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1. (I) Although television seems like a great thing to have, it has its drawbacks. (II) Television can negatively effect people, particularly kids. (III) Numerous studies and surveys have proven just how much television can be a bad influence on our children. (IV) Television is the most-used technological commodity millions of people use regularly in everyday life. (V) Many kids become violent, have severe psychological effects, and become very unhealthy. A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V 2. (I) One way of determining people's

personalities, is the Myers Briggs Type indicator. (II) It is a test that gives the subject a series of questions on how they would react to a certain situation. (III) From the 100 questions posed, experts have developed a way to classify these people into 16

personality types. (IV) Among other benefits, this enables managers to match these people with jobs by determining what individuals enjoy doing and what positions are best suited for them. (V) In fact, determining people's personality is

inessential to choosing where employees fit into jobs

A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V 3. (I) In David Hume’s paper “Of Miracles,”

Hume presents various arguments

concerning why people should not believe in any miracles. (II) Hume does not think that miracles do not exist, it is just that we should not believe in them as they have no rational background. (III) His argument is most miracles tend to come from uncivilised countries and the witnesses typically contradict each other’s experiences. (IV) He forgets that miracles have happened in the

4. (I) The world today is smaller than it has ever been. (II) Indeed, globalisation has solved many long-ignored problems. (III) Travel is now measured by hours, not days. (IV) But there is still a very distinct distance or boundary when we talk about cultures. (V) Whether we are talking North-South, or East-West, cultural differences exist everywhere.

A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V

5. (I) China, like most other Asian countries, values boys more than girls for several reasons. (II) Boys can work and inherit the family land, keeping it in the family. (III) Moreover, they carry on the family name and they can look after their parents when they are old. (IV) A girl, however, takes any property she possesses to her husband and his family and looks after his parents, so boys are favoured. (V) As a result, parents will go to great lengths to ensure that their first, and often only, child is a girl.

6. (I) With depressed students, there are many warning signs which should not be ignored. (II) The depressed child exhibits

overwhelming sadness, apathy, and hopelessness. (III) Furthermore, there is a decrease in interest and enjoyment in everyday pleasurable activities. (IV) The depressed child may also show a change in appetite, weight, sleep pattern, or energy level. (V) When left unsupervised, the mentally retarded may cause harm to the environment.

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7. (I) Radio waves have a variety of forms and uses. (II) Low frequency waves have little use for purposes of communication. (III) Only medium and high frequency waves are used for sound transmission. (IV) Without relay stations these waves cannot be received by some television antennae. (V) For transmission of pictures very high frequency waves are necessary.

A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V 8. (I) Poland is undergoing an admirable

transformation. (II) The Polish people have shaken off the iron grip of dictatorship and adopted democracy. (III) Absolute

obedience with an omnipotent ruler brings about tyranny, oppression and slavery. (IV) They have undergone “shock therapy” to rationalise their economy, replacing chronic shortages with unprecedented abundance. (V) Once an object of pity, Poland now stands respected, even envied by its struggling neighbours.

9. (I) Tanks are an example of the new technology invented in the war. (II) They were first used in 1916, carrying machine guns, moving across any land, crushing barbed wire barriers. (III) They were used very successfully throughout the First World War. (IV) However, initially they didn’t prove to be easy to use them with success. (V) Only late in the war did commanders learn how to use them successfully.

10. (I) Most space travellers suffer from Space Motion Sickness. (II) The balancing

mechanism of the inner ear is thrown askew, sending distorted signals to the brain and eyes. (III) Astronauts may lose a feel for the location of their limbs and find it difficult to guide their hands. (IV) Space travelling has had many breakthroughs owing to these hardships that astronauts have. (V) Sudden head movements may produce the

sensation that the walls are falling – producing instant nausea and vomiting. A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V

11. (I) Association of dentists with pain is only a misconception. (II) First the dentist x-rays the teeth of his client. (III) If it is understood that any of them needs fixing, an injection is given to numb the area surrounding the tooth. (IV) This is done to mitigate the pain caused by the tooth being pulled out of course. (V) Sometimes the dentist fills the cavities in the teeth, which causes unbearable pain.

A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V 12. (I) An electric car has got several

disadvantages. (II) It puts you at ease that their batteries can be recharged even at home and at work. (III) They can travel only about 100 miles before their batteries must be recharged. (IV) Moreover, the batteries for an electric car are very expensive and must be replaced two or three times during the life of the vehicle. (V) They also do not have the ability to cruise or climb fast enough to compete with gasoline-powered cars and accessories, such as air condition or radios, drain the battery even more quickly.

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13. (I) India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, wanted to attack what he saw as a couple of main evils of the colonial era. (II) The first was rural feudalism – under which princes and aristocrats creamed of one-fifth of national income while the poor starved. (III) The second evil, according to Nehru, was the de-industrialisation of India by the Raj. (IV) Thirdly, Indian leaders believed in 1947 that colonial exploitation kept the country below the poverty line. (V) Before the British came, India and China were the world’s biggest manufacturers, but when they left, India was relatively poor due to their transfer of capital from the country. A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V

14. (I) The Enlightenment was a time was people began to question politics, religions and society. (II) Ideas were attacked with new ideas that governed logic and reason. (III) During the enlightenment there existed a religious revolution, a scientific revolution, a technological revolution and a revolution in the attitudes and minds of man altogether. (IV) The ideas and discoveries that took place during the Enlightenment gave birth to our modern world. (V) The philosophers play a large role in deciphering secrets of

existence.

A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V 15. (I) One thing to be done to protect drinking

water is to stop using it to irrigate infertile land. (II) Another way is to stop wasting water. (III) Unbalanced distribution of water supplies will cause grave international conflicts in the near future. (IV) For example, we can save plenty of water only by

installation of low flow facets in our houses. (V) It is also technically possible to purify polluted water to make it recyclable.

16. (I) Telephone and TV communications systems are increasingly relying on fibre optics instead of the more traditional copper cables. (II) Since they are more conductive, they have always been preferred to fibre optics. (III) Fibre-optic cables do not use electricity and the signals are carried by infrared rays. (IV) The signals are very clear as they don’t suffer from electrical

interference. (V) Another advantage is their lower cost and their ability to carry different signals down the same fibre simultaneously.

17. (I) China and Turkey are two countries which are very far from each other. (II) Despite this, marital traditions of the Turks and the Chinese are similar to a great extent. (III) We see many discrepancies between the marriage traditions of the Turks and the Chinese. (IV) In both countries traditional engagements are often held when both parties are young. (V) Traditionally many areas in China and Turkey marriage is arranged without either the boy or the girl seeing each other, and sometimes the parents arrange the marriage before the children are born.

18. (I) Environmental pollution is usually thought to be only the pollution of land. (II) However, it has nothing to do with air pollution. (III) On the other hand, dirtiness of all surroundings including sea, air, land is shortly termed as environmental pollution. (IV) When we have a close look, we see that dirty materials dumped carelessly contaminate not only land but also the air. (V) Then you find that the sea has also become dirty.

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19. (I) Body defects, injuries and the alike are all treated by different forms of surgery. (II) The wounds of a person injured in an accident are to be surgically repaired. (III) Sometimes some part of the body can be rebuilt with skin taken from the same person’s body. (IV) Another sort of surgeons is the one that favours the use of artificial organs. (V) In some cases an organ with multifunction is removed from the patient and a healthy one is transplanted from another person.

20. (I) As well as verbal utterances, nonverbal speech is involved in communication. (II) Nevertheless, this body language changes from culture to culture. (III) Therefore, we must keep as distant to our listeners as possible and should never establish eye contact. (IV) Though a North American is likely to speak slowly, a South American prefers to look you in the eye while speaking very quickly. (V) While the Arabs usually stand close to their listeners and even touch them, this makes any American angry. A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V 21. (I) The nervous system is very much like a

computer internet system. (II) The brain is the central part to which any minimal body part is connected with nerves. (III) Human nerves are natural wires along which messages are conducted, which is

something similar to the way the computer works. (IV) Any breakdown in the function of this system causes a disruption in muscular movements and capability of perception. (V) Another problem that may arise is that the hard disc becomes out of order.

22. (I) The bat is an animal that can fly in the dark although it is almost blind. (II) For this reason it never flies on nights when things around are invisible. (III) It not only flies but can locate the objects ahead of it correctly as well. (IV) To do this it sends out waves which hit the object and turn back to the animal’s receptors. (V) These are as sensitive as to detect sounds inaudible to the human ear.

A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V 23. (I) Responses and reactions to lies vary

across people. (II) Everyone tells a lie every now and then. (III) But most of these lies are usually those little white lies, the ones to keep out of trouble. (IV) They are told to avoid hurting someone else’s feelings. (V) These are generally answers to questions that cannot be answered with the truth; for instance “Do I look fat?” is the number one question that should always be answered with a little white lie, with nobody saying “Yes, you look like a pig.”

A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V 24. (I) Many people are hopeful that the sea will

be cultivable someday in the future. (II) Since our hunting methods are not developed enough yet, we can’t take as much fish as we want out of lakes. (III) The idea is that we could, of course, grow small fish and spawn in tanks. (IV) These fish and spawn grown in this way might be taken to an area where we want them to grow to the harvestable size. (V) That’s not a dream since this method is already being used in some countries.

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25. (I) There are striking similarities between Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s USSR, even though they hated each other. (II) Both used a mixture of terror, through secret police, prison camps, and killing opponents. (III) They both used propaganda, the cult of the leader and censorship. (IV) Censorship was rather relaxed by Stalin during the Second World War. (V) Both of them put special efforts into indoctrinating the young, both inside and outside school.

A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V 26. (I) Mary cannot speak because two men

killed her father before her very eyes when she was eleven. (II) Then they cut off her tongue so that she couldn't tell anyone who they were or what they looked like. (III) They were foolish enough. (IV) Though no longer able to speak, the eleven-year old girl wrote a careful description of the men and had them caught. (V) Professional criminals always betray themselves owing to their extreme stupidity.

A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V 27. (I) Opium dissolved in alcohol, known as

laudanum, is said to have been an essential item in most medicine chests during the Middle Ages. (II) India, the biggest poppy grower, has a long recorded history of opium use --all for good purposes. (III) Opium was given to war elephants of the Mogul Empire and to Indian soldiers under the British to make them brave and feel less pain if hurt. (IV) The most desirable side effect the users expected of the substance was getting high fever. (V) Opium was legally available to India's doctors for treating asthma, scorpion bites, etc.

28. (I) The first six months following the death of a child is when the majority of divorces occur. (II) Problems that couples often encounter while dealing with grief of losing a child include many things. (III) Among these are lack of communication with one another, how they will parent their other children, overprotectiveness of other children. (IV) Men tend to feel anger sooner than women in case of a child’s death. (V) As for women, they tend to feel sadness sooner than men. A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V 29. (I) In many non-Western countries, parents

make most critical decisions about children. (II) For example, decisions, such as the field of study the children should follow in higher education and the kind of partners the children should have in marriage, are made by the parents. (III) Parents may make suggestions and the children may or may not follow them in deciding on their own course of action. (IV) In the absence of parents, they are made by adults who are considered “chiefs” in the “family tree.” (V) In such situations, the decision is made not by the person most affected by the decision, but by the occupant of a traditional role in the social group – for example, the grandparents.

A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V 30. (I) During adolescence teenagers undergo

a period of friction, change and problems. (II) But once it is over, even the most rebellious often becomes appreciative, affectionate, and devoted. (III) With maturity comes the realisation that much of their parents’ behaviour, once so irritating, was motivated by feelings of love for them. (IV) As if wanting to get even with their parents’ attitudes towards them during adolescence, they inflict their kids on the elders very often. (V) Also, having children of their own brings

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31. (I) If you are 16 or 17 years old in Kentucky, you must have the consent of your parents or legal guardian to get married. (II) The form that you need to have completed is the Consent to Marriage Form. (III) It has to be filled in by an intimate companion of yours with his fake signature on it. (IV) The marriage has to be witnessed by two

witnesses who are at least 18 years old, and signed by your parent or legal guardian. (V) However, if you are a pregnant minor, you may apply to a district court for permission to marry without parental consent.

A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V 32. (I) As soon as he had got to the farm by the

Mississipi river, Twain was apprenticed as the chief farmhand responsible for the staff on the ranch. (II) Twain’s work was inspired by the unconventional West, and the popularity of his work marked the end of the domination of American literature by New England Writers. (III) He portrayed uniquely American subjects in a humorous and colloquial, yet poetic, language. (IV) His success in creating this plain but evocative language precipitated the end of American reverence for British and European culture. (V) His adherence to American themes, settings, and language set him apart from many other novelists of the day.

33. (I) Medieval towns were very small, leaving very little room for expanding, therefore the roads, and the houses were very small. (II) Since the houses were made out of wood and were so close together, the risk of a big fire was great because the fires were always in the house. (III) The exact number of casualties in the Great Fire in London is still a matter of hot debate among historians. (IV) Even though the towns were built so close together, that wasn’t the worst part. (V) Since the people back then had not come out with water and sewage systems, people threw out all their waste into the middle of the street where other people could get infected by the smell of the by-products.

A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V 34. (I) Until the beginning of Egypt's Golden Age, perfumes and cosmetics were used only in rituals for gods or pharaohs. (II) However, in the Golden Age, which lasted until about 900 B.C, they began to take a prominent place in daily lives of Egypt's citizens. (III) Egyptians used perfumes and cosmetics to smell and look nice on many public occasions in addition to their earlier use of them in religious ceremonies. (IV) They also took pride in the factories that they produced their goods in. (V) By time it became commonplace for many Egyptians to use perfume before they leave home. A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V 35. (I) To interpret history properly one needs

empathy, which is the ability to put ourselves in the place of another person and time. (II) Since history is the reconstruction of the past, we must have an idea of what it was like "to be there" in order to reconstruct it with some accuracy. (III) Historians use a sort of language which makes the things further complicated. (IV) Using original source documents, such as diaries, logs, and speeches, helps us visualise the background of an event in a certain period. (V) Doing so also allows us to see events through the eyes of people who were there.

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1.D 2.E 3.D 4.B 5.E 6.E 7.D 8.C 9.C 10.D 11.E 12.B 13.D 14.E 15.C 16.B 17.C 18.B 19.D 20.C 21.E 22.B 23.A 24.B 25.D 26.E 27.D 28.A 29.C 30.D 31.C 32.A 33.C 34.D 35.C

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