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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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        A seventeenth-century theory of burning proposed that anything that burns must contain material that the theorists called"phlogiston."Burning was explained as the release of phlogiston from the combustible material to the air.Air was thought essential,since it had to provide a home for the released phlogiston.There would be a limit to the phlogiston transfer,since a given volume of air could absorb only so much phlogiston.When the air had become saturated,no additional amounts of phlogiston could leave the combustible substance,and the burning would stop.Burning would also stop when the combustance was emptied of all its phlogiston.

        Although the phlogiston theory was self-consistent,it was awkward because it required that imaginative,even mysterious,properties be ascribed to phlogiston.Phlogiston was elusive.No one had ever isolated it and experimentally determined its properties.At times it seemed to show a negative weight:the residue left after burning weighted more than the material before  burning.This was true,for example,when magnesium burned.Sometimes phlogiston  seemed to show a positive weight,when,for example,wood burned,the ash weighed less than the starting material.And since so little residue was left when alcohol,kerosene,or high-grade coapl burned,these obviously different materials were thought to be  pure or nearly pure phlogiston.

        In the eighteenth century,Antoine Lavoisier,on the basis of careful experimentation,was led to propose a different theory of burning ,one that required a constituent or air-later shown to be oxygen-for ,combustion.Since the weight of the oxygen isalways added,the weight of the products of combustion including  the evolved gases,would always be greater than the weight of the starting material.

        Lavoisier's interpretation was more reasonable and straightforward than that of the phlogiston theorists.The phlogiston theory,always clumsy,because suspect,eventually fell into scientific disrepute,and was replaced by new ideas.


1.What does the passage mainly discuss?

a.The chemical composition of phlogiston.

b.Attempts to explain what happens when matrials burn.

c.Limitations of seventeenth-century scientific theories.

d.The characteristics of the residue left after fires.

2.The word"it"in line 4 refers to

a.burning

b.phlogiston

c.combustible material

d.air

3.The"phlogiston transfer"mentioned in line 5 is a term used to describe the

a.natural limits on the total volume of phlogiston

b.absence of phlogiston in combustible material

c.ability of phlogidton to slow combustion

d.release of phlogiston into the air from burning material

4.The word"properties"in line 10 is closest in meaning to

a.interpretations

b.locations

c.characteristics

d.vietues

5.The phrase"ascribed to"in line 10 is closest in meaning to

a.analyzed and isolated in

b.returned to their original condition in

c.assumed to be true of

d.diagrammed with

6.The author mentions magnesium in line 14 as an example of a substance that

a.seemed to have phlogiston with a negative weight

b.leaves no residue after burning

c.was thought to br made of nearly pure phlogiston

d.was thought to contain no phlogiston

7.The"different materials"mentioned in line 17 were considered different because they

a.required more heat to burn than other substances did

b.burned without leaving much residue

c.were more mysterious than phlogiston

d.contained limited amounts of phlogiston

8.The word"constituent"in line 20 is closest in meaning to

a.component

b.opposite

c.principle

d.temperature

9.The word"Since"in line 20 is closest in meaning to

a.later

b.because

c.during

d.although

10.Which of the following is true of both the phlogiston theory of burning and Lavoisier's theory of burning?

a.Both theories propose that total weight always increases during burning.

b.Both theories are considered to be reasonable and straightforward.

c.Both theories have difficulty explaining why residue remains after burning.

d.Both theories recognize that air is important to combustion

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