Dreamer Extraordinare: April 2019

BAHASA INGGRIS BISNIS 2

LISTENING COMPREHENSION

Nama :

Syendi Nazera T

Kelas :

4KA13

NPM :

16115775

UNIVERSITAS GUNADARMA

PART A

1. a. He'll correct the exams this afternoon.

b. The exam will be at noon.

c. He will collect the exams at 12:00.

d. The tests will be graded by noon.

2. a. Martha applied for a visa last month.

b. Martha's visa will last for only a month. c. Martha arrived last month without her visa.

d. One month ago Martha got her visa.

3 3. a. The professor described what the students should do.

b. There was a long line to register for the required class.

c. It is a requirement for each professor to teach at least one course.

d. The professor required the class to prepare an outline.

4. a. Chuck had improved.

b. This visit was better than the last.

c. Chuck looked at him in the hospital.

d. Chuck didn't seem to be doing very well.

5. a. She thinks the tuition should be raised. b. The semester's tuition is quite affordable.

c. She doesn't have enough money for her school fees.

d. She has more than enough for tuition.

6. a. He thinks he got a good grade.

b. The history grades were all C or above.

c. No one got history grades.

d. There were no high scores.

7. a. The parking lots were full before 10:00.

b. It was impossible to start class by10:00. c. He parked the car before class at

d. The possibility of finding a place to park increased

8. a. she's found a new ring

b. she needs to help him find something

c. she's shopping for a carpet

d. she's thankful she has a rag

9. a. in a department store

b. in a bank

c. in an accounting firm

d. In a checkout line

10. a. jane usually visits san francisco fo he vacations

b. jane's cousin often visits san francisco

c. whenever there's holiday, jane's cousin goes to san francisco

d. whenever there's a holiday, jane leaves san francisco

11. a. he'd really like tik have sometyhing to eat.

b. because he's weak, he can't eat.

c. it's been weeks since he's had anything to eat

d. he hasn't felt like eating for weeks

12. a. traffic should not be allowed

b. she thinks that the traffic should stay outside

c. she agrees that the traffic is noisy

d. she'll stay outside with the man

13. a. the headings for today's reading assignment

b. the chance to make the headlines.

c. her reading ability

d. the daily newspaper

14. a. the bus trip is only five minutes long

b. the man missed the bus by five minutes

c. the man should hurry to catch the bus

d. the bus was five minutes late

15. a. it's not possible to pass the class

b. she'll definitely fail

c. it's always possible

d. she shouldn't say anything about the class

16. a. she gave tom money to pay the rent

b. she was given money for the rent

c. tom borrowed money for the rent

d. she had some money to lend

17. a. the cake is extremelt good

b. he never tasted the cake

c. he wished he hadn't tasted the cake

d. the cake has never been very good

18. a. at the corner she ran into another car

b. she ran to carl because she cared

c. she unexpectedly met one of her relatives

d. carl was running from place to place

19. a. she shouldn't leave her purse here

b. she's probably in the apartment

c. she left without taking her purse

d. she left without taking her purse

20. a. the landlord failed to collect ren on the first of last moth

b. the tenants absolutely must pay rent at the beginning of the month

c. the landlord will not fail to collect your rent on the first of next month

d. it is important to call the landlord about rent on the forst of the month

ANSWER :

DAFTAR PUSTAKA

http://berita-english.blogspot.com/2014/01/download-soal-listening-toefl-kunci-jawaban-pdf-audio.html

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BAHASA INGGRIS BISNIS 2

READING COMPREHENSION

Nama :

Syendi Nazera T

Kelas :

4KA13

NPM :

16115775

UNIVERSITAS GUNADARMA

Questions 1-5

A distinctively American architecture began with Frank Lloyd Wright, who had taken to heart the admonition that form should follow function and who thought of buildings not as separate architectural entities but as parts of an organic whole that included the land, the community, and the society. In a very real way the houses of colonial New England and some of the southern plantations had been functional, but Wright was the ﬁrst architect to make functionalism the authoritative principle for public as well as for domestic buildings. As early as 1906 he built the Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois, the ﬁrst of those churches that did so much to revolutionize ecclesiastical architecture in the United States. Thereafter he turned his genius to such miscellaneous structures as houses, schools, oﬃce buildings, and factories, among them the famous Larkin Building in Buffalo, New York, and the Johnson Wax Company building in Racine, Wisconsin.

1. The phrase “taken to heart” in line 1 is closest in meaning to which of the following?

(A) Taken seriously

(B) Criticized

(D) Taken offence

2. In what way did Wright’s public buildings differ from most of those built by earlier architects?

(A) They were built on a larger scale.

(B) Their materials came from the southern United States.

(D) Their designs were based on how they would be used.

3. The author mentions the Unity Temple because, it

(A) was Wright’s ﬁrst building

(B) inﬂuenced the architecture of subsequent churches

(D) was the largest church Wright ever designed

4. The passage mentions that all of the following structures were built by Wright EXCEPT

(A) factories

(B) public buildings

(D) southern plantations

5. Which of the following statements best reﬂects one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural principles?

(A) Beautiful design is more important than utility.

(B) Ecclesiastical architecture should be derived from traditional designs.

(D) The architecture of public buildings does not need to be revolutionary

Questions 6-16

There are two basic types of glaciers, those that ﬂow outward in all directions with little regard for any underlying terrain and those that are conﬁned by terrain to a particular path.

The ﬁrst category of glaciers includes those massive blankets that cover whole continents, appropriately called ice sheets. There must be over 50,000 square kilometers of land covered with ice for the glacier to qualify as an ice sheet. When portions of an ice sheet spread out over the ocean, they form ice shelves.

About 20,000 years ago the Cordilleran Ice Sheet covered nearly all the mountains in southern Alaska, western Canada, and the western United States. It was about 3 kilometers deep at its thickest point in northern Alberta. Now there are only two sheets left on Earth, those covering Greenland and Antarctica.

Any domelike body of ice that also ﬂows out in all directions but covers less than 50,000 square kilometers is called an ice cap. Although ice caps are rare nowadays, there are a number in northeastern Canada, on Baﬃn Island, and on the Queen Elizabeth Islands.

The second category of glaciers includes those of a variety of shapes and sizes generally called mountain or alpine glaciers. Mountain glaciers are typically identiﬁed by the landform that controls their ﬂow. One form of mountain glacier that resembles an ice cap in that it ﬂows outward in several directions is called an ice ﬁeld. The difference between an ice ﬁeld and an ice cap is subtle. Essentially, the ﬂow of an ice ﬁeld is somewhat controlled by surrounding terrain and thus does not have the domelike shape of a cap. There are several ice ﬁelds in the Wrangell. St. Elias, and Chugach mountains of Alaska and northern British Columbia.

Less spectacular than large ice ﬁelds are the most common types of mountain glaciers: the cirque and valley glaciers. Cirque glaciers are found in depressions in the surface of the land and have a characteristic circular shape. The ice of valley glaciers, bound by terrain, ﬂows down valleys, curves around their corners, and falls over cliffs.

6. What does the passage mainly discuss?

(A) Where major glaciers are located

(B) How glaciers shape the land

(D) The different kinds of glaciers

7. The word “massive” in line 3 is closest in meaning to

(A) huge

(B) strange

(D) recent

8. It can be inferred that ice sheets are so named for which of the following reasons?

(A) They are conﬁned to mountain valleys.

(B) They cover large areas of land.

(D) They have a characteristic circular shape.

9. According to the passage, ice shelves can be found

(A) covering an entire continent

(B) buried within the mountains

(D) ﬁlling deep valleys

10. According to the passage, where was the Cordilleran Ice Sheet thickest?

(A) Alaska

(B) Greenland

(D) Antarctica

11. The word “rare” in line 12 is closest in meaning to

(A) small

(B) unusual

(D) widespread

12. According to the passage (paragraph 5), ice ﬁelds resemble ice caps in which of the following ways?

(A) Their shape

(B) Their ﬂow

(D) Their location

13. The word “it” in line 16 refers to

(A) glacier

(B) cap

(D) terrain

14. The word “subtle” in line 17 is closest in meaning to

(A) slight

(B) common

(D) measurable

15. All of the following are alpine glaciers EXCEPT

(A) cirque glaciers

(B) ice caps

(D) ice ﬁelds

16. Which of the following types of glaciers does the author use to illustrate the two basic types of glaciers mentioned in line 1?

(A) Ice ﬁelds and cirques

(B) Cirques and alpine glaciers

(D) Ice sheets and mountain glaciers

Questions 17-26

Tools andhand bones excavated from the Swartkrans cave complex in South Africa suggest that a close relative of early humans known as Australopithecus robustus may have made and used primitive tools long before the species became extinct I million Line years ago. It may even have made and used primitive tools long before humanity’s direct ancestor, Homo habilis, or “handy man,” began doing so. Homo habilis and its successor, Homo erectus, coexisted with Australopithecus robustus on the plains of South Africa for more than a million years.

The Swartkrans cave in South Africa has been under excavation since the 1940’s. The earliest fossil-containing layers of sedimentary rock in the cave date from about 1.9 million years ago and contain extensive remains of animals, primitive tools, and two or more species of apelike hominids. The key recent discovery involved bones from the hand of Australopithecus robustus, the ﬁrst time such bones have been found.

The most important feature of the Australopithecus robustus hand was the pollical distal thumb tip, the last bone in the thumb. The bone had an attachment point for a “uniquely human” muscle, the ﬂexor pollicis longus, that had previously been found only in more recent ancestors. That muscle gave Australopithecus robustutJ an opposable thumb, a feature that would allow them to grip objects, including tools. The researchers also found primitive bone and stone implements, especially digging tools, in the same layers of sediments.

Australopithecus robustus were more heavily built- more “robust” in anthropological terms-than their successors. They had broad faces, heavy jaws, and massive crushing and grinding teeth that were used for eating hard fruits, seeds, and ﬁbrous underground plant parts. They walked upright, which would have allowed them to carry and use tools. Most experts had previously believed that Homo habilis were able to supplant Australopithecus robustus because the former’s ability to use tools gave them an innate superiority. The discovery that Australopithecus robustus also used tools means that researchers will have to seek other explanations for their extinction. Perhaps their reliance on naturally occurring plants led to their downfall as the climate became drier and cooler, or perhaps Homo habilis, with their bigger brains, were simply able tomake more sophisticated tools.

17. It can be inferred from the ﬁrst paragraph that all of the following may have made and used tools EXCEPT.

(A) Australopithecus robustus

(B) Homo erectus

(D) Australopithecus robustus’ ancestors

18. The word “extensive” in line 9 is closest in meaning to

(A) numerous

(B) exposed

(D) valuable

19. Which of the following does the author mention as the most important recent discovery made in the Swartkrans cave?

(A) Tools

(B) Teeth

(D) Hand bones

20. What does the third paragraph ‘mainly discuss?

(A) Features of Australopithecus robustus’ hand

(B) Purposes for which hominids used tools

(D) Signiﬁcant plant fossils found in layers of sediment

ANSWER :

1. The phrase “taken to heart” in line 1 is closest in meaning to which of the following?
Jawab : A → Taken seriously
Pembahasan : Frasa taken to heart adalah bentuk ungkapan idiomatik dan memiliki arti “melakukan dengan sepenuh hati/serius”.

2. In what way did Wright’s public buildings differ from most of those built by earlier architects?
Jawab : D → Their designs were based on how they would be used.
Pembahasan : Pada kalimat “…that form should follow function…” menunjukkan bahwa desain seharusnya berdasarkan pada fungsinya, untuk apa nantinya bangunan itu digunakan dan jawaban yang demikian ditemukan di pilihan D.

3. The author mentions the Unity Temple because, it
Jawab : B → inﬂuenced the architecture of subsequent churches
Pembahasan : Pada kalimat “…the ﬁrst of those churches that did so much to revolutionize ecclesiastical architecture in the United States” menyatakan bahwa bangunan itu sangat mempengaruhi desain bangunan-bangunan selanjutnya. Jawaban yang mengandung ide serupa ada pada pilihan B.

4. The passage mentions that all of the following structures were built by Wright EXCEPT
Jawab : D → southern plantations
Pembahasan : Pada kalimat terakhir jelas bahwa oﬃces, factories dan public building, termasuk churches adalah karyanya. Sedangkan South Plantations bukanlah hasil karyanya karena sudah didesain oleh orang terdahulu seperti yang disebutkan dalam bacaan.

5. Which of the following statements best reﬂects one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural principles?
Jawab : C → A building should ﬁt into its surroundings.
Pembahasan : Kalimat “…as parts of an organic whole that included the land, the community, and the society” menyatakan bahwa bangunan seharusnya dianggap sebagai bagian dari keseluruhan lingkungan dan masyarakat sekitarnya sehingga dengan kata lain bangunan tersebut harus sesuai dengan lingkungannya.

6. What does the passage mainly discuss?
Jawab : D → The different kinds of glaciers
Pembahasan : Ide pokok teks di atas dapat ditemukan pada paragraf pertama kalimat pertama yang menjelaskan dua jenis gletser yang berbeda dan selanjutnya masing-masing dijelaskan lebih lanjut pada paragraf berikutnya.

7. The word “massive” in line 3 is closest in meaning to
Jawab : A → huge
Pembahasan : Padanan kata massive adalah huge (sangat besar).

8. It can be inferred that ice sheets are so named for which of the following reasons?
Jawab : B → They cover large areas of land.
Pembahasan : Frasa whole continents pada kalimat those massive blankets that cover whole continents appropriately called ice sheet menunjukkan bahwa daratan yang tertutup gletser mencakup wilayah yang sangat luas, hampir keseluruhan daratan.

9. According to the passage, ice shelves can be found
Jawab : C → spreading into the ocean
Pembahasan : Jawaban dapat ditemukan pada kalimat terakhir paragraf kedua bahwa jika ice sheet tersebar (spread out) di lautan akan terbentuk ice shelves.

10. According to the passage, where was the Cordilleran Ice Sheet thickest?
Jawab : C → Alberta
Pembahasan : Jawaban dapat ditemukan pada baris ke-8: it was about 3 kilometers deep at its thickest point in northern Alberta.

11. The word “rare” in line 11 is closest in meaning to
Jawab : B → unusual
Pembahasan : Rare berarti jarang atau tidak biasa ditemukan sehingga jawaban yang paling mendekati arti dari rare adalah unusual.

12. According to the passage (paragraph 5), ice ﬁelds resemble ice caps in which of the following ways?
Jawab : B → Their ﬂow
Pembahasan : Kalimat Mountain glaciers are typically identiﬁed by the landform that controls their ﬂow dan dijelaskan lebih lanjut pada kalimat One form of mountain glacier that resembles an ice cap in that it ﬂows outward in several directions is called an ice ﬁeld menunjukkan bahwa pembentukan ice caps dipengaruhi oleh alirannya (their ﬂow).

13. The word “it” in line 15 refers to
Jawab : A → glacier
Pembahasan : It pada kalimat di atas merujuk pada mountain glacier atau gletser.

14. The word ”subtle” in line 16 is closest in meaning to
Jawab : A → slight
Pembahasan : Padanan kata subtle adalah slight yang keduanya memiliki arti “tipis, halus, atau sedikit”.

15. All of the following are alpine glaciers EXCEPT
Jawab : B → ice caps
Pembahasan : Jenis alpine/mountain glacier adalah ice ﬁelds, cirque glaciers dan valley glaciers yang semuanya dipengaruhi oleh aliran dan tidak memiliki domelike cap seperti ice caps.

16. Which of the following types of glaciers does the author use to illustrate the two basic types of glaciers mentioned in line 1?
Jawab : D → Ice sheets and mountain glaciers
Pembahasan : Ada dua jenis gletser yaitu ice sheet yang mengalir keluar ke segala arah dan mountain glacier yang arah alirannya terbatas hanya di aliran tertentu.

17. It can be inferred from the ﬁrst paragraph that all of the following may have made and used tools EXCEPT
Jawab : D → Australopithecus robustus’ ancestors
Pembahasan : Paragraf di atas menjelaskan bahwa alat-alat primitif itu mulai digunakan oleh Australophitecus robustus bersama-sama dengan Homo Habilis dan penerusnya, Homo erectus. Berarti yang bukan adalah nenek moyang Australophitecus robustus.

18. The word “extensive” in line 9 is
Jawab : A → numerous
Pembahasan : Extensive memiliki arti luas atau dalam jumlah besar sehingga kata yang paling dekat artinya dengan kata tersebut adalah numerous.

19. Which of the following does the author mention as the most important recent discovery made in the Swartkrans cave?
Jawab : D → Hand bones
Pembahasan : Jawaban tersebut bisa dilihat pada paragraf 2 kalimat The key recent discovery involved bones from the hand of Australopithecus robustus, the ﬁrst time such bones have been found yang menyatakan bahwa penemuan yang paling penting adalah hand bones.

20. What does the third paragraph ‘mainly discuss?
Jawab : A → Features of Australopithecus robustus’ hand
Pembahasan : Jawaban sangat jelas ditemukan pada kalimat pertama paragraf tersebut yaitu membahas tentang ciri (feature) dari Australopithecus robustus.

DAFTAR PUSTAKA
http://www.geniustoefl.com/artikel-ilmu-kunci-toefl/artikel/reading-comprehension/contoh-soal-pembahasan-reading-comprehension-tes-toefl

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