2 Contoh Soal Argumentative Text Essay dan Kunci Jawabannya

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Contoh soal argumentative text essay yang dilengkapi dengan kunci jawaban cocok untuk dijadikan panduan soal ujian siswa. Soal ini melatih siswa dalam menemukan sebuah informasi dalam suatu bacaaan.

Argumentative text atau teks argumentasi merupakan jenis teks yang berisi penjelasan mengenai suatu pendapat atau fakta berdasarkan sudut pandang penulis. Tujuan dari teks ini yaitu untuk memengaruhi atau meyakinkan pembaca.

Contoh Soal Argumentative Text Essay dan Jawabannya

Ilustrasi contoh soal argumentative text. Sumber: Unsplash/Alissa De Leva

Dikutip dalam buku Bahasa Inggris SMA XI Semester Ganjil oleh Ida Nursita, S.Pd (2022:71-72) argumentative text yaitu teks yang merujuk pada suatu pendapat (argument) terhadap sesuatu. Fungsi dari teks ini yaitu untuk meyakinkan pembaca bahwa topik yang dihadirkan adalah topik yang penting untuk dibahas.

Teks ini terdiri dari 3 struktur yaitu thesis, arguments, dan conclusion. Berikut contoh soal argumentative text essay beserta jawabannya.

Argumentative Text 1

Everybody should change their way of life to reduce global warming. There are several things that we can do. One of them is by buying and consuming fresh local groceries as much as possible. It of course includes local vegetables, fruits, bread, etc.

Local groceries don’t need much transportation to get it into the market. It of course means, the amount of carbon dioxide produced is less than the groceries from other region. Therefore, by buying local groceries we are helping reduce the amount of carbon dioxide produced.

Consuming fresh groceries instead of frozen ones are healthier for us. Furthermore, fresh food or groceries means no requirements for it to be freeze up. It means that no electricity is needed and saving energy means reducing carbon dioxide and money.

So, from now on we should consume fresh local groceries to reduce global warming.

The text gives us information about ...
Jawaban: The ways to minimize global warning.
To reduce the global warming we should ...
Jawaban: Consume fresh foods.
"We are helping reduce the amount of global warming" (Paragraph 2). The underlined word can be replaced by ...
Jawaban: Decrease, lower, diminish, bring down.

Argumentative Text 2

The use of formalin and other dangerous preservatives in food has been serious problem for three reasons. Firstly, formalin is not for human beings, but it is for biological specimens and experiments.

Formalin in Biology is a 10 percentage solution of formaldehyde in water which is usually used as a disinfectant or to preserve biological specimens. Thus, it is not for food preservatives. Of course when it is used for food preservative, it will be very dangerous to human's body.

The second reason is that there is no tight control from the government. This condition makes the people's health is really in a threat. When the control is weak and the use formalin was spread wide all over the Indonesian regions.

Fish or food traders still sell their products which contain formalin and dangerous preservatives. Can you imagine that our digestive system absorbs the substance that should be for the human and animal corpses?

Considering the reasons, we can make a conclusion that the use of formalin and other preservatives is really a serious problem if it is not resolved immediately.

Why is formalin dangerous for huma's body?
Jawaban: It is not food preservatives.
The main idea of paragraph three is ...
Jawaban: The government has not controlled the use of formalin firmly.
Based on the facts above, the writer suggest that ...
Jawaban: People have to avoid consuming formalin in their food.
What is the generic structure of the text?
Jawaban: Thesis-Argument-Conclusion.

Itulah 2 contoh soal argumentative text essay dari dua bacaan yang dikemas dengan singkat untuk memudahkan pembaca yang akan menjadikan contoh di atas sebagai soal ujian siswa. Semoga bermanfaat. (MRZ)