TOEFL Listening Practice Skill 1-3 (Longman TOEFL PBT)

Contoh Soal Explanation Text SMA dan Jawaban Pembahasan

Contoh Soal Explanation Text SMA dan Jawaban Pembahasan. Explanation Text adalah salah satu jenis teks teks yang digunakan untuk menerangkan cara (proses) sesuatu terjadi, terutama yang berkaitan dengan fenomena alam, dunia ilmiah atau sosial budaya. Pada postingan kali ini saya akan membagikan tentang Kumpulan Contoh Soal Explanation Text Untuk SMA dan Jawaban Pembahasan. Kumpulan soal Explanation Text berikut ini saya kumpulkan dari berbagai naskah soal UN Bahasa Inggris SMA. 

The following text is for questions 1 to 4.

All human beings eat food and make use of the chemical energy in it, so do all other animals. Perhaps you wonder where all that chemical energy comes from. Why doesn’t the food all get used up?

The answer is that new food is being grown as fast as old food is used to. It is the green plants that form the new food. Animals either eat the plants or eat other animals that have eaten plants.

The green substance of plants is chlorophyll. Chlorophyll can absorb sunlight. When it does so, it changes the energy of the sun into chemical energy. The chemical energy present in sunlit chlorophyll is used to combine dioxide in the air with water from the soil. Starch and other complicated compounds are formed. These are high in chemical energy obtained from the sunlit chlorophyll.

They make up the food on which mankind and all other animals live. In the process of forming this food, some oxygen atoms are left over. These are given off into the air by the plants. The whole process is called photosynthesis.

Thus, plants use sunlight to from food and oxygen to from carbon dioxide and water again. Plants change the sun’s energy into chemical energy. And animals change the animal energy into kinetic and heat energy.

1. The text is about ....

     A. The process of changing chemical energy
     B. The formation of carbon dioxide
     C. The green substance of plants
     D. The process of photosynthesis
     E. The use of chemical energy

2. What will happen when the chlorophyll absorbs sunlight? It will ....

    A. Change heat into kinetic energy
    B. Form complicated compound
    C. Make use of heat energy
    D. Change kinetic energy into chemical energy
    E. Change the sun’s energy into chemical energy

3. From the text we know that ....

     A. Plant need to heat energy to live
     B. All human beings need chemical energy
     C. Plants absorb sunlight to produce kinetic energy
     D. Chlorophyll is the most important thing in photosynthesis
     E. Sun’s energy cannot be formed into kinetic energy

4. The green substance of plants is chlorophyll. The underlined word in the above is closest in meaning to ...

     A. Core
     B. Body
     C. Stuff
     D. Essence
     E. Material

Pembahasan berikut ini untuk soal nomor 9 sampai 12.
1. Keseluruhan isi wacana membahas mengenai proses merubah energi kimia pada manusia dan hewan. Perhatikan bagian awal dan akhir wacana, "All human beings eat food and make use of the chemical energy in it, no do all other animals." (Seluruh manusia memakan makanan dan memanfaatkan energi kimia di dalamnya, demikian juga seluruh hewan.) dan "Plants change the sun's energy into chemical energy. And animals change chemical energy into kinetic and heat energy" (Tumbuh turnbuhan merubah energi matahari menjadi energi kimia. Dan hewan merubah energi kimia menjadi energi kinetik dan panes.) Dapat disimpulkan teks tersebut tentang The process of changing chemical energy.
Jawaban: A

2. Keterangan mengenai apa yang akan terjadi jika klorofil menyerap sinar matahari bisa dilihat pada Imlimat berikut "Chlorophyll can absorb sunlight When it does so, it changes the energy of the sun into chemical energy." (Klorofil bisa menyerap sinar matahari. Ketika melakukan hal ini, klorofil merubah energi matahari menjadi energi kimia.) Jadi, pilihan yang tepat adalah Change the sun’s energy into chemical energy.
Jawaban: E

3. Informasi yang bisa diperoleh dari wacana adalah gagasan bahwa seluruh manusia dan hewan membutuhkan energi. Perhatikan kalimat berikut "All human beings eat food and make use of the chemical energy in it, so do all other animals." (Seluruh manusia memakan makanan dan memanfaatkan energi kimia di dalamnya, demikian juga seluruh hewan.) Jadi, pilihan yang tepat adalah All human beings need chemical energy.
Jawaban: B

4. Kata "Essence" dalam arti bio kimia berarti (zat kimia) inti pada suatu tanaman. Jadi, ini merupakan sinonim yang tepat untuk menggantikan kata Substance. 
Jawaban: D

Sumber: Soal UN SMA