LITERASI DALAM BAHASA INGGRIS (UTBK-SNBT 2025)

Those in the retail industry that are successful in digitally transforming will be ones that leverage technology to innovate around an immersive and disruptive customer experience. These “lighthouse” retailers are the ones driving innovation, adopting emerging technologies early, and showing the industry what works and is possible. They are the ones experimenting with new models and store formats, playing with recombinations/reconfigurations of scale, assets, product, place, and people. The “store of the future” is the keystone of this effort.

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The store of the future will combine multiple formats to deliver an immersive and unique experience across all customer touchpoints online and in the store. It will be heavily instrumented for operational efficiency and digitally connected end-to-end to leverage a single view of customer, product, and order. The store of the future – despite its reliance on sophisticated technology and infrastructure – will be trying to look smaller and less intimidating, more personalized, and frictionless.

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The deployment of these and other digital technologies in disruptive ways can turn visitors into shoppers and shoppers into brand-loyal customers. However, understanding which consumers want personalization and which want contextualized and relevant experiences, while protecting everyone’s privacy, has grown more difficult. With so much at stake, data privacy has become a challenge for every party involved.

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Who needs to see the passage?

• Online customer

• Businessperson

• Manufacturer

• Importer

• Distributor

Those in the retail industry that are successful in digitally transforming will be ones that leverage technology to innovate around an immersive and disruptive customer experience. These “lighthouse” retailers are the ones driving innovation, adopting emerging technologies early, and showing the industry what works and is possible. They are the ones experimenting with new models and store formats, playing with recombinations/reconfigurations of scale, assets, product, place, and people. The “store of the future” is the keystone of this effort.

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The store of the future will combine multiple formats to deliver an immersive and unique experience across all customer touchpoints online and in the store. It will be heavily instrumented for operational efficiency and digitally connected end-to-end to leverage a single view of customer, product, and order. The store of the future – despite its reliance on sophisticated technology and infrastructure – will be trying to look smaller and less intimidating, more personalized, and frictionless.

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The deployment of these and other digital technologies in disruptive ways can turn visitors into shoppers and shoppers into brand-loyal customers. However, understanding which consumers want personalization and which want contextualized and relevant experiences, while protecting everyone’s privacy, has grown more difficult. With so much at stake, data privacy has become a challenge for every party involved.

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Which of the following statements is correct?

• Customers demanded stores with cutting-edge infrastructure to be user-friendly.

• The more advanced the technology is, the more successful the retailers will be.

• Each customer will receive a better and more unique experience in online shopping.

• Providing a one-of-a-kind shopping experience will require a combination of formats.

• Stores of the future are trying to achieve the ultimate goal that is to attract more visitors.

Answer explanation

Soal menanyakan pernyataan yang tepat berdasarkan teks. Pilihan A tidak tepat. Informasi tentang toko yang menggunakan infrastruktur mutakhir ada di paragraf dua kalimat tiga. Disebutkan bahwa meskipun bergantung dengan teknologi dan infrastruktur yang canggih, toko-toko ini akan berusaha untuk bisa digunakan dengan lebih mudah (oleh pelanggan), merujuk pada kata less intimidating dan frictionless. Namun, tidak ada informasi bahwa hal ini adalah tuntutan dari pelanggan. Pilihan B tidak tepat. Kesuksesan perusahaan ritel disebutkan di paragraf satu kalimat satu. Disampaikan bahwa mereka yang sukses adalah yang memanfaatkan teknologi untuk berinovasi. Kemutakhiran dari teknologi itu sendiri tidak menentukan kesuksesan mereka, melainkan pemanfaatannya. Pilihan C tidak tepat. Memberikan pengalaman berbelanja yang unik disampaikan di paragraf dua kalimat satu. Tertulis bahwa pengalaman berbelanja tersebut ditujukan pada semua titik, tidak hanya di toko online namun juga di toko offline. Pilihan D tepat. Informasi ini juga terdapat di paragraf dua kalimat satu. Disebutkan bahwa toko di masa depan memang akan menggabungkan berbagai format untuk memberikan pengalaman berbelanja yang berbeda. Dengan demikian, pernyataan informasi ini sesuai. Pilihan E tidak tepat. Informasi yang berhubungan dengan pengunjung ada di paragraf tiga kalimat satu. Disampaikan bahwa pebisnis ritel mengerti bahwa penerapan teknologi ini bisa mengubah pengunjung menjadi pembeli, pembeli menjadi pelanggan setia. Tidak disebutkan kalau menarik lebih banyak pengunjung adalah tujuan akhir mereka.

Those in the retail industry that are successful in digitally transforming will be ones that leverage technology to innovate around an immersive and disruptive customer experience. These “lighthouse” retailers are the ones driving innovation, adopting emerging technologies early, and showing the industry what works and is possible. They are the ones experimenting with new models and store formats, playing with recombinations/reconfigurations of scale, assets, product, place, and people. The “store of the future” is the keystone of this effort.

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The store of the future will combine multiple formats to deliver an immersive and unique experience across all customer touchpoints online and in the store. It will be heavily instrumented for operational efficiency and digitally connected end-to-end to leverage a single view of customer, product, and order. The store of the future – despite its reliance on sophisticated technology and infrastructure – will be trying to look smaller and less intimidating, more personalized, and frictionless.

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The deployment of these and other digital technologies in disruptive ways can turn visitors into shoppers and shoppers into brand-loyal customers. However, understanding which consumers want personalization and which want contextualized and relevant experiences, while protecting everyone’s privacy, has grown more difficult. With so much at stake, data privacy has become a challenge for every party involved.

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What is the subject of the passage?

• The emerging technology-specific change in retail industries

• Digital transformation strategies and initiatives for retail organizations

• The digitalization of retail business to push towards its improvements

• The qualities of retailers in succeeding their digital transformation plans

• Different ways of digital transformation in redefining retail stores

The United Nations predicts Earth will have to feed another 2.3 billion people by 2050, mostly concentrated in urban centers far from farmland. Conventional agriculture may not be able to meet that demand, but luckily NASA has been working for decades to tackle food production both on Earth and in space. Feeding astronauts during long-term space exploration means stretching resources to grow plants in space—including minimizing water use and energy consumption and eliminating soil.

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NASA initially pioneered these techniques on the ground by building the country’s first vertical farm. Inside a decommissioned hypobaric chamber left over from testing the Mercury space capsule, technologists stacked rows of hydroponic trays like bookshelves against the walls. Then systems for lighting, ventilation, and circulating water were added using off-the-shelf parts. Various crops were planted on the stacked trays to test how well they would grow in water and without the benefit of sunlight or open air. This innovative approach to farming created a foundation for the industry of controlled environment agriculture, or CEA.

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CEA combines plant science and environmental control to optimize plant growth and maximize efficiency, frequently incorporating vertical growth structures. Technology enables the filtering of contaminants from crop water and delivers precise nutrient balances. Artificial lighting provides only the necessary wavelengths at the right time, intensity, and duration, while environmental controls maintain ideal temperature and humidity. This approach could help feed burgeoning future generations, said Nate Storey, chief science officer at Plenty Unlimited, one of several companies building on NASA’s plant-growth research.

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It is stated in the passage that …

• The world will run out of food by 2050 according to the United Nations.

• NASA has maximized a farming method requiring a little water.

• NASA is taking over conventional agriculture to address future food demands.

• To improve plant development, plant science must be integrated with vertical growth structures.

• NASA's innovative approach

  pioneered the establishment of

  a controlled environment

  agriculture industry.

The United Nations predicts Earth will have to feed another 2.3 billion people by 2050, mostly concentrated in urban centers far from farmland. Conventional agriculture may not be able to meet that demand, but luckily NASA has been working for decades to tackle food production both on Earth and in space. Feeding astronauts during long-term space exploration means stretching resources to grow plants in space—including minimizing water use and energy consumption and eliminating soil.

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NASA initially pioneered these techniques on the ground by building the country’s first vertical farm. Inside a decommissioned hypobaric chamber left over from testing the Mercury space capsule, technologists stacked rows of hydroponic trays like bookshelves against the walls. Then systems for lighting, ventilation, and circulating water were added using off-the-shelf parts. Various crops were planted on the stacked trays to test how well they would grow in water and without the benefit of sunlight or open air. This innovative approach to farming created a foundation for the industry of controlled environment agriculture, or CEA.

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CEA combines plant science and environmental control to optimize plant growth and maximize efficiency, frequently incorporating vertical growth structures. Technology enables the filtering of contaminants from crop water and delivers precise nutrient balances. Artificial lighting provides only the necessary wavelengths at the right time, intensity, and duration, while environmental controls maintain ideal temperature and humidity. This approach could help feed burgeoning future generations, said Nate Storey, chief science officer at Plenty Unlimited, one of several companies building on NASA’s plant-growth research.

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Regarding the role of NASA in producing food, we know that …

• The more farming techniques NASA uses, the less energy it requires.

• The greater the space exploration is carried out, the more number of astronauts that must be fed.

• The more people requiring food, the more maximum NASA's agricultural technology will be.

• The longer the space expedition is, the more NASA optimizes its farming resources.

• The more maximum NASA farming technology becomes, the less traditional farming will be required.

The United Nations predicts Earth will have to feed another 2.3 billion people by 2050, mostly concentrated in urban centers far from farmland. Conventional agriculture may not be able to meet that demand, but luckily NASA has been working for decades to tackle food production both on Earth and in space. Feeding astronauts during long-term space exploration means stretching resources to grow plants in space—including minimizing water use and energy consumption and eliminating soil.

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NASA initially pioneered these techniques on the ground by building the country’s first vertical farm. Inside a decommissioned hypobaric chamber left over from testing the Mercury space capsule, technologists stacked rows of hydroponic trays like bookshelves against the walls. Then systems for lighting, ventilation, and circulating water were added using off-the-shelf parts. Various crops were planted on the stacked trays to test how well they would grow in water and without the benefit of sunlight or open air. This innovative approach to farming created a foundation for the industry of controlled environment agriculture, or CEA.

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CEA combines plant science and environmental control to optimize plant growth and maximize efficiency, frequently incorporating vertical growth structures. Technology enables the filtering of contaminants from crop water and delivers precise nutrient balances. Artificial lighting provides only the necessary wavelengths at the right time, intensity, and duration, while environmental controls maintain ideal temperature and humidity. This approach could help feed burgeoning future generations, said Nate Storey, chief science officer at Plenty Unlimited, one of several companies building on NASA’s plant-growth research.

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From the first paragraph, it can be predicted that …

• NASA will be more concerned with food production in space than with food production on Earth.

• The United Nations estimates that Earth will have to feed billions of people for a decade.

• The most crucial aspect of long-term space exploration will be astronaut nutrition.

• Conventional agriculture will succeed in feeding astronauts if it is combined with NASA's techniques.

• In the future, there will not be enough land for conventional agriculture.

The United Nations predicts Earth will have to feed another 2.3 billion people by 2050, mostly concentrated in urban centers far from farmland. Conventional agriculture may not be able to meet that demand, but luckily NASA has been working for decades to tackle food production both on Earth and in space. Feeding astronauts during long-term space exploration means stretching resources to grow plants in space—including minimizing water use and energy consumption and eliminating soil.

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NASA initially pioneered these techniques on the ground by building the country’s first vertical farm. Inside a decommissioned hypobaric chamber left over from testing the Mercury space capsule, technologists stacked rows of hydroponic trays like bookshelves against the walls. Then systems for lighting, ventilation, and circulating water were added using off-the-shelf parts. Various crops were planted on the stacked trays to test how well they would grow in water and without the benefit of sunlight or open air. This innovative approach to farming created a foundation for the industry of controlled environment agriculture, or CEA.

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CEA combines plant science and environmental control to optimize plant growth and maximize efficiency, frequently incorporating vertical growth structures. Technology enables the filtering of contaminants from crop water and delivers precise nutrient balances. Artificial lighting provides only the necessary wavelengths at the right time, intensity, and duration, while environmental controls maintain ideal temperature and humidity. This approach could help feed burgeoning future generations, said Nate Storey, chief science officer at Plenty Unlimited, one of several companies building on NASA’s plant-growth research.

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How is the second paragraph related to the first paragraph?

• Paragraph 2 exemplifies kinds of agricultural progress discussed in paragraph 1.

• The vertical farm described in paragraph 1 is explained in detail in paragraph 2

• The second paragraph expands on the first paragraph's discussion of NASA's agricultural method.

• The second paragraph explains further the issues raised in the first paragraph regarding food demands in 2050.

• The success of the NASA farming practices mentioned in the first paragraph is reiterated in the second paragraph.

Earthquake is any sudden shaking of the ground caused by the passage of seismic waves through Earth’s rocks. Seismic waves are produced when some form of energy stored in Earth’s crust is suddenly released, usually when masses of rock straining against one another suddenly fracture and “slip.” Earthquakes occur most often along geologic faults, narrow zones where rock masses move in relation to one another. The major fault lines of the world are located at the fringes of the huge tectonic plates that make up Earth’s crust.

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Little was understood about earthquakes until the emergence of seismology at the beginning of the 20th century. Seismology, which involves the scientific study of all aspects of earthquakes, has yielded answers to such long-standing questions as why and how earthquakes occur. About 50,000 earthquakes large enough to be noticed without the aid of instruments occur annually over the entire Earth. Of these, approximately 100 are of sufficient size to produce substantial damage if their centers are near areas of habitation. Very great earthquakes occur on average about once per year. Over the centuries they have been responsible for millions of deaths and an incalculable amount of damage to property.

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The paragraph following the passage most likely discusses ….

• Suggestions to emerge the seismology to detect the earthquake

• Examples of the substantial damage that caused by the earthquake

• The development of seismology to identify the earthquake earlier

• Factors that cause the earthquake and seismic wave

• The reason why we need the seismology

Answer explanation

Soal menanyakan topik yang kemungkinan besar dibahas pada paragraf selanjutnya setelah teks tersebut. Dalam sebuah wacana, topik sebuah paragraf lanjutan harus padu dengan topik paragraf sebelumnya. Untuk menguji kepaduan ini, pembaca dapat melihat pada bagian penutup paragraf dan bagian awal paragraf selanjutnya. Kepaduan dua paragraf tersebut akan terlihat dari bagian-bagian tersebut. Bagian penutup paragraf terakhir di teks bacaan adalah kalimat over the centuries they have been responsible for millions of deaths and an incalculable amount of damage to property. Kalimat penutup ini berbicara mengenai akibat gempa, yaitu hilangnya nyawa manusia dan kerusakan-kerusakan properti. Dari lima pilihan topik yang tersedia, topik yang paling padu dengan kalimat ini adalah examples of the substantial damage that caused by the earthquake. Paragraf dengan topik tersebut akan menjadi paragraf yang padu dengan paragraf terakhir dalam teks bacaan.

Earthquake is any sudden shaking of the ground caused by the passage of seismic waves through Earth’s rocks. Seismic waves are produced when some form of energy stored in Earth’s crust is suddenly released, usually when masses of rock straining against one another suddenly fracture and “slip.” Earthquakes occur most often along geologic faults, narrow zones where rock masses move in relation to one another. The major fault lines of the world are located at the fringes of the huge tectonic plates that make up Earth’s crust.

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Little was understood about earthquakes until the emergence of seismology at the beginning of the 20th century. Seismology, which involves the scientific study of all aspects of earthquakes, has yielded answers to such long-standing questions as why and how earthquakes occur. About 50,000 earthquakes large enough to be noticed without the aid of instruments occur annually over the entire Earth. Of these, approximately 100 are of sufficient size to produce substantial damage if their centers are near areas of habitation. Very great earthquakes occur on average about once per year. Over the centuries they have been responsible for millions of deaths and an incalculable amount of damage to property.

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What is the author’s attitude towards the topic of the passage?

• Concerned

• Critical

• Informative

• Satisfied

• Optimistic

Answer explanation

Soal menanyakan sikap penulis terhadap teks tersebut. Sikap penulis dalam sebuah wacana dinyatakan dengan kata sifat, seperti yang terlihat pada pilihan-pilihan yang tersedia. Supaya dapat menentukan kata sifat yang tepat, pembaca perlu memperhatikan hal-hal seperti pilihan kata, jenis kalimat (kalimat fakta atau opini), asumsi, kesimpulan, dan keberpihakan penulis baik yang tersurat maupun tersirat dalam tulisannya. Teks bacaan menunjukan bahwa topik pembicaraan penulis adalah peristiwa gempa bumi. Di paragraf pertama, penulis memberikan definisi serta menjelaskan proses terjadinya gempa bumi. Di paragraf selanjutnya, penulis berbicara tentang bidang keilmuan seismologi serta terobosan yang dicapainya. Dalam kedua paragraf tersebut, penulis secara konsisten memakai kalimat-kalimat yang bersifat faktual. Selain itu, tidak ada kalimat, frasa, atau kata yang memperlihatkan reaksi pribadi penulis terhadap topik yang dibicarakannya. Dari lima pilihan kata sifat yang tersedia, kata informative adalah kata yang paling tepat menggambarkan sikap penulis.

Earthquake is any sudden shaking of the ground caused by the passage of seismic waves through Earth’s rocks. Seismic waves are produced when some form of energy stored in Earth’s crust is suddenly released, usually when masses of rock straining against one another suddenly fracture and “slip.” Earthquakes occur most often along geologic faults, narrow zones where rock masses move in relation to one another. The major fault lines of the world are located at the fringes of the huge tectonic plates that make up Earth’s crust.

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Little was understood about earthquakes until the emergence of seismology at the beginning of the 20th century. Seismology, which involves the scientific study of all aspects of earthquakes, has yielded answers to such long-standing questions as why and how earthquakes occur. About 50,000 earthquakes large enough to be noticed without the aid of instruments occur annually over the entire Earth. Of these, approximately 100 are of sufficient size to produce substantial damage if their centers are near areas of habitation. Very great earthquakes occur on average about once per year. Over the centuries they have been responsible for millions of deaths and an incalculable amount of damage to property.

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What will happen when seismic waves pass through Earth’s rocks?

• It will answer why and how earthquakes occur.

• It may cause an earthquake.

• It will store some form of energy in Earth’s crust.

• The masses of rock will slip.

• It may produce seismic waves.

Answer explanation

Soal tersebut menanyakan hal yang akan terjadi ketika gelombang seismik melewati batuan bumi. Informasi tentang gelombang seismik dapat ditemukan dalam paragraf pertama. Dikatakan bahwa gempa bumi 'adalah setiap guncangan tiba-tiba dari tanah yang disebabkan oleh lewatnya gelombang seismik melalui batuan bumi.' Berdasarkan pendefinisian tersebut, dapat disimpulkan bahwa jika lempengan bumi menerima gelombang seismik, gempa bumi akan terjadi.