TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL 2 ,WRITTEN EXPRESSION DAN PEMBAHASANNYA

         A quilt is a bed cover made of squares of material pieced together.Each square consists of two filled with a layer of wool or cloth,feathers,or down.Often,the squares are decorated with fancy stitches and designs.According to legend,the earliest pieced quilt was stitched in 1704 by Sarah Sedgewick  Everrett,wife of the governor of the Massachusetts colony.By 1774 George Waston was buying quilts in Belvoir,Virginia,to take back to Martha in mount Vernon As the frontle moved westward,quilting went along.In addition to sleeping under them,homesteaders kept outdrafts by hanging quilts over doors and windows.And if the money ran out,quilts were used to debts.          For isolated pioneer women,quilts were a source of comfort.Mary Wilman,whose family moved to Texas from Missouri in 1890,recalled the first time she and her mother had to spend a week alone and a dust storm came up.The wind blew for three days and the dust wa...

         Humanitarian Dorothea Dix was born in Hampden,Maine,in 1802 At the age of 19,the established a school for girls,the Dix Mansion School,in Boston,but had to close it in 1835 due to her poor health.She wrote and published the first of many books for children in 1824.In 1841,Dix accepted an invitation to teach classes at a prison in East Cambridge,Massachusetts.She was deeply disturbed by the sight of mentally-ill persons thrown in the jail and treated like criminals.For the next eighteen months,she toured Massachusetts institutio where other mental patients wre confined and reported the shocking conditions she found to the state legislature.When improvements followed in Massacusetts,she turned her attention to the neighboring states and then to the West and South.          Dix's work was interrupted by the Civil War,she served as superintendent of women hospital nurses for the federal government.        ...

 1.We..........several matematics equations,or a number of science theories. a.have to b.have been learned c.will have learned d.has learned 2.A person who.........science can know how long that an apple falls to the ground takes. a.have learned b.has learned c.had learned d.will have been learned 3.Books.......an inevitable part of one's life. a.have always been b.has always been c.has been always d.have been always 4.Being a science student,I.........through different books. a.have gone b.has gone c.had gone d.don't have 5.A person.......from experience never forgets what has happened. a.has learned b.have learned c.who have learned d.who has learned 6.If something good.......then he will put his best to further improve it. a.have happened b.has happened c.has been happened d.have been happened 7.I was born in New Jersey and........here all my life. a.has lived b.had lived c.have lived d.have been lived 8.I.........a cab driver bargaining the ride fare with a foreign lady. a....

         Dolls ,usually small and three-dimensioned figures resembling human beings,have been a part of human life since prehistoric times.Early dolls were probably made from materials such as clay,fur,rags,bone,or wood.Some of the exceptional dolls were made of ivory or wax.Dolls constructed of flat pieces of wood,painted with various designs and hair made of strings of clay or wooden beads,have often been found in Egyption children's graves dating from 3000 to 2000 B.C. The presence of such dolls in the tombs suggests that they were cherished possessions as well as cult objects,like the shawabtis,or tomb figures buried with adults to serve them in the afterworld.Most ancient dolls that were found in children's tombs were unpretentious and humble creations.Regardless of the materials,evidently,the main objective of making dolls was to produce a lifelike image.          Some ancient dolls made as early as 600 B.C.had movable limbs a...

        Dulcimers are musical instrument that basically consist of wooden boxes with strings streched over them.In one form or another,they have been around since ancient times,probably originating with the persian santir.Today there are two varieties:the hammered dulcimer and the Appalachian,or mountain dulcimer.The former is shaped like a trapezoid,has two or more strings,and is played with wooden mallets.It is the same instrument played in a number of Old World countries.The Appalachian dulcimer is classsified by musicologists as a box zither.It is a descendant of the Pennsylvania Dutch scheitholt and the French epinette.Appalachian dulcimers are painstakingly fashioned I artisans in the mountains of West Virginia,Kentucky,Tennessee,and virginia.These instruments have three or four strings and are plucked with quills or the fingers.They are shaped like teardrops or hourglasses.Heart-shaped holes in the sounding board are traditional.Most performers play the ...

        Mesa verde is the center of the prehistoric Anasazi cuture,it is located in the plateau lands near four Comers,where Colorado,Utah,New Mecixo,and Arrizona come togethehe climate is dry but tiny streams trickle at the bottom of deeply cut canyons,where seeps and springs provided water for the Anasazi to irrigate their crops.Rich red soil provided fertile ground for their crops of corn,beans,squash,tobacco,and cotton.The anasazi domesticated the wild turkey and hunted deer,rabbits,and muntain sheep.          For a thousand years the Anasazi lived around Mesa Verde.Although the Anasazi are not relates to the Navajos no one knows what these Indians called themselves and so they are commonly reffered to by their Navajo name,Anasazi,which means "ancient ones"in the Navajo language.          Around 550 AD,early Anasazi-then a nomadie people archacologists call the Basketmakers-began constructing permanent homes...

         About fifty years ago,plant physiologists set out to grow roots by themselves in solutions in laboratory flasks.The scientists found that the nutrition of isolated roots was quite simple.They required sugar and the usual minerals and vitamins.However,they did not require organic nitrogen compounds.These roots got along fine on mineral inorganic nitrogen.Roots are capable of making their own proteins and other organic compounds.These activities by roots require energy,of course.The process of respiration uses sugar to make the high energy compound ATP,which drives the indochemical reactions.Respiration also requires oxygen.Highly active rots require a good deal of oxygen.          The study of isolated roots has provided an understanding of the relationship between shoots and roots in intact plants.The leaves of the shoots provide the roots with sugar and vitamins,and the roots provide the shoots with water and minerals.In...