A. Listening Question
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1. What does the man imply about calling the professor's work phone?
A. It is impossible since the professor does not give out his work phone number
B. It is not an appropriate way for anyone to contact the professor.
C. It is a way for the man to help the student schedule an interview.
D. It is the only possible way to reach the professor while he is on vacation.
2. Why is the student concerned that the professor is on vacation?
A. She wants to arrange an interview with him soon.
B. She has forgotten to turn in her final assignment.
C. She is disappointed that professors don't spend more time on campus
D. She is about to go on vacation herself.
3. Why does the man mention that Professor Deane has taken many
interviews already?
A. To explain why Professor Deane is not doing any more interviews
B. To emphasize that Professor Deane is extremely busy
C. To suggest that most of the interviews have gone poorly
D. To indicate that there is a lot of competition for the position
4. Why is the student going abroad?
A. She prefers to study in other countries
B. She won an art scholarship.
C. All students are required to study abroad.
D. Germany is considered the best place to study.
5. Why does the man say this?
A.To discourage the student from waiting outside the professor's office
B. To emphasize his concern for the student's well-being
C. To forbid the student from contacting the professor
D. To suggest that the professor will not be in his office
6. What does the professor mainly discuss?
A. Myths about sea monsters in the Pacific Ocean.
B. The discovery and origins of pollution in the Mariana Trench.
C. New technologies for eliminating marine pollution.
D. The scarcity of published research about the Mariana Trench.
7. What is the professor's opinion about recent explorations
of the Mariana Trench?
A. They have provided a lot of useful data.
B. They have been a major cause of pollution.
C. They show that the Mariana Trench is now pristine.
D. They have not been appreciated by scientists.
8. Why does the professor mention a huge garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean?
A. To give an example of man-made pollution in the oceans
B. To explain why few fish live in the Pacific Ocean
C. To illustrate the vast size of the Pacific Ocean
D. To indicate the difficulty of locating the Mariana Trench
9. What does the professor say about sending humans into the
Mariana Trench?
A. It would be an unreliable method of gathering information.
B. It would terrify the sea animals who inhabit the Mariana Trench.
C. It would provide better data but is currently not feasible.
D. It would demonstrate the power of human ingenuity.
10. Why does the woman mention bacteria that eat pollution?
A. To explain why pollution is not really much of a problem
B. To give an example of a proposal to reduce marine pollution
C. To indicate her skepticism about current technology
D. To argue against the professor's views about pollution
11 . What does the student imply when she says this?
A. She is certain that the Mariana Trench has never been fully explored.
B. She suspects that reports of pollution in the Mariana Trench are exaggerated
C. She had not expected for there to be pollution in the Mariana Trench.
D. She is unconcerned about the effects of pollution in the Mariana Trench.
12. What is the lecture mainly about?
A. The political history of Vietnam
B. The rediscovery of endangered species
C. The Mekong Delta and its wildlife
D. The behavior of small animals
13. According to the professor, what is one reason why so many
animals live in the Mekong Delta?
A. The Mekong Delta is relatively small in size.
B. There is not too much water in the Mekong Delta.
C. There are a variety of different habitats in the Mekong Delta.
D. There are few predators in the Mekong Delta.
14. According to the lecture, what are two features of the miniature rock?
Choose 2 answers.
A. It is the only animal that inhabits the Mekong Delta.
B. It was discovered by a villager in 1996.
C. It went extinct millions of years ago.
D. It lives in small limestone caves.
15. What does the professor say he hopes to do next week?
A. Continue to lecture on river deltas
B. Create a system for scheduling the final exam
C. Cancel class if the weather is nice
D. Tell the students the date of the final exam
16. What is one reason why small land animals often go extinct?
A. They are unable to adapt to a vegetarian diet.
B. They have difficulty finding reliable shelter.
C. They do not reproduce frequently.
D. They are hunted by predatory birds.
17. What does the professor imply about the miniature rock rat?
A. Its discovery was surprising to scientists
B. It has been extinct for thousands of years
C. It is the only rodent in the Mekong Delta
D. It lives in a wide variety of habitats
18. Why does the woman initially speak to the man?
A. To change her email address
B. To find a textbook for her class
C. To ask for directions to the student center
D. To complain about not receiving an email
19. What happened to the email the bookstore sent to the woman?
A. She accidentally deleted it.
B. Her computer was not able to display it.
C. It was sent to her official student account.
D. It was sent to another student by accident.
20. Why is the student unable to find the textbook she is looking for?
A. Her professor is no longer using that textbook.
B. The textbook was shelved in the wrong section.
C. The textbook is only available electronically.
D. She forgot to write down the title of the textbook.
2. Structured Written Expression
A. 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
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
3. Mary Garden, ______ the early 1900’s 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
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
5. Amanda Way's career as a social reformer____ in 1851 when, at an antislavery meeting in Indiana, she called for a state woman's rights convention.
(A) begin
(B) began
(C) have begun
(D) to have begun
6. The celesta, an orchestral percussion instrument, resembles___.
(A) a small upright piano
(B) how a small upright piano
(C) a small upright piano is
(D) as a small upright piano
7. Thomas Paine, _____, wrote Common Sense, a pamphlet that identified the American colonies with the cause of liberty.
(A) writer of eloquent
(B) whose eloquent writing
(C) an eloquent writer
(D) writing eloquent
8. Protein digestion begins in the stomach ____ends in the small intestine.
(A) while
(B) and
(C) how
(D) because
9. When natural gas burns, its___ into atoms of carbon and hydrogen.
(A) hydrocarbon molecules, breaking up
(B) broke up by hydrocarbon molecules
(C) hydrocarbon molecules break up
(D) broken up hydrocarbon molecules
10. _____ ballet dancers learn five basic positions for the arms and feet.
(A) All of
(B) Of every
(C) All
(D) Every
11. Some colonies of bryozoans, small marine animals, form ___with trailing stems.
(A) creeping colonies
(B) which colonies creep
(C) creeping colonies are
(D) colonies creep
12. Ruth Bader Ginsburg argued six women's rights cases before the United States Supreme Court in the 1970's,____
(A) of five winning them
(B) five winning of them
(C) of them five winning
(D) winning five of them
13. Natural selection is defined as the process ___the course of evolution by preserving those traits best adapted for an organism's survival.
(A) to which directs
(B) of which directs it
(C) directs it
(D) that directs
14. ____ 363 miles between the cities of Albany and Buffalo in New York State, the Eric Canal helped link the Atlantic Ocean with the Great Lakes.
(A) The extension of
(B) The extension
(C) Extending
(D) Extends
15.The chief sources of B12, a water-soluble vitamin ____ stored in the body, include meat, milk and eggs.
(A) is not
(B) that is not
(C) not that is
(D) that not
16. ____ is rooted in experiments in iron and steel conducted in the nineteenth century.
(A) While the history of twentieth-century architecture
(B) The history of twentieth-century architecture
(C) That the history of twentieth-century architecture
(D) Both twentieth-century architecture and its history
B. Contoh Soal TOEFL Written Expression
17. 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
18. The surface conditions on the planet Mars are the more like the Earth’s than are
A B C
those of any other planet in the solar system.
D
19. 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
20. The Humber River and its valley form a major salmon-fishing, lumbering, hunting,
A B C
and farmer region in western Newfoundland, Canada.
D
Pembahasan Soal dan Jawaban
A. Written Expression.
17. 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.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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.
3. Reading Comprehension
Questions 1-5
A distinctively American architecture began with Frank Lloyd Wright, who had taken to heart the admonition that form should follow function and who thought of buildings not as separate architectural entities but as parts of an organic whole that included the land, the community, and the society. In a very real way the houses of colonial New England and some of the southern plantations had been functional, but Wright was the first architect to make functionalism the authoritative principle for public as well as for domestic buildings. As early as 1906 he built the Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois, the first of those churches that did so much to revolutionize ecclesiastical architecture in the United States. Thereafter he turned his genius to such miscellaneous structures as houses, schools, office buildings, and factories, among them the famous Larkin Building in Buffalo, New York, and the Johnson Wax Company building in Racine, Wisconsin.
1. The phrase “taken to heart” in line 1 is closest in meaning to which of the following?
(A) Taken seriously
(B) Criticized
(C) Memorized
(D) Taken offence
2. In what way did Wright’s public buildings differ from most of those built by earlier architects?
(A) They were built on a larger scale.
(B) Their materials came from the southern United States.
(C) They looked more like private homes.
(D) Their designs were based on how they would be used.
3. The author mentions the Unity Temple because, it?
(A) was Wright’s first building
(B) influenced the architecture of subsequent churches
(C) demonstrated traditional ecclesiastical architecture
(D) was the largest church Wright ever designed
4. The passage mentions that all of the following structures were built by Wright EXCEPT?
(A) factories
(B) public buildings
(C) offices
(D) southern plantations
5. Which of the following statements best reflects one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural principles?
(A) Beautiful design is more important than utility.
(B) Ecclesiastical architecture should be derived from traditional designs.
(C) A building should fit into its surroundings.
(D) The architecture of public buildings does not need to be revolutionary
Questions 6-16
There are two basic types of glaciers, those that flow outward in all directions with little regard for any underlying terrain and those that are confined by terrain to a particular path.
The first category of glaciers includes those massive blankets that cover whole continents, appropriately called ice sheets. There must be over 50,000 square kilometers of land covered with ice for the glacier to qualify as an ice sheet. When portions of an ice sheet spread out over the ocean, they form ice shelves.
About 20,000 years ago the Cordilleran Ice Sheet covered nearly all the mountains in southern Alaska, western Canada, and the western United States. It was about 3 kilometers deep at its thickest point in northern Alberta. Now there are only two sheets left on Earth, those covering Greenland and Antarctica.
Any domelike body of ice that also flows out in all directions but covers less than 50,000 square kilometers is called an ice cap. Although ice caps are rare nowadays, there are a number in northeastern Canada, on Baffin Island, and on the Queen Elizabeth Islands.
The second category of glaciers includes those of a variety of shapes and sizes generally called mountain or alpine glaciers. Mountain glaciers are typically identified by the landform that controls their flow. One form of mountain glacier that resembles an ice cap in that it flows outward in several directions is called an ice field. The difference between an ice field and an ice cap is subtle. Essentially, the flow of an ice field is somewhat controlled by surrounding terrain and thus does not have the domelike shape of a cap. There are several ice fields in the Wrangell. St. Elias, and Chugach mountains of Alaska and northern British Columbia.
Less spectacular than large ice fields are the most common types of mountain glaciers: the cirque and valley glaciers. Cirque glaciers are found in depressions in the surface of the land and have a characteristic circular shape. The ice of valley glaciers, bound by terrain, flows down valleys, curves around their corners, and falls over cliffs.
6. What does the passage mainly discuss?
(A) Where major glaciers are located
(B) How glaciers shape the land
(C) How glaciers are formed
(D) The different kinds of glaciers
7. The word “massive” in line 3 is closest in meaning to?
(A) huge
(B) strange
(C) cold
(D) recent
8. It can be inferred that ice sheets are so named for which of the following reasons?
(A) They are confined to mountain valleys.
(B) They cover large areas of land.
(C) They are thicker in some areas than in others.
(D) They have a characteristic circular shape.
9. According to the passage, ice shelves can be found?
(A) covering an entire continent
(B) buried within the mountains
(C) spreading into the ocean
(D) filling deep valleys
10. According to the passage, where was the Cordilleran Ice Sheet thickest?
(A) Alaska
(B) Greenland
(C) Alberta
(D) Antarctica
11. The word “rare” in line 12 is closest in meaning to?
(A) small
(B) unusual
(C) valuable
(D) widespread
12. According to the passage (paragraph 5), ice fields resemble ice caps in which of the following ways?
(A) Their shape
(B) Their flow
(C) Their texture
(D) Their location
13. The word “it” in line 16 refers to?
(A) glacier
(B) cap
(C) difference
(D) terrain
14. The word “subtle” in line 17 is closest in meaning to?
(A) slight
(B) common
(C) important
(D) measurable
15. All of the following are alpine glaciers EXCEPT?
(A) cirque glaciers
(B) ice caps
(C) valley glaciers
(D) ice fields
16. Which of the following types of glaciers does the author use to illustrate the two basic types of glaciers mentioned in line 1?
(A) Ice fields and cirques
(B) Cirques and alpine glaciers
(C) Ice sheets and ice shelves
(D) Ice sheets and mountain glaciers
Questions 17-20
Tools and hand bones excavated from the Swartkrans cave complex in South Africa suggest that a close relative of early humans known as Australopithecus robustus may have made and used primitive tools long before the species became extinct I million Line years ago. It may even have made and used primitive tools long before humanity’s direct ancestor, Homo habilis, or “handy man,” began doing so. Homo habilis and its successor, Homo erectus, coexisted with Australopithecus robustus on the plains of South Africa for more than a million years.
The Swartkrans cave in South Africa has been under excavation since the 1940’s. The earliest fossil-containing layers of sedimentary rock in the cave date from about 1.9 million years ago and contain extensive remains of animals, primitive tools, and two or more species of apelike hominids. The key recent discovery involved bones from the hand of Australopithecus robustus, the first time such bones have been found.
The most important feature of the Australopithecus robustus hand was the pollical distal thumb tip, the last bone in the thumb. The bone had an attachment point for a “uniquely human” muscle, the flexor pollicis longus, that had previously been found only in more recent ancestors. That muscle gave Australopithecus robustutJ an opposable thumb, a feature that would allow them to grip objects, including tools. The researchers also found primitive bone and stone implements, especially digging tools, in the same layers of sediments.
Australopithecus robustus were more heavily built- more “robust” in anthropological terms-than their successors. They had broad faces, heavy jaws, and massive crushing and grinding teeth that were used for eating hard fruits, seeds, and fibrous underground plant parts. They walked upright, which would have allowed them to carry and use tools. Most experts had previously believed that Homo habilis were able to supplant Australopithecus robustus because the former’s ability to use tools gave them an innate superiority. The discovery that Australopithecus robustus also used tools means that researchers will have to seek other explanations for their extinction. Perhaps their reliance on naturally occurring plants led to their downfall as the climate became drier and cooler, or perhaps Homo habilis, with their bigger brains, were simply able tomake more sophisticated tools.
17. It can be inferred from the first paragraph that all of the following may have made and used tools EXCEPT.
(A) Australopithecus robustus
(B) Homo erectus
(C) Homo habilis
(D) Australopithecus robustus’ ancestors
18. The word “extensive” in line 9 is closest in meaning to
(A) numerous
(B) exposed
(C) ancient
(D) valuable
19. Which of the following does the author mention as the most important recent discovery made in the Swartkrans cave?
(A) Tools
(B) Teeth
(C) Plant fossils
(D) Hand bones
20. What does the third paragraph ‘mainly discuss?
(A) Features of Australopithecus robustus’ hand
(B) Purposes for which hominids used tools
(C) Methods used to determine the age of fossils
(D) Significant plant fossils found in layers of sediment
