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Verilen sorularda boş bırakılan yerlere uygun 5. We ---- people from their voices and get an idea of their
düşen sözcük veya ifadeyi bulunuz. characters since our tone of voice, almost as unique
as our fingerprint, ---- extremely important in verbal
communication.
2019 YDT
1. Even though the theory of dualism ----, many people A) may have recognised / will be
still cling to the idea that consciousness ---- outside
of the body. B) can recognise / is
C) are able to recognise / has been
A) has been disproven / can exist
D) have to recognise / had been
B) was disproven / could exist
E) should have recognised / was
C) is disproven / had to exist

D) had been disproven / should have existed
E) will be disproven / must have existed

2020 YDT
2. Scientists conducting research to shed light on the 6. It is not surprising that archaeologists ---- ancient
possible causes of several mental disorders ---- a channels diverting water from Tucson’s Santa Cruz
link between lack of normal gut bacteria and brain River as early as 1500 BCE because native Americans
development changes that ---- schizophrenia. in Arizona ---- digging canals for various purposes at
least 3,500 years ago.
A) had observed / used to cause
A) are discovering / used to begin
B) have observed / could cause
B) discovered / had begun
C) will observe / should cause
C) have discovered / began
D) observed / should have caused
D) could discover / have begun
E) are observing / had to cause
E) used to discover / were beginning

3. Recently, in some countries, it ---- common to pay for 7. The history of computers ---- more than two centuries,
an extra cup of coffee or meal when people ---- their and mathematicians and entrepreneurs ---- the first
own checks so that a person in need can eat and drink computers as mechanical calculating machines to
freely. solve the increasingly complex number-crunching
challenges.
A) has been becoming / have paid
A) dated back / had theorised
B) is becoming / are paying
B) has dated back / used to theorise
C) becomes / have been paying
C) had dated back / would theorise
D) will have become / paid
D) is dating back / theorise
E) has become / pay
E) dates back / theorised

4. The city of Ephesus ---- the cradle of civilisation, 8. People love to celebrate ---- in the world, and festivals
science, and art, exhibits a synthesis of the cultures provide something for ---- in terms of celebration,
of past civilisations, and the excavations there ---- for whether it is the arts and culture, food and drink,
almost a century.
holidays, or religion.
A) was / had gone on
A) everywhere / everyone
B) could be / had been going on
B) nothing / anybody
C) must have been / were going on
C) nowhere / somebody
D) used to be / have been going on
D) somewhere / someone
E) is / will have been going on
E) anything / nobody
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