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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

TRIK JITU MENGRJAKAN SOAL TOEFL (READING 9)

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                 Seventeenth -century houses in colonial North America              were simple structures that were primarily functional              carrying over traditional designs that went back to the              Middle Ages.During the first half of the eighteenth century, line      however,house began to show a new elegance.As wealth   (5)      increased,more and more colonists built fine houses.                 Since architecture was not yet a specialized profession in              the colonies,the design of buildings was left either to              amateur designers or to carpenters who undertook to              interpret architectural manuals imported from England.             Inventories of colonial libraries show an astonishing              number of these handbooks for builders,and the houses  (10)     erected during the eighteenth century show their influence.             Nevertheless,most domestic architecture of the first three-             quarters of