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A manufacturer creates GMOs by introducing genetic material, or DNA, from a different organism
through a process called genetic engineering. Most currently available GMO foods are plants, such as fruit and
vegetables. All foods from genetically engineered plants on sale in the United States are regulated by the Food
and Drug Administration (FDA). They must meet the same safety requirements as traditional foods.
There is some controversy over the benefits and risks of GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) foods.
There are some discussions of the pros and cons of GMO crops by taking into account their potential effects on
human health and the environment Manufacturers use genetic modification to give foods desirable traits. For
example, they have designed two new varieties of apple that turn less brown when cut or bruised.
The reasoning usually involves making crops more resistant to diseases as they grow. Manufacturers,
also engineers, produce foods to be more nutritious or tolerant of herbicides. Crop protection is the main
rationale behind this type of genetic modification. Plants that are more resistant to diseases spread by insects or
viruses result in higher yields for farmers and a more attractive product. Genetically modification can also
increase the nutritional value or enhance flavor. All of these factors contribute to lower costs for the consumer.
They can also ensure that more people have access to quality food.
Source: medicalnewstoday.com
1. What is the author’s tone of the passage above?
A. Happy C. Questioned E. Contradictive
B. Informative D. Persuasive

2. What is the best tittle for the passage?

A. Genetically Modified Organism D. Manufactured Genetic Engineering
B. Flavourful Food E. Food and Its Safety
C. Controversy Around Modified Crops

3. What is the main idea of paragraph 27

A. GMO foods contains extra nutritions compared to non-GMO foods
B. Many believe that GMO could lead to cancer
C. Pecite tends to buy fresh fruits even it is cheap.
D. Controversy over the benefits and risks of GMO
E. Example of CMO

4. How genetic food can be able to sell on market in United States?

A. They must sign in to government office.
B. They must meet regulated standart.
C. The farmer took it on the fridge for 24 hours earlier.
D. The food should be sold online.
E. The crops should be fresh and pesticides.

Market prices may move up and down (or remain the same) in response to a host of factors causing
shifts in supply (the whole supply curve) or demand (the whole demand curve) or both together.
Bad weather makes prices go up – not just the prices of agricultural products, but of a great many other
goods ranging from steel to nightgowns – because of interruptions of production, breakdown in transportation,
power failures, etc.
Changes in technology cause shifts in supply curves: a more efficient way of making transistors brings
down the prices of calculators, computers, radios, television sets, record players, and recorders. Increases in the
scale of production, as we have seen, often bring down certain product prices.
Shrinking oil and mineral reserves contract supply, and prices move up. “Diseconomies” resulting from
shrinking scales of production, as when the market for handmade pocketbooks, horsedrawn carriages,
grandfather clocks, custom tailoring, and handmade furniture contracts, push up the price of such products not

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only absolutely, but relatively far above what they were in the old days, when skilled labor was cheaper and
more abundant
5. With which of the following topics is the author primarily concerned?
A. The effects of shifts in supply and demand on market prices.
B. The relation between market prices and technological change.
C. The influences of climate on the economy.
D. The abundance of handmade products
E. The increasing cost of skilled labor.

6. The word “breakdown” in line 4 is similar in meaning to....

A. Piece C. Illness E. Failure
B. Disturbance D. Part

7. In line 4, why the author use the phrase “from steel to nightgowns when dicussing adverse effects on
production?
A. To support the argument that cities suffer more than aggricultural areas.
B. To indicate that a wide variety of goods are affected.
C. To describe the two products that suffer the most.
D. To state that these two commodities are important
E. To show how increased prices for agricultural products affect other prices.

Passage 1

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 home 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 homes, 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!

Passage 2

E-books have not spelled 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 Yorkers than ever, they are “undervalued by
policymakers and face growing threats.” New York City’s library 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.

8. Which idea in Passage 2 is different from that in Passage 1?

A. E-libraries require sophisticated IT expertise.
B. Access to information in e-libraries is unlimited.
C. Collections of e-libraries are regularly updated.
D. E-libraries function as a huge information.
E. In reality most people are still e-library illiterate.

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

A. People would rather go to the library than watch sporting events.
B. People still dream of using libraries in spite of time and space.

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C. Access to information in an e-library requires a good IT system.
D. Libraries provide quick access to free e-books and newspapers.
E. The role of library changes fast due to advanced IT technology.

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

A. Conventional libraries will continue despite of the threats.
B. Policies should be made to conserve common libraries.
C. Threats to book publishers becomes more.
D. Serious IT-based libraries will gain much popularity.
E. Unpopularity of ordinary libraries is obvious.

Sweetness is one of the most important taste sensations for humans and for many animal species as
well. Sweet compounds almost universally induce a positive and pleasant response in humans, and this response,
is often thought to be inborn. There is scarcely any area of food habits today that does not in some ways involve
the sweet taste. Sucrose, the chemical compound in sweeteners, is not consumed only for its sweetness. It also
has many functional properties in foods that make it useful as a bulking agent, texture modifier, mouth-feel
modifier, and preservative. Sucrose additionally offers an important energy source for many food fermentations.
For nutritional and health reasons, there has been a growing desire in most Western countries to utilize
sweeteners other than sucrose. Consumers are urged to control their energy intake to avoid obesity, and reducing
fat consumption is usually recommended by reducing sugar intake, especially carbohydrate-based sweeteners.
This has led to growing pressure to develop artificial sweeteners.
The use of artificial sweeteners gives rise to a variety of problems in food technology due to some basic
differences between them and carbohydrate sweeteners. Nonnutritive sweeteners or artificial sweeteners are
usually not carbohydrate based and therefore have different chemical and physical properties. Often nonnutritive
sweeteners also have flavor characteristics that differ from those of carbohydrate sweeteners and are intensely
sweet compared to carbohydrate sweeteners. These properties often influence the cost of food manufacturing
because the resulting dietetic or special dietary foods are expected to be as acceptable as those with carbohydrate
sweeteners.
11. What is the writer’s purpose in writing the passage?
A. To inform C. To entertain E. To convince
B. To criticize D. To persuade

12. It can be inferred from paragraph 3 that....

A. Artificial sweeteners share some similar compounds with nonnutritive sweeteners.
B. Food manufacturers have to produce artificial sweeteners for their product.
C. Producing dietary foods with artificial sweeteners may be more expensive.
D. Nonnutritive sweeteners are more favored by food manufacturers.
E. Artificial sweeteners cannot be used in dietary foods.

13. The tone of this passage is.....

A. Serious C. Objective E. Optimistic
B. Cynical D. Humorous

Has winter no longer been just as cold as it used to be? Does it even matter to you? Think about this. In
Europe, the cold snap death toll rose to 71 from previously 53 in early 2012. Temperatures dropped to minus
38 degrees Celcius in some affected cities, causing power outages and traffic chaos. In Northern America,
winters felt extremely cold. What sounds anomalous to layman is that scientists indicate that global warming
plays a role in this natural phenomenon.
Scientists from the University of Massachusettes and the University of Alaska Fairbanks discovered
that fatal heat waves in the Arctic (the North Pole) spanned from July to September 2011 and extended until the
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there remained dark-colored sea waters that finally retained the energy of the heat within them. It gradually led
to warmth-build up across the Arctic atmosphere.
With ice sheets’ continual melting and atmospheric build-up combined, the Arctic contained more
humidities in the air and thus triggered heavier precipitations to the more southerly Eurasian regions. (Europe
and Asia). These precipitations, when falling in the cold air, transformed into snowfalls.
Thicker snowfalls subsequently affected the Arctic Oscillation, an air pressure pattern of the atmosphere
in mid and higher altitudes, to remain in the negative phase While in the negative phase, the high-pressure air
around the Arctic then pushed the atmospheric cold air to mild-altitude regions with low-pressure air, such as
Canada and the United States. That let temperatures drop very drastically, leading to those extreme winters.
Since lethal heat waves occurred during extreme summers, they must then be found accountable for the
emergence of extreme winters.

14. As stated in the text, the author has a purpose to....

A. Tell the readers that the European cold snap killed 71 people in Europe.
B. Inform about the loss of the Arctic ice sheets.
C. Prove that the role of global warming in causing extreme winters was diminutive.
D. Inform about the transformation of rainfalls into snow falls.
E. Show that extreme winter was triggered by huge depletion of the Arctic ice sheets.

15. Implied in the text that extreme winters will never occur if .....
A. Temperatures dropped to minus 38 degrees Celcius.
B. The dark-colored waters retain the heat energy from the sun rays within them.
C. The Arctic ice sheets remain intact
D. Warmth builds up in the Arctic atmosphere.
E. The Arctic ice sheets keep melting.

16. It can be inferred from the text that....

A. Winters in both Canada and the United States feel mildly cold.
B. Lethal heat waves solidify the Arctic ice sheets.
C. Heats accumulate in the Arctic atmosphere.
D. Precipitations transform into rainfalls.
E. Power outrages and traffic chaos do not happen in Europe.

17. The author of the text mainly deals with the topic that...
A. Heat waves spanned from July to September until fall.
B. The Arctic seas had no ice sheets anymore.
C. Ice age would reappear.
D. Humidities triggered heavier precipitations.
E. Extreme summers had pivotal part in the emergence of extreme winter.

18. Which of the following best restates the topic of the fourth paragraph....
A. The thicker snowfalls. D. Arctic Oscillation.
B. Extreme summer. E. Negative-phased Arctic Oscillation.
C. Extreme winter.

In another new study, researchers found high levels of mercury in the feathers of salt marsh sparrows
in the wetlands of North Cinder in New York’s Long Island. Whereas loon accumulates mercury by eating large
fish, songbirds are poisoned by eating spiders and other bugs.
“You might think what difference it makes if a little bird is suffering from mercury poisoning,”
conservationist Timothy Tear of the Nature Conservancy in New York says. But matter it does, since the effect
of mercury on birds provides information about how the heavy metal affects the brain. Researchers from the
College of William and Mary. Studied song performance in four species of birds along the South River in
Virginia, an area that was contaminated by industrial mercury from 1829 until 1950. They found that wrens
affected by mercury sang shorter songs with fewer notes. Affected sparrows produced mating calls that had a
lower tonal frequency and were less complex.

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“Mercury is far more prevalent in our environment than anybody thought. All these decades, people
were out looking for mercury and missing this key group, the little songbirds out in the yard,” Ever says. “These
birds have messages for us: Mercury is everywhere on Earth now, at levels that Mother Nature never intended.”

19. In presenting the ideas, the writer starts by describing.....

A. The eating pattern of birds affected by mercury poisoning.
B. The locations contaminated by mercury pollution.
C. The effects of mercury on animal’s behavior.
D. The chain of mercury pollution among animals.
E. The latest research findings on mercury contamination.

20. Based on the passage, it can be inferred that ....

A. Mercury affects bird’s frequency of mating.
B. Birds are examples of pollution indication organisms.
C. Birds can spot the location of fish contaminated by mercury.
D. Birds can give the most reliable information regarding mercury contamination.
E. Contaminated fish are only found in the industrialized countries.

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Kunci Jawaban dan Pembahasan

1. JAWABAN: B
Tone of the text adalah pesan atau suasana yang ingin disampaikan penulis kepada pembaca. Pilihan
jawaban B adalah yang paling tepat karena penulis ingin menyampaikan informasi tentang adanya
makanan yang dibuat dengan memanipulasi kode genetik suatu varietas agar mendapatkan hasil yang
baik.

2. JAWABAN: A
Judul merupakan kumpulan kata yang dapat berupa frasa/kalimat Pilihan jawaban A adalah pilihan yang
paling tepat karena sesuai dengan isi teks. Kata GMO banyak dimunculkan dalam teks dan merupakan
inti dari teks tersebut

3. JAWABAN: D
Main idea atau dalam Bahasa Indonesia disebut ide pokok adalah inti yang terdapat pada tiap paragraf
dalam suatu teks. Sebuah paragrat yang baik hanya memiliki satu (1) ide pokok. Ide pokok ini nantinya
akan dijelaskan atau didukung oleh penjelasan kalimat pendukung. Kalimat-kalimat pendukung dalam
suatu paragraf tidak boleh menyimpang dari ide pokok. Ide pokok pada paragraf terbagi menjadi dua
yaitu:
1. Paragraf deduktit lalah paragraf yang ide-pokoknya terletak di awal.
2. Paragraf induktif ialah paragraf yang ide pokoknya terletak di akhir.
Pilihan jawaban D adalah pilihan jawaban yang paling tepat karena ide pokoknya dapat ditemukan di
awal kalimat.

4. JAWABAN: B
Cara agar makanan dengan genetic food dapat dijual di pasar Amerika adalah harus memenuhi standar
prosedur yang sama seperti makanan tradisional yang telah ditetapkan oleh FDA (Food and Drug
Administration). Hal ini terdapat pada teks di paragraf pertama. Maka pilihan jawaban B adalah pilihan
yang paling tepat.

5. JAWABAN: A
Soat ini menanyakan tentang topik apakah yang menjadi fokus dalam bacaan yang ada. Jika kita
perhatikan isi bacaan tersebut, kita bisa menyimpulkan bahwa bacaan tersebut membicarakan tentang
perubahan dalam hal persedian dan permintaan. Selanjutnya yang menjadi fokus dari bacaan ini adalah
tentang efek atau pengaruh perubahan supply dan demand terhadap harga pasar (dapat menaikkan atau
menurunkan). Oleh karena itu, jawaban yang tepat untuk soal ini adalah pilihan A

6. JAWABAN: B
Soal ini menanyakan persamaan kata dari kata breakdown. Kata breakdown dalam kalimat yang ada
mengandung arti gangguan. Jika kita perhatikan pilihan jawaban yang ada, pilihan yang mengandung
arti gangguan adalah pilihan B, disturbance.

7. JAWABAN: B
Soal ini menanyakan mengapa pengarang menggunakan frasa “from steel to nightgowns” atau dari baja
sampai baju tidur. Apabila memerhatikan bacaan yang ada. Kita dapat menyimpulkan bahwa pengarang
menyebutkan frasa tersebut untuk menunjukkan bahwa banyak sekali jenis barang yang terpengaruh
dengan produksi yang ada.
Oleh karena itu, jawaban yang tepat untuk soal ini adalah pilihan B.

8. JAWABAN: E
In reality most people are still e-library illiterate.
Pertanyaan menanyakan tentang poin mana dari bacaan kedua yang berbeda dengan bacaan pertama.
Gagasan/poin utama dari bagian kedua adalah tentang bagaimana perpustakaan konvensional masih
disukai oleh orang-orang. Sementara bagian pertama berbicara tentang betapa bermanfaatnya

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perpustakaan elektronik saat ini. Dapat disimpulkan bahwa orang-orang masih cenderung tidak tahu
atau illiterate dengan adanya perpustakaan elektronik.

9. JAWABAN: B
People still dream of using libraries in spite of time and space.
Pertanyaan menanyakan tentang poin mana yang saling berkaitan dengan kedua bacaan. Pada kedua
bacaan tersebut membahas tentang bagaimana masyarakat masih menggunakan atau mengunjungi
perpustakaan, baik itu perpustakaan elektronik maupun perpustakaan konvensional. Jadi bisa
disimpulkan bahwa orang-orang masih tertarik atau memiliki keinginan (still dreaming off) untuk
mengunjungi perpustakaan terlepas dari perkembangan jaman.

10. JAWABAN: A
Conventional libraries will continue despite of the threats.
Soal menanyakan tentang hipotesis atau kemungkinan yang dapat diambil dari kedua teks tersebut.
Hipotesis/kemungkinan tersebut harus sesuai dan berkaitan dengan poin-poin pada kedua bacaan.
Bacaan pertama mennyampaikan poin tentang penggunaan buku elektronik sementara bacaan kedua
menyampaikan tentang keberadaan perpustakaan konvensional yang tetap ramai pengunjung di tengah-
tengah maraknya penggunaan buku digital. Maka jawaban yang paling tepat adalah A.

11. JAWABAN: A
Pertanyaan menanyakan tentang tujuan penulis dalam bacaan tersebut. Karena bacaan tersebut bertipe
informative text dan berisi sajian fakta yang berfungsi untuk memberikan informasi kepada pembaca,
maka menginformasika. Sehingga opsi A benar.

12. JAWABAN: E
Pertanyaan menanyakan tentang apa yang coba disampaikan penulis pada paragraf ketiga. Karena
sifatnya yang lebih manis dari pemanis alami, pemanis buatan sulit untuk digunakan dalam makanan
diet. Sehingga opsi E benar.
13. JAWABAN: C
Pertanyaan menanyakan tentang tone atau suasana dalam bacaan. Karena bacaan bersifat informatif dan
cenderung fakta, jadi tone yang disajikan berupa objektif. Sehingga opsi C benar.

14. JAWABAN: E
Soal ini menanyakan tujuan penulis dalam menulis teks tersebut. Jawaban soal ini dapat dicari dengan
cara membaca seluruh teks dan memahami inti gagasannya. Di paragraf pertama, penulis menjelaskan
tentang dampak negatif cuaca dingin yang ekstrem. Di paragraf kedua, penulis menjelaskan tentang
peristiwa gelombang panas di Kutub Utara beserta dampaknya. Di paragraf ketiga, penulis menjelaskan
tentang dampak mencairnya lapisan es dan meningkatnya suhu di atmosfer. Di paragraf terakhir, penulis
menjelaskan tentang dampak osilasi di Kutub Utara. Secara garis besar, teks tersebut menjelaskan
tentang hubungan antara musim dingin ekstrem dengan menipisnya lapisan es di Kutub Utara. Maka
jawaban yang tepat adalah “to show that extreme winter was triggered by huge depletion of the Arctic
icesheets” (untuk menunjukkan bahwa musim dingin ekstrem dipicu oleh pengurangan lapisan es dalam
jumlah besar di Kutub Utara).

15. JAWABAN: C
Soal ini menanyakan informasi tersirat dari teks. “Extreme winters will never occur if ...(cuaca ekstrem
tidak akan terjadi jika ...). Jawaban soal ini bisa ditemukan dengan cara mencermati pilihan jawaban
dan mencari pernyataan yang paling cocok untuk melengkapi pernyataan dalam soal berdasarkan fakta-
fakta yang dijelaskan dalam teks. Teks tersebut menjelaskan bahwa cuaca dingin ektsrim dipicu oleh
menipisnya lapisan es di Kutub Utara. Maka bisa kita simpulkan bahwa cuaca dingin ekstrem tidak
akan terjadi jika lapisan es di Kutub Utara tetap utuh. Jadi, jawaban yang tepat adalah “the Arctic ice
sheets remain intact” (lapisan es di Kutub Utara tetap utuh).

16. JAWABAN: C

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Soal ini menanyakan informasi rinci yang bisa kita simpulkan dari teks. Jawaban soal ini bisa ditemukan
dengan cara mencermati dan memahami pilihan jawaban, lalu mencari pernyataan yang sesuai dengan
informasi dalam teks.
 Winters in both Canada and the United States feel mildly cold (musim dingin di Kanada dan
Amerika Serikat terasa agak dingin) → tidak benar karena teks menyebutkan bahwa musim dingin
terasa ekstrem di Kanada dan Amerika Serikat [paragraf terakhir].
 Lethal heat waves solidify the Arctic icesheets (gelombang panas yang mematikan memperkuat
lapisan es di Kutub Utara) → tidak benar karena teks menyebutkan bahwa gelombang panas
menipiskan lapisan es di Kutub Utara [paragraf kedua]
 Heats accumulate in the Arctic atmosphere (panas mengumpul di atmosfer Kutub Utara) → benar
karena teks, terutama paragraf kedua, menyebutkan bahwa gelombang panas terjadi di Kutub Utara
yang menyebabkan mencaimya lapisan es. Selain itu, paragraf kedua juga menyebutkan bahwa
panas tertahan di Kutub Utara.
 Precipitations transform into rainfalls (presipitasi berubah menjadi hujan) → tidak benar karena
teks menyebutkan bahwa presipitasi berubah menjadi hujan salju [paragraf ketiga].
 Power outrages and traffic chaos do not happen in Europe (mati listrik dan kekacauan lalu lintas
tidak terjadi di Eropa) → tidak benar karena teks menyebutkan bahwa mati listrik dan kekacauan
lalu lintas terjadi di Eropa [paragraf pertama].
Jadi, jawaban yang benar adalah “heats accumulate in the Arctic atmosphere”

17. JAWABAN: E
Soal ini menanyakan gagasan utama yang disampaikan penulis dalam teks tersebut. Jawaban yang tepat
adalah “extreme summers had pivotal part in the emergence of extreme winter (musim panas ekstrem
berperan besar dalam munculnya musim dingin ekstrim). Jawaban ini dibuktikan dengan analisis
sebagai berikut:
 Di paragraf pertama penulis menyebutkan “What sounds anomalous to layman is that scientists
indicate that global warming plays in this natural phenomenon.” (yang terdengar anomali bagi
orang awam adalah bahwa para ilmuwan menyatakan bahwa pemanasan global berperan dalam
terjadinya fenomena alam ini). Fenomena alam yang dimaksud adalah musim dingin ekstrim. Jadi,
musim dingin ekstrem dipicu oleh panas yang ekstrim pula.
 Di paragraf keempat, penulis menyatakan “Since lethal heat waves occurred during extreme
summers, they must then be found accountable to the emergence of extreme winters.” (sejak
gelombang panas yang mematikan terjadi selama musim panas, mereka pasti menjadi penyebab
munculnya musim dingin ekstrem).
 Paragraf kedua dan keempat memberikan penjelasan tentang proses terjadinya musim dingin
ekstrem yang diakibatkan oleh musim panas ekstrem.

18. JAWABAN: E
Soal ini menanyakan topik paragraf keempat. Paragraf keempat secara garis besar membahas tentang
osilasi fase negatif di Kutub Utara. Hal ini dibuktikan dengan pernyataan di kalimat pertama, “Thicker
snowfalls subsequently affected the Arctic Oscillation, an air pressure pattern of the atmosphere in mid
and higher altitude, to remain in the negative phase” (Hujan salju tebal selanjutnya mempengaruhi
Osilasi Kutub Utara, sebuah pola tekanan udara di atmosfer pada ketinggian sedang dan tinggi, untuk
tetap berada pada fase negatif). Kalimat – kalimat selanjutnya memberikan penjelasan terhadap kalimat
pertama ini. Maka jawaban yang tepat adalah “Negative-phased Arctic Oscilation” (Osilasi Kutub Utara
dalam fase negatif).

19. JAWABAN: E
Pada soal diatas, kita diminta untuk menentukan apa yang penulis deskripsikan pertama kali untuk
menampilkan idenya. Untuk itu kita perlu melihat bagian paragraf awal. Pada awal paragraf, penulis
memaparkan, “In another new study, researchers found high levels of mercury in the feathers of salt
marsh sparrows in the wet lands of North Cinder in New York’s Long Island.” Kata yang dicetak tebal
menunjukkan bahwa para peneliti menemukan kadar merkuri yang tinggi, pernyataan itu sesuai dengan
pilihan E. Penulis juga menyebutkan new study yang memiliki arti yang sama dengan latest research.

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20. JAWABAN: B
Berdasarkan soal tersebut, kita diminta untuk menyimpulkan isi dari teks di atas.
Pilihan A, “mercury affects bird’s frequency of mating,” berarti “merkuri mempengaruhi frekuensi
kawin burung”. Pilihan tersebut tidak tepat karena tidak ada pemaparan penulis mengenai hal tersebut.
Pilihan B. “birds are examples of pollution indication organisms,” memiliki arti “burung adalah contoh
organisme yang bisa mengindikasi pencemaran”.
Pada paragraf kedua, terdapat penjelasan sebagai berikut, “Researchers from the College of William
and Mary studied song performance in four species of birds along the South River in Virginia, an area
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