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Persiapan apa yang Adjarian lakukan untuk menghadapi SIMAK UI tahun ini?
Nah, salah satu persiapan yang bisa dilakukan adalah dengan mengerjakan soal dan memahami pembahasannya.
Kali ini, kita akan membahas soal SIMAK UI tipe mencari main idea atau ide pokok teks dan sinonim kata.
Bagi Adjarian yang sudah pernah mengikuti UTBK SBMPTN pasti sudah tidak asing lagi dengan dua tipe soal ini.
Yap, untuk bisa mencari ide pokok keseluruhan teks, kita perlu menelaah ide pokok tiap paragrafnya.
Barulah kemudian kita simpulkan berdasarkan kata kunci.
Sementara untuk soal sinonim, kita perlu memahami konteks kalimat dan memperbanyak perbendaharaan kosakata bahasa Inggris.
Langsung saja kita kerjakan soal-soalnya, yuk!
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Read the following text and answer the questions
(1) A forgotten issue in urbanism is land use during the night time, with problems such as noise and dirt, which could be improved with information from Twitter.
At least this is what Enrique and Vanessa Frías-Martínez believe, computer science researchers at Telefonica Research and the University of Maryland (USA) respectively, who have suggested using geolocalized tweets for urban planning and land use.
(2) Enrique Frías-Martínez explained that geolocalized tweets can be a very useful source of information for planning since it is an activity carried out by a large number of people who provide information on where they are at a specific time and what they are doing.
The researcher points out that thanks to the increased use of smartphones, social networks like Twitter and Facebook have made it possible to access and produce information ubiquitously.
(3) These networks generate tagswith the event's geolocation. The new technique "automatically determines land uses in urban areas by grouping together geographical regions with similar patterns of Twitter activity," says the researcher.
Using aggregate activity of tweets, the Frías-Martínez siblings have studied land use in Manhattan, Madrid and London. In the first two cases they identified four uses: residential, business, daytime leisure (mainly parks and tourist areas) and nightlife areas.
The study has determined that, in Madrid, night-time tweet activity is concentrated on weekends and in Manhattan, on weekdays.
On the other hand, London is characterized by its tweeting activity in daytime leisure areas.
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Questions
1. Which of the following is the main idea of the passage?
A. Many people like to use geolocation tags on Twitter
B. Information from social networks can be accessed universally
C. Geolocalized tweets can be useful for urban planning
D. Complex patterns if Twitter activities can finally be identified
E. Problem concerning urbanism are often neglected and forgotten
Jawaban: C. Geolocalized tweets can be useful for urban planning
Pembahasan: Untuk bisa menentukan main idea atau ide utama teks di atas, kita perlu menelaah main idea tiap paragrafnya.
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Ide pokok paragraf pertama terletak pada kalimat terakhir, "At least this is what Enrique and Vanessa Frías-Martínez believe, ..., who have suggested using geolocalized tweets for urban planning and land use."
Lalu, ide pokok paragraf kedua terletak pada kalilmat pertama, "Enrique Frías-Martínez explained that geolocalized tweets can be a very useful source of information for planning since it is an activity carried out by..."
Paragraf ketiga berisi penjabaran contoh-contoh penggunaan gelocalized tweet, sehingga ide pokok paragraf tersebar di seluruh paragraf.
Dari ketiga ide pokok tersebut, dapat disimpulkan bahwa main idea dari keseluruhan teks adalah opsi C, "Geolocalized tweets can be useful for urban planning".
2. "...Twitter and Facebook have made it possible to access and produce information ubiquitously."
What is the synonym of the underlined word?
A. Everywhere
B. Continously
C. Frequently
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D. Substitutionally
E. Never
Jawaban: A. Everywhere
Pembahasan: Coba kita terjemahkan keseluruhan kalimatnya, yuk!
"The researcher points out that thanks to the increased use of smartphones, social networks like Twitter and Facebook have made it possible to access and produce information ubiquitously."
Artinya, peneliti menunjukkan bahwa berkat peningkatan penggunaan smartphone, jejaring sosial seperti Twitter dan Facebook telah memungkinkan untuk mengakses dan menghasilkan informasi di mana-mana.
Jadi, kata "ubiquitously" berarti "di mana-mana" dan termasuk ke dalam jenis kata keterangan.
Dari kelima opsi, jawaban yang paling tepat adalah opsi A.
Nan, Adjarian, itulah contoh soal dan pembahasan SIMAK UI bahasa Inggris tipe mencari ide pokok dan sinonim kata.