Contoh Soal UTBK Bahasa Inggris dan Pembahasan, Menentukan Motivasi Penulis

adjar.id – Pernahkah Adjarian mengerjakan soal UTBK SBMPTN bahasa Inggris tipe menentukan motivasi penulis?

Tipe menentukan motivasi penulis sebenarnya salah satu sub tipe dari jenis menentukan sikap penulis.

Berbeda dengan sekadar menentukan sikap penulis, biasanya pilihan jawaban yang disajikan berupa kalimat panjang.

Namun, pada tipe soal ini, jawaban yang tepat secara tidak langsung sudah tercantum dalam teks, lo.

Umumnya, penulis akan manyantumkan motivasinya dengan mendeskripsikan kelebihan atau keunikan topik yang menjadi pembicaraan.

Sehingga, kita dapat dengan mudah menemukan jawabannya asalkan sudah membaca teks dengan saksama dan cermat.

Lalu, bagaimana contoh soal dan pembahasannya?

Kita simak bersama, yuk!

Read the text below!

Baca Juga: Contoh Soal dan Pembahasan UTBK Bahasa Inggris Tipe Unstated Statement

(1) Dogs are one of the smartest animals and are often called man's best friend. As well as being a pet, many trained dogs also become professionals to help police, airport officials, and people with special needs.

It is this special ability that has always been an attraction for experts to research dogs more scientifically and deeply.

As reported in TIME, one of the experts who was interested in it was neuroscientist Gregory Berns from Emory University in Atlanta, United States.

Not just studying their behavior, Berns specifically trained dogs to sit quietly inside Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) so that the way their brain worked could be scanned and seen. Without being anesthesized or put to sleep, the fully awake dog was told to sit while the MRI scanner was checking their brain.

(2) For the scanning purpose, large hardware was needed so that the software could function optimally. The result of the scanning indicated that the size of the brain is the determining factor. The dog's brain size is relatively large.

Human brain is considered very big, reaching a proportion of 1:50 of the average total body weight. The size of dog's brain turned out to be 1:125 of the dog's total body weight. It is the ratio found in almost all types of puppies.

In comparison with other animals, the size of horse's brain is only 1:600 and the size of a lion's brain is slightly better at 1:550 of the total body weight.

So, among other animals, the size of a dog's brain is indeed quite large and can accommodate more cognitive and affective development.

(3) Dogs are very sensitive to tones. From changes in tone, dogs can learn and distinguish human words. Berns's research aimed to find out how dogs learn human language: when dogs hear a word, is it just an auditory stimulation or does it have more meaning? He spent a year observing the brain activities of the dogs when they hear familiar words or unclear chatter.

Baca Juga: Contoh Soal UTBK bahasa Inggris dan Pembahasan, Menentukan Judul Teks dan Kata Rujukan

From the tone, dogs can learn to distinguish human words. As with human babies, puppies respond more to humans' high-pitched speech than low-pitched one.

Researchers in New York and France also found that high notes really helped puppies learn words. But as adults, dogs no longer choose high octave as they did when they were young.

Pertanyaan

1. What motivates the writer to write the passage?

A. The genius of dogs has not been widely used by human

B. The ratio between a dog's brain size and its body weight needs systematic research

C. The factors that classify dogs as one of the smart est animals are not yet widely known

D. Bern's research findings have not been verified and reviewed

E. That dogs can respond to changes in tone has not been studied in depth

Baca Juga: Contoh Soal dan Pembahasan UTBK Bahasa Inggris, Menyederhanakan Kalimat

Jawaban: B. The ratio between a dog's brain size and its body weight needs systematic research

Pembahasan: Setelah membaca dengan saksama, coba perhatikan kalimat ketiga pada paragraf pertama.

“It is this special ability that has always been an attraction for experts to research dogs more scientifically and deeply.”

Artinya, 'Kemampuan khusus inilah yang selalu menjadi daya tarik bagi peneliti untuk meneliti anjing secara ilmiah dan mendalam'.

Di sini penulis membeberkan “kelebihan” anjing sebagai topik yang diangkat dalam teks, sehingga ia merasa perlu untuk menyampaikan informasi tersebut.

Jadi, sudah jelas bahwa jawaban yang tepat untuk soal tersebut adalah opsi B.

Nah, Adjarian, demikianlah contoh soal dan pembahasan UTBK SBMPTN bahasa Inggris tipe menentukan motivasi penulis.