1992 - 2007 KPDS Yarım Cümle Soruları

[1992-2007 KPDS YARIM CÜMLE SORULARI]
1992-2007 KPDS YARIM CÜMLE SORULARI

1992 MAYIS KPDS SORULARI 6- Once we get through with the background
material ---- .
1- It was somewhere near here ---- .
A) the weather is still not suitable for on-site
A) now the dogs caught the scent of the fox work
again B) we still haven’t had any opportunity to get
B) where the fire-fighters lose control down to the practical work
C) before the road turns off to the right C) the course will start to get much more
D) that they will leave the road and make off interesting
through the woods. D) work on the wards proved demanding as
E) that the accident occurred well as rewarding
E) as hardly surprising that we’re
2- ---- , there was something un-English progressing so slowly
about his sentence structure
7- ---- even though he hasn’t got enough
A) Since Raleigh made classical writers his financial backing for it.
models
B) If that were really a translation A) Never before had he faced failure
C) However difficult it is to read B) That’s the city of it all
D) Before he has time to develop a style of C) Technical matters had received the
his own largest share of his attention
E) Once he has established his reputation D) The scheme was hardly likely to succeed
E) He seems determined to go ahead with
3- Can’t you remember even approximately the project
---- ?
8- However far-fetched the story may seem,
A) that had been changed ---- .
B) where have they decided to hold the
meeting A) people say that truth is stranger than
C) how far is it to Istanbul from here fiction
D) how many people we are expecting B) newspaper headlines are, after all, far
E) what sort of an excuse had been made from reliable
C) we can assume that there is a basis of
4- In the latter half of the century, political truth in it
ideas and opinions dominated poetry ---- . D) we have always known she loves to
exaggerate
A) that it was not to be expected E) it really doesn’t matter if some details are
B) more than they ever had done before wrong
C) which wouldn’t have been surprising
D) especially if poets are young 1992 KASIM KPDS SORULARI
E) even if sensuous writing would have
remained popular 9- Even the chief engineer was impressed at
the speed and efficiency ----.
5- ---- , although they didn’t have any really
serious grounds for doing so. A) until more problems have appeared
B) that the project will be finished on time
A) Quite a lot of the objections will be easily C) whether the workers were prepared to go
dealt with on strike
B) The foreman may take it on himself to fire D) although some of the members had been
the man warned earlier
C) Several people are thinking of declining E) with which the team worked
the invitation
D) Several nations boycotted the games
E) Conclusions reigned at the following
meeting
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10- The doctor was so kind and considerate 15- ---- before the town planners took their
---- . job seriously.
A) before the surgery is carried out A) City planning has continued to be their
B) If I should decide to go through with the prime concern
operation B) A great many ugly apartment blocks were
C) that all my misgivings vanished built
D) when it is obvious that the patient has C) A good architect views his work within
recovered greatly the context of the area at large
E) As soon as I am discharged from hospital D) In this respect new cities are at a great
advantage
11- ---- , the response of the West divided E) New cities never have the same
world opinion. atmosphere as the old
A) As soon as the NATO countries have 16- ---- how close he had been to winning the
formulated an effective policy election.
B) Unless Iraq is severely punished for its
aggression A) To be perfectly honest I was considerably
C) No matter how the board is constituted relieved
D) As was to be expected B) It shouldn’t have been misinterpreted
E) When the oil-producing countries gather C) Even his own supporters were surprised
in Vienna to discuss when they learned
D) The votes had finally been counted
12- Do not attempt to cut down or prune large E) He should have withdrawn from the
trees ---- . election campaign
A) just as branches that appeared healthy 1993 MAYIS KPDS SORULARI

had in fact been rotten inside
B) unless you are absolutely confident that 17- As soon as the German troops crossed
you can do it properly the Polish frontier, ----
C) by making sure that your neighbours
were not opposed to it at all A) the allied forces had launched their first
D) if the weather conditions had not been massive attack.
taken into account B) the people have been massacred and
E) in case the manager rejected the findings towns devastated.
C) the Poles withdraw to a more strategic
13- Unless we get a lot of rain soon, ---- . position.
D) Britain declared war against Germany.
A) the price of fruit this year has been very E) disease had not been prevented.
reasonable
B) a great deal of land is still under water 18- Even though the imagery James Joyce
C) the rainy season came late this year used in his novels is intensely personal,
D) they have already put away their winter ----
clothes
E) the harvest this year will be a poor one A) themes related to Irish life had always
been popular among Irish novelists.
14- ---- which will further aggravate the B) he had played a major role in the
unemployment problem. development of the novel.
C) some critics have argued that it has
A) Several companies are considering archetypal patterns.
reductions in the work force D) perhaps the best-known Irish writer is
B) No solutions were forthcoming Bernard Shaw.
C) Everyone was genuinely concerned E) most Irish writers have been keenly
about the situation interested in drama.
D) The minister had been under attack for
some time
E) The police should have combed the area
for the person responsible
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19- ---- only after the Iraqi government has 24- ---- the end result was extremely
fully complied with the resolutions of the disappointing.
Security Council.
A) Although much energy and time had
A) Life in Kuwait would have returned to gone into the production of the play
normal B) Even if the government has approved the
B) The Gulf Crisis had to be solved new scheme
C) The economic embargo imposed on Iraq C) Working only a few hours a day
can be lifted D) Owing to the qualified employees
D) The oil wells in Kuwait were set on fire E) What made the staff feel disappointed
E) The pollution of the seas in the region is
a matter of great concern 1993 KASIM KPDS SORULARI
20- ---- that the sale of the factory was illegal. 25- All medicines should be kept in a safe
place ---- .
A) The magistrate was of the opinion
B) Those responsible were prosecuted A) in case there were any side effects
C) The process of laundering the black B) if they can be found in an emergency
money has been discovered C) so that they were kept cool
D) The documents submitted by the firm D) where small children cannot reach them
were all forged E) which mustn’t exceed the recommended
E) The police have arrested the owners dose
21- Dams can only be constructed in places 26- James insisted on taking us all for dinner
---- ---- .
A) in which there were adequate supplies of A) whenever he comes to Istanbul for a
water weekend
B) where the ecological structure is suitable B) since he’s really very hard up at the
C) from which towns and villages may have moment
to be constructed C) even though he really couldn’t afford to
D) wherever the river bed has dried up D) that there was so little to eat in the house
E) that there are mountains as well as rivers E) before the contract would have been
signed
22- ---- not even his wife will be allowed to
visit him. 27- ---- he’ll never be as successful as his
father is.
A) Before the results of the tests had come
through A) However hard he tries
B) Although the surgeon was unwilling to B) He should have realised years ago
operate for a week C) It must have been hard for him to admit
C) As long as the patient started to recover D) Walter should have said
D) Despite the fact that he proved allergic to E) It didn’t seem likely
certain medicines
E) While he remains in the intensive care 28- I would require a number of people in this
unit company to take early retirement, ---- .
23- ---- the trend to withdraw savings from A) until the affair is forgotten
bank continues B) since I have the authority to do so
C) that such a scandal had really happened
A) Since the value of many shares on the D) were I in full charge
stock would have dropped by as much as E) even if I had been fully informed of
a half every hour matters well in advance
B) When export restrictions on certain
goods were finally lifted 29- ---- as if surgery may be unnecessary.
C) If the Central Bank had taken firmer
instructions at the start A) They had already explained
D) Unless the interest rates are raised at B) In the light of the latest report, it looks
once C) The doctor might have decided
E) Inasmuch as the financial situation is D) According to the final tests one can
steadily deteriorating conclude
E) The patient was encouraged
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30- ---- by the time they him got to the 35- Wouldn't it be advisable to seek a second
hospital. opinion ---- ?
A) The cause of the accident will be fully A) as events were to prove in the end
understood B) if the operation had to take place
B) He has been critically ill C) that it was legally sound
C) The condition of patient had deteriorated D) before we come to any definite decision
considerably E) why there were no obvious problems
D) They still don’t realise how serious his
situation is 36- The new American administration is still
E) The doctor on duty should give him a hesitating about ---- .
blood transfusion
A) who would have presided over the
31- ---- unless more funding is made Senate
available. B) why so many new taxes had been
imposed
A) He was praised for his scholarly C) whether to increase expenditure on
achievement education
B) He failed to reach any satisfactory D) how the problem of famine in Asia had
conclusion been overcome
C) The company has taken serious E) which programme had been approved by
measures to improve the working the committee
conditions
D) No remarkable progress had been made 37- Unless the northern part of the country
E) It will be impossible to carry out any gets some rain soon ---- .
further research
A) they were considering reducing supplies
32- ---- that nothing concrete had emerged even further
from the negotiation concerning the B) cotton would not have been a suitable
continental shelf. crop for the area
C) they have already started to irrigate the
A) As members of the committee we were rice fields
extremely disappointed to learn D) it seems that the new dam is not very
B) The public opinion polls revealed a lack efficient
of interest E) there'll be a poor fruit crop this year
C) Both delegations have been withdrawn
D) So far neither side has been involved 38- Even though there were a great many
E) Clearly, the legal position makes it applicants for the vacancy, ---- .
imperatives
A) not one of them had the qualifications
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B) actually the salary is expected to improve
33- I wished I hadn't given him a job in the C) the new recruits will be put on a three-
firm ---- . week special training program
D) unfortunately some of the staff had
A) although he is less efficient than I once already resigned
assumed E) the personnel department cannot cope
B) unless he makes a big effort to prove he with the paper work
can be useful
C) wherever a suitable vacancy may occur 39- ---- which has a fairly central situation.
D) that my father was a founding member
E) when I saw him behaving in such an A) They seemed interested in both houses
irresponsible manner B) We really need a hotel
C) I arrived late for the meeting
34- Alec must have taken my car ---- . D) it should have been easy to get there
E) His mother decided to come by car
A) since no one else knows where I keep
the car keys
B) that I left it in front of the office
C) if we have arranged to meet at the
dentist’s
D) since he would never do such a thing
E) as soon as I get back from the concert
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40- ---- that the case was far more 45- ---- they still haven’t chosen the team of the
complicated than he had originally engineers.
thought.
A) Although work on the project should have
A) According to the lawyer, much is involved started last week
B) The witnesses were called in B) When they start work on the dam next week
C) As the police had reported C) Whoever made the designs for this block of
D) Following the uproar caused by the press flats
coverage D) In order to find out why the plane crashed
E) In the light of the new evidence, the E) As soon as the new model became
judge realized available
1994 KASIM KPDS SORULARI 46- ---- , the United Nations is still far from
reaching any agreement on what action take.
41- The officer in charge of the evacuation
tried to find out ---- . A) Whatever the price that has to be paid to
restore peace
A) in case the roads had been flooded B) If the famine in Africa is to get relief
B) so that the people escape C) While many innocent lives are being lost in
C) whether the tents would reach them by internal conflicts
the evening D) Whoever is responsible for all this
D) however hungry everyone might have bloodshed
been E) Despite the fact that the world population
E) that more supplies will be needed had increased at an unprecedented rate
42- Are you really convinced ---- ? 47- If you knew him as well as I do ---- .
A) that these measures will help to increase A) he is admired by his colleagues

exports B) you would not trust him at all
B) why the land in this area has been C) we were very disappointed by his
eroded in this way performance
C) how far the American involvement in D) he could have been assigned this special
Somalia is to the benefit of the people task
D) who first put the idea into his head E) I would have accused him of negligence
E) where the rare species of birds are still to
be found 48- Since there was no positive evidence
against him, ---- .
43- I suggest you finish all the work by noon
---- . A) the police have always suspected he is the
murderer
A) whenever there happened to be an B) the witnesses have been completely
important match on the television unsatisfactory
B) why you want to go to the lake for a swim C) the verdict had already been given
C) whether you demanded an increase in D) the trial would have been postponed
your wages indefinitely
D) however impossible it was E) the judge had no other choice but to acquit
E) so that you can take the afternoon off him
44- I fear a lot of workers will be made 1995 MAYIS KPDS SORULARI
redundant, ---- .
49- Cars entail a great many expenses ---- .
A) just as the global computer market would
have declined rapidly A) so long as one doesn’t use them
B) when so many other factories had been excessively
closed down B) unless one could get a sufficient loan from
C) since so many of us are looking forward the bank
to our retirement C) in case a number of people cannot afford
D) unless the company finds new markets them
for its goods D) so it’s worth thinking carefully before buying
E) whatever improvements could be made one
in the working conditions E) however essential they were thought to be
in business life
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50- Undoubtedly, the life-style we have today 54- They live so far out of the town ---- .
differs radically from that ---- .
A) even though they enjoyed all the
A) which our parents know advantages of city life
B) one which had been vividly described B) who have lost contact with so many good
before by various authors friends
C) because the Industrial Revolution would C) as one can get there only by taking a taxi
have brought about a major social D) as long as the land they had bought was
transformation extremely cheap
D) as long as a majority of the people still E) that they can rarely go to a concert or a
work on the land theatre
E) if the government’s wage policy leads to
an improvement in working conditions 55- Once the final draft of the contract is
approved, ---- .
51- Unemployment continued to rise during
the first half of the decade, ---- . A) the United States agreed not to intervene
any further
A) even if the workers could have received B) the members of the two delegations
additional fringe benefits would have worked out their differences
B) as the rate of inflation will go up C) it will then be typed and submitted for
accordingly ratification
C) while most companies would have been D) the next stage was to estimate the costs
badly hit E) a number of concessions were to be
D) but thereafter stabilised at about six per made by both sides
cent
E) despite the fact that the volume of 56- As the miners have called off the strike ----
exports cannot be increased .
A) the daily coal production had increased
52- After the new law comes into effect next considerably
month, ---- . B) the Coal Board is prepared to reconsider
the proposals of the union leaders
A) there will be a radical change in the C) if the chairman of the Coal Board
structure of local administration expressed his satisfaction
B) we should have prepared the way for a D) there would have been a sense of relief
smooth political transition nationwide
C) the policy on industrial relations had to be E) the extent of the dispute was being
abandoned ignored
D) all the hospitals in the country had been
made accountable to the Ministry of 1995 KASIM KPDS SORULARI
Health
E) the case may have been reconsidered 57- ----, I don’t think it will be able to hold off
an attack of the rebels.
53- It is not wise to come between two people
---- . A) As Bosnia drawing to its close
B) Until more troops were mobilised
A) that they were both interested in the C) Wherever there are skirmishes along the
same post frontier
B) who are quarrelling D) Since our allies had promised more
C) because they hadn’t realised how strong reinforcements
they were E) Unless the peace keeping force gets
D) although one had met the requirements adequate reinforcements
E) until both sides took the opportunity to
settle their problem 58- ----, we will not stay away from the basic
policies that our party has always upheld.
A) When the polling, which had been heavy,

was over
B) Although we are bitterly disappointed at
the outcome of the recent elections
C) Which party got the majority of the votes
D) Even if they had had a landslide victory
E) Since the results of the elections came in
so slowly
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59- ---- the judge would almost certainly have 63- However relentlessly they pursue this
been more lenient towards him. policy of austerity ---- .
A) Despite the fact that he forged the title A) we would be determined to withstand any
indeed political pressure
B) If only we could bribe one of the B) the country would have benefited from it
witnesses enormously
C) Had he admitted his part in the affair from C) the masses were deprived of the
the start opportunity to improve their living
D) While our lawyer was negotiating the conditions
terms of settlement with their lawyer D) the Opposition had denounced it
E) Because the legal procedures make this vehemently
unavoidable E) they will never manage to put the
economy onto a better footing
60- ---- such a restrictive policy is likely to
cause a lot of damage. 64- Even though the Security Council has
imposed various sanctions on the country
A) As soon as the new managing director ---- .
took up his position
B) Should the monetary situation have A) the other member countries were in
deteriorated principle opposed to them
C) In case the receipts turned out to be B) most of the people had been forced to
forgeries leave in dire distress
D) Just as the world economy was picking C) it doesn’t seem likely that they will have
up any effect at all
E) As far as the long term interests of the D) nothing good had been gained out of it
company are concerned E) the United Nations has ratified it
61- ---- that most of the evidence submitted 1996 MAYIS KPDS SORULARI
by the plaintiff could not be sustained.
65- Many people take it for granted ---- .
A) In his appraisal of the case the lawyer
reminded us A) whether they realised just how serious
B) As was expected the witnesses were the drug problem had become
brought into the courtroom B) that the new interest policy has
C) The judge himself has been accused contributed to the greater degree of
D) The trial has lasted long enough stability in prices at this period
E) The final verdict has still to be given C) why no survivors were found
D) how all receipts and papers concerning
62- So long as certain countries continue to the transaction mysteriously disappeared
shelter terrorists ---- . E) why the other passengers had absolutely
no comment to make at all about the
A) the hope of preserving international accident
security was sheltered
B) the United Nations should have taken 66- ---- , Huddersfield was one of the few
suitable action against them textile towns that continued to grow in the
C) the government had taken the matter to twentieth century.
the Helsinki Conference
D) the chances of eradicating terrorism A) If the government lifted the sanctions
unfortunately remain silent B) Since its trade was both flexible and
E) their aims would have been publicly varied
condemned throughout the West C) However unpopular the scheme had
seemed to many
D) As soon as the industrial revolution got
under way
E) Just as many industrial areas are
competing with each other
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67- Smallpox inoculation became popular ---- . 71- ---- , even though many countries are
stepping up their own production.
A) that eventually this disease would have
been completely wiped out A) This is just one of many developments in
B) even though the success rate, according international trade
to recent statistics, is still rather doubtful B) England still imported a great deal of
C) even if it had not been a fatal disease tropical fruit
that brought death to all levels of society C) Turkey's exports of fruit and vegetables
D) however unlikely one is to come in will have dropped sharply
contact with the disease D) Steel remains an important item on
E) only after Janner’s discovery that the less international trade
dangerous cowpox material was an E) By the end of the month figures
effective immunizing agent concerning the dollar reserves will have
been processed
68- The helicopter has the ability to climb
vertically, ---- . 72- Before the national Health Service Act
came into force in 1948 in England, ---- .
A) even though the winds were blowing at
gale force A) the funding of hospitals was a major
B) if it can take off in a very restricted space issue in home politics
C) which, in certain circumstances, is its B) there have been angry debates about the
main advantage over other types of necessity for it
aircraft C) these people aren't able to afford medical
D) whenever the pilot felt himself obliged to advice
make a forced landing D) everyone realised that these were all
E) if the cost of its upkeep hadn’t been a fundamentally, political issues
heavy burden on the budget E) many doctors would feel that the
transition had been extremely painful
69- ---- , if any one party decides to ignore the
obligations it has undertaken in the treaty. 1996 KASIM KPDS SORULARI
A) Obviously, very serious problems will 73- Grain dominates the world food economy
arise ---- .
B) They may have rejected the offer
C) They were obviously determined to be A) since it accounts for half of the human
present at the opening of the talks calorie intake
D) The last speaker was quite adamant on B) which in turn has led to a greater interest
the need to resume fighting in nutrition
E) The observes may have been very upset C) which might have resulted in the
emergence of a trade deficit
70- ---- who played a unique role in the D) that resulted in a moderate decline in
revival of the ideals of classical antiquity. exchange rates
E) until the steep rise in the purchasing
A) There is still a lively debate going on power of oil put an end to it
among scholars
B) Dr. Davies lectured on the Renaissance 74- ---- , I had to notify not only the police but
C) He then went on to explain why such also the health authorities.
Renaissance figures
D) Leonardo da Vinci also lived in the A) Late as it is
Renaissance B) However reluctant I may be
E) Petraich is rightly regarded as a humanist C) Whoever sends in the complaint
D) As it turned out
E) Until this finally becomes law
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75- Naturally he was amazed to learn ---- . 79- Unless strict measures are put into force
to control noise ---- .
A) whichever business managed to increase
their profits towards the end of the year A) the migration to rural areas seems likely
B) how anyone can survive even two days to continue unabated
in the North Sea B) the complaints were not attended to at all
C) that she had set her heart on going back C) every teenager seemed to be enamoured
to Johannesburg of extremely loud music
D) where I have hidden the key to garage D) this would have been regarded as a
E) until the whole dept has been paid back serious breach of regulations
to the very last penny E) a rural existence would naturally have
been preferable
76- Queen Elizabeth I delighted to participate
in the court dance ---- . 80- ---- that he genuinely regretted the role he
had played in it.
A) since nobody has dared to criticise her A) I may be quite wrong
B) if her health would have permitted her to B) It wouldn’t surprise me at all
C) even when she was an old lady C) The manner in which he begged us to
D) whenever there may be an audience to overlook the incident showed
applaud her D) Surely it’s worth investigating the matter
E) that she liked to be the centre of attention further
E) It had been quite obvious
77- Once the new system had gone into
effect, ---- . 1997 MAYIS KPDS SORULARI
A) everyone had predicted the drawbacks 81- ---- you get magnificent views of the oak-
from the start covered slopes of these coastal mountain
B) the organisers won’t face innumerable ranges that rise up from the Pacific.
problems
C) few of us were prepared for such A) If only the new road had been opened
devastating result B) As they headed for San Francisco
D) those who oppose it are advised to stay C) However unfairly the state of the roads
silent was being attacked
E) people realised that their anxieties about D) Even though a great deal of money went
it had been groundless into constructing the road
E) As you drive along the coast road
78- Although global environmental trends
over the past few decades have generally 82- Dramatic changes have been taking place
not been favourable, ---- . in the United States ---- .
A) the built up of new houses in the forests A) ever since non-European immigrants
would have been reduced began to pour into the country
B) some positive developments are B) until new regulations concerning
nevertheless beginning to emerge immigrants were introduced
C) they had inadvertently assumed C) which started at the turn of the century
responsibility for it D) some of which would have been
D) future generations would not have been regarded as harmful
deprived of the opportunity to support E) as soon as World War II ended
themselves
E) deforestation proved to be the lesser of 83- One of the best suggestions was put
the two evils forward by Dr Johnson ---- .
A) that the managing director was especially

impressed
B) who is generally the quietest member of
the board
C) though the financial demands might be
difficult to meet
D) unless it was approved by the committee
E) before any one else has time to make
any contribution to the discussion
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84- Darwin’s theory of evolution was based 88- If your boss asked you to take an extra
on the observation ---- . work without more money ---- ?
A) while amassing evidence for 25 years in A) have you discussed the matter with him
support of it B) would you agree to do so
B) why many people of his own age were C) why do you think he may have suggested
reluctant to admit it this
C) whether his insight really was D) what was the reaction of your colleagues
revolutionary E) will you resign at once
D) that all individuals of the same species
are not identical 1997 KASIM KPDS SORULARI
E) since the multiplicity of forms seemed
unending 89- Construction workers will go on strike
next Monday ---- .
85- Although the effects of the famine have
been made worse by the political A) that they negotiated for over five hours
instability in the country ---- . and were unable to reach an agreement
with the management
A) the West would have shown its sympathy B) so long as the only solution for a
in a most generous manner settlement is an independent enquiry into
B) it was beyond the power of any their working condition
government to undertake the C) because the two sides have done their
responsibility best to settle their dispute by bargaining
C) a fair distribution of the available food will D) in case the workers were asked to
have been achieved compromise and accept a pay rise of 20
D) so one disaster was naturally followed by %
another E) unless the management agrees to accept
E) food is now being distributed wherever it their claim for a 60 % pay increase
is needed
90- ---- some of America’s most innovative
86- ---- , but it is not the only one. architects set about rebuilding it in a bold
style known as the “Chicago school”.
A) Newspaper prices have risen
dramatically in recent years A) After a great fire destroyed much of
B) Most diseases are caused by germs and Chicago in 1871
bad hygiene B) While Chicago was soon to emerge as
C) Technological competition is a serious the literary capital of the United States
problem for the book industry C) Because Chicago has traditionally been
D) The printing press was invented by regarded as “the great laboratory of
Johann Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany in American democracy
the fifteenth century D) As immigrants from many European
E) The judge rebuked the witnesses for their countries had settled in ethnic enclaves
disrespectful behaviour during the trial in Chicago
E) As long as Chicago remains the gateway
87- ---- that they will be made redundant once to the rest of the nation for food products
the office has been computerised. and industrial opportunities
A) They called off the strike 91- The company will need fewer office
B) The board of directors discussed the workers ---- .
matter fully
C) The management adopted new A) since some were looking for jobs with
marketing policies other firms
D) The prospect for the company looks B) when the computer network has been
rather gloomy installed
E) Most of the staff are certain C) as long as the sales continued to
increase
D) in order to discuss ways of combating
unemployment
E) even though the current economic
recession is likely to continue for another
six months
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92- Earlier this century, Chicago acquired a 95- When a firm wants to fill a vacancy, ---- .
reputation for colourful politicians,
newspapermen and gangsters, ---- . A) there are always staff who want to leave
for various reasons
A) simply because commerce has been the B) the candidates have all been required to
key to the city’s development write an essay on the current economic
B) just as today Chicago remains a city of situation in Europe
close-knit ethnic neighbourhoods C) the applicants were invited for an
C) even though the city has become a interview before a committee of
centre for meat products specialists
D) but its cultural life was less well known D) it is essential that future managers must
then be trained as thoroughly as possible
E) as it is located at the conjunction of the E) it usually puts an advertisement in a
Great Lakes and the Mississippi River newspaper
system and surrounded by the productive
farmlands of the Midwest 96- ---- , he refuses to accept any of their
suggestions.
93- Though the term “human rights” is of
recent origin, ---- . A) Even though the committee members
had approved the plan in full
A) there are certain actions that are never B) While the speaker considers politics to be
permissible and certain freedoms that the art of persuasion
should never be invaded C) Since he is so prejudiced in this matter
B) after 1933 the Western world realised D) Because the discussions at the
that it was living in an age of totalitarian conference would have included a wide
dictatorship far worse than old monarchic range of issues
absolutism E) if they told him that he had to make up
C) natural rights can be seen in their origins his mind as soon as possible
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of human rights must be in some sense a
doctrine of natural rights 97- ---- how much this Finnish director’s films
E) the idea itself can be traced back through manage to communicate.
John Locke in the seventeenth century to
the great philosophers of classical A) You didn’t show any reaction
antiquity B) It really is surprising
C) The audience was suddenly startled
94- As unemployment is currently a major D) The dramatic cough is an instance
social issue, ---- . E) There are certain advantages with black
and white movies
A) the strikes have really crippled the
industry and, consequently, the export of 98- As heavy rain had been forecast for the
manufactured goods has come to a area, ---- .
standstill
B) the measures introduced had little effect A) record harvest are expected this year
on the improvement of the country’s B) they would presumably cancel the
economic performance excursion to the ruins in the valley
C) its worst economic effects have been C) I can’t imagine why they neglected to
partly softened by the government’s take all necessary precautions to avoid
introduction of unemployment flooding
compensation D) farm labours would have to work
D) the economic prospect was far from overtime and weekends
encouraging E) the resulting floods caused widespread
E) people are not working as hard as their hardships
belief in the work ethic indicates that they
should be
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99- If only they had realised that our supplies 103- Our first impression of the new director
were running out ---- . was distinctly favourable ---- .
A) the crisis might still be avoided A) though we were sorry to see the old one
B) those in charge could put the matter right go
C) nobody could appreciate the gravity of B) unless his manner was more formal than
the situation we were used to
D) there were reinforcement ready to be C) however reluctant we are to go along
sent out with the new policy
E) they would most certainly have done D) until the efficiency of his methods can be
something about it established
E) that he was determined to restore the
100- ---- that least affects the behaviour of firm to its former glory
companies, investors, shoppers and
workers. 104- ---- , it was not long before they could
resume broadcasting.
A) The inflation rate has been reduced
B) The best inflation rate is the one A) If only their permit had been renewed
C) The article concerning inflation maintains B) Once the fault in the system had been
D) The price index has raised so much found
controversy C) So long as the electrical supply remains
E) The outcome of the recent economic stable
reforms has received much praise from D) Since the maintenance team were on
the public leave
E) However unwelcome the delay might be
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hours, ---- .
105- Before Freud shed light on dreams and
A) even though medical authorities had extraordinary role of the subconscious,
been concerned about the side effects ---- .
B) as long as the results of this research
project are confirmed within the month A) there are many who have grasped their
C) so that they can sleep better at night significance
D) since the findings have not yet been B) educated people in particular regarded
thoroughly studied dreams as meaningless and pointless
E) which could have proved to be a most C) many traditional ways of interpreting
remarkable medical breakthrough dreams are being analysed
D) the relationship between stress and
102- Before Freud shed light on dreams and dreams would surely have been
extraordinary role of the subconscious ---- . recognised
E) many great writers still draw on the
A) the relationship between stress and principles of human psychology
dreams would surely have been
recognised 106- ---- until Thomas Paine published The
B) there are many who have grasped their Common Sense and sparked off the
significance American Revolution.
C) many traditional ways of interpreting
dreams are being analysed A) George Washington considered himself a
D) educated people often regarded dreams loyal British subject
as meaningless and pointless B) Idealism hasn’t often been a determining
E) many great writers still draw on the factor
principles of human psychology C) Voltaire’s influence would have been
more pervasive,
D) That was a period of radical change in all
spheres
E) They were the people responsible for
shaping the national character of the
United States
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107- ---- that scientists are now sending out “e 111- The overall quality of life in today’s world
prints” instead of preprints of cannot be improved ---- .
unpublished articles.
A) just as population growth would strain the
A) Prior to the internet, it was not possible global urban environment
B) One change that the advent of the B) while the underdeveloped countries were
internet has brought is ignored completely by international
C) The internet has indeed opened many agencies like the United Nations and the
doors World Bank
D) The benefits of technology should not be C) as the population of that part of the world
overrated rose from 800 million in 1960 to 1.2
E) Among academics, technological billion in 1985
advances attract less attention D) unless the developed countries are
prepared to offer a helping hand to the
108- Though Hong Kong used to be one of the underdeveloped
world’s most alluring shopping centres, E) whenever the OECD declines to support
---- . a series of projects for the development
of poorer countries
A) competition seems to be growing even
keener 112- Some avalanches move no faster than 40
B) this was no longer the case kilometres per hour, ---- .
C) it might have remained a fashionable
holiday resort A) while others have been estimated to
D) others did not share this opinion have a speed of about 300 kilometres per
E) it is now one of its most expensive hour
B) even if the damage they did was minimal
109- I would naturally have felt extremely compared with the destruction caused by
disappointed ---- . hurricanes and earthquakes
C) despite the fact that snow lying on a
A) since he must have been by far the best steep slope is always liable to avalanche
applicant D) for the wind sometimes reaches a force
B) unless the competition has had very few almost equal to that of a tornado
entrants E) so that in such areas measures may be
C) even though the two teams were taken to prevent large avalanches
extraordinarily well matched
D) if they hadn’t sent us an invitation to the 1999 MAYIS KPDS SORULARI
concert
E) as the first prize went to a racist author 113- ---- that treatment policies suitable for one
age group may not be justified in another.
110- The speaker from China has pointed out -- A) A controversy immediately arose
-- . B) The article has considerable originality
C) A recent study into cholesterol levels
A) so that preserving agricultural land is his suggests
government’s primary economic policy D) They had fully convinced
B) that terracing the soil is one conservation E) The implications were not at first realised
method used widely in his country to
control erosion 114- ---- how intimately and lastingly blacks
C) since urban renewal has completely had affected American life throughout
changed the look of the cities in his history.
country
D) as regards the fact that a handful of A) Thomas Jefferson, one of the leaders of
industrial nations monopolised deep sea the American Revolution, had opposed
fishing until the early 1970’s B) In his paper of slavery in America he
E) while rich tropical forests are vanishing at demonstrated with impeccable
the rate of some 11 million hectares a scholarship
year C) Whites in America have always objected
D) In colonial America, Virginia was the
largest and most populous colony where
E) The American slaves, often subject to
arbitrary punishment, learned to be
hypersensitive
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115- ---- , but most of them don’t see a doctor 118- ---- , the U. S. population, now 266 million,
because they think it’s something they will increase to 400 million by 2050.
just have to live with.
A) Although the governments have
A) It was reported earlier in this decade that encouraged large families through tax
about one third of all patients had reduction and welfare subsidies
received treatment for impotence B) Even though the growth rate has been
B) Over 200 thousand men have received among the highest of the developed
proper medical treatment world
C) Impotence is something we have learned C) If current trends continue, and they seem
to deal with likely to do so
D) Urologists and other doctors have always D) Since the birth rate has now outgrown
been concerned with impotence the country’s agricultural capacity
E) Impotence affects over ten million men E) Because stringent measures need to be
nationwide introduced to reverse population growth
116- Though free politics and free-market 119- The elderly gentleman sitting over there is
economics go most happily together, ---- . an artist ---- .
A) no new aid would be approved for six A) whose many articles about their
months commitment to the cause of human
B) they could no longer blame the welfare and happiness in Africa would be
colonialists, who had withdrawn from controversial
America two or three decades before B) that he shares the vision of young people
C) five years ago, dictatorships proclaiming for a peaceful and prosperous world in
socialists policies prevailed in Africa the next century
D) one does not necessarily lead to the C) whose work has been exhibited widely in
other, nor guarantee its success many countries in Europe
E) Africans have shown that they want D) since his awards include gold and silver
multi-party democracy and are beginning medals presented by various
to achieve it organizations
E) whereby he had unanimously been
117- The Nazi occupation of the Netherlands is elected an honorary member by the
best known to most of us through Anne Society of Modern Arts
Frank’s diary, ---- .
120- He pointed out that the issue was simply
A) even though another significant record of ---- .
the era was made by Dutch
photographers, both professional and A) in case the surgery recommended was
amateur approved by the medical board
B) while the Dutch government had banned B) whether surgical intervention was right
the publication of all newspapers for this particular patient
C) since most of the Jewish population in C) when the patient has been admitted for
the country were prepared to emigrate to an emergency operation
the United States D) to what extent the treatment
D) that her description of the atrocities recommended for this particular patient
committed by the enemy has provided has been successful
historians with valuable details E) why the medical board is expected to
E) when her parents had hidden her in the refuse his appointment
attic of their house
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121- Since these new printers weigh less than

900 grams, ---- .
A) they really deserve to be called portable

B) their performance is invariably admirable
C) most people have been misled by their
price
D) they were readily available at all the best
retailers
E) the research team has already moved
onto a new project
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122- ---- that he has exaggerated the problems 126- ---- , there will be a notable decrease in
of the health-care system, using the profits of most businesses.
misleading arguments and deceptive
statistics to support his case for reform. A) If people start to spend less and save
more
A) He was being interviewed by a group of B) However efficiently the inflation was
journalists curbed
B) Many experts and policy makers believe C) Had these reasonable measures been
C) This is an extremely radical suggestion introduced earlier
D) Under the present circumstances most D) Before the financial situation could be
people are encouraged fully understood
E) The report ignored the leading question E) Though the leading economists had
started to grow more hopeful
123- Many Egypt’s ruins are unfortunately
being destroyed by the very people ---- . 127- The changes in the legal system are
finally being regarded with approval ---- .
A) whose living habits had been depicted in
the monuments A) whenever there is a series of unsolved
B) that actually aren’t trained crimes
conservationists B) until another wave of crime spread
C) who will ask for international funding across the country
D) that is the result of faculty renovation C) because recently there has been a
E) who were hired to fix them definite decline in the crime rate
D) while the police force itself is dubious
124- Unless the Central European countries about it
can keep their labour costs at this level, -- E) as if there could have been some other
-- . feasible alternative
A) exports are already starting to drop 128- A new generation of business leaders is
B) they haven’t been able to compete with coming to the fore, ---- .
Western Europe
C) unrest in these countries would have A) whether the state continues to meddle in
been unavoidable corporate affairs
D) the finished products will have to go up in B) whose methods are more vital, more
price international and more aggressive
E) a firm control of distribution and sales C) who aimed to impress international
has not proved adequate investors
D) which was realistic about the importance
125- While businesses and stores have started of economic growth
to perform well and make profits, ---- . E) so that they work to gratify not politicians
but their own shareholders
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B) inflation and unemployment have been
held in check 129- Unless they promise to use some of the
C) the economy ought to be able to money to improve career prospects for
withstand a recession young scientists, ---- .
D) the Euro currency could stand up to so
much criticism A) the issue under discussion has been
E) fiscal transfers across European nation dropped
states were of minimal importance B) there were a number of things we had to
take into account
C) no one else thought of opposing the
scheme
D) the money left over from donations could
be included
E) we feel we cannot give our support to the
campaign
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130- ---- , Japanese firms moved the more 134- ---- , their environmental consequences
intensive phases of their production are very disturbing.
process to cheap labour sites in East
Asia. A) Whatever high-yielding variety of wheat
is recommended
A) As production cost in Japan had become B) Because traditional Indian food is of high
excessive nutritive value
B) Unless the working day is kept at eight C) Though artificial fertilizers ensure high
hours crop-yields
C) Once the trade unions in Japan have D) Since new agricultural policies have been
won a few more victories introduced by the government
D) So long as a reduction in costs remains E) However costly the construction of new
the primary goal irrigation systems may have been
E) If interest rates in Japan had remained
high 135- ---- that the first women's college was
founded in England as early as 1849.
131- Since some food products lose popularity
rather quickly, ---- . A) To be fair, what I recommended was
B) I wouldn't have been at all impressed
A) the best age group to aim at would C) It was owing to the ceaseless efforts of
undoubtedly have been teenagers Mrs Raid
B) many such companies actually want D) Victoria had been queen for twelve years
bankrupt E) He showed little interest
C) the industry has constantly to be ready
with fresh ideas 136- ---- we review our recruitment
D) in the end it was the need for collective procedures.
bargaining that was understood
E) the job didn't offer him anything A) As long as the problem received
interesting adequate recognition
B) Such a problem can not be ignored
132- Though the construction of a bridge C) Even though it was becoming
across the river would doubtless prove increasingly obvious
popular, ---- . D) What I would recommend is that
E) In case they were disappointed with the
A) the technology to be transferred is quite new manager's performance.
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B) eight councils would have been 2000 KASIM KPDS SORULARI
committed to arrange it
C) similar designs are on view everywhere 137- ---- a great many alarming theories are
D) it will not be easy to raise enough money sure to spring to the fore.
to do it
E) it is a German-Japanese consortium that A) Before the truth had been verified
gives the orders B) Even though his death had almost
certainly been from natural causes
133- ---- , a committee will be set up to C) If several perfectly natural explanations
determine just how to turn the museum had been put forward
into private non-profit corporation. D) Whenever there are anonymous terrorist
attacks
A) As long as there were no rival claims E) As soon as this admittedly unpleasant
B) As soon as the board has approved the incident got forgotten
project
C) However much disappointment it would
have caused them
D) If such a crisis could have been avoided
E) Whoever managed to deceive you
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138- ---- I would never have felt the need to 142- Since the cleaning up of the pollution of
read them. the seas is so expensive, ---- .
A) Whichever of these modern plays he may A) the project had progressed as expected
decide to direct B) large corporations would offer
B) Unless some books on the care of house contributions
plants are given to me as a present C) the question of liability inevitably arises
C) However many cookery books my D) excessive care provided the answer
husband may care to give me E) the final result has still to be analysed
D) Until I saw him intently reading those
sermons 143- ---- that his play “The CrucibIe” was a cry
E) If she had not written so enthusiastically of protest against the anti-Communist
about the diaries of Scott of the zealotry of the McCarthy era.
Antarctica
A) Arthur Miller had been seriously
139- ---- she did not turn seriously to writing misunderstood
until after her husband's death in 1883. B) Among the modern American dramatists
it was Arthur Miller
A) Although Kate Chopin had previously C) Arthur Miller himself always maintained
contemplated a literary career D) Arthur Miller has been widely read
B) Since Kate Chopin had been thinking E) As far as Arthur Miller is concerned
about a literary career
C) As far as Kate Chopin's interest in 144- Though the word "democracy" is often
literature was concerned used, ---- .
D) Once Kate Chopin had decided to live
the rest of her life in New Orleans A) they are basically quite different from
E) However much interest Kate Chopin's each other
short stories have aroused B) we had agreed on a definition
C) majority rule and minority rights went
140- In 1922 Hemingway settled in Paris ---- . back even further
D) it means different things to different
A) whether he would be awarded the Nobel people
Prize in Literature in 1954 E) it has been argued that democracy and
B) if the life of a journalist hadn't attracted an advanced level of civilisation go
him even more than the life of a novelist together
C) that he wrote stories and novels about
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James had done
D) since he soon gave up journalism for 145- Iron deficiency is one of the commonest
fiction causes of anaemia ---- .
E) where he moved in a circle of American
expatriates that included Ezra Pound and A) since even in a good diet the supply of
Scott Fitzgerald iron is only just adequate.
B) why adolescents outgrow their stones of
141- Since Samaranch assumed leadership of iron
the International Olympic Committee, ---- . C) which would result in brittle nails
D) though new ways of treating pernicious
A) any disagreements at meetings had been anaemia were soon introduced
leaked to the press E) as numerous iron preparation are
B) he has done much to raise the prestige of available for treatment
the Games
C) his policies conflicted with the principles 146- Pharmaceutical companies are unlikely to
of the ancient Olympics develop a vaccine for an uncommon
D) the present situation concerning the 2002 disease like leprosy ---- .
Games calls for urgent action
E) this was the first time he talked about his A) how early diagnosis could help
resignation B) so that pressure would be put on them
C) if the choice had been given to them
D) until the various charities were informed
E) that can be treated with drugs
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147- At concert halls, the centre of the stage is 151- If aluminium is used in place of steel in
increasingly being taken over by bridge construction, ---- .
percussionists ---- .
A) this would be especially suitable in long-
A) who were trying out a wide range of new span bridges
instruments B) resistance to atmospheric corrosion had
B) that there is now a vast array of been better
instruments C) there would have been a reduction in
C) whose performance showed amazing maintenance costs
virtuosity D) erection and foundation costs will be
D) who used to stand at the back of the lower
orchestra tapping out the rhythm E) there has been a considerable increase
E) so that a great range of new musical in the safe volume of traffic
sound was being developed
152- ---- , so the introduction of metalworking
148- Unless a country can establish the fact made trade with the outside world
that its economy is sound, ---- . inevitable.
A) only the very rich have risked their A) Compared with those of the iron age,
money there stone age tools were very primitive
B) the world's public and private lenders B) Many ones, such as copper and tin are
alike refuse to extent bonds not found in all countries
C) trade-agreements were rarely made in its C) The "bronze age" is a term used in
favour prehistoric archaeology
D) the industrial projects there did not D) The chemical processes involved in the
receive adequate backing smelting of ones were not as complicated
E) even an abundance of mineral resources E) subsequently the knowledge of
could not have saved the situation metalworking must have spread among
the less advanced communities around
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of most peoples, ---- .
153- ---- , the current flows steadily in one
A) the main ingredients have always been direction, and this is called directed
flour and yeast current.
B) it would be subsidised in many countries
C) there are several other methods of A) When a battery is connected to a circuit
producing it B) Though the electric plugs have still to be
D) different shapes were being evolved to checked
provide some variety C) As electrical energy can easily be
E) it is of considerable importance from the transformed into other forms of energy
point of view of diet D) Whenever the supply of electricity to
homes and factories is cut off
150- The authorities intensified their E) Because the electric wiring has been
investigations into the smuggling of specially designed to carry heavy loads
nuclear material ---- .
154- Unless he gives people a chance to get to
A) that the police had received a tip-off to know him better, ---- .
this effect
B) until they found evidence of radioactivity A) he would have been misunderstood by
C) immediately after the radioactive plates everyone in the company
were found B) he won't collect enough support to win
D) if any other explanation could be found the election
E) even if there have been several cases of C) everyone got dissatisfied, and it showed
attempted plutonium trading in their work
D) taking over the job of a much-loved and
highly-respected manager is not at all
easy
E) his proposal actually wasn't either
particularly original or even feasible
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155- The doctor has prescribed some new pills 159- Whenever we pick up a newspaper or turn
---- . on the TV, ---- .
A) which really do bring relief from pain A) there are, of course, numerous non-
B) if we could afforded them economic forces that determine and
C) even though she requires them regularly mould our decision-making process
D) why the others had ceased to be B) there are clear lines of demarcation
effective between economics and politics
E) that had just come onto the market C) it is natural that economics constitutes a
significant percentage of our media
156- ---- when some groups of the population coverage
become wealthier while others become D) generally politics is defined as the art of
poorer. government and, as such, is seriously
concerned with economics
A) Consumption will depend partly on the E) we are likely to be bombarded with facts
real wealth of individuals and figures on such subjects as pollution,
B) A high standard of living is enjoyed by all unemployment and inflation
C) Income distributions become more
unequal 160- People sometimes wonder ---- .
D) Practically all the income transferred to
the poor will be spent on necessities A) because the richest sources of vitamin A
E) Inflation affect all members of a society are foods of animal origin such as liver,
fish oil, milk and eggs
157- As biologists continue to study B) in case a shortage of vitamin A was not
interrelationships of living systems that the main problem
inhabit our planet, ---- . C) that, in the typical western diet, about half
of the vitamin A was not the main
A) metabolic reactions occur continuously in problem
every living organism D) if the eating of liver too frequently can
B) an expanding human population and cause vitamin A toxicity
increased consumer demand for energy, E) just as most foods with vitamin A activity
homes and highway are causing the are brightly coloured, often yellow or
rapid destruction of vital ecosystems orange
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D) research in molecular biology and
genetics has led to new insight into 161- ---- despite the claim of his lawyers that
disease processes his statements had been made under
E) they enhance our awareness of impact "highly coercive conditions".
on the environment
A) John Walker refused to reveal the
158- ---- , it should not be assumed that a secrets of his life in Afghanistan
theory is "proved" by testing. B) The American Taliban, John Walker, had
been denied bail by the court
A) Whereas many people think of science C) John Walker, the American Taliban,
as a mechanical process of collecting came from a humble background
facts and devising theories D) John Walker was indicted by a federal
B) Although the testing of theories is a grand jury
distinguishing feature of science E) John Walker played a leading role in
C) Since physics is one of the major Taliban activities
branches of science
D) When the history of science tells us that
long-held theories are replaced by new
ones
E) Insofar as the careful carrying out of
experiments is a crucial part of scientific
activity
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162- Though some scholars argue that ---- , 166- ---- , there just wasn't enough evidence to
others say that the beginning of the 15th convict him.
century saw its real rise.
A) If the trial had been postponed to a later
A) by the latter part of the 12th century most date
of the literary conventions of Urdu B) Since almost nothing the accused himself
literature have already been well said could be substantiated
established C) Though he seemed extremely reluctant
B) the 12th century was the time of the great to sign the statement
religious movements in India D) Even before the judge had finished
C) Urdu literature dates back to the 12th summing up the case
century E) Although everyone was convinced that
D) most of the literary writings in India in the Smith had committed the murder
12th century consisted of religious tracts
and allegories 167- In his annual report, the accountant failed
E) most Urdu poets in the 12th century to clarify the position and explain ---- .
turned to romances and narratives of
heroic deeds A) why expenditure had been in excess of
the budget
163- ---- , to whom they report. B) whether the budget really is unrealistic
C) what procedures will have been used in
A) A growing body of evidence does indeed banking
suggest that Enron was a case of bad D) that more serious aspects were being
management overlooked
B) In theory a company's auditors are E) which items in particular are being
appointed independently by its reconsidered
shareholders
C) The Enron fiasco has shown that ail is 168- Environmentalists are not often fond of
not well with the governance of many big dams ---- .
American companies
D) Harvey Pitt has been appointed the new A) which had been built for both energy and
chairman of the Securities and Exchange irrigation
Commission in the US B) though two negative ecological forces
E) In Congress, politicians are engaged in cancelled each other out
an investigation of Enron's managers C) unless the dams actually held back a
vast sedimentation load
164- ---- where they ate mosquito larvae and D) since they frequently trap migratory fish
so helped prevent malaria. E) that failed to preserve their biological
variety over the years
A) British engineers regarded these canals
as "dead rivers" 169- Today more than 100 million people have
B) The people of Bengal still talk of digging a breathing problem ---- .
canals across the Ganges delta
C) Indeed irrigation gave a much-needed A) if only the rise in asthma cases has
boost to declining agricultural production stopped
D) The dam prevents ail silt from flowing B) that asthma levels are dropping in those
downstream born after 1985
E) The flood waters even brought fish into C) which costs $6 billion a year in the US
the fields alone
D) unless they prefer not to admit it
165- Though coral reefs are among the richest E) since exposure to antibiotics while in the
ecosystems on the planet, ----. womb is generally regarded as a further
irritant
A) they grow in crystal-clear waters that
contain hardly any nutrients
B) nutrient uptake is closely related to the
degree of movement in the sea
C) the rough surfaces are what make this
possible
D) they are also skilled at recycling
E) changes in turbulence accurately
predicted the rate of nutrient uptake
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170- The clarinet solo at the start of the 174- The evacuation of the World Trade Center
movement provides the theme ---- . towers might have been easier ---- .
A) if the sense of longing were once more A) unless some of the steel columns had
brought to the fore been heated beyond their melting point
B) that unifies the whole work B) since in some places stairways are
C) once the slow tempo had been re- required to be in different corners of tall
established buildings
D) until yet another ecstatic climax was C) if the multiple stairways had not all been
reached in the central core of the building
E) that the work begins quickly and D) so long as effective fire-proofing had
harmoniously been installed
E) after so many of the offices had already
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171- Some large-scale manufacturers have 175- After he had learned my side of the story
retail shops of their own ---- . from Molly, ---- .
A) where consumer buying can be studied A) his apologies are obviously worthless
at close quarters B) he phoned me to apologize for his
B) as if the true cost of advertising became attitude
more difficult to assess C) I don't even want to listen to his
C) before a new product is sold all over the apologies
country D) he's still too proud to admit he behaved
D) unless some firms carry out regular badly
surveys throughout the region E) it will obviously be better to forget all
E) though sometimes the advice of an about it
agency was sought on the packaging of
the article 176- Despite the great concern for leadership
and the large volume of writings about it,
172- Kerrich carried out exhaustive ---- .
experiments in probability ---- .
A) leadership is a topic of interest to many
A) until the coin has been tossed a people
thousand times B) this is hardly a comprehensive definition
B) if he had been arrested when the C) it was too vigorous a definition and didn't
Germans invaded Denmark reflect the common sense notion of the
C) whether the coin toss is truly random term
D) while he was interned in a camp in D) older children would actually follow his
Jutland for the duration of the war lead
E) that he has been acclaimed as one of E) there is relatively little agreement about
South Africa's leading mathematicians what it is or how it functions
173- The manual workers in the automobile 177- Though every industrial development
factory are threatening to go on strike ---- . project is a potential source of pollution,
---- .
A) if they do not receive an adequate pay
rise A) air pollution would clearly have been the
B) after their pay claim is granted most dangerous of all
C) that working conditions are not improving B) this didn't mean that industrial
fast enough development had to be radically reduced
D) even if the union hadn't offered any C) careful advance planning can minimize
support that pollution and its effects on the
E) which is due to start next week population
D) such benefits as reductions in crop
losses would help to offset the costs of
pollution control
E) the dangers of pollution are everywhere
recognized
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178- ---- that basic evolutionary processes in 182- ----, urban farms are usually far more
the future will differ substantially from productive than their rural counterparts.
those in the past.
A) If city authorities and agricultural
A) The breaking up of habitats will create researchers continue to ignore urban
populations farming
B) Nobody had thought to ask themselves B) Because they tend to be small and
C) They are carrying out a study of island carefully looked after
biogeography C) Even though most farmers didn't use
D) There is no reason whatsoever to yield-boosting chemicals
assume D) While the highest productivity has been
E) The argument was further supported on the smallest plots
E) As better child nutrition can be linked to
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areas
179- Unlike most animals, the baby elephant
very often has to be up on its feet and 183- It has only recently been accepted ----.
moving with the herd ----.
A) just as in Huntington's disease a
A) whether it is fully functional straightaway defective protein kills brain cells
B) so it has an amazing ability to lean and B) why the nerve cells of the adult human
remember things brain were long thought to be too
C) as if there were a long period of juvenile specialized to regenerate
dependency C) because now it appears that the brain
D) before it is even an hour old can greatly increase production in an
E) because a nomadic life-style attempt to repair damage
necessitated such practices D) In case the discovery raises the
possibility of developing drugs to
180- According to the newspapers, the encourage cells to regenerate faster and
investigators, who visited Ukraine over sooner
the sale of radar-detection equipment to E) that adult human brains can generate
Iraq, complained ----. new cells
A) until considerable incriminating evidence 184- ---- as one does not know the contents of
has been discovered the next chapter!
B) though some officials have admittedly
cooperated A) He should have weighed the matter more
C) that vital information was being withheld carefully at the start
D) whether other countries ought to come B) The writing of any kind of contemporary
under their scrutiny history is always a dangerous business
E) though effective action would have been C) The subject he chose was a highly
forthcoming controversial one
D) The speech aroused no response
181- Japan has produced two hi-tech stadiums whatsoever in the audience
----. E) He'll probably keep within the limits set
down by his adviser
A) that has been designed to serve several
purposes 185- Though the UK possesses a third of all
B) which display the sort of innovation for Europe's wind energy potential ----.
fun treatment we expect from that
country A) Denmark was leading in the world in wind
C) neither of them is designed with the fans technology
in mind B) most of the industrial world had been
D) whenever there is novelty for the sake of slow to recognize the benefits of wind
novelty C) it still produces far less than other
E) as there is provision for novel European countries
waterproofing systems which are highly D) hydroelectric power is another renewable
effective energy resource
E) there could have been a drop of around
7% in the gas emissions
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186- ----, a multitude of new residential 190- As the company manufactures nearly all
developments are underway. its cars in Germany, ---- .
A) Unless the first impression is a good one A) the sterling started to weaken against the
B) Once the new marina had started euro
C) If there were a reception centre to greet B) the sports car in particular finds a market
prospective customers in America
D) Since Dubai would like to persuade C) every effort has to be made to minimize
people to stay on a more permanent the short-term impact of currency swings
basis D) other companies have not always been
E) As if they have benefited from the so successful
swimming pool and sports facilities E) its costs are mostly in the European
currency, euros
187- Although relatively few people have
outright food allergies, ----. 191- Since the images of Stanley and
Livingstone have changed so much over
A) there are many who have difficulty in the years, ---- .
digesting certain foods
B) peanuts are among the most allergenic A) the new image of Livingstone makes him
foods a deeper and braver man than his legend
C) biotechnologists are altering some foods B) there would have been no necessity for
genetically in an attempt to eliminate the yet another book on the subject
proteins C) one would expect some account of this in
D) the majority took a firm stand against a new book about them
genetically modified foods D) Victorian England was nevertheless
E) the number of people who experience a obsessed with the magic of free trade
reaction to vegetables is very negligible E) the final journals of Livingstone were
polished to ensure that he appeared as a
188- If only the tax return over the year had saintly man
been as high as had been predicted, ----.
192- ---- that this is one of the most heart-
A) this can easily be accounted for breaking films ever made about an
B) they have underestimated their economic American family.
commitments
C) some people regard accounting as an A) The film demonstrates the audacity and
art, not a science structural power of its director
D) companies are no longer the unified, self- B) The film centers round a family of five
contained organizations that they used to C) The subject matter is indeed sensational
be D) Some critics are of the opinion
E) such increased government outlays on E) In this film the family is reaffirmed as the
public services would have been feasible most powerful subject for great drama
2003 KASIM KPDS SORULARI 193- Unless you take their backgrounds into
consideration, ---- .
189- Though Gertrude Stein desired the
acclaim of a larger public, ---- . A) they could not have been more different
in appearance and temperament
A) even her close friend, Alice Toklas, could B) neither of them would have admitted the
have been mistaken about it fact to anyone
B) she had certainly not achieved all the C) second-generation Jewish-American
respects he deserved business families may be expected to
C) her originality, even her eccentricity, was have certain traits in common
apparent at a very early age D) the suggestion couldn't be considered
D) she was really only appreciated in the E) these two women have nothing at all in
world of the avant-garde common
E) that her autobiography was published as
the work of Alice Toklas
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194- Advertising has increasingly less 198- It would be inaccurate to say ---- .
credibility with consumers ---- .
A) whether economic or environmental
A) whether it plays a role in sustaining an issues are the most explosive
established brand B) that there are cameras monitoring
B) that a fundamental rethinking is clearly virtually all public places
called for C) since personal freedom and privacy are
C) as if it were the indispensable foundation already a luxury
of marketing D) as if there were no ethnic hatred in
D) though they cannot always reject its Europe at the moment
messages E) why the situation has become more tricky
E) since it was rarely effective in building a and less stable
new brand
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195- This book will be a source of instruction
and delight for divers and marine 199- While most people still saw computers as
biologists and indeed for anyone ---- . science fiction, ----.
A) who genuinely loves the sea A) the discriminating few immediately
B) whose childhood will be spent by the sea appreciated their advantages
C) whether they loved the sea or not B) the early ones were large in size and low
D) that they live close to the sea in performance
E) if they heard the call of the sea C) they continue to get smaller and more
versatile
196- The Thatcher government in Britain D) it is hard to imagine how banks earned
succeeded in limiting the power of some on their work without them
of the unions ---- . E) a majority still wish they had never been
invented
A) which would have made it easier for
companies to sack striking workers 200- ---- so long as you pay attention and stick
B) whether or not the workers had resumed to the rules.
work
C) that had previously held the country to A) There is a huge number of fascinating
ransom wrecks around Britain
D) if they had been in politically sensitive B) Wrecks under the sea can contain
sectors hazardous materials like oil and
E) why bargaining demands were felt to be munitions
reasonable C) Scuba diving is very safe
D) Scuba was first patented in 1865 and
197- Crew members will have to pass several was perfected over the years
endurance tests ---- . E) Scuba divers get a great deal of pleasure
from exploring wrecks
A) as the balloon flight will take them into
the harshest of environmental conditions 201- ----unless there is an agreement to the
B) even if they were to be provided with contrary.
special space suits
C) however short the duration of the balloon A) copyright is a form of protection provided
flight turned out to be to the creators of "original works of
D) for huge physical demands have been authorship"
put on their bodies B) The authors of a joint work are co-owners
E) that they are required to follow strict of the copyright in the work
fitness and dietary regimes C) There is list of countries that maintain
copyright relations with the United States
D) Works by the US government were not
eligible for copyright protection
E) Works consisting entirely of information
that is common property were given no
such protection
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206- Most cultures have their own foundation

202- Although Japan has one of the world's myths to explain ----.
most rapidly ageing populations,----.
A) how long the world had been in existence
A) Japanese companies will be world B) why society is as it is
leaders in catering for the elderly C) so as to satisfy their curiosity concerning
B) other countries such as China and South how the world began
Korea and most of Western Europe are D) what has been happening in still earlier
closing the gap times
C) in 2004 one-fifth of its population will be 6 E) unless there was no trace of any former
or over and there will be more than inhabitants
20,000 people over the age of a hundred
D) the increasing burden of providing 207- ----, they are especially common during
pensions and health care for the growing the spring and early summer.
number of elderly will cause Japan's
public finances to remain by far the worst A) Although tornadoes can happen at any
in the developed world time of the year
E) to safeguard the financial assets of its B) Since the conditions that lead to the
pensioners, the bank of Japan will not be formation of tornadoes are most often to
able to take any radical measures be found in the central and southern
United States
203- ---- that a road once linked the newly C) As a tornado is a dark funnel-shaped
discovered settlement with one of the cloud made up of violently rotating winds
great Inca cities. D) White tornadoes in the United States
generally travel in a northeast direction
A) The whole is in a remarkable state of E) Because tornadoes are capable of lifting
preservation houses off their foundations and hurling
B) We wouldn't be surprised them considerable distances
C) The surrounding area would have been
cultivated 208- The artist's work should take the viewer to
D) There are at least 30 stone structures a place ----.
E) It seems likely
A) so it gave his paintings a shadowy aged
204- Teachers cannot be criticized for failing to appearance
promote engineering ----. B) where there were domestic situations
based around one or two figures
A) so the manner in which design is C) if his paintings are deliberately vague
presented is of first importance D) which reflect the confidence that
B) that it is not a required field of study in emerged in her childhood
most technical universities E) that he cannot go to on his own
C) whether students should follow enough
maths and science courses to quality for 2004 KASIM KPDS SORULARI
engineering school
D) if they have not been exposed to it 209- Since the migratory routes of cranes
themselves ignore political boundaries, ---- .
E) as all the young children had a flair for
designing and building A) a species bank of captive cranes has
been created to guard against extinction
205- This new pink cell phone actually gives B) some cranes depend exclusively upon
advices on ----. wetlands for nesting and feeding
C) of any effort to protect them requires the
A) which dieting techniques should have participation of several countries
been avoided D) an International effort to ensure safe
B) why the display doubles as a mirror passage for cranes would have been
C) how to dress in accord with the day's hardly feasible
weather E) this was simply a means to draw global
D) how often the battery would have to be attention to cranes and their work
charged
E) where its special features will be included
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210- ---- where farmers benefit from legal 214- ---- there's a lot of truth in the saying that
opium cultivation for the production of an orchestra is only as good as its
painkillers. conductor.
A) Turkey is one of several countries A) Though there are exceptions

B) The UN's drug control agency admits that B) If the orchestra were in better shape
crop substitution projects are inadequate C) Since his abilities as an orchestra builder
C) Total opium elimination in these countries are very impressive
is hardly feasible D) Once they had gained international
D) Until recently, only the trafficking of recognition
opium was prohibited in Laos, not the E) Since music critics are involved in a
cultivation of it serious controversy
E) Opium is one of the oldest painkillers
known 215- In good hands, the harpsichord will
always have things to offer ---- .
211- ---- , when Eveready introduced the
alkaline battery. A) that its value has never been doubted
B) which other musical Instruments cannot
A) Their technological success is still being C) if yet another challenge had to be faced
questioned D) even when the performances were not
B) Many new materials have been adapted quite flawless
for battery use E) since a substantial amount of his early
C) Mercury, too, has recently been period has been recorded
eliminated from batteries on account of
its toxicity 216- Many of Europe's museums and cultural
D) The lifespan of these batteries are institutions are in financial trouble, ---- .
expected to improve
E) The first major advance in flashlight A) even though most of America's cultural
batteries came in 1959 institutions get little cash from the federal
government
212- ---- that New York City is being badly run B) since plans by the Italian government to
and desperately needs to be reorganized. privatize parts of the country's cultural
heritage have fallen through
A) None of them had admitted C) as governments find themselves forced
B) Everybody acknowledges to cut subsidies
C) Many Americans were asking the D) because the Italian government has
authorities come up with a bold plan to ease the
D) Letters of protest had been written to the cash crisis facing the museums
Mayor's Office E) if France's new culture minister has come
E) Many journalists would recommend out in favour of a plan for more
independence for national museums
213- Because scientists believe that comets in
the distant past deposited water and 217- Well before 11 September, people began
organic compounds on both Earth and its to fear ---- .
moon, ---- .
A) if they had achieved their political ends
A) in the 1990s, two probes that orbited the B) that terrorists would start to use
moon raised new questions about Earth's chemical, biological and nuclear
airless satellite weapons
B) it is the largest impact crater in the entire C) so that Americans can confront the worst
solar system threats before they emerge
C) the exploration agenda would have been D) in case America will have to consider
changed creating a domestic intelligence agency
D) well-preserved ice at the lunar poles E) when the United States toppled the
could yield clues to the origins of life regime that gave al-Qaeda its Afghan
E) those lunar missions had been supported sanctuary
by very few scientists
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218- In the 20th century, most of the large 222- We are determined to give the contract to
military powers developed biological an architect ---- .
weapons, ---- .
A) since a great many problems had already
A) but moral repugnance kept these arisen
countries from using them against each B) whose handling of the interiors was
other outstanding
B) although bio-weapons have a fearful C) who is committed to environmentally
potential that has long been understood responsible design
C) while as many as 17 countries are still D) until we learn the kind of garden that is
thought to have kept some to use in an possible
emergency E) if their requirements were even slightly
D) so long as none of the regimes is unusual
supporting a terrorist group
E) just as non-lethal weapons merit 223- The name "dolphin" is generally applied
particular attention to species with a beaklike snout and
slender body, ---- .
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A) as it is dark above and white below, with
219- The building of the Toshka canal in Egypt bands of grey, white and yellow on the
was carefully planned ---- . sides
B) which also had included porpoises but
A) if the inlet starts at a point 8 km north of there are also some freshwater forms
Toshka bay C) which are largely confined to rivers in
B) as the mistakes made in earlier canals Asia, Africa and South America
had proved costly D) whereas the name "porpoise" is reserved
C) as if the desert could become green for the smaller species with a blunt snout
D) until the amount of water required was and stocky body
agreed on E) though dolphins cannot actually smile
E) that wealthy investors could easily be
found 224- If the company is to invest in long-term
growth, ---- .
220- There has been a decrease in deaths from
motor vehicle crashes over recent years, A) the main aim is nevertheless to improve
---- . customer relations
B) there was still a need for short-term
A) since speed limits would be lowered profits
B) which is partly due to improved safety C) it will clearly have to sacrifice short-term
features in cars profits
C) if there were public intolerance of D) a new sales force is already being trained
drinking and driving E) the investment would ultimately yield a
D) as there has been improved safety return
design in occupational machinery
E) in which improved medical care had 225- Although microeconomic theories try to
played a part explain how large numbers of firms act in
the marketplace, ---- .
221- This conductor offers an orchestral
balance quite unlike ---- . A) economists faced several unique
problems
A) as if some string passages almost get B) they are quite poor at describing or
lost predicting the actual behaviour of any
B) as you simply do not hear the violins as one particular real-world firm
the "main line" of the music C) managers try to minimize inventory costs,
C) what we are used to meet production schedules and devise
D) that he adds something of his own diverse product mixes
E) since the work is hardly recognizable D) behavioural theories had been far more
descriptive and predictive of the
behaviour of individual firms and
managers
E) its primary aim is to promote
organizational values and interests
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226- ---- even though certain difficult economic 230- Oil, the world's most sought-after
conditions prevail. substance, often seems to curse the
countries ---- .
A) European equities display strong profit
growth A) when there was a sudden influx of money
B) In 2004, the European economy B) though they had grown rich
remained fundamentally sound C) whether this was actually the case
C) Inflation had actually begun to improve D) where it is found
D) There were several other encouraging E) if it were to encourage people to take out
signs loans
E) It should have been easy to maintain the
competitiveness 231- Celebrities ---- cause 14 times as many
people to copy them as do other suicides.
227- ---- when the occupancy levels in the hotel
fall off steeply. A) whose suicide was reported in
newspapers
A) There are no profits to be made during B) who kill themselves
the cold winter months C) whom journalists try to interview
B) The hotel regained its five-star rating in D) as the impact of their suicide on society
1996 is studied
C) The rebuilt Star has retained the original E) when they are reported in the media
shell, but scarcely any of the fittings
D) Training schemes were receiving even 232- Animals are particularly vulnerable ---- .
greater attention
E) Outside temperatures reached 50°C A) when they are in their infancy
B) whether they could fend for themselves
228- ---- that makes his job worthwhile. C) as soon as they had left their mothers
D) so that their offspring will survive
A) Hopefully, you'll hear things you never E) unless every effort has been made by the
heard before parents
B) For the orchestra, it is the dedication of 233- As with many long-term projects, no one
the conductor knows ---- .
C) In the first place, there must be an
audience A) whether it had exploded or not
D) For the conductor, it is the possibility of B) that the Apollo programme, starting from
making new discoveries scratch cost a hundred billion US dollars
E) Indeed, he has approached every piece C) if it had turned out to be even more
of music in this way expensive
D) why we could have afforded it
2005 KASIM KPDS SORULARI E) what the real costs will turn out to be
229- ---- , America should buy local grain and 234- If there had been no one to encourage her
distribute that, thus stimulating and feed her ego at this time, ---- .
agriculture where it is most needed.
A) she might well have given up writing
A) As long as aid from European countries altogether
tends to have fewer strings attached B) the critics were indeed merciless
B) While remaining one of the world's C) even her best novels attracted little
stingiest donors of aid attention
C) Instead of dumping American cereal D) like many of her friendships, this one was
surpluses as aid on hungry countries short-lived
D) Because African leaders often point out E) she has not been able to repeat this
E) In case Europe allows the world's poorest success
countries to export many goods tariff free
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235- When the feminist movement came into 240- He has focused on moving the complexity
being, ---- . of computing from the desktop to the
network, ----.
A) a major issue is still the right to vote
B) the aim had been to combat oppression A) where it can be managed more easily
C) women were seen as constituting a B) if computers could communicate more
single class easily with one another
D) discrimination against women still C) that his improvements actually caught the
continues in the workplace eye of the Pentagon
E) the professional-class working mother is D) though it became the most widely used
another exception operating system of its day
E) which would have been the greatest
236- ---- that Mars has experienced a striking challenge of his career
diversity of processes throughout its
history. 241- Salmon farms are prohibited in Alaska ----.
A) In fact nobody suggested A) unless salmon actually does protect

B) It is now apparent against cancer
C) The discussion is likely to continue B) because fishermen blame the farms for
D) Majority opinions are not necessarily undercutting their price
correct C) since farmed salmon used to be fattier
E) The evidence they presented than wild salmon
D) but they say salmon farms are bad for
237- ---- since it came into being some 4.5 the environment
billion years ago. E) once the industry begins to attack some
of the problems
A) Earth is one of several rocky planets
B) Earth's atmosphere is variable 242- The Bermuda Triangle, ----, is noted for a
C) Heat and gravity continued to shape high incidence of unexplained losses of
Earth ships, small boats and aircraft.
D) Constant change has characterized Earth
E) Life on Earth was impossible A) that an entire squadron of planes
vanished shortly after takeoff
238- Though people continue to be fascinated B) as local environmental conditions could
by the explorer, Livingstone, ---- . be the cause
C) since the sea here is particularly fast
A) his rival Stanley had been admired more moving
B) the way people regard him has changed D) when there is an almost unique magnetic
dramatically effect on compasses
C) some of his former possessions sold E) which is off the south-eastern Atlantic
recently for over a million dollars coast of the US
D) he was physically brave and morally
righteous 243- The stereotype of woman as the more
E) he made several more African “emotional” sex is the one ----.
expeditions
A) that still persists today
2006 MAYIS KPDS SORULARI B) as emotions are so unpredictable
C) but it had been encouraged by the Stoics
239- There is a general agreement among car D) until overruled by 20th century
manufacturing companies that, ----, psychology
hydrogen is likely to be the fuel of choice. E) which a more sophisticated mode of
thinking will have denied
A) if sulphur emissions had been checked
B) when oil runs out 244- ---- who will become schizophrenic.
C) as it could have been stored as a gas
D) as if no mechanical energy was required A) There seems to be a genetic
E) unless there were giant fuel cells predisposition
B) A cure is nowhere in sight
C) Neither doctors nor scientists can
accurately predict
D) They confuse the real and the imaginary
E) Treatment of the disorder is improving
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245- In general, when credit demand is low, ----. 2006 KASIM KPDS SORULARI
A) it is not sensible to take out loans during 249- Because energy production expends
deflation resources and causes pollution, ---- .
B) following the wrong guideline could have
been catastrophic A) we depend upon nature to provide the
C) interest rates measure the cost of credit, basics of life, such as food and oxygen
not the price of money B) many resources are used once and then
D) interest rates are correspondingly low thrown away
E) precautionary savings were rising at this C) modern technical challenges are seldom
time met by scientists
D) scientists and engineers must work to
246- ---- since it has been described as among develop energy-efficient processes
the most terrifying works of history ever E) engineers must solve problems without
penned. even understanding the underlying theory
A) The story focuses on Hitler’s end in his 250- If only she had come up with some
underground banker positive suggestions, ---- .
B) I want to get hold of this new account of
World War II A) the scheme certainly had very many
C) The story is well told by one of drawbacks
Germany’s renowned historians B) nobody else is likely to complain
D) I’ve read all I want to read about World C) so far this is the best thesis to be
War II submitted
E) In particular the bombing of Dresden is D) the others will already have been
objectively presented rejected
E) I wouldn’t have minded her criticism of
247- ---- that engineers do not restrict the project
themselves to technical matters.
251- ---- while such African languages as
A) The engineering curriculum has long Hausa and Swahili continued to serve the
required everyday needs of the masses.
B) Many potential leaders were of the
opinion A) During the colonial era in Africa, English
C) The courses involved substantial reading became the shared language of the
and writing assignments administration and a Western-educated
D) The aim was to attract a wider audience élite,
E) He acquired a sophisticated knowledge B) In colonial Africa, the teaching of English
of scientific and technical matters literature is no longer popular
C) Modern African writers have found it
248- ---- even though she’s still not prepared to necessary to adapt certain aspects of
forgive herself. English,
D) Today, English is the official language of
A) The wrong person got blamed sixteen countries in Africa,
B) After all, she committed an error, not a E) English as a second language has been
crime taught in Africa for nearly four hundred
C) Others were also involved in the affair years,
D) A lot of people have forgiven her
E) She was wrongly accused
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252- ---- but cannot be proved and is difficult to 255- Neanderthals were a recent evolutionary
assess. human relative ---- .
A) The influence of Samuel Johnson’s A) who lived in Europe and became extinct
Dictionary of the English Language on 30,000-40,000 years ago
the development of the language has B) as researchers studying human origins
been widely assumed debated this question for decades
B) Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the C) which are muscular and robust, with a
English Language played a role in brain similar to ours in size
propagating a standard spelling among D) while the relationship between humans
the less literate and Neanderthals may best be described
C) Samuel Johnson was an enthusiastic as sister species
reader of classical and English literature E) despite the fact that they had hands as
from his earliest years nimble as those of present-day humans,
D) It took Samuel Johnson eight or nine with a thumb and fingers
years to complete work on his Dictionary
of the English Language 256- The Welsh language has changed so little
E) With his Dictionary of the English through the centuries ---- .
Language, Samuel Johnson provided a
powerful but conservative model of A) whose annual Eisteddfod celebration
language usage honours its best poets and writers
B) that an educated Welshman can still read
253- Before the 21st century has run its the Welsh of the Middle Ages
course, ---- . C) as more and more English families settle
in Wales, bringing their habits with them
A) the powers of computers have expanded D) although Wales recently formed its own
vastly due to advanced research national assembly
B) countless technologies not envisioned E) unless it embodies the kind, unambitious
yet will be available to us nature of the Welsh people
C) a great deal of scientific effort is being
made to find solutions to complex 257- By 1809, Sweden’s military power had
problems waned to such an extent ---- .
D) most people in developed countries enjoy
a state of true health throughout their A) as a new constitution transferred power
lives from the king to Parliament
E) our knowledge of the world around us B) so that it could no longer continue as a
has improved to a great extent great power
C) that the country was forced to surrender
254- Smallpox was once a dreaded human part of its territory to Russia
disease, ---- . D) in that nearly one million Swedes
migrated, mostly to America
A) while genetic engineering can be used in E) even though the Swedes had contributed
several ways to make vaccines to Europe’s Age of Enlightenment with
B) although today DNA technology is advances in science
helping medical researchers develop
vaccines 258- Road and rail connections in Italy are
C) even if artificial-mutant vaccines may generally better in the north, ---- .
cause fewer side effects than natural
mutants A) because between the snowy peaks of the
D) but it was eradicated worldwide in the Alps and the rugged shores of Sicily lies
1970s by widespread vaccination a whole series of regions, each with its
E) since there has been no effective drug distinctive culture
treatment for many viral diseases B) but there are many other attractive
historic towns and cities
C) but people speak of two Italians: the rich
industrial North and the poorer
agricultural South
D) just as the government has allocated
extra funds for road repairs
E) where Milan, Bologna and Verona are
the key transport centres
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2007 MAYIS KPDS SORULARI 263- ---- that the reasons for introducing the
new-design dollar bills were the persistent
259- Though the smell of fumes in an aircraft reports of high quality counterfeits
cockpit may not always spell danger, ---- . circulating in the Middle East.
A) a forced landing could have been A) Following a US Secret Service probe, the
avoided US Federal Reserve has wondered
B) even a small sensor can detect a wide B) Enormous quantities of dollar bills are
range of chemicals held in reserve in the US and overseas
C) harmless fumes had been caused by a C) All of them are old allegations made by
small leak of oil the US Federal Reserve
D) it is guaranteed to alarm the pilot D) The US government’s currency policy
E) such a detector can easily be fitted into has been sharply criticised
an aircraft E) It has been claimed, but never confirmed
by the US Federal Reserve,
260- Because children enjoy the process of
play, ---- . 264- The United Nations officially recognized
the greenhouse effect in 1995, ---- .
A) various other options had been taken into
consideration A) when its International Panel on Climate
B) they are not primarily focused on noted that human activity had a
achieving a product or achieving a goal discernible influence on global
C) group demands begin to grow steadily temperatures
D) many alternative approaches also had to B) as the economies of developing nations
be tested will grow over the next few decades
E) the acquisition of social skills is a positive C) if developing nations were exempted
asset from the Kyoto Agreement
D) since the US government announced that
261- ---- when countered by anti-stress it would not participate in Kyoto
measures such as exercising, enjoying Agreement
time with friends and cultivating a hobby. E) that the participating nations must make
large and costly changes in their energy
A) The ladder of success is a hard one systems
B) There must be a balance between
tension and relaxation 265- Oxygen, sugars and amino acids are
C) Workloads seem lighter allowed into the brain ---- .
D) Relaxation techniques are easy to learn
E) Stress can be understood in a variety of A) as toxins could severely impair the
ways brain’s functioning
B) which provided early evidence of the
262- If there is too much mineral accumulation blood-brain barrier
in the compost, ---- . C) but most other substances are kept out
D) that controls which molecules in the
A) roots get burnt and plants die bloodstream can enter the brain
B) some plants need less fertilizer than E) just as no other organ is equally efficient
others
C) the flowering season was greatly reduced 266- Africa Report is a weekly TV programme
D) most plants grow far more quickly in wet ---- .
areas
E) the growing conditions also need to be A) unless it showcases the very best in
considered Africa
B) that focuses on business and investment
in Africa
C) though it covers everything from
economic reform to rewarding investment
opportunities
D) so it has 250 million viewers in Africa
alone
E) as it is brought to you by the world’s
leading business channel
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267- Environmentalists are criticizing the 270- ---- before grapes can be transformed into
patent office for delaying its decision on fine wine.
some new measuring instruments ---- .
A) Harvesting was a very costly and tiring
A) while the guidelines have been process
consistently ignored B) Farmers were expecting higher prices
B) if applications for patents on plants are C) Drought does much damage to grape
on the increase vines
C) before objections were filed against D) The farm workers in France have
patents on a herbicide resistant plant protested at lower wages
D) since they believe that these are urgently E) There is much work to be done
needed to detect certain problems
E) as if the controversy had actually died 271- ---- what makes Hong Kong so
down exhilarating.
268- ---- , they operate as effective carriers and A) It’s hard to explain
may pass it on to other birds which are B) Many travellers are curious
more susceptible. C) One soon becomes aware
D) It has been debated
A) Though many migratory birds are E) We have been much impressed
immune to the effects of the avian flu
virus 272- ---- , yet it is not possible to go much
B) Since many residents of outlying villages further without any breakthroughs in
have refused to carry out the culling of battery technology.
their chickens to prevent the spread of
avian flu A) Electric cars don’t make economic sense
C) Despite the fact that the avian flu virus is in view of the harsh environmental
spread, primarily, by migratory birds regulations in force
D) As symptoms of bird flu in humans are B) Electric cars have simply been a
similar to those of common flu technological failure
E) If the spread of the avian flu virus through C) Hybrid cars are certainly a step in the
populations of wild birds remains right direction
unchecked D) Any fuel savings resulting from electric or
hybrid cars are likely to be offset by the
2007 KASIM KPDS SORULARI cost of the cars themselves
E) One fears that the hybrid car may be yet
269- Until China becomes the most powerful another technological failure
nation in the world, with Chinese spoken
universally, ---- . 273- ---- because he had led the country into
four wars which he had lost, and brought
A) the problems of wide variations in English economic ruin to his people.
may well be lessened
B) English will remain the primary language A) Serbia experienced widespread
of science and diplomacy corruption under Milosevic, who ruled the
C) many countries in the world have shifted country as a dictator,
to printing their scientific journals only in B) Many Serbians felt humiliated by the
English atrocities committed in Bosnia by the
D) immigrants to the United States or Britain Milosevic government
acquire English rapidly and well C) Milosevic’s rule in Serbia literally meant
E) people who speak English and another political tyranny, which led to pro-
language have an advantage over those democracy protests in the country,
who speak only English D) Milosevic, the ex-president of Serbia,
was protested nationwide and then
removed from power
E) Today Serbia’s writers constantly remind
their people of the shameful past of their
country under Milosevic
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274- Many of the larger companies in Somalia 277- Climate change may alter the genetic
have issued shares, ---- . composition of species, ---- .
A) if the lack of a government in the country A) but assessment of any shift in this
poses a wide range of problems respect requires genetic data sampled
B) since the local telecom offers the best over time
and cheapest phone service in Africa B) even though, for most species,
C) although there is no stock exchange or environmental conditions have some
financial authority of any sort in the impact on breeding
country C) despite the fact that recent analyses
D) but business leaders have taken steps to clearly show the magnitude and direction
increase the country’s foreign-trade of genetic shifts in various populations
capacity D) which, according to the evidence
E) even if foreign aid might have benefits as available, is geographically widespread
well as drawbacks from North Africa to Scandinavia
E) so long as one can observe the genetic
275- Traditionally, textbooks on British impact that environmental differences
government and politics have focused on have on living beings
institutions and behaviour ---- .
278- ---- , street crime in major Asian cities is
A) whether it is appropriate to describe the still less common than in most European
British Constitution as uncodified rather cities.
than unwritten
B) in case political institutions and issues A) Since the governments are concerned
are inseparable and need to be B) Because severe measures had been
discussed together taken
C) just as a brief analysis of the leading C) Though it is rising sharply
types of government found in the modern D) If one were to admit it
world was left out E) Before reliable statistical data can be
D) because one had to explore in detail the obtained
impact of Thatcherism upon British
politics
E) while ignoring the controversies and
issues which are the fundamentals of
politics
276- Meteorites are extraterrestrial complex

rocks with roughly equal amounts of
metal and silicates ---- .
A) because the moon has been studied

extensively by spacecraft and has been
sampled directly at a few locations
B) which have major implications for the
collisional history of planetary bodies
C) whereby the various planetary and
asteroidal bodies in the solar system
contain a specific isotopic label
D) so that each meteorite is a small sample
of a much larger parent body, probably
an unidentified asteroid
E) while measurement of the oxygen
isotopic composition of the Sun is the
highest priority of NASA’s Genesis
mission
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CEVAP ANAHTARI
1 E 51 D 101 C 151 D 201 B 251 A
2 A 52 A 102 D 152 B 202 B 252 A
3 D 53 B 103 A 153 A 203 E 253 B
4 B 54 E 104 B 154 B 204 D 254 D
5 D 55 C 105 B 155 A 205 C 255 A
6 C 56 B 106 A 156 C 206 B 256 B
7 E 57 E 107 B 157 E 207 A 257 C
8 C 58 B 108 E 158 B 208 E 258 E
9 E 59 C 109 D 159 E 209 C 259 D
10 C 60 E 110 B 160 D 210 A 260 B
11 D 61 A 111 D 161 D 211 E 261 C
12 B 62 D 112 A 162 C 212 B 262 A
13 E 63 E 113 C 163 B 213 D 263 E
14 A 64 C 114 B 164 E 214 A 264 A
15 B 65 B 115 E 165 A 215 B 265 C
16 C 66 B 116 D 166 E 216 C 266 B
17 D 67 E 117 A 167 A 217 B 267 D
18 C 68 C 118 C 168 D 218 A 268 A
19 C 69 A 119 C 169 C 219 B 269 B
20 A 70 E 120 B 170 B 220 B 270 E
21 B 71 D 121 A 171 A 221 C 271 A
22 E 72 A 122 B 172 D 222 C 272 C
23 D 73 A 123 E 173 A 223 D 273 D
24 A 74 D 124 D 174 C 224 C 274 C
25 D 75 C 125 B 175 B 225 B 275 E
26 C 76 C 126 A 176 E 226 A 276 B
27 A 77 E 127 C 177 C 227 A 277 A
28 D 78 B 128 B 178 D 228 D 278 C
29 B 79 A 129 E 179 D 229 C 279 S
30 C 80 C 130 A 180 C 230 D 280 E
31 E 81 E 131 C 181 B 231 B 281 Y
32 A 82 A 132 D 182 B 232 A 282 F
33 E 83 B 133 B 183 E 233 E 283 İ
34 A 84 D 134 C 184 B 234 A 284 H
35 D 85 E 135 C 185 C 235 C 285 O
36 C 86 C 136 D 186 D 236 B 286 C
37 E 87 E 137 D 187 A 237 D 287 A
38 A 88 B 138 E 188 E 238 B 288
39 B 89 E 139 A 189 D 239 B 289
40 E 90 A 140 E 190 E 240 A 290
41 C 91 B 141 B 191 C 241 B 291
42 A 92 D 142 C 192 D 242 E 292
43 E 93 E 143 C 193 E 243 A 293
44 D 94 C 144 D 194 D 244 C 294
45 A 95 E 145 A 195 A 245 D 295
46 C 96 C 146 E 196 C 246 B 296
47 B 97 B 147 D 197 A 247 A 297
48 E 98 C 148 B 198 B 248 D 298
49 D 99 E 149 E 199 A 249 D 299
50 A 100 B 150 C 200 C 250 E 300
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1992-2007 KPDS YARIM CÜMLE SORULARI

A) just as branches that appeared healthy 1993 MAYIS KPDS SORULARI

A) that these measures will help to increase A) he is admired by his colleagues

A) When the polling, which had been heavy,

A) that the managing director was especially

121- Since these new printers weigh less than

A) they really deserve to be called portable

206- Most cultures have their own foundation

A) Turkey is one of several countries A) Though there are exceptions

A) In fact nobody suggested A) unless salmon actually does protect

276- Meteorites are extraterrestrial complex

A) because the moon has been studied

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