TOEFL Written Expression

Soal
1. 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
2. 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
3. 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  
4. The Humber River and its valley form a major salmon-fishing, lumbering, hunting, 
                                       A               B         C
and farmer region in western Newfoundland, Canada.
           D
5. The participants of the seminar has already been in the halt.
     A                                                B                  C    D
6.  All of the teacher are invited to attend the annual meeting next week.
                 A               B               C             D
7. Only in the morning does my grand father drank coffee.
            A  B                   C                                 D
8. His team is the better football team in this season.
      A            B          C                                D
9. Black workers relative incomes were also increasing because of some general changes.
                                                    A                B                       C                          D
10. Brenda must have called her brother last night, but she arrived home too late to call him.
           A                             B         C       D
11. Venomous snakes with modified teeth connected to
                                A
poison glands in which the venom  is  secreted and stored.
                   B                                   C       D
12. The new mall shopping in the downtown area will be more
                               A                      B
expensive for shoppers than the mall on th e fre eway outside the town.
                           C                       D
13. Guppies are sometimes call rainbow fish  due to the  bright colors of the males.
A B C D
14. Serving  several term in the Congress, Shirley Chisholm became a respected  political figure.
A B C D
15. The gopher digs not only with the  claw strong of its two front feet  but also with
A B C
its overhanging front teeth.
D
16. The firstly naval battle of the Revolutionary War was fought off the coast of Machias,
A B C
Maine, in June 1775.
D
17. The public ceremonies of the Plains Indians are lessers elaborate than those of the
A B C
Navajo in the Southwest.
D
18. In (A)some species of fish, (B)such the three-spined stickleback, the male, not the female,
(C)performs the task of (D)caring for the young.
19. When she (A)retires in September 1989, (B)tennis champion Christine Evert was (C)the most
famous (D)woman athlete in the United States.
20. The ancient Romans used vessels equipped with sails and banks of oars to transporting their
armies.
21. Dinosaurs (A)are traditionally classified as cold-blooded reptiles, (B)but recent evidence
based on eating habits, posture, and skeletal (C)structural suggests some (A)may have been
warm-blooded.
22. Since the Great Depression of the 1930’s, social (A)programs such as Social Security
have (B)been built into the economy (C)to help avert (D)severity business declines.
23. In the 1970’s (A)consumer activities (B)succeeded in promoting laws that set (C)safety
standards for automobiles, children’s clothing, and a (D)widely range of household products.
24. Zoos in New Orleans, San Diego, Detroit, and the Bronx (A)have become biological parks
(B)where animals (C)roams free and people (D)watch from across a moat.
25. In human beings, as in other (A)mammals, hairs (B)around the eyes are ears and in the nose
(C)prevent dust, insects, and other matter from (D)entering these organs.
26. The Rocky Mountains (A)were explored (B)by fur traders during the early 1800’s in (C)a
decades (A)preceding the United States Civil War.
27. The works of the (A)author Herman Melville are (B)literary creations of a high order,
blending (C)fact, fiction, adventure, and subtle (D)symbolic.
28. Each chemical (A)element is (B)characterized to the (C)number of protons that an atom of
that element contains, called its atomic (D)number.
29. The body (A)structure that developed in birds (B)over millions of years is well (C)designed
for flight, being both (D)lightly in weight and remarkably strong.
30. (A)From 1905 to 1920, American novelist Edith Wharton (B)was at the height of her writing
career, publishing (C)of her three (D)most famous novels.
31. In the early twentieth century, there was considerable (A)interesting among sociologists in
the fact (B)that in the United States (C)the family was losing its (D)traditional roles.
32. (A)Although pure diamond is colorless and transparent, (B)when contaminated with other
material (C)it may appear in various (D)color, ranging from pastels to opaque black.
33. Comparative anatomy is (A)concerned to the (B)structural differences (C)among animal
(D)forms.
34. A seismograph records oscillation of the ground (A)caused by seismic waves, vibrations
that (B)travel from (C)its point of origin (D)through the Earth or along its surface.
35. Electric lamps came into widespread use during the early 1900’s and (A)have replaced
other (B)type of fat, gas, or (C)oil lamps for (D)almost every purpose.
36. Located in Canada, the Columbia Icefield (A)covers area of 120 square miles (B)and is 3,300
feet (C)thick in some (D)places.
37. Composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II (A)brought to the musical
Oklahoma! (B)extensive musical and theatrical backgrounds as well as (C)familiar with the
(D)traditional forms of Operetta and musical comedy.
38. Because of (A)its vast tracts of (B)virtually uninhabited northern forest, Canada has (C)one
of the lowest population (D)density in the world.
39. Rice, (A)which it still forms the staple diet of (B)much of the world’s population, grows
(C)best in (D)hot, wet lands.
40. Government money appropriated (A)for art in the 1930’s made possible (B)hundreds of
murals and statues still (C)admiration in small towns (D)all over the United States
41. Margaret Mead (A)studied many (B)different cultures and she was one (C)of the first
anthropologists to photograph (D)hers subjects.
42. Talc, (A)a soft mineral with a (B)variety of uses, (C)sold is in slabs or in powdered (D)form.
43. (A)During the 1870’s iron workers in Alabama proved they (B)could produce iron by
(B)Curning iron ore with coke, (D)instead than with charcoal.
44. (A)Geologists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (B)rely on (C)a number of instruments
(D)to studying the volcanoes in Hawaii.
45. Underlying aerodynamics and (A)all other (B)branches of theoretical mechanics (C)are the
laws of motion (D)who were developed in the seventeenth century.
46. (A)Was opened in 1918, the Philips Collection (B)in Washington, D.C., was the first
museum in the United States (C)devoted to modern (D)art.
47. A mortgage (A)enables a person (B)to buy property (C)without paying for it outright; thus
more people are able to enjoy (D)to own a house.
48. (A)Alike ethnographers, ethnohistorians (B)make systemic observations, but they (C)also
gather data from documentary and oral (D)sources.
49. Basal body temperature (A)refers to the (B)most lowest temperature of a (C)healthy
individual (D)during waking hours.
50. (A)Research in the United States on acupuncture (B)has focused on (C)it use in (D)pain
relief and anesthesia.
51. The Moon’s (A)gravitational field (B)cannot keep atmospheric gases (C)from escape into
(D)space.
52. (A)Although the pecan tree is chiefly (B)value for its fruit, its wood (C)is used extensively
(D)for flooring, furniture, boxes, and crates.
53. (A)Born in Texas in 1890, Katherine Anne Porter produced three (B)collection of short
(C)stories before (D)publishing her well-known novel Ship of Fools in 1962
54. Insulation from cold, (A)protect against dust and (B)sand, and camouflage (C)are among the
(D)functions of hair for animals.
55. The notion that students are not (A)sufficiently involved in their (B)education is one reason
for the (C)recently surge of (D)support for undergraduate research.
56. (A)As secretary of transportation from 1975 to 1977, William Coleman worked (B)to help
the bankrupt railroads in the northeastern United States (C)solved their (D)financial problems.
57. Faults in the Earth’s crust (A)are most (B)evidently in sedimentary (C)formations, where
they interrupt previously (D)continuous layers.
58. Many (A)flowering plants benefit (B)of pollination by (C)adult butterflies (D)and moths.
59. A number (A)of the American Indian languages (B)spoken at the (C)time of the European
arrival in the New World in the late (D)fifteen century have become extinct.
60. George Gershwin was an American composer (A)whose concert (B)works joined the sounds
of jazz (C)with (D)them of traditional orchestration.
61. (A)One of the problems of United States agriculture that has persisted (B)during the 1920’s
until the present day is the tendency of farm income to lag (C)behind the costs of (D)production.
62. Volcanism (A)occurs on Earth in several geological (B)setting, most of which are associated
with the boundaries of the (C)enormous, rigid plates that (D)make up the lithosphere.
63. Early European settlers in North America (A)used medicines (B)they made from (C)plants
native to treat colds, pneumonia, and ague, (D)an illness similar to malaria.
64. (A)Some insects bear a remarkable resemblance to dead twigs, (B)being long,
(C)slenderness, wingless, and brownish (D)in color.
65. A food (A)additive is (B)any chemical that food manufacturers (C)intentional add to their
(C)products.
66. 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
67. 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
68. 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  
69. The Humber River and its valley form a major salmon-fishing, lumbering, hunting, 
                                        A               B         C
and farmer region in western Newfoundland, Canada.
           D
70. The participants of the seminar has already been in the halt.
     A                                                B                  C    D
71. The dandelion (A)plant has a straight, (B)smoothly, and hollow stem (C)that contains a
(D)white,
milky juice.
72. Of the (A)much factors that (B)contributed to the (C)growth of international tourism in the
1950’s,
(D)one of the most important was the advent of jet travel in 1958.
73. The Canadian (A)province of Alberta (B)it is believed to have some of the (C)richest oil
deposits in the world.
74. Elizabeth Bishop’s poems (A)are frequently (B)long and carefully constructed, (C)uses
(D)elaborate rhyme or half-rhymes.
75. California (A)has more land (B)under irrigation (C)than any (D)another state.
76. Thomas Moran’s magnificent, (A)colorful paintings (B)onto Wyoming landscapes captured
the spirit (C)of the western wilderness in the (D)late nineteenth century.
77. Emily Dickinson, among the greatest women (A)poets in the English language, died (B)with
all of (C)hers poems unpublished, except for seven that appeared in (D)publications of limited
circulation
78. Protecting Florida’s coral reefs in (A)difficult because some of the corals are (B)very fragile:
even the (C)touch of a diver’s hand can kill (D)it.
79. Martin Luther King, Jr., (A)is well known for (B)organize the huge (C)human rights march
that (D)took place in Washington in 1963.
80. (A)A lightning flash produces electromagnetic waves (B)that may (C)travels along the
Earth’s magnetic field (D)for long distances.
81. One of the earliest (A)plants domesticated in the Western Hemisphere, manioc (B)was
introduced to Europe (C)by Spaniards (D)returning from the New World.
82. (A)Besides the age of nine and fifteen, (B)almost all (C)young people undergo a (D)rapid
series of physiological changes.
83. The (A)frequency of meteors in the Earth’s (B)atmosphere increases when the Earth
(C)passes through a swarm of particle generated by (D)the breakup of a comet.
84. (A)Ponds are noted for their rich and (B)varied types of plant and animal (C)life, all maintain
(D)in a delicate ecological balance.
85. (A)In the 1920’s cinema (B)became an important art form and (C)one of the ten largest
(D)industry in the United States.
86. (A)To improvise effectively, a musician must (B)thorough understand the conventions (C)of
a (D)given musical style.
87. During the Jurassic period plant life was (A)abundance, providing herbivores (B)in particular
with a (C)plentiful supply of (D)food.
88. (A)Some maple trees (B)are raised for their sap, (C)which has a high sugar content (D)for
yields sugar and syrup.
89. (A)Long before boats became important in recreation, they were (B)valuable to people for
many essential tasks, (C)included transportation (D)and fishing.
90. Asteroids may be (A)fragments of a planet (B)shattered (C)long ago or (D)from material the
nuclei of old comets.
91. The first Native Americans (A)to occupy (B)what is now the southwestern United States
(C)were the Big-Game Hunters, (D)which appeared about 10,000 B.C.
92. (A)Some hangers, buildings used to hold large aircraft, are (B)very tall that rain occasionally
falls (C)from clouds that form (D)along the ceilings.
93. Most sand dunes are always in (A)motion as wind pushes sand (B)upward one side of each
dune, over the top, (C)and down (D)the other side.
94. (A)Farms of maize, beans, and tobacco, the Wendat, Native American tribes that
(B)inhabited present-day Michigan, lived a sedentary (C)life in (D)densely populated villages.
95. Recently scientists have (A)apply new tools of biochemistry (B)and molecular biology (C)to
investigate the structure of human (D)hair.
96. (A)According to most (B)psychological studies, body language (C)expresses a speaker's
emotions and attitudes, and it also tends to affect the emotions and attitudes of the (D)listen.
97. The dachshund (A)is a hardy, (B)alert dog with a (C)well sense of (D)smell.
98. Quasars, (A)faint celestial objects (B)resembling stars, are (C)perhaps the most distant
objects (D)know.
99. The (A)importance of environmental stimuli in (B)the development of coordination between
sensory input (C)and motor response varies lo species (D)to species.
100. A (A)smile can be observed, described, and reliably (B)identify; it (C)can also be elicited
and manipulated under (D)experimental conditions.
Pembahasannya: B. Identify > Identifed