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39. According to the passage, camels ----.
38. - 40. soruları aşağıdaki parçaya göre cevaplayınız.
A) were first thought to be elephants by the
For thousands of years, people have been puzzled by ancients as the origins of their names sounded
the names and characteristics of unusual animals. The
alike
word ‘olfend’, for instance, which has not been used for
eight centuries, was the name of the camel in medieval B) and leopards were considered to have been
English. Its origins can be found in the Latin ‘elephantus’, blended with another animal breed more than
while it was also used in older Germanic languages eight hundred years ago
(translated as ‘a huge roaming beast’). People confused
C) were not as big as elephants, contrary to
the camel with the elephant, which is understandable
German translations, which depicted them as
given that most people had never actually seen either
animal. They must have instead relied on repeated gigantic creatures
descriptions from foreign travellers. The animal known D) and elephants were once mistaken for one
as the leopard is the consequence of yet another
another since people did not have the chance to
misunderstanding; its name is a combination of the
see both animals
words ‘lion’ and ‘pard’ since the ancients thought it was
a hybrid of the two. However, a ‘camelion’ is unrelated to E) were named ‘olfend’ in the eighth century,
camels. The first part of the name is a Greek word that though it sounded more like ‘elephant’
means ‘on the ground, dwarf’. So, you might think it is
strange to refer to a little lizard as a ‘ground lion’ or ‘earth
lion’, but the second part of the word seems far more
reasonable because some chameleon species’ huge
head crests look like a lion’s mane. The name changed
from ‘camelion’ to ‘chameleon’ only a few hundred years
ago as a result of the Latinisation practice.

38. One can infer from the passage that the word 40. What is the main purpose of the author?
‘olfend’ ----.
A) To convince readers that all animals have
A) is still being used in some Germanic languages
characteristics related to their names
though it now has a different meaning
B) To demonstrate that the ancient people lacked
B) has Latin derivations and has not been used for
knowledge of some animals’ behaviours
at least eight hundred years
C) was the name of a tiny animal that had become C) To support the idea that animals have been
extinct centuries ago named with the features that have been
D) has been named after a giant monster according attributed to them
to the medieval scripts D) To prove that most animal names are derived
E) has baffled linguists in terms of its origins dating either from old English or from Germanic
back to the Middle Ages
languages
E) To inform the readers about the confusion of
some animal names and their origins

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