Paragraf Tamamlama örnek soruları
Soru 1
Paragrafta boş bırakılan yere, parçanın anlam bütünlüğünü sağlamak için getirilebilecek cümleyi bulunuz.
---- Asphalt, concrete and brick absorb large amounts of solar energy during the day and release it slowly at night, so city centres can stay several degrees warmer than the nearby countryside long after sunset. The lack of vegetation makes matters worse, because plants cool their surroundings by releasing water vapour from their leaves. Heat from cars, air conditioners and factories adds further warmth. This phenomenon, known as the urban heat island effect, is more than a matter of discomfort, as during heatwaves it can raise death rates among elderly people. Planting trees and painting roofs white are among the simplest ways to reduce it.
- A)As a result, many city governments have already begun planting trees along their major roads.
- B)These materials also make cities noisier, since hard surfaces reflect sound rather than absorbing it.
- C)Rural areas, by contrast, are increasingly affected by droughts linked to global climate change.
- D)Air pollution in most cities is caused mainly by road traffic rather than by heavy industry.
- E)Cities tend to be noticeably hotter than the rural areas around them, largely because of what they are built from.
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Doğru cevap: E
Paragrafın ilk cümlesi konuyu (kentlerin kırsala göre daha sıcak olması) ve nedenini (yapı malzemeleri) tanıtmalıdır; ardından gelen asfalt-beton cümlesi bu nedeni açıklar. "These materials also make cities noisier…" yanlıştır; "These materials" öncesinde anılmamış bir şeye gönderme yapar ve konu sese kayar.
Soru 2
Paragrafta boş bırakılan yere, parçanın anlam bütünlüğünü sağlamak için getirilebilecek cümleyi bulunuz.
The collection of stories known in English as The Arabian Nights reached European readers mainly through a French translation by Antoine Galland, published in the early eighteenth century. Galland's version proved enormously popular and was soon translated into other European languages. ---- The tales of Aladdin and Ali Baba, for instance, do not appear in any of the older Arabic manuscripts of the collection that are known today. Galland seems to have heard them from a storyteller from Aleppo named Hanna Diyab, who visited Paris, and then added them to his translation.
- A)Paris was at that time one of the largest and most crowded cities in Europe.
- B)Aladdin and Ali Baba were the first stories that Galland translated from the oldest manuscript.
- C)Yet some of the stories now most closely associated with the collection were not part of the Arabic text at all.
- D)Many readers therefore preferred to read the stories in Arabic rather than in French.
- E)As a result, the original Arabic manuscripts were destroyed soon after the translation appeared.
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Doğru cevap: C
Boşluktan sonra gelen "for instance" ile Aladdin ve Ali Baba'nın eski Arapça elyazmalarında bulunmadığı örneklenir; bu yüzden boşluğa bu genellemeyi yapan cümle gelir. "Aladdin and Ali Baba were the first stories that Galland translated from the oldest manuscript." yanlıştır: bu hikâyelerin hiçbir eski elyazmasında bulunmadığı bilgisiyle çelişir.
Soru 3
Paragrafta boş bırakılan yere, parçanın anlam bütünlüğünü sağlamak için getirilebilecek cümleyi bulunuz.
By the middle of the twentieth century, seven countries had made territorial claims to parts of Antarctica, and some of these claims overlapped. ---- Signed in 1959 by twelve nations, it declared that the continent should be used only for peaceful purposes, banned military activity there and guaranteed freedom of scientific research. Crucially, it neither accepted nor rejected the existing claims, but simply set them aside. The treaty came into force in 1961, and many more countries have joined it since.
- A)Penguins and seals are the best-known animals living along the coasts of Antarctica.
- B)The agreement, which was signed several decades later, divided the continent among the claimants.
- C)Most of these countries eventually withdrew their claims after the first stations were built.
- D)Antarctica was first sighted by explorers sailing far to the south in the early nineteenth century.
- E)To prevent these disputes from leading to conflict, an international agreement known as the Antarctic Treaty was negotiated.
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Doğru cevap: E
Boşluktan sonraki "Signed in 1959 ..., it" bir anlaşmayı gerektirir; çakışan talepler ile antlaşma arasındaki bağı Antarktika Antlaşması'nı tanıtan cümle kurar. "The agreement ... divided the continent among the claimants." taleplerin ne kabul ne reddedildiği, yalnızca askıya alındığı bilgisiyle çelişir.
Soru 4
Paragrafta boş bırakılan yere, parçanın anlam bütünlüğünü sağlamak için getirilebilecek cümleyi bulunuz.
In many primary schools, volunteers come in once a week simply to listen to children read aloud. This may seem like a modest contribution, since the volunteers are not usually trained teachers. ---- Teachers with classes of thirty pupils rarely have time to hear every child read individually, and those who struggle most are often the ones who read aloud least. A patient adult who listens without judging can give such children the regular practice and encouragement they would otherwise miss.
- A)Children who read well usually prefer to read silently on their own.
- B)Volunteers are therefore expected to plan the school's reading curriculum.
- C)Reading aloud was common in homes before radio and television became widespread.
- D)Its value, however, lies in something that busy classrooms often lack.
- E)As a result, most schools have stopped inviting volunteers altogether.
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Doğru cevap: D
Önceki cümle katkının "mütevazı" görünebileceğini söyler; sonraki cümleler ise kalabalık sınıflarda eksik olan bireysel dinlemeyi anlatır. "Its value, however, lies in ..." bu iki fikir arasında karşıtlık köprüsü kurar. "As a result, most schools have stopped inviting volunteers altogether." paragrafın gönüllüleri olumlu değerlendiren sonuyla çelişir.
Soru 5
Paragrafta boş bırakılan yere, parçanın anlam bütünlüğünü sağlamak için getirilebilecek cümleyi bulunuz.
Coral reefs owe much of their colour and vitality to microscopic algae that live inside the tissues of coral polyps. These algae carry out photosynthesis and supply the coral with most of its energy, while the coral provides them with shelter and nutrients. ---- When this happens, the coral expels the algae, losing both its main food source and its colour, a process known as bleaching. If temperatures return to normal within a few weeks, the algae may gradually recolonise the tissue; however, prolonged heat stress usually leaves the coral starving and far more vulnerable to disease.
- A)As a result, bleached corals can often be seen from the air as vast white patches stretching across a reef.
- B)For this reason, marine biologists have long regarded reefs as the most productive ecosystems in the sea.
- C)The partnership is fragile, though, and water that stays a degree or two warmer than usual for weeks can disrupt it.
- D)Massive reef-building corals often grow by only about a centimetre a year, so reefs form very slowly.
- E)Other algae, by contrast, grow on the surface of dead coral and prevent new polyps from settling there.
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Doğru cevap: C
Boşluktan sonraki "When this happens" ifadesi, mercan ile alg arasındaki ortaklığı bozan bir olayın (suyun ısınması) önceden anılmasını gerektirir; bunu yalnızca suyun birkaç derece ısınmasının ortaklığı bozabileceğini söyleyen cümle sağlar. "As a result, bleached corals can often be seen from the air…" yanlıştır, çünkü ağarma (bleaching) henüz tanıtılmadan sonucundan söz eder ve "When this happens" ile bağ kurmaz.
Soru 6
Paragrafta boş bırakılan yere, parçanın anlam bütünlüğünü sağlamak için getirilebilecek cümleyi bulunuz.
The game known in Britain as Snakes and Ladders has its roots in India, where early versions of it were used to teach moral lessons. Players moved their pieces across a board on which ladders stood for good deeds and snakes for bad ones. ---- When the game reached Britain in the late nineteenth century, however, most of this moral meaning was lost, and it became simply a children's race game based on chance.
- A)Snakes are much less commonly seen in modern Indian cities than in the countryside.
- B)This is why the game was banned in Britain for many years after it arrived.
- C)The British version, by contrast, had no snakes on its board at all.
- D)Landing on a ladder lifted a player towards a higher state, while a snake sent him or her back down as a punishment.
- E)Today, many schools use board games to help children practise basic mathematics.
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Doğru cevap: D
Önceki cümle merdivenlerin iyi, yılanların kötü davranışları temsil ettiğini söyler; boşluk bunun oyunda nasıl işlediğini (merdivenle yükselme, yılanla ceza olarak geri düşme) açıklamalıdır. "However" ile gelen son cümle de bu ahlaki anlamın İngiltere'de kaybolduğunu söyleyerek bu açıklamaya bağlanır. "The British version, by contrast, had no snakes on its board at all." oyunun İngilizce adıyla çelişir.
Soru 7
Paragrafta boş bırakılan yere, parçanın anlam bütünlüğünü sağlamak için getirilebilecek cümleyi bulunuz.
---- In a typical experiment, one group of beginners solves a series of algebra problems on their own, while another studies fully worked solutions to the same problems before attempting similar ones. Surprisingly, the second group usually performs better on later tests, despite having spent less time actually solving problems. Researchers explain this by pointing to the limited capacity of working memory: novices who search blindly for a solution use up much of that capacity and have little left for noticing the underlying pattern. Interestingly, the advantage fades as learners gain expertise, and for advanced students, studying worked examples can even become a waste of time.
- A)Algebra has long been regarded as one of the most demanding subjects in the secondary school curriculum.
- B)This is why teachers are usually advised to give beginners as many unsolved problems as they can manage.
- C)Working memory, by contrast, can hold a seemingly unlimited amount of information for many years at a time.
- D)It may seem obvious that we learn to solve problems best by solving them, but research suggests otherwise.
- E)Expert mathematicians, for instance, rarely make use of worked examples when they face unfamiliar problems.
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Doğru cevap: D
Paragraf, problem çözerek öğrenmenin en iyi yol olduğu beklentisinin aksine çözümlü örnek çalışan grubun daha başarılı olduğunu ("Surprisingly") anlatır; bu beklentiyi kuran ve araştırmanın tersini gösterdiğini söyleyen giriş cümlesi "It may seem obvious that we learn to solve problems best by solving them, but research suggests otherwise." cümlesidir. "This is why teachers are usually advised to give beginners as many unsolved problems as they can manage." yanlıştır; paragrafın başında "This" zamirinin gönderme yapacağı bir düşünce yoktur ve cümle, çözümlü örneklerin üstünlüğünü anlatan paragrafla çelişir.
Soru 8
Paragrafta boş bırakılan yere, parçanın anlam bütünlüğünü sağlamak için getirilebilecek cümleyi bulunuz.
Unlike ordinary airports, the spaceports built for tourist flights are usually located in remote, thinly populated areas. ---- Many are also placed in deserts, where dry weather and clear skies make it less likely that flights will be delayed or cancelled. These locations, however, can make the journey to the spaceport itself long and expensive for passengers.
- A)Some passengers say that the training before the flight is more exciting than the flight itself.
- B)Space tourism companies frequently advertise their flights on social media.
- C)Tickets for tourist flights are often sold several years before the flight takes place.
- D)Rockets burn enormous amounts of fuel in the first few minutes after launch.
- E)This is mainly a safety measure: if something goes wrong during launch or landing, few people living nearby are put at risk.
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Doğru cevap: E
Boşluktan önce uzay limanlarının ıssız bölgelere kurulduğu söylenir, sonra "Many are also placed in deserts" ile ikinci bir yer seçimi nedeni verilir; boşluğa ilk nedeni (güvenlik) açıklayan cümle gelmelidir. "Rockets burn enormous amounts of fuel ..." yanlıştır: sonraki cümledeki "Many" bu durumda roketlere gönderme yapar ve akış bozulur.
Soru 9
Paragrafta boş bırakılan yere, parçanın anlam bütünlüğünü sağlamak için getirilebilecek cümleyi bulunuz.
Microfinance refers to the provision of small loans and other financial services to people who have no access to conventional banks. The idea gained worldwide attention in the 1970s and 1980s, when lenders in Bangladesh began offering tiny loans to poor rural women, often without requiring any collateral. Instead of property, borrowers relied on small groups whose members were jointly responsible for repayment. Supporters argued that such loans would allow the poor to start small businesses and lift themselves out of poverty. Later studies, however, produced rather more mixed results. ----
- A)This is why the members of each group met every week to discuss their new businesses together.
- B)The very first loans, for example, were usually given to wealthy men who already owned some land.
- C)Many borrowers used the loans to cope with emergencies, but few saw their incomes rise much.
- D)As a result, almost every borrower in rural Bangladesh soon became a highly successful entrepreneur.
- E)Conventional banks, meanwhile, had always been eager to lend large sums of money to the rural poor.
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Doğru cevap: C
Son cümle "Later studies… produced rather more mixed results" ifadesini açmalıdır; borçluların çoğunun gelirinin belirgin biçimde artmadığını söyleyen cümle 'karışık sonuç'u somutlaştırır. "As a result, almost every borrower… became a highly successful entrepreneur" yanlıştır; 'karışık sonuçlar' ifadesiyle çelişir.
Soru 10
Paragrafta boş bırakılan yere, parçanın anlam bütünlüğünü sağlamak için getirilebilecek cümleyi bulunuz.
Before the middle of the fifteenth century, books in Europe were copied by hand, a slow and costly process that kept them largely in the hands of monasteries, universities and the very wealthy. Around 1450, Johannes Gutenberg combined movable metal type with an oil-based ink and a press adapted from those used to make wine. ---- Within fifty years, presses had been set up in more than two hundred European towns, and millions of volumes were in circulation. The consequences went far beyond publishing: cheaper books helped spread literacy, allowed scientists to share and check one another's work, and made it far harder for authorities to suppress new ideas.
- A)His own business, however, ran into debt, and he eventually lost control of his workshop to a creditor.
- B)Long before this, however, printing with carved wooden blocks had been practised in East Asia for centuries.
- C)Nevertheless, most Europeans continued to rely on hand-copied manuscripts for several more centuries.
- D)These monasteries therefore welcomed the new invention as a way of increasing their own income.
- E)The result was a machine that could print hundreds of identical pages in the time a scribe needed to copy a few.
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Doğru cevap: E
Boşluk, Gutenberg'in buluşunun tanımı ile matbaanın hızla yayılması arasında köprü kurmalıdır; makinenin kısa sürede yüzlerce özdeş sayfa basabildiğini söyleyen cümle bu hızlı yayılmayı açıklar. "Nevertheless, most Europeans continued to rely on hand-copied manuscripts…" yanlıştır; ardından gelen milyonlarca kitabın dolaşıma girdiği bilgisiyle çelişir.