UNIVERSITAS INDRAPRASTA PGRI

(UNINDRA)
FAKULTAS BAHASA DAN SENI
SOAL UJIAN AKHIR SEMESTER GENAP
TAHUN AKADEMIK 2021/2022

Program Studi : Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris

Mata Kuliah : Critical Reading
Hari / Tanggal : Jumat/3 Juni 2022
Waktu : mulai pukul 08.00
Sifat Ujian : Daring

Catatan:
Lembar jawaban dikirim langsung ke dosen pengampu masing-masing sesuai kesepakatan via
email/WA atau Jasa pengiriman selambat-lambatnya 24 jam setelah menerima naskah soal.

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b. Tulislah identitas Nama, Kelas, NPM dan No HP (WA) Aktif pada lembar jawaban
Anda.
c. Anda dilarang menyontek maupun menyalin jawaban teman Anda.
d. Selamat mengerjakan dengan peenuh percaya diri dan semoga kesuksesan selalu
menyertai anda.

Looming Change

While the world is still coming to grips with the new reality wrought by COVID-19, the
risk of catastrophe from a warming planet persists.

Bob Grant

In this topsy-turvy year, the world has been waylaid by a viral pandemic. But a larger and
more intractable menace churns in the background, continuing to wreak havoc while
humanity’s attention is diverted. Climate change remains arguably the most pressing threat
we face as a species. And despite signs of hope earlier this year as lockdowns in response to
the COVID-19 pandemic grounded airplanes, shuttered businesses, and garaged cars, the
problem is not abating. Humanity must be able to fight disease while simultaneously keeping
our sights trained on the persistent and snowballing effects of global warming. If we are not
up to this task, the hell of 2020 will pale in comparison to the challenges we’ll face.

The first few months of the pandemic provided a glimpse of what a planet given respite from
the relentless pressure of modern human inhabitance might look like. In April, people in
Punjab, India, snapped photos of the Himalayas, more than 100 miles away, a sight usually
obscured by smoggy skies. The International Energy Agency published a report that same
month that the globe was on track to reduce CO2 emissions by 8 percent compared to 2019
levels—an unprecedented drop.

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All this sounded like a rare spot of good news in an otherwise disconcerting year. But alas,
the sense that nature might be able to quickly heal over the scars of human activity was short-
lived. As economies reopened, we took back to our petroleum-fueled modes of transportation,
and fossil fuel–powered factories revved back up to continue their belching of greenhouse
gases into the atmosphere. By mid-May, levels of several air pollutants in China, including
ozone, sulfur dioxide, and fine particulate matter, had rebounded to concentrations above
levels recorded in April and May of last year, according to an analysis by the Finland-based
Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air. And globally, CO2 emissions have been
creeping back up as the planet’s human inhabitants return to something close to business as
usual. By early June, global emissions had rebounded to within 5 percent of mean 2019 levels,
up from an average 17 percent reduction in early April, according to data published by the
Integrated Carbon Observation System.

There have also been negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the environment. Pre-
pandemic, humans were already dumping an unbelievable amount of plastic—8 million
metric tons per year—into our oceans, the eventual destination for much of our waste. But
with the uptick in the use of products such as disposable plastic packaging, bags, and cutlery
as well as personal protective equipment, this year is set to outpace 2019’s outflow of plastic
waste by 30 percent, according to a paper published in June in Environmental Science &
Technology.

While a pandemic the size and scope of COVID-19 demands immediate attention, action on
climate change and other environmental crises cannot be shelved. Wildfires in the western
US and hurricanes in the South remind us that even though we’re busy trying to address a
pressing public health emergency, global warming isn’t put on pause. This persistent concern
should inform how we strategically emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic and enter a world
where we live with the chronic problem of SARS-CoV-2 and likely future epidemics. “Any
economic recovery packages designed to help economies fully rebound need to focus on
zero-carbon climate resilient investments that address unemployment but avoid locking us
into a new high-carbon future,” Bob Ward, a policy director at the Grantham Research
Institute on Climate Change at the London School of Economics, told The Guardian in June.

I was heartened to see that, in both the US presidential debate and the US vice presidential
debate that have been held as of this writing, climate change questions were posed to the
candidates, something that did not occur in the debates running up to the 2016 US election.
After the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic is behind us, humanity must learn to navigate a
world changed by the ravages of a novel virus at the same time that we address not-so-novel
problems with how Homo sapiens affects our planet and the organisms we share it with.

https://www.the-scientist.com/editorial/looming-change-68105

I. Read the passage above and do the following instructions.

1. Find out Connotations (if any), try to guess the meaning.
2. Analyze the writer’s PoV (Point of View) and explain it.
3. Analyze the Tone and Mood.
4. Give your personal opinion(s) towards the topic.

II. Choose three out of five numbers below! And try to guess what type of fallacy
from each number you choose (explain your answer!)

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 1. It’s important to argue logically because logic is an essential part of
argumentation.
2. Two members of my team have become more engaged employees after
taking public speaking classes. That proves we should have mandatory public
speaking classes for the whole company to improve employee engagement.
3. “Paul is the smartest student in our school. Since he is in my class, I must be the
smartest class.”
4. "I have the right to free speech, so it's right for me to say whatever I want."
5. “What do you know about politics? You didn't even go to college."

III.Choose two out of three pictures below! And try to guess what type of
Propaganda from each number you choose (explain your answer!)

1.

2.

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