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Word Formation
1 – İngilizce Özel ders ( Bireysel – İngilizce Özel ders )
2 – İngilizce Özel ders – 4 kişilik gruplarla yapılan İngilizce Özel ders )
SQUASHED DOG STORIES
Newspapers have a (01)………………. for what the French call “squashed dog” stories. In England, they are “goldfish emerging from bathroom tap” stories. Such stories run under the “Man Bites Dog” (02)………………. . From France comes the story of an (03)………………. savage attack on an old man near Calais carried out by a swarm of bees. The scenario might have pleased Hitchcock. The victim was (04)………………. himself in his garden at the time. The firemen were called but were driven back into their van by the (05)………………. of the insects. After 45 minutes someone arrived with (06)………………. clothing and (07)………………. . By then the man sitting in the deck chair was dead, covered in hundreds of stings, most of them on his eyelids.
The French liked the story from London about grafting a pig’s kidneys on to a human patient. They went for the animal rights angle. They like the idea of putting a (08)………………. ring round the hospital to repel people who are intent on rescuing the pig from (09)………………. . From London, too, came the story of the brown paper parcel in London’s main parcel sorting office, a parcel which moved. Packages do not normally move very quickly through the post office at the best of times, but this one was definitely frisky. A lady customs officer was summoned to X-ray the package. The X-ray revealed a (10)………………. reptile called a gila monster wrapped in a sock. The subsequent police trail led to a salesman in Hampshire whose back bedroom was filled with rattlesnakes, lethal lizards, snapping turtles and a python, most of which he had sent himself through the post.
WORDS : Kelimeler
01. fond
02. head
03. except
04. sun
05. fierce
06. protect
07. insect
08. secure
09. member
10. poison
CORRECT ANSWERS : Doğru Cevaplar
01. fondness
02. headline
03. exceptionally
04. sunning
05. fierceness
06. protective
07. insecticide
08. security
09. dismemberment
10. poisonous
PARLIAMENT
Parliament consists of two houses: the House of Commons and the House of Lords. The third part of the (01) …………………. is the Monarchy, which is of (02) ………………. (03) …………………. only.
The Lords are not elected. A member of the House of Lords can inherit his position, or he can be made a member, appointed for his service to the State. The members of the House of Lords receive no salary for their (04) …………………. work. However, they receive travelling expenses from their homes to Westminster, together with an (05) …………………. (06) …………………. .
The House of Commons is a (07) …………………. (08)…………………. elected by everyone over the age of 18. Members receive a salary for their work, and are elected. The Commons is presided over by the Speaker who is elected by the members immediately after a new Parliament is formed.
English politics have been dominated by two parties: the Conservative, or Tory, party, and the Socialist, or Labour, party. The small Liberal party also has quite a lot of popularity. However, as England does not have proportional (09) …………………. , small parties are not very (10)………………….
WORDS : Kelimeler
01. govern
02. symbol
03. signify
04. parliament
05. attend
06. allow
07. represent
08. assemble
09. represent
10. succeed
CORRECT ANSWERS : Doğru Cevaplar
01. government
02. symbolic
03. significance
04. parliamentary
05. attendance
06. allowance
07. representative
08. assembly
09. representation
10. successful
PIGEON POWER
Tom Jones, a psychologist, reports a new role for pigeons. Asked by a pharmaceutical company to measure the effects of drugs on animal behaviour, Jones noticed one day that some 70 women were employed to check flawed capsules. “That is a job any pigeon could do,” he said, because he knew about the pigeon’s learning (01)………………………. .
On (02)………………………. , capsules left the (03)………………………. line. There, Jones arranged for a bright, narrow beam of light to pass through them. If a capsule was perfect, the light showed a single spot; if it was (04)………………………. , the light showed a double spot.
In their training, two pigeons were rewarded with food every time they correctly identified a wrong capsule. The experiment worked. A (05)………………………. belt carried the capsules as fast as two a second past the pigeon (06)………………………. , who achieved 99 per cent success within a week.
But the company rejected (07)………………………. of the pigeons on a permanent basis. They feared (08)………………………. that might be bad: The public might think pigeons were not as (09)………………………. as humans. “A main obstacle to progress,” commented Jones sadly, ” remains man’s obstinate belief in his (10)………………………. over other creatures.”
WORDS : Kelimeler
01. able
02. complete
03. produce
04. perfect
05. convey
06. inspect
07. employ
08. public
09. rely
10. superior
CORRECT ANSWERS : Doğru Cevaplar
01. ability
02. completion
03. production
04. imperfect
05. conveyor
06. inspectors
07. employment
08. publicity
09. reliable
10. superiority