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Reading Activity

1 B Answer the following questions according to the text.

1. Who understood that Melisa is a quite smart girl when she was a little child?
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2. When was she sent to Helsinki?
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3. Why did Melisa apply to summer school in the USA?
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4. Where did she start working after she finished computer engineering at Stanford?
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5. What feelings evoke in you after reading Melisa’s success story?
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1 C Complete the sentences according to the text.

1. After Melisa had started BİLSEM, _____________________________________________________________________________
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2. Before Melisa became the first in TUBİTAK Türkiye with his physics project in high school, __________________
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3. What Melisa learned in India is ______________________________________________________________________________
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4. Melisa wants all Turkish youth ________________________________________________________________________________
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1 D Which paragraph(s) is about the topics below? Write the numbers.

1. Melisa’s school years and successes in Türkiye

2. Melisa’s childhood

3. Melisa’s work achievements

4. Melisa’s college education abroad

1 E Find words or phrases in the text which mean:

1. ___________________ : someone who works for a company at a senior level (Paragraph 1)

2. ___________________ : trying to obtain something for yourself while preventing the other person from
doing so. (Paragraph 2)
3. ___________________ : spending all or most of your time or energy on something. (Paragraph 4)

4. ___________________ : the ability to continue in doing something even when it is difficult (Paragraph 5)

MATEMATİK-11
ORTAÖĞRETİM 13 ENGLISH-12
GENEL MÜDÜRLÜĞÜ