TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL 2 ,WRITTEN EXPRESSION DAN PEMBAHASANNYA

1. My mother took a pill and she............a glass of water. a.drink b.drinks c.is drinking d.drank She adalah subject tunggal dan harus diikuti oleh predikat tunggal ,jika dilihat dari kata kerja took yang merupakan V2 maka kata kerja yang dibutuhkan dalam kalimat ini juga V2 yaitu "drank". 2.I was raised in ohio but now I............in Alabama. a.live b.have lived c.lived d.was living I merupakan kata ganti orang pertama tunggal yang harus diikuti oleh predikat asli . pada kalimat kedua ada time signal now yang menunjukkan bentuk present,jadi jawaban yang di butuhkan adalah "live". 3.The art of storytelling...............almost as old as humanity. a.it is b.being c.is d.that is The art of storytelling adalah subject tunggal yang harus diikuti oleh predikat tunggal, jadi jawabannya adalah "is". 4.Pumice is formed when lava........very rapidly. a.is cooled b.cool c.cools d.cold Lava adalah subject tunggal yang harus

                   Joyce Carol Oates published her first collection of short               stories.By the Gate,in 1963,two years after she had                received her master's degree from the University of                Wisconsin and become an instructor of English at the line        University  of Detroit.Her productivity since then has been (5)         prodigious,accumulating in less than two decades to nearly               thirty titles,including novel,collections of short stories and                verse,plays,and literary criticism.In the meantime,she has                continued to teach ,moving in 1967 from the University of                Detroit to the University of Windsor,in ontario,and,in                1978, to princeton University.Reviewers have admired her                enormous energy,but find a productivity of such magnitude               difficult to assess. (10)              In a period characterized by the abandonment of so                m

                        Legend has it that sometime toward the end of the                  Civil War(1861-1865)a goverment train carrying oxen                    traveling through the northern plains of eastern wyming                  was caught in a snowstorn and had to be abandoned.The                   driver returned the next spring to see what had become   line          his cargo.Instead of the skeletons he had expected to find (5)            ,he saw his oxen,living,fat,and healthy.How had they                   survived?                          The answer lay in a resource that unknowing                   Americans lands trampled underfoot in their haste to                   cross the "Great American Desert"to reach lands that                  sometimes proved barren.In the eastern parts of the                   United States,the preferred grass for forage was a                   cultivated plant.It grew well with enough rain,then when (10)          cu

              Admospheric pressure can support a column of water up to           10 meters high.But plants can move water much higher,the            sequoia tree can pump water to its very top,more than 100            meters above the ground.Until the end of the nineteenth line    century,the movement of water in trees and other tall plants (5)     was a mystery.Some botanists hypothesized that the living           cells of plants acted as pumps.But many experiments            demonstrated that the stems of plants in which all the cells            are killed can still move water to appreciable heights.Other            explanations for the movement of water in plants have been            based on root pressure, a push on the water from the roots at           the bottom of the plant.But root pressure is not nearly great (10)   enough to push water to the tops of tall trees.Furthermore          ,the conifers,which are among the tallest trees have unusually           low roo

1.Harris is determined that the film..........authentic. a.is b.am c.be d.are Kata kerja is determined merupakan present-subjunctive yang harus diikuti oleh kata kerja bentuk dasar.Dalam hal ini kata kerjanya berupa be. 2.I don't like this place.I wish..........in somewhere more interesting. a.she lives b.he lives C.I lived d.We live Kalimat dengan wish selalu diikuti oleh past simple,past perfect,were,would/could+infinitive bukan present simple.Jadi,jawaban yang tepat adalah I lived. 3.Lois wishes she......to what her mother told her. a.had listened b.had listen c.had listening d.had to listen Kalimat dengan wish dapat diikuti oleh had yang kemudian diikuti oleh past participle sehingga membentuk past perfect. Maka,jawaban yang tepat adalah had listened. 4.John wishes he..........so busy. a.isn't b.weren't c.hadn't d.not be Bila setelah subjek dan kata kerja terdapat pelengkap(kata sifat/keterangan) ,wish dapat diikuti oleh were/wer

                                Despite the road improvements of the turnpike era                 (1790-1830),Americans continued as in colonial times to                 depend wherever possible on water routes for travel and                 transportation.The larger river,especially the Mississippi  line          and the Ohio,become increasingly useful as steamboats  (5)           grew in number and improved in design.                        River boats carried to New Orleans the corn and other                 crobs of northwestern farmers,the cotton and tobacco of                  southwestern planters.From New Orleans,ships took the                  cargoes on to eastern seaports.Neither the farmers of the                   merchants of the east were completely satisfied with this                  pattern of trade.Farmers could get better prices for their                  crops if the alternative existed of sending them directly (10)         eastward to market and me

         Esperanto is what is called a planned,or artificial,language.It was created more than a century ago by Polish eye doctor Lucdwik Lazar Zamenhof.Zamenhof believed that a common language would help to alleviate some of the misunderstandings among cultures.         In Zamenhof's first attempt at a universal language,he tried to create a language that was as uncomplicated as possible.This first language included words such as ab,ac,ba,eb,be ,and ce .This did not result in a workable language in that these monosyllabic worlds,though short,were not easy to understand or to retain.         Next,Zamenhof tried a different way of constructing a simplified the grammar tremendously.One example of how he simplified the language can be seen in the suffixes;all nouns in this language end in o, as in the noun amico,which means"friend,'and all adjectives end in -a ,as in the adjective bela, which means"pretty."Another example of the simplied language can be seen in t