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

Complete the following dialog with suitable expression!

Lira: I need more references to finish my papaer, but the school library is already closed at this time.

Bona: We can browse them from the internet.

Lira: But I don't have much credit.

Bona: ____

Lira: Is it all right?

Bona: Definitely. Here. I've already activated the mobile hotspot.

Lira: Thank you, Bona.
 

What does Bona probably say? 

What is the news about? 

The following text is for questions 41 to 43.

    Okutama, Japan (CNN). Four years ago, Naoko and Takayuki lda were given a house. For free. It's a spacious, two-storey home nestled amid trees on a winding country road in the small town of Okutama, in Tokyo Prefecture. Before moving, the couple and their children-two teenagers and a five-year-old-were all living with Naoko's parents.

    "We had to do a lot of repair work (on our new home), but we'd always wanted to live in the countryside and have a big garden," said Naoko, 45.

    A free house may sound like a scam. But Japan faces an unusual property problem: it has more homes than people to live in them.

    ln 2013, there were 61 million houses and 52 million households, according to the Japan Policy Forum, and the situation is poised to get worse.

    Japan's population is expected to decline from 127 million to about 88 million by 2065, according to the National Institute of Population and Social Security, meaning even fewer people will need houses. As young people leave rural areas for city jobs, Japan's countryside has become haunted by deserted "ghost" houses, known as "akiya."

    It's predicted that by 2040, nearly 900 towns and villages across Japan will no longer exist - and Okutama is one of them. In that context, giving away property is a bid for survival.

    "In 2014, we discovered that Okutama was one of three Tokyo (prefecture) towns expected to vanish by 2040," says Kazutaka Niijima, an official with the Okutama Youth Revitalization (OYR) department, a government body set up to repopulate the town.

(Adopted from: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/05/asia/japanvacant-akiya-ghost-homes/index.html (April 25, 2019))

What is the subject of the text? 

Complete the following short dialog with suitable expression!

Gina: Sandra is sick and I plan to visit her.

Riko: Do you know her house? 

Gina: No, I don't. What should I do then?

Riko: ____. I've been there twice.

Gina: Thanks, Riko

What does Riko probably say? 

Answer the following question based on the dialogs in Activity 3.

Dialog 1

Customer representative: Good morning Ma'am. Please have a seat. What can I do for you?

Mrs. Aninditha: Good morning. I'd like to do regular service.

Customer representative: Sure, Ma'am. May I have your service book, please?

Mrs. Aninditha: Oh. Here it is.

Customer representative: There is a coupon for free service. Do you want to use it?

Mrs. Aninditha: Sure. Thanks.

Customer representative: Is there any problem with your motorcycle?

Mrs. Aninditha: I don't think so.

Customer representative: O.K. Do you want to change the engine oil?

Mrs. Aninditha: Yes.

Customer representative: All right, Ma'am. Please take this drink and wait in the waiting room over there. We will inform you if there is any problem.

Mrs. Aninditha: O.K. Thank you.

Customer representative: You're welcome.

For Dialog 1, what services does Mrs. Aninditha demand? 

The following text is for questions 41 to 43.

    Okutama, Japan (CNN). Four years ago, Naoko and Takayuki lda were given a house. For free. It's a spacious, two-storey home nestled amid trees on a winding country road in the small town of Okutama, in Tokyo Prefecture. Before moving, the couple and their children-two teenagers and a five-year-old-were all living with Naoko's parents.

    "We had to do a lot of repair work (on our new home), but we'd always wanted to live in the countryside and have a big garden," said Naoko, 45.

    A free house may sound like a scam. But Japan faces an unusual property problem: it has more homes than people to live in them.

    ln 2013, there were 61 million houses and 52 million households, according to the Japan Policy Forum, and the situation is poised to get worse.

    Japan's population is expected to decline from 127 million to about 88 million by 2065, according to the National Institute of Population and Social Security, meaning even fewer people will need houses. As young people leave rural areas for city jobs, Japan's countryside has become haunted by deserted "ghost" houses, known as "akiya."

    It's predicted that by 2040, nearly 900 towns and villages across Japan will no longer exist - and Okutama is one of them. In that context, giving away property is a bid for survival.

    "In 2014, we discovered that Okutama was one of three Tokyo (prefecture) towns expected to vanish by 2040," says Kazutaka Niijima, an official with the Okutama Youth Revitalization (OYR) department, a government body set up to repopulate the town.

(Adopted from: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/05/asia/japanvacant-akiya-ghost-homes/index.html (April 25, 2019))

'"In 2014, we discovered that Okutama was one of three Tokyo (prefecture) towns expected to vanish by 2040,' says Kazutaka Niijima, .... " (Last paragraph)

The underlined word has similar meaning to ____. 

The purpose of the text is ____. 

The following text is for questions 18 to 21. 

Oceans' Fever Means Fewer Fish

    Finding fish is going to get harder as climate change continues to heat the world's oceans. A new study finds that warming seas over the past 80 years have reduced the sustainable catch of 124 species of fish and shellfish.

    Sustainable catch refers to the amount that can be harvested without doing long-term damage to the health of populations of some species.

    Overfishing has.made that decline worse, researchers say. Overfishing refers to catching so many fish that the size of the population falls. In some parts of the world, such as the heavily fished Sea of Japan, the decrease is as high as 35 percent. That's a loss of more than one in every three fish.

    Researchers examined changes in 235 populations of fish and shellfish between 1930 and 2010. Those fish populations were scattered across 38 ocean regions. Temperature changes vary from one ocean site to another. But on average over that time, Earth's sea-surface temperatures have risen by about half a degree Celsius (0.9 degree Fahrenheit).

    On average, that warming has caused the sustainable catch to drop by 4.1 percent, the study found. About 8 percent of the fish and shellfish populations the team saw losses as a result of the ocean warming. About 4 percent of the populations increased. That's because certain species have thrived in warmer waters. One example is the black sea bass. It dwells along the northeastern U.S. coast.

    But as warming continues, even these fish will reach their limit, says Christopher Free. He works at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He led the work while he was at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J.

    About 3.2 billion people worldwide rely on seafood as a source of food. That means it's urgent for commercial fishing fleets and regulators to consider how climate change is affecting the health of all of those fish in the sea.

(Adopted from: https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/oceans-climate-change-means-fewer-fish (April 6, 2019))

Why is it important to keep fishing in a sustainable catch? 

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.

Why is it not recommended to set the iron too hot? 

Answer the following question based on the caption below.

You can win an egoist by showing (1) ____,

You can win a (2) ____ person by allowing him to (3) ____ insanely,

And you can win a wise man by telling him the (4) ____.

(Chanakya)

How can we make wise men believe in what we say?