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TRIK MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL DAN PEMBAHASANNYA 20

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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 dolphins from extinc

TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL(STRUCTURE)

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1.Our entire education system......what we accumulate each day of our life. a.is based on b.was based on c.be based on d.are based on 2.Social benefit,I think,.......as the profit that people who live in the society can share and appreciate. a.was defined b.were defined c.have been defined d.can be defined 3.Most of those are the great invention that......in the past 50 years. a.is developed b.is developed c.be developed d.have been developed 4.Students learn to contact with ordinary people and......to the academic community. a.isn't confined b.aren't confined c.not be confined d.hasn't been confined 5.It could.......that living ian an apartment limit the contact of a student with his fellow students. a.is argued b.was argued c.be argued d.argue 6.A student in a dormitory holds this view that everything.....to them. a.are provided b.be provided c.were provided d.has been provided 7.Students.......to go out of the university beyond given times. a.hasn't been allowed b.wa

TRIK MENGERJAKAN SOAL-SOAL TOEFL DAN PEMBAHASANYA 7

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1.The analysis,interpretation and appreciation of the many aspects of American literature...........throughout the course.     a.is emphasized     b.are emphasized     c.emphasize     d.have emphasized Subjek kalimat di samping adalah the Analysis .Sedangkan interpretation and appreciation of the many aspects of American literature merupakan penjelas bagi subjek the analysis. Karena the Analysis merupakan subjek tunggal maka kata kerja yang tepat adalah yang juga berbentuk tunggal-yaitu is emphasized. 2.Fitzgeraid..........the society of the 1920's in his novel,The Great Gatsby.     a.reflect     b.reflects     c.are reflecting     d.have reflected Fitzgerald merupakan subjek orang ketiga tunggal.Jadi,kata kerja yang mengikutinya juga dalam bentuk tunggal-yaitu reflects. 3.You..........a concerned citizen.     a.has     b.is      c.are     d.be You adalah subjek orang kedua tunggal.Secara gramatikal,subjek orang kedua tunggal berkesesuaian dengan kata kerja jamak- yaitu are.

TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL SOAL TOEFL DAN PEMBAHASANNYA 1

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soal-soal TOEFL 1.With his sister...........went to my house.     a.He     b.later     c.when     d.will Unsur konstruksi kalimat di samping bila di analisa terdiri dari with his sister- keterangan; went to- predikat; my house -objek,jadi unsur yang belum ada dalam kalimat tersebut adalah subjek.Kata yang tepat sebagai subjek adalah pronoun -He. 2...............,Adi,attended my party.    a.Yesterday    b.Although    c.Happily    d.My causin Kata Adi yang diapit oleh dua koma merupakan apositif(keterangan tambahan bagi subjek)bukan subjek.Sedangkan attended merupakan predikat.Jadi,kalimat tersebut memerlukan subjek.Yang dapat menjadi subjek adalah noun phrase- my causin. 3.An excellent basketball player,...............never misses his basketball shots.    a.I    b.will     c.Dustin    d.when Serupa dengan soal sebelumnya ,kalimat disamping belum memiliki subjek sebab an excellent basketball player merupakan apositif.Kata yang sesuai untuk menjadi subjek adalah Dustin yang merupak

TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL(WRITTEN EXPRESSION)

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1.The professor was considering postponing the examination until the following week because the                                             A               B                                                            C                   D student' confusion. pembahasan:should be because of .Use because+sentence and because of+noun phrase.The student' confusion is only a noun phrase. 2. Having los t the election,the presidetial candidate intends supporting the opposition despite                A                                                                                         B                                    C the objections of his staff.                D pembahasan:should be to support .Intend+infinitive. 3.The congressman, accompanied by secret service agents and aides, are preparing to enter the                                                           A                                                    B                       C convention hall within th

TRIK JITU MENGRJAKAN SOAL TOEFL (READING 9)

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                 Seventeenth-century houses in colonial North America              were simple structures that were primarily functional              carrying over traditional designs that went back to the              Middle Ages.During the first half of the eighteenth century, line      however,house began to show a new elegance.As wealth   (5)      increased,more and more colonists built fine houses.                 Since architecture was not yet a specialized profession in              the colonies,the design of buildings was left either to              amateur designers or to carpenters who undertook to              interpret architectural manuals imported from England.             Inventories of colonial libraries show an astonishing              number of these handbooks for builders,and the houses  (10)     erected during the eighteenth century show their influence.             Nevertheless,most domestic architecture of the first three-             quarters of the eighteenth ce

STRATEGI MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL(LISTENING)

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 (Woman): We've been cosidering various useful hydrocarbon compounds,and today,we're going to look at one of the most useful of all these.That's right,I'm talking about coal.There probably wouldn't have been an industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century without coal.Even today,life would be very  different if we didn't have coal.So,where does coal come from?Well,imagine what the earth was like say,300 million years ago-during the Carboniferous period.Much of the land was covered with luxuriant vegetation,especially ferns-ferns big as trees.Eventually,these plants died and were submerged in the waters of swamps,where they gradually decomposed.And we've seen what happens when plants decompose-the vegetable matter loses oxygen and hydrogen atoms,leaving a deposit with a high percentage of carbon.In this way, peat bogs were formed.Then,as time went on,layers of sand and mud are settled from the water over the peat bogs.These deposits grew thicker and thicke