TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL 2 ,WRITTEN EXPRESSION DAN PEMBAHASANNYA

         A quilt is a bed cover made of squares of material pieced together.Each square consists of two filled with a layer of wool or cloth,feathers,or down.Often,the squares are decorated with fancy stitches and designs.According to legend,the earliest pieced quilt was stitched in 1704 by Sarah Sedgewick  Everrett,wife of the governor of the Massachusetts colony.By 1774 George Waston was buying quilts in Belvoir,Virginia,to take back to Martha in mount Vernon As the frontle moved westward,quilting went along.In addition to sleeping under them,homesteaders kept outdrafts by hanging quilts over doors and windows.And if the money ran out,quilts were used to debts.          For isolated pioneer women,quilts were a source of comfort.Mary Wilman,whose family moved to Texas from Missouri in 1890,recalled the first time she and her mother had to spend a week alone and a dust storm came up.The wind blew for three days and the dust was so thick you couldn't see the barn.My mother quilted

         Humanitarian Dorothea Dix was born in Hampden,Maine,in 1802 At the age of 19,the established a school for girls,the Dix Mansion School,in Boston,but had to close it in 1835 due to her poor health.She wrote and published the first of many books for children in 1824.In 1841,Dix accepted an invitation to teach classes at a prison in East Cambridge,Massachusetts.She was deeply disturbed by the sight of mentally-ill persons thrown in the jail and treated like criminals.For the next eighteen months,she toured Massachusetts institutio where other mental patients wre confined and reported the shocking conditions she found to the state legislature.When improvements followed in Massacusetts,she turned her attention to the neighboring states and then to the West and South.          Dix's work was interrupted by the Civil War,she served as superintendent of women hospital nurses for the federal government.          Dix saw special hospitals for the mentally ill in some fifteen states

 1.We..........several matematics equations,or a number of science theories. a.have to b.have been learned c.will have learned d.has learned 2.A person who.........science can know how long that an apple falls to the ground takes. a.have learned b.has learned c.had learned d.will have been learned 3.Books.......an inevitable part of one's life. a.have always been b.has always been c.has been always d.have been always 4.Being a science student,I.........through different books. a.have gone b.has gone c.had gone d.don't have 5.A person.......from experience never forgets what has happened. a.has learned b.have learned c.who have learned d.who has learned 6.If something good.......then he will put his best to further improve it. a.have happened b.has happened c.has been happened d.have been happened 7.I was born in New Jersey and........here all my life. a.has lived b.had lived c.have lived d.have been lived 8.I.........a cab driver bargaining the ride fare with a foreign lady. a.

         Dolls ,usually small and three-dimensioned figures resembling human beings,have been a part of human life since prehistoric times.Early dolls were probably made from materials such as clay,fur,rags,bone,or wood.Some of the exceptional dolls were made of ivory or wax.Dolls constructed of flat pieces of wood,painted with various designs and hair made of strings of clay or wooden beads,have often been found in Egyption children's graves dating from 3000 to 2000 B.C. The presence of such dolls in the tombs suggests that they were cherished possessions as well as cult objects,like the shawabtis,or tomb figures buried with adults to serve them in the afterworld.Most ancient dolls that were found in children's tombs were unpretentious and humble creations.Regardless of the materials,evidently,the main objective of making dolls was to produce a lifelike image.          Some ancient dolls made as early as 600 B.C.had movable limbs and removable garments to make them resemble hu

        Dulcimers are musical instrument that basically consist of wooden boxes with strings streched over them.In one form or another,they have been around since ancient times,probably originating with the persian santir.Today there are two varieties:the hammered dulcimer and the Appalachian,or mountain dulcimer.The former is shaped like a trapezoid,has two or more strings,and is played with wooden mallets.It is the same instrument played in a number of Old World countries.The Appalachian dulcimer is classsified by musicologists as a box zither.It is a descendant of the Pennsylvania Dutch scheitholt and the French epinette.Appalachian dulcimers are painstakingly fashioned I artisans in the mountains of West Virginia,Kentucky,Tennessee,and virginia.These instruments have three or four strings and are plucked with quills or the fingers.They are shaped like teardrops or hourglasses.Heart-shaped holes in the sounding board are traditional.Most performers play the instruments while seated

        Mesa verde is the center of the prehistoric Anasazi cuture,it is located in the plateau lands near four Comers,where Colorado,Utah,New Mecixo,and Arrizona come togethehe climate is dry but tiny streams trickle at the bottom of deeply cut canyons,where seeps and springs provided water for the Anasazi to irrigate their crops.Rich red soil provided fertile ground for their crops of corn,beans,squash,tobacco,and cotton.The anasazi domesticated the wild turkey and hunted deer,rabbits,and muntain sheep.          For a thousand years the Anasazi lived around Mesa Verde.Although the Anasazi are not relates to the Navajos no one knows what these Indians called themselves and so they are commonly reffered to by their Navajo name,Anasazi,which means "ancient ones"in the Navajo language.          Around 550 AD,early Anasazi-then a nomadie people archacologists call the Basketmakers-began constructing permanent homes on mesa tops.In the next 300 years,the Anasazi made9 rapid tech

         About fifty years ago,plant physiologists set out to grow roots by themselves in solutions in laboratory flasks.The scientists found that the nutrition of isolated roots was quite simple.They required sugar and the usual minerals and vitamins.However,they did not require organic nitrogen compounds.These roots got along fine on mineral inorganic nitrogen.Roots are capable of making their own proteins and other organic compounds.These activities by roots require energy,of course.The process of respiration uses sugar to make the high energy compound ATP,which drives the indochemical reactions.Respiration also requires oxygen.Highly active rots require a good deal of oxygen.          The study of isolated roots has provided an understanding of the relationship between shoots and roots in intact plants.The leaves of the shoots provide the roots with sugar and vitamins,and the roots provide the shoots with water and minerals.In addition,roots can provide the shoots with organic ni

        Another critical factor that plays   a part in susceptibility to colds is age.A study done by the University of Michigan School of Public Health revealed particulars that seem to hold true for the general population.Infants are the most cold-ridden group,averaging more than six colds in their first years.Boys have more colds than girls up to age three.After the age of three,girls are more susceptible than boys and teenage girls average three colds a year to boys' two.          The general incidence of colds continues to decline  into maturity.Elderly people who are in good health have as few as one or two colds annually.One exception is found among people in their twenties,especially women,who  show a rise in cold infections,because people in this age group are most likely to have young children.Adults who delay9 having children until their thirties and forties experience the same sudden increase in cold infections.          The study also found that economics plays an imp

1.It would be an utter waste of time if one just reads the books and does not use..........for practical purpose. a.it b.them c.her d.him Setelah kata kerja does not use harus diikuti object.Mengacu pada kata the books yang merupakan kata benda jamak maka kata ganti benda jamak untuk object adalah them. 2.............have to practice on our own. a.She b.He c.We d.It Mengacu pada kata kerja have yang merupakan infinitif maka dapat dipastikan bahwa subject kalimat berupa plural number pronoun-yaitu We. 3.A person can learn a lot and retain what.........learns through experience. a.he b.he and she c.him d.her Learn merupakan kata kerja aktif tunggal maka kata ganti yang tepat untuk a person sekaligus sesuai untuk kata kerja learns adalah he. 4.Experience seems more important to......... a.I b.me c.they d.she Setelah preposisi to akan lebih tepat diikuti oleh object.Maka,kata ganti yang tepat berperan sebagai object adalah me. 5.In.........opinion knowled

 1.By  going to movies,we.......our own lives,share other people's emotions,and imagine ourselves as someone else. a.can escape b.can be escaped c.could be escaped d.could have escaped 2.I like to go to comedies so that I............ a.can laugh b.can be laughed c.could be laughed d.could have laughed 3.When I go to the movies,I ..........my role models. a.can b.can see c.could be seen d.could see 4.She........herself for the day when she will be like them. a.can b.can prepare c.could be prepare d.could have prepared 5.A good friend.........some of our friends who need help to get themselves out of these problems. a.could b.could be helped c.can be helped d.can help 6.The influence...........in form of learning new attitudes. a.can b.could c.can be d.could have been 7.X:Good evening,Sir.......? Y:I need a room with two beds. a.Can I help you b.I can help you c.You can help me d.Can you help me 8.The discriminating choice of TV programs..........people's view. a.can b.can be enr

           According to the best evidence gathered by space probes and astronomers,Mars is an inhospitable planet,more similar to Earth's Moon than to Earth itself-a dry,stark,seemingly lifeless world.Mars'air pressure is equal to Earth's at an altitude of 100,000 feet.The air there is 95 percent carbon dioxide.          Mars has no ozone layer to screen out the sun's lethal radiation.Daytime temperatures may reach above freezing,but because the planet is blanketed by the mere wisp of an atmosphare,the heat radiates back into space.Even at the equator,the temperature drops to-50c(-60F)at night.Today there is no liquid water,although valleys and channels on the surface show evidence of having been carved by running water.The polar ice caps are made of frozen water and carbon dioxide,and water may be frozen in the ground as permafrost.          Despite these difficult conditions,certain scientists believe that there is a posibility of transforming Mars into a more Earth-