Text (Untuk soal 6 dan 7)
Once, a cap seller was passing through a jungle. He was dead tired and needed to rest. Then, he stopped and spread a cloth under a tree. He placed his bag full of caps near him and lay down with his cap on his head.
The cap seller had a sound sleep for one hour. When he got up, the first thing he did was to look into his bag. He was startled when he found all his caps were not there. He was wondering where they could have gone. Indeed, he was greatly puzzled.
When he looked up the sky, he was very surprised to see monkeys sitting on the branches of a tree, each wearing a cap on his head. They had evidently done it to imitate him.
He decided to get his caps back by making a humble request to the monkeys. In return, the monkeys only made faces on him. When he began to make gestures, even when he raised his fist towards them to threaten them, they also imitated him.
At last he hit upon a clever idea. “Monkeys are great imitators,” he thought. So he took off his own cap and threw it down on the ground. As he had expected, all the monkeys took off the caps and threw them down on the ground. Quickly he stood up and collected the caps, put them back into his bag and went away.
6. Why was each monkey wearing a cap on their head?
A. They liked them.
B. They liked wearing caps.
C. They were imitating the cap seller.
D. They were teasing the cap seller.
E. They had stolen the caps.
Jawaban & Analisis
Kunci: C
Teks secara eksplisit menyatakan bahwa monyet memakai topi untuk meniru penjual topi: “They had evidently done it to imitate him.”
Pilihan A dan B hanya dugaan perasaan suka, tetapi tidak didukung teks.
Pilihan D mungkin tampak masuk akal karena monyet “made faces”, tetapi alasan awal mereka memakai topi sudah dijelaskan jelas sebagai meniru. Maka \(C \gt D\).
Pilihan E menyatakan fakta bahwa topi diambil, tetapi pertanyaan menanyakan alasan mereka memakainya, bukan cara mendapatkannya. Jadi \(C \gt E\).
7. What is the moral value of the text?
A. Monkeys are clever animals.
B. Put your belongings in a safe place.
C. Kindness must be possessed by everyone.
D. Foolishness is a source of faulty.
E. You have to know who you are talking to.
Jawaban & Analisis
Kunci: B
Masalah utama muncul karena penjual topi tertidur dan meninggalkan barangnya di tempat terbuka. Dari peristiwa tersebut, pesan moral paling langsung adalah pentingnya menjaga barang di tempat aman.
Pilihan A hanya menyebut karakter monyet, bukan pesan untuk pembaca. Maka \(B \gt A\).
Pilihan C tidak relevan karena cerita tidak menekankan kebaikan hati.
Pilihan D tidak jelas secara makna dan tidak tersurat dalam cerita.
Pilihan E tidak sesuai karena konflik bukan tentang komunikasi dengan manusia, melainkan kelalaian menjaga barang.
Text (Untuk soal 8 dan 9)
Tourist boats collided in Thailand, 42 injured
Forty-two passengers were injured and two were missing after two boats carrying Thai and foreign tourists collided near Pha-Ngan island.
The speedboats were ferrying tourists to the Pha-Ngan island for a “Fullmoon” party.
The boats collided and overturned, throwing passengers into rough sea water just off the island.
8. We know from the text that …
A. The boat carried forty-two passengers.
B. The accident happened not far from Pha-Ngan.
C. The two missing passengers were westerners.
D. The passengers were mostly foreign tourists.
E. The boats collided on the way back to Pha-Ngan island.
Jawaban & Analisis
Kunci: B
Kalimat “just off the island” menunjukkan lokasi kejadian sangat dekat dengan Pha-Ngan.
Pilihan A salah karena 42 adalah jumlah korban luka, bukan total penumpang.
Pilihan C dan D tidak didukung informasi spesifik.
Pilihan E salah karena kapal sedang menuju, bukan kembali dari Pha-Ngan.
9. What had possibly caused the accident?
A. A careless captain.
B. Too many passengers on board.
C. There were too many boats.
D. A rough weather.
E. The boats were speeding.
Jawaban & Analisis
Kunci: D
Teks menyebut “rough sea water”, yang menunjukkan kondisi laut buruk. Ini adalah petunjuk paling jelas mengenai penyebab yang mungkin.
Tidak ada bukti eksplisit tentang kapten ceroboh, kelebihan penumpang, atau kecepatan berlebih. Maka \(D \gt A\), \(D \gt B\), dan \(D \gt E\).
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