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OKAN EMANET

ETYMOLOGIST & TEACHER OF

ENGLISH
The kingdom where nobody _______,’
as Edna St. Vincent Millay once
_______ childhood, is the fantasy of
grown-ups.

C) dies / described
D) died / has described
E) would die / might describe
F) are dying / would describe
G) was dying / is describing
Encounters _______ death are not
limited to children who are in high-risk
situations, _______ to those who are
emotionally disturbed.

C) around / either
D) throughout / as
E) towards / neither
F) with / nor
G) out of / when
Between the years 1861 and 1865, the
United States _______ in a civil war,
one of the most significant military
confrontations in the young republic’s
life.

C) survived
B) reigned
C) respected
D) inhaled
E) engaged
Whereas it is not clear _______
made the first telescope, it may as
well have been Leonard Digges,
_______ probably made a telescope
in about 1550.

C) that / whom
D) where / which
C) who / who
D) whose / when
A member of an academically talented
family, Diels, most of _______ life
was spent in the University of Kiel,
_______ chemistry in Berlin with E
Fischer.

C) whose / studied
D) which / is studying
E) the fact that / would study
F) where / studies
G) what / had studied
Rudolph Diesel left for London when the
Franco-Prussian war of 1870 began but
he soon moved to Germany to continue
his education, _______ studying at the
Munich Polytechnic.

A) reclusively
B) rigorously
C) eternally
D) eventually
E) radiantly
Edelman _______ planned a career as a
concert violinist, but came to realize
that he lacked the extroversion needed
for success as a performer.

A) gradually
B) frantically
C) intensively
D) particularly
E) originally
Thomas Edison _______ virtually no
formal education, _______ from school
as retarded.

C) received / having been expelled

D) having received / had been expelled
E) receiving / expelled
F) could receive / was expelled
One of the continuing themes of 2) A) resignation
science ___(1)___ and B) turmoil
understand the constituents of C) charge
matter. Nuclear physics is one D) endeavour
aspect of this ___(2)___ and E) redemption
deals with the nucleus at the 3) A) nuances
centre of atoms. It grew naturally B) complaints
from ___(3)___ at the end of the C) attempts
19th-c to understand the D) growths
structure and composition of E) temptations
atoms and has had profound
4) A) on B) from
effects ___(4)___ the
C) at D) within
development of science
E) about
___(5)___ and on society in
1) A) is supposed to discover 5) A) by force
B) is to discover B) in terms
C) could discover C) above all
D) might discover D) at all
E) had discovered E) as a whole
For many people, the thought of dying
evokes as much fear and apprehension as
_______ the thought of death _______.

A) is / themselves
B) did / of theirs
C) was / its own
D) has / of their own
E) does / itself
Einthoven’s father was a physician in
Java, _______ the family lived
_______ he was 10, afterwards
settling in Utrecht.

D) where / until
E) when / by the time
F) which / when
G) that / whom
Researchers have suggested several
reasons for the difficulty _______
many individuals have _______
communicating with dying persons.

A) which / at
B) where / on
C) when / ----
D) ---- / in
It was while _______ for his doctorate on
semiconductors at the University of Tokyo
(1959) that Esaki _______ a small
research group at the Sony Corporation as
well.

A) worked / is leading
B) works / had been leading
C) had worked / would be leading
D) working / was leading
E) is leading / had been leading
Confucius affirmed that if people 1) A) do not know
___(1)___ about life as of yet, people B) did not know
C) had not known
may not know about death. Without
D) could not know
knowledge of how to live, a person E) would not know
cannot know about death and dying. 2) A) Therefore B) Although
___(2)___, Confucius was criticized C) However D) Even as
for avoiding discussions of death. He E) Contrary to
did not encourage his followers to 3) A) neither did B) so did
seek eternal life, ___(3)___ he C) as did D) did, too
discuss death, gods, ghosts, and the E) nor did

unknown future or afterlife in detail. 4) A) maintained B) questioned

He ___(4)___ that ghosts were C) sustained D) anchored
spirits and were not easy to E) hindered
understand. Confucius concluded that 5) A) as B) than
these issues were complicated and C) too D) then
abstract, and that it was better to E) even
spend time solving the problems of
the present life ___(5)___ to look
As a senior Government law officer, it is
_______ that Fermat found time to
maintain his skills as a linguist, amateur poet
and, most notably, as an amateur
mathematician.

A) eminent
B) random
C) remarkable
D) considerate
E) translucent
The earliest mathematical writer whose
name we _______ was the Egyptian scribe
‘Ahmes’, who in c.1650 BC _______ an
earlier text on handling fractions and
solving arithmetical problems.

C) know / copied
D) knew / has copied
E) had known / will copy
F) used to know / is copying
G) are to know / will be copying
Today’s mathematicians clearly remember
analysing the hidden traces of early maths
_________________.

C. if they will have a look into the rules of some

miraculous formulae
D.soon after they have revealed the
difficulties of problems
E.that early mathematicians could change the
course of mathematical history
F. when they started to get interested in the
branch for the first time
G.even if they have some clues as to where
_________________, remaining there as a
professor for the rest of his life.

C. Born in San Francisco, many scientists are

known to be of London
D. There used to be such influential scientists as
FitzGerald and Thomas Wilson
E. Andre Detris set off in her scientific
investigation during her early age
F. It was as a result of Bryan Reniard’s
endeavors that science gained momentum
G. George Francis FitzGerald was educated at
In the past several decades, a handful of
cults _______ with mass deaths,
_______ through murders, suicides, or
standoffs with the government that ended
tragically.

A) had been associated / neither

B) have been associated / either
C) were associated / nor
D) would have associated / as
Many novels and novelists are altogether
thought to constitute the main
structure of literature , _______
reason people see their lives reflected .

C)for which
D)for what
E)that
F)the fact that
G)where