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There’s nothing very brilliant about the report, but he has ___ collected all the data needed.
A) infectiously
B) conscientiously
C) considerably
D) restrictively
E) recklessly
People living in Pompeii had witnessed small earthquakes several years before the famous (22)
---- of Mt. Vesuvius, which had already caused serious structural damage (23) ---- the houses, and in August 79, all the wells of the town dried up; but these warnings (24) ----. On the day of the catastrophe, the date was, (25) ---- coincidentally, (26) ---- of the festival of the Roman god of fire.
26.
A) one
B) that
C) those
D) this
E) these
Salmon farms are prohibited in Alaska ----.
A) unless salmon actually does protect against cancer
B) because fishermen blame the farms for undercutting their price
C) since farmed salmon used to be fattier than wild salmon
D) but they say salmon farms are bad for the environment
E) once the industry begins to attack some of the problems
Frankly, in my opinion the girl's musical abilities are no more than average for her age.
A) Even so, if you take the girl's age into account, her musical performance was no better than that of any of the others.
B) To be honest, I don't think the girl's musical talents are anything out of the ordinary considering her age.
C) To be fair, for a girl of her age, you can hardly regard her musical abilities as impressive.
D) Indeed she's not all that young, so I don't think this girl merits so much praise for her musical abilities.
E) If you think about it, there's nothing extraordinary about her musical performance if you remember her age.
The causes of World War II were rooted in the peace
settlement at Versailles in 1919-1920. The peace had
created as many problems as it had solved. The
senior Allied heads of state yielded to demands that
involved annexing German territory and creating new
states out of the eastern European empires. In doing
so, the peacemakers created fresh bitterness and
conflict. The Versailles treaty and its champions,
such as US President Woodrow Wilson, proclaimed
the principle of self-determination for the peoples of
eastern and southern Europe. Yet the new states
created by the treaty crossed ethnic boundaries,
involved political compromises, and frustrated many
of the expectations they had raised. The unsteady
new boundaries would be redrawn by force in the
1930s. The Allied powers also kept up the naval
blockade against Germany after the end of World
War I. This forced the new German government to
accept harsh terms that deprived Germany of its
political power in Europe. The blockade and its
consequences created grievances that made the
German people feel angry and completely humiliated.
According to the passage, in the face of the Allied naval blockade, ----.
A) Germany openly refused to reach any political
compromise with the Allied powers
B) the German government gave up its demands
for the annexation of the east European
countries
C) the newly-created east European countries soon
began to disregard each other’s boundaries
D) the German people strongly opposed Woodrow
Wilson’s principle of self-determination
E) Germany had no other choice but to agree to the
severe conditions dictated by the Allies
By analyzing depression, we find that depression is a disease that afflicts the human psyche in such a way that the afflicted tends to act and react abnormally toward others and himself. Adolescence is a time of emotional turmoil, mood swings, gloomy thoughts, and heightened sensitivity. It is a time of rebellion and experimentation .Therefore it comes to no surprise to discover that adolescent depression is strongly linked to teen suicide. Adolescent suicide is now responsible for more deaths in youths aged 15 to 19 than cardiovascular disease or cancer (Blackman, 1995). Despite this increased suicide rate, depression in this age group is greatly under diagnosed and leads to serious difficulties in school, work and personal adjustment which may often continue into adulthood. Brown (1996) has said the reason why depression is often over looked in children and adolescents is because children are not always able to express how they feel. Sometimes the symptoms of mood disorders take on different forms in children than in adults.
The point made in the passage that ____.
A) everybody tends to think of depression as an illness of adulthood
B) the high suicide rate that is basically a result of depression
C) disorders in children are included in the category of diagnosed psychiatric illnesses
D) the majority of the cases of adolescent depression are mild
E) early onset places children at a greater risk for multiple episodes of depression
The idea that American Indians could have built something resembling a city was so foreign to European settlers that when they encountered the Cahokia Mounds in Illinois in Midwest America, they thought they must have been the work of a foreign civilization: either the Phoenicians or the Vikings. Even today the idea of an Indian city runs so contrary to American notions of Indian life that no Anglo-Saxon American can absorb it. The first person to write an account of the Cahokia Mounds, the earliest and finest city built by Indians, was Henry Bracken bridge in 1811.When he reported his discovery, likening it to Egyptian pyramids, newspapers widely ignored it. He complained of this to his friend, former president Thomas Jefferson, and the word of 'Cahokia' did eventually get around. Unfortunately, most Americans were not very interested. The United States was trying to get the Indians out of the way, not appreciate their history. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 which ordered the relocation of eastern Indians to lands west of the Mississippi was based on the assumption that Indians were nomadic savages with no ability to make good use of land. Evidence of an ancient city, close to the size of Washington, D.C. at that time, would have spoiled the story line.
It can be understood from the passage that during the 1800s —.
A) the general tendency in American society towards the historic cities built by the Indians was one of acceptance
B) eastern American Indians were forced to relocate to pi aces to the east of the Mississippi River
C) most Americans including journalists and presidents were not interested in hearing anything positive regarding American Indians
D) American Indians were unable to make good use of the land as they were nomads and considered to be savages
E) most Americans, journalists as well as
presidents saw American Indians as an obstacle
to urban land development
Electronics and communications have been completely transformed by technological advances in materials. A good example is opticalfibre cables that have replaced long-distance telephone cables made of copper wire. Optical fibres are fine threads of extremely pure glass. ---- Not only are optical-fibre cables cheaper and less bulky than copper cables carrying the same information, but also by using different colours of light, optical-fibre cables can carry voice, data, and video information at the same time.
A) In fact, in view of staggering advances in scientific research and technological application,
one can say that scientists continue to develop new materials and discover new properties of old
ones.
B) Scientists have demonstrated that they can transform light pulses into electronic computer
signals at the rate of 3 billion bits of information a second.
C) Marconi (1874-1937) invented and developed the wireless telegraph, which could send messages hundreds of kilometres at the speed
of light without the use of wires.
D) Because of their purity, these fibres can transmit laser light pulses for miles compared with only a
few inches in ordinary glass.
E) Moreover, chemists could correlate molecular structure with the characteristics of materials and
so begin to fashion materials with special characteristics.
Kalite, kulağın farklı enstrümanlar tarafından üretilen tonlarını, ses dalgaları genlik ve frekans açısından birbiriyle aynı olduklarında bile ayırt etmesini sağlayan ses özelliğidir.
A) The ear can distinguish between tones produced by different instruments even if their sound waves have same amplitude and frequency through a characteristic called quality.
B) Quality, a characteristic of sound, allows the ear to differentiate between tones created by different instruments even when the sound waves have the same amplitude and frequency.
C) Quality, which is a characteristic of sound that allows the ear to distinguish between tones created by different insturments, is closely related to amplitude and frequecy.
D) Quality is the characteristic of sound that allows the ear to distinguish between tones created by different instruments, even when the sound waves are identical in amplitude and frequency.
E) The quality of a sound allows the ear to distinguish between tones produced by different instruments even if they have identical amplitudes or frequencies.
The difference between normal, everyday anxiety and an anxiety 22.____ is not a simple distinction. There are several kinds of anxiety disorders, 23.____ generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder 24.____ panic attacks, agoraphobia, social anxiety disorder, selective mutism, separation anxiety and specific phobias. Obsessive-compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder are 25. _____ related to anxiety disorders. Depression, 26._____ it is different from anxiety, can have similar symptoms, such as nervousness, irritability, and problems sleeping and concentrating.
23. A) such as B) for C) in case D) so that E) like as
The chief goal of digestive system is to ____ huge macromolecules, which cannot be absorbed.
A) break down
B) break up
C) break out
D) break through
E) break off
Because of the rain, we weren't able to spend -- of the day on the beach.
A) much
B) too
C) such
D) most
E) less
____ the increase in street crime, many old people are afraid to leave their homes.
A) While B) Because of
C) Until D) In case
E) So
It may be that golf originated in Holland but certainly Scotland fostered the game and is famous for it. In fact, in 1457 the Scottish Parliament, disturbed because football and golf had lured young Scots from the more soldierly exercise of archery, passed an ordinance that banned football and golf. James I and Charles I of the royal line of Stuarts were golf enthusiasts, whereby the game came to be known as 'the royal and ancient game of golf'. The golf bails used in the early games were leather-covered and stuffed with feathers. Clubs of all kinds were fashioned by hand to suit individual players. The great stop in spreading the game came with the change from the feather ball to the present-day ball introduced in about 1850. In 1860, formal competitions began with the establishment of an annual tournament for the British Open championship. There are records of 'golf clubs' in the United States as far back as colonial days. However, it remained a rather sedate and almost aristocratic pastime until a 20-year-old Francis Quimet of Boston defeated two great British professionals, Harry Vardon and Ted Ray, in the United States Open championship at Brookline, Mass., in 1913. This feat put the game and Francis Quimet on the front pages of the newspapers and stirred a wave of enthusiasm for the sport.
The point is made in the passage that golf has been described as a 'royal' game —.
A) though for the last two centuries no kings have participated in the game
B) since the professionals of the game are treated with so much respect
C) as golf clubs are particular about who they accept as members
D) because two British kings were passionately fond of it
E) which Americans find very annoying
It is just possible that there is ______ reason behind his refusal of this award.
A) other B) another
C) the others D) any
E) rather
Should a vote in Los Angeles count more than a vote in Montana? That’s one question raised (22) ---- an analysis of Census Bureau data conducted by researchers at the Centre for Immigration Studies (23) ---- found that nine congressional seats (24) ----to different states in 2000, if noncitizens, (25) ---- illegal aliens, had been excluded from the counts Congress uses to (26) ---- seats.
22.
A) by B) to
C) at D) onto
E) off
I think we should ____ deciding about this until next year.
A) define
B) degenerate
C) delegate
D) degrade
E) delay
The rule that those under eighteen are forbidden from entering the club is ____ to you, too.
A) anxious
B) applicable
C) apparent
D) adverse
E) annual
(I) Although about 1,400 seed banks exist worldwide,Norway’s massive Svalbard Global Seed Vault dwarfs them all and aims to safeguard duplicates of the seeds. (II) Stored seeds are frequently lost because of natural disasters, war, and warm temperatures. (III) However, the United Nations predicts that 70% of the world’s population will live in urban areas by 2050. (IV) So, Svalbard was built to withstand these challenges. (V) The facility is remote, located
A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V
The government has recently made one million dollars _____ for research grants concerning the prediction of earthquakes.
A) suitable
B) available
C) conditional
D) considerable
E) vulnerable
Aşağı yukarı 200 yıl öncesine kadar, bilimsel araştırmalarda ölçüm birimleri standart değildi ve bu standart eksikliği, bilimsel iletişimi zorlaş-
tırıyordu.
A) Since the units of measurement in scientific research had not been standardized before,
there was much difficulty in scientific
communication about 200 years ago.
B) Due to the lack of standards for the units of measurement in scientific research, scientific communication until about 200 years ago was
very difficult.
C) It was about 200 years ago that, as there were no standards for the units of measurement in
scientific research, it was extremely difficult to have any scientific communication.
D) It was very hard to have any scientific communication about 200 years ago because there was a serious lack of standards for the units of measurement in scientific research
A busker is a street performer. They owe their origins to the jesters and travelling minstrels who entertained Egyptian Pharaohs, and Middle Age Lords. Literally defined as a person who entertains in public places for money, a busker has no set skills he must have. He can juggle, eat fire, play music, or ride a unicycle among many other things. As appreciation for a busker's performance, spectators are supposed to put coins in the performer- provided hat. You can find buskers performing around the world in places like England, Canada, Italy, and New Zealand, but not all areas welcome these street performers. Laws tend to lump buskers together as either panhandlers or vendors. Panhandlers cannot be taxed, and are illegal, so buskers face prosecution if caught. Vendors sell goods, which is what a busker's performance is termed, and need a permit for tax purposes. This method has its drawbacks as buskers seldom make large profits in the first place. Often they must be invited to perform at a location to avoid legal hassles.
49. It is stated in the passage that a busker ----.
A) has to go through formal education
B) is expected to have some skills
C) must be able to ride a unicycle
D) cannot possibly work in Egypt
E) performs his skills to sell some commercial goods
The 16th century in England is generally known as the Tudor period, which historically lasted from 1485 to 1603. Among the famous Tudor sovereigns were Henry VII, Henry VIII, and Elizabeth I. In fact, the early years of the Tudor period were marked by significant changes in trade and in the arts of war. Henry VII made commercial treaties with European countries. Economically, England, which had always been a sheep-raising country, was by now manufacturing and exporting significant amounts of
cloth. As lands were enclosed to permit grazing on a larger scale, people were driven off the land to the cities, and London grew into a metropolitan market with sophisticated commercial institutions. These changes had an impact on the traditional feudal social order, which also began to decline; also, due to the introduction of cannons and firearms, the feudal system of warfare became obsolete. Yet, it would be a mistake to imagine these changes as sudden and dramatic. In fact, it was a slow and long process whereby England was transformed into a modern state.
One understands from the passage that the Tudor dynasty in England ----.
A) was best represented by Henry VIII, who
followed a policy of friendship with other
countries
B) introduced a number of military reforms in order
to build the strongest army in Europe
C) focused its main attention on the improvement of
agriculture in the country
D) was represented by powerful sovereigns, who
played a leading role in European politics
E) came to power in the late fifteenth century and
ruled the country over a century
the solution.
A) so that B) whereby
C) but D) when
E) so long as
68. Shocked by the news, he stood there tongue-tight.
A) He was shocked to feel that his tongue was tight.
B) The news is so shocking that he won’t be able to say anything.
C) He was shocked by the news but was still able to make a few comments.
D) He stood there without uttering a word when he heard the shocking news.
E) Although he was shocked by the news, he stood there as if nothing had happened.
In the end, it was the continual drinking that was his _____.
A) downfall
B) duration
C) diversity
D) drainage
E) dusk
I wish I knew whether or not our teacher will _____of our cooperation on the research projects.
A) addict
B) ache
C) accelerate
D) approve
E) abase
Sürücüsüz metroları, kişi başına düşen 25.200 dolarlık millî geliri ve tıkır tıkır işleyen ticaret merkezleri ile Singapur, Asya’nın en Batılılaşmış şehirleri arasındadır.
A) With its driverless subways, $25,200 per capita
income and smoothly running business centres,
in
B) One of the most westernized cities in
$25,200 per capita income and smoothly running
business centres.
C) It is because of the driverless subways, $25,200
per capita income and smoothly running
business centres that
most westernized cities in
D)
income and smoothly running business centres.
E) The reason why
the most westernized cities in
driverless subways, $25,200 per capita income
and smoothly running business centres.
In the 1960s, the emergence of new black nations in Africa and the Caribbean was paralleled by the civil rights movement of the blacks in America.
A) So many new black nations emerged in the 1960s in Africa and the Caribbean that the
American blacks were influenced by them and soon began to fight for their civil rights.
B) When new black nations came into being in the 1960s in Africa and the Caribbean, also the
blacks in America started the civil rights movement.
C) In the 1960s, the American blacks were so encouraged by the rise of various black nations
in Africa and the Caribbean that they all joined in the civil rights movement.
D) The civil rights movement, started by the blacks in America in the 1960s, was largely inspired by
the rise of new African and Caribbean nations.
E) The civil rights movement of the American blacks in the 1960s was extremely influenced by the
new nations that had emerged in Africa and the Caribbean.
By 1993, the world’s human population had reached 5.5 thousand million and, although the growth has slowed down in recent years, it will be many decades before it stops. The reason why this growth is causing so much concern is that we cannot keep up with the corresponding increase in demand for food, water, healthcare, jobs, education and housing. It also increases the likelihood of damage to the environment. Much of the growth has been in the poorer countries of the world, but overpopulation is also a problem for some rich countries, including Britain. With a population of approximately 58 million, Britain has 233 inhabitants per square kilometre. Furthermore, it is estimated that the number of people in the country will have increased to 62 million by 2031, at which time it will start to decline again. Populations not only increase because of higher birth rates, but also because of people moving from poor to rich countries, and from the countryside to the towns. In fact the latter cause is greater than general population growth and is creating many problems in the towns and cities, especially in poorer parts of the world.
55 . The author states in the passage that overpopulation ___.
A) is not a problem for the Northern countries and Africa.
B) concern us so much that we can not meet the basic needs of the people.
C) takes place in the poorer countries.
D) has been a problem for a few countries.
E) can be stopped by educating the people and birth control
Napoleon Bonaparte is credited with ending the French Revolution and, with the establishment of a stable government, bringing security and equality to France. He introduced a system of meritocracy to replace the older system that privileged inheritance and status. Napoleon also introduced the Napoleonic Code to the world. He based it off of Justinian's Code, or Roman law. The Napoleonic Code separated civil law into personal status, property and the acquisition of property, ensuring that every French citizen would have an equal chance to gain wealth and status. The Code was massively influential and became the basis for most European countries' governments. During his reign of power, Napoleon created the Bank of France to support France's faltering economy and provide his military campaigns with financial support. He used his personal wealth to back the money. He also later signed the Concordat with the Pope, recognizing Catholicism as the state religion, but also providing religious freedom to French citizens.
2. It is clear from the passage that, with the help of such reforms, Napoleon _____.
A) was not questioned with his skills as a leader
B) intended to set up a national bank to support France's economic power
C) aimed to bring harmony and satisfaction
D) conquered most of Europe with an array of insightful tactics
E) emphasized the new technologies and conditions
19. A) in comparison with B) instead of C) despite D) rather than E) thanks to
The laws concerning the breeding of animals for research could turn out to be to the ____ of medical research.
A) admission
B) detriment
C) exclusion
D) preference
E) cohesion
Mary : Where have you been? I have been looking for you.
Ken :I just went to the cafeteria to buy something to eat.
Mary :----
Ken : Unfortunately nothing. They said they had closed the food service.
A) How much did you pay for it?
B) You should have had a good breakfast in the morning.
C) What made you buy all this junk food?
D) How long did you wait for your order to get prepared?
E) Did you manage to find anything you could eat?
Language expands ____ abilities that are already present in the human brain.
A) coherent
B) coastal
C) collective
D) cohesive
E) cognitive
We learn from the text that some colorblind animals ----.
A) can choose between living in a gray world and living in a colorful world
B) can understand each other better than apes because of their lack of color vision
C) refute an important aspect of the evolution theory
D) make up for their inability to see colors with another innate skill
E) use their coats to impair other animals
She ____ the throne in 1891 upon the death of her brother, King Kalakaua.
A) accustomed
B) ascended
C) allured
D) animated
E) applied
(l) While mega cities are renowned for pollution, they often generate a lot of money. (II) Estimates made during the past two decades suggested that most mega cities would continue to increase at an alarming rate. (III) But contrary to expectations, more people are now leaving many of the world's largest urban areas than are moving in. (İV) For example, the population of Sao Paulo was expected to reach 24 million by the year 2000, but fewer than 13 million live there now. (V) There is a similar situation in cities such as Calcutta, Buenos Aires and Beijing.
A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V
The Parliament ____ Saudi Arabia's demolition of the historic Ottoman castle in its Plenary Session yesterday.
A) suggested
B) blamed
C) denounced
D) offended
E) harmed
(I) The burning of coal, oil and other combustible energy sources produces carbondioxide, a natural constituent of the atmosphere. (II) Most carbondioxide is emitted by automobiles. (Ill) Elevated levels of carbondioxide are thought to be responsible for half the greenhouse effect. (IV) Enough carbon dioxide has been sent into the atmosphere already to cause a significant temperature increase. (V) Growth in industrial production must be slowed, or production processes must be changed.
A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V