Text 4 (Questions 25-29)
Plastic Bags Should be Banned
When we go shopping, we get a plastic bag to carry in the things we buy. When we go to a friend’s or relative’s house and we want to give him or her something, we use a plastic bag to carry the thing. In fact, plastic bags are really needed. However, they are dangerous for the environment.
Firstly, Plastic bags need a long time to decompose. Plastic bag take up to 1000 years to decompose on land and 450 years in the water.
Secondly, people use up natural resources to make the plastic bags. The most common plastic bags you see today are made of polyethylene. This material is made of crude oil and natural gas.
Moreover, they harm wildlife and marine life. Plastic bags are now ubiquitous in our environment and animals; both on land and in water are being strangled, choked and killed by them. Plastic bags are now the fifth most common debris item found on beaches.
Plastic bags are also dangerous for our health. Based on the result of the research by drugs and food control, colored plastic bags are very dangerous for our health if we use them to keep foods. According to the head of POM, Husniah Rubiana Thamrim Akib, this is because colored plastic bags are recycled products, and their previous history is not known. He said that they might have been used to carry in pesticides containers, hospital waste, heavy metals waste, and so forth. He also said that long term consequences of the use of these plastic bags can lead to various diseases such as cancer, kidney disorders, and others.
Based on the facts, plastic bags should not be used anymore. There are some viable alternatives. Use paper. Paper is an option that seems viable and easy to do. Most paper bags are made of recycled paper. The benefits are that paper bags can be reused and hold more than plastic bags. Switch to carrying re-usable canvases or mesh bags.
25. What is mainly discussed in the text?
a. Shopping c. Plastic bag should be banned e. Wildlife and marine life
b. Plastic bag d. The result of the research by POM
26. How many reasons are mentioned by the writer?
a. one b. two c. three d. four e. five
27. What kind of genre does the text above belong to?
a. Spoof c. Narrative e. Hortatory Exposition
b. Report d. Descriptive
28. The communicative purpose of the above text is ....
a. to expose the special things
b. to describe reading activity
c. to share an amusing story with others
d. to persuade the reader or listener that plastic bags should be banned
e. to entertain the readers and deal with actual or vicarious experience in different ways
29. The text mostly uses … Tense.
a. The Present Continuous c. The Present Simple e. The Future
b. The Past Continuous d. The Past Simple
30. Many people … the museum every day.
a. visits b. visit c. visited d. visiting e. are visiting
31. The students … the English test at the moment.
a. are doing b. is doing c. doing d. does e. do
32. We … to the museum next week.
a. will go b. went c. go d. goes e. gone
33. Alif : Oh no! We … that tree.
Afif : What tree?
Alif : That tree!
a. hit b. is hit c. are hit d. is going to hit e. are going to hit
34. Zie Zie was able to do the test well. … got good scores in every subject.
a. He b. She c. His d. Him e. Her
35. They do not understand what the teacher is talking about. They play cards all the time when … teacher is explaining the lesson.
a. they b. them c. their d. themself e. themselves
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C D E D C B A A E B C
Plastic Bags Should be Banned
When we go shopping, we get a plastic bag to carry in the things we buy. When we go to a friend’s or relative’s house and we want to give him or her something, we use a plastic bag to carry the thing. In fact, plastic bags are really needed. However, they are dangerous for the environment.
Firstly, Plastic bags need a long time to decompose. Plastic bag take up to 1000 years to decompose on land and 450 years in the water.
Secondly, people use up natural resources to make the plastic bags. The most common plastic bags you see today are made of polyethylene. This material is made of crude oil and natural gas.
Moreover, they harm wildlife and marine life. Plastic bags are now ubiquitous in our environment and animals; both on land and in water are being strangled, choked and killed by them. Plastic bags are now the fifth most common debris item found on beaches.
Plastic bags are also dangerous for our health. Based on the result of the research by drugs and food control, colored plastic bags are very dangerous for our health if we use them to keep foods. According to the head of POM, Husniah Rubiana Thamrim Akib, this is because colored plastic bags are recycled products, and their previous history is not known. He said that they might have been used to carry in pesticides containers, hospital waste, heavy metals waste, and so forth. He also said that long term consequences of the use of these plastic bags can lead to various diseases such as cancer, kidney disorders, and others.
Based on the facts, plastic bags should not be used anymore. There are some viable alternatives. Use paper. Paper is an option that seems viable and easy to do. Most paper bags are made of recycled paper. The benefits are that paper bags can be reused and hold more than plastic bags. Switch to carrying re-usable canvases or mesh bags.
25. What is mainly discussed in the text?
a. Shopping c. Plastic bag should be banned e. Wildlife and marine life
b. Plastic bag d. The result of the research by POM
26. How many reasons are mentioned by the writer?
a. one b. two c. three d. four e. five
27. What kind of genre does the text above belong to?
a. Spoof c. Narrative e. Hortatory Exposition
b. Report d. Descriptive
28. The communicative purpose of the above text is ....
a. to expose the special things
b. to describe reading activity
c. to share an amusing story with others
d. to persuade the reader or listener that plastic bags should be banned
e. to entertain the readers and deal with actual or vicarious experience in different ways
29. The text mostly uses … Tense.
a. The Present Continuous c. The Present Simple e. The Future
b. The Past Continuous d. The Past Simple
30. Many people … the museum every day.
a. visits b. visit c. visited d. visiting e. are visiting
31. The students … the English test at the moment.
a. are doing b. is doing c. doing d. does e. do
32. We … to the museum next week.
a. will go b. went c. go d. goes e. gone
33. Alif : Oh no! We … that tree.
Afif : What tree?
Alif : That tree!
a. hit b. is hit c. are hit d. is going to hit e. are going to hit
34. Zie Zie was able to do the test well. … got good scores in every subject.
a. He b. She c. His d. Him e. Her
35. They do not understand what the teacher is talking about. They play cards all the time when … teacher is explaining the lesson.
a. they b. them c. their d. themself e. themselves
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C D E D C B A A E B C