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AÇIKLAMALAR:
1- Bu soru kitapçığındaki test 40 sorudan oluşmaktadır.
2- Bu test için verilen cevaplama süresi 90 dakikadır (1,5 Saat) .
3- Bu kiapçıktaki testte yer alan her sorunun sadece bir doğru cevabı vardır. Bir soru için
birden çok cevap yeri işaretlenmişse o soru yanlış cevaplanmış sayılacaktır.
4- Değitirmek istediğiniz bir cevabı, size verilen silgiyle, cevap kâğıdını örselemeden
temizce siliniz ve yeni cevabınızı işaretlemeyi unutmayınız.
5- Bu sınavın değerlendirmesi doğru cevap sayısı üzerinden yapılacak, yanlış
cevaplar dikkate alınmayacaktır. Bu nedenle, her soruda size en doğru görünen
cevabı işaretleyerek cevapsız soru bırakmamanız yararınıza olabilir. Ancak İngiliz
Kültür Derneği olarak gerçek seviyenizi ölçmeye çalıştığımızı unutmayınız.
6- Doğru cevap sayınız 2,5 ile çarpılıp 100 üzerinden puanınız hesaplanacaktır.
7- Cevaplamaya istediğiniz sorudan başlayabilirsiniz. Bir soru ile ilgili cevabınızı, cevap
kâğıdında o soru için ayrılmış olan yere işaretlemeyi unutmayınız.
TÜM KATILIMCILARA BAŞARILAR DİLERİZ.
1.-13. sorularda boş bırakılan yerlere 4. Jade Boughters is scheduled to be
uygun düşen sözcük ya da ifadeyi executed by the state of Georgia later
bulunuz. this month _______ most of the
witnesses have recanted their testimony
1.Moments after you arrive in Gibraltar, and implicated another man; new
an ______ thing happens. The road into evidence that has never been heard.
town takes the dimensions of a runaway
airport. A) whereas B) despite the fact that
A) extreme B) odd C) unknown C) yet D) so that E) due to
D) pale E) ordinary 5. About 1590, two Dutch spectacle
makers Zaccharias Janssen and his son
Hans, while ______ with several lenses
2. Bacteria are _____ in every habitat on in a tube, _____ that nearby objects
Earth, growing in soil, acidic hot spring, appeared greatly enlarged.
radioactive waste, seawater, and deep in
the earth’s crust. A)experimenting / discovered
A) rare B) apperent C) ubiquitous B)experimented / discovered
D) harmless E) abundant C) were experimenting / discover
D) have experimented / would have
3. Having been defined by the scientists discovered
previously,_______________________
E) would have experimented / had
A) some people stil do not know what their discovered
structure is.
6. The immune systems of vertebrates
B) scientists group amino acids in size such as humans ______ of many types of
from just a hydrogen atom in glycine, proteins, cells, organs, and tissues, which
through a methyl group in alanine, to a ___ in an elaborate and dynamic
large heterocyclic group in tryptophan. network
C) it is believed that ancient scholars of A)consisted / interact
Egypt had knowledge and finding about
amino acids. B) consist / interact
D) there has been a debate on the C) consisting / interact
definition of amino acids and their
functions. D) would consist / interacts
E) an amino is a molecule that contains E) consists / interacts
both amine and carboxyl functional groups.
7. In 1678, English mathematician Sir 9. The bones within bat wings are
Isaac Newton published Principia, structurally similar to both human
_________________________ hands and seal flippers ________ the
common descent of these structures
A)which hypothesizes the inverse-square from an acestor that also had 5 digits at
law of universal gravitation. the end of each forelimb.
B) although it was extremely diffucult to A) although B) due to C) therefore
prove it at that time.
D) yet E) hence
C) who had the greatest impact on the
history of science.
10. Many of the sleep problems of
D) that was one his most significant childhood are __________ the fact that
contributions to the scientific world. children’s sleep patterns are different
from those of adults.
E) as soon as he described universal
gravitation and the three laws of motion, A) rely on B) focus on C) subject to
laying the groundwork for classical
mechanics D) based on E) account for
8. ___________________ that leads to a 11. A television system may be made up
contradiction or a situation which defies of multiple components, __________ a
intuition. screen which lacks an internal tuner to
receive the broadcast signals is called a
A)A paradox, a confusion in time, is defined monitor rather than a television.
B) It would have been impossible to tell A) so B) therefore C) however
C) Now that there many various theories D) due to the fact that E) inspite of
about a paradox
D) the word paradox is often used 12. If a person tells you a first-hand
interchangeably and wrongly story of their life, and the things in their
life are _______ your worldview, you
E) A paradox is an apparently true will not want to believe them.
statement or group statements
A) same as B) similar C) the same
D) contrary to E) different
Many of the things we use in everyday 16.
life (13) _______ from synthetic
materials, (14)________ materials that A) have often been B) are often being
have been made by man. Nylon and
plastics are examples of synthetic B) should often be D) were often been
materials. Things made from synthetic
materials are often (15)_______ things E) had often been
made from natural materials, for
example nylon clothes are cheaper than
cotton clothes. For the last forty years, 17.
synthetic materials (16)_______ used in
place of natural materials. Plastics, A)However / are doing
(17)______, made from coal and oil, do
many jobs which metal or leather B) Moreover / have been doing
____________
C) in the meantime
13. D) For instance / used to do
A) that are manufactured E) respectively / should do
B) are manufactured
18. It was once thought that mentally
C) that manufactured retarded children develop mentally
________
D) to manufacture
A) experimentation by scientists shows the
E) manufacture opposite
B) but it is apparently not so much
14. articulate
A) That is B) In addition C) Consequently C) as do normal children but stop earlier
D) Because E ) which are D) however there is no question on this
point
15. E) as the doctors do in most cases
A) The most costly B) As costly as
C) Less costly than D) More cosly than
E) Costly
19. – 20. Sorularda verilen cümleyi 21. – 22. Soularda verilen İngilizce
uygun şekilde tamamlaya ifadeyi cümleye anlamca en yakın olan Türkçe
bulunuz. cümleyi bulunuz.
21. When leaned against the house, the
19. The basic shape and configuration distance of the ladder from the foot of
of a typical have hardly changed since the wall ought to be quarter of the
the first chain-driven model was height of it.
developed around
1885 ,________________ A) Merdiveni eve dayadığınızdaduvardan
uzaklığı yüksekliğinin dörtte biri olur.
A) and these shifts in both shape and use
affected the use of bicycles B) Duvardan uzaklığı yüksekliğinin dörtte
biri olan merdiven eve dayanmalıdır.
B) therefore, the number of bicycles
produced each year is not given in statistics C) Merdiven eve dayandığında duvarın
dibinden uzaklığı yüksekliğinin dörtte biri
C) in addition, the exact date of the olmalıdır.
invention of the bicycle has never been
recorded D) Eve dayandığınızda duvarla merdiven
arasındaki mesafe yüksekliğinin dörtte biri
D) that the first bicycle looked somehow olmalıdır.
different from what we know today
E) Merdiven ayaklarıyla duvar arasındaki
E) yet many important details have so far mesafe dayanılan evin yüksekliğinin dörtte
been improved. biri olmalıdır.
22. For many, sleep has become a luxury
which can be sacrificed or nuisance
20. Ten out of twelve parents in the must be endured.
survey say they would choose to have
children ___________ A) Uyku birçok şey için feda edilen bir
lüks ve ya dayanılması gereken bir
A) whether only one or more died sıkıntıdır.
B) unless they weren’t given a change B) Uyku birçok kişi için feda edilen bir
lüks ya da dayanılmaz bir tutkudur.
C) especially when they have family
conflicts C) Birçokları için lüks olan uykuya ya
veda edilmeli ya da tahammül edilmelidir.
D) if they had to do is again
D) Birçokları için uyku ya feda edilecek
E) since they didn’t have any bir lüks ya da tahammül edilmesi gereken
bir baş belası olmuştur.
E) Birçok kişi için baş belası olan uyku
bazıları için lüks oldu
23. – 24. Sorularda verilen Türkçe 25. - 26. Sorularda parçada boş bırakılan
cümleye anlamca en yakın olan yere uygun düşen cümleyi bulunuz.
İngilizce cümleyi bulunuz.
23. Bu isteğe uymayanlar iki aylık su 25. The first steam turbine was
faturalarının iki katına kadar para described in 1551 by the Arab inventor,
cezalarıyla karşı karşıyadırlar. Taqi al-Din. He described a method for
rotating a spit by means of a jet of steam
A) Those people not complying with this acting on rotary vanes around the
demand may confront fines twice as high periphery of a wheel. A similardevice
as their bimonthly water bill was shown by Giovanni Branca, an
italian engineer in 1629, for turning a
B) People that have failed to comply with cylindrical escapement device that
this demand are forced to pay fines of alternately lifted and let fall a pair of
about two times their bimonthly water bill pesties working in mortars.
__________________
C) People who don’t follow this order have
A)Practical development of the steam engine,
to pay fines as high as their water bill for
however, required an economic climate in
two months. which the developers of engines could profit
by their creations
D) Those who don’t comply with this
demand face fines of up to twice their B) Steam turbines, technically a type of steam
bimonthly water bill engine, are stil widely used for generating
electricity. About 86% of all electric power in
E) Those that didn’t pay attention to this the world is generated by use of steam turbines
order are at risk since they face high fines
like their bimonthly water bill C) The steam jet in these early steam turbines,
however, was not concentrated and much of its
energy dissipated in all directions, giving a low
24. Komisyon, meclis ya da üyelerince
efficiency
kendilerine yöneltilen sorulara sözlü
veya yazılı cevap verecektir. D) A steam engine is an external combustion
heat engine that makes use of the heat energy
A) The commission will answer questions that exists in steam, coverting it to mechanical
which the Assembly or its members ask
orally or in writing work
B) The questions will be answered by the E)Contrary to this belief, they were essential to
commission orally or in writing that are the Industrial Revolution and saw widespread
asked either by the Assembly or its commercial use driving machinery in factories
members and mills, although most have since been
superseded by internal combustion engines and
C) The commission will reply to the electric motors.
questions asked by the Assembly or its
members either orally or in writing
D) The oral or written questions asked of
the commission by the Assembly or its
members will be answered
E) The commission will reply orally or in
writing to questions put to it by the
Assembly or by its members.
27. - 28. Sorularda cümleler sırasıyla
26. _______________________ The okunduğunda parçanın anlam
signaling equipment, firstly, consists of a bütünlüğünü bozan cümleyi bulunuz.
bell to alert the user of calls, and a dial
to enter the phone number for outgoing 27. (I) Human languages initially use
calls. As for the voice, a calling party patterns of sound and gestures (or body
wishing to speak to another telephone language) to convey information. (II)
will pick up the handset, thus operating These sounds, along with descriptions of
the switch hook, which puts the gestures and intonation where crucial to
telephone into active state or off hook comprehension, can be converted into
with a resistance short across the wires, written form with little loss of
causing current to flow. The telephone information. (III) Gestures and
excange detects the DC current, attaches intonation can convey the emotional
a digit receiver and sends dial tone to content of speech and are always a part
indicate readiness. The user pushes the of delivery, but are not routinely
number buttons, which are connected to conveyed in written form. (IV) Some
a tone generator inside the dial, which human languages, typically those of
generates DTMF tones. The exchange small populations, exist only in the
connects the line to the desired line and audible form. That is, they do not have
alerts that line. any written form or shape. (V) Expert
readers are often able to induce and
A) The early history of the telephone is a restore the original inflection and some
confusing morass of claim and of the emotional content from the
counterclaim, which was not clarified by surrounding context of the written
the huge mass of lawsuit which hoped to words.
resolve the patent claims of individuals
A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V
B) The telephone handles two kinds of
information: signals and voice, at the same 28. (I) A society is a grouping of
times on the same wire individuals, which is characterized by
common interests and may have
C) The voice parts of the telephone are in distinctive culture and institutions. (II)
the handset, and consist of a transmitter The English word “society” emerged in
(often called microphone) and a receiver the 15th century and was derived from
the French société. (III) In a society,
D)The transmitter, powered from the line, members can be from a different ethnic
puts out an electric current which varies in group. (IV) A “society” may refer to a
response to the accoustic pressure waves particular people, such as Switzerland,
produced by the voice. or to a broader cultural group, such as a
Western society. (V) Society can also
E) Early telephones were locally powered, refer to an organized group of people
using a dynamic transmitter or else associated together for religious,
powering the transmitter with a local benevolent, cultural, scientific, political,
battery. patriotic, or other purposes.
A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V
Joseph Banks was born in 1743, the only
29. - 30. Sorularda karşılıklı son of a wealthy land-owning family.
konuşmanın boş bırakılan kısmında From an early age, his declared passion
söylenmiş olabilecek ifadeyi bulunuz. was natural history, and in particular,
botany. Shortly after inheriting his
29. family’s fortune in the early 1760’s he
Darren:________________________ chose to pursue this passion to the full. In
Bailey: Of course, it is on my way home 1766 he travelled to Newfoundland and
Labrador to collect plants, animals and
anyway.
rocks and was elected a Fellow of the
Darren: I know, that’s why I asked you.
Royal Society in the same year. When the
Bailey: Oh, I see. You have some
Royal Society was successful in initiating
business to attend to three, I presume. Captain Cook’s 1768 expedition to Tahiti
for astronomical observations. Banks
A)Do you know where the post Office is? obtained permission from the Admiralty
to join the venture. For him, this was like
B) I wish you could teach me how to drive a present-day scientist being given the
chance of a trip to another planet, a
C) Do you think we could stop at chance to study new plants in unknown
Murphy’s for a drink? lands. They made collections and
observations in South America, Tahiti and
D) Can you give a ride home? New Zealand before reaching Australia.
His major landfalls on the eastern coast of
E) Did you ask me where I lived? Australia were Botany Bay and at the
Endeavour River. The plant material
30. collected and sorted on the voyage was
David: How did you learn to speak extensive, with the herbarium specimens
English so well? accounting for about 110 new genera and
Raymond:_______________________ 1300 new species. After his triumphant
David: I rarely find any time to sit at return from this voyage, Banks traveled to
home and listen to the radio. Scotland, Wales, Holland and Iceland,
collecting more and more ‘ curiosities’.
A)Have you tried listening to the radio? Among a host of other activities, including
the running of his estates, he controlled
the Royal Botanic Gardens. In 1778 he
B) I think listening to the radio helped me
also became President of the Royal Society,
a lot an office which he held until his death in
1820. He was knighted in 1781. Although
C) Radio broadcasts are very interesting Linneaus’ suggestion of naming the new
these days country ‘Banksia’ was not adopted,
Bank’s name was bestowed upon a genus
D) Well, I spent 3 years in Britain of Australian plants and he made his
mark upon Australian history in other
E) I had a very good teacher at school ways. When the Britsh government was
casting about for a suitable place to
establish a penal colony, Banks was an
advocate for Botany Bay.
31.It can be understood from the 33. It is stated in the passsage that after
passage that _______ they made collections and observations
in South America, Tahiti and new
A) Banks came from a wealth and Zealand,________
powerful family and he had full support of
his family A) They made their way back to the UK
and then Banks was famous for his
B) He could only begin his studies after he explorations.
inherited the fortune of his family
B) banks was able to provide detailed and
C) He declared passion was natural history, additional information of about 110 new
and in particular, botany, yet he strictly genera and 1300 new species.
forbidden by his family to deal with these
issues C)Banks joined a new voyage to Australia,
which was extremely successful
D)His family was one the most powerful
and wealth families in the UK in the mid D )Banks was not the only one who
1700s and they had had massive lands studied new plants in unknown lands at
that time.
E) Without permission from his family, he
travelled to Newfoundland and Labrador to E) Banks honored by the royal society and
collect plants, animals and rocks and was asked to be President of the Royal society,
elected a Fellow of Royal Society in the an office which he held until his death in
same year 1820.
32. We can infer from the passage that 34. We understand from the passage
___ that the name Banksia
__________________
A) Scientists were generally given the
chance to explore things and hold their A) was proposed to be given to the new
studies with royal army fleet in the 1700s. country, however it was not agreed to be
done so.
B) The royal society was apparently
interested in Bank’s studies and hence let B) had been decided to be known as the
him join the expedition to Tahiti. name of the new country by the British
government
C) Being given an oppourtunity to join an
expedition to an un-explored land was C) was bestowed upon a genus of the some
regarded as a chance not to be missed. plants
D) Banks was not the only one who D) is not only well-known in Australia, but
studied new plants in unknown lands at the also known in the world
time
E) the idea of naming the new country
E) He was chosen to participate in the ‘Banksia’ should have been adopted
expedition to Tahiti as a scientist to make
explorations and observations in due to his
previous success.
35. According to the passage ,_________ 36. It is stated in the passage that
_______
A) Banks was the first to carry overseas
studies on plants in the world until the A)Micro-organisms are considered to be a
1700s. member of the plant kingdom and protozoa.
B) Banks could have been more successful B) there has been a debate on what group
if he was given the support from his family the micro-organism belongs to for years.
C) Banks owes his fortune thanks to the C) the classification of the micro-
explorations and studies he had made. organisms did not rely on any scientific
reality
D) Banks was awarded by the royal society
because of his successful studies D)micro-organisms should have been
classified in the plant kingdom and
E) Banks was against the idea of setting a protozoa since they cause confusions.
penal colony in Australia and thus he
became an advocate E)there are seemingly useless deposits
36.-40. soruları aşağıdaki parçaya göre
cevaplayınız. 37. It is pointed out that ____________
Micro-organisms were once regarded as A) a virus is certainly not a plant thus
being members of the plant kingdom, should not be in the plant kingdom
apart from protozoa which were classed
as animals. It became obvious that this B) there were few theories and
arbitrary classification resulted in classifications to which group micro-
confusions, even absurdities. A virus organisms belonged to.
infecting an animal cannot, by any
criterion, be termed a plant. There C) is one of Britain’s major exports
became as almost many systems of
classification as there were D) takes millions of years to form
microbiologist. In order to clarify the
nature of micro-organisms, we may E) is the second most indispensable
distinguish between those, like fungi, material for industry
and some algae, which have a cell
structure similar to higher organisms
and those, like bacteria and the blue
green algae, which have a competitively
simple cell structure. We will refer to
the former as ‘higher protists’ and to the
latter as ‘lower protists’. Both these
groups are placed in the kingdom
Protista. The viruses and the recently
described subviral agents cannot at
present be adequately classified, sowe
shall place them in group of their own.
38. According to the passage, fungi and 40. It is understood from the passage
some algae _____________ that _______________________
A) both resemble and differ from each A) it is an extremely difficult task to
other in terms of their cell strucutures. classify micro – organisms in to any
category.
B) are similar in shape and function as the
bacteria and the blue gren algae are. B) it had been relatively easy to determine
the members of the plant kingdom,
C) were proved not to be micro – whereas it was hard to do so for the
organisms and that they had to be kingdom Protista.
classified separately.
C) the discrimination of higher protists
D) have complex cell structure that is far “lower protists” were suggested in the past
more different than bacteria and the blue and have been discussed for years.
gren algae
D) micro – organisms may be regarded as
E) are classified as “higher protists” and neither plants, nor protozoa.
that they belong to the kingdom Protista.
E) it has been a challenging issue to
39. It can be inferred from the passage classify micro – organisms to a specific
that ____________________ category for years.
A) micro – organisms were impossible to
classify and hence they should be placed in
to the kingdom Protista
B) “higher protists” belong to the kingdom
Protista, whereas “lower protists” don’t. TEST BİTTİ.
C) bacteria and the blue gren algae are CEVAPLARINIZI KONTROL EDİNİZ.
micro – organisms having the simplest cell
strucure.
D) the classification of micro – organisms
in the plant kingdom was suggested by
many scientists in the past.
E)it has been recently possible to classify
the viruses and the recently described
subviral agents in to the kingdom Protista.
1)B 21)C
2)C 22)D
3)E 23)D
4)B 24)E
5)A 25)C
6)B 26)B
7)A 27)D
8)E 28)B
9)B 29)D
10)D 30)A
11)A 31)B
12)D 32)C
13)A 33)D
14)E 34)A
15)C 35)D
16)A 36)C
17)D 37)A
18)C 38)E
19)E 39)C
20)D 40)E
