TRIK JITU MENGERJAKAN SOAL TOEFL (WRITTEN EXPRESSION)DAN JAWABANYA
1.The price of silver rose to $50.05 per troy ounce in January 1980 and then fell to
a b c
$10.80 two month later.
d(months)
2.Most polar seals retreat to open water during the winter,but a few types have learn to
a b c
survive on and under the ice all year round. (learned)
d
3.More than half of all stars is in binary or multiple-star systems.
a b c(are) d
4.The harpsichord is the most complex and most large of all the plucked keyboard
instruments. a b c(largest) d
5.United States forces won the city of Los Angeles in 1847 during the Mexican War and
a b c
gain all of California in the same year.
d(gained)
6.During fermentation,complex carbohydrates are converted to another chemicals by the
a b c(other)
action of enzymes produced by molds,yeasts,or bacteria.
d
7.The surface of Mars is very complex and consists of a mixture of
a b
flat deserts,craters,volanoes,and mountainous.
c d(mountains)
8.Hardwood comes from broad-leaved deciduous trees,those that lose theirs leaves in
winter. a b c d(their)
9.The Washington quarter was first minting by the U.S.government in 1932 on the 200th
a b c(minted)
anniversary of George Washington’s birth.
d
10.W.Somerset Maugham’s best-known novel,Of Human Bondage,is a partially
a b
fictionalized account of a unhappy youth.
c(of an) d
11.The Conggressional Medal of Honor,instituted at the height of the Civil War,is today a
a b (the)
highest decoration for gallantry in the United States.
c d
12.High blood pressure results from either an increased output of blood from the heart
a b
and an increased resistance to its flow through tiny branches of the arteries.
c(or) d
13.When the U.S. government’s library was burned by the British in 1814,former
a b c
President Thomas Jefferson donated 6,487 of their own books to start the present-day
Library of Congress. d(his)
14.James A.Garfield has become the twentieth president of the United States in 1881 and
a(became) b
was assassinated later in that year.
c d
15.Mambas,poisonous African snakes that come from th same family as cobras,possess an
a b c
extreme potent venom.
d(extremely)
16.Not until the discovery of Pluto’s moon Charon was many of the characteristics of the
a b c
Pluo evident. (Charon were)
d
17.Scorpions,which are normally lone,have developed a cautious mating ritual because they
a b(alone)
are not immune to their own poison.
c d
18.The diameter of the Sun is more than one hundred times greater than the Earth.
a b c d(that of the)
19.In the mid-18th century,American,Russian,and Canadian hunters on the Pasific coast of
a b
North America annihilated almost the sea otter in order to collect the pelts.
c (almost annihilated) d
20.Pat Garrett,who shot and killed Billy the Kid on July 14,1881,later did his living as a
Texas Ranger. a b c(made) d
reference:
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