Simulasi Latihan Soal UTBK 2024 Literasi Bahasa Inggris, Lengkap dengan 9 Kisi-kisi Materi SNBT

There is growing evidence that people with large number of silver fillings are also at risk. It was once believed that mercury bonded so completely with the other metals used in dental amalgam that it would not escape from the filling. We now know this is not true, and in fact the amount of mercury vapor leaving fillings has been measured.

Multiple fillings can leak enough mercury into a persons system to cause mercury poisoning. While in the average adult one or two fillings will not cause harm, having multiple fillings can leak enough mercury into a persons system to cause mercury positioning. For women, there are special health concerns. Mercury crosses the placenta and also passes into breast milk. Even trace amounts can cause birth defects. Mercury has been linked to regressive disorder, ADHD, developmental delays and a variety of physical, cognitive and behavioral problems. It has also been linked to intensified PMS (post menstrual syndrome). All of which means that for a woman, especially on in her child bearing years or for a minor, silver fillings can be a serious health hazard.

3. Both passages above likely deal with the common theme which is ...

A. The effects of mercury leaks
B. The health hazards of mercury
C. The danger of mercury poisoning
D. The flow of mercury in blood vessels
E. The problematic behavior of mercury

Jawaban: B

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New research out of Notre Dame is digging into why social media isn't always good for us, especially if you're young and female. Working as an educator, Carmen Papaluca observed a worrying trend with her students. In particular, social media was having a significant negative impact on her students' mental health. For anyone who is a regular user of social media (which is most of us these days), this won't come as a surprise. With everyone sharing their 'highlight reels', Carmen observed, young women find it particularly hard to see their own lives or even their own bodies as good enough.

Wanting to understand more about the issue and what could be done, Carmen began a Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame. The focus of her research is Instagram use among young women aged 18 to 25. One of the key findings of her work so far is that younger female Instagram users in her study (late teens and early 20s) found that images on the app made them feel most badly about their bodies.

However, women who were slightly older (mid-20s) felt the inadequacy around their work and lifestyle. In comparison to the images of the apparently fabulous social lives and careers of others on Instagram, they felt that their own lives "lacked meaning."

The blame of the perceived problems with new technologies gets put entirely on those new technologies. But if we want to find a real solution to these problems, we need to dig a bit deeper. In other words, it's not just Instagram that is the problem. It's the social pressures put on young women that have been part of our culture for many years that are now becoming amplified by social media.

Adapted from https://phys.org/news/2018-01-instagram-affecting- mental-health.html

4. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. How social media destroys women's lives
B. The bad effects of technology in human's social life
C. The negative impacts of social media on young women's mental health
D. The use of social media that apparently decreases people's standard behavior
E. A study how social media impacts on their users

Jawaban: C

5. In which paragraph does the author state that images of certain social media impose one's bad feeling about her physical appearance?