Analisis Hubungan Antarkalimat: Materi Sulit di TKA Inggris SMA

Reading Passage (for Questions 10 to 14)

Polar bear are adapted to life in the polar region, around the North Pole. Their bodies have special features that work particularly well in the polar seas. For instance, they have sharp and powerful claws for catching their food, which is mainly seals. In their own environment, they are excellent hunter; but if they had to live on the birds and squirrels in other places, they would die.

The science that studies the way that different forms of life are adapted to their particular environment is called ecology.

The first lesson of ecology is that all life in an environment depends on other forms of life. Polar bears depend on seals, which can live only where they do because they depend on particular kinds of fish which are found in the Arctic seas.

There are certain important cycles in nature that show plants and animals depend on each other: for example, the nitrogen cycles. Plants take nitrogen compounds from the soil and turn them into protein. Animals eat these proteins and return some of them to the soil as waste products and the rest when they die. Another cycle is the oxygen cycle. When we breathe, we take in oxygen, and give out carbon dioxide. Plants absorb it to make sugar compounds, and in the process oxygen is produced and released to the atmosphere.

An ideal ecological system, living things exist in balance. However, particularly where man interferes, a species may become too successful and abundant, and the balance is destroyed. For instance, the use of pesticides to kill a particular plant pest may also kill predatory insects and even birds, and thus other pests are allowed to increase. Therefore, great care is needed in the use of pesticides.

Through ecology we try to restore the balance in the ecological system, and thus save the world from devastation.

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Soal 10

The habitat of polar bear is in …

A. the tropical countries

B. the North pole

C. the South pole

D. the Arctic seas

E. Europe

Soal 11

What does the text mainly discuss?

A. ecology

B. polar bears

C. cycles in nature

D. the misuse of pesticides

E. an ideal ecological system

Soal 12

The ecology in certain area will be in danger if …

A. seals eat a lot of fish

B. the farmers use pesticides

C. polar bears don’t eat seals anymore

D. man interferes his environment too much

E. plants take nitrogen compound from the soil

Soal 13

The main idea of paragraph 3 is that …

A. Polar bears depend on seals

B. Ecological system needs well treatment

C. Plants and animals depend on each other

D. Plants produce and release oxygen to the atmosphere

E. There’s an interdependence of living things in a particular area

Soal 14

“…the world from devastation.” (paragraph 6)

The synonym of the underlined word is …

A. rehabilitation

B. extinction

C. destruction

D. preservation

E. starvation

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