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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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         The languages spoken by early Europeans are still shrouded in mystery.There is no linguistic continuity between the langusges of Old Europe(a term sometimes used for Eorupe between 7000 and 3000 B.C)and the languages of the modern world,and we cannot yet translate the Old European script,Scholars have deciphered other ancient languages,such as Sumerian,Akkadian,and Babylonian,which used the cuneiform script,because of the fortuitous discovery of bilingual inscriptions,When cuneiform tablets were first discovered in the eighteenth century,scholars could not dechiper them.Then inscriptions found in baa at the end of the eighteenth century provided a link:these inscriptions were written in cuneiform and in two other ancient languages,Old Persian and New Elamite-languages that had already been deciphered.It took several decades,but scholars eventually translated the ancient cuneiform script via the more familiar Old Persian language.

        Similarly,the hieroglyphic writing of the Egyptians remained a mystery until French troops unearthed the famous Rosetta stone in the late eighteenth century.The stone carried the same message written in ancient Greek,Egyptian hieroglyphs,and Egyptian  hieratic,a simplified form of hieroglyphs.The Rosetta stone thwarted scholars' efforts for several decades until the early nineteenth century when several key hieroglyphic phrases were decoded using the Greek inscriptions.Unfortunately,we have no Old European Rosetta stone to chart correspondences between Old European acript and the languages that replaced it.

        Tim incursions of Indo-European tribes into Old Europe from the late fifth to the early third millennia B.C,caused a linguistic and cultural discontinuity.These incursions disrupted the Old European sedentary farming lifestyle that had had existed for 3,000 years As the Indo-Europeans encroached on Old Europe from the east,the continent underwent upheavals.These several affected the Balkans,where the Old European cultures abundantly employed script.The Old Eupopean way of life deteriorated rapidly, although pockets of Old European culture remained for several millennia,new peoples spoke completely different languages belonging to the Indo-European linguistic family.The Old European language or languages,and the script used to write them,declined and eventually vanished.


1.What does the passage mainly discuss?

a.Reasons for the failure to understand the written records of Old European culture

b.Influences on the development of Old European script

c.Similarities between Old European script and other ancient writing systems

d.Events leading to the discovery of Old European script

2.According to the passage,New Elamite is

a.a language that was written in the cuneiform script

b.a modem language that came from Old Persian

c.one of the languages spoken by the Old Europeans

d.a language that was understood by the late eighteenth century

3.According to the passage,scholars were able to decipher cuneiform script with the help of

a.the Sumerian,Akkadian,and Babylonian languages

b.Old Persian

c.tablets written in Old European

d.a language spoken in eighteenth century

4.The word"fortuitous"in line 6 is closest inmeaning to

a.important

b.sudden

c.early

d.licky

5.The word"them"in line 8 refers to

a.Sumerian,Akkadian,and Babilonian

b.bilingual inscriptions

c.scholars

6.When does the passage suggest that ancient Egyptian hieroglypttic script was finally deciphered?

a.At around the same time as cuneiform script was deciphered

b.Shortly before the Rostta stone was unearthed

c.As soon as additional bilingual inscriptions become available to scholars

d.A few decades after the hieratic script was decoded

7.According to the passage,which of the following is true of the Rosetta stone?

a.It was found by scholars trying to decode ancient languages.

b.It contains two versions of hieroglyphic script.

c.Several of its inscriptions were decoded within a few months of its discovery.

d.Moost of its inscriptions have still not been decoded.

8.The word"thwarted"in line 16 is closest in meaning to

a.continued

b.influenced

c.encouraged

d.frustrated

9.According to the passage,Indo-European incursions caused Old European populations to

a.separate into different tribes

b.move eastward

c.change their ways of living obtaining food

d.start historical events in writing

10.The author mentions the Balkans in the passage in order to explain why

a.Indo-European languages were slow to spread in Old Europe

b.the inhabitants of Old Europe were not able to prevent Indo-European incursions

c.The use of the Old European script declined

d.the Old European culture survived for a time after the Indo-European incursions.


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