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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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       Georgia O'Keefe was born in Sun Prairle,Wisconsin,in 1887.She studied art in Chicago and New York from 1904 to 1908.Beginning as an advertising illustrator,she supported herself until 1918 by teaching in various schools and colleges in Texas.After that date,she devoted herselt entirely to painting.Her paintings were first exhibited in 1916 at"291,"an experimental art gallery in New York City owned by Alfred Steiglitz,which was frequented by some of the most influential artists of the time.O'Keefe married Steiglitz in 1924.

        O'Keefe's early paintings were mostly abstract designs.In the 1920s she produced depictions flowers and precise cityscape of New York City.Whether painting flowers or buildings,she captured their beauty by intuitively magninifying their shapes and simplifying their details.

        O'Keefe's style changed dramatically in 1929 durig a visit to Ney Mexico.She was enchanted by the stark but beautiful landscapes under the bright Southwestern sun,and she then adopted her characteristic style.Thereafter,she most often painted desert landscapes,often with the blanched skull of a longhorn in the foreground.

        O'Keefe's paintings were exhibited annually at several New York galleries until 1946,and she represented in the permanet collection of most major American museums.In her lateryears,she settied in Taos,New Mexico,becoming the dean of Southwestern painters and one of the best known of American artists.

1.The author's main purpose in writing this passage was to

a.criticize Georgia O'Keefe's style of painting

b.discuss the early career of an inportant American artist

c.compare abstract art and landscape art

d.give the hightlights of Georgia O'Keefe artistic career

2.According to the article,where did Georgia O'Keefe receive her formal art training/

a.Sun Prairie,Wisconsin

b.Chicago and New York

c.Texas

d.Taos,New Mexico

3.The expression"that date"in line 3 refers to

a.1997

b.1908

c.1916

d.1918

4.The word"frequented"in line 5 is closest in meaning to

a.visited

b.supported

c.founded

d.favored

5.The word"intuitively"in line 9 is closest in meaning to

a.deliberately

b.defiantly

c.instinctively

d.intuitively

6.Which of the following had the greatest influence on changing O'Keefe's style of painting

a.a trip to the Southwest

b.Alfred Steiglitz's photographs

c.her job as an advertising illustrator

d.meeting influential artists

7.The word"blanched"in line 12 is closest in meaning to

a.shattered

b.prominent

c.whitened

d.inexplicable

8.Which of the following became the most common subject of O'Keefe's paintings after 1924 

a.city scenes

b.desert scenes

c.flowers

d.abstract patterns

9.It can be inferred from the passage that in her later years,O'Keefe

a.continued to be successful

b.returned to New York City

c.could not match the successes of her early career

d.took up photography

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