TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL,WRITTEN EXPRESSION DAN PEMBAHASANNYA
TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL (READING) DAN JAWABANNYA
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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 all day and she taught me how to quilt.If it hadn't been for quilting.I think we would have gone crazy."
Quilting provided an important social function for the woman of the frontier as wll.At quilt bees,women met to work on quilts and to share the latest news.
Today,however,the homely quilt has become a costly cultural phenomenon.The Internatic Quilt Festival in Houston,Texas,"world's fair of quilting."attracted only 2.500 people and display only 200 quilts when it began a dozen years ago.This year there were more than 20.000 vsitors:5.000 quilts,some of which sold for as much as $50.000.
1.According to legend,who made the first American quilt?
a.Sarah Sedgewick Everestt
b.the governor of the colony of Massachusetts
c.Martha Washington
d.Mary Wilman
2.Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage as one of the benefits of quilts for pioneers?
a.They could be used to pay depts
b.They could be used to help insulate houses
c.They could provide psychological comfort
d.They could be worm as warm clothing
3.According to the passage,what is a quilting bee?
a.a type of insect
b.a gathering where women socialize and make quilts
c.a type of quilt
d.a place where people buy and sell quilts
4.Where is the International Quilt Festival
a.Massachusetts
b.Houston,Texas
c.Belvoir,Virginia
d.Misouri
5.How many quilts were displayed at the first International Quilt Festival?
a.200
b.2.500
c.5000
d.20.000
6.Where in the passage does the author first begin to discuss the way in which the publics perception of quilts has changed modern times?
a.Lines 5-6
b.Line 9
c.Lines 16
d.Lines 18-19
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