Name : Novita Fitri Annisa (18301241001)

Class : Mathematics Education A (Pendidikan Matematika A)

TOEFL – Reading Comprehension Test 1

1. B) Peculiar
2. A) The banana genus may not yet be classifiable into a traditional category
3. C) To suggest that duplication of chromosomes in a rare and interesting occurrence in the
plant world
4. A) It suggests that the banana mutated its genetic structure for survival
5. D) Adopted
6. A) Bananas may be an example of ways that species might alter their genetics to survive
changes in the earth’s climate and atmosphere
7. C) Bananas reproduced widely and easily through fertilization
8. A) Random
9. B) Dolus mundi
10. C) Adapted for human consumption

Activity 1
1. 50-75%
2. 5-7 pieces of information
3. C. Associated pieces of information
4. C. Government – politics
5. A. Main points – sub points
6. Other memory techniques

Exercise 1
History students who had engaged in
1%
role-play.
History students who had experienced
2%
field trips.
History students who said that they felt
6% competent at writing essays, the staple
A level assessment activity.
History students who felt their A-level
13% course had prepared them very well for
work at university.
History students who had used
16%
video/audio.
History students who claimed to have
made significant use of primary
30%
sources and had mostly been in
connection with project work.
History students who felt their A-level
¾ course had prepared them fairly well
for work at university.
History students who reported that
86% their teachers had been more
influential in their development as
 historians than the students’ own
reading and thinking.

Exercise 2
1. The word it in line 3 refers to Mean.
2. The term ascending order in line 9 refers to ranking the set elements from the lowest
value to the highest.
3. The summary of the text is given in line 1 (There are three measures of central
tendency that are usually used in statistics.).
4. The word lastly (line 13) is used to introduce the final point of the list.
5. The word bi-modal in line 12 means when two values occur with the same frequency,
there are two modals in the set.

Exercise 3
1. The difference offered salary between bachelor and doctorate degree in a 2003 survey is
$13.047.
2. The average first salary of doctorate degrees per month is $4.623,75.