TES POTENSI SKOLASTIK

PENGETAHUAN DAN PEMAHAMAN UMUM

Teks berikut digunakan untuk menjawab soal (D) Prestasi

nomor 1 s.d. 9. (E) Berdaya
Biasanya karena terlambat dan terburu-buru,
kamu tanpa sadar makan sambil berdiri, hayo 3. Makna kata dilansir adalah …
ngaku? Atau saat sedang menghadiri acara (A) Diambil
pernikahan dengan tema standing party sering kali (B) Dikutip
kita memilih untuk makan sambil berdiri. (C) Gabungan
Kayaknya sudah cukup sering kita mendengar (D) Referensi
bahwa kebiasaan makan sambil berdiri dianggap (E) Melihat
sebagai kebiasaan jelek. Orang tua kitapun juga
kerap menegur kalau tahu kita makan sambil 4. Padanan kata cenderung adalah …
berdiri. Ternyata selain dianggap kurang sopan, (A) Agak miring
makan sambil berdiri juga memiliki dampak (B) Penasaran
negatif bagi kesehatan loh. (C) Banyak
Beberapa orang percaya bahwa makan sambil (D) Berpihak
berdiri dapat membantumu mengurangi berat (E) Paksa
badan daripada makan sambil duduk. Dilansir dari
5. Kelompok kata menghadiri pada teks
Healthline, meskipun berdiri dapat membakar
tersebut bermakna …
sekitar 50 kalori lebih banyak per jam daripada
(A) Sedang hadir
duduk, ini tidak cukup membuktikan teori
(B) Telah hadir
tersebut.
(C) Diwakilkan
Makan sambil duduk cenderung lebih
(D) Mewakilkan
mengurangkan kecepatan makanmu. Hal ini
(E) Menginginkan
berpotensi mengurangi jumlah kalori yang kamu
konsumsi hingga taraf yang lebih besar Beberapa 6. Penggunaan kata yang tidak sesuai adalah …
penelitian menunjukkan bahwa makan lebih (A) Mengonsumsi seharushnya mengkons-
lambat dapat mengurangi nafsu makan dan umsi
meningkatkan perasaan kenyang. Makan sambil (B) Kalori seharusnya calori.
duduk dapat membantu otakmu mengetahui (C) Ngaku seharusnya mengaku
bahwa kamu telah mengonsumsi "makanan asli", (D) Lambat seharusnya lamban
dan mengurangi kemungkinan kamu makan (E) Membantu seharusnya dibantu
berlebihan.
7. Manakah turunan kata yang tidak tepat pada
1. Topik utama teks tersebut adalah … teks tersebut?
(A) Tidak boleh makan sambil berdiri (A) Membakar
(B) Bahaya makan sambil berdiri (B) Mengurangkan
(C) Makan sambil duduk lebih utama (C) Makanmu
daripada makan sambil berdiri (D) Kitapun
(D) Jumlah berkurangnya kalori berdasarkan (E) Kemungkinan
cara makan
(E) Kedua teori tersebut tidak bisa dibenarkan 8. Ide pokok pada paragraf 2 tersebut adalah …
(A) Kebiasaan makan sambil berdiri adalah
2. Kata berpotensi pada paragraf ketiga kebiasaan yang jelek
berantonim dengan kata … (B) Makan sambil duduk cenderung
(A) Menimbulkan mengurangkan kecepatan makanmu
(B) Kemampuan (C) Sejak kecil, harus dibiasakan untuk tidak
(C) Impoten makan sambil berdiri

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 (D) Tidak ada hasil penelitian yang Questions number 13-16 are based on the text
menunjukan bahwa makan sambil berdiri below.
adalah cara efektif untuk mengurangi Because this time period preceded complex life,
kalori tubuh researchers cannot simply dig up fossils to learn
(E) Makan sambil berdiri atau sambil duduk what was living 2 billion years ago. Even clues
tidak ada perbandingan yang sangat left behind in mud and rocks can be difficult to
signifikan uncover and analyze.
Instead, the group turned to barite, a mineral
9. Kata mengonsumsi pada tersebut sepadan collected from the Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay,
dengan kata ... Canada, that encapsulates a record of oxygen in
(A) Memakan the atmosphere. Those samples revealed that
(B) Memakai Earth experienced huge changes to its biosphere --
(C) Menggunakan the part of the planet occupied by living
(D) Memberi organisms -- ending with an enormous drop in life
(E) Berbagi approximately 2.05 billion years ago that may also
be linked to declining oxygen levels.
Teks berikut digunakan untuk menjawab soal "The fact that this geochemical signature was
nomor 10 s.d. 12. preserved was very surprising," Hodgskiss said.
Rambut adalah mahkota. Ungkapan itu menunjuk- "What was especially unusual about these barites
an bahwa begitu pentingnya rambut bagi is that they clearly had a complex history."
seseorang. Tak berlebihan jika merawat rambut Looking at the Earth's productivity through
akhirnya menjadi sangat penting untuk ancient history provides a glimpse into how life is
penampilan. Dengan jumlah penduduk Indonesia likely to behave over its entire existence -- in
yang sangat besar membuat tempat-tempat cukur addition to informing observations of atmospheres
rambut atau barbershop tumbuh di berbagai kota. on planets outside our solar system.
"The size of the biosphere through geologic time
10. Kata mahkota pada kalimat tersebut has always been one of our biggest questions in
berantonim dengan kata … studying the history of the Earth," said Erik
(A) Penting Sperling, an assistant professor of geological
(B) Utama sciences at Stanford who was not involved with
(C) Berharga the study. "This new proxy demonstrates how
(D) Terbaik interlinked the biosphere and levels of oxygen and
(E) Disukai carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are."
Adapted from
11. Manakah diantara berikut yang merupakan https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/1908281804
kata berimbuhan yang salah? 37.htm
(A) Berlebihan
13. The word “encapsulates” in paragraph 2 is
(B) Menjadi
best replaced by …
(C) Pentingnya
(A) Appeals
(D) Menunjukan
(B) Breaks
(E) Penampilan
(C) Covers
12. Negasi dari kata berlebihan adalah … (D) Refuses
(A) Mubazir (E) Separates
(B) Sering
(C) Lewat batas
(D) Ekses
(E) Langka

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14. Why is the barite surprising the researcher
after found it in Hudson Bay?
(A) Because it is formed as a mineral
(B) Because its location founded is nearly to
where dinosaurs fossils discovered earlier
(C) Because it is linked to the increasing
oxygen levels on earth
(D) Because its geochemical signature can
revealed the biosphere changes to explain
complex history of the earth
(E) Because it has less oxygen contains that
the researchers need to identify
15. According to the passage, which one of the
statements is NOT TRUE about biosphere?
(A) It involved the rising living organisms
about 2.05 billion years ago
(B) It has evolved over the geological time
scale
(C) The part of the earth where living
organisms can survive
(D) Its evolution is still investigated using
geochemical contain preserved in barite
mineral
(E) It has linked to atmosphere study
16. What conclusion does Mr. Erick cites in last
paragraph related to this research?
(A) The biosphere has no evidences to be
proven
(B) The evolution of biosphere requires
further analysis and explorations in linked
the living organisms survivals
(C) The biosphere has no linked to
atmosphere study
(D) The barite mineral is the only evidence in
explaining oxygen contains at the time
(E) The researcher is finding new barites in
approving its evolutions
Questions number 17-20 are based on the text
below.
When an animal was initially placed in the track,
it was unsure of what to do and wandered left and
right until it came across the sugar water. In these
cases, single neurons were activated when the
mouse took notice of a symbol on the wall. But
over multiple experiences with the track, the
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mouse became familiar with it and remembered
the locations of the sugar. As the mouse became
more familiar, more and more neurons were
activated in synchrony by seeing each symbol on
the wall. Essentially, the mouse was recognizing
where it was with respect to each unique symbol.
To study how memories fade over time, the
researchers then withheld the mice from the track
for up to 20 days. Upon returning to the track after
this break, mice that had formed strong memories
encoded by higher numbers of neurons
remembered the task quickly. Even though some
neurons showed different activity, the mouse's
memory of the track was clearly identifiable when
analyzing the activity of large groups of neurons.
In other words, using groups of neurons enables
the brain to have redundancy and still recall
memories even if some of the original neurons fall
silent or are damaged.
Gonzalez explains: "Imagine you have a long and
complicated story to tell. In order to preserve the
story, you could tell it to five of your friends and
then occasionally get together with all of them to
re-tell the story and help each other fill in any
gaps that an individual had forgotten.
Additionally, each time you re-tell the story, you
could bring new friends to learn and therefore
help preserve it and strengthen the memory. In an
analogous way, your own neurons help each other
out to encode memories that will persist over
time."
Adapted from
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/1908231407
29.htm
17. What does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) How somebody can recall his own history
by telling the truth
(B) How the memories constructed and faded
in the brain
(C) How the mouse recalled the track
simultaneously
(D) The effect of over memories undertaken
by the brain
(E) How the mouse can lost its memories
after a break
18. The word “withheld” can best be replaced by 20. The paragraph following the passage will
… likely contain information about …
(A) Expose (A) The way to recall progressively by normal
(B) Hidden aging
(C) Remove (B) The cause of memory loss related to
(D) Convert natural factors
(E) Show (C) The neuron activities persist memories
gradually
19. The It is implied in paragraph two that … (D) The memory loss and its ways to reduce it
(A) The memories will be disoriented after a (E) How to create new memories and lose the
break last one
(B) The memories can be completed by
compiling pieces of story
(C) The mouse hardly remember the track
further
(D) The neurons can lost its activity after no
continuous memories
(E) The groups of neurons formed give higher
repetition to recall memories

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