Perlu Anda tahu bahwa semua jawaban sudah tersedia di dalam bacaan, baik secara implisit atau eksplisit. Walaupun begitu, Anda tidak akan diuji mengenai pengatahuan dalam topik itu, tetapi yang akan diujii adalah tentang kemampuan reading Anda. Pada sesi Reading, Anda akan disajikan beberapa bacaan dengan berbagai topik atau tema dari disiplin ilmu yang berbeda- beda. This passage would probably be read in which of the following academic courses? (A) European history (B) American literature (C) Current events (D) International affairs Jawab: (B) American literature Keyword: substance of American literature Pembahasan: Bagian ini mungkin akan dibaca di mana di kelas sastra Amerika. All of the following can be inferred from the passage about the new literature EXCEPT (A) it was not highly regarded Internationally (B) it introduced new american themes, characters, and settings (C) itbrokewithmanyliterarytraditionsofthepast (D) it spoke to the issue of reform and change Jawab: (A) it was not highly regarded internationally Keyword: 50 did its literature establish itself Pembahasan: Simpulan di atas adalah benar tentang “new literature” literatur baru kecuali sangat tidak dihargai secara internasional (It was not highly regarded internationally). It can be inferred from the passage that Walt Whitman (A) disliked urban life (B) was disapproving of the new literature (C) wrote Leaves of Grass (D) was an international diplomat Jawab: (C) wrote Leaves of Grass Keyword: in describing Leaves of Grass Keyword: in describing Leaves of Grass Pembahasan: Hal yang dapat disimpulkan tentang Walt Whitman adalah menulis Leaves of Grass. The word “exotic” is closest in meaning to (A) urban (B) unusual (C) well-known (D) old-fashioned Jawab: (B) unusual Keyword Pembahasan Keyword: exotic places and remote times Pembahasan: Kata “exotic” = eksotis arti yang terdekat unusual = tidak biasa. (A) the population (B) the energy (C) American literature (D) the manufacturing Jawab: (C) American literature Keyword: the spirit a nd substance of American literature Keyword: the spirit and substance of American literature Pembahasan: Kata “it” mengacu pada sastra Amerika (American literature). The main idea of this passage is (A) that the new American literature was less provincial than the old (B) that World War I caused a dramatic change in America (C) that centers of culture shifted from East to West (D) that most people were wary of the new literature Jawab: (A) that the new American literature was less provinci al Keyword: were accompanied by the development of a national literature Pembahasan: Gagasan utama dari bacaan ini adalah sastra Amerika baru kurang kedaerahan dari yang lawas (that the new American literature was less provincial than the old). Just as America learned to play a role in this half century as an autonomous international political, economic, and military power, so did its literature establish itself as a producer of major works. In sum, American literature in these years fulfilled in considerable measure the condition Walt Whitman called for inl867 in describing Leaves of Grass: It treats, he said of his own major work, each state and region as peers “and expands from them, and includes the world connecting an American citizen with the citizens of all nations.” At the same time, these years saw the emergence of what has been designated “the literature of argument,” powerful works in sociology, philosophy, psychology, many of them impelled by the spirit of exposur e and reform. No longer was it produced, at least in its popular forms, in the main by solemn, typically moralistic men from New England and the Old South no longer were polite, well-dressed, grammatically correct, middle-class young people the only central characters in its narratives no longer were these narratives to be set in exotic places and remote times no longer, indeed, were fiction, poetry, drama, and formal history the chief acceptable forms of literary expression no longer, finally, was literature read primarily by young, middle class women. As a result, at the onset of World War I, the spirit and substance of American literature had evolved remarkably, just as its center of production had shifted from Boston to New York In the late 1880s and the sources of its energy to Chicago and the Midwest. Line New themes, new forms, new subjects, new regions, new authors, new audiences all emerged in the literature of this half century. 50 Contoh Soal TOEFL Reading Comprehension Lengkap dengan Kunci Jawaban dan Pembahasan Part B Reading Comprehension Passage 5 This rapid transcontinental settlement and these new urban industrial circumstances of the last half of the 19“’ century were accomp anied by the development of a national literature of great abundance and variety.
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