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12.03 READING COMPREHENSION

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Toplam Soru Sayısı: 850

Reading Comprehension Question Bank kitabımızda,
YDT’de soru sayısı açısından önemli bir yere sahip
olan paragraf, paragraf tamamlama ve anlam akışını
bozan cümleyi bulma bölümlerinde başarı sağlanması
hedeflenmiştir. İstatistiklere göre, YDT’de metin içerikli
sorular — özellikle paragraf tamamlama bölümü
— adayların en çok zorlandıkları bölümlerdir. Bilim
dallarından alınmış ve yapısal olarak gerçek sınavla
örtüşen parçaları içeren Reading Comprehension
Question Bank, gerekli okuma altyapısına sahip
olmayan adayların bile düzenli bir şekilde çözdükleri
takdirde, soru çözüm hızlarını ve doğru yanıt oranlarını
artıracak bir eserdir.

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1. - 200. sorularda, cümleler sırasıyla 3. (I) Astronomers have announced Saturn as
the planet with the most moons. (II) Saturn has
okunduğunda parçanın anlam bütünlüğünü overtaken the solar system’s largest planet
bozan cümleyi bulunuz.
Jupiter called the “King of the Moons”. (III) The
1. (I) Real depression cannot be as easily overcome astronomers recently discovered 20 new moons
orbiting Saturn, which brings the planet’s total
as some people often suppose. (II) It usually number to 82 pulling Jupiter, with 79 celestial
passes with time, but the time can seem endless.
Detaylı Bilgi PARAGRAPH COMPLETION (III) The process becomes tolerable only when bodies, into second place. (IV) The research team
will now look for moons that are around a kilometre
people with depression are listened to and
in diameter. (V) Each of the newly-discovered
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encouraged to find their own solutions, not made
moons is at least 5km in diameter, and they orbit
İçin Karekodu 1. - 200. sorularda, boş bırakılan yere, 2. The digitalisation of music and the to feel yet more inadequate by good advice. (IV) Saturn backwards and take more than three years
This is the job of professionals who can offer expert
to complete one orbit of Saturn.
recommendation and counselling. (V) In fact, telling
someone with depression that there other people
parçada anlam bütünlüğünü sağlamak için development of the Internet caused a radical A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V
change in the music industry. The creation and
suffering more will only make them feel ashamed of
getirilebilecek cümleyi bulunuz.
Okutunuz 1. News of any terrible air accident instantly the production of music are now much faster, B) II C) III D) IV E) V
their feelings.
simpler and far less costly. Digital recording
A) I
raises questions about aircraft safety and has come with fewer steps than traditional
recording, but with a cleaner, higher quality
the threat of terrorism. But until the facts are sound. ---- There is no need for teams of
known, it is unwise to speculate on the causes
Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, when radical leftist
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YDT 12 / 03 PARAGRAPH of a specific crash. As aircraft have become technicians who deal with them, either. The 4. (I) The Soviet Union had its origins in the
Internet and the World Wide Web have also
more reliable, the proportion of crashes
caused by pilot error has increased and now made the circulation of music easier through revolutionaries overthrew Russia’s Czar Nicholas II,
stands at around 50%. ---- Because pilots much smaller formats enabling music to be ending centuries of Romanov rule. (II) In a period
4. - 6. soruları aşağıdaki parçaya göre 5. One can conclude from the passage that a actively engage with the aircraft at every stage easily stored and shared. known as the Red Terror, Bolshevik secret police
Cheka carried out a campaign of mass executions
cevaplayınız. small rise in temperatures ----. of a flight, there are numerous opportunities A) This new technology represents the most direct against supporters of the czarist regime and
for this to go wrong, from failing to programme
Over the next decades, it is predicted that A) will most probably wipe out the already limited the flight computer correctly to miscalculating and efficient means of getting music to a large against Russia’s upper classes. (III) The Bolsheviks
resources of the world
audience by artists.
established a socialist state in the territory that was
billions of people, particularly those in developing B) will prevent countries from adapting to the required fuel uplift. B) The wide use of MP3 has also created new once the Russian Empire. (IV) A long and bloody
countries, will face shortages of water and food challenging new conditions A) While such errors are regrettable, the pilot is digital music streaming services that give you civil war followed. (V) The Red Army, backed by
and greater risks to health and life as a result C) might bring the death of thousands of people in still the last line of defence when things go access to millions of songs. the Bolshevik government, defeated the White
of climate change. Unanimous global action is wrong. C) In addition, expensive recording studios with Army, which represented a large group of loosely
tropical areas
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PARAGRAPH needed to enable developing countries to adapt to D) may reduce global human population due to a B) Thanks to the skill of the pilots, the stricken complicated machines and noise reduction allied forces including monarchists, capitalists and
the effects of climate change that are happening
equipment are no longer needed.
now and will worsen in the future. According to a malaria pandemic aircrafts can land safely without any casualties. D) Consumers now prefer efficient and small supporters of other forms of socialism.
scenario, greenhouse gas emissions could rise E) should not be overrated as the main culprit of C) As with lightning strikes, the risk posed by A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V
by 25 to 90 per cent by 2030 relative to 2000
1. - 3. soruları aşağıdaki parçaya göre 2. It is understood from the passage that ----. mass extinction sabotage is less than many people seem to pieces of music as they listened through
believe.
smartphones rather than speakers.
and the Earth could warm by 3°C this century.
cevaplayınız. A) there is no consensus among experts as to the D) Aircraft are complex machines that require a lot E) Consumers are also given free streaming music
time it was originally composed of meticulous management. so they could experience the original sound
Even with a temperature rise of 1 - 2.5°C, the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Beowulf is an epic tale that continues to fire the B) J.R.R. Tolkien replicated the story of Beowulf E) While engines are more reliable today, they still through traditional recording.
predicts serious effects including reduced crop
imaginations of readers a millennium after it was before the series Game of Thrones did yields in tropical areas leading to increased risk of
written. Since it was first translated into modern C) the tale of Beowulf is still the bestseller in the occasionally suffer catastrophic failures. 2. (I) The Salem witch trials and executions came 5. (I) While Leonardo da Vinci is best known as an
English in the 19 th century, Beowulf has become by modern fantasy genre hunger, spread of climate sensitive diseases such about as the result of a combination of church artist, his work as a scientist and an inventor make
as malaria, and an increased risk of extinction
far the best-known piece of Anglo-Saxon literature. D) the epic tale demonstrates the typical features politics. (II) In Salem, the process of identifying him a true Renaissance man. (II) He serves as a
of 30 per cent of all plant and animal species.
It has inspired movies, novels and even comic of the oral literary tradition Developing countries are the most vulnerable to witches began with rumours, and accusations role model applying the scientific method to every
books; there seems to be no limit to the ways E) Beowulf is the best representation of the Anglo- followed, often escalating to convictions and aspect of life, including art and music. (III) Although
climate change impacts because they have fewer
the story can be reimagined. Furthermore, it was Saxon culture of the eighth century resources to adapt: socially, technologically and executions. (III) It was believed that they employed he is best known for his dramatic and expressive
perhaps the single greatest formative influence on financially. Therefore, they need international demons to accomplish magical deeds, and that artwork, Leonardo also conducted dozens of
J.R.R. Tolkien, which means it has played a huge they changed from human to animal form or from experiments and created futuristic inventions that
part in the development of the modern fantasy assistance to support adaptation in the context of one human form to another. (IV) Animals were were ground-breaking for the time. (IV) He was
national planning for sustainable development and
genre, from The Lord of the Rings right through transfer of technology and funds. believed to act as their “familiar spirits”, and that one of the greatest painters, yet he left only a
to Game of Thrones. The dating and origins of they rode on them through the air at night to handful of completed paintings. (V) His keen eye
Beowulf are much discussed but still unresolved, secret meetings. (V) There is little doubt that some and quick mind led him to make important scientific
though many theories have been put forward. We individuals worshipped the devil and attempted to discoveries that he never published.
know the poem was set down in a manuscript practice sorcery with harmful intent. A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V
around AD 1000, and was probably first created 6. According to the passage, developing
many years earlier – perhaps as early as the 4. Which of the following can be said about countries ----. A) I B) II C) III D) IV E) V
climate change?
eighth century. Some aspects of it might also have A) should form a league to deal with the lethal
existed in the oral tradition before the text reached A) It will have minimal effect on developed effect of climate change before it is too late
its surviving form, but we can only speculate about countries in comparison to third world nations. B) have to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in
that. B) Its impact will pose a great threat to next order to prevent rises in temperature 208
generations if not prevented. C) will mostly be tackling the risk of extinction of 30
C) It has already changed the world socially and per cent of all fauna and flora
financially within thirty years’ time. D) will not be more vulnerable to the changes than
D) It can only be tackled by a scientific research on the developed nations in the West
greenhouse gases and their risks. E) may not survive unless developed states plan
E) It should be a national problem rather than an and provide economic and technological aid
1. According to the passage, Beowulf ----. 3. The main purpose of the passage is to ----. international one of high priority.
A) compare the genres that have been influenced
A) is considered as the earliest example of Anglo- by the tale of Beowulf
Saxon literature B) explain the theories regarding the roots of a tale
B) has been a keystone in the evolution of of war and heroism 154
contemporary fantastic literature C) discuss the reasons why it is still inspiring
C) has lost its popularity since it was translated twenty-first century readers
into modern English D) talk about why J.R.R. Tolkien was so much
D) has been fully consumed in any possible way inspired by Beowulf
by the movie industry
E) is an epic tale originally taken from Tolkien’s E) give information about a long heroic poem that
is still in demand
The Lord of the Rings
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