100 Soal TOEFL Written Expressi
100 Soal TOEFL Written Expressi
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 some species of fish, such the three-spined stickleback, the male, not the female,
A B
performs the task of caring for the young.
C D
19. When she retires in September 1989 tennis champion Christine Evert was the most
A B C
famous woman athlete in the United States.
D
19. The ancient Romans used vessels equipped with sails and banks of oars to transporting their
A B C D
armies.
20. Dinosaurs are traditionally classified as cold-blooded reptiles, but recent evidence
A B
based on eating habits, posture, and skeletal structural suggests some may have been
C D
warm-blooded.
21. Since the Great Depression of the 1930’s, social programs such as Social Security
A
have been built into the economy to help avert severity business declines.
B C D
23. In the 1970’s consumer activities succeeded in promoting laws that set safety
A B C
standards for automobiles, children’s clothing, and a widely range of household products.
D
24. Zoos in New Orleans, San Diego, Detroit, and the Bronx have become biological parks
A
where animals roams free and people watch from across a moat.
B C D
25. In human beings, as in other mammals, hairs around the eyes are ears and in the nose
A B
prevent dust, insects, and other matter from entering these organs.
C D
26. The Rocky Mountains were explored by fur traders during the early 1800’s in a
A B C
decades preceding the United States Civil War.
D
27. The works of the author Herman Melville are literary creations of a high order, blending fact,
A B C
fiction, adventure, and subtle symbolic.
D
28. Each chemical element is characterized to the number of protons that an atom of that element
A B C
contains, called its atomic number.
D
29. The body structure that developed in birds over millions of years is well designed for flight,
A B C
being both lightly in weight and remarkably strong.
D
30. From 1905 to 1920, American novelist Edith Wharton was at the height of her writing
A B
career, publishing of her three most famous novels.
C D
31. In the early twentieth century, there was considerable interesting among sociologists in
A
the fact that in the United States the family was losing its traditional roles.
B C D
32. Although pure diamond is colorless and transparent, when contaminated with other
A B
Material it may appear in various color, ranging from pastels to opaque black.
C D
33. Comparative anatomy is concerned to the structural differences among animal forms.
A B C D
34. A seismograph records oscillation of the ground caused by seismic waves, vibrations
A
that travel from its point of origin through the Earth or along its surface.
B C D
35. Electric lamps came into widespread use during the early 1900’s and have replaced
A
other type of fat, gas, or oil lamps for almost every purpose.
B C D
36. Located in Canada, the Columbia Icefield covers area of 120 square miles and is 3,300
A B
Feet thick in some places.
C D
37. Composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II brought to the musical
A
Oklahoma! extensive musical and theatrical backgrounds as well as familiar with the
B C
traditional forms of Operetta and musical comedy.
D
38. Because of its vast tracts of virtually uninhabited northern forest, Canada has one of the
A B C
lowest population density in the world.
D
39. Rice, which it still forms the staple diet of much of the world’s population, grows best in hot,
A B C D
wet lands.
40. Government money appropriated for art in the 1930’s made possible hundreds of
A B
murals and statues still admiration in small towns all over the United States
C D
41. Margaret Mead studied many different cultures and she was one of the first
A B C
anthropologists to photograph hers subjects.
D
42. Talc, a soft mineral with a variety of uses, sold is in slabs or in powdered form.
A B C D
43. During the 1870’s iron workers in Alabama proved they could produce iron by Curning iron
A B C
ore with coke, instead than with charcoal.
D
44. Geologists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory rely on a number of instruments to studying
A B C D
the volcanoes in Hawaii.
45. Underlying aerodynamics and all other branches of theoretical mechanics are the laws of
A B C
motion who were developed in the seventeenth century.
D
46. Was opened in 1918, the Philips Collection in Washington, D.C., was the first museum in the
A B
United States devoted to modern art.
C D
47. A mortgage enables a person to buy property without paying for it outright; thus more people
A B C
are able to enjoy to own a house.
D
48. Alike ethnographers, ethnohistorians make systemic observations, but they also gather data
A B C
from documentary and oral sources.
D
49. Basal body temperature refers to themost lowest temperature of a healthy individual during
A B C D
waking hours.
50. Research in the United States on acupuncture has focused on it use in pain relief and
A B C D
anesthesia.
51. The Moon’s gravitational field cannot keep atmospheric gases from escape into space.
A B C D
52. Although the pecan tree is chiefly value for its fruit, its wood is used extensively for flooring,
A B C D
furniture, boxes, and crates.
53. Born in Texas in 1890, Katherine Anne Porter produced three collection of short stories
A B C
before publishing her well-known novel Ship of Fools in 1962
D
54. Insulation from cold, protect against dust and sand, and camouflage are among the
A B C
functions of hair for animals.
D
55. The notion that students are not sufficiently involved in their education is one reason for the
A B
recently surge of support for undergraduate research.
C D
56. As secretary of transportation from 1975 to 1977, William Coleman worked to help the
A B
bankrupt railroads in the northeastern United States solved their financial problems.
C D
57. Faults in the Earth’s crust are most evidently in sedimentary formations, where they interrupt
A B C
previously continuous layers.
D
58. Many flowering plants benefit of pollination by dult butterflies and moths.
A B C D
59. A number of the American Indian languages spoken at the time of the European arrival in the
A B C
New World in the late fifteen century have become extinct.
D
60. George Gershwin was an American composer whose concert works joined the sounds
A B
of jazz with them of traditional orchestration.
C D
61. One of the problems of United States agriculture that has persisted during the 1920’s
A B
until the present day is the tendency of farm income to lag behind the costs of production.
C D
62. Volcanism occurs on Earth in several geological setting, most of which are associated
A B
with the boundaries of the enormous, rigid plates that make up the lithosphere.
C D
63. Early European settlers in North America used medicines they made from plants native to
A B C
treat colds, pneumonia, and ague, an illness similar to malaria.
D
64. Some insects bear a remarkable resemblance to dead twigs, being long, slenderness,
A B C
wingless, and brownish in color.
D
65. A food additive is any chemical that food manufacturers Cintentional add to their
A B C
products.
D
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 plant has a straight, smoothly, and hollow stem that contains a white,
A B C D
milky juice.
72. Of the much factors that contributed to the growth of international tourism in the 1950’s,
A B C
one of the most important was the advent of jet travel in 1958.
D
73. The Canadian province of Alberta it is believed to have some of the richest oil deposits in the
A B C D
world.
74. Elizabeth Bishop’s poems are frequently long and carefully constructed, uses elaborate
A B C D
rhyme or half-rhymes.
75. California has more land under irrigation than any another state.
A B C D
76. Thomas Moran’s magnificent, colorful paintings onto Wyoming landscapes captured the
A B
spirit of the western wilderness in the late nineteenth century.
C D
77. Emily Dickinson, among the greatest women poets in the English language, died with
A B
all of hers poems unpublished, except for seven that appeared in publications of limited
C D
circulation
78. Protecting Florida’s coral reefs in difficult because some of the corals are very fragile:
A B
even the touch of a diver’s hand can kill it.
C D
79. Martin Luther King, Jr., is well known for organize the huge human rights march that took
A B C
place in Washington in 1963.
D
80. A lightning flash produces electromagnetic waves that may travels along the Earth’s
A B C
magnetic field for long distances.
D
81. One of the earliest plants domesticated in the Western Hemisphere, manioc was
A B
introduced to Europe by Spaniards returning from the New World.
C D
82. Besides the age of nine and fifteen, almost all young people undergo a rapid series of
A B C D
physiological changes.
83. The frequency of meteors in the Earth’s atmosphere increases when the Earth passes through
A B C
a swarm of particle generated by the breakup of a comet.
D
84. Ponds are noted for their rich and varied types of plant and animal life, all maintain in a
A B C D
delicate ecological balance.
85. In the 1920’s cinema became an important art form and one of the ten largest dustry in the
A B C D
United States.
86. To improvise effectively, a musician must thorough understand the conventions of a given
A B C D
musical style.
87. During the Jurassic period plant life was abundance, providing herbivores in particular
A B
with aplentiful supply of food.
C D
88. Some maple trees are raised for their sap, which has a high sugar content for yields sugar and
A B C D
syrup.
89. Long before boats became important in recreation, they were valuable to people for
A B
many essential tasks, included transportation and fishing.
C D
90. Asteroids may be fragments of a planet shattered long ago or from material the nuclei of old
A B C D
comets.
91. The first Native Americans to occupy what is now the southwestern United States were the
A B C
Big-Game Hunters, which appeared about 10,000 B.C.
D
92. Some hangers, buildings used to hold large aircraft, are very tall that rain occasionally
A B
falls from clouds that form along the ceilings.
C D
93. Most sand dunes are always in motion as wind pushes sand upward one side of each
A B
dune, over the top, and down the other side.
C D
94. Farms of maize, beans, and tobacco, the Wendat, Native American tribes that
A
inhabited present-day Michigan, lived a sedentary life in densely populated villages.
B C D
95. Recently scientists have apply new tools of biochemistry and molecular biology to
A B C
investigate the structure of human hair.
D
96. According to most psychological studies, body language expresses a speaker's emotions and
A B C
attitudes, and it also tends to affect the emotions and attitudes of the listen.
D
97. The dachshund is a hardy, alert dog with a well sense of smell.
A B C D
98. Quasars, faint celestial objects resembling stars, are perhaps the most distant objects know.
A B C D
99. The importance of environmental stimuli in the development of coordination between
A B
sensory input and motor response varies lo species to species.
C D
100. A smile can be observed, described, and reliably identify; it can also be elicited and
A B C
manipulated under experimental conditions.
D
JAWABAN
1. Pembahasannya: B. a nearly -> nearly
2. Pembahasannya: B. the more -> more
3. Pembahasannya: B. visible remains -> remains visible
4. Pembahasannya: D. farmer -> farming
5. Pembahasannya: A. Teacher > Teachers
6. Pembahasannya: D. drank > drink
7. Pembahasannya: C. Better > Best
8. Pembahasannya: C. Better > Best
9. Pembahasannya: A. incomes were > incomed were
10. Pembahasannya: A. must have called > should have called
11. Pembahasannya: A. Agar kalimat di atas benar, seharusnya kata with dihilangkan
12. Pembahasannya: A. Seharusnya posisi kata shopping berada di depan mall karena
berfungsi sebagai adjective, atau kata shopping harus dihilangkan
13. Pembahasannya: A. Call > Called
14. Pembahasannya: B. Term > Terms
15. Pembahasannya: B. Claw Strong > Claws Strong
16. Pembahasannya: A. Firstly > First
17. Pembahasannya: B. Lessers > Lesser
18. Pembahasannya: B. Such The > So The
19. Pembahasannya: A. Retires > Retires
20. Pembahasannya: D. To transporting > to transporting
21. Pembahasannya: C. Structural > structure
22. Pembahasannya: D. Severity > Severited
23. Pembahasannya: D. Widely > Wide
24. Pembahasannya: C. Roams free > Roam free
25. Pembahasannya: A. Mammals > Mammal
26. Pembahasannya: C. A > The
27. Pembahasannya: D. Symbolic > Symbol
28. Pembahasannya: B. Characterized > Character
29. Pembahasannya: D. Lightly > Light
30. Pembahasannya: C. Of Her > Of This
31. Pembahasannya: A. Interesting > Interesting
32. Pembahasannya: D. Color > The Color
33. Pembahasannya: A. Concerned > Concerned
34. Pembahasannya: C. Its > It
35. Pembahasannya: B. Type > By Type
36. Pembahasannya: A. Covers area > cover area
37. Pembahasannya: C. Familiar > the familiar
38. Pembahasannya: D. Density > densited
39. Pembahasannya: A. Which it still > which its still
40. Pembahasannya: C. Admiration > Admirations
41. Pembahasannya: D. Hers > her
42. Pembahasannya: C, Sold is > sold
43. Pembahasannya: D. Instead > instant
44. Pembahasannya: D. To studying > to study
45. Pembahasannya: D. Who > who ditiadakan
46. Pembahasannya: A. Was opened > was open
47. Pembahasannya: D. To own > own
48. Pembahasannya: A. Alike > A alike
49. Pembahasannya: B. Most lowest > lowest
50. Pembahasannya: C. It > its
51. Pembahasannya: C. From escape > from escaped
52. Pembahasannya: B. Value > values
53. Pembahasannya: B. Collection > collections
54. Pembahasannya: A. Protect > protected
55. Pembahasannya: C. Recently > recent
56. Pembahasannya: C. Solved > solvedly
57. Pembahasannya: B. Evidently > evident
58. Pembahasannya: B. OF > have
59. Pembahasannya: D. Fifteen > fifteens
60. Pembahasannya: D. Them > him
61. Pembahasannya: B. During the > drank the
62. Pembahasannya: B. Setting > settied
63. Pembahasannya: C.
64. Pembahasannya: C. Slenderness
65. Pembahasannya: C. Intentional > intentionally
66. Pembahasannya: B. a nearly -> nearly
67. Pembahasannya: B. the more -> more
68. Pembahasannya: B. visible remains -> remains visible
69. Pembahasannya: D. farmer -> farming
70. Pembahasannya: B. Has > Have
71. Pembahasannya: B. Smoothly > Smooth
72. Pembahasannya: A. Much > Muchly
73. Pembahasannya: B. It is believed to have > It is believe to have
74. Pembahasannya: C. Uses > Use
75. Pembahasannya: D. Another > a anothers
76. Pembahasannya: B. Onto > Into
77. Pembahasannya: C. Hers > Her
78. Pembahasannya: D. It > Its
79. Pembahasannya: B. Organize > Organized
80. Pembahasannya: C. Traveles > Travelling
81. Pembahasannya: B. Was Introduced > Was Introduceds
82. Pembahasannya: A. Besides > Beside
83. Pembahasannya: C, Passes > Passed
84. Pembahasannya: C. Life > Lifes
85. Pembahasannya: D. Industry > Industred
86. Pembahasannya: B, Thorough > Thorought
87. Pembahasannya: A. Abundance > Abudances
88. Pembahasannya: D. For > to
89. Pembahasannya: C. Included > Include
90. Pembahasannya: D. From material > From materials
91. Pembahasannya: D. Which > Whichly
92. Pembahasannya: B. Very > Long
93. Pembahasannya: B. Upward > Upwards
94. Pembahasannya: A. Farms > Farm
95. Pembahasannya: A. Apply > Take
96. Pembahasannya: D. Listen > Listening
97. Pembahasannya: C. Well > Wells
98. Pembahasannya: C. Perhaps > Perhap
99. Pembahasannya: B. Identify > Identifed
100. Pembahasannya: D. To > From