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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 JAWABANNYA

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         READING TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL 2 DAN PEMBAHASANNYA                                      The organization that today is known as the Bank of America did start out in America,but under quite a different name.Italian American A.P.Giannini established this bank on October 17,1904,in a renovated saloon in San Francisco's Italian community of North Beach under the name Bank of Italy,with immigrants and first-time bank customers comprising the majority of his first customers.During its development,Giannini's bank survived major crises in the form of a natural disaster and a major economic upheaval that not all other banks were able to overcome.          One major test for Giannini's bank occurred on April 18,1906,when a massive earthquike struck San Francisco,followed by a ranging fire that destroyed much of the city.Giannini obtained two wagons and teams of horses,filled the wagons with the bank's reserves,mostly in the form of gold, covered the reserves wi

TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL(READING)DAN JAWABANNYA

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         READING TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL 2 DAN PEMBAHASANNYA           These stories of killers bees in the news in recent years have attracted a lot of attention as the bees have made their way from South America to North America.Killer bees are reputed to be extremely aggressive in nature,although experts say that their aggression may have been somewhat inflated.          The killer bee is a hybrid-or-combination-of the very mild European strain of honeybee and the considerably more aggressive African bee,,which was created when the African strain was imported into Brazil in 1955.The African bees were brought into Brazil because their aggression was considered an advantage:they were far more productive than their European counterparts in that they spent a higher percentge of their time working and continued working longer in inclement weather than did the European bees.          These killer bees have been known to attack humans and animals,and some fatalities have occured.E

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

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  STRUCTURE TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL 2 DAN PEMBAHASANNYA 1........range in color from pale yellow to bright orange. a.Canaries b.Canaries c.That canaries d.Canaries that are 2...........of precious gems is determined by their hardness,color,and brilliance. a.The valuable b.It is the value c.It is valuable d.The value 3...........a tornado spins in a counterclockwise direction in the northern hemisphere,it spins in the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere. a.However b.Because of c.Although d.That 4.The Caldecott Medal,........for the best children's picture book,is awarded each January. a.a prize b.which prize c.is a prize which d.is a prize 5.The horn of the rhinoceros consists of a cone of tight bundles of keratin......from the epidermis. a.grow b.grows c.growing d.they grow 6.Most species of heliotropes are weeds,..........of them are cultivated. a.some b.but some c.for some species d.some species 7.Thunder occurs as........through air,causing the heated air to e

TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL (READING)DANJAWABANNYA

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 READING TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL 2 DAN PEMBAHASANNYA PASSAGE ONE          The causes of schizophrenia are not clear,but schizophrenia has long attributed to faulty parenting.In cases where schizophrenia developed,the parents were often considered responsible and were faulted for having been uncaring,or manipulative,or emotionally abusive.However,recent studies are now pointing to heredity and prenatal environmental factors as the chief culprits in this disease.          Recent studies of identical twins have been used to demonstrate that heredity plays a role in the development of schizophrenia.These studies have shown that in cases where one identical twin is afflicted with schizophrenia,the other twin has a 50 percent probability of also suffering from it.          However,heredity is not believed to be the only culprit.Studies of the fingerprints of identical twins have lent credence to the theory that prenatal environmental factors are likely contributors to the developmen