Contoh dan Pembahasan Soal UTBK Bahasa Inggris, Menentukan Paragraf Sesudah Teks

By Jestica Anna, Senin, 21 Maret 2022 | 16:30 WIB
Menentukan paragraf sesudah paragraf terakhir merupakan salah satu tipe soal UTBK bahasa Inggris. (Piqsels)

adjar.id – Apakah Adjarian pernah mengerjakan soal UTBK SBMPTN bahasa Inggris tipe menentukan paragraf sesudah teks?

Soal tipe ini mengharuskan kita untuk menentukan paragraf yang kemungkinan akan muncul setelah paragaraf terakhir.

Untuk dapat menjawabnya kita hanya perlu mencermati dengan baik jenis penyajian tulisan pada paragraf terakhir.

Coba perhatikan, apakah paragraf terakhir berisi penjelasan suatu istilah, contoh-contoh, atau mungkin penjabaran dari istilah yang sudah disebutkan pada paragraf-paragraf sebelumnya.

Dengan begitu, kita akan dengan mudah menebak penyajian paragraf yang mungkin akan muncul setelahnya.

Nah, soal jenis ini umumnya akan berisi pertanyaan, seperti “The part following the passage will likely discuss about…”, “With which of the following sentence should the text end?”, dan sebagainya.

Oleh karena hanya perlu mencermati paragraf atau bahkan kalimat terakhir saja, tentu dapat menghemat waktu dan mengalokasikannya pada soal lain yang lebih rumit.

O iya, supaya lebih terbiasa dalam mengerjakan soal tipe ini, yuk, kita coba bahas bersama contoh soalnya!

Cermati teks dan soalnya dengan baik, ya!

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The following text is for number 1

(1) Infections with Ebola virus are acute. There is not carrier state. Because the natural reservoir of the virus is unknown, the manner in which the virus first appears in a human at the start of an outbreak has not been determined.

However, researchers have hypothesized that the first patient becomes infected through contact with an infected animal.

(2) After the first case-patient in an outbreak setting is infected, the virus can be transmitted in several ways. People can be exposed to Ebola virus from direct contact with the blood and/or secretions of an infected person.

Thus, the virus is often spread through families and friends because they come in close contact with such secretions when caring for infected persons. People can also be exposed ti Ebola virus through contact with objects, such as needles, that have been contaminated with infected secretions.

(3) Nosocomial transmission refers to the spread of a disease within a health-care setting, such as a clinic or hospital. It occurs frequently during Ebola HF outbreaks. It includes both types of transmission described above.

In African health-care facilities, patients are often cared for without the use of a mask, gown, or gloves. Exposure to the virus has occurred when health care workers treated individuals with Ebola HF without wearing these types of protective clothing.

In addition, when needles or syringes are used, they may not be of the disposable type, or may not have been sterilized, but only rinsed before reinsertion into multi-use vials of medicine.

Pertanyaan

Baca Juga: Contoh Soal UTBK Bahasa Inggris, Mencari Persamaan Kata atau Sinonim

1. The part following the passage will likely discuss about ...

A. Directions to carefully exploit the virus for medical purposes

B. Hints to improve conditions of African health care facilities

C. Details to prevent the occurrence of nosocomial infections

D. Procedures to sterilize medical equipment throughly

E. Ways to locate source of nosocomial transmission

Jawaban: C. Details to prevent the occurrence of nosocomial infections

Pembahasan: Adjarian, coba perhatikan dengan baik paragraf terakhir.

Paragraf tersebut menjelaskan mengenai transmisi nosocomial, yaitu penyebaran penyakit di lingkungan kesehatan. 

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Misalnya, perawatan pasien dengan perkelngkapan kurang memadai, kurang steril, dan sebagainya.

Jadi, kemungkinan paragraf yang akan muncul sesudah paragraf terakhir adalah tentang cara pencegahan transmisi nosocomial ini.

The following text is for number 2

Colours, hair, and Jewellery are frequently determined by a person's sex. This is not always true for all cultures, and it is not even true now throughout the United States.

In this country, there were protests to bring about a change from these culturally strict norms.

The anti military attitudes of the 1960s and the 1970s sought to break with the military tradition masculine or 'macho' position, thus making it more acceptable for men to wear floral designs on their shirts in pinks, purples, violets, and other 'feminine colors.

For some people, long hairs and jewellery on men also became acceptable as a means of expressing this changed way of thinking.

More facial hair also became common, precisely because it differed from military norm. The business world, however, has been slow to change.

Pertanyaan

Baca Juga: Pembahasan Soal UTBK Bahasa Inggris, Menemukan Informasi Rinci Teks

2. With which of the following sentences should the texts end? In most offices today ...

A. wearing bright colors, jewellery, and long hair is not acceptable for men

B. men and women have the same right in deciding the color of their rooms

C. men are free to wear bright and colorful shirt

D. bright colors are used in the working areas, well as in the common room

E. people coming from various cultural backgrounds work hand in hand

Jawaban: A. wearing bright colors, jewellery, and long hair is not acceptable for men

Pembahasan: Kalimat terakhir menjadi kalimat kunci untuk menentukan jawaban.

“For some people, long hairs and jewellery on men also became acceptable as a means of expressing this changed way of thinking.”

Baca Juga: Contoh dan Pembahasan Soal UTBK Bahasa Inggris, Menentukan Inti Bacaan

Nah, kemungkinan paragraf atau kalimat yang akan muncul setelahnya adalah kebalikan dari pernyataan tersebut, yaitu “wearing bright colors, jewellery, and long hair is not acceptable for men.”

Nah, itulah pembahasan contoh soal UTBK SBMPTN baahsa Inggris tipe mementukan kalimat sesudah teks, Adjarian.