TUGAS II BHS. INGGRIS BISNIS 2

QUESTIONS ANSWERED TOEFL READING STRATEGY

To be able to answer the questions Reading, you need to understand properly and effectively. Here are strategies to answer questions TOEFL reading:

1.      The strategy determines the topic of a discourse

2.      Strategy determines the main idea (the main idea) a discourse

3.      Strategies to determine the equation of words (contex for vocabulary)

4.      fast reading strategies to find answers to a question in detail (scanning for details)

5.      Strategies making conclusions (making inferences)

6.      Strategies find exceptions (identifying exceptions)

7.      Strategies seek referral (locating references)

8.      The strategy refers to the discourse (referring to the passage)

9.      Do not read the text from beginning to end.

10.  Read the question first, understand the intent question, and a new look for the answer in the text.

11.  Try to guess where the best answer

12.  We should not get hung up on the word or phrase that we ourselves do not know what that means. Try to guess his point, because time is very short at 45 seconds / questions (50 questions).

EXAMPLE :

            Advertising is a big business. You have to only leaf through a magazine or count the radio or television commercials you hear during one evening to realize this. The number of mechanical toys and boxes of cereal that one told by television commercials alone is proof of advertising’s persuasion power.

            Because advertising has so much influence on what we buy, and because it is so much a part of daily life, the advertising industry holds great fascination for jobs in advertising agencies.

            The average person thinks of advertising as a glamorous exciting business, where brilliant young men and women think up catchy slogans at a moment’s notice when they are not busy entertainingcustomers at expensive restaurants. Popular fiction has helped spread idea. But for the men and women who earn their living in advertising, it is a business that involves a great deal of hard, painstakingwork. It is the business of persuading people to buy product and services or accept ideas.

1.      What is the main topic of this passage?

A.    Painstaking

B.     Popular fiction has helped this idea

C.     Advertising as a glamorous exiting business

D.    Advertising is a big business

Jawaban: D   

                                                        

2.      Which of the following is closest in the meaning to the phrase leaf through in paragraph 1?

A.    To think it over

B.     To receive

C.     To leaf over

D.    To turn over and over

Jawaban: D

3.      According to the passage, what for do the industries use advertising?

A.    Giving information to the public

B.     To persuade customer

C.     Hear during one evening

D.    It is a slogan

Jawaban: B

4.      In paragraph 3, the phrase catchy slogan probably means …

A.    Fascinated information

B.     Glamorous news

C.     Attractive slogan

D.    Boring news

Jawaban: C

5.      Which statement best describes the advertising business in this passage?

A.    Persuasive power

B.     A glamorous exciting business

C.     Painstaking work

D.    So much influence on what we buy

Jawaban: C

EXAMPLES STRUCTURE

Choose the correct answer:

1.      Williams Tory Harris was one of the first educators interested ______logical progression of topic in school curriculum.

A.    In establishing

B.     For establishing

C.     Establishing

D.    To establish

Jawaban: A

Discussion: in use after interested. ing forms (establishing) is used after the preposition in.

2.      Althrough the scientific community had hoped that field of transplantation _____, the shortage of organ donors has curtailed research.

A.    Progressed

B.     Had progressed

C.     Would progress

D.    Progressing

Jawaban: C

Discussion: the phrase has hoped that indicates future meaning, so that the right answer is would progress.

3.      Termites can do _____ to the wood in homes before they are detected.

A.    An extensive damage

B.     Extensive damages

C.     The extensive damage

D.    Extensive damage

Jawaban: D

Discussion: damage including uncountable noun noun so does not have a plural form. in addition, this phrase means common so do not need such a or the article.

4.      Hawkeye was the character ____ James Fenimore Cooper created for The Last of The Mohicans.

A.    Who

B.     Whom

C.     Which

D.    Whose

Jawaban: B

Discussion: because John Fenimore Cooper is the name of the person, the right object is pronominal Whom.

5.      _______ like McDonald’s and Kentucky Fried Chicken have used franchising to extend their sales internationally.

A.    Chain’s restaurants

B.     Chains restaurans

C.     Chains restaurant

D.    Chain restaurants

Jawaban: D

Discussion: when two nouns appear together into a noun phrase, the noun is plural get last or phrases in kalimat soal ie core restaurants.

Choose the wrong answer:

1)      The hunting of walruses for their ivory tusks are illegal in the United States.

          A              B                       C           D

 Discussion:

The above sentence should have been "The hunting of walruses for Reviews their ivory tusks is illegal in the United States", as the subject of the sentence is singular, the predicate must be single. So the answer is C.

2)      The ideological identity and political cooperation of the Third World has declined

A                            B                                                    C

because the decrease of additional resources from the West.

           D

Discussion:

The above sentence should have been "The ideological identity and political cooperation of the third word has Declined because of the Decrease of additional resources from the West". Because the clause should be followed because not phrase it should because of. So the answer is D.

3)      There are thousand of different types of roses.

    A              B            C                 D

Discussion:

the obvious answer is B, because to be in the plural are, there is correct.

4)      Sponges have neither heads or separate body organs.

     A                   B            C                 D  

Discussion:

the problem is fixed pattern, either ... or, Neither ... nor, not only ... but Also, so the obvious answer is C.

5)      The first recorded use of natural gas to light street lamps it was in the town of Frederick,

                       A                                       B                         C              D

New York, in 1825.

Discussion:

The main sentence in this matter is the use of natural gas was in the town. Thus said it is not needed anymore because the double subject, the answer is C.

source:

-          Lina D. Title of book: TOEFL, TWE, Preparation

-          Dr. Ida Rochani. Title of book: Preparation for the TOEFL

-          Gendhis Paradisa. 2010, Encyclopedia of arts and cultural heritage.

-          Mien Kasmini & Siwi Kadarmo. 2014. 99% Sukses Menghadapi TOEFL Metode Terbaik Melejitkan Skor TOEFL.