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  Woman:     Today,we continue talking about vegetable and fodder plants.We spoke of other types of these,including kale and collards,previously.Today we will review what is normally reffered to as cabbage in common conversation.     Cabbage is a common vegetable native to England and northwestern France but now grown in many parts of Europe,Asia,and the American continents.There are three kinds of cabbage,all with the same basic characteristic;The leaves grow very close together,forming a hard,round head.The three types of cabbage are white,savoy,and red.While the white and red cabbages have prominent veins in the coir leaves,savoy has wrinkled and blistered leaves.All forms of cabbage have succulent leaves covered with a waxy coating.They are low in calories,have little fat,ad are an excellent source of ascorbic acid,minerals,and bulk,which helps digestion.     Cabbage seeds are quite small.Farners normally sow the seeds in rows that are about 36 inc...
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TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL(READING)

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             During the heyday of the railroads,when Ameria's rail system provided the bulk of the country's passenger and freight transportation,various types of railroad cars were in servive to accomplish the varied tasks handled by the railroads.One type of car that was not available for public use prior to the civil War,however,was a sleeping car,ideas for sleeping cars abounded at the time, but these ideas were unworkable.It unfortunately took the death of a president to make the sleeping car a viable reality.

            Cabinet-maker George M.Pullman had recognized the demand for sleeping cars and had worked on developing experimental models of sleeping cars in the decade leading up to the Civil War.However,in spite of the fact that he had made successful test runs on the chicago and Alton Railroads with his models,he was unable to sell his idea because his models were too wide and too high for existing train stations and bridges.In 1863,after spending time working as a storekeeper in a  Colorado mining town,he invested his savings of twenty thousand dollars,a huge fortune at that time and all the money that he had in the world,in a luxurious sleeping car that he named the Pioneer,Pullman and friend Ben Field built the pioneer on the site of the present-day Chicago Union Station.For two years,however,the Pioneer sat on a railroad siding,useless because it could not fit through train stations and over bridges.

            Following President Lincoln's assassination in 1865,the state of Illnois,Lincoln's birthplace,wanted to transport the presidential casket in the finest fashion possible.The Pullman Pioneer was the most elegant car around;in order to make the Pullman part of the presidential funeral train in its run from Springfield to Chicago,the state cut down station platforms and raised  bridges in order to  included  Lincoln's  successor as president,General Ulysses S.Grant later requested the Pioneer for a trip from Detroit to Chicago.To satisfy Grant's request for  the pioneer,the Michigan Central Railroad made improvements on its line to accommodate the wide car,and soon other railroads followed.George Pullman founded the Pullman Palace Car Company in partnership with financier Andrew Carnegie and eventually become a millionaire.

1.Which of the following best states the main idea of the passage?

a.America's railroads used to provide much of the country's transportation.

b.President Lincoln's assassination in 1865 shocked the nation.

c.George Pullman was the only one to come up with the idea for a sleeping car.

d.Pullman's idea for a sleeping car became workable after Lincoln's death.

2.A"heyday"in line 1 is most probably a

a.time for harvest

b.a period with low prices

c.a period of great success

d.a type of railroad schedute

3.It can be inferred from the passage that before the Civil War,sleeping cars

a.were used abundantly

b.were thought to be a good idea

c.were only used privately

d.were used by presidents

4.The word"test"in line 9 could best be replaced by which of the following?

a.Exam

b.Trial

c.Inspection

d.Scientific

5.What was the initial problem that made Pullman's cars unusable?

a.They were too large

b.They were too expensive

c.They were too slow

d.They were too unusual

6.What is stated in the passage about George Pullman?

a.He once had a job in a store

b.He always lived in Chicago

c.He worked in a mine

d.He saved money for his project

7.The word"site"in line 14 is closest in meaning to which of the following?

a.Factory

b.View

c.Location

d.Foundation

8.Why did the state of Illnois want to use the Pullman in Lincoln's funeral train?

a.It was superior to other cars

b.It was the only railroad car that could make it from Springfield to Chicago

c.Ulysses S..Grant requested it

d.The Pullman Palace Car Company was a major Illnois bussiness

9.It can be inferred from the passage that the Michigan Central Railroad

a.was owned by George Pullman

b.controlled the railroad tracks between Detroit and Chicago

c.was the only railroad company to accommodate wide cars

d.was the sole manufacturer of the Pioneer

10.This passage would most likey be assigned in which of the following courses?

a.Engineering

b.Political science

c.Finance

d.History

Thank for reading TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL 2 DAN PEMBAHASANNYA in my blog.
reference:
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