Strategic reading comprehension in TOEFL

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READING COMPREHENSION

Reading Comprehension in TOEFL is test for know about your capacity in understand, translate and analysia the text about academic’s topic which get at textbook in university. In the many topic of reading in TOEFL to connect with biology, chemical, geography, physics, American history, biography, economy, and art.

Strategy to Answer Reading Comprehension

1.     Read the question and understand for mean, then search the answer in the text

2.    Don’t read text from first until finish. This is just to waste of the time.

3.    You mayn’t focus with frasa which you can understand about the meaning

4.    Try to suspect meaning because time which you have is very short.

5.    Try to suspect where the good answer, if you can’t find the good answer, you must choose the answer.

Example :

The food we eat seems to have profound effects on our health. Althougt science has made enormous steps in making food more fit to eat, it has, at the same time, made many foods unfit to eat. Some research has shown that perhaps eighty percent of all human illnesses are related to diet and forty percent of cancer is related to diet as well, especially cancer of the calon. People of different cultures are more prone to contract certain illnesses because of the characteristic foods they consume.

That food is related to illness is not a new discovery. In 1945, government researchers realized that nitrates and nitrites (commonly used to persevere color in meats) as well as other food additives caused cancer. Yet, these carcinogenic additives remain in our food, and it becomes more difficult all the time to know which ingredients on the packaging labels of processed food are helpful or harmful.

The additives that we eat are not all so direct. Farmers often give penicilin to cattle and poultry, and because of this, penicillin has been found in the milk of treated cows. Sometimes similar drugs are administered to animals not for medicinal purposes, but for financial reasons. The farmers are simply trying to fatten the animal in order to obtain a higger price on the market. Although the food and drug administration (FDA) has tried repeatedly to control these procedures, the practices continue.

Ahealthy diet is directly related to good health. Often we are unaware of the detrimental substances we ingest. Sometimes well-meaning farmers or others who do not realize the consequences add these substances to food without our knowledge.

1.     How has science done a disservice to people ?

a.    Because of science, disease caused by contamiated food has been virtually eradicated

b.    It has caused a lack of information concerning the value of food

c.    As a result of scientific intervention,  some potentially harmful substances have been added to our food

d.    The scientists have preserved the color of meats, but not of vegetables

Answer     : C

2.    The word “prone” in line 6 is nearest in meaning to...

A.   Supine

B.    Unlikely

C.    Healthy

D.   Predisposed

Answer     : D