All About TOEFL

DEFINISI TOEFL

TOEFL merupakan singkatan dari Test Of English as a Foreign Language. Toefl adalah standardisasi kemampuan bahasa inggris seseorang secara tertulis yang meliputi tiga aspek penguasaan: Listening, Writing dan Reading.
TUJUAN TOEFL
Toefl memiliki dua tujuan umum yaitu: Academic dan General.
  1. Tujuan akademik TOEFL adalah untuk tujuan pendidikan, penelitian atau yang berhubungan dengan kegiatan akademis di luar negeri, ataupun di Indonesia. Untuk paska sarjana, biasanya nilai minimal adalah 550 sedangkan untuk S1 adalah 500.
  2. Tujuan umum (general) pada umumnya digunakan dalam bidang pekerjaan, kenaikan pangkat atau tugas kerja. Banyak perusahaan yang memasang standar bahasa inggris karyawannya dengan melihat nilai TOEFL. Umumnya, nilai TOEFL minimal adalah 500 untuk kenaikan pangkat standar.
Awalnya TOEFL hanya diperuntukkan bagi pelajar/mahasiswa di negara-negara yang bahasa utama di negaranya bukan bahasa Inggris, namun ingin melanjutkan studi ke negara-negara yang menggunakan bahasa Inggris sebagai bahasa resminya, seperti negara-negara di Eropa, Amerika dan Kanada.
Test TOEFL digunakan untuk memastikan pelajar/mahasiswa dari negara yang bahasa kesehariannya bukan bahasa Inggris, tetap dapat mengikuti perkuliahan di negara tujuan yang menggunakan bahasa Inggris. Sehingga pelajar/mahasiswa tersebut diharapkan :
  • Memahami uraian yang diberikan dosen dalam bahasa Inggris (listening skill).
  • Memahami buku-buku textbook yang diwajibkan (reading skill).
  • Mampu membuat tulisan ilmiah dengan tatabahasa yang benar (writing & grammar skill).
CONTOH SOAL TOEFL
1. He ..bacon and eggs every morning.
A. is used to eat                           C. has been used to eating
B. hadused to eat                         D. use to eating    
Jawaban C
2. I use to play tennis when i was teenager
    a. Use
    b. Play
    c. When
    d. Was
Jawaban A
3. The team really looks good tonight because the coach had them.. every night this week.
A. Practice                                       C. practiced
B. to practice                                   D. the practice
Jawaban A
4. The scientist have invention computer that is almost human
    a. Scientist
    b. Have
    c. Invention
    d. That
Jawaban C
5. You…. your seatstodau if you want to go to the game.
A. had better to reserve            C. had to better reserve
B. had better reserve                  D. had to reserve better
Jawaban B
6. I can't remember where do I put the new book
   a. Remember
   b. Do
   c. Put
   d. Book
Jawaban B
7. Your sister used to visit you quite often
A. didn’t she                                    C. wouldn’t she
B. doesn’t she                                  D. hadn’t she
Jawaban A
8. I have the longer hair of all students in this room
   a. Have
   b. Longer
   c. Hair
   d. Room
Jawaban B
9. Mr. Reagan was… the long chain of unfortunate events
A. the first to break                      C. firstly broken
B. the first breaking                     D. breaking the first
Jawaban A
10. All student  study English diligently inside the classroom
   a. Student
   b. Study
   c. Diligently
   d. Inside
Jawaban A
11. Platinum is harder than copper and is almost as pliable __________.
   a. gold
   b. than gold
   c. as gold
   d.  gold is
Jawaban C
12. Although she is very popular, she is not…her sister.
A. more pretty than                    C. pretty as
B. as pretty like                           D. prettier than
Jawaban D
13. I will return your notes assoon as …copying them.
A. I will finish                                  C. i finish
B. I do finish                                   D.I finished
Jawaban C
14. I like these dises, but…is a little too small
A. the tea cup                                C.thetea’s cup
B. cup of tea                                   D. thecup for the tea
Jawaban A
15. A number of the materials used in manufacturing paint are potential dangerous if mishandled.
      a. a number of
      b. are
      c. potensial
      d. if mishandled
Jawaban C
16. In 1791, Quebec was divided into two sections, Upper Canada and Lower Canada, _____________ were ruled by     elected assemblies.
         a. they both
         b. both of them
         c. in which both
         d. both of which
Jawaban D
17. This university’s program ______________those of Harvard.
      a.  Come second after
      b. Are second only to
      c. Are first except for
      d. Are in second place from
Jawaban : b. Are Second only to
Grammar : present progressive tense

18. The more she worked, ________________
       a. The less she achieved
       b. She did not achieve enough
       c. She achieved not enough
       d. She was achieving less
Jawaban : a. the less she achieved
Grammar : Derivation

19. _________________ the best car to buy is a Mercedes Benz.
        a. Because of its durability and economy
        b. Because it lasts a long time, and it is very economical
        c. Because of its durability and it is economical
        d. Because durably and economy wise it is better than all the others.
Jawaban : a. because of its durability and economy
Grammar : Adverbial clause of Reason

20. When James arrived home after a hard day at work, ___________________
       a. His wife was sleeping
       b. His wife slept
       c. His wife has slept
       d. His wife has been sleeping
Jawaban : a. His wife was sleeping
Grammar : Gerund
Sumber :
http://jefryandica.blogspot.com/2012/04/soal-toefl-dan-pembahasannya.html



1. A three-foot octopus can crawl through a hole  ------ in diameter.
  (A) than one inch less
  (B) less than one inch
  (C) one less inch than
  (D) tan less one inch

2. ------adopted the decimal system of coinage in 1867.
  (A) Canada
  (B) When Canada
  (C) Canada, which
  (D) There was Canada

3. Generally, the representatives ------ a legislature
  are constitutionally elected by a broad spectrum
  of the population.
  (A) who they compose
  (B) who compose
  (C) had compose
  (D) compose

4. The Actor’s Studio, a professional actors’
  workshop in New York City, provides
  ------where actors can work together without the
  pressure of commercial production.
  (A) a place and
  (B) a place
  (C) so that a place
  (D) a place is

5. ------ that life began billions of years ago in the
   water.
  (A) It is believed
  (B) In the belief
  (C) The belief
  (D) Believing

6. by 1872 the United States had 70 engineering
  colleges, ------ astonishing expansion credited
  largely to the Morrill Act of 1862.
  (A) because
  (B) an
  (C) to which
  (D) was

7. The artist Romare Bcarden was ------ whose
  yellows, deep blues, and fuchsias contrasted
  strongly with photographic gray in his bright
  collages.
  (A) with a gift for color
  (B) a gifted colorist
  (C) a gift with colorful
  (D) gifted with coloring

8. The most important chemical catalyst on this
  planet is chlorophyll, -------carbon dioxide and water react to form carbohydrates.
  (A) whose presence
  (B) which is present
  (C) presenting
  (D) in the presence of which

9. One theory of the origin of the universe is
  -------from the explosion of a tiny, extremely
  dense fireball several billion years ago. 
  (A) because what formed
  (B) the formation that
  (C) that it formed
  (D) when forming

10. Roads in the United States remained crude,
   ------- with graved or wood planks, until the
   beginning of the twentieth century.
   (A) were unsurefaced or they covered them
   (B) which unsureface or covered
   (C) unsurfaced or covered them
   (D) unsurfaced or covered

11. portrait prints were the first reproductions of
 American paintings ------- widely distributed in
 the United States.
   (A) were
   (B) that which
   (C) that being
   (D) to be

12. Abigail Adams was prodigious letter writer,
   ------- many editions of her letters have been
   published.
   (A) who
   (B) and
   (C) in addition to
   (D) due to

13. In geometry, an ellipse may be defined as
   the locus of all points -------distances from
   two fixed points is constant.
   (A) which as the sum of
   (B) of the sum which
   (C) whose sum of whose
   (D) whose sum that the

14. -------at the site of a fort established by the
   Northwest Mounted Police, Calgary is now one
   of Canada’s fastest growing cities. 
   (A) Built
   (B) It is built
   (C) To build
   (D) Having built

15. An image on a national flag can symbolize
   political ideals that -------express.
   (A) take many words to otherwise would.
   (B) would take to many otherwise words
   (C) many words to take would otherwise
   (D) would otherwise take many words to

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