Tips & Trick TOEFL Reading tentang Recognizing the Organization of Ideas

Tips & Trick TOEFL Reading tentang Recognizing the Organization of Ideas

Dalam pembahasan kali ini, kita akan bahas suatu ‘hubungan’. Tenang, tenang…. Disini kita tidak akan membahas tentang hubungan jarak jauh (LDR) apalagi hubungan tanpa status yang nggak jelas kemana arahnya. Disini kita akan belajar tentang hubungan antar setiap paragraf dan mengetahui keterkaitan antara paragraf tersebut untuk mengetahui arah kemana suatu teks itu akan dibawa apakah teks tersebut membicarakan hubungan pertentangan, sebab akibat, dsb. Dengan kata lain, disini kita akan belajar bagaimana ide dalam sebuah teks diurutkan dalam beberapa paragraf yang berhubungan satu sama lain. Sekarang, skuyyy lihat contoh berikut ini :

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Text 1

If asked who invented the game of baseball, most Americans would probably reply that it was their belief that Abner Doubleday did. They believe this because the story Line about Doubleday is part of the tradition of baseball.

Doubleday was given credit for this invention early in the twentieth century when sporting-goods manufacturer Spaulding inaugurated a commission to research the question of who invented baseball. In 1908, a report was published by the commission in which Abner Doubleday, a U.S. Army officer from Cooperstown, New York, was given credit for the invention of the game. The National Baseball Hall of Fame was established in Cooperstown in honor of Doubleday.

Today, most sports historians are in agreement that Doubleday really did not have much to do with the development of baseball. Instead, baseball seems to be a close relative of the English game of rounders and probably has English rather than American roots.

Pertanyaan :

In this passage ___

(A) an idea is presented and then refuted
(B) a concept is followed by examples
(C) a cause is followed by an effect
(D) a belief is supported with reasons

Pertanyaan diatas menunjukkan bagaimana suatu informasi dalam suatu teks diurutkan dalam paragraf dan bagaimana hubungannya berkaitan antara satu paragraf dengan paragraf lain. Nah, untuk menjawab pertanyaan seperti ini, kita perlu melihat dulu main idea dari masing-masing paragraf.

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Sekarang, coba temukan apa main idea dari masing-masing paragraf diatas!

Paragraf 1

Main Idea :

Paragraf 2

Main Idea :

Paragraf 3 :

Main Idea

Setelah, itu coba simpulkan ada hubungan apakah diantara masing-masing paragraf tersebut, lalu coba jawab pilihan ganda dari contoh soal diatas. Apa jawabanmu??? J Jawaban akan dibahas selanjutnya di Grup Whatsapp Toefl Corner April 2020.

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Reference 

Phillips, Deborah. 2001. Longman Complete Course for the TOEFL Test: Preparation for the Computer and Paper Tests. New York: Pearson Education.

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