Soal TOEFL
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Jawaban dan Pembahasannya
1. If
Rani were not busy at the moment, she would go out with me, said Maria.
From Maria’s utterance we know that Rani ______ with her.
A. goes
B. went
C. didn’t go
D. doesn’t go
Jawaban : D
Keyword : would go
Pembahasan : Pernyataan tipe 2
jika dijadikan kenyataan berubah menjadi kalimat dengan menggunakan
bentuk present tense, dan jika kalimatnya positif berubah
menjadi negatif dan sebaliknya.
2. ______
her shyness, she would have become a great teacher.
A. She had overcome
B. If had she overcome
C. If she overcame
D. If she would overcome
Jawaban : B
Keyword : would have become
Pembahasan : Kalimat ini adalah
pengandaian tipe 3. Polanya adalah If S + had + V3, S + would + have + V3.
3. If
we don’t hurry, the meeting ______ by the time we get there.
A. would have started
B. will have started
C. will be started
D. will start
Jawaban : D
Keyword : don’t hurry
Pembahasan : Kalimat ini adalah
pengandaian tipe 1. Polanya adalah If + S + V1, S + will + V1.
4. If
I had a lot of time, I would study German.
From this sentence we know that _____.
A. I have a lot of time, so I study German
B. I studied German because I had a lot of time
C. I want to study German because I have a lot of time
D. I would like to study German, but I don’t have much time
Jawaban : D
Keyword : If I had a lot of time, I would study German
Pembahasan : Kalimat ini adalah
kalimat pengandaian tipe 2, yang subjeknya tidak mempunyai kemungkinan untuk
mencapai tujuan pengandaiannya. Jadi kita dapat menyimpulkan bahwa I would like
to study German, but I don’t have much time.
5. She
would like to live in Indonesia, ______ it never snows.
A. when
B. where
C. that
D. which
Jawaban : B
Keyword : Indonesia
Pembahasan : Karena Indonesia
adalah nama tempat, kata untuk menggantikan tempat adalah where.
6. The
child ate up all the meal we had served. He ______ very hungry.
A. will have been
B. could have been
C. must have been
D. would have been
Jawaban : C
Key word : ate up all; very hungry
Pembahasan : Pada kalimat
dikatakan si anak memakan semua masakan yang dihidangkan. Karena itu dapat
disimpulkan bahwa anak itu pasti (must) sangat kelaparan.
7. Alfred
visited some countries in Asia, Europe and America. He bought luxurious things
for his wife and children. He ______ a lot of money.
A. could have
B. would have
C. ought have
D. must have had
Jawaban : D
Key word : bought luxurious things
Pembahasan : Frasa bought
luxurious things (membeli barang-barang mahal) sudah pasti (must) dikaitkan
dengan mempunyai banyak uang (a lot of money).
8. Berta
: “Can I have your report soon?”
Jono : “Sure, I ______ it before you go to the meeting.
A. will
finished
B. will
have finished
C. am
going to finish
D. am
finishing
Jawaban
: B
Key word : before you go
Pembahasan : Frasa before you
go to the office (sebelum kau pergi ke kantor) menunjukkan prediksi atas
aktivitas yang terjadi di masa yang akan datang. Namun penggunaan before juga
menunjukkan suasana future perfect (telah selesai dilakukan di masa yang akan
datang).
9. Dina
: Roni, that is the most popular book nowadays.
Roni
: Oh yes. It must have been written by a distinguished professor.
From
the dialogue we know that indeed a distinguished professor ______
that
book.
A. Wrote
B. would
write
C. should
write
D. planned
to write
Jawaban
: A
Key word : It must have been written
Pembahasan : Frasa pada kata
kunci menunjukkan bahwa proses penulisan buku ini telah selesai. Satu-satunya
pilihan jawaban yang menunjukkan proses itu telah selesai adalah wrote (dalam
bentuk lampau).
10. Mom
and Dad just left for the airport twenty minutes ago, so they _____ there yet.
A. can’t have gotten
B. shouldn’t have gotten
C. had better have gotten
D. could have gotten
Jawaban : B
Key word : just; so
Pembahasan : Frasa just left
berarti “baru saja pergi”. Kata sambung so menunjukkan kesimpulan bahwa Ibu dan
Ayah pastinya belum akan sampai di bandara (shouldn’t have gotten).
11. Although
research scientists had hoped that the new drug interferon _____ to be a cure
for cancer, its applications now appear to be more limited.
A. prove
B. had proven
C. would prove
D. will prove
Jawaban : C
Key word : had hoped
Pembahasan : Karena pada anak
kalimat terdapat harapan dalam bentuk past perfect (had hoped), maka induk
kalimatnya pasti berbentuk past future (would prove).
12. Henry
will not able to attend the meeting tonight because _____
A. he must to teach a class
B. he will be teaching a class
C. of he will teach a class
D. he will have teaching a class
Jawaban : B
Key word : because
Pembahasan : Setelah kata
sambung because kita membutuhkan klausa. Dari pilihan jawaban yang ada, (A)
tidak tepat karena must tidak diikuti to, (C) diawali dengan of, dan bentuk
will have teaching pada (D) tidak tepat. Satu-satunya yang berpola benar adalah
he will be teaching a class.
13. The
Theory of Continental Drift assumes that there _____ long-term climatic changes
in
many areas during the past.
A. must have been
B. must be
C. must have
D. must
Jawaban : A
Key word : assumes; during the past
Pembahasan : Kata assume
(menduga) mempunyai nuansa kepastian. Karena menyatakan suatu kepastian yang
terjadi di waktu lampau maka polanya adalah must have + V3.
14. The
man standing over there asked me whether he _____ the flowers from my garden.
A. took
B. might take
C. ought to take
D. would take
Jawaban : B
Key word : asked me; whether
Pembahasan : Kalimat tersebut
menunjukkan permintaan izin dari laki-laki tersebut. Karena kalimat ini
berbentuk lampau, maka pilihan yang tepat adalah might take.
15. Sari ______ to school with her
friends at 06.30 a.m. tomorrow.
A. Walks
B. is going to walk
C. will be walking
D. will have walked
Jawaban : C
Key word
: at 06.30
a.m. tomorrow
Pembahasan : Kalimat ini menyatakan
kegiatan yang sedang akan dilakukan di masa datang, karena ada keterangan waktu
at 06.30 a.m. tomorrow, maka tense yang digunakan adalah future continuous
(S+will be+V-ing).
16. ______ discussed before the director
proposed it.
A. The economic crisis had been
B. The economic crisis being
C. The economic crisis has already been
D. The economic crisis is already
Jawaban
: A
Key word
: before;
proposed
Pembahasan : Kata kerja setelah before
merupakan verb bentuk kedua atau past. Penggunaan before menunjukkan bahwa
kata kerja sebelumnya berbentuk past perfect (had+verb3).
17. She ______ at me when she saw me at
the airport.
A. Waves
B. Waved
C. is waving
D. has waved
Jawaban : B
Key word :when she saw me
Pembahasan : Kata kerja pada anak kalimat
merupakan kata kerja bentuk kedua (saw) jadi kata kerja pada induk kalimat juga
harus berbentuk lampau. Satu-satunya pilihan jawaban yang berbentuk lampau
adalah waved.
18. Berta : “Can I have your report soon?”
Jono : “Sure, I ______ it before you
go to the meeting.
A. will finished
B. will have finished
C. am going to finish
D. am finishing
Jawaban : B
Key word :before you go
Pembahasan : Kata kerja setelah before
merupakan kata kerja bentuk pertama. Selain itu penggunaan before menunjukkan
bahwa kegiatan pada induk kalimat akan selesai pada waktu yang ditentukan.
Karena itu kata kerja pada induk kalimat berbentuk future perfect.
19. “When do you plan to get married?”
“After ______ school”.
A. I finish
B. I finished
C. I am finishing
D. I have been finished
Jawaban : A
Key word :plan
Pembahasan : Berdasarkan keyword, kita
dapat menyimpulkan bahwa pekerjaan tersebut belum dilakukan (baru rencana)
sehingga kata kerja (verb) yang digunakan merupakan kata kerja bentuk
pertama.
20. Mother ______ the food by the time
the children come home.
A. Cooked
B. will cook
C. has cooked
D. will have cooked
Jawaban : D
Key word :by the time
Pembahasan : Kata keterangan by the time
menunjukkan bahwa kalimat ini berbentuk future perfect tense (will+have+verb3).
21. The children are watching TV now
because they ______ their homework.
A. are doing
B. had done
C. have done
D. were doing
Jawaban : C
Key word : are watching; because
Pembahasan : Kalimat secara keseluruhan
menyimpulkan ada suatu pekerjaan yang telah selesai dilakukan. Jadi kata kerja
yang dibutuhkan berbentuk perfect. Karena kata kerja di induk kalimat berbentuk
present, maka kata kerja yang dibutuhkan berbentuk present perfect
(have+verb3).
22. I ______ the street when it began to
rain.
A. am walking down
B. have walked down
C. have been walking down
D. was walking down
Jawaban : D
Key word
: when it
began to rain
Pembahasan : Penggunaan when pada kalimat
menunjukkan sesuatu yang terjadi saat suatu kegiatan sedang dilakukan
(continuous). Karena kata kerja pada anak kalimat berbentuk lampau (began),
maka kata kerja yang dibutuhkan berbentuk past continuous (was/were+verb-ing).
23. The team ______ along the river-bank
when they, accidentally, found a big cave.
A. were walking
B. are walking
C. will walk
D. walked
Jawaban : A
Key word :when they…found
Pembahasan : Penggunaan when pada kalimat
menunjukkan sesuatu yang terjadi saat suatu kegiatan sedang dilakukan
(continuous). Karena kata kerja pada anak kalimat berbentuk lampau (found),
maka kata kerja yang dibutuhkan berbentuk past continuous (was/were+verb-ing).
NOMOR 24 – 30
Tampa,
Florida, owes a great deal of its growth and prosperity to a Cuban cigar
manufacturer named Vicente martinez Ybor. When civil war broke out in 1869, he
was forced to flee his country, and he moved his business to south Florida.
Sixteen years later, labor union problems in Key West caused him to seek a
better location along the west coast of the state. He bought a forty-acre tract
of land and made plans to set up his cigar factory on the site. This original
sixteen-block stretch of land later expanded to one hundred acres near Tampa.
This newly developed area was called Ybor City in his honor. Spanish, Italian,
and Cuban immigrants flocked to the area as the demand for workers in the cigar
factory increased. One fifth of the city’s twenty thousand resident enjoyed the
high-paying jobs there. At the end of the 1800s, Jose Marti, a Cuban poet and
freedom fighter, organized a revolution from Ybor City and managed to get
considerable support for his movement. Teddy Roosevelt’s “Rough Riders” were
stationed there during the Spanish-American War in 1898. Much of the prosperity
of this region is due to Ybor’s cigar factory established more than one hundred
years ago.
24.
Where is Ybor City located?
A. South
Florida
B. Cuba
C. West
Florida
D. Marti
Jawaban : C
Penjelasan:
Soal ini menanyakan di mana lokasi Ybor City. Dari kalimat "Sixteen years
later, labor union problems in Key West caused him to seek a better location
along the west coast of the state" dapat diketahui bahwa lokasi dari Ybor
City terletak di West Florida.
25.
The word “flee” in line 4 means most nearly the same as
A. Escape
B. Return
to
C. Fight
D. Disembody
Jawaban : A
Penjelasan:
"Flee" merupakan sinonim dari "escape" yang bermakna
meninggalkan atau meloloskan diri dari .
26.
The word “seek” in line 6 is closest in meaning to
A. Purchase
B. Pursue
C. Elude
D. Develop
Jawaban : B
Penjelasan:
"Seek" mempunyai makna yang sama dengan kata pursue bermakna
mencari.
27.
Why will people probably continue to remember Ybor’s name?
A. He
suffered a great deal
B. An
area was named in his honor
C. He
was a Cuban revolutionary
D. He
was forced to flee his homeland
Jawaban : B
Penjelasan:
Dari bacaan dapat diduga / disimpulkan bahwa Ybor akan dikenang karena nama
Ybor City diagkat atas penghormatan terhadap Ybor (An area was named in his
honor).
28.
In line 12, the word “flocked” is closest in meaning to
A. Came
in large numbers
B. Escaped
hurriedly
C. Increased
rapidly
D. Prospered
greatly
Jawaban : A
Penjelasan:
"Flocked" dalam klaimat tersebut bermakna "came in large
numbers."
29.
In the early years, how many residents of Ybor City worked in the cigar factory
A. 4,000
B. 5,000
C. 10,000
D. 20,000
Jawaban : A
Penjelasan:
Jawaban soal ini bisa didapatkan dari kalimat "One fifth of the
city’s twenty thousand residents enjoyed the high-paying jobs
there." one fifth of twenty thousands (1/5 x 20,000) = four thousand
(4,000).
30.
What is the best title for the passage?
A. The
Spanish-American War
B. Cuban
Contributions in the Development of Ybor City
C. Ybor’s
Contribution to developing part of the Tampa Area
D. The
Process of Cigar Manufacturing
Jawaban : C
Penjelasan:
Secara keseluruhan bisa dilihat reading di atas membahas terkait "Ybor’s
Contribution to developing part of the Tampa Area."
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