adjar.id – Adjarian, kali ini, kita akan membahas soal UTBK SBMPTN bahasa Inggris untuk tipe asumsi penulis dan mencari makna tersirat pada paragraf.
Mata pelajaran bahasa Inggris menjadi salah satu yang diujikan dalam UTBK SBMPTN tahun 2022 ini.
Dengan demikian, kita harus meningkatkan porsi belajar yang setara dengan Tes Potensi Skolastik (TPS) dan Tes Kemampuan Akademik (TKA).
Nah, teks yang disajikan pada UTBK SBMPTN bahasa Inggris pun umumnya terdiri dari banyak paragraf yang kompleks.
Meski kalimat dan paragrafnya kompleks, kita dapat menyiasatinya dengan beberapa tips, lo!
Misalnya, menemukan subjek dan predikat kalimat. Dengan begitu, sepanjang dan sekompleks apapun kalimat, pasti akan tetap mudah untuk menemukan intinya, ya.
O iya, kita juga dapat mulai mencari dan mempelajari kosakata asing dan sulit yang biasa muncul pada soal-soal ilmiah UTBK SBMPTN bahasa Inggris.
Banyak sekali tipe soal yang akan keluar pada UTBK SBMPTN bahasa Inggris, dua di antaranya yang akan kita bahas kali ini, yaitu tipe asumsi dan mencari makna tersirat pada paragraf.
Seperti apa model soalnya? Yuk, kita coba bahas bersama!
Baca Juga: Pembahasan Soal Mencari Tujuan Penulis dan Analogi UTBK Bahasa Inggris
Read the text comprehensively and answer the questions!
(Bacalah soal secara komprehensif dan jawablah pertanyaannya!)
(1) There have been amazing world-breaking scientific advances. However, the dark cloud on the horizon is the emerging Ebola epidemic in West Africa and the warning undercurrent that comes with it.
At the time of writing at least 7,000 people have been infected and half of those have died. It is estimated that numbers can be doubled or even tripled. Also, because the rates of infection appear to be growing exponentially, tens of thousands, or even millions, might ultimately be affected.
(2) To put the scale of the present situation into perspective, since the first recorded case of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo 38 years ago, there have been fewer than 2.500 deaths documented in total.
Thus, this single present outbreak is already three times larger than the entire Ebola death toll ever. It is also no longer just an African problem.
The West has had its own wake-up call this week as the US and Spain, countries previously regarded as immune to the threat thanks to modern medicine, have reported cases of the condition and, despite strict infection-control guidelines and practices, onward transmissions of Ebola on their home soil.
(3) What is remarkable though is that, while Ebola is terrifying and dramatic in its impact when it causes an outbreak, it appears to be a relatively easy agent to fight. Experimental vaccines tested so far on animals have been impressively effective.
The vaccines protect against even injection of the living Ebola virus. However, because they are at a test stage, these agents, which will be critical if we are to nip this outbreak in the bud, are nowhere near ready for mass production.
Baca Juga: Pembahasan Soal UTBK Bahasa Inggris Mencari Analogi Paling Tepat
Trials are only now getting underway of human versions of the vaccines in the UK, and the US. "Way too late," many are saying, to prevent the inevitable.
(4) Hence, why is it that, nearly 40 years after Ebola first surfaced, the world finds itself in a state of panic. Now, up to ten thousand people are dead, owing to a bug that is probably preventable thanks to scientific research done decades ago.
The answer is that Ebola was regarded as someone else's problem. It was a tropical disease of low importance and (presumed to be) constrained by geography and climate to a part of the world that held little economic interest to the rest of us.
Still, therein lies a salutary lesson because, if even a tiny fraction had been spent 20 years ago to develop an Ebola vaccine, we probably would not be in this position now.
The present outbreak is now costing the world in terms of lost productivity, humanitarian aid, and human lives lost. It is easy to dismiss tropical diseases as an issue that will not affect the West.
However, the present situation is a warning shot across our bows that we ignore at our peril.
Pertanyaan
1. The assumption the author has about the West is…
A. They act quickly to prevent a disease only when it is important to them
Baca Juga: Pembahasan Soal UTBK Bahasa Inggris Grammar dan Kalimat Tak Relevan
B. Tropical diseases that are considered exotic and dangerous by the people
C. It is difficult to convince them that they need to send medical help to Africa
D. They are very interested in developing Ebola vaccines for mass production
Jawaban= A. They act quickly to prevent a disease only when it is important to them
Pembahasan= Pada teks di atas, penulis berasumsi bahwa “The West” atau negara barat akan bertindak cepat untuk mencegah sebuah penyakit hanya jika penting atau berdampak pada mereka.
Nah, jawaban ini bisa kita temukan pada kalimat-kalimat berikut.
“However, because they are at a test stage, these agents, which will be critical if we are to nip this outbreak in the bud, are nowhere near ready for mass production.”
“Trials are only now getting underway of human versions of the vaccines the UK, and the US. ‘Way too late,’ many are saying, to prevent the inevitable.”
2. Paragraph (3) implies that…
Baca Juga: Pembahasan Soal Mencari Kalimat Penutup dan Grammar UTBK Bahasa Inggris
A. The Ebola vaccine is very complex and time-consuming to manufacture
B. The Ebola vaccine should have been tested in humans earlier
C. It is inappropriate for Ebola vaccine tested safely in humans
D. The UK, and the US are the countries that are in urgent need of Ebola vaccines
Jawaban= B. The Ebola vaccine should have been tested in humans earlier
Pembahasan= Secara keseluruhan paragraf ketiga menyiratkan, bahwa vaksin wabah Ebola harus diujikan kepada manusia lebih awal sebelum Ebola menjadi wabah yang menyebar seperti saat ini.
Sama seperti pembahasan nomor 1, kalimat “Way too late, many are saying, to prevent the inevitable.” Menyiratkan bahwa saat ini sudah sangat terlambat untuk mencegahnya.
Nah Adjarian, itulah pembahasan soal UTBK SBMPTN bahasa Inggris tipe soal asumsi penulis dan mencari makna tersirat pada paragraf, ya!