Procedural Text + Jawaban how to repel mice

Soal UN SMP/MTS 2012

The following text is for questions number 16 to 18.

How to Repel Mice Mice might look cute, but they can be harmful pets that destroy household items, eat and mess with food and can spread severe diseases through their feces and parasites they carry. Here are some useful tips on how to repel house mice: Use peppermint, put the peppermint near wall corners. Pour generous amount of peppermint oil on cotton balls. Place the saturated cotton balls on areas where mice are possibly seen-around counter tops, under the sofas in your living room. Put them behind shelves, wall corners or on the floor beneath your kitchen sink.

16. Why do we use peppermint to repel mice? Because ....
    A. peppermint is fresh to breathe
    B. mice love the peppermint
    C. mice will die of breathing mint
    D. mice hate the smell of peppermint

17. From the text above, we can conclude that ...
    A. mice spread severe diseases through feces
    B. peppermint is useful to repel mice
    C. mice love peppermint
    D. we can place oil everywhere to repel mice

18. "Put them behind shelves ..."
    The word "them" refers to ....
    A. pets
    B. peppermint
    C. cotton balls
    D. peppermint oil

Muhammad Ahkam Arifin Muhammad Ahkam Arifin is a Fulbright PhD student at Washington State University, US. He earned a master`s degree in TESOL from the University of Edinburgh & Applied Linguistics from the University of Melbourne.

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