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8. A UPC is a type of....

A. computer program
B. bar code
C. grocery item
D. scanner
E. manufactured parts

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Perhatikan teks berikut untuk menjawab soal nomor 9 - 12!

Passage 1
What accounts for the inexorable advance of the giant sports utility vehicle (SUV) into our lives? How do we want high-clearance trucks with four-wheel drive and front bumpers as big as battering rams? A large part of the answer lies in the fake Western names so many of them carry. No one much cares about what those names denote (lakes, frontier towns, mountain ranges); what matters is their connotations of rugged individualism, mastery ever wilderness, cowboy endurance. The names simply magnify the appeal of these vehicles’ that are the Frankensteinian concoctions of our private anxieties and desires.

Passage 2
When a major manufacturer launched an SUV named for an Alaskan mountains, an auto-trade publication discussed the subtleties of its name. It proposed that even though most buyers will never venture into territory any less trampled than the parking lot of the local shopping mall, the important goal of the marketing hype is to plant the image in customers’ minds that they can conquer rugged terrain. Perhaps we’re trying to tame a different kind of wilderness. Indeed, in an age when many who can afford to do so live in limited-access communities is houses guarded by sophisticated surveillance systems, the SUV is the perfect transportation shelter to protect us from fears both real and imagined.

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9. Both passages support which of the following generalizations about buyers of SUVs?

A. they intend to drive them on rough terrain
B. they wish to live in mountanous regions
C. thay are wealthier than most other car buyers
D. thay are influenced by marketing strategies
E. thay are insecure about their social status

10. Which of the following aspects of SUVs is addressed in Passage 1 but not in passage 2?

A. their imposing bulk
B. their escalating cost
C. the psychology of their owners
D. their environmental impact
E. the significance of their names

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11. Which of the following in passage 1 exemplifies the “subtleties” mentioned in passage 2?

A. inexorable advance (line 1)
B. battering rams (line 2)
C. lake, frontiers town, mountain ranges (line 4)
D. connotations (line 5)
E. Frankensteinian concoctions (line 6)