1) Clinical surveys suggest that unfortunately, up to 30% of patients are ------- for malaria

without even being infected by it.

a) informed
b) argued
c) treated
d) raised
e) deleted
.

2) Though ankle injuries are common athletic mishaps, they also ------- during routine
activities, such as walking on uneven surfaces. (yökdil)
a) compete
b) perform
c) occur
d) dislike
e) allow
.

3) many of us are frightened of sharing personal information about ourselves because we

do not really know or trust our providers. These fears ------ communication. (yökdil)
a) involve
b) absorb
c) recover
d) block
e) promote
.

4) Modern science ------- answers to many of our fundamental questions about the universe
and our place within it.
a) offers
b) causes
c) consumes
d) happens
e) disappears
.

5) Some bacteria ------- nitrogen and carbon from decaying organic matter, and then release
these gases into the atmosphere to be reused by other living things. (yökdil)
a) defend
b) fail
c) recycle
d) delete
e) confuse
.
 6) Working together ------ many benefits to an individual, when hunting both small and
large prey.
a) avoids
b) becomes
c) ignores
d) happens
e) provides
.

7) Part of listening to what others are saying ------ observing how they say it.
a) includes
b) raises
c) appears
d) grows
e) controls
.

8) It is in the nature of physical theory that we can ------ a theory by finding behaviour that
is inconsistent with it.
a) exploit
b) require
c) disprove
d) remain
e) involve
.

9) Knowledge of a language ------- us to combine sounds to form words, words to form

phrases, and phrases to form sentences.
a) enables
b) prefers
c) refuses
d) chooses
e) includes
.

10) Technology makes it possible for companies to ------- enormous amounts of data on the
possible partners they will work with.
a) approve
b) perform
c) deccide
d) happen
e) collect
.
11) People find it easier to engage with and ------ people whom they regard as similar in
certain pertinent ways.
a) explain
b) decline
c) expect
d) compare
e) trust
.

12) Magnetic Resonance Imaging helps ------- and diagnose pathologies in most tissues in
the body.
a) react
b) install
c) invent
d) detect
e) defend
.

13) The best-known form of itch erupts when the body ------ to a simple mosquito bite.
a) rejects
b) refers
c) leads
d) conforms
e) reacts
.

14) 66 million years ago an asteroid struck Earth and wiped out an estimated 75 percent of
life. It is an event that infamously ------ the extinction of the dinosaur.
a) appeared
b) caused
c) defeated
d) shared
e) called
.

15) Some birdlike dinosaurs survived because they had toothless beaks, and could feed on
fire-resistant seeds when the food sources of most other species ------.
a) ignored
b) served
c) disappeared
d) declared
e) offered
.
16) It is ------ that over 90 billion spam messages are sent each day.
a) combined
b) declined
c) estimated
d) terminated
e) discharged
.

17) Researchers from a number of EU member states have joined forces to ------- the effects
of underwater noise generated by shipping.
a) investigate
b) supply
c) prepare
d) attend
e) complain
.

18) English is a language that has ------- across the globe and is now spoken all over the
world.
a) spread
b) prevented
c) dedicated
d) thrown
e) created
.

19) The Iris is the coloured part of the eye, the pupil in its centre appears black because it ---
------ the dark interior of the eye.
a) arrives
b) investigates
c) damages
d) lightens
e) estimates
.

20) The authorship of a controversial disputed paper was -------- to James Madison rather
than to Alexander Hamilton.
a) opposed
b) demonstrated
c) addicted
d) attributed
e) interpreted
.
21) Coloured industrial waste water is a serious environmental problem as it ------- sunlight
from photosynthesizing plant species in the water.
a) prevents
b) presents
c) meets
d) maintains
e) manages
.

22) Major depressive disorder is recognized as a significant health problem, and is ------- to
increase in the future.
a) invited
b) practised
c) repeated
d) predicted
e) accepted
.

23) Distant galaxies are all moving away from us, with the more distant ones moving faster,
which ------- that we live in an expanding universe.
a) manages
b) rejects
c) attends
d) suggests
e) prevents
.

24) Childcare is a broad term that ------- services which protect the health, safety, and well-
being of children who require custodial care by adults other than their own parents for a
temporary period of time.
a) hinders
b) encompasses
c) creates
d) eliminates
e) suspends
.

25) We must significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions from activities like heating and
transportation. One option would be to ------- to renewable energy sources wherever
possible.
a) confine
b) object
c) switch
d) accommodate
e) respond
.
26) Children who grow up in two-parent homes where the parents are non-traditional in their
own gender roles ------- less gender-stereotypic behaviour than do children whose
parents are traditional in their role enactment.
a) display
b) alter
c) achieve
d) reject
e) eradicate
.

27) Parents who are responsive, non-authoritarian, and who manifest empathetic and caring
behaviours can ---- the development of empathy in their children.
a) delay
b) acknowledge
c) relieve
d) enhance
e) surpass
.

28) Despite the harsh weather conditions that they have to -------, some of these plants are
up to 3,000 years old.
a) endure
b) influence
c) avoid
d) trigger
e) improve
.

29) Trade between people depends on a uniform set of weights and measures that can be
used by both sides of the transaction to ------- that the amount obtained or handed over
is correct.
a) disapprove
b) pretend
c) ensure
d) realise
e) estimate
.

30) That we have the ability to detect and ------- minute differences in the fat content of food
suggests that this ability must have had considerable evolutionary importance.
a) discriminate
b) hinder
c) undermine
d) tackle
e) protect
.
31) Great Britain was one of the most powerful nations in the world in the 18th century. It led
the world in ------- new sources of energy for making textiles and concentrating the
process in factories.
a) accelerating
b) utilising
c) challenging
d) eliminating
e) recruiting
.

32) Exposure to sunshine enables the production of vitamin D in our skin, and this ------- the
growth and maintenance of healthy bones and teeth.
a) deteriorates
b) differentiates
c) promotes
d) articulates
e) declares
.

33) Ants have special waste disposal areas for storing hazardous waste and a team of
‘waste-disposal ants’ dedicated to keeping the nest clean. But ants ------- this familiar
end result in a very different way to humans.
a) defeat
b) regret
c) achieve
d) select
e) host
.

34) A good teacher is one who provides a review at the start of a new lesson, states
reasonable objectives, ------- an appropriate level of lesson difficulty and engages
students in the learning process.
a) disputes
b) conquers
c) renews
d) maintains
e) claims
.

35) With mankind ------- by an energy crisis and climate change, nuclear power is back on
the scene.
a) allowed
b) responded
c) surpassed
d) initiated
e) confronted
.
36) Their final design seems to ------- several elements found in birds.
a) incorporate
b) rehearse
c) convert
d) threaten
e) review
.

37) The growing child is a showcase of developing skills and abilities, and researchers
interested in different aspects of human development have ------- this fact to help them
understand adult behaviour.
a) weakened
b) eliminated
c) expanded
d) demanded
e) utilized
.

38) People seem to forget that an e-mail says so much about them, but it can even ------
personality characteristics.
a) receive
b) eliminate
c) overcome
d) convey
e) abandon
.

39) Total world population seems to have ---- around a level of approximately half a billion
people until the modern period, when it began to climb steadily.
a) appeared
b) expired
c) qualified
d) fluctuated
e) weakened
.

40) The rapid growth of English as an international language has ------- a number of
interesting discussions about the status of English today.
a) confirmed
b) postponed
c) stimulated
d) weakened
e) distinguished
.
41) Many scientists believe that our sanitized surroundings are ------- allergic disorders in
children, which have doubled in the last decade.
a) extracting
b) fulfilling
c) unifying
d) ensuring
e) fostering
.

42) Several countries made claims to parts of Antarctica; however the Antarctic Treaty
signed in 1959 does not ------- these claims.
a) jeopardy
b) withdraw
c) underestimate
d) recognize
e) deteriorate
.

43) Phobias are intense, irrational fears which cannot be ------- even when the sufferer is
aware, as is usually the case, that there is no reason for the fear.
a) spoilt
b) undergone
c) foreseen
d) initiated
e) overcome
.

44) The European System of Central Banks, which ------- a single monetary policy for the
euro zone, consists of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt together with 15 national
central banks.
a) regulates
b) signifies
c) expresses
d) provokes
e) acquires
.

45) Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska is a German-born American physician who founded the New
England Hospital for Women and Children and -------- greatly to the acceptance of
women as medical professionals.
a) pertained
b) attributed
c) owed
d) contributed
e) applied
.
46) The prosperity of a state ------- not primarily on its store of wealth, but on the extent to
which it has developed its "powers of production".
a) carries
b) depends
c) shows
d) decides
e) agrees
.