserve the components of the language the sounds, the vocabulary, the grammar, and the traditions. The second way is to teach children the language and have linguists advise on language maintenance. An example of this latter method is the Maori language of New Zealand. It has seen an increase in the number of speakers between the 1960s and 1970s. New Zealand has since set up language nests in early childhood centers to teach children the Maori language, exposing 100,000 children to the native tongue so far. _____________________________.
7. The topic of the paragraph is ________. (SPMB 2006 Regional 2 No. 56) 1. harus identik dengan inti (A) how to preserve endangered languages. cerita; (B) the movement of languages in the world. 2. tidak boleh kontradiksi dengan inti cerita; (C) the Maori language of New Zealand. 3. idenya harus menyimpul(D) the estimated rate of language extinction. kan ide-ide sebelumnya; (E) how to maintains aboriginal languages. 4. idenya berupa solusi atau With which of the following sentences should the paragraph end? 8. alternatif yg ditawarkan; (A) Revival of languages such as the Maori language is gaining ground. (B) Languages become endangered when they are not passed on to children or when there is a dominant language. (C) These methods have so far proved excellent to preserve many endangered languages. (D) They believe that their language is on the brink of extinction because their children cannot use it. (E) Actions should be taken because a loss in global languages makes a loss of the diverse ideas and cultures. (SPMB 2006 Regional 2 No. 57)

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Short Reading: concluding sentence / closing remark Text II SPMB 2006 Regional 3

The health benefits of aerobic exercise are not as obvious as the health risk of cigarette smoking. Nevertheless, people who lead inactive lives, without much exercises, have been found to be at greater risk for heart disease and other illnesses. Research at Harvard and Stanford recently reported the results of major study of 17,000 middle-age and older men who were first studies as college students between 1926 and 1950 and then followed up periodically for many decades. The researchers found that those men, who exercised regularly, even at moderate levels, lived longer than those who did not. Even after correcting for such factors as family history, the death rate due to heart disease of the least active group was almost twice as high as that for the most active group. Another recent study found that both men and women who kept physically fit were much less likely to develop high blood pressure which may lead to heart disease than those who did not keep fit _______________. 38. The topic of the paragraph is_______. (SPMB 2006 Regional 3 No. 56) (A) the advantages of non smokers over smokers (B) the risk of heart disease to smokers (C) the advantages of doing regular exercises 1. harus identik dengan inti cerita; (D) the effects of leading an inactive live 2. tidak boleh kontradiksi (E) the research on the causes of heart diseases dengan inti cerita;

3. idenya harus menyimpul39. The best conclusion sentence for the paragraph is __________ kan ide-ide sebelumnya; (A) In conclusion, different person need different types of exercise 4. idenya berupa solusi atau alternatif yg ditawarkan; (B) Heart disease are not something that you cannot avoid (C) Thus, certain types of exercises prevent certain types of illnesses (D) We all need to do more exercises regularly (E) Therefore, to stay healthy, one should do regular exercises (SPMB 2006 Regional 3 No. 57)

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Longer Reading
- Main idea Clue: # main main idea main information mainly discusses # topic # text/passage/ about # text/passage/ describes # title

TIPS
# dua hal yg kontradiktif : positive >< negative : advantage >< disadvantage : benefit >< loss etc. : good >< bad
# baca kalimat pertama + terakhir paragraf 1, dan setiap kalimat pertama dari paragraf lainnya.
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Longer Reading: main idea

Text 1 SPMB 2006 Regional 3 Kode 510 Paper is different from other waste products because it comes from trees. Unlike plastic and metal waste products, which cannot disintegrate, paper is biodegradable it can be broken down into substance by the action of bacteria, and are not harmful to the environment. While 45 out of every 100 tones of wood fibre used to make paper in Australia comes from waste paper, the rest comes from virgin fibre from forests and plantations. By world standards this is a good performance since the world-wide average is 33 percent waste paper. Governments have encouraged waste paper collection and sorting schemes and at the same time, the paper industry has responded by developing new recyclicing technologies that have paved the way for even greater utilization of use fibre. As a result, industrys use of recycled fibres is expected to increase at twice the rate of virgin fibre over the coming years. Already, waste paper constitutes 70% of paper used for packaging and advances in the technology required to remove ink from the paper have allowed a higher recycled content in newsprint and writing paper. To achieve the benefits of recycling, the community must also contribute. We need to accept a change in the quality of paper products; for example, stationery may be less white and of rougher texture. There also needs to be support from community for waste paper collection programs. Not only do we need to make the paper available to collectors but it also needs to be separated into different types and sorted from contaminants such as staples, paperclips, string and other miscellaneous items. There are technical limitations to the amount of paper which can be recycled and some paper products cannot be collected for re-use. These include paper in the form of books and permanents records, photographic paper and paper which is badly contaminated. The four most common sources of paper for recycling are factories and retail stores which gather large amounts of packaging material in which goods are delivered, also offices which have unwanted business documents and computer output, paper converters and printer and lastly households which discard newspaper and packaging material. The paper manufacturer pays a price for the paper and may also have to pay the collection cost.

# dua hal yg kontradiktif 80. The appropriate title for the text is ____. : positive >< negative (A) the difference between paper and other types of wastes : good >< bad : advantage >< disadvantage (B) the advantages and disadvantages of recycling paper : benefit >< loss etc. (C) the types of paper which cannot be recycled # baca kal. pertama+terakhir paragrf (D) the increased popularity of recycling paper 1, dan setiap kal. pertama dari (E) the advances in the technology of recycling paper paragrag lainnya. (SPMB 2006 Reg. 3 No. 51) Otong Setiawan Djuharie 48

Longer Reading: main idea

Text I SPMB 2003 Regional 2 The study of genetic is today so far advances that we shall soon be able to produce a kind of genetically perfect superman, using technique known as genetic engineering. At first this may seem an attractive possibility, but when we consider it in detail, we find there are many problems involved. A distinction is usually made between negative and positive genetic engineering. In negative engineering we try to eliminate harmful genes to produce genetically normal people. The aim is of course a desirable one; however, it does pose the problem of what a harmful gene is. Genes are not really either good or bad. The gene which causes certain forms of anemia, for example, can also protect against malaria. If we eliminate this gene, we may get rid of anemia, but we increase the risk of malaria. In positive genetic engineering we try to create better people by developing the so-called good genes. But although this form of genetic engineering will give us a greater control over mankinds future, there are several reason for caution. First, there is no possibility of mistakes. While accepting that geneticists are responsible people, we must also admit that things can go wrong, the result being the kind of monster we read about in horror stories. Secondly, there is the problem of deciding what make a better person. We may feel, for example, that if genetic engineering can create more intelligent people, then this is a good thing. On the other hand, intelligence does not necessarily lead to happiness. Do we really want to create people who are intelligent, but perhaps unhappy. The basic question is whether or not we should interfere with human life. We can argue that much human progress (particularly in medicine) involves interference with life. To some extent this is true, but we should not forget the terrible consequences genetic engineering can have. Consider for example the possibilities of genetic warfare, in which our enemies try to harm us using the techniques of genetic engineering.

A suitable title for the text is ____. (A) The Advantage of Genetic Engineering to Modern Life (B) Negative and Positive Genetic Engineering (C) Genetic Engineering and Genetic Warfare (D) The Study of Advance Genetics (E) Genetic Engineering as a Means of Harm Enemies (SPMB 2003 Regional 2 No. 55 )

# dua hal yg kontradiktif : positive >< negative : good >< bad : advantage >< disadvantage : benefit >< loss etc.
# baca kal. pertama+terakhir paragrf 1, dan setiap kal. pertama dari paragrag lainnya.
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Longer Reading
- Conclusion / interpretation Clue: # conclude / conclusion

TIPS
Baca kalimat pertama dan kedua paragraf terakhir (+kalimat terakhir paragraf terakhir)

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Longer Reading: conclusion / interpretation Text 1 SPMB 2005 Regional 1 Motion sickness comes in many forms, not just sicknesses. Ninety percent of the human race is susceptible to motion sickness. Some people become sick when they sit in the back seat of a car; others cannot read or look at the map in any kind of moving vehicle. People get motion sickness on airplanes, motorcycles, amusement park rides, and even on camels! Scientist have learned that motion sickness occurs when the brain is trying to make sense of a situation and there are too many conflicting massages. While the eyes are sending one message, the ears are trying to send a message about balance. The skin and bone joint, sensitive to out air pressure, send another message. Many people who have experienced violent motion sickness try to avoid travel. But that is not always the possible. So travelers should employ some well-known strategies to avoid getting sick. The most useful strategy concerns food: eat a little meal before travelling and bring along a packet of plain soda crackers to snack on regularly. Avoid alcoholic and carbonated beverages, high-fat foods, and spices. Care in choosing the location of your seat is another important strategy. In a car, sit in front and People who still got sick after trying these strategies can try medical keep your eyes fixed on the horizon. help. Some rely on over-the counter medications, although some of them People who still got sick after trying these strategies can try medical help. Some rely on overcan make you sleepy. Others use simple ginger capsules the counter medications, although some of them can make you sleepy. Others to usesettle simple their ginger stomach. A large number of travelers pressure bands onon their is capsules to settle their stomach. A large number ofuse travelers use pressure bands their wrists. wrists. It It is not clear these bands work, but theywork, do prevent sickness. not how clear how these bands butmotion they do prevent motion sickness. (SPMB 2005 Reg.1 No. 55) 89. From the text we may conclude that ____. (A) basically everyone tends to get sick when they are travellingX (B) there is no definite solution to the problem of motion sickness (C) medical help is the best way to cure motion sickness X (D) there are so many ways for people to stop getting motion sickness X (E) motion sickness can be overcome by any drug prescribed by a doctor X

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Longer Reading
- specific/factual information Clue: # W-H question # penggalan kalimat

TIPS

# Cari di teks kata yg sama dengan soal baca kalimat tersebut secara lengkap baca satu kalimat sebelum atau sesudah kalimat yg memiliki kata yg sama dg kalimat soal

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