Mona : You look excited. Do you want to share it with me? Lia : Sure. I have a new way to make my typing neat. Before this, I got a bit frustrated (24)……. sloppy typing, especially wide spacing between words. Mona: Then, what did you do? Lia : (25)….. Hanif who told me how to tidy up my typing. It happened when he saw me typing and noticed that it had many wide spaces. He claims that our teachers will give a lot of doodles (26)……. minor error for sure. this Mona :Then? Lia : Then, he showed me the way. I applied it on my writings right away. Gotcha! All of my writings are neat now. Mona : You must tell me about it. Lia : Sure. Take out your laptop computer and let me show you.

Mona : You look excited. Do you want to share it with me?

Lia : Sure. I have a new way to make my typing neat. Before this, I got a bit frustrated (24)……. sloppy typing, especially wide spacing between words.

Mona: Then, what did you do?

Lia : (25)….. Hanif who told me how to tidy up my typing. It happened when he saw me typing and noticed that it had many wide spaces. He claims that our teachers will give a lot of doodles (26)……. minor error for sure. this

Mona :Then?

Lia : Then, he showed me the way. I applied it on my writings right away. Gotcha! All of my writings are neat now.

Mona : You must tell me about it.

Lia : Sure. Take out your laptop computer and let me show you.

A. Thanks to
B. Due to
C. Because
D. For
E. Since

Number 24 please 🙂

Jawaban yang benar adalah B. Due to.

Soal menanyakan kata/frasa yang tepat untuk melengkapi rumpang no 24 pada teks.

Kalimat “Before this, I got a bit frustrated (24)……. sloppy typing, especially wide spacing between words.” artinya “Sebelum ini, saya agak frustasi (24)……. pengetikan yang ceroboh, terutama spasi antar kata yang lebar.”

Dilihat dari strukturnya, dapat disimpulkan bahwa kalimat tersebut membutuhkan kata penghubung atau conjunction.

Dilihat dari maknanya, kata penghubung yang tepat untuk melengkapi rumpang adalah kata penghubung yang menunjukan hubungan sebab akibat. Frasa ‘sloppy typing’ menunjukan sebab. Sehingga kata penghubung yang dapat digunakan adalah ‘due to’ yang bermakna ‘karena’.

‘Due to’ dapat digunakan pada kalimat tersebut karena setelah rumpang diikuti oleh noun phrase ‘sloppy typing’.

Jadi, jawabannya adalah B. Due to.

Hope it helps. Happy learning! 🙂