Belajar Toefl: SHORT TEST 01

1. The flexibility of film allows the artist __________ unbridled imagination to the animation of cartoon characters.

(A) to bring

(B) bringing

(C) is brought

(D) brings

Penjelasan:

Jawaban         : A

Penjelasan     : allow adalah salah satu kata kerja yang selalu diikuti oleh the infinitive (allow + to)

2. Traditionally, __________in New England on Thanksgiving Day.

(A) when served is sweet cider

(B) when sweet cider is served

(C) is served sweet cider

(D) sweet cider is served

Penjelasan:

Jawaban         : D

Penjelasan     : Terdapat 1 (satu) klausa pada kalimat tersebut. Klausa tersebut membutuhkan subject (yaitu sweet cider) dan verb (yaitu is served). Tidak membutuhkan when sebagai connector (penghubung 2 klausa) karena klausanya hanya 1.

3. Typical of the grassland dwellers of the continent __________, or pronghorn.

(A) it is the American antelope

(B) the American antelope is

(C) is the American antelope

(D) the American antelope

Penjelasan:

Jawaban         : C

Penjelasan     : Klausa diatas sudah terdapat singular subject  yaitu typical of ... sehingga membutuhkan singular verb yaitu is. Pilihan A dan B membuat klausa tersebut memiliki double subject.

4. Lillian D. Wald, public health nurse and __________, was born in Cincinnati Ohio, in 1867.

(A) reforming society

(B) social reformer

(C) who reformed society

(D) her social reform

Penjelasan:

Jawaban         : B

Penjelasan     : Terdapat penghubung and, sehingga struktur frase setelahnya wajib setara atau paralel dengan frase public health nurse.

5. Copper sulfate, spread in judicious amounts, kills algae __________ harming fish or aquatic invertebrates.

(A) does not

(B) but does no

(C) except

(D) without

Penjelasan:

Jawaban         : D

Penjelasan     : Gerund verb (verb-ing) itu selalu muncul setelah preposition. Pada klausa tersebut ada gerund yaitu harming sehingga satu-satunya preposition yang ada pada pilihan jawaban adalah pilihan D.

6. Not woman held a presidential cabinet position in the United States until 1933, when Frances Perkins became secretary of labor.

Penjelasan:

Jawaban         : A

Penjelasan     : Kata yang benar adalah no woman.

7. The human body relies on certainty nutrients for its survival. 

Penjelasan:

Jawaban         : C

Penjelasan     : certainty = noun, certain = adjective. Kata yang tepat digunakan untuk mendampingi nutrients adalah certain menjadi certain nutrients.

8. Too much electric current may flow into a circuit as a result either of a fault in the circuit and of an outside event such as lightning.

Penjelasan:

Jawaban         : D

Penjelasan     : Kata yang tepat adalah or. (either......or.......)

9. The Appalachian Trail, extending approximately 2,020 miles from Maine to Georgia, is the longer continuous marked footpath in the world.

Penjelasan:

Jawaban         : C

Penjelasan     : Superlative (the + long + est) à the longest.

10. For years, elephants were hunted for food and ivory, and as a result theirs numbers have been greatly reduced.

Penjelasan:

Jawaban         : B

Penjelasan     : yang tepat adalah their à their numbers