TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL,WRITTEN EXPRESSION DAN PEMBAHASANNYA

TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL (READING) DAN PEMBAHASANNYA

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        READING TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL 2 DAN PEMBAHASANNYA            Madison Square Garden,a world-famous sporting venue in Newyork City,has actually been a series of buildings in varied locations rather than a single building in one spot.In 1873,P.T.Barnum built Barnum's Monster Classical and Geological Hippodrome at the corner of Madison Avenue and 26th Street,across from Madison Square Park.Two years later,bandleader Patrick Gilmore bought the property,added statues and fountains,and renamed it Gilmore's Gardens.When Cornelius Vanderbilt bought the property in 1879,it was renamed Madison Square Garden.          A second very lavish Madison Square Garden was built at the same location in 1890,with a ballroom,a restaurant,a theater,a rooftop garden,and a main arena with seating for 15000.However,this elaborate Madison Square Garden lasted only until 1924,when it was torn down to make way for a forty-story skyscraper.          When the second Madison Square Garden ha
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TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL(READING)

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     The 50-million-year-old fossils of an ancient whale found in the Himalayan foothills of Pakistan give strong evidence that modern whales are descended from a four-legged,land-dwelling animal.The fossils consist of part of the skull,some teeth,and the well-preserved middle ear of an animal that was 6 to 8 feet long,weighed 350 pounds,had a wolflike snout,and had two foot-long jaws with sharp,triangular teeth.It is the middle ear which suggests that the ancient whale lived on land.Analytic indicated that the animal had eardrums,which do not work in water and which modern whales have only in vestigial form.Furthermore,the right and left ear bones were not isolated from each other.The separation of these bones in marine whales enables them to detect the direcion of underwater sounds.

1.The 50-million-year-old fossils found in Pakistan

a.are 6 to 8 feet long and 350 pounds in weight

b.are descended from a four-legged,land-dwelling animal

c.proves the Himalayan foothills were once under water

d.includes the middle ear of an ancient whale

pembahasan:

(D)The first line of the passage states that the fossils are of an ancient whale.The second sentence states that "the fossils consist of........the well-preserved middle ear.

2.Whales  with eardrums

a.would not be able to hear well in water

b.were marine creatures

c.could distinguish where underwater sounds originated

d.could not live in land

pembahasan:

(A)The passage states that eardrums do not work in water.

3.A marine whale can recognize source of a sound because

a.the right and left ear bones are isolated from each other

b.the middle ear is in a vestigial form

c.it lives under water instead of on land

d.it has a well-preserved middle ear

pembahasan:

(A)It is stated in the passage that the separation of the right and left ear bones enables marine whales to detect the direction of underwater sounds.

    The most traditional American food may well be commeal.Commeal,as we know it today,began as an Indian staple.The Indians grew corn of six different colors-black,red,white,yellow,blue,and multicolored.They ground the corn kemels into commeal and mixed it with salt and water,then baked it.This recipe was introduced to the early colonists,who experimented with it and developed their own uses for commeal.Succotash,a meat stew with commeal added,and mush,leftower commeal porridge cut and fried,are two meals invented by early colonists.

    Visitors can travel south and enjoy spoonbread,a smooth puddinglike dish,or to New England for johnnycakes,a kind of flat pancake.But probably the most common forms of commeal nationwide are combread,commeal muffins,and the"hushpuppy,"a round ball of commeal batter that is fried in oil.

4.According to the passage,commeal was originally used by

a.the early colonists

b.the New Englanders

c.the American Indians

d.the people in the south

pembahasan:

(C)It is stated that commeal was introduced to the early colonists by the Indians.

5.According to the passage,mush is

a.a batter that is fried in oil

b.fried leftovers from a commeal dish

c.added to meat stew to make succotash

d.one of two meals developed by the Indians

pembahasan:

(B)The passage mentions"mush,leftover commeal porride cut and fried."

6.According to the passage,common forms of commeal are

a.no longer popular

b.restricted to certain regions

c.found nationwide

d.multicolored

pembahasan:

(C)The passage mentions"the most common forms of commeal nationwide."



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