Contoh Teks Explanation

Seasons come to us regularly. We have probably noticed that it gets warmer in summer or dry season while it get colder in the winter or wet season. However do we know how these seasons change?

Seasons happen and change every year. This happens because the earth tilts back and forth as it goes around the sun. During the summer, the earth tilts toward the sun. It makes half of the earth hotter. this condition is what we call summer. During the other half of the year, the earth tilts away from the sun. As a result, it makes that half of the earth cooler. This cool condition is then what we call winter.

The different parts of the world have the same season at different times. In the northern half of the world , winter happens during the months of December, January and February. The regions are such North America and Europe. In the other hand, the southern half of the world have winter during the months of June, July and August.The regions are like South America and Australia. How does this difference happen? The same season happens at different times because the top and bottom halves of the earth tilt away from the sun at different times.

Teks Explanation Soal + Jawaban The Sense Of The Taste

The sense of taste is one of a person's five senses. We taste with the help of taste-buds in the tongue.

There are four main kinds of taste: sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. All other tastes are just mixtures of two or more of these main types.

The surface of the tongue has more than fifteen thousand taste-buds (or cells). These are connected to the brain by special nerves which send the so-called 'tastes messages.

When the tongue comes into contact with food of any kind, the taste-buds will pick up the taste. The nerves then send a message to the brain. This will make us aware of the taste. All this happens in just a few seconds.

There are four kinds of taste-buds, each of which is sensitive to only a particular taste. These four groups are located in different parts of the tongue.

The taste-buds for salty and sweet tastes are found round the tip of the tongue and along its sides. Sour tastes can be picked up only at the sides of the tongue. The taste-buds of the bitter taste are found at the innermost edge of the tongue. There are taste-buds at the centre of the tongue.

The senses of smell and sight can affect taste. The good smell of food increases its taste. Similarly, attractive colours can make food appear tastier and more delicious. If food does not smell good or is dull-coloured, it will look tasty and may not taste good at all.

Very hot or cold sensations can make the taste-buds insensitive. Food that is too hot or too cold, when placed in the mouth, will have no tastes at all.

1.  We can taste any kind of food because of ........

A.  the good smell of food
B. the four main kinds of taste
C. the taste-buds in the tongue
D. the senses of smell and sight
E. the taste-buds round the tip of the tongue

2.  When we eat very hot or cold food ........

A. the food will lose its taste
B. the food won't smell good
C. the taste of the food increases
D. the taste-buds will be sensitive
E. the taste-buds will be very, responsive

3.   The senses of smell and sight ........

A. increase the taste of the food
B. affect the taste of the food
C. make food more delicious
D. make the food look good
E. make the food attractive

4.   The purpose of the text is ........

A. to explain how we can taste any food in the mouth
B. to give a report about the sense of taste
C. to inform how important the tongue is
D. to describe the use of the tongue
E. to tell the taste of the food

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Explanation Text + Jawaban Natural Disaster

A natural disaster is a terrible accident, e.g. a great flood, a big fire or an earthquake. It usually causes great suffering and loss of a large sum of money. The casualties are injured or died. Some people are homeless and need medical care.

Floods occur when the water of rivers, lakes, or streams overflow their banks and pour onto the surrounding land. Floods are caused by many different things. Often heavy rainstorms that last for a brief can cause a flood. But not all heavy storms are followed by flooding. If the surrounding land is flat and can absorb the water, no flooding will occur. If, however, the land is hard and rocky, heavy rain cannot be absorbed. Where the banks are low, a river may overflow and flood adjacent lowland.

In many part of the world flood are caused by tropical storms called hurricanes or typhoons. They bring destructive winds of high speed, torrents of rain, and flooding. When a flood occurs, the destruction to surrounding land can be severe. Whole villages and towns are sometimes swept away by water pouring swiftly over the land. Railroad track blocked and uprooted from their beds. Highways are washed away.

When a building caught fire, the firemen pitched in to help battle the blaze. Before the pumps were invented, people formed bucket brigades to fight fires. Standing side by side, they formed a human chain from the fire to nearby well or river. They passed buckets of water from to hand to be poured on the flames.

The damage of the fire did depend a great deal on where it happened. In the country or a small village, only a single house might burn down. But in crowded cities, fire often destroyed whole blocks and neighborhoods before being controlled.

(Soal UN SMA/MA IPA 2011/2012)

1. What can possibly prevent rivers and lakes from overflowing?

a. An absorbent bed.

b. A rocky surrounding.

c. A low land.

d. A high bank.

e. A high road.

2. We know from the text that . . . .

a. River can sweep heavy flood

b. People can make money from flood

c. The destruction by flood is always less severe

d. Water flood is absorbed by land

e. Typhoons caused heavy flood

3. We know from the text that . . . .

a. The pump is the only tool used by fire fighters now

b. The pump helps people to fight fires more efficiently

c. Fires in big cities are always very big

d. People no longer use buckets to control fire

e. Only firemen can control fires in crowded cities

Explanation Text: Chocolate

Explanation Text: Chocolate

Have you ever wondered how people get chocolate from? In this article we'll enter the amazing world of chocolate so you can understand exactly what you're eating.

Chocolate starts with a tree called the cacao tree. This tree grows in equatorial regions, especially in places such as South America, Africa, and Indonesia. The cacao tree produces a fruit about the size of a small pine apple. Inside the fruit are the tree's seeds, also known as cocoa beans.

The beans are fermented for about a week, dried in the sun and then shipped to the chocolate maker. The chocolate maker starts by roasting the beans to bring out the flavour. Different beans from different places have different qualities and flavor, so they are often sorted and blended to produce a distinctive mix. Next, the roasted beans are winnowed. Winnowing removes the meat nib of the cacao bean from its shell. Then, the nibs are blended. The blended nibs are ground to make it a liquid. The liquid is called chocolate liquor. It tastes bitter. All seeds contain some amount of fat, and cacao beans are not different. However, cacao beans are half fat, which is why the ground nibs form liquid. It's pure bitter chocolate.

1. The text is about ...
A. the cacao tree
B. the cacao beans
C. the raw chocolate
D. the making of chocolate 
E. the flavour of chocolate

2. The third paragraph focuses on ...
A. the process of producing chocolate 
B. how to produce the cocoa flavour
C. where chocolate comes from
D. the chocolate liquor
E. the cacao fruit

3. " ..., so they are often sorted and blended to produce ..." (Paragraph 3)
The underlined word is close in meaning to ...
A. arranged
B. combined
C. separated 
D. distributed
E. organized

4. How does the chocolate maker start to make chocolate?
A. By fermenting the beans.
B. By roasting the beans, 
C. By blending the beans.
D. By sorting the beans.
E. By drying the beans

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Explanation Text+Jawaban Silkworms

Silkworms 

Silkworms live for only two or three days after laying eggs. About 36,000 to 50,000 eggs are laid, and these are carefully stored at the silkworm farm until they are ready to hatch. The eggs hatch into caterpillars, which feed on mulberry leaves. Soon, the caterpillars are ready to spin their cocoons. Not all caterpillars can spin silk cocoons. Only the caterpillars of a silkworm moth known as ‘Bombyx mari’ can do such spinning. This caterpillar has special glands which secrete liquid silk through its lower lip. The liquid produced later hardens to form tine strands.

The caterpillar makes its cocoons using these strands. The threads on the outside of the cocoon are rough, while those inside are soft and smooth.

Some fully-spun cocoons are heated. This kills the pupa inside. The cocoons are then put into hot water to loosen the fine threads. Finally, these threads are reeled off the cocoons.

The length of unbroken thread produced by a single cocoon measures about one-and-a-half kilometers. Being twisted together several of these threads make single woven materials.

1. What is the purpose of the text ……..
A. To persuade readers to buy silk.
B. To put silk into different categories.
C. To entertain readers with the knowledge.
D. To present some points of view about silk.
E. To describe how silk comes into existence.

2. How are the threads on the outside of the cocoon ……..
A. Fine.
B. Soft.
C. Rough.
D. Strong.
E. Smooth.

3. What are mulberry leaves for ……..
A.Feeding caterpillars.
B. Spinning cocoons.
C. Storing threads.
D. Hatching eggs.
E. Laying eggs.

Explanation Text Beserta Soal Beserta Jawaban: Geyser

Explanation Text beserta Soal lalu Jawaban: Geyser

Soal Ujian Nasional SMA/MA 2013

The following text is for questions 1 to 4

A geyser is the result of underground water under the combined conditions of high temperatures and increased pressure beneath the surface of the earth. Since temperature rises approximately 1 F for every sixty feet under the earth's surface, and pressure increases with depth, the water that seeps down in crack and fissures until it reaches very hot rock in the earth interior becomes heated to temperature in excess of 290 F. Because of the greater pressure, the water shoots out of the surface in the form of steam and hot water. The result is a geyser. In order to function, then a geyser must have a source of heat, reservoir where water can be stored until the temperature rises to an unstable point, an opening through which the hot water and steam can escape, and underground channels for resupplying water after an eruption.

Favorable conditions for geyser exist in some regions of the world including New Zealand, Iceland, and the Yellowstone National Park area of the United States. The most famous geyser in the world is Old Faithfull in Yellow Park. Old Faithfull erupts almost every hour, rising to a height of 125 to 170 feet and expelling more than ten thousand gallons during each eruption.

1. How geyser is produced?
A. By the rise of temperature pressure functioning hot steam.
B. From a huge tension of heated water that coming out from the earth crack.
C. From the heated temperature in earth crack that absorbing water.
D. From the temperature and absorbed water that occurs on earth surface.
E. By the hot water and temperature of hot rock that occurs on earth surface.
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2. Steam and hot water shoot out of the surface because of ....
A. hot rock and water
B. temperature and pressure
C. greater pressure 
D. high temperature and increased pressure
E. underground temperature and increased pressure

3. Reservoir where the water can be stored will be after eruption and resupplying again .....
A. hot
B. narrow
C. open 
D. empty
E. unstable

4. "... and expelling more than ten thousand gallons during each eruption." (Paragraph 2)
The underlined word is closest in meaning to ....
A. heating
B. melting
C. wasting
D. supplying
E. discharging

Explanation Text Beserta Soal Bersama Jawaban

Explanation Text beserta Soal lagi Jawaban

Sumber: Soal UN SMA 2014

This text is for questions 11 to 14.

beringsang beringsang

Biodiesel is a clean burning beringsang substitute for petroleum based diesel fuel. Biodiesel is made of vegetable beringsang oil. To make or manufacture beringsang Biodiesel, you must first start with raw materials. The raw materials needed beringsang in the production of Biodiesel are a small amount of methanol and a ready beringsang supply of vegetable product. One of the most common vegetables used in the beringsang production of Biodiesel is corn, although depending on the geographic beringsang location of the manufacturing facility many other plants are used as well beringsang (rapeseed, soybeans, flaxseed, etc.). The first step is to use the raw beringsang vegetable product to make vegetable oil. Vegetable oil by itself will not be beringsang what you need to power a car, from here it has to be processed into beringsang Biodiesel. The process for converting beringsang vegetable oil into Biodiesel is sometimes called ester interchange. To beringsang complete this process the vegetable oil has to be combined with a smaller beringsang amount of methanol and then put in the presence of a small quantity of an beringsang alkaline catalyst (for example, 5% to 1% sodium hydroxide). Vegetable oil is beringsang made up of so-called triglycerides, which is a compound of the trivalent beringsang alcohol glycerin with three fatty acids. The goal of ester interchange is to beringsang separate the glycerin molecule from the three fatty acids and replace it with beringsang three methanol molecules. This process then yields roughly 90% Biodiesel and beringsang 10% of a glycerin byproduct. The glycerin byproduct can be used in a number beringsang of other chemical processes for different industries.

11. What is the text about?

A.     The process of making Biodiesel.

B.     The use of the Biodiesel.

C.     The advantage of using the Biodiesel.

D.     The benefit of producing the Biodiesel.

E.      The development of the Biodiesel product.

12. What are interchanged in the process of ester interchange?

A.     The three fatty acids with the glycerin molecules.

B.     The glycerin molecule with three methanol molecules.

C.     Methanol with the three fatty acids.

D.     Vegetable oil with methanol

E.      Methanol and alkaline catalyst.

13. According to the text, one of the advantages in using biodiesel is…

A.     it is cheap.

B.     it only uses vegetable oil.

C.     it uses replaceable materials.

D.     it can be done in small industry.

E.      it gives less pollution than petroleum.

14. “The process for converting vegetable oil…”(Paragraph 3)

       The underline word is closest in meaning to…

A.       Producing

B.        Separating

C.        Attaching

D.       Processing

E.        Changing

Contoh Explanation Text Beserta Soal Lagi Jawaban: Digestion

Contoh Explanation Text beserta Soal lagi Jawaban: Digestion

Sumber: Soal Ujian Nasional SMA/MA 2015.

The following text is for questions 37 to 40.

Human body is made up of countless millions of cells. Food is needed to built up new cells and replace the worn out cells. However, the food that we take must be changed into substances that can be carried in the blood to the places where they are needed. This process is called digestion.

The first digestive process takes place in the mouth. The food we eat is broken up into small pieces by the action of teeth, mixed with saliva, a juice secreted by glands in the mouth. Saliva contains digestive juice which moisten the food, so it can be swallowed easily.

From the mouth, food passes through the esophagus (the food passage) into the stomach. Here, the food is mixed with the juices secreted by the cells in the stomach for several hours. Then the food enters the small intestine. All the time the muscular walls of the intestine are squeezing, mixing and moving the food onwards.

In a few hours, the food changes into acids. These are soon absorbed by the villi (microscopic branch projections from the intestine walls) and passed into the bloodstream.

37. What is the text about?
A. The digestive system
B. The digestive juice
C. The method of the digestive system
D. The process of intestine work
E. The food substances
Kunci Jawaban merupakan A, The digestive system.
Dilihat dari kalimat, "This process is called digestion".

38. How can we swallow the food easily?
A. The food changes into acids absorbed by the villi.
B. The food must be digested first through the process.
C. The food is directly swallowed through esophagus into the stomach.
D. The food is mixed with the juices secreted by the cells in the stomach.
E. The food we take must be changed into substances carried in the blood to the places.
Kunci Jawaban ialah B, B. The food must be digested first through the process..
Dilihat dari kalimat, "The food we eat is broken up into small pieces by the action of teeth, mixed with saliva, a juice secreted by glands in the mouth. Saliva contains digestive juice which moisten the food, so it can be swallowed easily".

39. From the text above, we imply that ….
A. a good process of digestive system will help our body becoming healthier.
B. no one concerned with the process of digestive system for their health.
C. the digestive system is needed if we are eating the food instantly.
D. every body must conduct the processes of digestive system well.
E. the better we digest the food we eat, the healthier we will be.
Kunci jawaban ialah  A, a good process of digestive system will help our body becoming healthier.

40. “Human body is made up of countless millions of cells.” (Paragraph 1)
The underlined phrase means ….
A. produced
B. managed
C. arranged
D. completed
E. constructed
Kemungkinan besar kunci jawaban ialah  D, completed (dg kamus). Namun, secara konteks, kunci jawaban E, constructed (dibangun), nampak lebih tepat pemaknaannya.

Daftar arti beberapa kosakata (Vocabulary):
- Worn out: rusak
- Digestion: pencernaan
- Digestive process: proses pencernaan
- Saliva: air liur
- Glands: kelenjar
- esophagus (UK oesophagus): Esofagus / kerongkongan
- juice: cairan
- secreted: diproduksi / dikeluarkan dari
- intestine: usus