Contoh Soal SNBT 2023, Materi Literasi Bahasa Inggris Lengkap Kunci Jawaban, Berikut Pembahasannya

A. suggestions to emerge the seismology to detect the earthquake

B. examples of the substantial damage that caused by the earthquake

C. the development of seismology to identify the earthquake earlier

D. factors that cause the earthquake and seismic wave

E. the reason why we need the seismology

Jawaban: B. examples of the substantial damage that caused by the earthquake

Pembahasan:

Soal tersebut menanyakan mengenai topik yang kemungkinan besar dibahas pada paragraf selanjutnya setelah teks tersebut.

Di dalam sebuah wacana, topik sebuah paragraf lanjutan harus padu dengan topik paragraf sebelumnya. Untuk menguji kepaduan tersebut, pembaca bisa melihat pada bagian penutup paragraf dan bagian awal paragraf selanjutnya. Kepaduan dua paragraf itu akan terlihat dari bagian-bagian tersebut.

Bagian penutup paragraf terakhir di teks bacaan merupakan kalimat over the centuries they have been responsible for millions of deaths and an incalculable amount of damage to property. Kalimat penutup tersebut berbicara tentang akibat gempa, yakni hilangnya nyawa manusia dan kerusakan-kerusakan properti. Dari kelima pilihan topik yang tersedia, topik yang paling tepat dengan kalimat itu adalah examples of the substantial damage that caused by the earthquake. Paragraf dengan topik tersebut akan menjadi paragraf yang tepat dengan paragraf terakhir dalam teks wacana.

The questions number 4 - 5 are based on the following passage.

TEXT 1

You’ve been working and saving for decades for just this moment: retirement. Even though you may be ready to stop working full-time, now comes the hard part: letting yourself use your savings, since you no longer will be bringing in that paycheck, which until now has covered your monthly expenses. Making the psychological shift from saver to spender is no small effort for most people.

“Now you have this lump sum and have to draw it down. For some it’s almost physically painful,” said David John, a senior strategic policy advisor. Unpredictable factors like market performance, life expectancy and health issues make spending your money easier said than done. That’s why people may be hesitant to tap their savings because they think, “I have X dollars and it has to last me my whole life, but I have a very uncertain future. So, if I touch that I’m putting myself at risk.”

Research shows that among retirees with savings, many do not draw down very much, choosing instead to live off fixed sources of funds, such as Social Security or pensions or income from part-time work they take up. A study found that the vast majority of retirees in America still have at least 80 persen of their savings after two decades in retirement. No doubt this is partly because they are among the last generation of workers to benefit from corporate pensions.