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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 2 DAN PEMBAHASANNYA 


        Mount Rushmore is a well-known monument in the Black Hills of South Dakota that features the countenances of four United States presidents:Washington,Jefferson,Roosevelt,and Lincoln.What is not so well known is that the prosess of creating this national treasure was not exactly an uneventful one.

        Mount Rushmore was the project of the visionary sculptor John Gutzen de la Mothe Borglum,who was born in Idaho but studied sculpture in Paris in his youth and befriended the famous French sculptor Auguste Rodin.In 1927 Borglum was granted a commission by the federal government to create the sculpture on Mount Rushmore.Though he was nearly sixty years old when he started,he was undaunted by the enormity of the project and the obstacles that it engendered.He optimistically asserted that the project would be completed within five years,not caring to recognize the potential problems that such a massive project would involve,the problems of dealing with financing,with government bureaucracy,and with Mother Nature herself.An examples of what Mother Nature had to throw at the project was the fissure-or large crack-that developed in the granite where Jefferson was being carved.Jefferson had to be moved to the other side of Washington,next to Roosevelt because of the break in the stone.The work that had been started on the first Jefferson had to be dynamited away.

        Mount Rushmore was not completed within the five years predicted by Borglum and was in fact not actually completed within Borglum's lifetime,although it was almost finished.Borglum died on March 6,1941,at the age of seventy-four,after fourteen years of work on the presidents.His son,Lincoln Borglum,who had worked with his father throughout the project,completed the monument within eight months of his father's death.

11.Which of the following best expresses the main idea of the passage?

a.Mount Rushmore was a huge project filled with numerous obstacles.

b.Mount Rushmore is a famous American monument.

c.Mount Rushmore has sculptures of four United States presidents on it.

d.John Gutzen de la Mothe Borglum created Mount Rushmore.

12.Which of the following best describes the relationship between Borglum and Rodin in Borglum's early years?

a.Borglum studied about Rodin in Paris.

b.Borglum was far more famous than Rodin as a sculptor.

c.Borglum and Rodin were born and raised in the same place.

d.Borglum and Radin were friends.

13.The word"nearly"in line 8 could best be replaced by which of the following.

a.Over

b.Closely

c.Almost

d.Barely

14.Which of the following is NOT true about Borglum?

a.He began Mount Rushmore around the age of sixty.

b.He predicted that Mount Rushmore would be finished 1932

c.Mount Rushmore was finished when Borglum predicted it would be.

d.Boeglum worked on Mount Rushmore for more than a decade.

15.It can be inferred from the passage that Borglum was someone who

a.expected the best to happen

b.set realistic goals

c.never tried anything too Challenging

d.was always afraid that bad things were going to happnen

16.A"fissure"in line 13 is a

a.discoloration

b.break

c.unevenness

d.softness

17.Why does the author mention the fact that the carving of Thomas Jefferson was moved?

a.It shows what a perfectionist Borglum was.

b.It demonstrates Boeglum's artistic style.

c.It gives insight into Jefferson's character.

d.The pronoun"it" in line 18 refers to which of the following?

a.The first Jefferson

b.Mount Rushmore

c.Borglum's lifetime

d.Fourteen years of work

19.Which of the following is closest in meaning to the expression"within eight months of his father's death"in line 21"

a.More than eight months before his father's death

b.Less than eight months before his father's death

c.Less than eight months after his father's death

d.More than eight months after his father's death

20.Where in the passage does the author mention when the Month Rushmore project got started?

a.Lines 1-4

b.Lines 7-8

c.Lines 9-12

d.Lines 17-18

21.This passage would most likely be assigned reading in a course on

a.art history

b.geography

c.management

d.government


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TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL 2 DAN PEMBAHASANNYA 


        Carbon dating can be used to estimate the age of any organic natural material;it has been used successfully in archeology to determine the age of ancient artifacts or fossils as well as in a variety of other fields.The principle underlying the use of carbon dating is that carbon is a part of all living things on Earth.Since a radioactive substance such as carbon-14 has a known half-life,the amount of carbon-14 remaining in an object can be used to date that object.

        Carbon-14 has a hafl-life of 5;570 years,which means that after that number of years half of the carbon 14 atoms have decayed into nitrogen-14.It is the ratio of carbon-14 to nitrogen-14 in that substance that indicates the age of the substance.If ,for example,in a particular sample the amount of carbon-14 is roughly equivalent to the amount of nitrogen-14,this indicates that around half of the carbon-14 has decayed into nitrogen-14.It is the ratio of carbon-14 to nitrogen-14 in that substance that indicates the age of the substance.If,for example,in a particular sample the amount of carbon-14 is roughly equivalent to amount of nitrogen-14,this indicates that around half of the carbon-14 has decayed into nitrogen-14 and the sample is approximately 5,570 years old.

        Carbon datong cannot be used effectively in dating objects that are older than 80.000 years.When objects are that old,much of the carbon-14 has already decayed into nitrogen-14,and the minuscule amount that is left does not provide a realible measurement of age.In the case of older objects,other age-dating methods are available,methods which use radioactive atoms with longer half-lives than carbon has.

22.This passage is mainly about

a.the differences between carbon-14 and nitrogen-14

b.one method of dating old objects

c.archeology and the study of ancient artifacts

d.various uses for carbon

23.The word"estimate"in line 1 is closest in meaning to

a.understand

b.hide

c.rate

d.approximate

24.The pronoun"it"in line 1 refers to

a.carbon dating

b.the age

c.any organic natural material

d.archeology

25.Which of the following is NOT true about carbon-14/

a.It is radioactive

b.Its hafl-life is more than 5000 years

c.It and nitrogen always exist n equal amounts in any substance

d.It can decay into nitrogen-14

26.The word"underlying"in line 3 could best be replaced by

a.below

b.requiring

c.being studied through

d.serving as a basis for

27.It can be inferred from the passage that if an item contains more carbon-14 than nitrogen-14,then the item is

a.too old to be age-dated with carbon-14

b.not as much as 5'570 years old

c.too radioactive to be used by archeologists

d.more than 5,570 years old

28.The word"roughly"in line 9 could best be replaced by

a.harsgly

b.preceshly

c.coarsely

d.approximately

29.The expression"is left"in line 13 could best be replaced by

a.remains

b.has turned

c.changes

d.is gone

30.It is implied in the passage that

a.carbon dating could not be used on an item containing nitrogen

b.fossils cannot be ages-dated using carbon-14

c.carbon-14 does not have the longest known half-life

d.carbon dating has no known uses outside of archeology

31.The paragraph following the passage most probably discusses

a.how carbon-14 decays into nitrogen-1

b.various other age-dating methods

c.why carbon-14 has such a long half life

d.what substances are part of all living things

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