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1. Several of my friends have entered 6. This is the first time you have ever
the ----, but none of them expects to driven a car, ----?
win. A) is this
A) performance B) hasn’t it
B) application C) isn’t it
C) competition D) have you
D) responsibility E) aren’t you
E) vacancy
7. A woman from Denmark has
2. As she grew older, it became ---- recently moved ---- the flat ---- mine.
difficult for her to do the shopping. A) up / in
A) eventually B) into / next to
B) increasingly C) to / at
C) doubtfully D) about / in front of
D) adequately E) through / above
E) reluctantly
8. ---- appearing every four to seven
3. The melting of all the ice mass in the years as it used to, “El Nino” has
Arctic would ---- the sea level by now been appearing consecutively
several metres. for a number of years.
A) establish A) On account of
B) preserve B) In view of
C) raise C) Because of
D) restore D) In case of
E) spoil E) Instead of

4. During recent years, many people 9. The Great Pyramid of Khufu, ---- is
---- interested in Turkish music. near Cairo, is one of the most
A) might become famous monuments in the world.
B) are becoming A) who
C) had become B) where
D) would become C) which
E) have become D) whom
E) what
5. I hope that, by next summer, I ---- up
enough money to go to Italy for a 10. ---- bicycles are all red, ---- is the
holiday. only blue one.
A) will have saved A) Theirs / yours
B) would have saved B) Others / his
C) would save C) Ours / hers
D) have saved D) The other / mine
E) had saved E) Your / him

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11. He ---- a book in the garden when I

---- there. 15. There’s a photograph here ---- you
A) will read / have got taken ---- your first birthday.
B) is reading / will get A) from/by
C) was reading / got B) by/to
D) would be reading / was getting C) of/on
E) had read / had got D) to/over
E) on /near
12. For years the people ---- my
hometown depended ---- steel, coal 16. He hasn’t written to me, and I don’t
and fishing for their livelihood. think he’s written to any of his other
A) at / for friends, ----.
B) from / to A) either
C) of / by B) too
D) in / on D) neither
E) out of / on C) as well
E) also
13. They ---- Bursa before, so they ----
what to expect. 17. He hasn’t written to me, and I don’t
A) weren’t visiting / haven’t known think he’s written to any of his other
B) haven’t visited / haven’t known friends, ----.
C) didn’t visit / hadn’t known A) either
D) don’t visit / won’t know B) too
E) hadn’t visited / didn’t know D) neither
C) as well
14. As there is a complete E) also
standardization of every product in
this fast-food restaurant chain, ----. 18. I asked my little three-year-old niece
A) the first restaurant to be opened ----.
in Britain was in 1974 A) whether her mother has gone out
B) they were already doing business B) who she was going to invite to her
in 52 countries in the world party
C) the company was by then C) that she liked going to the zoo
opening a new restaurant at the rate D) why she has made her little
of one per day brother cry
D) every French fry and every E) what her mother is making for
burger tastes exactly the same as dinner
every other
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D) to have rediscovered
19. - 23. sorularda, aşağıdaki parçada E) on rediscovering
numaralanmış yerlere uygun düşen sözcük
ya da ifadeyi bulunuz 24. ‘’I’m not sure; Sheila’s, probably.’’
The Romantic Age in England was part of a A) Who did you go to the exhibition
movement that affected all the countries of with?
the Western World. The forms of B) Whose paintings attracted most
romanticism were attention at the exhibition?
(28) ---- many and varied that it is difficult to C) Have you seen her lately?
speak of the movement as a whole. It D) Why were the paintings
tended to align (29) ---- with the exhibited?
humanitarian spirit of the democratic E) There is an amazing variety of
revolutionaries. (30) ----, romantics were not paintings on show, isn’t there?
always democrats and democrats were not
always revolutionaries. Perhaps the (31) ---- 25. ‘’Yes, there are. Look on your desk.’’
thing to say is that romanticism represented A) Where are the books you
an attempt (32) ---- the wonder of the world. promised to bring?
B) Are those flowers for me?
19. A) so C) There arenít any letters for me,
B) as are there?
C) both D) Are any of the reports you are
D) neither writing ready?
E) thus E) Are my glasses over there?

20. A) others 26. ‘’Yes, in the secretary’s office.’’

B) them A) Where were you at the time?
C) each B) Did you manage to find out where
D) itself the meeting is to be held?
E) themselves C) Can he still not remember what
he did with those files?
21. A) Even so D) Are the papers I passed on to him
B) Since still missing?
C) Accordingly E) Why did he go into the secretary’s
D) In case office?
E) On the contrary

22. A) safe
B) safest
C) safety
D) safely
E) safer
23. A) having rediscovered
B) rediscovering
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now drifting around like giant rafts. His (23)

27. He must have had some sound ---- attracted very little interest. In 1915, he
reasons for ---- such a rigid published a book on continental drift. No
timetable. one took it (24) ----. But (25) ---- the early
A) setting out 1960s, geologists
B) drawing up (26) ---- to realize that molten rock was
C) running up seeping up from under the oceans and
D) turning off pushing the continents further away from
E) looking into (27) ---- at around two and a half
centimetres a year.
28. Experts ---- that by 2010, robots ----
for many of the elderly people in the 31. A) ability
world. B) invention
A) will have believed / are caring C) comprehension
B) have believed / would be caring D) concern
C) believed / had cared E) claim
D) will believe / will have been caring
E) believe / will be caring 32. A) deliberately
B) sensibly
29. The arctic is one of the few areas ---- C) fairly
earth still left unconquered ---- solo D) regrettably
explorers, primarily because of the E) seriously
extremely harsh conditions.
A) of/for 33. A) under
B) over/from B) by
C) in/with C) over
D) on / by D) at
E) for / to E) from

30. From a very early age it is clear that 34. A) are beginning
some people are ---- better at B) have begun
drawing and painting ---- the majority C) were beginning
of us. D) begin
A) much / than B) more / than C) E) would begin
so/as D) either/or
E) even / such as 35. A) another
B) each other
31. - 35. sorularda, aşağıdaki parçada C) the others
numaralanmış yerlere uygun düşen sözcük D) one other
ya da ifadeyi bulunuz. E) any other

In 1912, a German called Wegener

declared that all the continents of the world
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36. Campaigns to promote energy 39. ‘’There’s one every half hour on
conservation have been around weekdays.’’
since the 1980s ----. A) Do any of these buses go through
A) so that there is still a long way to the centre of the town?
go before campaigners are satisfied B) Do you often go by bus?
B) because it is a problem that until C) Are the children old enough to go
now has been largely overlooked on their own by bus?
C) but it is only with the advent of D) When does the next bus leave,
global warming that the issue has do you know?
really gained momentum E) How often is there a bus into
D) just as the next step requires a town?
great deal of detailed planning
E) even though most industrialized 40.- 41. soruları aşağıdaki parçaya
countries have been strongly in göre cevaplayınız
favour of these campaigns
Essentially, memory is the process of
37. Water softeners are particularly learning information, storing it, and then
useful, ----. having the ability
A) if you live in a hard-water area to recall it when needed – whether to solve
B) that they remove chemicals and problems, tell stories, or save yourself on
improve the taste the witness stand. Learning begins with
C) why London water is so hard those power connections in your brain:
D) since the water contained a neurons firing messages to one another.
greater concentration of calcium Your ability to process information is
E) though electrical appliances determined by the junctions between those
require soft water neurons, called “synapses”. The ability of
brain cells to speak to one another is
38. When the four-thousand-year-old strengthened or weakened as you use
tomb was finally opened, ----. them. Essentially, the more you use those
A) the archaeologists had looked synapses, the stronger they get and the
down into it in disbelief more rapidly they increase. That’s why you
B) there seems to be nothing in it of may have strong neural pathways for your
any interest at all family history or weak ones for 1980s music
C) they have all looked at each other trivia. That also gives you a little insight into
in amazement how you remember things. If something is
D) the most exciting find was a set of exciting to you, then you learn it faster –
surgical instruments and train those synapses to make stronger
E) it would be a moment of connections.
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40. According to the passage, memory 43. - 45. sorularda, verilen Türkçe cümlenin
is used to ----. İngilizcesini bulunuz.
A) receive, retain and remember
information 43. Araştırmalar, insanların konuşma
B) learn how to save yourself on the biçimini değiştirmenin, düşünme
witness stand biçimini etkilediğini göstermiştir.
C) find out whether problems can be A) Studies have shown that
solved or not changing the way people talk affects
D) tell stories in order to make the way they think.
others laugh B) Studies show that a change in
E) provide someone with the ability how people talk greatly affects how
to memorize they think.
C) According to studies, talking
41. The term “synapses” refers to ----. about things can change the way
A) the process of being able to people think.
speak to one another D) Studies have shown that one can
B) the messages sent from one part change how people think by
of the body to another changing how they talk.
C) the ability of the brain to heal E) What studies have shown is that
itself changing people’s thoughts affects
D) processes that take place outside what they say.
the brain
E)the connections between 44. Projenin çok büyük olduğu ve deniz
message-firing neurons derinliklerini araştırmanın birçok
gelişmiş teçhizat gerektirdiği
42. We can learn from the passage that doğrudur.
----. A) It is true that the project of
A) the ability of brain cells to send investigating sea depths is very big
messages to one another hardly and requires a lot of special
ever changes equipment.
B) the more you use synapses, the B)What is true is that the project is
weaker they become very big and investigating sea
C) you tend to remember your family depths may require some
history as equally as things you find sophisticated equipment.
uninteresting C) It is true that the project is very
D) there is a correlation between the big and that investigating sea depths
frequency of using junctions and requires a lot of sophisticated
recalling information equipment.
E)the ability to process information is D) That the project is very big is true
determined by the physical size of and investigating sea depths
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E) That the project is very big is true

and the investigation of sea depths 46. (I) The state system is a historical
requires a lot of expensive institution. (II) The population of the
equipment. world has not always lived in
sovereign states. (III) The countries
45. Amazon’u korumak istiyoruz çünkü that are sovereign states are always
çocuklarımızın ve torunlarımızın en fewer than countries, like Quebec,
azından bizimki kadar güzel bir that are not sovereign. (IV) For most
dünyada yaşayabilmelerini of recorded human history, people
sağlamanın yolunun bu olduğunu have lived under different kinds of
biliyoruz. political organization. (V) In medieval
A) The Amazon should be preserved times, for example, people had to
because we know that is the way to live under a chaotic and dispersed
make sure our children and political authority, while in the
grandchildren live in a world at least modern state, they live under legally
as good as ours. supreme governments.
B) We want to preserve the Amazon A)I
because we know that this is the B)II
way to make sure our children and C)III
grandchildren can live in a world at D)IV
least as good as ours. E)V
C)We will preserve the Amazon for
we know very well that this is the 47. (I) It’s becoming increasingly difficult
way to make sure our children and for young people to get married in
grandchildren can live in a world the Middle East. (II) While their
better than ours. parents were likely to have been
D) We want to preserve the Amazon married by their mid-20s, young
because we have known for years people these days are remaining
that this is the only way to make single till their late-20s. (III) The
sure our children and grandchildren main reason is that they cannot
will live in a better world. afford to marry. (IV) Those in
E)The Amazon should be preserved employment are often in low-paid
since we have come to know that jobs and committing your future to a
this is the way to provide our partner is out of the question. (V)
children and grandchildren with a The cost of a wedding needs to
world in which they can live like us. come down.
A) I
46. - 50. sorularda, cümleler sırasıyla B) II
okunduğunda parçanın anlam bütünlüğünü C) III
bozan cümleyi bulunuz. D) IV
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48. (I) Our mental approach or attitude 50. (I) A large part of having a healthy
toward an activity makes all the life is giving ourselves credit for our
difference in the world. (II) Any chore accomplishments. (II) The best way
can become a playful activity to write about your success is that
depending on how we frame it. (III) you connect with yourself in the
For instance, doing your ironing can deepest way.(III) Learning how to
be fun if you are pretending that you accept praise – to let ourselves
are “frying” the bad guys in some really accept our success – is a skill
fantasy scenario. (IV) Defining play that can be learned. (IV) A big
is far from easy for at least two reason why people get stuck and
different reasons. (V) On the other cannot create better lives is that they
hand, playing table tennis is work if do not give themselves credit for
you are doing it only because your what they have created. (V) This
friend insists. usually comes from the
A)I subconscious programming we
B)II received in childhood, e.g., “Money
C)III doesn’t grow on trees”.
D)IV A) I
E)V B) II
C) III
49. (I) The harmful use of alcohol is a D) IV
particularly grave threat to men. (II) E) V
It is the leading factor for deaths in
males aged 15-59, mainly due to
injuries, violence and cardiovascular
diseases. (III) The world’s highest
alcohol consumption levels are
found in the developed world,
including Western and Eastern
Europe. (IV) 6.2% of all male deaths
are attributable to alcohol, compared
with 1.1% of female deaths.(V) Men
also outnumber women four to one
in weekly episodes of heavy drinking
– most probably the reason for their
higher death and disability rates.
A) I
B) II
C) III
D) IV
E) V

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