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Modul 1: Soal Reading and Writing

Pertanyaan 1

Teks: Former astronaut Ellen Ochoa says that although she doesn’t have a definite idea of when it might happen, she ____ that humans will someday need to be able to live in other environments than those found on Earth. This conjecture informs her interest in future research missions to the moon.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Opsi: A) demands | B) speculates | C) doubts | D) establishes

Pertanyaan 2

Teks: Beginning in the 1950s, Navajo Nation legislator Annie Dodge Wauneka continuously worked to promote public health; this ____ effort involved traveling throughout the vast Navajo homeland and writing a medical dictionary for speakers of Diné bizaad, the Navajo language.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Opsi: A) impartial | B) offhand | C) persistent | D) mandatory

Pertanyaan 3

Teks: Following the principles of community-based participatory research, tribal nations and research institutions are equal partners in health studies conducted on reservations. A collaboration between the Crow Tribe and Montana State University ____ this model: tribal citizens worked alongside scientists to design the methodology and continue to assist in data collection.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Opsi: A) circumvents | B) eclipses | C) fabricates | D) exemplifies

Pertanyaan 4

Teks: The parasitic dodder plant increases its reproductive success by flowering at the same time as the host plant it has latched onto. In 2020, Jianqiang Wu and his colleagues determined that the tiny dodder achieves this ____ with its host by absorbing and utilizing a protein the host produces when it is about to flower.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Opsi: A) synchronization | B) hibernation | C) prediction | D) moderation

Pertanyaan 5

Teks: Given that the conditions in binary star systems should make planetary formation nearly impossible, it’s not surprising that the existence of planets in such systems has lacked ____ explanation. Roman Rafikov and Kedron Silsbee shed light on the subject when they used modeling to determine a complex set of factors that could support planets’ development.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Opsi: A) a discernible | B) a straightforward | C) an inconclusive | D) an unbiased

Pertanyaan 6

Teks: Seminole/Muscogee director Sterlin Harjo ____ television’s tendency to situate Native characters in the distant past: this rejection is evident in his series Reservation Dogs, which revolves around teenagers who dress in contemporary styles and whose dialogue is laced with current slang.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Opsi: A) repudiates | B) proclaims | C) foretells | D) recants

Pertanyaan 7

Teks: In 2007, computer scientist Luis von Ahn was working on converting printed books into a digital format. He found that some words were distorted enough that digital scanners couldn’t recognize them, but most humans could easily read them. Based on that finding, von Ahn invented a simple security test to keep automated “bots” out of websites. The first version of the reCAPTCHA test asked users to type one known word and one of the many words scanners couldn’t recognize. Correct answers proved the users were humans and added data to the book-digitizing project.
Pertanyaan: Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
Opsi: A) To discuss von Ahn’s invention of reCAPTCHA | B) To explain how digital scanners work | C) To call attention to von Ahn’s book-digitizing project | D) To indicate how popular reCAPTCHA is

Pertanyaan 8

Teks: Lily had no real intimacy with nature, but she had a passion for the appropriate and could be keenly sensitive to a scene which was the fitting background of her own sensations. The landscape outspread below her seemed an enlargement of her present mood, and she found something of herself in its calmness, its breadth, its long free reaches. On the nearer slopes the sugar-maples wavered like pyres of light; lower down was a massing of grey orchards, and here and there the lingering green of an oak-grove.
Pertanyaan: Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
Opsi: A) It creates a detailed image of the physical setting of the scene. | B) It establishes that a character is experiencing an internal conflict. | C) It makes an assertion that the next sentence then expands on. | D) It illustrates an idea that is introduced in the previous sentence.

Pertanyaan 9

Teks: A study by a team including finance professor Madhu Veeraraghavan suggests that exposure to sunshine during the workday can lead to overly optimistic behavior. Using data spanning from 1994 to 2010 for a set of US companies, the team compared over 29,000 annual earnings forecasts to the actual earnings later reported by those companies. The team found that the greater the exposure to sunshine at work in the two weeks before a manager submitted an earnings forecast, the more the manager’s forecast exceeded what the company actually earned that year.
Pertanyaan: Which choice best states the function of the underlined sentence in the overall structure of the text?
Opsi: A) To summarize the results of the team’s analysis | B) To present a specific example that illustrates the study’s findings | C) To explain part of the methodology used in the team’s study | D) To call out a challenge the team faced in conducting its analysis

Pertanyaan 10

Teks: Mother did not spend all her time in paying dull [visits] to dull ladies, and sitting dully at home waiting for dull ladies to pay [visits] to her. She was almost always there, ready to play with the children, and read to them, and help them to do their home-lessons. Besides this she used to write stories for them while they were at school, and read them aloud after tea, and she always made up funny pieces of poetry for their birthdays and for other great occasions.
Pertanyaan: According to the text, what is true about Mother?
Opsi: A) She wishes that more ladies would visit her. | B) Birthdays are her favorite special occasion. | C) She creates stories and poems for her children. | D) Reading to her children is her favorite activity.

Pertanyaan 11

Teks: Thou, with stroke of mighty pen, / Hast told of joy and mirth, / And read the hearts and souls of men / As cradled from their birth. / The language of the flowers, / Thou hast read them all, / And e’en the little brook / Responded to thy call.
Pertanyaan: Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
Opsi: A) To praise a certain writer for being especially perceptive regarding people and nature | B) To establish that a certain writer has read extensively about a variety of topics | C) To call attention to a certain writer’s careful and elaborately detailed writing process | D) To recount fond memories of an afternoon spent in nature with a certain writer

Pertanyaan 12

Teks: “To You” is an 1856 poem by Walt Whitman. In the poem, Whitman suggests that readers, whom he addresses directly, have not fully understood themselves, writing,
Pertanyaan: Which quotation from “To You” most effectively illustrates the claim?
Opsi: A) “You have not known what you are, you have slumber’d upon yourself / all your life, / Your eyelids have been the same as closed most of the time.” | B) “These immense meadows, these interminable rivers, you are immense / and interminable as they.” | C) “I should have made my way straight to you long ago, / I should have blabb’d nothing but you, I should have chanted nothing / but you.” | D) “I will leave all and come and make the hymns of you, / None has understood you, but I understand you.”

Pertanyaan 13

Teks: Born in 1891 to a Quechua-speaking family in the Andes Mountains of Peru, Martín Chambi is today considered to be one of the most renowned figures of Latin American photography. In a paper for an art history class, a student claims that Chambi’s photographs have considerable ethnographic value—in his work, Chambi was able to capture diverse elements of Peruvian society, representing his subjects with both dignity and authenticity.
Pertanyaan: Which finding, if true, would most directly support the student’s claim?
Opsi: A) Chambi took many commissioned portraits of wealthy Peruvians, but he also produced hundreds of images carefully documenting the peoples, sites, and customs of Indigenous communities of the Andes. | B) Chambi’s photographs demonstrate a high level of technical skill… | C) During his lifetime, Chambi was known and celebrated both within and outside his native Peru… | D) Some of the peoples and places Chambi photographed had long been popular subjects…

Pertanyaan 14

Teks: (Tabel Data Film: James Young Deer, Dark Cloud, Edwin Carewe, Lillian St. Cyr). Some researchers studying Indigenous actors and filmmakers… In fact, so many films and associated records for this era have been lost that counts of those four figures’ output should be taken as bare minimums rather than totals; it’s entirely possible, for example, that
Pertanyaan: Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the example?
Opsi: A) Dark Cloud acted in significantly fewer films than did Lillian St. Cyr, who is credited with 66 performances. | B) Edwin Carewe’s 47 credited acting roles includes only films made after 1934. | C) Lillian St. Cyr acted in far more than 66 films and Edwin Carewe directed more than 58. | D) James Young Deer actually directed 33 films and acted in only 10.

Pertanyaan 15

Teks: (Tabel Tumbuhan Remaja: T. moroderi, T. libanitis, dll). The researchers calculated that if individual plants were randomly distributed… only about 15% would be with other plants in patches of vegetation. They counted… Based on these results, they claim that plants of these species that grow in close proximity to other plants gain an advantage at an early developmental stage.
Pertanyaan: Which choice best describes data from the table that support the researchers’ claim?
Opsi: A) For all five species, less than 75% of juvenile plants were growing in patches… | B) The species with the greatest number of juvenile plants growing in patches… | C) For T. libanitis and T. moroderi, the percentage of juvenile plants growing in patches… | D) For each species, the percentage of juvenile plants growing in patches of vegetation was substantially higher than what would be expected if plants were randomly distributed.

Pertanyaan 16

Teks: In the mountains of Brazil, Barbacenia tomentosa and Barbacenia macrantha… establish themselves on soilless, nutrient-poor patches of quartzite rock… The researchers hypothesize that the plants depend on dissolving underlying rock with these acids, as the process not only creates channels for continued growth but also releases phosphates that provide the vital nutrient phosphorus.
Pertanyaan: Which finding, if true, would most directly support the researchers’ hypothesis?
Opsi: A) Other species in the Velloziaceae family are found in terrains with more soil… | B) Though B. tomentosa and B. macrantha both secrete citric and malic acids… | C) The roots of B. tomentosa and B. macrantha carve new entry points into rocks even when cracks in the surface are readily available. | D) B. tomentosa and B. macrantha thrive even when transferred to the surfaces of rocks that do not contain phosphates.

Pertanyaan 17

Teks: Herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs could grow more than 100 feet long… However, there is no evidence of significant spikes in carbon dioxide levels coinciding with relevant periods in sauropod evolution… suggesting that
Pertanyaan: Which choice most logically completes the text?
Opsi: A) fluctuations in atmospheric carbon dioxide affected different sauropod lineages differently. | B) the evolution of larger body sizes in sauropods did not depend on increased atmospheric carbon dioxide. | C) atmospheric carbon dioxide was higher when the largest known sauropods lived… | D) sauropods probably would not have evolved to such immense sizes if atmospheric carbon dioxide…

Pertanyaan 18

Teks: Legal scholar and philosopher Anita L. Allen argues that while judges are naturally inclined to mention philosophers whose views align with their own positions, the strongest judicial opinions consider and rebut potential objections; discussing philosophers whose views conflict with judges’ views could therefore
Pertanyaan: Which choice most logically completes the text?
Opsi: A) allow judges to craft judicial opinions without needing to consult… | B) help judges improve the arguments they put forward in their judicial opinions. | C) make judicial opinions more comprehensible to readers… | D) bring judicial opinions in line with views that are broadly held…

Pertanyaan 19

Teks: Public-awareness campaigns about the need to reduce single-use plastics can be successful, says researcher Kim Borg of Monash University in Australia, when these campaigns give consumers a choice: for example, Japan achieved a 40 percent reduction in plastic-bag use after cashiers were instructed to ask customers whether ____ wanted a bag.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Opsi: A) they | B) one | C) you | D) it

Pertanyaan 20

Teks: In ancient Greece, an Epicurean was a follower of Epicurus, a philosopher whose beliefs revolved around the pursuit of pleasure. Epicurus defined pleasure as “the absence of pain in the body and of trouble in the ____ that all life’s virtues derived from this absence.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Opsi: A) soul,” positing | B) soul”: positing | C) soul”; positing | D) soul.” Positing

Pertanyaan 21

Teks: British scientists James Watson and Francis Crick won the Nobel Prize in part for their 1953 paper announcing the double helix structure of DNA, but it is misleading to say that Watson and Crick discovered the double helix. ____ findings were based on a famous X-ray image of DNA fibers, “Photo 51,” developed by X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin and her graduate student Raymond Gosling.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Opsi: A) They’re | B) It’s | C) Their | D) Its

Pertanyaan 22

Teks: In 1937, Chinese American screen actor Anna May Wong, who had portrayed numerous villains and secondary characters but never a heroine, finally got a starring role in Paramount Pictures’ Daughter of Shanghai, a film that ____ “expanded the range of possibilities for Asian images on screen.”
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Opsi: A) critic, Stina Chyn, claims | B) critic, Stina Chyn, claims, | C) critic Stina Chyn claims | D) critic Stina Chyn, claims,

Pertanyaan 23

Teks: In 1637, the price of tulips skyrocketed in Amsterdam, with single bulbs of rare varieties selling for up to the equivalent of $200,000 in today’s US dollars. Some historians ____ that this “tulip mania” was the first historical instance of an asset bubble, which occurs when investors drive prices to highs not supported by actual demand.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Opsi: A) claiming | B) claim | C) having claimed | D) to claim

Pertanyaan 24

Teks: Researchers studying magnetosensation have determined why some soil-dwelling roundworms in the Southern Hemisphere move in the opposite direction of Earth’s magnetic field when searching for ____ in the Northern Hemisphere, the magnetic field points down, into the ground, but in the Southern Hemisphere, it points up, toward the surface and away from worms’ food sources.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Opsi: A) food: | B) food, | C) food while | D) food

Pertanyaan 25

Teks: Scientists believe that, unlike most other species of barnacle, turtle barnacles (Chelonibia testudinari) can dissolve the cement-like secretions they use to attach ____ to a sea turtle shell, enabling the barnacles to move short distances across the shell’s surface.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Opsi: A) it | B) themselves | C) them | D) itself

Pertanyaan 26

Teks: The classic children’s board game Chutes and Ladders is a version of an ancient Nepalese game, Paramapada Sopanapata. In both games, players encounter “good” or “bad” spaces while traveling along a path; landing on one of the good spaces ____ a player to skip ahead and arrive closer to the end goal.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Opsi: A) allows | B) are allowing | C) have allowed | D) allow

Pertanyaan 27

Teks: In 1943, in the midst of World War II, mathematics professor Grace Hopper was recruited by the US military to help the war effort by solving complex equations. Hopper’s subsequent career would involve more than just ____ as a pioneering computer programmer, Hopper would help usher in the digital age.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Opsi: A) equations, though: | B) equations, though, | C) equations. Though, | D) equations though

Pertanyaan 28

Teks: In 1453, English King Henry VI became unfit to rule after falling gravely ill. As a result, Parliament appointed Richard, Third Duke of York, who had a strong claim to the English throne, to rule as Lord Protector. Upon recovering two years later, ____ forcing an angered Richard from the royal court and precipitating a series of battles later known as the Wars of the Roses.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Opsi: A) Henry resumed his reign, | B) the reign of Henry resumed, | C) Henry’s reign resumed, | D) it was Henry who resumed his reign,

Pertanyaan 29

Teks: Although novels and poems are considered distinct literary forms, many authors have created hybrid works that incorporate elements of both. Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe, ____ is a verse novel, a book-length narrative complete with characters and a plot but conveyed in short, crisp lines of poetry rather than prose.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
Opsi: A) by contrast, | B) consequently, | C) secondly, | D) for example,

Pertanyaan 30

Teks: At two weeks old, the time their critical socialization period begins, wolves can smell but cannot yet see or hear. Domesticated dogs, ____ can see, hear, and smell by the end of two weeks. This relative lack of sensory input may help explain why wolves behave so differently around humans than dogs do: from a very young age, wolves are more wary and less exploratory.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
Opsi: A) in other words, | B) for instance, | C) by contrast, | D) accordingly,

Pertanyaan 31

Teks: Researchers Helena Mihaljević-Brandt, Lucía Santamaría, and Marco Tullney report that while mathematicians may have traditionally worked alone, evidence points to a shift in the opposite direction. ____ mathematicians are choosing to collaborate with their peers—a trend illustrated by a rise in the number of mathematics publications credited to multiple authors.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
Opsi: A) Similarly, | B) For this reason, | C) Furthermore, | D) Increasingly,

Pertanyaan 32

Teks: While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
- Pterosaurs were flying reptiles that existed millions of years ago.
- In a 2021 study, Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan analyzed fragments of pterosaur jawbones located in the Sahara Desert.
- She was initially unsure if the bones belonged to juvenile or adult pterosaurs.
- She used advanced microscope techniques to determine that the bones had few growth lines relative to the bones of fully grown pterosaurs.
- She concluded that the bones belonged to juveniles.
Pertanyaan: The student wants to present the study and its findings. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
Opsi: A) In 2021, Chinsamy-Turan studied pterosaur… | B) Pterosaur jawbones located in the Sahara Desert were the focus… | C) In a 2021 study, Chinsamy-Turan used advanced microscope… | D) In a 2021 study, Chinsamy-Turan determined that pterosaur jawbones located in the Sahara Desert had few growth lines relative to the bones of fully grown pterosaurs and thus belonged to juveniles.

Pertanyaan 33

Teks: While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
- African American women played prominent roles in the Civil Rights Movement, including at the famous 1963 March on Washington.
- Civil rights activist Anna Hedgeman…
- Civil rights activist Daisy Bates…
- Hedgeman worked behind the scenes to make sure a woman was included in the lineup of speakers at the march.
- Bates was the sole woman to speak, delivering a brief but memorable address to the cheering crowd.
Pertanyaan: The student wants to compare the two women’s contributions to the March on Washington. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
Opsi: A) Hedgeman and Bates contributed to the march in different ways… | B) Hedgeman worked in politics and helped organize the march… | C) Although Hedgeman worked behind the scenes to make sure a woman speaker was included, Bates was the sole woman to speak at the march. | D) Many African American women, including Bates and Hedgeman…

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Modul 2: Soal Reading and Writing

Pertanyaan 1

Teks: For painter Jacob Lawrence, being ____ was an important part of the artistic process. Because he paid close attention to all the details of his Harlem neighborhood, Lawrence’s artwork captured nuances in the beauty and vitality of the Black experience during the Harlem Renaissance and the Great Migration.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Opsi: A) skeptical | B) observant | C) critical | D) confident

Pertanyaan 2

Teks: Mônica Lopes-Ferreira and others at Brazil’s Butantan Institute are studying the freshwater stingray species Potamotrygon rex to determine whether biological characteristics such as the rays’ age and sex have ____ effect on the toxicity of their venom—that is, to see if differences in these traits are associated with considerable variations in venom potency.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Opsi: A) a disconcerting | B) an acceptable | C) an imperceptible | D) a substantial

Pertanyaan 3

Teks: Researchers have struggled to pinpoint specific causes for hiccups, which happen when a person’s diaphragm contracts ____. However, neuroscientist Kimberley Whitehead has found that these uncontrollable contractions may play an important role in helping infants regulate their breathing.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Opsi: A) involuntarily | B) beneficially | C) strenuously | D) smoothly

Pertanyaan 4

Teks: Critics have asserted that fine art and fashion rarely ____ in a world where artists create timeless works for exhibition and designers periodically produce new styles for the public to buy. Luiseño/Shoshone-Bannock beadwork artist and designer Jamie Okuma challenges this view: her work can be seen in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and purchased through her online boutique.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Opsi: A) prevail | B) succumb | C) diverge | D) intersect

Pertanyaan 5

Teks: Scholarly discussions of gender in Shakespeare’s comedies often celebrate the rebellion of the playwright’s characters against the rigid expectations ____ by Elizabethan society. Most of the comedies end in marriage, with characters returning to their socially dictated gender roles after previously defying them, but there are some notable exceptions.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Opsi: A) interjected | B) committed | C) illustrated | D) prescribed

Pertanyaan 6

Teks: In studying the use of external stimuli to reduce the itching sensation caused by an allergic histamine response, Louise Ward and colleagues found that while harmless applications of vibration or warming can provide a temporary distraction, such ____ stimuli actually offer less relief than a stimulus that seems less benign, like a mild electric shock.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Opsi: A) deceptive | B) innocuous | C) novel | D) impractical

Pertanyaan 7

Teks: The province of Xoconochco was situated on the Pacific coast, hundreds of kilometers southeast of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire. Because Xoconochco’s location within the empire was so ____, cacao and other trade goods produced there could reach the capital only after a long overland journey.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Opsi: A) unobtrusive | B) concealed | C) approximate | D) peripheral

Pertanyaan 8

Teks: I went on with my day’s business tranquilly; but ever and anon vague suggestions kept wandering across my brain of reasons why I should quit Thornfield; and I kept involuntarily framing advertisements and pondering conjectures about new situations: these thoughts I did not think to check; they might germinate and bear fruit if they could.
Pertanyaan: Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?
Opsi: A) To convey a contrast between Jane’s outward calmness and internal restlessness | B) To emphasize Jane’s loyalty… | C) To demonstrate that Jane finds her situation both challenging… | D) To describe Jane’s determination…

Pertanyaan 9

Teks: (Teks 1): Most animals can regenerate some parts of their bodies… An especially promising discovery is that both humans and panther worms have a gene for early growth response (EGR) linked to regeneration. (Teks 2): When Mansi Srivastava and her team reported that panther worms, like humans, possess a gene for EGR, it caused excitement. However, as the team pointed out, the gene likely functions very differently in humans…
Pertanyaan: Based on the texts, what would the author of Text 2 most likely say about Text 1’s characterization of the discovery involving EGR?
Opsi: A) It is reasonable given that Srivastava… | B) It is overly optimistic given additional observations from Srivastava and her team. | C) It is unexpected… | D) It is unfairly dismissive…

Pertanyaan 10

Teks: Weary with toil, I [hurry] to my bed, / The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; / But then begins a journey in my head / To work my mind, when body’s work’s expired: / For then my thoughts—from far where I abide— / [Begin] a zealous pilgrimage to thee, / And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Pertanyaan: What is the main idea of the text?
Opsi: A) The speaker is asleep and dreaming… | B) The speaker is planning an upcoming trip… | C) The speaker is too fatigued… | D) The speaker is thinking about the friend instead of immediately falling asleep.

Pertanyaan 11

Teks: … Everybody roared, but whether it was for the Sub-Warden, or not, did not clearly appear: some were shouting “Bread!” and some “Taxes!”, but no one seemed to know what it was they really wanted. … “What can it all mean?” he kept repeating to himself. “I never heard such shouting before—and at this time of the morning, too! And with such unanimity!”
Pertanyaan: Based on the text, how does the Lord Chancellor respond to the crowd?
Opsi: A) He asks about the meaning… | B) He indicates a desire… | C) He expresses sympathy… | D) He describes the crowd as being united, even though the crowd clearly appears otherwise.

Pertanyaan 12

Teks: O Pioneers! is a 1913 novel by Willa Cather. In the novel, Cather portrays Alexandra Bergson as having a deep emotional connection to her natural surroundings:
Pertanyaan: Which quotation from O Pioneers! most effectively illustrates the claim?
Opsi: A) “She had never known before how much the country meant to her. The chirping of the insects down in the long grass had been like the sweetest music…” | B) “Alexandra talked to the men about their crops…” | C) “Alexandra drove off alone…” | D) “It was Alexandra who read the papers and followed the markets…”

Pertanyaan 13

Teks: (Tabel Laju Kecepatan Berbicara pada 5 Bahasa). They found that, although languages vary widely in the speed at which they are spoken, the amount of information languages can effectively convey tends to vary much less. Thus, they claim that two languages with very different spoken rates can nonetheless convey the same amount of information in a given amount of time.
Pertanyaan: Which choice best describes data from the table that support the researchers’ claim?
Opsi: A) Among the five languages in the table… | B) Vietnamese conveys information at approximately the same rate as Spanish despite being spoken at a slower rate. | C) Among the five languages in the table, the language that is spoken the fastest… | D) Serbian and Spanish are spoken at approximately the same rate…

Pertanyaan 14

Teks: … Keltner, along with Paul K. Piff, Pia Dietze, and colleagues, claims to have found evidence for this effect in a recent study where participants were asked to either gaze up at exceptionally tall trees in a nearby grove (reported to be a universally awe-inspiring experience) or stare at the exterior of a nearby, nondescript building. After one minute, an experimenter deliberately spilled a box of pens nearby.
Pertanyaan: Which finding from the researchers’ study, if true, would most strongly support their claim?
Opsi: A) Participants who had been looking at the trees helped the experimenter pick up significantly more pens than did participants who had been looking at the building. | B) Participants who helped the experimenter pick up the pens used a greater number of positive words… | C) Participants who did not help the experimenter pick up the pens were significantly more likely to report… | D) Participants who had been looking at the building were significantly more likely to notice…

Pertanyaan 15

Teks: (Tabel Sektor Lapangan Kerja Prancis dan AS 1800-2012). Over the past two hundred years, the percentage of the population employed in the agricultural sector has declined in both France and the United States, while employment in the service sector… has risen. However, this transition happened at very different rates in the two countries. This can be seen most clearly by comparing the employment by sector in both countries in
Pertanyaan: Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the statement?
Opsi: A) 1900 with the employment by sector in 1950. | B) 1800 with the employment by sector in 2012. | C) 1900 with the employment by sector in 2012. | D) 1800 with the employment by sector in 1900.

Pertanyaan 16

Teks: … Some archaeologists have expressed concern that they might be replaced by such computer models, but the researchers claim that outcome is highly unlikely.
Pertanyaan: Which finding, if true, would most directly support the researchers’ claim?
Opsi: A) In the researchers’ study, the model was able to categorize the pottery fragments much more quickly… | B) In the researchers’ study, neither the model nor the archaeologists were able… | C) A survey of archaeologists showed that categorizing pottery fragments limits the amount of time they can dedicate to other important tasks that only human experts can do. | D) A survey of archaeologists showed that few of them received dedicated training…

Pertanyaan 17

Teks: … One possible explanation for this disproportionate representation is that military service familiarizes people with certain organizational structures that are also reflected in the civilian government bureaucracy, and this familiarity thus
Pertanyaan: Which choice most logically completes the text?
Opsi: A) makes civilian government jobs especially appealing to military veterans. | B) alters the typical relationship between military service… | C) encourages nonveterans applying for civilian government jobs… | D) increases the number of civilian government jobs that require some amount…

Pertanyaan 18

Teks: … However, ornithologist Allison J. Shultz and others have found that males in several species of the tanager genus Ramphocelus use microstructures in their feathers to manipulate light, creating the appearance of deeper saturation without the birds necessarily having to maintain a carotenoid-rich diet. These findings suggest that
Pertanyaan: Which choice most logically completes the text?
Opsi: A) individual male tanagers can engage in honest signaling… | B) feather microstructures may be less effective… | C) scientists have yet to determine why tanagers have a preference… | D) a male tanager’s appearance may function as a dishonest signal of the individual’s overall fitness.

Pertanyaan 19

Teks: When writing The Other Black Girl (2021), novelist Zakiya Dalila Harris drew on her own experiences working at a publishing office. The award-winning book is Harris’s first novel, but her writing ____ honored before. At the age of twelve, she entered a contest to have a story published in American Girl magazine—and won.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Opsi: A) were | B) have been | C) has been | D) are

Pertanyaan 20

Teks: The Alvarez theory, developed in 1980 by physicist Luis Walter Alvarez and his geologist son Walter Alvarez, maintained that the secondary effects of an asteroid impact caused many dinosaurs and other animals to die ____ it left unexplored the question of whether unrelated volcanic activity might have also contributed to the mass extinctions.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Opsi: A) out but | B) out, but | C) out | D) out,

Pertanyaan 21

Teks: In winter, the diets of Japanese macaques, also known as snow monkeys, are influenced more by food availability than by food preference. Although the monkeys prefer to eat vegetation and land-dwelling invertebrates, those food sources may become unavailable because of extensive snow and ice cover, ____ the monkeys to hunt for marine animals in any streams that have not frozen over.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Opsi: A) forces | B) to force | C) forcing | D) forced

Pertanyaan 22

Teks: Lucía Michel of the University of Chile observed that alkaline soils contain an insoluble form of iron that blueberry plants cannot absorb, thus inhibiting blueberry growth. If these plants were grown in alkaline soil alongside grasses that aid in iron solubilization, ____ Michel was determined to find out.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Opsi: A) could the blueberries thrive. | B) the blueberries could thrive. | C) the blueberries could thrive? | D) could the blueberries thrive?

Pertanyaan 23

Teks: In his 1963 exhibition Exposition of Music—Electronic Television, Korean American artist Nam June Paik showed how television images could be manipulated to express an artist’s perspective. Today, Paik ____ considered the first video artist.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Opsi: A) will be | B) had been | C) was | D) is

Pertanyaan 24

Teks: The first computerized spreadsheet, Dan Bricklin’s VisiCalc, improved financial recordkeeping not only by providing users with an easy means of adjusting data in spreadsheets but also by automatically updating all calculations that were dependent on these ____ to VisiCalc’s release, changing a paper spreadsheet often required redoing the entire sheet by hand, a process that could take days.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Opsi: A) adjustments prior | B) adjustments, prior | C) adjustments. Prior | D) adjustments and prior

Pertanyaan 25

Teks: In order to prevent nonnative fish species from moving freely between the Mediterranean and Red Seas, marine biologist Bella Galil has proposed that a saline lock system be installed along the Suez Canal in Egypt’s Great Bitter Lakes. The lock would increase the salinity of the lakes and ____ a natural barrier of water most marine creatures would be unable to cross.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Opsi: A) creates | B) create | C) creating | D) created

Pertanyaan 26

Teks: Despite being cheap, versatile, and easy to produce, ____ they are made from nonrenewable petroleum, and most do not biodegrade in landfills.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Opsi: A) there are two problems associated with commercial plastics: | B) two problems are associated with commercial plastics: | C) commercial plastics’ two associated problems are that | D) commercial plastics have two associated problems:

Pertanyaan 27

Teks: Stomata, tiny pore structures in a leaf that absorb gases needed for plant growth, open when guard cells surrounding each pore swell with water. In a pivotal 2007 article, plant cell ____ showed that lipid molecules called phosphatidylinositol phosphates are responsible for signaling guard cells to open stomata.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Opsi: A) biologist, Yuree Lee | B) biologist Yuree Lee, | C) biologist Yuree Lee | D) biologist, Yuree Lee,

Pertanyaan 28

Teks: Small, flat structures called spatulae are found at the tips of the hairs on a spider’s leg. These spatulae temporarily bond with the atoms of whatever they touch. ____ spiders are able to cling to and climb almost any surface.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
Opsi: A) For instance, | B) However, | C) Similarly, | D) As a result,

Pertanyaan 29

Teks: In November 1934, Amrita Sher-Gil was living in what must have seemed like the ideal city for a young artist: Paris. She was studying firsthand the color-saturated style of France’s modernist masters and beginning to make a name for herself as a painter. ____ Sher-Gil longed to return to her childhood home of India; only there, she believed, could her art truly flourish.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
Opsi: A) Still, | B) Therefore, | C) Indeed, | D) Furthermore,

Pertanyaan 30

Teks: Before California’s 1911 election to approve a proposition granting women the right to vote, activists across the state sold tea to promote the cause of suffrage. In San Francisco, the Woman’s Suffrage Party sold Equality Tea at local fairs. ____ in Los Angeles, activist Nancy Tuttle Craig, who ran one of California’s largest grocery store firms, distributed Votes for Women Tea.
Pertanyaan: Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
Opsi: A) For example, | B) To conclude, | C) Similarly, | D) In other words,

Pertanyaan 31

Teks: While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
- The Seikan Tunnel is a rail tunnel in Japan.
- It connects the island of Honshu to the island of Hokkaido.
- It is roughly 33 miles long.
- The Channel Tunnel is a rail tunnel in Europe.
- It connects Folkestone, England, to Coquelles, France.
- It is about 31 miles long.
Pertanyaan: The student wants to compare the lengths of the two rail tunnels. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
Opsi: A) Some of the world’s rail tunnels… | B) The Seikan Tunnel is roughly 33 miles long, while the slightly shorter Channel Tunnel is about 31 miles long. | C) The Seikan Tunnel, which is roughly 33 miles long… | D) Both the Seikan Tunnel… are examples of rail tunnels.

Pertanyaan 32

Teks: While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
- Jon Ching is a Los Angeles-based painter.
- He uses the term “flauna” to describe the plant-animal hybrids that he depicts in his surreal paintings.
- “Flauna” is a combination of the words “flora” and “fauna.”
- His painting Nectar depicts a parrot with leaves for feathers.
- His painting Primaveral depicts a snow leopard whose fur sprouts flowers.
Pertanyaan: The student wants to provide an explanation and example of “flauna.” Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
Opsi: A) The term “flauna,” used by Los Angeles-based painter Jon Ching… | B) Jon Ching uses the term “flauna,” a combination of the words “flora” and “fauna,” to describe the subjects of his surreal paintings: plant-animal hybrids such as a parrot with leaves for feathers. | C) Jon Ching, who created Nectar, refers to the subjects of his paintings as “flauna.” | D) The subjects of Nectar and Primaveral are types of “flauna,” a term…

Pertanyaan 33

Teks: While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:
- In the midst of the US Civil War, Susie Taylor escaped slavery and fled to Union-army-occupied St. Simons Island off the Georgia coast.
- She began working for an all-Black army regiment as a nurse and teacher.
- In 1902, she published a book about the time she spent with the regiment.
- Her book was the only Civil War memoir to be published by a Black woman.
- It is still available to readers in print and online.
Pertanyaan: The student wants to emphasize the uniqueness of Taylor’s accomplishment. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?
Opsi: A) Taylor fled to St. Simons Island… | B) After escaping slavery… | C) The book Taylor wrote about the time she spent… | D) Taylor was the only Black woman to publish a Civil War memoir.

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Kunci Jawaban dan Pembahasan (Modul 1 & Modul 2)

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Berikut adalah panduan jawaban beserta pembahasannya:

Jawaban Modul 1

1. Jawaban: B. Pembahasan: Kata “speculates” (berspekulasi) paling tepat karena teks menyebut prediksinya sebagai “conjecture” (dugaan tanpa bukti pasti).

2. Jawaban: C. Pembahasan: Kata “persistent” (gigih/terus-menerus) paling pas karena teks menyatakan ia “continuously worked” (terus-menerus bekerja).

3. Jawaban: D. Pembahasan: “Exemplifies” bermakna mencontohkan atau mendemonstrasikan, yang sesuai dengan kolaborasi tersebut sebagai bukti dari model penelitian partisipatoris.

4. Jawaban: A. Pembahasan: “Synchronization” (sinkronisasi) merujuk pada aktivitas berbunga yang terjadi secara bersamaan antara tanaman dodder dan inangnya.

5. Jawaban: B. Pembahasan: Karena kondisinya hampir mustahil, masuk akal jika fenomena ini tidak memiliki penjelasan yang “straightforward” (langsung dan sederhana).

6. Jawaban: A. Pembahasan: Kata “repudiates” berarti menolak, sejalan dengan frasa “this rejection” (penolakan ini) yang disebutkan di kalimat berikutnya.

7. Jawaban: A. Pembahasan: Teks ini secara khusus berfokus pada bagaimana penemuan sistem keamanan reCAPTCHA tercipta dari proyek digitalisasi buku.

8. Jawaban: D. Pembahasan: Kalimat bergaris bawah berfungsi mengilustrasikan gagasan di kalimat sebelumnya, yakni menunjukkan bagaimana Lily melihat pemandangan tersebut sebagai cerminan suasana hatinya.

9. Jawaban: C. Pembahasan: Kalimat tersebut menjelaskan jenis data yang digunakan dan bagaimana data itu dianalisis, sehingga fungsinya adalah memaparkan metodologi penelitian.

10. Jawaban: C. Pembahasan: Teks secara jelas menyatakan bahwa sang Ibu menulis cerita saat anak-anaknya di sekolah dan mengarang puisi untuk ulang tahun mereka.

11. Jawaban: A. Pembahasan: Puisi ini memuji penulis (Paul Laurence Dunbar) atas pemahamannya yang mendalam tentang perasaan manusia (“hearts and souls of men”) dan alam (“language of the flowers”).

12. Jawaban: A. Pembahasan: Kutipan pada opsi A secara langsung menyatakan bahwa pembaca belum memahami diri mereka sendiri dengan metafora “slumber’d” (tertidur) dan mata yang tertutup.

13. Jawaban: A. Pembahasan: Jika Chambi mendokumentasikan beragam elemen dari kelas sosial kaya hingga suku asli di Andes, ini mendukung klaim bahwa karyanya menangkap keragaman masyarakat Peru (nilai etnografi).

14. Jawaban: C. Pembahasan: Pilihan C mendemonstrasikan gagasan “angka tersebut adalah batas minimum” dengan menyatakan sangat mungkin Lillian bermain lebih dari 66 film dan Edwin menyutradarai lebih dari 58 film.

15. Jawaban: D. Pembahasan: Semua kelima spesies di tabel menunjukkan persentase pertumbuhan lebih dari 50% di vegetasi berkelompok, jauh lebih tinggi dari ekspektasi acak (15%), membuktikan adanya keuntungan saat tumbuh berdekatan.

16. Jawaban: C. Pembahasan: Jika tanaman tetap melarutkan batu meski celah sudah ada, hal ini mendukung hipotesis bahwa mereka melakukannya demi mendapatkan nutrisi fosfat dari batu tersebut.

17. Jawaban: B. Pembahasan: Karena tidak ada bukti lonjakan karbon dioksida di masa evolusi tersebut, dapat disimpulkan bahwa evolusi ukuran raksasa sauropoda tidak bergantung pada peningkatan gas tersebut.

18. Jawaban: B. Pembahasan: Jika opini hukum terbaik adalah yang menyanggah keberatan lawan, maka mengutip filsuf yang pandangannya bertentangan dapat memperkuat argumen (improve the arguments) dari opini hakim tersebut.

19. Jawaban: A. Pembahasan: Pronoun “they” (jamak) adalah kata ganti yang tepat dan sejalan untuk menggantikan kata benda jamak “customers” (pelanggan).

20. Jawaban: A. Pembahasan: Penggunaan koma yang tepat diperlukan untuk memisahkan klausa utama dengan frasa partisipial penjelas (“positing… absence”) tanpa memutus alur kalimat.

21. Jawaban: C. Pembahasan: Kata ganti kepemilikan jamak “Their” (milik mereka) diperlukan untuk merujuk pada temuan dari Watson dan Crick.

22. Jawaban: C. Pembahasan: Tidak ada tanda baca koma yang diperlukan sebelum, sesudah, atau di antara kata benda khusus (“Stina Chyn”) dan jabatannya (“critic”).

23. Jawaban: B. Pembahasan: Klausa utama memerlukan kata kerja berhingga (finite verb). “Claim” adalah kata kerja bentuk sekarang yang tepat melengkapi subjek “Some historians”.

24. Jawaban: A. Pembahasan: Tanda titik dua (:) digunakan dengan tepat untuk mengakhiri klausa awal dan memperkenalkan penjelasan panjang di belakangnya terkait perbedaan medan magnet.

25. Jawaban: B. Pembahasan: Kata ganti refleksif jamak “themselves” wajib digunakan untuk merujuk kembali pada subjek jamak “turtle barnacles”.

26. Jawaban: A. Pembahasan: Kata kerja tunggal “allows” (mengizinkan) selaras dengan subjek partisipial tunggalnya, yaitu “landing” (pendaratan).

27. Jawaban: A. Pembahasan: Penggunaan tanda titik dua (:) memisahkan klausa independen di awal secara sempurna untuk mengenalkan penjelasan peran Hopper selanjutnya di era digital.

28. Jawaban: A. Pembahasan: Klausa pendahuluan “Upon recovering…” harus langsung diikuti oleh subjek yang melakukan pemulihan tersebut, yaitu sang raja (Henry), sehingga opsi A adalah satu-satunya tata bahasa yang logis.

29. Jawaban: D. Pembahasan: Transisi “for example” paling tepat untuk menunjukkan bahwa novel Evaristo tersebut adalah sebuah contoh dari karya tulis hibrida yang disebutkan di kalimat pertama.

30. Jawaban: C. Pembahasan: Transisi “by contrast” (sebaliknya) diperlukan untuk membedakan secara kontras kemampuan sensorik anak serigala dengan anak anjing jinak di usia dua minggu.

31. Jawaban: D. Pembahasan: Transisi “Increasingly” (semakin banyak) menandakan sebuah pergeseran tren atau pertumbuhan dari waktu ke waktu terhadap budaya kerja kolaboratif pada ahli matematika.

32. Jawaban: D. Pembahasan: Pilihan D paling efektif menggabungkan informasi terkait “studi” (tahun 2021 oleh Chinsamy-Turan) dan temuan utamanya (tulang rahang memiliki sedikit garis pertumbuhan sehingga dikategorikan sebagai juvenile).

33. Jawaban: C. Pembahasan: Opsi C adalah satu-satunya kalimat yang secara langsung membandingkan (komparasi) kontribusi spesifik antara Hedgeman di balik layar dan Bates sebagai pembicara.

Jawaban Modul 2

1. Jawaban: B. Pembahasan: Kata “observant” (pengamat yang teliti) sangat sesuai dengan perilakunya yang memberikan perhatian lekat (“close attention”) pada detail lingkungannya.

2. Jawaban: D. Pembahasan: Kata “substantial” yang bermakna besar/berarti sangat pas disandingkan dengan kata “considerable variations” di bagian penutup kalimat.

3. Jawaban: A. Pembahasan: Kontraksi diafragma tersebut digambarkan sebagai “uncontrollable” (tidak dapat dikendalikan) di kalimat kedua, sehingga “involuntarily” (secara refleks/tanpa kendali) adalah kata yang paling tepat.

4. Jawaban: D. Pembahasan: “Intersect” berarti bersilangan atau beririsan. Teks menunjukkan bahwa kritikus merasa seni rupa dan fesyen jarang bersatu, sementara karya Okuma menyatukan keduanya.

5. Jawaban: D. Pembahasan: Kata “prescribed” berarti ditetapkan sebagai aturan baku, yang sangat pas disandingkan dengan kata “expectations” (ekspektasi) di masyarakat era Elizabethan.

6. Jawaban: B. Pembahasan: “Innocuous” berarti tidak berbahaya (mild/unharmful), sejalan dengan penyebutan “harmless applications” (aplikasi yang tidak berbahaya) di awal kalimat.

7. Jawaban: D. Pembahasan: Mengingat lokasinya yang berjarak ratusan kilometer dari ibukota, kata “peripheral” (terletak di tepi atau luar batas pusat) sangatlah tepat.

8. Jawaban: A. Pembahasan: Teks ini menunjukkan kontras antara fisik Jane yang tampak tenang bekerja (“tranquilly”) dengan pikirannya yang terus bergejolak dan resah ingin mencari pekerjaan baru.

9. Jawaban: B. Pembahasan: Penulis teks 2 menganggap bahwa kesimpulan dan antusiasme pada teks 1 adalah optimisme yang terlalu dini dan berlebihan (“overly optimistic”) karena gen EGR berfungsi sangat berbeda pada manusia.

10. Jawaban: D. Pembahasan: Puisi tersebut menceritakan sang pembicara yang sudah lelah dan rebahan, namun pikirannya justru tetap terjaga karena memikirkan temannya (“a zealous pilgrimage to thee”).

11. Jawaban: D. Pembahasan: Sang Lord Chancellor menyebut kerumunan itu berteriak secara mufakat dan serempak (“unanimity”), padahal narator menyebut kerumunan tersebut kebingungan dan meneriakkan hal yang berbeda-beda.

12. Jawaban: A. Pembahasan: Kutipan pada opsi A secara eksplisit menggambarkan koneksi emosionalnya, di mana Alexandra menganggap suara alam laksana musik termanis bagi perasaannya.

13. Jawaban: B. Pembahasan: Data tabel mengonfirmasi bahwa bahasa Vietnam mengirimkan jumlah laju informasi (42.5 bits) yang hampir setara dengan bahasa Spanyol (42.0 bits) meskipun laju berbicaranya jauh lebih lambat.

14. Jawaban: A. Pembahasan: Jika partisipan yang menatap pohon bertindak lebih banyak untuk menolong memungut pulpen, temuan tersebut valid mendukung bahwa rasa takjub (awe) menstimulasi sikap altruistik (rela menolong).

15. Jawaban: A. Pembahasan: Membandingkan data pada 1900 hingga 1950 akan menunjukkan laju yang sangat berbeda. AS mengalami perpindahan sektor secara drastis dalam periode tersebut dibanding Prancis.

16. Jawaban: C. Pembahasan: Jika AI mengurus penyortiran tembikar, para arkeolog dapat memanfaatkan waktunya untuk tugas-tugas krusial lain yang hanya bisa dikerjakan manusia, sehingga keberadaan mereka tidak akan tergantikan.

17. Jawaban: A. Pembahasan: Keterbiasaan dengan struktur tersebut yang menjadi alasan logis mengapa para veteran militer merasa sangat tertarik pada posisi-posisi di pemerintahan sipil.

18. Jawaban: D. Pembahasan: Burung tanager berbulu tebal tersebut nyatanya tidak mengkonsumsi nutrisi tinggi (sinyal yang tidak jujur / dishonest signal terkait kesehatan aslinya) melainkan hanya ilusi manipulasi cahaya.

19. Jawaban: C. Pembahasan: Kata benda “writing” (karya tulisan) bersifat tunggal sehingga kata kerja yang sesuai adalah “has been”.

20. Jawaban: B. Pembahasan: Koma ditempatkan di depan konjungsi “but” untuk memisahkan dan merangkai dua klausa utama.

21. Jawaban: C. Pembahasan: Bentuk participle sekarang, yakni “forcing” (memaksa), adalah frasa non-finite verb yang pas untuk melengkapi klausa di kalimat utamanya.

22. Jawaban: D. Pembahasan: Konteks ini memerlukan klausa kalimat tanya (interogatif) di akhir kalimat untuk menekankan misi Michel untuk menemukan jawabannya.

23. Jawaban: D. Pembahasan: Kata keterangan penunjuk waktu “Today” menandakan present tense (masa kini), maka verb yang tepat adalah “is”.

24. Jawaban: C. Pembahasan: Pemisahan menggunakan titik (.) dan awal huruf kapital diperlukan untuk memisahkan dua ide menjadi dua kalimat berbeda dengan jelas.

25. Jawaban: B. Pembahasan: Modal “would” harus berdampingan dengan bentuk kata kerja dasar (base form). “Increase” sudah digunakan di awal, dan kemudian disandingkan (“and”) dengan kata kerja “create”.

26. Jawaban: D. Pembahasan: Frasa pendahuluan harus dikaitkan langsung dengan subjek modifikasinya, yaitu plastik komersial, sehingga opsi D adalah yang paling tepat.

27. Jawaban: C. Pembahasan: Nama “Yuree Lee” merupakan informasi identifikasi yang krusial, sehingga tidak memerlukan tanda baca koma pemisah.

28. Jawaban: D. Pembahasan: Frasa penghubung “As a result,” (Sebagai akibatnya,) paling pas untuk menjelaskan klausa sebab-akibat struktur spatulae tersebut.

29. Jawaban: A. Pembahasan: Fakta bahwa ia rindu pulang ke India di saat masa jayanya di Paris sangatlah kontras, sehingga transisi kontradiktif “Still” (Namun demikian) amatlah tepat.

30. Jawaban: C. Pembahasan: Menjual “Equality Tea” di wilayah San Francisco beriringan selaras dengan pendistribusian “Votes for Women Tea” di wilayah LA (transisi “Similarly”).

31. Jawaban: B. Pembahasan: Opsi B menggunakan format kalimat komparatif untuk membandingkan langsung ukuran kedua terowongan.

32. Jawaban: B. Pembahasan: Opsi B merangkum sempurna arti dari kombinasi kata flora dan fauna dan diakhiri dengan contoh parrot with leaves for feathers.

33. Jawaban: D. Pembahasan: Fakta bahwa ia adalah satu-satunya (“the only”) wanita kulit hitam yang memublikasikan sebuah memoar amatlah menekankan tingkat keunikan (uniqueness) hal ini.

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