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Andy Stern runs the largest and fastest growing labour union in the US. -----. But today you probably do not. For his activities receive almost no coverage in the press.
A) Actually, only 8.2 per cent of the private sector workforce is still enrolled in unions
B) If this were 25 or 50 or 100 years ago, you would surely know of a labour leader like Stern
C) Unless organized labour's constitution is overhauled the movement will keep on withering
D) Low wage hospital and clerical workers really do need a union
E) More innovative labour proposals include a global minimum wage
Gracie :
What did you do last night? You left before I came home.
Amy :
Nothing special. I went to see that new movie Elizabethtown with a friend of mine.
Gracie :
----
Amy :
You weren’t around so I didn’t think to ask you. Anyway, it wasn’t that great.
A) I’ll make it up to you next weekend. I’ll go with you to the movie of your choice.
B) You went to see it again! Isn’t that like the fourth time?
C) I only went because I had that free pass I got for my birthday.
D) The people behind me were talking so much that I missed a lot of the dialogue.
E) You know I wanted to see that movie too. Why didn’t you tell me you were going to see it?
The age at which puberty begins seems to be influenced by a child’s general health and
nutrition ---- by socioeconomic and hereditary factors.
A) also B) so long as C) as well as
D) both E) either
There is little I can do to help her.
A) It is true that I did my best to help her.
B) There is no one from whom she can seek out help.
C) All I wanted was just her help.
D) There is not much I can do to give her a hand.
E) That I do not help her proves that I do not like her.
----, the Noise Pollution Clearinghouse is partnering with the anti-alarm group Silent Majority to banish car alarms for good.
A) For almost thirty years car alarms have polluted America's cities
B) Now that silent, inexpensive anti-theft devices are available
C) Much as car theft has yet to be reduced but sleepers are roused
D) As the prices had already fallen enough to make their purchase possible
E) In case medical conditions arising from pollution of this kind can be very expensive
Roger : Where will the new bridge be?
Bill : Five miles downstream.
Roger : ______
Bill : No, the rock formation isn’t suitable.
A) People living there won’t be pleased, will they?
B) Have the engineers submitted their plans?
C) Couldn’t they build it nearer here?
D) But the river is very wide there.
E) There’s already a good road there.
Many solutions for the problems of traffic ____ were suggested at the meeting.
A) congestion
B) conformity
C) conflict
D) conjunction
E) connotation
Pop music, perhaps due to its increasing commercialisation, is often criticized for being entertaining while lacking serious musical value and artistic significance. This is typically attributed by critics to record companies' financial gains being placed above artistic considerations, by hand-picking the artists and songs that will have a broad appeal and maximum profits. Sometimes, in the case of the British pop group Hear'Say, for example, young and fashionable people who have little or no prior knowledge of the music industry are transformed into a band that sells music and related merchandise to a preteen or teenage audience. A consequence of this increasingly common commercialisation is that genres which attain credibility as styles in their own right are often considered ‘independent’ instead of 'pop'. Those musicians, as well as their fans, sometimes strive to separate themselves from the commercial aspect of current pop music.
51. It is clearly stated in the passage that according to critics, pop music ----.
A)has a shortage of creativity and intellectual stimulation other kinds of music have
B) is a favourite among teens and college students
C) financially benefits record companies, not musicians
D) is carefully selected by radio stations to produce the maximum listening pleasure
E) has become so commercialised that fans won’t buy music anymore
In our solar system today there are over 30 000 asteroids flying around in all directions colliding with other asteroids and planets not caring about the destruction they might convey. Our planet Earth is caught right in the middle of all of this action and is liable to entire extinction of any life forms on the planet if a large enough asteroid crosses its path. Any one single asteroid has the possibility to erase thousands of years of history and wipe out the human race as we know it. Asteroids are large or small chunks of rock and metal flying around space up to speeds of
43. The main concern of the passage is____.
A) the formations of asteroids
B) the connection of the world with the events.
C) the event of Big Bang
D) the dangers of deviating asteroids from their routes
E) the features of asteroids
56 56 . The passage tells us that today's oil, gas and coal ...............
A) came into being thanks to the energy that fostered the early life on the Earth
B) can be produced at a lower cost than it used to be
C) cannot be mined in quite a few different methods
D) can be combined into some new powers
E) may not last us for another decade at their current rate of consumption
A) if
B) so that
C) even if
D) when
E) as though
He has given up political power, but he remains _____ in control of the army.
A) absolutely B) surely
C) tensely D) securely
E) hardly
______ a distinction is made between white and coloured objects.
A) In most discussions of colour
B) Colours are termed neutral or achromatic colours
C) The perception of colour is a complex visual sensation
D) An understanding of the terms
E) Most paints, on the other hand, have body or pigment colours
Onun görüşüne göre, özel sektör gelişmek için daha çok rekabete ihtiyaç duymaktadır.
A) His view is that the need of the private sector for competition has been over-rated.
B) He reasons that it is the keener competition that makes the private sector flourish.
C) His argument is that there should be more competition from the flourishing private sector.
D) The private sector, he thinks, needs more competition to flourish.
E) The private sector, in his opinion, has done well because it faces constant competition.
Nearly fifteen years after South Africa’s democratic overthrow of apartheid, the country is facing growing (17) ---- over the rise of “economic apartheid” and the way it (18) ---- millions of South Africans in the same,if not a worsening economic position than they endured prior to 1994. (19) ---- South African government statistics, the average black household has become 15% poorer over the last fourteen years, while an average white household has seen its wealth grow (20) ---- some 19%. There has been a 20% decrease in the income of the poorest 50% of South Africans, and black South Africans have lost
(21) ---- two million jobs over the same period.
18.
A) is leaving B) had left
C) would have left D) left
E) was leaving
One of the necessary conditions of preservation can only be found in the seas and rivers and sometimes lakes, ----.
A) which lived near water whose remains are most likely to be preserved
B) whether it be plant or animal it is by chance that such a fate is avoided
C) where mud and silt have been continuously deposited
D) at which exactly the same conditions came out
E) the remains of those that lived on land are much more rarely preserved
Doug : Do you remember those tools I lent when you were building that bookshelf? Well, I’d like them back now.
Tom : -----
Doug : I do and urgently because I have to fix one of the stairs before someone falls and gets hurt.
Tom : Well, if I don’t come across them, I’ll buy you a new set.
A) Thanks for reminding me; I’ve been meaning to give them back to you for weeks.
B) Honestly, I don’t know where they are. Do you need them for something?
C) Remember? I returned them a while ago.
D) What do you mean? I thought you said I could keep them.
E) I found one of your tools in your driveway. It must have fallen out while you were bringing the box out of your car.
A theory ____ only when a hypothesis ______ by consistent results from many observations or experiments.
A) may have been developed / was being supported
B) can be developed / has been supported
C) will be developed / was supported
D) has been developed / had been supported
E) had been developed / might have been supported
Africans have at last lost patience with their governments. They are particularly angry about declining living standards, the breakdown of law and order. The government officials in particular, are full of complaints ......... Most of them are members of militant trade unions, through which they demonstrate and go on strike. So, chaos and continuous political instability can never be averted.
A) It is possible that market forces and world economic conditions can upset their high hopes for improvement
B) Among the demonstrators are people from the countryside who have been flooding into towns seeking a better life
C) Undoubtedly, Africans want multi-party democracy and are working hard to achieve it
D) Since most governments are short of cash, these officials are underpaid or paid late
E) Obviously, people tend to accept painful policies more readily from elected governments than from dictators
On the one hand, technology makes life easier for man, but on the other hand, it endangers his existence.
A) Teknoloji insanın yaşamını kolaylaştırmaktadır, ancak bir taraftan da varlığını tehdit edebilmektedir.
B) İnsan, yaşamını kolaylaştırmak için teknolojiler üretmektedir; fakat bu arada varlığını da tehlikeye atmaktadır.
C) Teknolojik gelişmeyle yaşamını kolaylaştırmaya çalışırken, varlığını tehlikeye sokan yine insanın kendisidir.
D) Teknoloji, bir yandan insanın yaşamını kolaylaştırırken, öte yandan varlığını tehlikeye sokmaktadır.
E) İnsanın, yaşamını kolaylaştırmak için ürettiği teknolojiler, bir taraftan da varlığını tehdit etmektedir.
(I) A true partnership between developed and developing countries could have achieved a breakthrough. (II) Over the past half-century the dream of a world free from poverty, disease and despair has grown no nearer to fulfillment. (Ill) In the 1960s, some 60 countries actually grew poorer. (IV) Over the years, 30,000 children have been dying daily of preventable diseases.(V) Further, the spread of AIDS has become the most deadly epidemic in human history.
A) I
B) II
C) III
D) IV
She said she'd _____ later to pick up that report.
A) call up
B) call in
C) call at
D) call for
E) call back
______ there are at least four serious chemical leaks each day.
A) According to recent reports from the government
B) If the consumption of chemicals reduces
C) Although electrical systems could deliver a lot of energy
D) As naval gunnery had its own special problems
E) Because of the chemical leaks 135 deaths have occurred
Dr. Hutchinson : For this operation did you use the new techniques you
described in your last article?
Surgeon : Yes, I did; and I must confess I’m fully satisfied with
the results.
Dr. Hutchinson : So this looks like a new breakthrough in surgery.
Congratulations
Surgeon : ______
A) On the contrary that particular article aroused a great deal of interest in medical circles.
B) Don’t be so enthusiastic. I am somewhat disappointed.
C) As you say, there are still various problems to be solved.
D) Well, thanks, but there is still scope for further improvements.
The accounts of incidents that I will relive on these pages .............. from the official Department Records that I...............
A) will be compiled /have maintained
B) compile / maintained
C) had compiled / was maintained
D) compiled / maintain
E) would compile/ had been maintained
A) for B) of
C) about D) in
E) to
Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez is using his country's oil wealth to ____ a sphere of influence in Latin America.
A) cover
B) correct
C) crash
D) crave
E) create
Bruxism is the term for grinding or clenching your teeth. It comes from the Greek word 'brychein' (say: bry-ken), which means to grind the teeth. Bruxism can happen during the day, but it usually happens when you are asleep. Most of the times you don't even know you're doing it! It can happen to kids who still have all their baby teeth or kids whose permanent teeth are starting to grow in. Dentists don't know for sure why some people grind their teeth, but they think it may have something to do with a person's bite - which means the way the top and bottom teeth fit together. Stress also may be behind bruxism. Have you ever worried about a test at school, something a bully said to you, or moving to a new town? Your body can react to these nervous feelings and fears in different ways, like grinding or clenching your teeth. Many kids gnash their teeth at some time or another. Most of the time, it doesn't cause any pain or damage to your teeth. But if you share a room, you could drive your brother or sister nuts with the sound! In serious cases, night time grinding can wear down tooth enamel (the hard covering on your teeth) and cause jaw problems and pain. But these problems usually happen to grown-ups.
According to the passage, bruxism ____.
A) has a soothing effect on children
B) happens when one is nervous
C) is an action done unconsciously
D) occurs only at night
E) is observed only among kids
A donkey, an ass, and a burro are all the same name for the same beast. Jackass is merely the name for a male ass, while jennett is the name for a female ass. ----. This form of cheap labor spread throughout the world. And uses of the ass expanded to include the skin off of the ass, the meat off of it's bones, and the actual export of the ass as a commodity.
A) The over-depletion of the versatile Somali wild ass, however, explains its rarity today.
B) The Ancient Egyptians domesticated the sturdy ass 5,000 years ago to use in transportation.
C) Asian wild asses, for example, suffered a similar fate.
D) Certain groups are attempting to protect the few remaining asses from being hunted and killed.
Mozart started his career from a point that all the other composers of his time were desperately trying to reach.
A) Mozart döneminin öteki bestecileri, onun mesleğine başladığı noktaya ulaşmak için olağanüstü gayret göstermiştir.
B) Mozart’ın mesleğine başladığı nokta, döneminin öteki bestecilerinin her ne pahasına olursa olsun varmaya çalıştıkları noktadır.
C) Mozart, mesleğine, çağının tüm diğer bestecilerinin canını dişine takarak ulaşmaya çalıştığı bir noktadan başlamıştır.
D) Kendi dönemin bestecilerinin hiçbir zaman ulaşamayacağı bir noktayı Mozart, mesleğinin başlangıcı olarak almıştır.
E) Mozart’ın mesleğinin başlangıç noktası, kendi döneminin tüm bestecilerinin mutlaka varmaya çalıştıkları noktadır.
The Federal Reserve also buys lots of government bonds, ___.
A) causing the economy to grow and inflation to increase
B) came from aluminum, titanium, steel and other materials
C) made from unprocessed crude oil, also known as petroleum
D) as rised of interest rates in a country often spurs inflation
E) which causes the price of these bonds to rise
In his writing, Hemingway began by exploring themes of helplessness and defeat, but in the late 1930s he began to express his_____ for social problems.
A) obligation
B) concern
C) deceit
D) alteration
E) disturbance
According to the study by Patricia Dietz, —.
A) the level of depression among women was particularly high in 2007
B) the incidence of depression in females rises just before giving birth
C) the highest level of depression is seen during pregnancy
D) the majority of the women had all suffered from depression
E) women are depressed most in the nine months following childbirth
A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. That is to say, a songwriter is a ‘lyricist’, a composer, or both. The word 'songwriter' is however more commonly used these days to describe one who writes popular songs for others to perform than to describe a writer of art songs. People who sing their own songs are nowadays typically called ‘singer-songwriters’, although the tradition of doing this dates back hundreds of years. It is often speculated that pre-historic man must have made up and sung songs. Most art song-writing is written for somebody other than the composer to perform, although it is known that Schubert often sang his own songs at private parties, and there have been a number of composers who were also singers and wrote for themselves. Many modern rock and roll bands have one or two songwriters, often members of the band. In many cases, the lead singer is one of the songwriters.
According to the passage, a songwriter today is someone who ----.
A) composes melodic songs called ‘lyrics’
B) writes and sings their own lyrics
C) cares little for popular music, only for art
D) bases their major influences on pre-historic song writing history
E) composes the words to a song that someone else sings
Margaret: My neighbor called this morning and told me that her house was broken into last night.
Lydia : That’s awful. Do you know if anything valuable was stolen?
Margaret: ----
Lydia : I hope now you’ll take my advice and have a security system installed in your home.
A) Be sure and send them my apologies
B) How long did it take the police to get to the house once the crime was reported?
C) It’s their own fault when they leave doors and windows unlocked.
D) Luckily, the alarm went off and scared the burglar away, so nothing was actually taken.
E) Have you ever been robbed before?
If only they would follow our example and behave in a/an _____ manner , all this suffering could be avoided.
A) common
B) usual
C) collective
D) popular
E) reasonable
It is suggested in the passage that children ------.
A) are not aware of the fact that in their games they are involved in some kind of engineering activity
B) should be constantly encouraged to play games that involve engineering techniques
C) love to imitate the activities that go on around them
D) are incapable of imaginative thinking
E) have a primitive perception of life
Teacher involvement in play has been a controversial subject for many years. A longstanding tradition
(20)---- early childhood education dictates that teachers should not interfere in children’s play. This tradition
(21)---- the psychoanalytic view that play’s main function is to enable children to work out their inner conflicts.
(22)---- this view, the teacher’s role was to set the stage for play and to observe children. The teachers could
then (23)---- monitor their play for clues about their emotional adjustment. However, teachers were cautioned never to interfere with children’s play (24)---- such interference might disrupt play, inhibit children from revealing their true feelings and reduce play’s therapeutic benefits.
23.
A) notably
B) forcefully
C) abruptly
D) closely
E) generously
Visibility depends ______ upon the concentration of water or dust particles in the air.
A) rapidly
B) obstinately
C) instantly
D) suitably
E) chiefly
Stoicism is a school of philosophy. Its distinctive feature is its cosmopolitanism. .............. Thus, Stoics recognized and advocated the brotherhood of humanity and the natural equality of all human beings.
A) They were also noted for their incredibly hostile attitude toward both slaves and villagers
B) However, they struggled hard to destroy the brotherhood of humanity and the equality of human beings
C) According to Stoicism, all people are manifestations of the one universal spirit and should live in brotherly love and readily help one another
D) They maintained the idea that brotherly love and equality were not likely to become true among people
E) Yet, the word 'stoic' now is very commonly referred to someone indifferent to pain, pleasure, grief, or joy