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Soal latihan dan prediksi berikut diambil dari berbagai sumber, meliputi soal-soal UMPTN, SPMB dan
SNMPTN tahun lalu, disertai dengan kunci jawab dan pembahasan

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Berikut adalah latihan soal sekaligus prediksi
SNMPTN 2009, disertai dengan jawaban dan
pembahasan, soal dan pembahasan diambil dari
berbagai sumber sesuai dengan standard
Pendidikan di Indonesia.
BACAAN (READING)
Text 1 2005
Motion sickness comes in many forms, not
just
seasickness. Ninety percent of the human
race is susceptible to motion sickness of one
kind or another. Some people become sick
when they sit in the backseat of a car; others
cannot read or look at a map in any kind of
moving vehicle. People get motion sickness on
airplanes, motorcycles, amusement park rides,
and even on camels! Scientists have learned
that motion
sickness occurs when the brain is trying to
make sense of a situation and there are too
many conflicting messages. While the eyes
are sending one message, the ears are trying
to send a message about balance. The skin
and bone joints, sensitive to air pressure send
another message.
Many people who have experienced violent
motion sickness try to avoid travel. But that is
not always possible. So travelers should
employ some well-known strategies to avoid
getting sick. The most useful strategy
concerns food: eat a light meal before
traveling and bring along a packet of plain
soda crackers to snack on regularly. Avoid
alcoholic and carbonated beverages, high-fat
foods, and spices. Care in choosing the
location of your seat is another important
strategy. In a car, sit at the front and keep
your eyes fixed on the horizon.
People who still got sick after trying these
strategies can try medical help. Some rely on
over-the counter medications, although some
of them can make you sleepy. Others use
simple ginger capsules to settle their stomach.
A large number of travelers use pressure
bands on their wrists. It is not clear how these
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bands work, but they do prevent motion
sickness.
SPMB-05-51
1. suitable title for the text is __.
A. Motion Sickness
B. Inability to Avoid Motion Sickness
C. Effect of Motion Sickness
D. The Worst Kind of Motion Sickness
E. Susceptibility to Motion Sickness
SPMB-05-52
2. person gets motion sickness because of
___.
A. sitting in vehicles
B. reading a book while traveling
C. waiting for the airplane to come
D.the conflicting messages receiv ed by the
brain
E. watching rides in the amusement park
SPMB-05-53
3. Victims of motion sickness can reduce the
chance of becoming sick by doing the
following, except
A. avoiding spicy foods
B. eating a light meal before traveling
C. consuming high-fat food
D. taking the back-seat in a car
E. not consuming alcohol
SPMB-05-54
4. From the text we may conclude that ___.
A.basically everyone tends to get sick when
they are traveling
B. there is no definite solution to the problem
of motion sickness
C. medical help is the best way to cure motion
sickness
D. there are so many ways for people to stop
getting motion sickness
E. motion sickness can be overcome by any
drug
prescribed by a doctor
SPMB-05-55
5. The meaning of 'ov er-the-counter
medication' is medicine bought ___.
A. outside drugstores
B. in small grocery stores
C. only in drugstores
D. by paying cash
E. without prescription
Text II 1998
People manage to count even when they do
not have names for numbers. Early men
demonstrated numbers to each other by
counting on their fingers, and some primitive
tribes still do this. In fact, some tribes have
names for only the numbers "one" and "two"
and can only indicate higher numbers by
pointing to a particular finger. In other tribes,
the numbers do have names, but these names
are directly connected with finger counting.
UMPTN-98-71
6. The text tells us about....
A. early demonstrations of numbers
B. the use of fingers in counting
C. the importance of numbers
D. primitive tries
E. various names for numbers
UMPTN-98-72
7. Which of the following statements is TRUE
according to the text?
A. It was not necessary to have names for
numbers in counting.
B. Only in earlier days did people use their
fingers in counting.
C. There are tribes who only consider "one"
and
"two" important.
D. For some tribes., it is unusual to use fingers
when counting.
E. The words "one" and "two" were unpopular
among many tribes.
Text III 2003
In the last few thousand years many
civilizations
have risen to a high level of development and
then collapsed. As far as we know none of
them had such a sophisticated technology as
we developed, but nevertheless they
produced remarkable and long lasting
artifacts, such as the great pyramids and the
sphinx of Egypt, the arch at Ctesiphon and the
extraordinary stone constructions of Middle
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America. The civilization of Knossos in Crete
even had plumbing on the third floor. Some of
these civilizations were destroyed by
barbarian invasions, others by earthquakes,
fires or other disasters and some in Mexico
apparently collapsed purely as a result of the
irreversible growth of top heavy bureaucracy.
In all of them, however, their collapse has had
a central case, which was the run down or
degeneration of the overall motivation, spirit,
or ethos of the social system.
SPMB-03-58
8. The general reason for the collapse of all
these ancient civilizations is ___.
A. their inferior technology
B. barbarian invasions
C. the growth of bureaucracy
D. natural disasters
E. the degeneration of the social system
SPMB-03-59
9. The topic of the paragraph is ___.
A. the development of world civilization
B.sophisticated technology in ancient
civilization
C. the fate of civilization in ancient times
D.examples of some ancient advanced
civilizations
E. the differences in world civilizations
Text IV 2000
In canning, heat can be used to destroy
bacteria and halt enzymic activity in food.
Bacterial 75 from external sources is
prevented by sealing the food in a can. The
can is the heated to a temperate 76 to
sterilize the contents. The length of time and
the temperature 77 to ensure sterilization
depend on the product and on the type of
bacteria to b,e destroyed. It is important .that
the contents of the can are heated 78 An
experimental check can be made on the exact
temperature in any part of a sample can 79 it
is being heated by inserting a there couple
into the can.
UMPTN-00-75
A. influence
B. effect.
C. contamination E. What
D. excess
E. infectiousness UMPTN-99-83
'You look so unhappy, Anton. What's the
UMPTN-00-76 matter?’
A. regular 'My father ... his job.'
B. convenient A. has just lost
C. operative B. has been losing
D. sufficient C. losing
E. complete D. is losing
E. loses
UMPTN-00-77
A. .require UMPTN-99-84
B. requirement He asked me whether he... my car to go to the
C. recurs it party.
D. requisition A. can borrow
E. required B. might borrow
C. ought to borrow
UMPTN-00-78 D. may borrow
A. unity E. would borrow
B. uniform
C. uniformity UMPTN-00-88
D. uniformly Hanny became the focus of attention when
E. uniformed she wore a
colourful dress and __ at my birthday party.
UMPTN-00-79 A. her behavioral is foolish
A. while B. was a fool
B. because C. behaved foolishly
C. whereas D. her foolishness
D. since E. hear foolish behavior
E. so that
UMPTN-00-89
TATA BAHASA (GRAMMER) 'Have you been informed about the exact
number of
UMPTN-98-80 victims of the airplane crash?'
At the beginning of the semester, eac of the 'Yes, __ to the headquarters of Garuda'
students ... A. they are faxed
given a new time-table. B. has faxed
A. he is C. the victims fax
B. they are D. it has been faxed
C. are E. we fax it
D. is
E. be UMPTN-01-83
'While living in Bogor, we always went to
UMPTN-98-81 school onfoot ’
-These are all government offices." This means that we ___ on foot while we
"... is your father's?' were living in Bogor.
A. Which A. go to school
B. When B. are going to school
C. Whose C. used to go to school
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E. liked going to school A. Ask her to help
B. Have helped her
C. Ask us to help her
UMPTN-01-92 D. Have somebody help her
Smoking can be the cause of many illnesses E. Have her help somebody
and
respiratory disorders; ___ it may harm SPMB-06-75
nonsmokers. These tourists, ____are Japanese, were
A. consequently among the crowd participating in the
B. however “Dangdut “ dance
C. in addition A. There are many
D. nevertheless B. Many of them
E. otherwise C. Whose many
D. Many of whom
SPMB-03-75 E. They who
Mr. Sulaiman is a prominent figure among
Indonesian SPMB-07-70
scientists; moreover, people know him as ‘My little sister brought the antique vase I
____ person. bought last year ’
A. an arrogant A. What did she do
B. a strict B. Oh, I am so sad
C. a proud C. Oh, it must be expensive
D. a tough D. Oh, where was she
E. a sociable E. What a shame

SPMB-04-70 SPMB-07-71
'Do you often go to restaurants?' As I found out that not all the workshop
'No, it __ quite a long time since I went to a participants knew about today’s schedule, I
restaurant got my secretary____it right away.
with my friends.' A. Distributing
A. as been B. Distributed
B. would be C. She distributes
C. is being D. To distribute
D. was E. In distributing
E. had been
SPMB-08-74
SPMB-05-71 ‘What should the government do to create
He did not pass his oral examination because political stability?’ ____
he was A. Law enforcement should work effectively
either nervous ____ B. The effective work of law enforcement
A. or he did not prepare himself well C. Enforcing the law to work effective
B. and did not prepare well D. Working to make law enforcement
C. also the preparation was not good effective
D. or not well prepared E. To make law enforcement work
E. but he was not well prepared effectively

SPMB-06-70
“ s I was sent out of town to work on
construction project, I could not help my
fiencee with our wedding preparations ”
But you should____ ”

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