SMA Bahasa Inggris: Pertanyaan, Jawaban, Latihan Soal & Pembahasan

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    Dr. William Frankland, one of the top allergists of the 20th century and an indomitable researcher who helped legions of hay fever sneezers by distributing daily pollen counts to the British public, died on Thursday in London at 108.

    His son, Andrew, said the cause was the coronavirus. He lived in a care home at the historic Charterhouse complex, a former monastery in London.

    Dr. Frankland, who was among the world's oldest active scientists, remained remarkably vigorous to the end, despite having come close to death several times in his long life; He was born prematurely weighing just over three pounds, and he contracted bovine tuberculosis as a child Later, while serving in the British Army, he spent years as a malnourished prisoner of war in Japanese camps. He had another brush with death when he used himself as an experiment on a biting insect and had an anaphylaxis reaction.

    Dr. Frankland was best known in professional circles for a number of groundbreaking clinical studies. In 1954, he proved that pollen proteins were the parts of plants most useful in preseason allergy inoculations, and in 1955 he debunked the efficacy of treating asthma with bacterial vaccines.

    He was an early proponent of using allergen injections to desensitize patients with severe allergies, and developed immunotherapy serums for hay fever sufferers with pollen from one of the world's largest pollen farms, which he operated outside London until the late 1960s.

(Adopted from: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/science/william-frankiand-dead-coronavirus.html (April 12, 2020))

How can we describe Dr. Wiliam Frankland?     

What is the benefit of fish farms such as Sterling Caviar? 

What will happen to the caviar business? 

Complete the following statements based on the text.

A Canadian Tourist Has Died After Falling from a Popular Zipline Attraction in Northern Thailand

    Local media reports say a Canadian man has died after the cable of a zip line he was traveling on snapped in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand-the latest accident to befall the popular Flight of the Gibbon tourist attraction.

    According to the Bangkok Post, the man was identified as 25-year-old. Spencer Charles, who was vacationing in Thailand.

    Local officials in Mae-on district told the Post that the accident happened late on Saturday morning when a cable was reportedly disconnected shortly after Charles was released from the start of the zip line, causing him to fall more than 300 feet to the creek below.

    The year before, an American woman and a Chinese woman, crashed into each other while riding the zip line and were hospitalized.

    According to a Post report of 2017, the husband of the Chinese woman claimed in a statement to a Thai court that there was no first aid kit available on the site at the time of the accident, while the American woman suffered from brain trauma and lost vision in one eye as a result.

    The Flight of the Gibbon bills itself as "a chance to encounter wild gibbons in their natural habitat" by ziplining through "the ancient Thai rainforest." It says it has "the highest international safety standards"; land "fully trained staff" it calls "Sky Rangers."

    It was founded in 2007 by New Zealander David Allardice, according to its website, and operates zip line attractions in Chiang Mai and in the Thai capital Bangkok.

    The company has accepted full responsibility for the accident, said an official cited by the Post, and an investigation is underway.

 

(Adopted from: Hillary Leung, http:l/time.com/5570560/flight-of-the-gibbon-death-accident-safety-tourist-thailand-zipline/ (April 15, 2020))

The attraction is named "The Flight of The Gibbons" because... 

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UK Using 1.2 Billion Tonnes of Material a Year

    The UK is using 1.2 billion tonnes of materials a year-that's the equivalent of 18.5 tonnes of material for every person in the country. The materials include food, timber products, metals, construction materials, and fossil fuels. They are vital to the economy, but the figures show the UK is increasingly reliant on importing its materials, especially from China. Almost 80% come from abroad, the Office for National Statistics numbers show the statistics matter because extracting materials from the environment uses a great deal of energy, typically generated by burning fossil fuels.

    The UK is signed up to international agreements to reduce its consumption of materials in an attempt to protect the natural world and combat climate change. But, despite those agreements, the figures show Britain's material consumption has gone up slightly, not down. What's more, the amount of material generated in the UK itself has slumped to a new low - just over a fifth of the total we use.

    That means more is being shipped from China and other developing nations, which supply the vast majority of the material we use. And they object to being blamed for the carbon emissions that are generated when meeting our needs. The figures show that the UK's material "footprint" is now 30% higher than it was in 1990. They were partially compiled by the University of Leeds, which says the UK has "outsourced" its environmental pressures to other countries.

    Professor John Barrett from Leeds says the government should focus on reducing the flow of resources into the UK, if it wants to reduce C02 emissions. He said that it would be cheaper and more effective than trying to help the industry save energy.

    "Resource efficiency improvements are twice as effective as industrial energy efficiency measures but most of the UK government funds are aimed at industrial energy efficiency," he told the BBC.

(Adopted from: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52141941 ?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.com/news/busin!lss&link_location=live-reporting-story (April 11, 2020)

What can we conclude about the UK's materials footprints? 

What can we tell about sturgeon?  

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UK Using 1.2 Billion Tonnes of Material a Year

    The UK is using 1.2 billion tonnes of materials a year-that's the equivalent of 18.5 tonnes of material for every person in the country. The materials include food, timber products, metals, construction materials, and fossil fuels. They are vital to the economy, but the figures show the UK is increasingly reliant on importing its materials, especially from China. Almost 80% come from abroad, the Office for National Statistics numbers show the statistics matter because extracting materials from the environment uses a great deal of energy, typically generated by burning fossil fuels.

    The UK is signed up to international agreements to reduce its consumption of materials in an attempt to protect the natural world and combat climate change. But, despite those agreements, the figures show Britain's material consumption has gone up slightly, not down. What's more, the amount of material generated in the UK itself has slumped to a new low - just over a fifth of the total we use.

    That means more is being shipped from China and other developing nations, which supply the vast majority of the material we use. And they object to being blamed for the carbon emissions that are generated when meeting our needs. The figures show that the UK's material "footprint" is now 30% higher than it was in 1990. They were partially compiled by the University of Leeds, which says the UK has "outsourced" its environmental pressures to other countries.

    Professor John Barrett from Leeds says the government should focus on reducing the flow of resources into the UK, if it wants to reduce C02 emissions. He said that it would be cheaper and more effective than trying to help the industry save energy.

    "Resource efficiency improvements are twice as effective as industrial energy efficiency measures but most of the UK government funds are aimed at industrial energy efficiency," he told the BBC.

(Adopted from: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52141941 ?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.com/news/busin!lss&link_location=live-reporting-story (April 11, 2020)

How does the UK's importing materials affect the environment?

How does the UK acquire its materials? 

Answer the questions that follow.

UK Using 1.2 Billion Tonnes of Material a Year

    The UK is using 1.2 billion tonnes of materials a year-that's the equivalent of 18.5 tonnes of material for every person in the country. The materials include food, timber products, metals, construction materials, and fossil fuels. They are vital to the economy, but the figures show the UK is increasingly reliant on importing its materials, especially from China. Almost 80% come from abroad, the Office for National Statistics numbers show the statistics matter because extracting materials from the environment uses a great deal of energy, typically generated by burning fossil fuels.

    The UK is signed up to international agreements to reduce its consumption of materials in an attempt to protect the natural world and combat climate change. But, despite those agreements, the figures show Britain's material consumption has gone up slightly, not down. What's more, the amount of material generated in the UK itself has slumped to a new low - just over a fifth of the total we use.

    That means more is being shipped from China and other developing nations, which supply the vast majority of the material we use. And they object to being blamed for the carbon emissions that are generated when meeting our needs. The figures show that the UK's material "footprint" is now 30% higher than it was in 1990. They were partially compiled by the University of Leeds, which says the UK has "outsourced" its environmental pressures to other countries.

    Professor John Barrett from Leeds says the government should focus on reducing the flow of resources into the UK, if it wants to reduce C02 emissions. He said that it would be cheaper and more effective than trying to help the industry save energy.

    "Resource efficiency improvements are twice as effective as industrial energy efficiency measures but most of the UK government funds are aimed at industrial energy efficiency," he told the BBC.

(Adopted from: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52141941 ?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.com/news/busin!lss&link_location=live-reporting-story (April 11, 2020)

What does professor John Barrett say about reducing the flow of resources in the UK? 

The following text is for questions 46 and 47.

   
    What house chores do you do? Do you iron your own clothes? By the way, can you iron? Here are tips on ironing you need to know.

1. Make sure the clothes you are going to iron are dry.
2. Set the temperature according to the type of fabrics. You'd better set the iron not too hot.
3. If the T-shirt you are going to iron has a picture, tum it inside out. Iron the inside part of the T-shirt.
4. If you are going to iron wrinkled shirts or trousers, prepare a sprayer with fragrances. Spray over the wrinkles, but don't get too wet. After that, iron the shirts or trousers.
5. Make sure you fold the ironed clothes neatly.

From the passage, we can conclude that we should turn a T-shirt with picture inside out; ____ the picture will be damaged.