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Contoh Soal TOEFL

Structure

1. _____ the demands of aerospace, medicine, and agriculture,


aengineers, are creating exotic new metallic substances.
(A) Meet
(B) Being met are
(C) To meet
(D) They are meeting

1. Jawab : (C) To meet


Keyword : the demands of aerospace
Pembahasan : Pola infinitive phrase: to infinitive + object of to
infinitive. Kalimat tersebut menyatakan tujuan atau maksud. Maka
dibutuhkan to infinitive phrase.
Sehingga pilihan phrase yang tepat untuk mengisi rumpang tersebut
adalah to meet.

2. _______ James A. Bland, Carry Me Back to Old Virginny was


adopted is the state song of Virginia in 1940.
(A) Was written b
(B) His writing was
(C) He wrote the
(D) Written by

2. Jawab : (D) Written by


Keyword : James A. Bland
Pembahasan : Kalimat di atas membutuhkan Adjective Phrase
untuk menerangkan kata benda Carry Me Back to Old Virginny.
Frasa ajektif yang paling tepat adalah Written by. Mengapa disebut
frasa ajektif, karea past participle (v3) yang tidak ditemani bentuk be
atau have adalah sebuah ajektif.
3. Mary Garden, ______ the early 1900s was considered one of the
best singing actresses of her time.
(A) a soprano was popular
(B) in a popular soprano
(C) was a popular soprano
(D) a popular soprano in

3. Jawab : (D) a popular soprano in


Keyword : Mary Garden
Pembahasan : Kalimat pada soal membutuhkan Appositive
Phrase. Mary Garden dan appositive phrase (a popular soprano)
memiliki makna yang sama. Maka jawaban yang tepat adalah a
popular soprano in.

4. In the realm of psychological theory Margaret F. Washburn was a


dualist _____ that motor phenomena have an essential role in
psychology.
(A) who she believed
(B) who believed
(C) believed
(D) who did she believe

4. Jawab : (B) Who believed


Keyword : a dualist
Pembahasan : Pola adjective clause : (Conj. + S + V).
Untuk menerangkan kata benda a dualist maka
klausa yang tepat adalah who believed.
A.Contoh Soal TOEFL
Written Expression
16. On Ellesmere Island in the Arctic one fossil forest consist of a nearly hundred
A B
large stumps scattered on an exposed coal bed.
C D

16. Jawab : (B) a nearly


Keyword : hundred large stumps
Pembahasan : a nearly -> nearly
Kata a nearly tidak memerlukan indefinite article/determiner
a, karena kata benda stumps adalah plural.

17. The surface conditions on the planet Mars are the more like the Earths than are
A B C
those of any other planet in the solar system.
D

17. Jawab : (B) The more


Keyword : the planet Mars
Pembahasan : the more -> more
Pola comparative: more ___ than ___
Maka seharusnya tidak perlu definite article the tapi cukup
more saja.

18. The midnight sun is a phenomenon in which the Sun visible remains in the sky
A B C
for twenty-four hours or longer.
D

18. Jawab : (B) visible remains


Keyword : the sun
Pembahasan : visible remains -> remains visible
Kata the sun dalam anak kalimat di atas memerlukan predicate
bukan noun phrase (visible remains). Yang tepat seharusnya remains
visible.
19. The Humber River and its valley form a major salmon-fishing, lumbering, hunting,
A B C
and farmer region in western Newfoundland, Canada.
D

19. Jawab : (D) farmer


Keyword : and
Pembahasan : farmer -> farming
Konjungsi and digunakan untuk menghubungkan kelas kata yang
sederajat. Karena sebelum and bentuk katanya adalah gerund maka
kata farmer seharusnya diubah dalam bentuk gerund juga yaitu
farming.

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