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TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL (READING) DAN PEMBAHASANNYA

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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) DAN JAWABANNYA

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         In 1881,a new type of weed begin spreading across the northern Great Plains.Unlike other weeds,the tumble weed did not spend its life rooted to the soil,instead,it tumbled and rolled across fields in the wind.The weed had sharp,spiny leaves that could lacerate the flesh of ranchers and horses alike.It exploited the vast area of the plains,thriving in regions too barren to support other plants.With its ability to generate and disseminate numerous seeds quickly,it soon became the scourge of the prairies.

        To present day Americans,the tumbleweed symbolizes the Old West.They read the Zane Grey novels in which rumbleweeds drift across stark western landscapes and and see classic western movie in which tumbleweeds share scenes with cowboys and covered wagons.Yet just over a century ago,the tumbleweed was a newcomer.The first sign of the invasion occurred in North and South Dakota in the late 1870s.

        Farmers had noticed the sudden appearance of the new,unusual weed.aoane group of immigrants,however,did not find the weed at all unfamiliar.atahe tumbleweed,it turns out,was a native of southern Russia,where it was known as Tartar thistle.It was imported to the United States by unknown means.

        Frontier settlers gave the plants various names:saltwort,Russian cactus,and wind witch.But botanists at the Department  of Agriculture preffered the designation Russian tbistle as the plant's common name.However,these botanists had a much harder time agreeing on the plant's scientific name.Generally,botanists compare a plant to published accounts of similar plants,or to samples kept as specimens,Unfortunately,no book described the weed and no samples existed in herbaria in the United States.

1.Which of the following can be inferred about tumbleweed?

a.They have strong deep roots

b.They require a lot of care

c.They reproduce efficiently

d.They provided food for rancher and animals

2.The passage suggest that most present day Americans

a.consider the tumbleweed benefical

b.don't know when tumbleweeds came to North America

c.have never heard of tumbleweeds

d.believe tumbleweeds are newcomers to the United States

3.The author mentions the novels of Zane Grey and clasic western movies (lines 6-8)because they

a.tell the story of the invasion of tumbleweeds

b.are source of popular information about tumbleweeds

c.present very inaccurate pictures of tumbleweeds

d.were written long before tumbleweeds were present in the United States

4.It is probable that the"group of immigrants mentioned in line 11

a.was from southern Russia

b.bad lived in North and South Dakota for many years

c.imported tumbleweeds into the United States

d.wrote a number of accounts about tumbleweeds

5.From the passage it can be inferred that the botanists at the Department of Agriculture

a.could not find any tumbleweeds on the plains

b.gave the names saltwort,Russian cactus,and wind witch to the tumbleweed

c.could not decide on a common designation for the tumbleweed

d.found it difficult to classify the plant scientifically

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