VOCABULARY

Question no.1–5 : Choose the word or phrase which would best keep the meaning of the
original sentence if it were substituted for the underlined word.

1. Mr. Bambang is a co-worker of Mr. Budi.

A. An advocate C. A rival
B. A disciple D A colleague
.

2. Strive for excellence.

A. Cooperate with others C. Make efforts
B. Be patient D Pay well
.

3. Architects must consider whether their design are likely to be very wet in sudden
downpours.
A. Vulnerable C. Secured
B. Drenched D Exposed
.

4. The speed of light is used to measure the vast spaces between stars and planets.
A. Empty C. Interstellar
B. Huge D Infinite
.

5. Athletes learn to conceal their disappointment when they lose.

A. Disguise C. Ignore
B. Accept D Regret
.

Question no.6–10 : Choose the opposite meaning of the underlined word.

6. Jono’s university education even gave him a drawback because he’s getting smarter in
deceiving his society for his own benefit.
A. Advantage C. Progress
B. Opportunity D Benefit
.

7. It was such an outstanding effort of hers to won that prestigious scholarship.

A. Negative C. Noticeable
B. Insignificant D Useless
.
8. You must show your zeal for work, it will please your employer.
A. Powerless C. Apathy
B. Enthusiasm D Anger
.
9. Feeling the suffering of the refugees, the soldiers treated them compassionately during the
Iraqi war.
 A. Badly C. Slowly
B. Rudely D Mercilessly
.
10. A hostile crowd marched their way to town crying out their demand for national reform.
A. Polite C. Quite
B. Friendly D Calm
.
LATIHAN SOAL READING TOEFL

A. QUESTION 1 THROUGH 9 ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE

The body of an adult insect is subdivided into a head, a thorax of three segments, and
a segmented abdomen. Ordinarly, the thorax bears three pairs og legs. One or two pairs of
wings may be attached to the thorax. Most adult insects have two large compound eyes, and
two or three small simple eyes.
Features of the mouth parts are very helpful in clsassifying the many kinds of insects.
A majority of insects have biting mouth parts or mandibles as in grasshoppers and beetles.
Behind the mandibles are the maxillae, which serve to direct food into the mouth between the
jaws. A labrum above and a labium below are similar to an upper and lower lip. In insects
with sucking mouth parts, the mandibles, maxillae, labrum, and labium are modified to
provide a tube through which liquid can be drawn. In a butterfly or moth, the coiled drinking
tube is called the proboscis. Composed chiefly of modified maxillae fitted together, the
proboscis can be extended to reach nectar deep in a flower. In a mosquito or an aphid,
mandibles and maxillae are modified to sharp stylets with which the insect can drill through
surfaces to reach juice. In a housefly, the expanding labium forms a sponge-like mouth pad
that it can use to stamp over the surface of food.

1. What is the purpose of this passage ?

A. To complain
B. To persuade
C. To entertain
D. To inform

2. How are insects classified ?

A. By the environment in which they live
B. By the food they eat
C. By the structure of the mouth
D. By the number and type of wings

3. The word majority in paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to

A. More than half
B. More than twelve
C. More than three
D. More than one

4. What is the purpose of the maxillae ?

A. To bite or sting
B. To drill through surfaces to find nourishment
C. To put food between the jaws
D. To soak up nourishment like a sponge
5. The author compares labrum and labium to
A. An upper and lower lip
B. Mandibles
C. Maxillae
D. Jaws

6. What is the proboscis ?

A. Nectar
B. A tube constructed of modified maxillae
C. A kind of butterfly
D. A kind of flower

7. Which of the following have mandibles and maxillae that have been modified to sharp
stylets?
A. Grasshoppers
B. Butterflies
C. Mosquitoes
D. Houseflies

8. The phrase drill through in line 14 could best be replaced by

A. Penetrate
B. Saturate
C. Explore
D. Distinguished

9. The word it in the last sentence refers to

A. Pad
B. Food
C. Housefly
D. Mouth

B. QUESTION 10 THROUGH 19 ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE

The Hudson River flows by Manhattan in a volume exceeding a billion gallons a day.
New York City and its neighbours produce a daily river sewage almost twice that large. A
great deal of this waste-water river flows directly to the sea, and another large part is piped to
treatment plants, which remove solid wastes from the water and collect them in great vats.
The amalgamation waste is known as sewage sludge.
In 1974, New York wasn’t the only place in the country using salt waters to get rid of
sludge. Los Angeles was piping sewage off its coast into underwater canyons; Boston was
pumping sludge into its harbor; Philadelphia was dumping it at sea. At the same time, a
number of cities had found ways to dispose of sewage waste on land. Chicago, Milwaukee,
Houston, and Denver were either selling sludge as a soil conditioner or laying it down on
large tracts of land. Chicago was growing corn on its sludge fields. Meanwhile, New York
was building a fleet of luxurious sludge tankers.
The New York metropolitan doesn’t have abundant open land nearby. It would have
been difficult and expensive to find a piece of property big enough to hold the city’s sewer
wastes. Besides, sludge has always seemed just a small part of an enormous refuse problem.
The metropolitan area generates about sixty percents of the sludge that is dumped in the New
York Bight, and managers never felt they could afford to spend great sums on its disposal.
10. According to the evidence in the passage
A. Sewage waste is the best disposed of in the open sea
B. Sewage waste can create “dead” areas in the ocean
C. The metropolitan area of New York is the greatest contributor to the sludge dumped in
the bight
D. Treatment plants may be solution to the problem
11. The sewage in the passage indicates a liquid material which causes
A. Interest
B. Disgust
C. Fun
D. Boredom

12. Which of the following statements is FALSE, according to the passage ?

A. Los Angeles was piping sewage into underwater canyons
B. Chicago was growing corn on its sludge fields
C. The Hudson River flows by Manhattan at a rate of more than a billion gallons a day
D. City managers never felt that it was a serious problem

13. The word which is closest in meaning to vats in the first paragraph is
A. Baskets
B. Volumes
C. Tins
D. Vessels

14. The author evidently assumes that the reader is familiar with the word
A. Sludge
B. Amalgamation
C. Luxurious
D. Generate

15. The idiom get rid of in the first sentence of the second paragraph can be substituted with
A. Be free of
B. Become rich of
C. Be different from
D. Get down to

16. The passage seems to suggest that

A. Philadelpia is polluting the water
B. Chicago found a better way to grow corn
C. Other cities solved their problem as New York
D. Building collection vats is an expensive solution

17. According to the passage, what word can best replace the word refuse in the last
paragraph ?
A. Environment
B. Health
C. Rubbish
D. Reject
18. The closest meaning to the word disposal in the last sentence of the passage is
A. Operation
B. Undertaking
C. Disarmament
D. Management

19. The word dumped used in the last paragraph means nearly the same as
A. Taken away
B. Thrown down
C. Put back
D. Pulled out

C. QUESTION 20 THROUGH 30 ARE BASED ON THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE

In the American colonies there was little money, England did not supply the colonies
with coins and it did not allow the colonies to make their own coins, except for the
Massachusetts Bay Colony, which received permission for a short period in 1652 to make
several kinds of silver coins. England wanted to keep money out of America as means of
controlling trade : America was forced to trade only with England if it did not have the money
to buy products from other countries. The results during this pre-revolutionary period was that
the colonist used various goods in place of money; beaver used pelts, Indian wampum, and
tobacco leaves were all commonly used substitutes for money. The colonist also made use of
any foreign coins they could obtain. Dutch, Spanish, French, and English coins were all in use
in the American colonies.
During the Revolutionary War, funds were needed to finance the war, so each of the
individual states and the Continental Congress issued paper money. So much of this paper
money was printed that by the end of the war it was virtually worthless. As a result, trade in
goods and the use of foreign coins still flourished during this period.
By the time the Revolutionary War had been won by the American colonists, the
monetary system was in a state of American colonists, the monetary system was in state of
total disarray. To remedy this situation, the new Constitution of the United States, approved in
1789, allowed only congress tom issue money. The individual states could no longer have
their own money supply. A few years later, the Coinage Act of 1792 made the dollar the
official currency of the United States and put the country on a bimetallic standard. In this
bimetallic system, both gold and silver were legal money, and the rate of exchange of silver to
gold was fixed by the government at sixteen to one.

20. This passage mainly discusses

A. American money from past to present
B. The English monetary policies in colonial America
C. The effect of the Revolution on American money
D. The American monetary system of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

21. The word their in the second sentence of the first paragraph refers to
A. American senators
B. British colonies
C. English people
D. American colonies
22. The passage indicates that during the colonial period, money was
A. Supplied by England
B. Coined freely by the colonies
C. Scarce
D. Used extensively for trade

23. The word virtually in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to

A. Strangely
B. Really
C. Unexpectedly
D. Completely

24. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was allowed to make coins

A. Continuously from inception of the colony
B. Throughout the seventeenth century
C. From 1652 until the Revolutionary War
D. For a short time during one year

25. The word which can best substitute disarray in the third paragraph is
A. Failure
B. Inconsistency
C. Disorder
D. Disagreement

26. Each of the following is mentioned in the passage as a substitute for money during the
colonial period EXCEPT
A. Wampum
B. Cotton
C. Tobacco
D. Beaver furs

27. The word act in “Coinage Act” is closest in meaning to

A. Process
B. Obligation
C. Action
D. Law

28. According to the passage, what happened to the American monetary system during the
Revolutionary War ?
A. The continental Congress issued gold and silver coins
B. Individual states were not allowed to issue money
C. So much paper money was circulated that it lost its value
D. American money replaced trade in goods and foreign coins

29. How was the monetary system arranged in the Constitution ?

A. Only the U.S Congress could issue money
B. The U.S officially went on a bimetallic monetary system
C. Various
 D. A rabbit

30. “Pork” is the flesh of

A. A Pig
B. A goat
C. An ox
D. A rabbit