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PENGETAHUAN UMUM #2
Teks berikut digunakan untuk menjawab soal nomor 41 – 44

(1) Penting kiranya mulai memikirkan rencana strategis terkait dengan pengurangan impor gandum, entah itu
impor yang berasal dari Australia, Amerika, Kanada, entah dari India. (2) Rencana strategis tersebut semakin penting
mengingat kebutuhan nasional akan gandum kian meningkat. (3) Hal itu dapat diketehaui dari semakin meningkatnya
volume impor gandum secara nasional belakangan ini. (4) Data BPS menunjukkan impr gandum seacara nasional pada
tahun 2010 – 2011 mencapai 7,4 juta ton dan mengalami menjadi 7,8 juta ton tahun 2011- 2012

(5) Guna mengurangi ketergantungan nasional pada gandum impor, ada rencana strategis yang dapat ditempuh,
yaitu memprioritaskan peningkatan produksi gandum. (6) Sempat beredar informasi di masyarakat bahwa tanaman
gandum bukanlah tanaman asli indonesia sehingga tidak bisa tumbuh di negeri ini. (7) Benar bahwa gandum bukanlah
tanaman asli Indonesia, namun tidak berarti fandum tidak dapat tumbuh di negeri kita. (8) Dengan menentukan lokasi
dan iklim penanaman yang sesuai, tanaman gandum dapat tumbuh dengan baik di Indonesia.

41. Topik utama teks tersebut adalah

A. Rencana strategis pengurangan impor gandum

B. Ketergantungan nasional pada impor gandum
C. Usaha peningkatan produksi gandum lokal
D. Volume impr gandum yang terus meningkat
E. Peningkatan kebutuhan maksimal akan gandum

42. kata kenaikan pada kaliamt (4) teks tersebut beranatonim dengan kata

A. Kejatuhan B. Kekurangan C. Kejatuhan D. Penurunan E. Keturunan

43. Kata namun pada kalimat (7) teks tersebut dapat diganti dengan kata

A. Meskipun B. Sehingga C. sedangkan D. Melainkan E. Tetapi

44. Penyataan yang sesuai dengan teks tersebut adalah

A. Meningkatnya volume ekspor gandum seacra nasional

B. Gandum adalah tanaman asli Indonesia
C. Gandum tidak dapat tumbuh di Indonesia
D. Meningkatnya kebutuhan nasional akan gandum
E. Pertumbuhan gandum tidak dipengaruhi oleh iklim dan lokasi

Question number 45 -48 are based on the following passage

New research out of Notre Dame is digging into why social media isn’t always good for us, especially you’re young
and female. Working as an educator, Carmen Papaluca observed a worrying trend with her students. In particular, social
media was having a significant negative impact on her students’ medical health

For anyone who is regular user of social media which is most of us these days, this won’t come as a surprise. With
everyone sharing their ‘highlight reels’, Carmen observed, youngwomen find it particularly hard to see their own lives or
even their own bodies as good enough. Wanting to understand more about the issue and what could be done, Carmen
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began a Ph.D at the Univesity of Notre Dame. The focus of her research is Instagram use among young women aged 18 to
25.

One of the key findings of her work so far that younger female Instagram users in her study, late teens and early
20s, found that images on the app made them feel most badly about their bodies. However, women who were slightly
older (mid-20s) felt the inadequacy around their work and lifrstyle. In comaprison to the images of the appreantly fabulous
social lives and careers of others on Instagram, they felt that their own lives “lacked meaning”

The blame of the perecived problems with new technologies gets put entirely on those new technologies. But if
we want to find a real solution to these problems, we need to dig a bit deeper. In the other words, it’s not Instagram that
is the problem. It’s the social pressures put on young women that have been part of our culture for many years that are
now becoming amplified by social media

45. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. How social media destruct females’ life

B. Technology merely bears bad sides in human’s social life
C. Socila media impacts negatively on young women’s mental health
D. The use of socila media appreantly decreses people’s standart behaviour
E. A study about the relationship between social mdia impact and students’ achievment

46. in which paragraph does the writer discuss the images of certain socila media imposes one;s bad feeling about her
physical appreance?

A. 1 C. 1 and 2 E. 2 and 3
B. 2 D. 1 and 4

47. To whom is the text likely intended?

A. Teachers who teach science

B. Working moms who have baby sitters
C. Students who actively engage using socila media
D. Adolescents who leran about applied technology
E. Social media experts who conduct researchers on socila media

48. “In particular, social media was having a significant negative impact on her students’ mental health” what is possibly
the author’s motive in writing students?

A. The information about instagram impacts isn’t available

B. The use of social media is in level of endangering young female’s mental health
C. Not many people are interested in using Instagram and other socila media
D. There is misconception from researcher and social media users on Instagram bad impact
E. People’s awareness about social media use has negatively impacted on female’s mental health

Teks berikut digunakan untuk menjawab soal nomor 49-52

(1) Perkembangan yang semakin modern ini tidak dapat dimungkiri telah memengaruhi sebagian kebiasaan
masyarakat Indonesia dan berdampak pada kebudayaan kita. (2) Dampak tersebut adalah mulai ditinggalkannya satu di
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antara budaya oleh masyarakat, yaitu budaya berpantun. (3) Saat ini, pantun diajarkan kepada generasi muda hanya untuk
diperkenalkan tanpa diberikan wadah pelestarian sehingga banyak generasi muda tidak lagi mengenal pantun. (4) Mereka
jarang mendengar orang berpantun, apalagi ikut berpantun. (5) Pantun hanya dapat kita dengar pada upacara adat,
seperti pada upacara lamaran pada suku betawi, suku bugis, atau suku minangkabau.

(6) Dahulu, para orang tua menggunakan pantun untuk bertegur sapa, berkirim pesan, menasehati orang, bahkan
pantun dapat dipakai untuk bercanda atau menyindir dengan halus. (7) Dengan berpantun (secara tidak langsung), otak
kita merangsang menjadi aktif dalam bermain kata-kata karena memerlukan pemikiran (8) Selain itu, dalam berpantun
juga dapat menambah perbendaharaan kata atau kosakata. (9) dengan demikian, kegiatan berpantun merupakan kegiatan
yang positif dalam kehidupan.

49. Topik bacaan tersebut adalah

A. Pengaruh perkembangan budaya modern

B. Hilangnya budaya berpantun dalam masyarakat
C. Pantun diajarkan sekedar pelengkap materi ajaran
D. Berpantun dapat merangsang otak dan kreativitas
E. Kegiatan berpantun merupakan kegiatan positif

50. Pernyataan manakah berikut ini yang tidak berhubungan dengan isi teks tersebut?

A. Agar generasi muda lebih mengenal pantun, diperlukan wadah pelestarian pantun
B. Pada zaman sekarang, kegiatan berpantun tidak terdengar lagi di luar upacara adat
C. Aktivitas berpantun dapat merangsang otak kita menjadi lebih aktif bermain kata-kata
D. Masyarakat, terutama generasi muda, beranggapan bahwa budaya berpantun ketinggalan zaman
E. Dalam budaya atau suku bangs a tertentu di Indonesia, berpantun bisa memeriahkan upacara adat

51. dalam teks tersebut terdapat penggunaan kata yang tidak sesuai dengan konteks kalimatnya, yaitu

A. Kata dimungkiri pada kalimat (1) D. kata merangsang pada kalimat (7)
B. Kata diperkenalkan pada kalimat (3) E. kata menambah pada kalimat (8)
C. Pada menasehati kaliamt (6)

52. Makna kata wadah pada kalimat (3) teks tersebut adalah

A. Tempat berhimpun D. organisasi

B. Tempat menaruh sesuatu E. komunitas
C. Penampungan

Questions number 53 to 56 refer to the following passage

In a unique study, researchers at Land University in Sweden have mapped the origins of migratory bird.
They used the results to investigate and discover major differences in the immune systems of sedentary and
migratory birds. The researchers conclude that migratory species benefit from leaving tropical areas when it is
time to rise their young – as moving away from disease in the tropics enables them to survive with a less costly
5 immune system
Analyzing the genealogy of over 1,300 song bird species, passerines, enabled the researchers to establish
that both sedentary birds, which do not leave northern Europe in the winter, and migratory bird, which breed
in Europe but spend the winter close to the equator, originate from Africa. The researchers then went on to
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study the immune system in three different groups: sedentary birds in tropical Africa, European sedentary
10 birds, and migratory bird. Their findings show that African sedentary birds have a more varied and extensive
immune system than that of both European sedentary birds and migratory birds.
Evolution has quite simply ensured that bird species migrating to Europe were equipped with a much
less variable immune system, as Europe has far fewer diseases that the tropics. The African sedentary species
probably need a more advanced immune system to deal with the richer flore of pathogens to which they are
15 exposed. What really surprised the researchers was that the immune system of migratory birds showed
similarity low variation to that of European sedentary birds. After all, migratory birds do not only need to resist
diseases in Europe, but also during their migration and in the tropic.
To explain the surprising result, the researchers propose the idea that the costs associated with a strong
and complex immune system could be much higher than anyone previously thought. Examples of these costs
20 could be autoimmunity and other immune system diseases such as chronic inflammation.
Despite the migratory birds having to deal with pathogens both in Europe and tropical Africa, they have
thus lost much of the variation and complexicity in their immune system compared to their African ancestors.
According to the researchers, this indicates that dealing with pathogens is the most difficult for the birds the
first time they are exposed to them. For migratory birds, this happens in Europe where they rise their young
25 and there are not as many different pathogens.
One of the researchers explained that when the migratory birds bred, they had moved away from many
diseases and therefore did not need an immune system that was equally varied. Another advantage was that
the risk of damage caused by the immune system dropped considerably if the immune system was less
complex.
30 All vertebrates, including human beings, have an immune system built up in a similar way to that of
birds. The Lund biologists therefore believe that their findings could also be significant in a broader perspective.
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Adapted from https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180410103507.htm

53. What is the topic of the text?

(A) The diseases of migratory and sedentary birds.
(B) The complexicity of the immune system of migratory bird.
(C) The origins of migratory and sedentary birds.
(D) How the immune system of birds responds to diseases.
(E) How the immune system of birds changes as they migrate.

54. It is implied in the paragraph two that

(A) migratory birds tend to stay longer near the equator.
(B) European and African sedentary birds are of the same species.
(C) European sedentary birds return to Africa to raise their young.
(D) European sedentary birds fly over the equator.
(E) migratory birds live near the equator before they move and breed.

55. Why does the author mention “what really surprised the researchers” in line 15?
(A) To suggest that the researchers failed in achieving their objects.
(B) To hint that the researchers had predicted the findings.
(C) To emphasize that the research findings were quite unexpected.
(D) To indicate that the findings were undesireable.
(E) To show that the researchers were happy with the findings.

56. Which two groups of birds have a similar immune system?

(A) Migratory birds and European sedentary birds.
(B) African sedentary birds anf migratory birds.
(C) European sedentary birds and African sedentary birds.
(D) Migratory birds and their ancestors.
(E) European sedentary birds and the ancestors of the migratory birds.

Teks berikut digunakan untuk menjawab soal nomor 57 s.d. 60.

(1) Selain pameran lukisan bertajuk “Mengeja Laku Liku Kaliku”, komunitas peduli
sampah selaku penyelenggara festival memamerkan berbagai barang yang diproduksi dari
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sampah sungai, seperti tas, keranjang, vas bunga, dan lampion. (2) Berbagai seni pertunjukan
juga digelar selama festival berlangsung, seperti acara tradisi palang pintu Betawi, atraksi
manusia petasan di atas bukit, debus, karinding, dan lenong. (3) Bahkan, partisipasi juga
dilakukan oleh warga, pengusaha, aktivis, dan pelaku seni dalam berbagai lomba, seperti
lomba memancing sampah dan lomba mewarnai. (4) Festival semakin semarak dengan sajian
berbagai jajanan tradisional atau kuliner daerah.
(5) Mereka menggelar kegiatan budaya ini untuk meningkatkan kepedulian warga
kepada Kali Cisadane. (6) Dipilihnya pinggiran Kali Cisadane sebagai lokasi acara karena
kondisi sungai sudah sangat memprihatinkan. (7) Jadi, dengan pameran dan pagelaran seni
budaya ini, semua pihak, baik pemerintah, pengusaha, aktivis, pegiat lingkungan, pelaku seni,
maupun masyarakat luas diajak untuk bersinergi, peduli, menjaga, merawat, dan
melestarikan sungai yang selama ini menjadi sumber kehidupan warga, termasuk kebutuhan
akan air baku. (8) Tampaknya, warga tepi Kali Cisadane menyambut antusias kegiatan budaya
ini.

57. Gagasan utama paragraf kedua teks tersebut adalah

(A) Komunitas peduli sampah meningkatkan kepedulian warga akan kondisi
sungai.
(B) Komunitas peduli sampah memamerkan lukisan bertajuk “Mengeja Laku Liku
Kaliku”.
(C) Komunitas peduli sampah menggelar kegiatan budaya di tepi Kali Cisadane.
(D) Komunitas peduli sampah memamerkan berbagai produk hasil daur ulang
sampah.
(E) Komunitas peduli sampah mengadakan pameran dan pagelaran seni budaya.

58. Kata semarak pada kalimat (4) teks tersebut berantonim kata
(A) bergairah.
(B) melambat.
(C) meredup.
(D) tertinggal.
(E) bercahaya.

59. Padanan kata peduli adalah

(A) acuh
(B) cuek
(C) antipati
(D) kagum
(E) simpati
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60. Kelompok kata palang pintu pada teks tersebut bermakna

(A) Palang yang berupa kayu atau besi untuk pengunci pintu rumah atau gudang.
(B) Rintangan yang terdapat di jalan atau akses masuk ke suatu kompleks/
perumahan.
(C) Tradisi membuka penghalang yang berupa orang agar dapat masuk ke suatu
tempat.
(D) Tradisi dalam upacara perkawinan pada masyarakat Melayu untuk
menyambut tamu.
(E) Pertunjukan seni budaya Betawi yang diselenggarakan saat pesta perkawinan.