Contoh Soal Bahasa Inggris (POLRI) 2027 + Pembahasan

… composed traditionally has been a subject of debate among scholars.

The colors and patterns of the wings of butterflies and moths help … the organism against predators.

In medicine, certain plastics have important uses because they do not affected by chemicals in the body, and they do not harm the body.

Choose the word or phrase that best completes the sentence.

Charlie Parker, ... was one of the creators of the music style called "bop."

Abraham Lincoln's boyhood home resembled those of many others mid-western pioneers, with its dirt floor, sleeping loft, and crude fireplace.

The ceremonial Chilcat blanket of the Northwest Tlingit Indians was generally … from cedar bark, wool, and goats' hair.

Perhatikan kalimat berikut. Pilih bagian yang salah.

Since a hospital is organized to protect and treat people who are ill, its goals, structures, and functions depend on the currently state of medical science.

Many exercises such as calisthenics, running, or to swim involve producing muscle tension through a range of movements that are called isotonics.

Identify the error in the following sentence.

A number of the Pacific Islands are volcanoes that have pushed up from the ocean floor, others are the tops sunken mountain ranges.

It has been reported that during any twenty-four-hour period, a minimal of three hundred North American women start their own businesses.

From the text we may conclude that the writer's objective is to show the public that ...

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The catastrophe called the Great Dying, which occurred between the Permian and Triassic periods, wiped out 90 percent of the planet's marine life and 70 percent of all plant and animal life. The most recent popular scientific belief about what caused it was the impact of a large object from space, but the examination of sediment and fossils deposited at the time has led two groups of scientists to revise this belief.
Animals and plants both on land and in the sea were dying at the same time and apparently from the same causes - 'too much heat and too little oxygen,' said Peter Ward, a University of Washington paleontologist. In their research published in Science Express, the groups found increased levels of sulphur and depleted oxygen in the ancient rock. Ward and his team of researchers from the United States and South Africa thought that the sulphur came from continued volcanic eruptions in an area known as the Siberian Trap. The eruptions warmed the Earth, trapped sunlight, and depleted oxygen in the air.
At the same time, the Earth's shifting tectonic plates lowered the levels of the ocean, exposing seabeds and releasing methane trapped in the sediment there, further increasing the global warming. The temperatures kept rising until the planet reached a critical point causing everything to die. Temperatures around the world rose 8 degrees, killing off plants which served as food for animals, thereby starving them. In addition, oxygen levels dropped to about 16 percent in the atmosphere, whereas normal levels today are at 21.
Therefore, it is believed that widespread volcanic eruptions that led to global warming were likely the cause of the massive extinction 250 million years ago, not the impact of an asteroid or comet.

The black-billed cuckoo has been known to steal eggs ______ to other birds.

Marine life in line 2 means the life of …

Text 1
The catastrophe called the Great Dying, which occurred between the Permian and Triassic periods wiped out 90 percent of the planet's marine life and 70 percent of all plant and animal life. The most recent popular scientific belief about what caused it was the impact of a large object from space, but the examination of sediment and fossils deposited at the time has led two groups of scientists to revise this belief.
Animals and plants both on land and in the sea were dying at the same time and apparently from the same causes - 'too much heat and too little oxygen,' said Peter Ward, a University of Washington paleontologist. In their research published in Science Express, the groups found increased levels of sulphur and depleted oxygen in the ancient rock. Ward and his team of researchers from the United States and South Africa thought that the sulphur came from continued volcanic eruptions in an area known as the Siberian Trap. The eruptions warmed the Earth, trapped sunlight, and depleted oxygen in the air.
At the same time, the Earth's shifting tectonic plates lowered the levels of the ocean, exposing seabeds and releasing methane trapped in the sediment there, further increasing the global warming. The temperatures kept rising so that it got hotter until it reached a critical point causing everything to die. Temperatures around the world rose 8 degrees, killing off plants which served as food for animals, thereby starving them. In addition, oxygen levels dropped to about 16 percent in the atmosphere, whereas normal levels today are at 21.
Therefore, it is believed that widespread volcanic eruptions that led to global warming was likely the cause of massive extinction 250 million years ago, not the impact of an asteroid or comet.

... bacteria in foods are killed, as they are during baking or stewing, decay is slowed down.

What was most probably the cause of the Great Dying?

Text 1
The catastrophe called the Great Dying, which occurred between the Permian and Triassic periods, wiped out 90 percent of the planet's marine life and 70 percent of all plant and animal life. The most recent popular scientific belief about what caused it was the impact of a large object from space, but the examination of sediment and fossils deposited at the time has led two groups of scientists to revise this belief.
Animals and plants both on land and in the sea were dying at the same time and apparently from the same causes - 'too much heat and too little oxygen,' said Peter Ward, a University of Washington paleontologist. In their research published in Science Express, the groups found increased levels of sulphur and depleted oxygen in the ancient rock. Ward and his team of researchers from the United States and South Africa thought that the sulphur came from continued volcanic eruptions in an area known as the Siberian Trap. The eruptions warmed the Earth, trapped sunlight, and depleted oxygen in the air.
At the same time, the Earth's shifting tectonic plates lowered the levels of the ocean, exposing seabeds and releasing methane trapped in the sediment there, further increasing the global warming. The temperatures kept rising until it got hotter and reached a critical point causing everything to die. Temperatures around the world rose 8 degrees, killing off plants which served as food for animals, thereby starving them. In addition, oxygen levels dropped to about 16 percent in the atmosphere, whereas normal levels today are at 21.
Therefore, it is believed that widespread volcanic eruptions that led to global warming were likely the cause of massive extinction 250 million years ago, not the impact of an asteroid or comet.

The knee is more likely to be damage than most other joints because it is subject to tremendous forces during vigorous activity.

Crazy Horse is generally recognized for his courageous and skill, and he was revered by the Sioux as their greatest leader.

When Columbus reached the New World, corn was the … in the Americas.

There is evidence that the caribou originated into North America and crossed over a land bridge into Asia and evolved into the Old World's reindeer.

At the South Pole ..., the coldest and most desolate region on Earth.

Jupiter, the closest of the giant planets to Earth, has ______ solid surface and is surrounded by zones of intense radiation.

Identify the error in the following sentence.

The basic elements of public-opinion research are interviewers, questionnaires, tabulating equipment, and to sample population.

Choose the underlined part that contains an error.

Halifax is largest city and chief port of Nova Scotia and is the eastern terminus of Canada's two great railway systems.

Identifikasi bagian yang salah pada kalimat berikut.

Small distinctions among stamps, unimportant to the person average, would mean a great deal to the stamp collector.

Joyce Carol Oates published her first collection of short stories, By the North Gate, in 1963, two years after she had received her master's degree from the University of Wisconsin and become an instructor of English at the University of Detroit. Her productivity since then has been prodigious, accumulating in less than two decades to nearly thirty titles, including novels, collections of short stories and verse, plays, and literary criticism. In the meantime, she has continued to teach, moving in 1967 from the University of Detroit to the University of Windsor, in Ontario, and, in 1978, to Princeton University. Reviewers have admired her enormous energy, but find a productivity of such magnitude difficult to assess.

In a period characterized by the abandonment of so much of the realistic tradition by authors such as John Barth, Donald Barthelme, and Thomas Pynchon, Joyce Carol Oates has seemed at times determinedly old-fashioned in her insistence on the essentially mimetic quality of her fiction. Hers is a world of violence, insanity, fractured love, and hopeless loneliness. Although some of it appears to come from her own direct observations, her dreams, and her fears, much more is clearly from the experiences of others. Her first novel, With Shuddering Fall (1964), dealt with stock car racing, though she had never seen a race. In them (1969) she focused on Detroit from the Depression through the riots of 1967, drawing much of her material from the deep impression made on her by the problems of one of her students. Whatever the source and however shocking the events or the motivations, however, her fictive world remains strikingly akin to that real one reflected in the daily newspapers, the television news and talk shows, and the popular magazines of our day.

What is the main purpose of the passage?

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Climate change is with us. A decade ago, it was conjecture. Now the future is unfolding before our eyes. Canada's Inuit see it in melting Arctic ice and permafrost. The shantytown dwellers of Latin America and Southern Asia see it in lethal storms and floods. Europeans see it in disappearing glaciers, forest fires and fatal heat waves. Scientists see it in tree rings, ancient coral and bubbles trapped in ice cores. These reveal that the world has not been as warm as it is now for a millennium or more. Earth has probably never warmed as fast as in the past 30 years, a period when natural influences on global temperatures, such as solar cycles and volcanoes, should have cooled us down.

People are causing the change by burning nature's vast stores of coal, oil and natural gas. This releases billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO₂) every year, although the changes may actually have started with the dawn of agriculture, say some scientists. The physics of the 'greenhouse effect' has been a matter of scientific fact for a century. CO₂ is a greenhouse gas that traps the sun's radiation within the troposphere. It has accumulated along with other man-made greenhouse gases, such as methane and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). If current trends continue, we will raise atmospheric CO₂ concentrations to double pre-industrial levels during this century. That will probably be enough to raise global temperatures by around 2°C to 5°C. Some warming is certain, but the degree will be determined by feedbacks involving melting ice, the oceans, water vapor, clouds and changes to vegetation.

Global warming is bringing about other unpredictable changes. Melting glaciers and precipitation are causing some rivers to overflow, while evaporation is emptying others. Diseases are spreading. Some crops grow faster while others see yields slashed by disease and drought. Strong hurricanes are becoming more frequent and destructive. Arctic sea ice is melting faster every year, and there are growing fears of a shutdown of the ocean currents that keep Europe warm for its latitude. Clashes over dwindling water resources may cause conflicts in many regions.

The first paragraph of the text mainly deals with the topic of ....

Compared with other sea creatures, the sea cucumber is very ...

Formed-character printers have the advantage over dot-matrix printers of

The word "homogeneous" in the sentence "The population of the small island was largely homogeneous, sharing the same language, customs, and beliefs" is closest in meaning to ....

The phrase "largely renounces" is closest in meaning to ...