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TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL,WRITTEN EXPRESSION DAN PEMBAHASANNYA

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

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

TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL(READING)DAN JAWABANNYA

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READING 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 i

TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL (READING)DAN JAWABANNYA

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         READING TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL 2 DAN PEMBAHASANNYA           Today,the most universally known style of trousers for both men and women is jeans;these trousers are worn throughout the world on a variety of ocasions and in diverse situations.Also called levis or denims,jeans have an interesting history.One that is intermixed with the derivations of the words jeans,denims,and levis.          The word jeans is derived from the name of the the place where a similar style of pants developed.In the sixteenth century,sailors from Genoa,Italy,wore a rather unique type of catton trousers,In the French language,the word for the city of Genoa and for the people from that city is genes;this name became attached to the specific style of pants worn by the sailors from this and developed into the word jeans that today describes the descendents of the Genovese sailors' cotton pants.          Similar to the word jeans,the word denim is also derived from a place name.In the sevent

TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL(READING)DAN JAWABANNYA

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          READING TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL 2 DAN PEMBAHASANNYA           What is commonly called pepper in reality comes from two very different families of plants.Black and white pepper both come from the fruit of the Piper nigrum,a vine with fruits called peppercorns.The peppercorns turn from green to red as they ripen and finally blacken as they dry out.The dried-out peppercorns are ground to obtain black pepper.While pepper,which has a more subtle flavor than black pepper,comes from the same peppercorns as black pepper;to obtain white pepper,the outer hull of the peppercorn,the pericarp,is removed before the peppercorn is ground.          Red and green peppers,on the other hand,come from a completely different family from black and white pepper.Red and green peppers are from the genus Capsicum.Plants of this type generally have tiny white flowers and fruit which can be any one of a number of colors,shapes.and sizes.These peppers range in flavor from very mild,while habanero

TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL(STRUCTURE,WRITTEN EXPRESSION AND READING)DAN JAWABANNYA

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 STRUCTURE TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL 2 DAN PEMBAHASANNYA 1.The hard..........palate......between the mounth and nasal passages. a.forming a partition b.a partition forms c.forms a partition d.a form and a partition 2.Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon and Rick Blaine in Casablanca..........of Humphrey Bogart's more famous roles. a.they are two b.two of them are c.two of them d.are two 3..........,the outermost layer if skin,is about as thick as a seet of paper over most of the skin. a.It is the epidemis b.The epidemis c.In the epidermis d.The epidermis is 4.During the Precambrian period,the Earth's crust formed,and life..........in the seas. a.first appeared b.the first to appear c.the first appearence d.appearing first 5.When fluid accumulates against the eardrum,a second more insidious type of...... a.otitis media may develop b.developing otitis media c.the development of otitis media d.to develop otitis media 6.Before the Statue of Liberty arrived in the United States,ne