TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL 2 ,WRITTEN EXPRESSION DAN PEMBAHASANNYA

1. A colection of snowboarding tricks and stunts.........on vidio in 1996.    a.was realising    b.was released    c.release    d.released Kalimat disamping menggunakan keterangan waktu in 1996 sehingga kata keja yang digunakan dalam bentuk lampau.Selain itu,subject yang digunakan  non-person yang biasanya lebih dikenai(pasif).Maka,tense yang digunakan adalah past-passive tense(was + V3)= was released. 2.There ........many attempts at developing a modern snowboard.    a.were    b.are    c.has been     d.have been Kalimat ini menyebutkan a modern snowboard.Permainan tersebut ada dari jaman dulu dan masih dapat ditemukan hingga sekarang.Jadi,kalimat ini lebih sesuai jika menggunakan tense present perfect simple-have + V3= have been. 3.Dolphins.........very popular animals.    a.are    b.is    c.was    d.were Kalimat ini menyatakan fakta tentang Dolphins. Maka kalimat yang menyatakan sesuatu kebenaran umum harus menggunakan tense present simple(V1)- are. 4.To protect

  F1 : Good afternoon .In today's class,we're going to continue our discussion of dance around the world with a look at the hula,a dance of the Hawaiian Islands,and we'll see a video of a traditional hula dance.Today,when he hear the word"hula",most of us think of woman in grass skirts swaying to ukulele music while tourists take a pictures.The traditional version though,is quite defferent from the dance as it sis performed today.The traditional hula was danced by both men and women who had been trained at special schools.It was accompanied by rhythmic chanting.The chants and the dances were originally  performed to honor the gods promote fertility,or praise great Hawaiian leaders.The traditional hula was hanned by missionarises from New England around 1820,and the hula dance itself survivedonly in a radically different form.The performance you'll see on the screen this afternoon,though is as much like the original dance as possible.Even the customes the dance

         Nearly 515 blocks of San Francisco,including almost all Nob Hill,were  destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fires.Many of Sun Francisco's painted ladies"-its gaudy,nineteenth century Victorian houses-were lost in the disaster.Today,some 14.000 surviving houses have been preserved,particularly in the Cow Hollow,Mission,Pacific Heights,and Alamo Square districts.          Distinguished by their design characteristics,three styless of San Franciscan Victorians can be found today.The Italianate,which flourished in the 1870s,is  characterized by flat roof,slim pillars flanking the front door,and bays with windows that slant inward.That ornamentation of these  narrow row houses was patterned after features of the Roman Classical styles.The stick style,which peaked in popularity during the 1880s,added ornate woodwork outlines to the doors and windows.Other additions included the French cap,gables,and three-sided bays.Designs changed dramatically when the Queen Anne style be

  F1 :Don,I hear you bought a new car. M1 :I did just buy a car,but it's not exactly a near one-it was made back in the 1950's.Here,take a look at this photo.f F1 :Wow,you're right-this car hasn't been new for a long time!Couldn't you afford a newer car? M1 : Believe it or not,this car cost almost as much as a new one. F1 :Really?How could that be? M1 :Well,a lot of cars from the 40's,50's and 60's have become collectors' items and are worth a lot of money. F1 :But this one doesn't seem to be in very good shape. M1 :The engine is still in good condition.I plan to fix up the interior and to paint the car myself.Then it will be worth even more money. F1 :So then you'll resell it. M1 :No,I don't plan to resell it-but I might enter it in some classic auto shows,Maybe I'll win a prize. 1.Why did Don buy an order car? a.Because it was cheap. b.Because it is in such good condition. c.Because it is a collector's item. d.Becouse he can re

        Ambient divers are,unlike divers who go underwater   in submersible vehicles or pressure resistant suits,exposed to the pressure and temperature of the surrounding(ambient)water.Of all types of diving,the oldest and simplest is free diving.Free divers may use no equipment at all,but most use a face mask,foot fins,and a snorkel.Under the surface,free divers must hold their breath.Most free divers can only descend 30 to 40 feet,but some skilled divers can go as deep as 100 feet.          Scuba diving provides greater range than free diving.The word scuba stands for self contained underwater breathing apparatus.Scuba divers wear metal tanks with compressed air or other breating gases.When using open-circuit equipment,a scuba diver simply breathes air from the tank through a hose and releases the exhaled air into the water.A closed-circuit breating device also colled a rebreather,filters out carbon dioxide and other harmful gases and automatically adds ocigen. This enables the di

         A pioneering study by Donald Appleyard made the astounding discovery that a sudden increase in the volume of traffic through an area affects people in the way that a sudden increase in crime does Appleyard observed this by finding three blocks of bouses in San Francisco that looked much alike and had the same kind of middle-class and working-class residents,with approximately the same ethnic mix.The difference was that only 2000 cars a day ran down Octavia Street(LIGHT street,in Appleyard's terminology)white Gough Street(MEDIUM street)was used by 8.000 cars daily,and Franklin Street(HEAVY street)had around 16.000 cars a day.Franklin street often had as many cars in an hour as Octavia had in a day.          Heavy traffic brought with it danger,noise,fumes,and soot,dirctly,and trash secondarily.That is,the cars didn't bring in much trash,but when trash accumulated,residents seldom picked it up.The cars,Appleyards determined,reduced the amount of territory residents fel

1. M1 :In this photograph Garlon looks like the youngest person in your group. F1 :Actually,he's the second oldest. M2 : What is learned about Garlon from this conversation? a.Only one person in the group is older than he. b.His group is almost the oldest. c.He's the youngest person in the group. d.He appears only in the second photogrape. 2. M1 :Sam sure cooks good pancakes. F2 :Yeah,but not much else. M2 : What does the woman say about Sam? a.Pancake are not his favorite dish. bHis pancakes don't taste very good. c.He never makes enough pancakes. d.He can't cook many dishes. 3. M1 :Professor briant always grades fairly. F2 :I couldn't agree with you more. M2: What does the woman mean? a.She think professor briant ia unfair. b.She doesn't know professor briant. c.She agree with the man. d.She doesn't understand the man's remark. 4. M1 :We should discuss our presentation some time in the next few days. F1 :Fine,How about over lunch today? M2 : When does