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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 spectacular aurora light displays that appear in Earth's atmosphere around the north and south magnetic poles were once mysterius phenomena.Now,scientists have data from satellites and ground-based observations from which we know that the aurora brilliance is an immense electrical discharge similar to that occurring in an neon sign.

        To understand the cause of auroras,first picture the Earth enclosed by its magnetosphere,a huge region created by the Earth's magnetic field.Outside the magnetosphere,blasting toward the earth is the solar winds,a swiftly moving plasma of ionized gases with its own magnetic filed.Charged particles in this solar wind speed earthward along the solar wind's magnetic lines of force with a spiraling motion.The Earth's magnetosphere is a barrier to the solar winds,and forces the charged particles of the solar wind to flow around the magnetosphare itself.But in the polar regions,the magnetic lines of force of the Earth and of the solar wind bunch together.Here many of the solar wind's charged particles break through the magnetosphere and enter Earth's magnetic field.They then spiral back and forth between the Earth's magnetic poles very rapidly.In the polar regions,electrons from the solar wind ionize and excite the atoms and molecules ofthe upper atmosphere,causing them to emit aurora radiations of visible light.

        The colors of an aurora depend on the atoms emitting them.The dominant greenishwhite light comes from low energy excition of oxygen atoms.During huge magnetic storms oxygen atoms also undergo high energy excitation and emit a crimson light.Excited nitrogen atoms contributed bands of color varying from blue to violed.

        Viewed from outer space,auroras can be seen as dimly glowing belts wrapped around each of the Earth's magnetic poles.Each aurora hangs like a curtain of light stretching over the polar regions and into the higher latitudes.When the solar flares that result in magnetic storms and aurora activity are very intense,aurora displays may extend as far as the  southern regions of the United States.Studies of auroras have given physicists new information about the behavior of plasmas,which has helped to explain the nature of outer space and is being applied in attempts to harness energy from the fusion of atoms.


1.What does the passage mainly discuss?

a.The methods used to observe auroras from outer space

b.The formation and appearance of auroras around the Earth's poles

c.The factors that cause the variety of colors in auroras

d.The periodic variation in the display of auroras

2.The word"phenomena'in line 2 is closest in meaning to

a.ideas

b.stars

c.events

d.color

3.The word"picture"in line 6 is closest in meaning to

a.frame

b.imagine

c.describe

d.explain

2.The passage describes the magnetosphere as a barrier(line 10-11)because

a.its position makes it difficult to be observed from Earth

b.it prevents particles from the solar wind from easily entering Earth's atmosphere

c.it increases the speed of particles from the solar wind

d.it is strongest in the polar regions

3.The word"them"in line 17 refers to

a.polar regions

b.electrons

c.atoms and molecules

d.aorora radiations

4.According to the passage,which color appears most frequently in an aurora display?

a.Greenish-white

b.Crimson

c.Blue

d.Violet

5.The word"emit"in line 21 is closest in meaning to

a.change from

b.connect with

c.add to

d.give off

6.The word"glowing"in line 23 is closest in meaning to

a.shining

b.moving

c.charging

d.hanging

7.Auroras may be seen in the southern regions of the United Sates when

a.magnetic storms do not affect Earth

b.solar flares are very intense

c.the speed of the solar wind is reduced

d.the excitation of atoms is low

8.The passage supports which of the following statements about scientists' understanding of aurora?

a.Before advances in technology,including satellites,scientists knew little about auroras.

b.New knowledge about the fusion of atoms allowed scientists to learn more about auroras.

c.Scientists cannot explain the cause of the different colors in auroras.

d.Until scientists learn more about plasma physics,little knoeledge about auroras will be available.

9.Which of the following terms is defined in the passage?

a."magnetosphere"(line7)

b."electrons"(line 16)

c."ionize"(line 16)

d."fusion"(line 30)


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