Latihan Soal AcEPT UGM (Part II.

Vocabulary)

A. For questions 1 – 15, choose the word or phrase in A, B, C, or D which best completes each

blank space in the text.

Text 1

The shark has senses specially (1)_____ the animal's life underwater. Smell is a shark's most

acute sense. Approximately 70 percent of the shark's brain is used for smelling functions.

Experiments have shown that sharks can detect prey (2)_____ by smell, and the hungrier the

shark, the less stimulant needed to elicit a reaction.

Sharks are sensitive to light and can detect certain objects even in murky water. Some have a

mirror-like layer under the retina that reflects incoming light and increases the (3)_____ light

available to the eye.

Sharks can also sense electric and magnetic fields. Sensory pores located on the shark's head

can detect a prey's bioelectric field (4)_____ if the prey is buried in sand. A shark can also detect

the Earth's magnetic field. Open-ocean sharks may use this information to (5)_____ and orient

themselves.

1. A. appointed by C. figured out

B. invented for D. designed for

2. A. timidly C. solely

B. hardly D. disorderly

3. A. prominence of C. odor of

B. disposal of D. amount of

4. A. even C. however
B. as D. even though

5. A.sink C. crawl

B. navigate D. thrust

Kunci Jawaban:

1.D, 2.C, 3.D, 4.A, 5.B

B. Choose the word or phrase in A, B, C, or D that best collocates (combines) with each of the

underlined words or phrases in the following sentences.

1. In medieval days, entire communities united to build churches that would not only glorify religion

but that would also be a credit ........ their cities.

A. for C. to

B. on D. in

2. Accounting information can be classified ........ two categories: financial accounting and

managerial accounting.

A. to C. by

B. into D. on

3. Amelia Earhart was greatly interested ........ the development of commercial aviation and took an

active role in opening the field to women.

A. in C. with

B. at D. about

4. Since independence, African governments have tried to diversify their exports so their income

does not depend ........ just one item.

B. with D. on

5. Physical anthropologists often rely ........ rigorous medical scientific methods for their research,

in addition to more general observational methods.

A. above C. on

B. under D. with

Kunci Jawaban:

1.A, 2.B, 3.A, 4.D, 5.C

A. Sentence Completion

Choose the word or phrase in A, B, C, or D which best completes each of the following sentences.

1. Traditionally, __________in New England on Thanksgiving Day.

(A) when served is sweet cider

(B) when sweet cider is served

(C) is served sweet cider

(D) sweet cider is served

2. Lillian D. Wald, public health nurse and __________, was born in Cincinnati Ohio, in 1867.

(A) reforming society

(B) social reformer

(C) who reformed society

(D) her social reform

3. In 1964__________of Henry Ossawa Tanner's paintings was shown at the Smithsonian

Institution.

(A) was a major collection

(B) that a major collection

(C) a collection was major

(D) a major collection

4. __________irritating effect on humans, the use of phenol as a general antiseptic has been

largely discontinued.

(A) Its

(B) Where its

(D) Because of its

5. In order to remain in existence,__________must produce something consumers consider useful

or desirable.

(A) a profit-making organization

(B) a profit-making organization which

(C) therefore a profit-making organization

(D) whichever a profit-making organization

Kunci Jawaban (Part A)

1.D, 2.B, 3.D, 4.D, 5.A

B. Cloze Test

Choose the word or phrase in A, B, C, or D which best completes each blank space in the text.

Text 1

When he was 21 years old, Thomas Edison (1)_____ his first patent. It was for an electric vote

counter (2)_____ in the United States House of Representatives. The machine worked perfectly,

but the congressmen (3)_____ it. They did not want vote counting to be done quickly.

This experience (4)_____ the young inventor a lesson. He decided to follow a simple rule: “First,

be sure a thing (5)_____ or needed, then go ahead.”

1. A. take out C. was taken out

B. took out D. had taken out

B. used D. to be used

3. A. not buy C. had not buy

B. would not buy D. was not bought

4. A. were teaching C. taught

B. has taught D. was taught

5. A. is wanted C. wanted

B. wants it D. had wanted

Kunci Jawaban (Part B)

1.D, 2.D, 3.B, 4.C, 5.A

C. Error Identification

Choose the word or phrase A, B, C, or D which is wrong.

1. It is supposed [A] that early people got fire accidentally [B] from trees set ablaze by lightning or

from spouting volcanoes. Then they [C] carefully kept them [D] burning in huts or caves.

2. Too much [A] electric current may flow [B] into a circuit as a result either of a fault [C] in the

circuit and [D] of an outside event such as lightning.

3. The Appalachian Trail, extending [A] approximately 2,020 miles [B] from Maine to Georgia, is

the longer [C] continuous [D]marked footpath in the world.

for the people.” This [B] phrases imply [C] that government was operated for the good of [D] all

citizens.

5. For years, elephants were hunted [A] for food and ivory, and as a result theirs [B] numbers [C]

have been greatly [D] reduced.

Kunci Jawaban (Part C)

1.D, 2.D, 3.C, 4.B, 5.B

The planet Mars has always captured the human imagination. There is its redness. We know now

that the color comes from chemical reactions that long ago locked up Mars's oxygen in reddish

minerals on its surface, causing the "rusting" of the planet. To the ancient people, the red color

meant only one thing: blood. From the earliest times, Mars has been associated with bloodshed.

Even the astronomical symbol for Mars, a circle with an arrow pointing at 2 o'clock, is supposed to

represent a shield and a spears.

As astronomers used telescopes, Mars mythology grew. It was the Italian astronomer Giovanni

Schiaparelli who, in 1877, produced the most lasting bit of Martian folklore. He saw what he took to

be long, thin, unnaturally straight lines on the Martian surface. He called them canali, a word that

can translate into English either as "channels" or "canals." Unfortunately, the latter translation was

used, and the canals of Mars were born. Of course, if there were canals, there had to be canal

builders, so once more Mars was peopled with all manner of intelligent life forms!

In 1965 Mariner 4 sent back first close-up pictures of the Martian surface. Not only were there no

canals, but Mariner 4 and the spacecraft that followed revealed a planet that was a cratered,

lifeless desert. We have subsequently learned that Mars is home to Olympus Mons, the largest

volcano in the entire solar system, and to a canyon system stretching for almost 3,000 miles

around the Martian equator. The atmosphere is extremely thin (equivalent to that at 130,000 feet

above Earth) and made up almost entirely of carbon dioxide. The surface is cold, almost never

getting above freezing even at the summertime equator.

Perhaps the greatest surprise were the photographs from Mariner 9 in 1971 and 1972 that showed

channels on the surface. Now these were not Schiaparelli's canali there's, no way these channels

could be seen by even the most powerful earthbound telescope. They are unmistakable water

courses, however. There is no water in them now, but they trace out the path of water that flowed

in the past. They are like the dry river of the American West, through which water from rain flows,

but which are dry most of the time. Water once ran on the surface of Mars.
New explorations on Mars by the spacecraft Pathfinder, due to arrive on the planet's surface in

1997, are planned to give scientists more information about possible past life on Mars. One of

Pathfinder's missions will be to lay the foundation for future efforts to find fossil remains of living

things. The landing site for the Mars Pathfinder is going to be the mouth of a flood channel called

Ares Vallis.

1. It can be inferred from the passage that myths about Mars

(A) are widely believed today

(B) have been dispelled by current space exploration

(C) are based on scientific facts

(D) depict it as a lifeless planet

2. Which of the following have NOT been a source of information about Mars?

(A) Spacecraft

(B) Telescopes

(C) Conjecture

(D) Astronauts

3. The phrase "the latter" in line 21 refers to

(A) canals

(B) canali

(C) channels

(D) unusual straight lines

4. Where in the passage does the author give information about the topography of Mars?

(A) Lines 2-6

(B) Lines 26-32

(C) Lines 38-46

5. The word "powerful" in line 46 is closest in meaning to

(A) expensive

(B) dominant

(C) influential

(D) strong

6. According to the passage, the redness of Mars is a result of

(A) a chemical reaction on the planet surface

(B) the old age of the planet

(C) the reflection of the Sun

(D) an abundance of oxygen in the planet's atmosphere

7. Why do scientists think that the channels of Mars were waterways?

(A) Bones have been found there.

(B) They still have a little water in them.

(C) They resemble a similar system on Earth.

(D) They are straight and narrow.

8. According to the passage, Pathfinder's mission to Mars includes

(A) preparing for future fossil-finding expeditions

(B) placing specialized equipment on the planet's surface

(C) checking for flood damage

(D) bringing back fossils for further study

Kunci Jawaban

1.B, 2.D, 3.A, 4.B, 5.D, 6.B, 7.C, 8.D