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E) end up Find the best choice to fill in the senetences. (1-14) 6. Unlike broadcast television, an interactive TV service provider ---- customers to choose 1. Forgery is the act of making, reproducing, which service to use at any given time, altering or signing a false document or other whether it ----shopping, watching a film or instrument with the ---- of defrauding others. playing games. A) development A) has allowed / might have been B) exception B) allows / is C) intention C) allowed / would be D) determination D) would allow / should have been E) prediction E) is allowing / was

2. The sense of smell, which has not been fully 7. The tradition of sculpting in clay ---- as early as understood yet, is much more ---- than the AD 800, and ultimately it ---- as the point of sense of taste. departure for related works that were cast in A) attainable metal. B) dedicated A) should have developed / has served C) suitable B) has developed / had served D) sophisticated C) may have developed / served E) endurable D) would have developed / will serve E) could have developed/will have served 3. The full stop is probably the most used form of punctuation, partly because almost 8. The degree ---- age-related wrinkling varies everyone knows how to use it ----. considerably ---- person to person, partly due A) considerably B) redundantly to the C) dominantly D) appropriately amount of exposure to the sun. E) profoundly A) of / from B) for / between C) to / among D) about / by 4. The European System of Central Banks, which E) towards / with ---- a single monetary policy for the euro zone, consists of the European Central Bank in 9. When Sarpsborg was burned down ---- the Frankfurt together with 15 national central Nordic Seven-Year War, Frederick II gave banks. permission for the inhabitants to move ---- a A) regulates B) signifies place near the Glomma River. C) expresses D) provokes A) after / away B) at / by E) acquires C) in / over D) during / to E) through / from 5. Leaders with different political styles have launched daring projects to take Japan out of 10. Crystals are created ---- cooling and the economic recession, but in the long run, crystallization take place at an appropriate they may ---- colliding with each other. depth and with sufficient time. A) make out B) give in A) until B) though C) act out D) fight off C) so D) before

1 E) when A) of B) in C) by D) over E) during 11. ---- schools encourage children to read printed books more often, the library, in its traditional 16. form, will eventually disappear. A) Until B) Whenever C) Once A) Whenever B) Whereas D) Since E) While C) Since D) However E) Unless 17. A) so B) any C) that 12. Some popular diet books have misled D) little E) no consumers with deceptive claims; ----, they fail to provide an assessment of the results of 18. their treatment plans for obesity. A) are handed over A) furthermore B) would have been handed over B) nevertheless C) were handed over C) even so D) could be handed over D) otherwise E) had been handed over E) on the contrary 19. 13. The social sciences are a range of disciplines A) commonly B) relentlessly within the arts and humanities ---- principal C) dramatically D) endlessly concerns are the study of various aspects of E) deliberately society. A) what B) whose C) that Complete the following sentences. D) how E) when 20. Even if we have a lot of work, ----. 14. Generally, social media platforms can be A) we have some difficulties in making our future thought of as virtual meeting places which plans clear function to encourage the exchange of media B) we do not usually complain about being busy content among users who are ---- producers C) there are various conditions that affect our ---- consumers. behaviour A) both / and B) more / than D) we never tend to pay attention to relationships C) just / like D) so / that E) some details can remind us of our early E) such / as experiences

Fill in the cloze test. (15-19) 21. ----, while the early pioneers of intelligence testing were mostly interested in theoretical Not long ago, Thomas Cook was examining the questions about the nature of intelligence. strange and mysterious crop circles that had been A) IQ tests initially ignored the development of cut into his farm in Lincolnshire, England. His first intelligence thoughts were that they had been created (15)---- B) Determining what intelligence is and how it aliens. (16)---- trying to explore the origin of these changes has not been easy unusual shapes, he made a discovery that was C) Theoretical issues in intelligence testing much more down-to-earth. He discovered a pile of tradition have overshadowed practical ones Roman Empire coins in a buried earthenware pot D) Any approach to intelligence must have dating to 270 AD. He did not find (17)---- evidence confronted the question of its structure of a UFO, but he did find an amazing E) The pragmatic origins and uses of IQ tests have archaeological site. In accordance with English recently been emphasized antiquities law, the coins (18)---- to the British Museum. They were studied and catalogued in the archives and given what is now (19)---- referred to as a full “treasure trove inquest” by the museum.

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2 The materials that have survived include objects such as jewelry, pottery, metal utensils, and 22. When employees lack skill and interest, ----. various kinds of weapons. In addition, archaeologists have found a large number of clay A) performing a job well means people should also tablets, inscribed with a language called “Linear B,” help manage it which they can read. It now becomes clear that the B) expecting them to lead a project successfully is Mycenaean civilization in full bloom far surpassed unrealistic in complexity and wealth many of the Greek C) the goal would be to increase communication in civilizations that followed it. The Mycenaeans were a unit an aggressive people who loved fighting, hunting, D) unnecessary interference and distractions will and athletic contests. Their land was mountainous cease and their soil rocky and dry. Therefore, they took E) too much appraisal will make it tough for people to the sea and became to concentrate fearsome raiders of other communities. In this way zthey acquired extraordinary wealth. 23. If they are striving to do their work ethically, ----. 25. As clearly stated in the passage, the A) history teachers will need to discuss the moral Mycenaean economy ----. implications of events with their students A) is best represented by various objects B) no one can effectively teach children how discovered by archaeologists people should behave in a conflict B) can be fully understood from archaeological C) citizens’ worldviews are often related to the excavations realities of their daily lives C) depended not so much on agriculture as on D) there will be aspects of human rights that piracy and plunder underpin society D) was so strong that people invested heavily in E) how processes are described in a society is very jewelry and weapons important E) has been a major concern of investigation among archaeologists 24. Although plays were being written as early as 300 BC, ----. 26. According to the passage, the geography of A) the Greek audience’s view of the stage was the Mycenaean civilization ----. framed by the landscape and sky A) has caused a great deal of controversy among B) Roman theatres included large amphitheatres archaeologists for the audience which could be built into hills B) was defined only after the Linear B clay tablets C) the action of the play took place on a raised were deciphered stage or pulpitum C) was unknown to Homer, who was interested in D) the first permanent theatres where they could Troy alone be staged properly were not built until much later D) made up only a very small portion of Greece E) the function and proportion of theatrical E) was not limited to Greece only elements changed significantly 27. It is clear from the passage that the Answer the following questions according to the Mycenaean civilization ----. text. (25-29) A) was culturally and economically very complicated and, therefore, little known Our knowledge of the Mycenaean civilization in B) reached its climax when the Linear B language Greece is based primarily upon what was introduced into Greece archaeologists have been able to discover. C) can best be studied through Homer’s Fortunately, they have located and studied the descriptions of it ruins of a number of important Mycenaean sites D) was far more advanced and powerful than many both in Greece and in Troy, the site of Homer’s other Greek civilizations “Ilium” in Turkey. The material available to E) did not last long because of the raids made upon archaeologists is very limited, due to the ravages of it by other communities time, weather, fire, and theft.

3 30. According to the passage, warnings were first 28. As asserted in the passage, the Mycenaeans given almost a century ago that ----. ----. A) there would be a sharp decline in oil A) seem to have been very skilled in the art of consumption throughout the world as alternative jewelry energy resources became available B) were noted for their warlike character B) there could be serious disruptions of global oil C) attacked Troy, which Homer refers to as “Ilium” supply in the future owing to political D) surpassed all the other Greek peoples in athletic manipulations and conflicts contests C) the consequences of soaring prices for oil would E) were much advanced in the making of all kinds be extremely unbearable unless new economic of weapons measures were put into effect D) oil would cease to be a vital source of energy in 29. As stated in the passage, archaeological the near future because of the growing rate of discoveries ----. pollution A) are the primary source of information on the E) oil consumption would continue to increase Mycenaean civilization enormously and that the resources for oil were B) have provided us with plenty of evidence about not infinite the Mycenaean arts C) have thrown much light on the structure of the 31. As suggested in the passage, oil ----. Linear B language A) was so manipulated politically a century ago D) show that Troy was an extremely prosperous that its production was often disrupted city B) has unfortunately lost its economic value due to E) clearly indicate that the Mycenaeans were the the fact that the oil age has come to an end founders of various Greek cities C) has been the major cause of political instability in the world for nearly a century Answer the following questions according to D) has always been a major source of affordable text. (30-34) energy and had a positive impact on our lives E) is produced currently in enormous amounts in Oil has provided humanity with many benefits, order to meet the soaring global demand for including affordable energy to reduce our cleaner energy workloads and improve our mobility. Because oil is such an important and visible part of our daily 32. In the passage, ----. lives, and because it is exceptionally open to A) the writer makes a strong defence of the oil political manipulations, it often receives an industry and does not consider it to be enormous amount of attention. This is especially responsible for any wrongdoing true whenever its price increases sharply, and B) the main emphasis has been put on the experts immediately get to work to diagnose the indispensable uses of oil for man’s comfort and cause and consequences of the price increase. In prosperity fact, the future of oil is not that much different C) there is much concern expressed about the from its past: undoubtedly, oil production and consequences of current oil consumption in the consumption will become cleaner and more world efficient, but prices will continue to be volatile, D) some hope is expressed about the improvement and the oil industry will continue to be blamed for and increasing efficiency of global energy resources conflicts, corruption, and pollution. And for all the E) much attention has been given to the current talk about the end of the oil age, it will importance of experts’ work in diagnosing the remain a vital source of energy as it is now, nearly cause of increasing oil prices a century after the first warnings about soaring consumption and limited resources.

4 33. As can be understood from the passage, the C) It emphasizes that the North Korean writer does not believe that, ----. government has pursued the development of a A) in view of limited energy resources, the amount nuclear arsenal not for self-defence, but as a of oil consumed yearly will have to be restricted bargaining chip against Japan and the United B) despite volatile oil prices, there will be a States. noticeable increase in current oil production C) contrary to ongoing discussions today, the age D) As you may recall, in June 1950, the communist of oil has drawn to a close North Korean troops attacked across the border D) similar to other industries, the oil industry is to that divided the Korean peninsula and crushed be blamed for political manipulations in the world resistance in the south. E) like other sources of energy, oil can be regarded as a major cause of environmental pollution E) Agreed. Yet Japan and the Western states have always feared that North Korea may be secretly 34. It is stressed in the passage that the helping Iran and other rogue states to develop production of oil ----. nuclear weapons. A) is no longer important since much cleaner energy resources are available today 36. B) must be absolutely free from any kind of Terence: political manipulation - It is a fact that the overseas maritime C) has changed very little in amount and price over explorations in the late fifteenth and early a century sixteenth centuries improved our knowledge of D) has been adversely affected by currently volatile geography tremendously. prices E) will certainly be carried out in a cleaner and Jim: more efficient manner in the future - Well, we all know it. Why do you bring it up? Terence: - ---- Fill in the dialogs. (35-36) Jim: - Naturally, the same view was held by the 35. John: Church and also the crusaders. - Good morning, Christine. By the way, have you seen this article on North Korea? A) Ancient geographers divided the earth into five Christine: climatic zones that are still recognized today. - I’ve just come to the office. You know mornings are always a rush. Tell me what the main B) Actually, in antiquity, geography owed most of argument is. its John: development to the Hellenistic astronomer - ---- Eratosthenes. Christine: - Besides that, there may also be other hidden C) The amazing thing is that, by means of sundials reasons such as the provision of nuclear placed some hundreds of miles apart, the weapons to international terrorist groups. astronomer Eratosthenes calculated the A) Let me tell you this: historically, at the end of circumference of the earth. World War II, the Soviet Union occupied the northern part of the Korean peninsula, while the D) For the simple reason that the world was Americans held the south. understood differently and wrongly in the Middle Ages. For instance, medieval geographers B) You know that, after the loss in 1991 of Soviet regarded Jerusalem as the centre of the earth. patronage, the isolated North Korean government faced a very serious economic E) In fact, it was the Hellenistic astronomer and disaster, with verified reports of local starvation geographer Eratosthenes that first suggested the in some regions of the country. possibility of reaching eastern Asia by sailing

5 west. 39. A drug may affect several functions, even Find the sentence with the closest meaning. (37- though it’s targeted at only one. 39) A) While a drug may be used for various functions, it becomes effective only if it is taken for a specific 37. In the 19th century, Afghanistan became a function. battleground in the rivalry between Britain B) Despite various other uses, a drug usually has a and Russia for control of Central Asia. function for a special effect. C) The functions expected of a drug are various A) During the 19th century, the invasion of even if it is used for a specific disease. Afghanistan by Britain and Russia led to serious D) However effective a drug may be, its functions hostilities in Central Asia. have to be several. B) It was in the 19th century that there emerged E) A drug is taken for a specific purpose, but it may hostilities between Britain and Russia in have a range of other effects. Afghanistan, since Central Asia was important for them. C) In the 19th century, both Britain and Russia got Fill in the paragraphs with the most appropriate into a fierce conflict with each other in sentence. (40-42) Afghanistan in order to dominate Central Asia. D) Throughout the 19th century, the hostilities 40. Most foreign tourists visiting ondon come to between Britain and Russia in Afghanistan were seethe Houses of arliament. This monumental essentially for the possession of Central Asia. Gothic building on the River Thames is E) In the 19th century, Central Asia was so probably Britain’s best-known landmark. important for Britain and Russia that they first Indeed, the people who come to visit it may tried to conquer Afghanistan. know very little and care even less about what happens inside, but they appreciate the place as one of the greatest achievements of 38. Spanish efforts to recover Gibraltar nineteenth-century art. ----. Indeed, the culminated in a referendum in 1967, in which Parliament is a magnificent building. the residents voted overwhelmingly to retain their link with Britain. A) Before the Norman Conquest in 1066, King Edward the Confessor established his palace on the A) Although Spain’s aim had always been to annex site Gibraltar, it was made clear in a referendum in B) Also, most of those who work daily in the 1967 that the people preferred British rule. building remain awed by its artistic power B) Spain had always tried hard to reclaim Gibraltar C) The disaster of the great fire of 1834 destroyed from Britain; however, in a referendum held in much of the medieval palace 1967, the people of Gibraltar decided by a great D) For security reasons, the Houses of Parliament majority to stay with Britain. can no longer be viewed by the general public C) A referendum in 1967 showed that, despite E) The word “parliament” derives from the French Spain’s attempts to annex Gibraltar, in fact the word “parler”, which means “to speak” or “to talk” people favoured Britain. D) Spain’s attempts to reconquer Gibraltar failed in 1967 when the people of Gibraltar held a referendum, and showed their loyalty to Britain. E) In a referendum in 1967, the people of Gibraltar rejected Spain’s claim of annexation, and voted in favour of Britain.

6 41. At the start of the twentieth century, Britain Translete the following sentences into Turkish was still the greatest world power. By the or English. (43-46) middle of the century, although still one of the “Big Three”, Britain was clearly weaker 43. New Zealand was the first country in the than both the United States and the Soviet world to give women in 1893 the right to Union. ----. Its power had ended as quickly as vote. Spain’s had done in the seventeenth century. A) 1893’te dünyada kadınlara ilk seçme hakkı One reason for this sudden decline of Britain verilen ülke Yeni Zelanda’dır. was the cost and effort of two world wars. B) Dünyada kadınlara 1893’te ilk seçme hakkını veren ülke Yeni Zelanda olmuştur. A) Indeed, by the end of the 1970s, Britain was no C) Yeni Zelanda, dünyada, kadınlara 1893’te seçme longer even among the richest European powers hakkı veren ilk ülkeydi. B) In electronics and technology, Britain is still a D) Dünyada kadınlara ilk seçme hakkı, 1893’te Yeni world competitor Zelanda’da verilmiştir. C) No one doubts that Britain is living in an age of E) Kadınlara 1893’te seçme hakkı verilen dünyadaki uncertainty ilk ülke, Yeni Zelanda idi. D) But the most important reason was the basic weaknesses in Britain’s industrial power 44. The issue under debate today is whether, for E) The discovery of oil in the North Sea has given all its flaws, capitalism is the best economic Britain a great deal of economic advantage system man has yet invented. A) Bir sürü aksaklıklarına rağmen, kapitalizmin, 42. During World War II, the Allies had started to insanoğlunun bugüne kadar ortaya koyduğu en iyi think of ways in which a new world order iktisadi sistem olup olmadığı tartışılmaktadır. could replace the failed League of Nations. B) Bugün tartışılan konu, tüm kusurlarına rağmen, Even before it joined the war against kapitalizmin, insanın şimdiye kadar icat ettiği en iyi Germany and its allies, the US had agreed on iktisadi sistem olup olmadığıdır. an “Atlantic Charter” with Britain. The basis of C) Eksiklikleri de olsa, insanlığın bugün ortaya this new charter was US President Roosevelt’s koyduğu en iyi iktisadi sistemin, kapitalizm olup “Four Freedoms”: freedom of speech, olmadığı hâlâ tartışılmaktadır. freedom of worship, freedom from fear, and D) İnsanın şimdiye kadar yarattığı en iyi iktisadi freedom from want. At the end of the war, sistem olan kapitalizmin kusurları, bugün tartışma the victorious Allies created the United konusudur. Nations, which expressed the ideas of the E) İnsanlığın bugüne kadar yarattığı en iyi iktisadi Atlantic Charter. ----. sistem olmasına rağmen, kapitalizmin aksaklıkları günümüzde tartışılmaktadır. A) In the early 1960s, Britain was increasingly interested in joining the newly-formed European 45. Ekonomik kalkınma gibi, siyasi barışıklık, Community Afganistan için çözümün gerçekten bir parçası B) In 1948, the Soviet Union tried to capture West olmak zorundadır. Berlin by stopping all road and rail traffic to it A) Political reconciliation, just like economic C) Thus, they hoped that the success of thewartime development, must indeed be regarded as a final alliance could be carried into peacetime settlement in Afghanistan. D) All these military and scientific developments B) Not only economic development but also political drew Britain more closely to the US reconciliation has really to be the ultimate settlement in Afghanistan. E) During the post-war period, Britain was seriously C) It is essential that, in addition to economic concerned about the danger from the Soviet Union development, political reconciliation must in fact be considered for a lasting solution in Afghanistan. D) As part of a lasting solution in Afghanistan, political reconciliation as well as economic development must indeed be taken into consideration. E) Like economic development, political reconciliation does indeed need to be part of the solution for Afghanistan.

7 46. Zimbabve’den, insanların açlıktan ölmeye (I) By the fall of 1933, Germany had become a başladıklarına ilişkin yürek parçalayıcı oneparty state. (II) Soon afterward, the socialist haberler sızmaktadır. and communist left were crushed by the Nazi A) Heart-rending news has been filtering out from regime. (III) Almost all non-Nazi organizations were Zimbabwe that the people are starting to die of either abolished or forced to become part of the starvation. Nazi system. (IV) At the same time, party B) One gets heart-rending news out of Zimbabwe propaganda sought to impress citizens with the that the people there are dying of starvation. regime’s ideology. (V) In fact, the 1928 election in C) The news out of Zimbabwe that people are Germany was a turning point for the Nazis. about to die of starvation is heart-rending. D) The heart-rending news that has been leaked A) I B) II C) III out of Zimbabwe is that people have been dying of D) IV E) V starvation. E) The news that the people in Zimbabwe have 49. been dying of starvation is extremely heartrending. (I) The social unrest of the Sixties was international. (II) Its roots lay in the political Find the odd sentences in the following struggles and social transformations of the postwar paragraphs. (47-50) period. (III) Mass culture made its most powerful 47. impact in the visual world, especially through film. (I) Towards the end of the eighteenth century, a (IV) Of these, the most important were the vast cultural movement began to sweep across anticolonial and civil rights movements. (V) Europe. (II) Within the Romantic movement, a Especially, anticolonial movements reflected a group of composers were inspired by new ideas growing racial consciousness and also helped to about national identity. (III) The movement, known encourage that consciousness. as Romanticism, called into question many of the principles of the eighteenth-century A) I B) II Enlightenment. (IV) In other words, the Romantics C) III D) IV E) V began to question human reason and the uniformity of human nature. (V) Moreover, they 50. emphasized the diversity of humanity, and the (I) Columbus was not the first European to set foot importance of spontaneity, creativity, emotion and on the American continents. (II) Viking sailors had passion. reached and briefly settled present-day Newfoundland and perhaps New England around A) I B) II C) III the year 1000. (III) But knowledge of these Viking D) IV E) V landings had been forgotten throughout Europe for hundreds of years. (IV) It would not be right, therefore, to deny Columbus credit for his accomplishments. (V) In fact, Columbus brought back no Asian spices from his voyages.

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