On Ellesmere Island in the Arctic one fossil forest consist of a nearly hundred
A B
large stumps scattered on an exposed coal bed.
C D
Jawaban: B
Pembahasan: Kata ‘nearly’ tidak memerlukan indefinite article/determiner ‘a’
lantaran kata benda stumps adalah benda jamak (plural).
The surface conditions on the planet Mars are the more like the Earth’s than are
A B C
those of any other planet in the solar system.
D
Jawaban: B
Pembahasan: Pola comparative yang benar adalah more _ than _.
Dengan demikian, tidak diperlukan definite article “the” pada kata more.
The railroad was not the first institution to impose regularity on society, or to draw attention to the importance of precise timekeeping. (2) For as long as merchants have set out their wares at daybreak and communal festivities have been celebrated, people have been in rough agreement with their neighbors as to the time of day. (3) The value of this tradition is more apparent today than ever. (4) Were it not for public acceptance of a single yardstick of time, social life would be unbearably chaotic: the massive daily transfers of goods, services, and information would proceed in fits and starts; the very fabric of modern society would begin to unravel.
What is the main idea of the passage?
(A) In modern society we must make more time for our neighbors.
(B) Society judges people by the times at which they conduct certain activities
(C) The traditions of society are timeless
(D) An accepted way of measuring time is essential for the smooth functioning of society.