REVIEW TEST 03

8. We ---- the idea of paying taxes, but without taxes,

1. We used to think that agriculture gave rise to
democracies ---- to function to provide public
civilization, but now new ---- suggests that the need
services.
to worship sparked it.
A) might not like / would struggle
A) structure B) temple
B) cannot like / could struggle
C) requirement D) evidence
C) could not like / have to struggle
E) instance
D) would not like / had better struggle
2. Biodiversity is a broad concept, so a set of objective E) should not like / used to struggle
criteria have been ---- in order to measure it
empirically.
9. The word “sustainability” ---- a wider meaning with
A) called off B) taken off references to how biological systems ---- diverse and
productive over time.
C) given up D) put forward
A) bore / remained
E) wiped out
B) bears / remain
3. Sadly but explicitly, Yasuní National Park in Ecuador, C) would bear / have remained
is a rain forest ---- radical change and is being
destroyed. D) will bear / will have remained

A) undergoing B) defending E) had born / had remained

C) diminishing D) reducing
10. The greatest competitive advantage that the Chinese
E) altering ---- for themselves is an infrastructure that ---- no
international comparison.
4. The rise of ---- powers like China, Brazil, Turkey and A) create / had had
India will bring an eventual end to the era of Western
dominance. B) are creating / has had

A) impoverished B) hindering C) were creating / would have

C) emerging D) retarding D) have created / has

E) predictable E) had created / will have

5. In recent years, the importance of corporate social 11. The Renaissance depended on the experience of the
responsibility has been emphasized in many whole world ---- being confined to a few Western
areas, ---- about climate change. countries.

A) especially B) redundantly A) such as B) rather than

C) bitterly D) ostentatiously C) except for D) in addition to

E) formerly E) but for

6. The Earth is ---- a chemical which is quite different 12. Göbekli Tepe is a site ---- Turkey in the north of the
from that of the universe. Syrian border and ---- 15 km northeast of the city of
Şanlıurfa.
A) looked down on B) made up of
A) of / into B) from / onto
C) fall back on D) come up with
C) across / at D) by / above
E) put up with
E) in / about

7. Biodiversity ---- as the taxonomic richness of a 13. ---- the Cold War, Moscow and Washington
geographic area, ---- some reference to a disagreed ---- almost everything.
temporal scale.
A) With / across B) Above / into
A) was plotted / had
C) During / on D) About / from
B) will be plotted / to have had
E) For / with
C) is plotted / having
D) had been plotted / to have
E) has been plotted / to be having

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14. ---- transfer pricing, tax havens and many other 21. Relief from a disease may not be ---- hard ----
methods, billions of dollars of tax are avoided, that imagined, yet patient willingness is of primary
is, not paid ---- the state. importance.
A) Throughout / by B) Across / in A) as / as B) either / or
C) Towards / for D) Along / from C) just as / so D) such / that
E) Through / to E) so / that

15. ---- limited mainly to vitamins, the supplements 22. The term "stress" was first coined ---- Hans
industry has recently experienced exponential Selye in the 1930s in order to identify
growth. physiological responses ---- laboratory animals.
A) Once B) Because A) on / to B) from / off
C) Before D) If C) over / among D) by / in
E) When E) with / underneath

16. Drinking a little alcohol is really quite harmless. 23. Researchers have been conducting numerous
----, some studies have suggested it can even studies ---- the probable causes ---- the epidemic.
be good for your health.
A) by / in B) on / of
A) Therefore B) So
C) to / off D) into / over
C) Meanwhile D) In fact
E) with / with
E) Otherwise
24. Sometimes, reports on the presence of mass
17. ---- there is a clear increase in demand, certainly weapons of destruction are quite deceitful ----
smartphones will vary in sort and amount. they grossly exaggerate the available evidence.
A) Although B) As long as A) once B) in that
C) As if D) Unless C) only if D) though
E) Whether E) as if

18. Stress emerges ---- a human or animal body fails to 25. ---- we speak of inventions, we generally think of
respond appropriately to emotional or physical solid achievements such as the computer, the light
threats to the organism. bulb or even the internet.
A) so that B) as if A) Once B) Unless
C) when D) unless C) Given that D) Although
E) much as E) When

19. Almost all emotional or physical threats to the 26. ---- the herbal items, “ginseng” has been sold ----
organism, ---- actual ---- imagined, can lead to stress. centuries to improve bodily performance.
A) as / as B) the more / the less A) Ahead / in B) Behind / at
C) neither / nor D) whether / or C) Among / for D) Above / by
E) such / that E) Below / over

20. Common migraine symptoms include irritability, 27. Inventions are classified into distinct categories, ----
muscular tension, inability to concentrate ---- a they cannot be considered as a single group.
variety of physical reactions.
A) if B) after
A) but for B) except for
C) before D) as
C) for all D) according to
E) though
E) in addition to