Try Out 1

Try Out 1

You have 25 minutes to answer 40 questions. Manage your time properly and answer it by yourself!​

By ARIMULIANI AHMAD

Structure

Questions are incomplete sentences. Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence.

Multiple Choice

In 1864 Nevada entered the United States as _____ thirty-six states.

• a.     In the

• b.     To be the

• c.     Was the

• d.     the

D.

​Keyword: thirthy-sixth state

Pembahasan:​

Kalimat rumpang di atas membutuhkan kata sandang (definite article) untuk menjelaskan kata benda secara individual. Kata sandang yang tepat adalah "the"​

Multiple Choice

Bob Stephenson, a Biologist in Alaska who studies Canadian Lynx, a type of wildcat, has learned _____ from studying their tracks in the snow

• a.     how Lynx hunt

• b.     Lynx hunt how

• c.     How hunt Lynx

• d.     Lynx how hunt

A​

​Keyword: has learned

Pembahasan:

"has learned" pada kalimat soal di atas adalah predikat yang membutuhkan objek. maka objek yg tepat adalah "how lynx hunt" karna merupakan noun clause yg bisa menempati posisi objek

Multiple Choice

____ lay egg, but some give birth to live young.

• a.     Although most insects

• b.     Most insects

• c.     Despite most insects

• d.     Most insects that

B​

​Keyword: lay

Pembahasan:

Pola simple present tense: plural subject+ V1. kalimat diatas terdiri dari 2 klausa yang dihubungkan dengan konjungsi "but" akan tetapi klausa utama belum ada subjek nya. maka subjek yg sesuai adalah "most insects"

Multiple Choice

Author Sarah Jewet established her literary reputation with Deephaven, a collection of sketches _______.

• a.     With rural Maine life

• b.     That life in rural Maine

• c.     About life in rural Maine

• d.     Life in rural Maine

C​

keyword: a collection​

Pembahasan:

Untuk menerangkan kata a collection, maka prepositional phrase yg tepat adalah about life in rural Maine.​

Multiple Choice

By means of various types of wind tunnels, _____ simulate most of the flight condition to which an airplane is subjected.

• a.     Which aeronautical engineers can

• b.     aeronautical engineers can

• c.     the ability of aeronautical engineers to

• d.     aeronautical engineers, being able to

B​

​keyword: simulate

Pembahasan:

Kalimat diatas membutuhkan subject. Means various types of wind tunnels bukanlah subjek tapi objek dari preposisi by. Maka jawaban yg tepat adalah aeronautical engineers can sebagai subjek dalam modal can selalu diikuti V1 dalam kalimat tersebut adalah simulate​

Multiple Choice

------ planes in flight between airports, air traffic controller rely on radar.

• a. Tracked

• b. Track of

• c. To tract

• d. Of Tracking

C​

​Keyword: planes

Pembahasan:

​Kalimat soal ini menunjukkan maksud atau tujuan, maka to infinitive phrase menjadi pilihan yg tepat. Ingat, salah satu fungsi dari to infinitive phrase adalah untuk menyatakan maksd.

Multiple Choice

The operating principles of telephone are _____ they were in the nineteenth century.

• a. the same as today

• b. the same today

• c. the same today as

• d. today what the same

C​

​Keyword: are; they

Pembahasan:

​Kalimat soal ini menggunakan pola : the same ... as ... : sama seperti. dari 4 pilihan yg ada yg berpola ini yg bermakna sama adalah the same today as

Multiple Choice

Steel Magnate Andrew Carnegie used part of his wealth ____ more than 2,500 public libraries in English-speaking countries between 1881 and 1919

• a. helped in building

• b. helped him to building

• c. to help build

• d. his help in building

C​

​Keyword: used part of his life

Pembahasan:

​Kalimat rumpang di atas adalah menyatakan suatu maksud atau alasan, maka dibtuhkan to infinitive phrase sebagai objek complement. ingat, salah satu fungsi to infinitive adalah untuk menyatakan suatu alasan atau sebab dan maksud

Multiple Choice

Not until 1949 ____ Canada's tennth province.

• a. became Newfoundland

• b. did Newfoundland

• c. Newfoundland did become

• d. Newfoundland became

B​

​Keyword: not until

Pembahasan:

​Pola: adverb negative + auxiliary +subject + predicate

kalimat ini adalah negative inversion, yg mana bila negative expressions seperti no, not atau never datang di awal kalimat maka subjek dan prediket dibalik. Newfoundland diletakkan setelah verb "did" sehingga jawaban yg tepat untuk kalimat rumpang ini adalah Newfoundland become

Multiple Choice

Paul samuelson revolutionized _____ by presenting his students with the most advanced economic thinking at an introductory level

• a. to teach economics

• b. the teaching of economics

• c. teaching that economic is

• d. economic is taught

B​

​Keyword: revolutionized

Pembahasan:

​Kalimat rumpang di atas membutuhkan objek setelah prediket revolutionized, objek yg paling tepat adalah the teaching of economics yg merupakan noun phrase. ingat noun phrase dapat digunakan sebagai subjek maupun objek

Multiple Choice

the term belles-letter is used to denote to literaly forms that contain ____, such as drama, poetry, essays, and novels.

• a. artistic, creative writing

• b. writing that artistic

• c. artistic, creative, and writing

• d. them is artistic, creative writing

A

​Keyword: contain

Pembahasan:

​Kata contain pada kalimat soal adalah prediket yg membutuhkan objek. maka jawaban yg sesuai untuk mengisi rumpang tersebut untuk dipasangkan dengan such as adalah artistic, creative writing (subjek)

Multiple Choice

open-pit mining follows the same sequence of operations ____ mining: drilling, blasting, and loading and removing waste and ore.

• a. where underground

• b. that underground

• c. underground

• d. as underground

D​

​Keyword: the same sequence

Pembahasan:

​untuk menerangkan frasa "the sae sequence", adverb yg tepat adalah as underground.

Multiple Choice

____ in cases where special oxidants are used, fires are the result of a fuel rapidly combining when the oxygen in the air.

• a. There are

• b. even though

• c. how

• d. except

​Keyword: special oxidants are used, fires are the result of a fuel

Pembahasan:

​kalimat rumpang ini menekankan sebuah pengecualian (not including). maka konjungsi yg tepat adalah Except

D​

Multiple Choice

Maya Angelo's widely acclaimed authobiography, I know why the Caged Bird Sings, is a moving and ____ of her childhood in segragated Arkansas.

• a. an account that is often humorous

• b. Often humorous as an account

• c. Often humorous, the account

• d. Often humorous account

​Keyword: a moving

Pembahasan:

​pola noun phrase: modifier + head (noun). kedudukan kata/frasa sebelum dan sesudah konjungsi and harus setara. a moving adalah noun phrase maka setelah andharuslah nounbphrase jg. maka pilihan yg tepat adalah often humorous account

C​

Multiple Choice

____study element 104 because only a few atoms of this substance can be isolated at one time.

• a. the difficulty

• b. why it is difficult

• c. it is difficult

• d. even though difficult

​Keyword: to study

Pembahasan:

​kalimat pada soal ini membutuhkan subjek. untuk mewakili kedudukan subjek tersebut diperlukan impersonal "it" maka pilihan yg tepat adalah "it is difficult"

C​

Written Expression

in questions 16-40 each sentence has four underlined words or phrases. The four underlined parts of the sentence are marked (A), (B), (C), and (D). identify the one underlined word or phrase that must be changed in order for the sentence to be correct.

Multiple Choice

Common salt occurs naturally in pure, solidly forms as the mineral halite and in widely distributed deposits of rock, or mineral, salts.

• Common

• solidly

• and

• or

​Keyword: form

Pembahasan: solidly seharusnya solid

Pola noun phrase: modifier (adjective) + head (noun)​

​

B​

Multiple Choice

the term "metabolism" refers to the chemical changes which by living things transform food into energy.

• refers

• which by

• things

• into

​Keyword: the chemical changes

Pembahasan: which by seharusnya which are

Relative pronoun which untuk kata benda karena bendanya jamak maka diperlukan be "are' sehingga seharusnya menjadi "which are"​

​

B​

Multiple Choice

Material that of clay are among the most ancient manufactured articles and have played an vital role in human

• that of

• among

• manufactured articles

• in

​Keyword: material; clay are

Pembahasan: that of seharusnya made of

penggunaan that of tidak tepat karena sebenarnya prediket adjective clause pada induk kalimat tersebut pasif. maka diperlukan past participle "made of" yg artinya terbuat dari​

​

A​

Multiple Choice

Yogurt contains a higher percentage of lastic acid that another fermented milks, and it is rich in B-complex vitamins.

• contains

• higher

• another

• it is rich

​Keyword: Yogurt; fermented milks

Pembahasan: another seharusnya the other. penggunaan another tidak tepat karena kata benda yang ditunjukkan sudah diketahui dengan jelas (fermented milks). maka yg benar the other

​

C

Multiple Choice

Canada is made up of ten provinces and two territories, with govermental powers being divided between the federal government or the provinces.

• is

• with

• being

• or

​Keyword: between

Pembahasan: or seharusnya and. or tidak bisa digunakan dengan between. between lbh tepat digunakan dengan and

​

D​

Multiple Choice

Before the formation of labor unions, individual workers had almost not voice in determining their wages, hours, or working conditions

• Before

• not

• their

• conditions

​Keyword: had almost

Pembahasan: not seharusnya no had. had-not bermakna belum sedangkan had no bermakna tidak memiliki. kalimat ini tidak memiliki suara bukan bermakna para pekerja belum memiliki suara

​

B​

Multiple Choice

In the United States, the leading butter-producing states which are Wisconsin, California, and Minnesota

• In

• the leading

• states which

• and

​Keyword: are Wisconsin, California, and Minnesota

Pembahasan: states which seharusnya states be are sebagai prediket subjek "the leading butter-producing states' tidak perlu didahului relative conjunction which maka which harus dihilangkan

​

C​

Multiple Choice

Depending on many factors, including climate, mineral content of the soil, and the permanency of surface water, wetlands may be mossy, grossy, or covering with shrubs or.

• Depending

• many

• permanency

• covering

​Keyword: normally

Pembahasan: division seharusnya divided

penggunaan division tidak tepat karena adverb 'normally' seharusnya menjelaskan 'kata kerja' bukan kata benda. maka kata yg tept harusnya divided​

​

C​

Multiple Choice

In many areas of the world, people need clothing for protection the weather.

• In

• of the

• need

• protection

​Keyword: mossy; grassy

Pembahasan: jenis kata sebelum dan sesudak konjungsi or harus setara. maka yg benar seharusnya covery

​

D​

Multiple Choice

Hoover Dam in Nevada is multipurpose structure that provides flood control, hydroelectric powerful, and drinking and irrigation water.

• that provides

• powerful,

• and drinking

• water.

​Keyword: hydroelectric

Pembahasan: powerful seharucnya power

​pola noun phrase: modifier (adjective) + head (noun). jadi adjective powerful diganti noun power​

B

Multiple Choice

Physiologically, the period of adolescence is marked by active growth, especially in the skeletal and muscular systems and in a certain vascular tissues.

• by

• especially

• systems

• a certain

​Keyword: vascular tissues

Pembahasan: a certain seharusnya certain

indefinite article/determiner a tidak dibutuhkan karena kata kerja yg sebutkan (vascular tissues) adalah jamak​

D​

Multiple Choice

Free nitrogen is chemically inert and combined with other elements only since very high temperatures of pressures.

• and combined

• other

• since

• high temperatures

​Keyword: very high temperature

Pembahasan: since seharusnya for

preposisi since tidak tepat karena kalimat tersebut tidak menerangkan sebab akibat tapi menerangkan tujuan. maka preposisi yg tepat adalah for

C​

Multiple Choice

Sawfish are sharklike fish have saws of cartilage set with two rows of teeth on their snouts.

• have

• of cartilage

• teeth

• their

​Keyword: sharklike fish

Pembahasan: have seharusnya which have

penggunaan have pada kalimat ini tidak tepat karena sudah ada prediket are. yg tepat adalah which have

A​

Multiple Choice

The decade of the 1920's was significant in Georgia's history because of the rapidly with what agriculture declined in the state.

• significant

• because

• what

• declined

​Keyword: agriculture declined

Pembahasan: what seharusnya what was

pola passive voice: be +v3​

C​

Multiple Choice

Although usually living on or under rocks or on coral reefs, marine snails have been observed in a great various of habitats.

• Although

• living

• been observed

• various of

​Keyword: great

Pembahasan: various seharusnya variety

pola noun phrase: modifier (adjective) + head (noun)

D​

Multiple Choice

In the field of acting theory, controversy arises over the question of whether is acting a behavioral or a mental process.

• the field

• arises over

• is acting

• mental process

​Keyword: whether

Pembahasan: is acting seharusnya it is acting

whether adalah bagian dari klausa yg memerlukan subjek. maka impersonal 'it' dapat digunakan utk menempati kedudukan subjek tersebut

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Multiple Choice

Shorwave radios that can receive and transmit signals are used by pilots, the police, and amateur operator.

• that

• transmit

• used by

• operator.

​Keyword: the police, and

Pembahasan: operator seharusnya operators

jenis kata sebelum dan sesudah konjungsi and harus setara. maka operator seharusnya dirubah menjadi operators (plural). sama jamaknya dengan pilots and the police

D​

Multiple Choice

Because the silk is the strongest of all naturl fibers, ranking in strong with the synthetic fiber nylon, its delicate look and feel deceptive

• the strongest

• strong

• its delicate look

• deceptive

​Keyword:in

Pembahasan: strong seharusnya strenght

setelah preposisi in seharusnya noun bukan adjective.

B​

Multiple Choice

The red river, so named because of the red-colored sediment it crries, it is one of the main branches of the Mississipi.

• so named

• because of

• it is

• main branches

​Keyword:it carries

Pembahasan: it is seharusnya which is

untuk menggantikan kata ganti 'the red-colored sediment' tidak perlu menggunakan kata ganti 'it'. yg tepat seharusnya whici is​

C​

Multiple Choice

Floyyed Bannet was a pilot for two of the Arctic expedition of thr 1920'2 and the first pilot to fly over the North pole.

• expedition

• and

• first

• to fly

​Keyword:two of

Pembahasan: expedition seharusnya expeditions

frasa one/two of ____ selalu diikuti oleh noun plural​

A​

Multiple Choice

To those who favorite free trade, the revival of barter can suggest nothing less than a disaster.

• those

• favorite

• nothing

• disaster.

​Keyword: free trade

Pembahasan: favorite seharusnya like

pola adjective phrasa : conj. +s+ v

seharusnya setelah subjek adalah verb bukan adjective 'favorite'​

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Multiple Choice

In the United States, about 75 percent of the total tomatoes crop is processed into juice, canned tomatoes, sauces, pastes, and ketchup.

• about

• total

• tomatoes

• processed

​Keyword: crop

Pembahasan: tomatoes seharusnya tomato

penggunaan noun plural tomatoes tdk tepat karena dibelakangnya sudah ada kata benda 'crop'

C​

Multiple Choice

Today's nuclear fission fuels are the remnants of which used to be a much more active mixture of radioactive and fissionable materials two billion years ago and earlier.

• which

• much more

• years

• earlier.

​Keyword: the remants of

Pembahasan: which seharusnya what

frasa ... of ... pada kalimat soal bukan menerangkan bagian dari ...., maka yg tepat seharusnya 'what'​

A​

Multiple Choice

Photography concerns primarily with the detaild description and classification of rocks , whereas petrology deals primarily rock formation.

• concerns

• description

• whereas

• formatio

​Keyword: photography

Pembahasan: concerns seharusnya concern

pola simple present: s + V1

photography adalah uncountable noun dan tidak memiliki bentuk singular. maka verb concern tidak perlu ditambah -s cukup concern saja​

A​

By ARIMULIANI AHMAD

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